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>In no other field that I have studied have people suggested that my first introduction to the field must be a book written decades ago, forget two millennia ago.

No other field is philosophy. Philosophy, in some respects, is special - at least according to Socrates as relayed by Plato. As Socrates says, each science (or even activity) has its object, but what of the science which has science as its object? The trouble with many future reformulations of key ideas is that they can miss the intricacies and highly abstract arguments of the original texts. For that reason, it may be more appropriate to read Newton than it is to read Einstein, because Newton used much more natural language than equations. I would very heavily disagree with the idea that introductory textbooks necessarily have better contents and presentation than original texts, and any serious philosopher will tell you that too.

>If you are telling me that in the twenty centuries, no one has taken what Pythagoras/Plato said and has rewritten it in a better way, with modern exposition and examples and graphics and what not, I fail to believe you.

What do you mean by "a better way"? Is Plato really so difficult or obtuse or obscure that one needs to express Socrates' ideas in "a better way"? The text is perfectly readable to a modern audience, which is precisely why starting with Plato's actual dialogues is the hallmark of any good university philosophy programme.

>Because that would mean philosophy as a discipline is not improving by building upon the works of those past

No; you have it backwards. Many philosophers have agreed with or disagreed with Plato, but the point of a text on Plato's ideas should represent what he wanted to represent in those ideas, not say "well, that's what Plato said, here's my idea now!". Philosophy (according to some accounts, at least) does progress, but it's dubious that rewriting and "simplifying" texts is the hallmark of progress.

You end with the assumption that books written since 2000 are necessarily better than Plato. I fail to see why this is the case. If you want an overview of philosophy since Plato, then by all means, only the most up-to-date book will do. If you want to know Plato's (or Socrates') ideas yourself, there is no better source than Plato himself.

Philosophy explanations and short introductions (Peter Singer's one on Marx comes to mind) are riddled with errors, and for any such text you will find at least ten philosophers ready to lambast an "introductory" interpretation because it misses out on the intricacies of that thought. I'm not joking. Look at any intro book on Hegel, Kant, Marx, Pythagoras. Then look at the reviews published in philosophy journals.

"Progress" in philosophy does not and cannot mean shortening, rewriting and "simplifying" ideas.
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I never continued with Wire cause... nobody uses it, even less people use it than Signal. I think Keybase is the next best thing to some extent.
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Ask HN: What Projects were hacked upon this year during the Holiday season?
What passion projects did people work on during their downtime for the holidays? (if i missed a relevant post please kindly redirect)
"Compound requests are by far the fastest. This indicates that my original guess was wrong. Even when caching comes into play, it still can’t beat just re-sending the entire collection again in a single compounded response."

TCP is heavily optimized for shoving a single stream of bits across the wire. The other options have more overhead from multiple requests.
I have no idea what "pub-sub" is used for outside of its academic definitions, and I have no idea how Hashicorp Vault works - Don't you need a secret/password in cleartext at some point, for a given service or definition?

You don't have to answer my questions, I am just shouting into the void. I'm glad it works for y'all.
Weird to see posts like this that randomly spike in the number of votes

https://hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com/stats/Exploit...
Curio is more like an experimental sandbox for its author. Trio was created as a production-oriented application of similar ideas. There are some places where Trio diverges from Curio, and I think Trio's choices are improvements there. For example, the handling of schedule points and cancel points (https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/design.html#cancel-poi...).
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I've found that creating Markov chains are more human feeling (but maybe a bit overfit) if I use a n[0]-level deep look ahead for my generators.

[0] where n is normally 2 or 3
Indeed.

Better, perhaps, would be to trigger wiping the LUKS header and deleting the boot partition.
The price of pork is still crazy cheap.

https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=pork&month...
Yes, that is the definition of active trading. I suggest you do more research. Active trading is contrasted to passive trading (index funds).

It’s akin to roulette in that it’s statistically non-optimal, not that the level of risk is the same.

HN readers tend to be focused upon evidence and mathematically inclined.
> A further 8,000 Amazon employees subsequently signed an open letter to Bezos calling for concrete climate goals; to cancel contracts with oil and gas companies; and to stop donations to politicians who deny the reality of the climate crisis.

The one thing that will kill the growth of cloud is that if businesses feel that their contracts are at the whim of activist employees. This policy is Jeff Bezos sending out a strong signal that AWS will not listen to these activist employees in that regard.
It seems like they were threatened termination for disobeying the new policy they implemented as stated in the article.

>"The new policy requires staff members to seek permission from Amazon prior to talking in a public forum while identified as an employee."

Not really saying anything about if the policy is ok or not, just that it doesn't seem like this is really about climate change but rather speaking out against the company
The Nazis also dosed their soldiers with methamphetamine.
US companies are already required to follow laws that uphold human rights.

https://photos.state.gov/libraries/korea/49271/july_2013/dwo...
This could dramatically improve my family’s life.

Been following and supporting the research at Johns Hopkins since Tim Ferris brought attention to it.
This doesn't work well in apps but games do incredible things to hide that state; and it's partially a consequence of avoiding a patent on minigames inside loading screens.

e.g. back in the 90s with Resi 1, the loading screen was hidden by a slow and tense animation of a door opening. It totally fit the atmosphere.

Plenty of games add an elevator or a scripted vehicle ride, or some ridiculous door locking mechanism that serves the same purpose without breaking immersion, especially as those faux-loading screens can be dynamic.

It's pretty much the exact same technique used in cinema when a director wants to stitch multiple takes into a single shot (e.g. that episode in True Detective; that other one in Mr Robot; all of Birdman).
The Amazon policy seems pretty similar to ones at other companies - if you're being asked to speak as their employee, you're supposed to refer all those inquiries to the corporate PR office or what-have-you. Because talking to the press isn't part of your job description. But if you're speaking to the press during non-work hours and off company premises, then I feel like you should be able to say what you want, as long as it doesn't reveal trade secrets. But I don't know what the policy or the law says about that. Anyway if it's a problem, then it's a simple matter of having a journalist attribute the quote to "...an Amazon employee who requested anonymity." It's not ideal for the reporter, but they are mostly pretty accustomed to protecting sources.
bruh did you honestly just say home server.... might as well just say use "tor and pgp".
Rule 170 of the highway code: "watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way"
Maybe it’s a stealth marketing campaign for William Gibson’s sequel to The Peripheral coming out this month.
OSdev wiki is really the mecca when starting the build your own kernel. I've used it almost exclusively while building my own [1], thanks to this tutorial [2] osdev I have just finished pre-emptive multitasking!

However the more a kernel mature the less these tutorials are useful, for more advanced topics there will only be a few open source implementions to take inspiration from, usuaully linux and the BSDs.

[1] https://github.com/jzck/kernel-zig
[2] https://wiki.osdev.org/Brendan%27s_Multi-tasking_Tutorial
> In this case however, the code is under the GPLv3, which is far more problematic. It contains a "anti-tivoization" clause, which says you cannot require any "methods, procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install and execute modified versions".

That doesn't actually apply to the Apple app store. The "anti-tivoization" clause is narrowly written to only cover what Tivo did. Namely, providing hardware with locked down firmware.

This is the trigger for the "anti-tivoization" clause:

> If you convey an object code work under this section in, or with, or specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying occurs as part of a transaction in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), the Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must be accompanied by the Installation Information.

A "User Product" is:

> either (1) a “consumer product”, which means any tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, or (2) anything designed or sold for incorporation into a dwelling.

When someone downloads an app from the Apple app store for their iPhone, the iPhone is the "User Product", and the transaction is not one in which "the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient", and so the "anti-tivoization" does not apply.
> I've always been on the skeptical side of medical marijuana usage in all but the most extreme cases,

Really? I've always found the milder claims fairly believable (fighting nausea or chronic low level pain relief). As an anecdote, I can attest to dealing with kidney stone pain well (rather than stopping the pain it reduced how much I noticed it) and it ended up more effective and felt less dangerous than the opiods I had used in the past.

Some of the more "miracle" claims, however, seem pretty suspect to me and I'd want some reliable reseach.

What makes you skeptical of so many claims?
In general I have not seen any legal trouble or even social consequences falling on people, but that is because I've never seen anyone even attempt such a discussion without the veil of anonymity (be it advocating for themselves or advocating for others).

As for laws, the US generally has few legal consequences but the social consequences are so assumed it is like finding people who can confirm jumping off a bridge hurts you. It is taken as such an absolute truth that most do not know someone who has tested the premise.

For other countries with far stricter laws on speech, I do not know of many examples but have rarely searched. I do remember there being a related case involving a claim concerning the prophet Muhammad. But at the same time, I want to acknowledge while I raise this issue for general discussion, I have personally seen many use similar arguments only as weapons against minority groups. Thus the challenge of someone using an argument as weapon against minorities vs. someone who uses an argument as a means to increase tolerance.
For getting encryption keys from RAM after shutdown there's this video mentioned by another commentor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaicPIgn9U

For using reflections, there's this paper implementing reading screen content from various things like reading glasses, a can of coke or even the user's eye (including a discussion of limitations): http://gauss.ececs.uc.edu/Courses/c6055/extra/reflections.pd...

Right now I can't find something on reading keyboard vibrations with lasers, but here's one doing it acoustically and one doing it via acclerometer of a phone on the table:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/23322/keyboard-...

https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/general/traynor-cc...
>But the point of learning about Pythagoreanism isn't to learn ancient history. It is to learn philosophy.

The two, at least according to Hegel, are not so easily separable.

"The more the ordinary mind takes the opposition between true and false to be fixed, the more is it accustomed to expect either agreement or contradiction with a given philosophical system, and only to see reason for the one or the other in any explanatory statement concerning such a system. It does not conceive the diversity of philosophical systems as the progressive evolution of truth; rather, it sees only contradiction in that variety. The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. These stages are not merely differentiated; they supplant one another as being incompatible with one another. But the ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes them at the same time moments of an organic unity, where they not merely do not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other; and this equal necessity of all moments constitutes alone and thereby the life of the whole."
I fear this is the start of a trend of robots operating in public, controlled by unknown masters.
Here's my anecdote:

In 2006, while sitting at my desk playing a video on the Travelstar 40GB PATA drive in my Thinkpad T22, I held a single neodymium magnet (harvested from an old hard disk drive) about 6 inches from the left side of the unit (where the ~disk was located). The video froze, Windows XP blue-screened, and the hard disk drive started emitting a ~10Khz whine. I jerked my hand away from the PC immediately when the whine started

BIOS would no longer detect the disk on that machine, or any other I tried it on (on both USB-to-PATA and honest-to-goodness motherboard PATA controllers). The drive spun up but made a repeated ticking sound (I assume seeking back and forth looking for servo tracks).

I sent the drive to Kroll Ontrack (because, stupidly, I had billing data that wasn't backed-up on the drive). The report I received back indicated that 80% of the drive's sectors were unreadable.

As an aside: The data I was looking for was ASCII text and Kroll Ontrack was completely unhelpful in just sending me a bitstream image of the drive so I could grovel thru looking for data I needed. Being plain ASCII, their "file carving" tools didn't locate any of the data. (They sent me a "preview" of the data they'd located, and while it got lots of Microsoft Office-format files, it didn't have any ASCII text files). I offered them a 3x multiple of the rate they asked for file-level recovery to simply send me the bitstream image of the disk that they'd already made. They wouldn't do it, and wouldn't even let me pay to talk to somebody who understood what I was asking for. I ended up taking a major loss on the billing data I destroyed. I'll never recommend them to anybody.

I won't ever play with neodymium magnets around spinning rust media again either. I also had a major failure of my discipline re: backup at that time, too. The cobbler's children always go barefoot-- I was being too cavalier with my backup strategy (or lack thereof) and not treating my own data like I would a Customer's.
I use my cameras to check in on my cat when I am out of town. Typically a friend only visits briefly once a day and I get peace of mind out of knowing that the cat is eating.
If the cat was not eating, I'd ask a friend to take it to the vet or to sit with a while to make sure it eats.
do not buy from Amazon due to their huge carbon footprint produced by individual box delivery
https://beta.trimread.com/articles/1393
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Basically how we do it in Norway, and probably lots of other countries that does it automagically.

1st of April every year we get our pre-filled tax form (digitally), which we have to look over. If we find it to be alright, we don't have to do anything (deadline the 30th of April) and the taxes have been filed.
All financial institutions sends data to our tax office, so it's all there.
i agree, it initially was like that, then i thought the experience would be better by using the title to identify a post.
This is correct. I have a pet pigeon who is very happy, and often quite insistent, to be put back into his cage once he's had enough outside time. He also makes it VERY clear when he doesn't want out of the cage.

The pigeons are trained when they have eggs or babies in their nest, since they will be in such a panic to get back, they learn to be very quick about the travel. It's certainly not very humane.
They are so cheap, just buy another. ;)
Let's walk before we can run. It's difficulty enough to get countries to reduce their own emissions. Asking them to compromise their exports to reduce others' emissions is simply not viable at the moment.
In the real world this is not a problem when the number of pervs is much lower than the number of schoolyards.

It becomes a problem when YouTube's algorithm can pick something up and amplify a single weirdo into a world-wide phenomenon.
"On behalf of"? That's a characterization that's doing a whole lot of heavy lifting for you. Where did anyone imply she was saying anything "on behalf of" Amazon?

A person's personal time and personal views are theirs, theirs alone, and must be protected from their employer. The best way to keep an employee from speaking up when you're doing dirty is to not do dirty. And we, as that society that grants Amazon and similar megacorporations the privilege of (for it is not a right to exist, they aren't people) existence, should break straight in half any of them that tries to curb its employees from speaking up when that company is doing dirty.

"Shut up and be a cog." No. Do no such thing. Be a citizen and be a human, and help others do the same.
It's still used in the UK too, in our hybrid metric/imperial setup.
Some charts and data:

https://compasspathways.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/poste...

"Psilocybin administration to healthy participants: safety and feasibility
in a placebo-controlled study"

"Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Orlando, FL, USA, 8–11 December 2019"
This is NOT a trial that was designed to assess the safety of psilocybin. This was a trial meant to show that a particular dosage of psilocybin is /safe enough/ to pursue further research in that dose range.

This was a /phase one/ clinical trial.

Phase One: administer small doses under very close supervision in a tiny number of people to determine whether it's immediately dangerous, or safe enough /for further study/. They used 89 - initial randomization of 30 each to placebo, 10mg, and 25mg. That's a good number for a phase one trial. But when we look at the sort of things that start hurting people when released to market, they're the sort of adverse effects that go undetected in trials with thousands of participants, and would need an infeasible large trial (>10k patients) to detect.

This trial does not prove safety. This trial is meant to establish a dosing range that is /safe enough/ to participants to allow for further study. They found no "serious" adverse effects, in healthy volunteers - that is, not depressed patients. Can drugs like this have different effects in people w and without depression? Yes they most certainly can, in particular if those people are on concurrent medications (which they will be, since this is being developed for treatment-resistant depression).

“We wanted to look at the safety and tolerability profile of our psilocybin, and to look at the feasibility of a model where up to six one-to-one sessions are held at the same time." No they didn't /want/ to - they /had/ to. This is article is just a press release.

Phase 2 is generally a range of doses, within the range established in phase one, wherein we attempt to determine, to a rough level of accuracy, which doses show toxicity, which show therapeutic benefit, and at roughly what proportions. This phase is meant to determine what dose will be used in a phase 3 trial, if any dose exists with an appropriate proportion of therapeutic benefit to side effect.

Phase 3 - a dose (or couple of doses) of a drug in a regimen meant to reflect real-world proposed usage is distributed and compared against either a currently used drug or a placebo. Depending on how big an effect is expected, how common the disease, etc. we'd look at trials of hundreds to thousands of patients. This is the trial where we get a real sense of safety, side effect profiles, efficacy, etc. This is the make-or-break line for getting your drug to market.

Phase 4 "trial" - aftermarket surveillance. Goes on for years after a drug hits market, because there's no trial that comes to close to capturing the rare side effects that may be visible when applied to the general population.

This was, also, presented to a neuropsychopharm conference, not published data. Which is to say, they're ready to brag about it, but they're not ready to submit themselves to close scrutiny.
It seems critically important to note that Costa's speaking out was more than comments in an article like this one. She was the subject of a full interview article from Techcrunch, which billed her as an "Amazon principal UX design lead", although there's no way for us to know if that's the specific thing that Amazon objected to.
I've bought and maintained holding on LW, which is in the worldwide market of potato products (french fries, etc). Reason being people would be looking for fat substitute when meat price goes up. Restaurants will increase their fries portion to account for the decreasing meat portion.

The trend toward plant based food also helps.
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I always thought it odd that Netflix made the cut into that acronym but Microsoft did not. But I think people colloquially add Microsoft to that mix even if it isn’t literally in the acronym.
This is such a ridiculous argument that I don't know how to respond it to other than to say stop gatekeeping the act of advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy. They may have many things they wish to see done that require far higher taxes than they could single handled afford.

Why do you care what their motivation for doing this is? The more people advocating it for it the better, at least in my opinion. Even the posers who do it only to stroke their own ego may accidentally get higher taxes for themselves if they keep this up.