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To me, the fact that Quora is offering money to people asking questions implies they WANT people to do it for monetary gain. If the system works right, Quora is sharing a portion of the income that they themselves gained from the question, which means that despite the intent of the partner, they still earned money off of it.

Of course, it will attract malicious actors, if the entity asking questions sends a bunch of bots onto quora to perform ad fraud or however Quora earns money on the asked questions. But Quora will probably never be able to prove the partner was behind the bots.

I'm sure there's plenty of companies that close their eyes to certain categories of specialized spambots or content farmers if they're earning money off of it and it's not malicious. It's only when the advertisers complain that they would start doing something against it.
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The type of habitat he is describing is known as an O'Neil cylinder. The wikipedia page for the topic probably answers most questions you have about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder
This seems to currently be a thing. It's a little premature to say it's going to apply to all cultures across all time. In fact I'd take the opposite side of that bet.

The thing is if there's any culture for which that's not true, like Mormons, Orthodox Jews, some groups of Muslims, whatever. In a few generations they replace the cultures that don't have a lot of children like our own. Then expansion continues.

I could see expansion slowing even reversing temporarily, but it seems hard to imagine it permanently ending.
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It's a customer management thing. We can't change peoples minds we can only get people to act. If the client comes in with an open mind we can help, if they come in with a problem and a solution that isn't working we are kinda fucked, generally they won't accept a solution to the problem, they want their solution to work.

Here is the most common example:

Small business come up with their marketing strategy A and it works they are pretty happy so they invest more into the strategy and get more results, great! They keep doing this and make a small or large fortune doing it, eventually the law of diminishing returns kicks in and they have a problem, they want more results by doing more of A but that isn't working anymore so they come to us and have this conversation.

Client: We have had great results doing A and we want more.

Me: A is working well for you but if you want more results you need to do A and B.

Client: A has worked really well for us so really we want to do more A and get more results.

Me: But doing more of A isn't getting more results, if you want more results you need to do A and B.

Client: Why are you not listening to me? A works really well for us, it gets us good results in the past and we want to do more of it. How much do you charge to do more A?

At the end of the day the client knows for a fact A works and that they are happy with the results and want more.

I don't think it's possible to change some ones mind but I can defiantly target people in the right mindset and then encourage them to act on it.

If the client comes to a marketing agency and wants more A they will do more A, if the client wants more results they will do A and B.

Me: We can do more A for more money!

Client: Fantastic!

a few months later the client will complain they are not getting more results and we will have this same conversation.
Thank goodness.
that's such an awesome concept and story! thank you for sharing the link.
Those are called "water wings" in the US and the person you were replying to feels quite the opposite about their safety; the ones I've seen available for purchase in the states are easy to dislodge accidentally.
What kind of intuition do you have about 1%-2%? I've a crappy grasp of probability. I'd say 1-2% is like being quite certain that you'll experience this or that within 50-100 tries/repetitions. That sounds rare to me. In case of life or death it's not a risk I'd tolerate, but I'd call it rare.
Then it might not do the best work on slugs.
How does one learn to swim with small feet? I tried to learn how to swim multiple times when I was a youth (grade school, middle school, high school). I could never grasp it and would always end up flailing my legs or slowly sinking. It was quite traumatic :)
> Your life is NOW, be happy now

This seemingly simple sentence carries so much wisdom.

I'm not the biggest fan of Eckhart tolle but this is basically what his philosophy is too. To quote him "It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."

Understanding it can transform your entire life (at least it did mine)
I do not, but as a consumer I appreciate the option to choose between an alert and a cap, or some combination of the two. There are some projects where I'd want the cap to know I might get an interruption but will never get a large bill. There are others where I need to keep the service up, and an alert would be much better than an interruption.
GP was pointing out that Gates wasn't entirely "self-made", as suggested by GGP. Gates in fact enjoyed opportunities that aren't available to the average American and is therefore not a particularly good example of social mobility. Pointing out that he enjoyed a degree of privilege doesn't diminish his achievements.
Yes and no.

I haven't measured the exact effect of this, but - although that if the wind doesn't throw the ship doesn't slow - having an exception-al path through the code will stop some compiler optimizations. I have seen this first hand but I also remember Walter Bright mentioning it either here or elsewhere.

If this is definitely the case maybe someone could chime in why exactly (I've never fiddled with a backend in the right places to deal with exceptions)
> Swimming is one of the few activities that children engage in which can go so wrong as to end up in their death

Climbing trees (fall risk)

Climbing tall playground equipment (I broke my arm falling from a height of just 3 feet once, on one of those). Broken neck, etc.

Playing in the street (cars)

Bicycling (can get hit by a car, sigh)

Trampoline (don't get me started)

Exploring (falling down deep wells, etc.)

The Gashlycrumb Tinies is not just a morbid story about impossible deaths. Living is dangerous, living young possibly especially so!
>Getting into an incubator or getting money from investors is zero measure of business success.

That is sort of like saying money doesn't buy happiness...true, but financial stress or poverty typically can be outright bars to happiness. As you say YC admission or raising funds from investors isn't a measure of business success...but then again I haven't seen a tech unicorn that hasn't been funded by investors.

>Head down, work, balanced lifestyle, try to make something small succeed on your own.

That is a great message to tell to the 99% that get rejected from YC and will never touch VC funding...but even that sounds more like a pipe dream than the American dream now a days.
Many are, somewhat. It’s common for services to have different overage rates at different tiers (eg: starter might be $10/m for 10GB and $0.1/GB after, while pro might be $50/m for 100GB and $0.01/GB after).

They also tend to differentiate on other features and support levels too, which muddies it a little, but the concept is there.
As with any big system, spinning it up is much harder than bringing it down. After an outage, they have to stay offline to audit their systems to ensure that all the nodes are synchronized, all queued trades have been processed, and no accounts are in invalid states. I'm sure they could have restarted in a matter of minutes, but the risk is ridiculously high.
I tend to agree with you that odds are that our brains as purely bio-electric artefacts are enough to explain intelligence and consciousness. I'd like to think so. This could be the case even if we live in a simulation, by the way.

But that we seem to evidence that most of brain function reside in the brain does not mean we can conclusively say that there's no extra element to it that we don't understand.

Note that I am much more comfortable with the idea that it's all basic hardware; the big point here is not that a "soul" or external simulation or whatever is the most likely explanation, but to illustrate just how thoroughly we really have no idea what causes consciousness, or even whether consciousness really is meaningfully a thing. It's a big gaping whole in our understanding of the world that we're just being in the very infancy of trying to attack.
I know it's sometimes hard. I try to encourage my teams to give people the benefit of the doubt, rather than assuming something negative. It's a good way to combat defensiveness and important to building trust. In the end, it's a conscious choice to assume the best intent.
Yeah, I'm thinking this is more like the Gemini (which turned out horrible, mine sits in a drawer unused) than the PinePhone. MediaTek is terrible, and I wouldn't be surprised if they need libhybris to get Sailfish and such working.
Ok wow that makes sense. So I’d actually have a hard time pulling them apart?

What’s the limit? What happens 1 meter apart? 20 meters?
...

This is HN -- you post unscientific crap and it will be called out -- that lady seems like a crackpot.

She does not channel or contact ET life.
Strongly disagree.

Understanding your metrics is a key part of so many roles, from devops, to product teams, to marketers...

Yes, you should be automating alerts whenever possible. Yes, you should be putting up key metrics in a visible place so everyone can see how the product is performing.

I can’t tell you how many times I caught an issue because I knew our metrics backwards and forwards, but it didn’t trip an alert threshold. Not every issue follows a pattern easily defined in a check, and human brains are incredible computers capable of helping to fill in that gap.
Likely means that they have difficulty paying off the balance every month and incur interest charges.

Because most credit cards offer some sort of cash back/reward for every dollar spent, they are great if you can pay off the balance 100% of the time.

However, if you get hit with interest charges even once, it can wipe out any benefit you gained from the cash back/reward bonus. In such cases those people might be better off using a debit card or other means.
This is pretty much how exceptions are implemented in some bytecode interpreters (e.g. CPython).
Is there any SPARQL implementation that returns results under 10 seconds on a big dataset? Because, I never found a public SPARQL endpoint that gives remotely acceptable response time.
I haven't read every essay he's written, but to me it seems like his "heterodoxy" is relatively weak. He won't be fired for his opinions but he's not going to risk his reputation by doing something actually controversial, like denouncing capitalism or calling out the racism and misogyny in his own industry.
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I've been waiting for progress in this direction for a while, and this paper seems to follow naturally from what many were expecting.

I'm more excited about adding more neuroplasticity, brainpower, and easier interfacing to humans, but if you can also make it so I can train NNs on rat brainware I'll be pretty happy, too. This further opens the path to both.
I do the same thing, but do not use readwise, just make them manually while im reading a book.
What is the range on this thing?
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The "wireless wire" are too short range to be useful for many things. A better example of an 802.11ad product shipping right now is this:

https://mikrotik.com/product/lhg_60g

Or this, which is $299 per end:

https://store.ui.com/products/af60-us

If you're going over 300-400 meters with these you need to keep in mind that the 60 GHz band sees EXTREME rain fade. People try to build links that are too long with these and have no fade margin. RSL should be something like -40 to -42 when properly aimed, which gives you about 20dB of fade margin.

Sure you can get a radio set to link up at 1.5km+ at -60 on a clear sunny day, but the slightest rain shower will have adverse affects on it.
I see General Paywall Bypass entry in the addons setting, wouldn't that require access to all domains in order to work?
Its enough to have 2 that work in different domains with different constraints and different tools.

Wouldn't that be more or less be just two monoliths?
I mean this is OK as an apology, but is there an actual post mortem anywhere was can read?
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Including sounds, which are almost universally added to the footage in a separate processing stage, and have no relation to what has actually happened on the stage itself.
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> You still have to know exactly the same amount of information

This has been debated before:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902765
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Its not even as open as a single party right now. Its single candidate.
Flippers. Flippers magnify your kick strength, you have NO IDEA by how much (like literally it must be 10x or more). They're inexpensive, and there's no shame in having them. They're easy to put on and take off.

I also scuba dive, and flippers are a necessity in that circumstance. There is a MASSIVE difference in propulsion with flippers. Since you can encounter currents in open water scuba diving, they're a lifesaver. (Scuba is super cool too, btw. But that's like... super advanced swimming. Baby steps.)

Also, arm strength. I actually think most of my propulsion when swimming comes from my arms, not my legs (I'm not saying this is the most efficient... it's just what I do... I never said I was a PERFECT swimmer, lol). Hold your fingers together in like a shallow "cup" shape, push front to back, then either lift them out of the water back to the front OR do what I do when I breast stroke and just point your fingers forward and push them through the water back in front of you in as "waterdynamic" a shape as you can figure out. And then reform the cup with your fingers/hands and push yourself through the water again.
My guess it patents are that system. Not tractors, but I did listen to a podcast about how one of the main toothbrush manufacturers used patents to crush a group of dentist trying to make a better toothbrush for cheap. The patent holders waited until the last minute so that the dentist already had sunk their money into product about to hit the market to get the courts to stop it.

We are now at the point patents hamper innovation.
"Take the biggest mortgage you can" became known by the general population because it was repeated again and again by every financial literacy magazine, talk show and newspaper advice column back in its day. If anything that is an even more refined interest group than Reddit because you needed more than an internet connection and an interest to get into it.
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They want their articles to be indexed, but they don't want the end-user to see the content. You cannot have both effectively.
GNOME has been updating software to be resizable so that you can run normal GNU/Linux on a phone with the same programs. I think it's called libhandy. There's also the added benefit of being able to get the mobile UI on a computer to try out, or just to save space on your screen.
We will see this used on both the PinePhone and Librem 5.
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Pretty much anything that people might use in the water has that - vests, armbands, beachballs, whatever.
> The ocean is essentially a natural engine, converting solar energy into mechanical energy.

Given the challenges with putting machines in water, it seems futile to pursue this method of energy generation when going right to the source (solar) is also an option.

And how efficient is an ocean at converting solar energy into mechanical energy? Sure, the waves look big, but there's a lot of friction there eating up the sun's energy.
honestly i get the theory behind spaced repetition, but the format of Anki cards doesnt work for me. it is just hard to get onboard with making Anki cards for myself. it feels like too atomic of a piece of knowledge and in making the card i've already internalized it or likely know all I need to know to look it up in future. I know this isn't 100% true, but thats the mental hurdle I have when thinking about why I dont make Anki cards.
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That market is exclusively vintage vehicles. The new tractor market is dominated by large companies using DRM. The scale of these vehicles is probably greater than you think.
Very true. Reminds me of this quote I had saved (I don't recall the source)

"Personal-finance gurus obsess over buying coffee not because it is unsustainable, Vanderkam suggests, but because being a personal-finance guru is. “The strongest finance advice can be summed up in a couple sentences,” she explains. Maximize your income. Limit your big monthly expenses. But if your job depends on doling out financial wisdom, Vanderkam notes, “you have all this real estate you have to fill on your blog, your podcast, and your books. That’s where all this little stuff winds up coming in, but in the larger scheme, it’s kind of irrelevant.”
This has been my experience as well. I used to work at a research group that was hired by law firms to build new tools and products to assist law firms in doing their jobs. Some of the firms I worked with were had custom machine learning based text classification & extraction tools that were written in the early 2000s; long before this kind of technology mainstream.

Obviously the legal field is very diverse. I'm sure there are 80 year old lawyers out there still using teletype terminals to do their work because that's what they know. But my experience with larger law firms is that they see technological innovation as a key to their success.
The ones which are just placed on the arms and not tethered to each other have a failure mode where they easily come off if the child puts their arms straight up. Unfortunately, this is also a common drowning fear response.

In general, I want people to have full market freedoms, but I put those water wings pretty near lawn darts in terms of danger.
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In the psychological sciences, it seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

When a phenomenon with a large effect size is demonstrated with tens or hundreds of participants, everybody crows about how the sample size should have been larger.

On the other hand, when a small effect size requires millions of observations to detect, now the criticism is that the effect is too small to matter.

At any rate, this effect is small - but it is reliable. The only crappy part about this study is the ethical boundaries it crossed. In most other ways, this study was kindof amazing...
If you look at Google One, they actually charge more for each increment on a per-GB basis for the first few increments.
If I'm understanding you correctly, this is what discriminators are supposed to solve, but I've never used them and don't know the state of the tooling for them.
So various physical and chemical elements can form ever more complex pattern-recognizing feedback loops and end up like the conscious beings that we are, but it's not possible for us to further evolve via/with technology?

That doesn't make much sense.

This all depends on the lenses on see this through.

If one takes the perspective that evolution is a way for our genes to "find ever better vessels for the information carried in our DNA" then it seems like the meatvessel we are isn't the most optimal for the future.
It depends on what you mean by reasonable. In some places anything that faster than the non-existing 4G-connection they were promised 5 years ago will be reasonable.

These high frequency links might not be suited for bad weather or flock of birds, but they do enable low latency, high throughput most of the time. You can always downgrade to a lower frequency, much like how 5G operates, completely transparent for the clients.
I think for me the article hit peak "oh come on" when it said this:

> In fact, the computer does not play chess at all, let alone championship chess. Chess is a game that has evolved over centuries to pose a tough but not utterly discouraging challenge to humans, with regard to specifically human strengths and weaknesses. One human capacity it challenges is the ability to concentrate; another is memory; a third is what chess players call sitzfleisch—the ability to resist the fatigue of sitting still for hours. The computer knows nothing of any of these.

The author is complaining that airplanes don't flap their wings and submarines don't swim. Sure, it's technically correct, but it doesn't change the fact that airplanes are useful and distinguishing "flying [airplane style]" from "flying [bird style]" usually isn't.

This gets particularly egregious when the author talks about military robots:

> “The next ethical minefield is where the intelligent machine, not the man, makes the kill decision,” it reads. But no existing or presently conceivable robot will ever make such a decision. Whether a computer kills a man or dispenses a candy bar, it will do so because its program

Ah, the robot is killing me "because of its program". It's not DECIDING [HUMAN] it's only deciding [computer]. What a relief. Problem solved.

> The “should a man or a robot decide?” debate, then, is wrongly framed. The only correct question is whether the person making the decision will be the designer-programmer of the robot or an operator working with the robot at the moment of its use.

There are endless examples of human decisions to create computer systems not anticipating the computer decisions that those systems make. It's useful to then be able to say things like "the car decided to not do anything, to debounce the am-about-to-hit-something signal, which resulted in the death of the cyclist" without having to constantly qualify with "the decision was implemented by a series of hard-coded if-else statements and while loops". Wasting everyone's time with the triviality "an if-then statement isn't a DECISION [HUMAN] it's only a DECISION [COMPUTER]" is not a useful contribution to this particular debate.

Applying human thinking terms to computer systems is a useful shorthand. It's not going away.
Yeah, I wasn't super clear - PFDs are great if a new swimmer just needs to be in the water. My nephews used them at the beach when they were toddlers. But swim lessons were mom/dad/instructor holding them in the water.