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For those who are willing to go through this thought exercise, if we're purely trying to maximize humankind's total well-being, how much wealth would we have to create to counteract one coronavirus victim's loss of life?

Here's a set of 3 questions that I think leads to a possible answer.

- How much would someone have to pay you to be put to sleep for 8 years, during which period you have no sensory input or output?

- Would you rather be put to sleep for 8 years now or at the end of your life?

- Do you have a preference over being put to sleep for the last 8 years of your life vs just dying straight up?

I think most people would be willing to go to sleep for 8 years for $2 million. And, most would prefer dying 8 years sooner over going to sleep now.

In other words, $2m > sleep for 8 years now > dying 8 years earlier == coronavirus victim

The moral dilemma is that we're asking one person to die 8 years sooner to create an outbalanced improvement in quality of life increase for someone else. That is, you're taking away well-being from one person to give to another. I think government officials implement policies that redistribute human well-being all the time, but it raises alarm bells when we start dealing with life and death.
In 1991 or so, Intel was speccing devices with 100K erase cycles. In private conversation we were told "Oh, they'll last millions, it's just that erases take longer and longer to the point where you run out of patience and just declare the block dead." I don't remember the part sizes, but they were in the low megabit range.

Challenge accepted, I tried to wear a device out (my setup had direct bus access to the flash part in question, no remapping layer). Went for months without an error and I eventually repurposed that corner of my desk.

30 years later, they've pushed the technology a little :-)

You won't get 10K out of an SLC cell (ten years ago those would suffer around 3,000 erase cycles, and it has to be much worse now). I don't know what QLC endurance is (16 voltage levels in a cell, run away), but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a few hundred cycles.
Why do we care about Covid-19 deaths more than driving-related deaths?
Perhaps you put your fortress down in a place with no enemies... most games I would have to immediately setup a system to keep enemies out or they'd massacre everyone pretty quickly! Once I had a dragon come and lay waste to everything, burning down all of the trees outside and setting fire to all the hapless dwarves.
I picked up dwarf fortress 7-8 years ago when I was in eighth grade, and have been playing it on and off since. Performance is always what kills the game for me.

The game is supposed to be hard, but if you at all know what you're doing it's very easy to keep your fort well, and the only real risk of losing your fort is from you intentionally doing stuff that puts your fort at risk. You literally can defeat entire enemy armies by capturing them all with cage traps, for example.

This I can forgive.

Dwarf fortress is all about the crazy stupid ideas you can come up with after all. Want to build any interesting structures? Prepare for your dwarfs to get stuck every conceivable way one could possibly get stuck trying to build a simple wall. It can be incredibly tedious to accomplish something that ideally shouldn't take more than a few simple commands.

All of this I could live with. The performance without fail is what eventually kills my will to play. Want to do cool stuff with magma? Watch the game slow to a crawl. Want to run a big society? Watch the game slow to a crawl. Want to do anything remotely interesting? Watch the game slow to a crawl.

People go to obscene lengths to keep their performance, such as generating atom smashers that will 'delete' unwanted stuff from their fort completely, so the game stops wasting energy rendering 5000 rocks and how each dwarf is reminded about their childhood traumas as every rock reminds them of how their father died from a falling rock.

This game is so close to being great but falls short at the very last mile because the basic gameplay is fundamentally flawed. This is a simulator first, game second and it shows :(
I should have put (a) and (b) in quotes.
It's not just that they taste worse. Sometimes manufacturers reduce fat but try to compensate by amping up sugar or artificial sweeteners.
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They predicted us traveling by rocket much quicker across the globe. I see this mentioned now and then with disappointment that the one thing close to a rocket - the Concorde - was discontinued.

But what happened in the aerospace industry is that we instead focused on fuel efficiency and lower noise, which lead to the high bypass turbofan engine.

Instead of accelerating a small amount of air to supersonic speeds, which is both extremely noisy and fuel inefficient, we moved to a system that takes that small amount of air and uses it to drive a much larger fan which then takes a large volume of air and accelerates it to subsonic speeds. That's why 'jet engines' of the old days were much thinner and noisier than the really fat engines we have today.

This led to much cheaper and quieter air travel. This is a huge benefit - just not quite as spectacularly "space age" as the sci fi authors of the 1950s envisioned.
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Why do you need Discovery? The command itself returns illegal opcode, that's sufficient right?
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There's always certain industries that do well in every recession. That doesn't mean it's not a recession. North Dakota had something like a 1.8% unemployment rate in the depths of the Great Recession because the high oil prices (which otherwise exacerbated the recession) allowed the shale oil and gas boom. They were doing great, but the national rate was around 10%.
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> Pakistan was perceived as a secular state by its founders, even if that's not how it panned out.

Good story you tell yourselves. Start a country based on religion, and then act surprised that it turned religious. This is your second prime minister "I do not agree that religion is a private affair of the individual nor do I agree that in an Islamic state every citizen has identical rights, no matter what his caste, creed or faith be ...
— Governor-General Khawaja Nazimuddin, 1948–49, [33]"

> I know that before Modi, even my religious but western-educated Pakistani friends would point to India and say we should be like them. Not so any more.

I agree that india's going down a dark path and Pakistan should aim for better. Btw, India is still better than Pakistan for rights of its citizens.

> Something has changed in India in the last decade - blaming an event from three generations ago does Indians and their intelligence a disservice

Saying that they are well meaning and fooled by modi also does the same disservice. There is distrust of Muslims, even Indian ones. Why would there not be? They demanded a partition decades ago, and still hold on to communal Sharia laws.

Such historical events are not and should not be easily forgotten, do we forget the holocaust and not criticize white nationalism?

Add to the fact that Pakistan has constantly delved in terrorism. You said something changed in last decade, maybe because Pakistan committed the Bombay attack in 2008?
It was probably too late (around 1996 to 97), but there was Smalltalk Express which was essentially Smalltalk/V for Windows that was released for free after ParcPlace and Digitalk merged. It never received any updates though and was only a Windows 3.1 program. It also came with a lengthy tutorial (actually a 16 chapter book) in HTML format.

Here it is running under Windows 10 (thanks to otvdm/winevdm that allows running 16bit programs in 64bit windows): https://i.imgur.com/r5aQNyJ.png
Well here's the thing about that, people were actively incentivized not to save cash with low interest rates and a booming stock market. I know for myself personally I'm heavily invested in the markets just because that's what worked best for almost a decade. Nobody saw this coming.

Now you have to debate selling your stock at such low prices and realizes huge loses or paying your bills - I think most people are going to try to hold out for unemployment/use credit before they do that.
Understood, but that difference doesn't apply when we're talking about food specifically. I'm saying that the "vegan" label is marketing liability if you're trying to sell to the general public (and not just to the existing vegan community).

If we're talking about shoes, or cars, then the euphemism will be something like "cruelty-free". No car company is going to associate their cloth interiors with veganism. Well, maybe Subaru would :)
The death toll for Covid-19 is at least 4 times the official numbers
Presumably, that would depend on your conversatonal goal. We could refer to the Apollo lander as a spacecar[0] in a casual conversation but that could be tedious or misleading if a NASA representative were trying to pigdin with an ESA representative about the metal casing of a booster rocket ballooning past the expansion tolerance of the o-rings, using only the 3000 most common english words.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1133/
Two local high-schools have radio stations that I can receive easily without much antenna work, and I've found their programming to be quite a relief from commercial stations.

Some of it is pop crap, sure, but it's really fresh pop crap. And some of it is the kid who's just discovering Elvis and doing an hour of Elvis every Friday night, and yeah I've heard the songs before, but the deejay's enthusiasm is really what I'm here for. And some of it is just weird, demo tapes from bands that probably played four gigs and might never play another one, but I know next time I'm out driving, I might be stopped next to their drummer at a light, you know?

And all the "ad spots" are PSAs. Some locally produced by the students, some from various state and national orgs. None of them scream at me.

It is bliss.
Wasn't regulatory hysteria. We just chose a more environmentally friendly and quieter technology to focus our energy. See my other comment about high bypass turbofan engines in this thread.
Optimal for whom?

Any system is fairly trivial for native speakers — they just learn it.

For non-native learners, the optimum level is probably the closest to what their native language is. Simple examples, it’s easier for a native speaker of Japanese to learn Mandarin since their is substantial overlap in vocabulary via the significant Chinese influence in the Japanese language.

That said, all other things being equal, the number is probably on the low side. As a simple example, Indonesian seems to be a relatively easy language for folks coming from any language to learn, even if their native language is linguistically distant. I believe this is due to the relatively small amount of functional vocabulary.
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Zotero is/was a XUL application, and the whole application used to (also) be a Firefox plugin. So the similarities are not unexpected.
Thanks for the response. I am aware of that functionality. I, however, usually find papers using the browser (either searching google scholar or on arxiv/scirate). Zotero, then lets me click one button (most of the time), and the entry is available to be cited using a nice citekey (firstauthorYear), and the pdf is placed in my pdf folder with the right filename.

With all due respect to the excellent work you do (many thanks for that), my workflow does not require any manual work most of the time.
>And rightly so because it usually does.

True. And this is being a rational consumer. The cookies may taste the same, but I don't want to risk my money and pantry space to find out.
I don't usually avoid "low fat" products (maybe I should, because most of them are unhealthy), but yes, "low sodium" is a sure telling that it will taste bad.
Somewhat related, this reminded me of the story how companies are going green/sustainable with their products without telling customers about it: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/08/producers-ke... Quote:

Why would firms spearheading sustainable practices not publicise their good work? It’s a question that puzzles Professor Steve Evans, director of research in industrial sustainability at Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing, who suggests that such examples are widespread. He believes this stems from a common perception that there must be some kind of downside to the introduction of sustainable practices: either a reduction in product quality, or an increase in the price of manufacturing, or both.
Nothing about safety modeling requires that we understand every risk in the model. I don't understand how you think that, e.g., aviation safety modeling doesn't have to deal with the real world or with real people who do stupid things. It's true that we're probably less able to control all the risk factors in some cases, though, but nothing prevents us from understanding them or doing what we can to make better systems for future pandemics. E.G. we could come up with a better plan for testing and perhaps better ways to share (or leak?) data on new diseases.

The fact is that the public are terrible bosses. We look for people to blame, we're inattentive and have no idea, generally, how to evaluate things on actual metrics. We have no idea which metrics are being gamed and the people who do are actively gaming the metrics and flooding us with cherry-picked information as well as disinformation, though the former is probably more dangerous and more widespread.

The average person in the public will be satisfied as long as we blame some random politician instead of looking for structural reform. E.G. maybe we should adopt Japan's culture of using masks in public when sick, require employers to guarantee minimum standards of sick leave, and change various hospital/ER waiting room practices.
I would guess a lot of those are duplicates but there are also cases where it has like APA 4 styles and one for APA5, and APA6, and so on.
Why didn’t you install a tileset? Most people don’t play with ASCII nowadays.
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Although I haven't read Captial and Ideology, Piketty seems to be situated in a weird place, as I gathered by his previous book. He isn't critical of capitalism as such[0] - as economists like Sen, Roemer, Kliman and Veneziani are, but on the other hand he is aware of the transparent ideological forces which shape the way we view the economy and capital. The content of this book, between social, historical and economic axes seems closer to Marx than Samuelson - and it's refreshing in a climate that seems to take the concepts under investigation for granted. I look forward to reading it.

[0] There is a debate between Piketty and Marx-leaning philosopher/economist Frederic Lordon in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY3aczWOd0
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Does roam support automatic importation of bibliographical info and export to bibtex? That’s the main value of zotero for me. Also latex math embedding notes would be great
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Thanks a lot! I'll see what there is :)
I like that too, but it's worth noting that Github (not sure about lab) allows you to disable these features (wiki, issues, etc.) with a checkbox on the repo's settings page.
> There is nothing in the privacy policy that addresses [that data is being sent to Facebook]

> The Zoom app notifies Facebook when the user opens the app, details on the user's device such as the model, the time zone and city they are connecting from, which phone carrier they are using, and a unique advertiser identifier created by the user's device which companies can use to target a user with advertisements

So Zoom is sending the fingerprints of mobile users to Facebook. Which helps Facebook better track users across the internet. Not only this, but Zoom is not disclosing this information (though it isn't like people read TOS and would be aware of this anyways).

Can we just stop sending data everywhere? If you don't need it, don't gather it.
No, I would normally disable invasion. When I enabled invasion, I'd just lock my dwarfs in my fortress and not leave the fortress for a season and eventually goblins abandon the invasion. I just never figured out how to prepare an army and attack, so figured, I'd much rather focus on things like farming, smelting, jewelry etc.
Unfortunately, it's called "a good time to get the heck out if you haven't already."
Typically, FTTH doesn't require a "modem".

In my case, I have VZ Fios in the northeast US. Their termination point at my house has an RJ45 Ethernet connection. It goes directly to my pfSense router.
> 3. This is nearly 5x (!) the prior record of 671K new jobless claims from 1982, and redefines the scale for jobless claims. [1]

This should be normalized to be per-capita, comparing absolute figures is distorted by population growth. The US was only 230M people in 1982, 100M less than today.

After normalizing it's more like 3.9x.
Fair enough. Though I do think people need to understand that OTHER vaccines do use live viruses, and that's where the confusion comes from.
I agree philosophically, but that's not how the world works. First, we have enough smart people to do both things at once. Secondly, if you have leverage, you use it. Making sure people can vote for a party that will properly manage disasters like this one seems like a top-tier priority right now.
I do not have an explanation either. I'm more of a kernel guy so I realized it "should" have worked but it didn't. I suspect perhaps a thread wakening issue of some sort, as the connections were definitely 'queued' on the listen socket. I know that that same code worked perfectly with glibc!
I don't think it is similar at all. I haven't used evernote but it is for notes and things right? This is just for citations.
Webassembly is statically typed.
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Yeah trying to build structures where the dwarf decides he can't build it because a rock is in the spot he's supposed to build on and that rock is assigned to be used on another section of wall is very frustrating. Having to continually revisit builds was laborious.
Does the new version handle citations/bibtex export? I really want to use polar but that’s the main value of zotero for me atm.
> he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic trick.

Have you ever tried to suss out how he is able conduct web searches so effectively? Would be interested in what you learned.
Got excited, followed the readme and installed onto VPS. Users can join, but nothing ever happens beyond the 'waiting for people to join message'.

It seems to bind to a large number of ports (including a port 80 redirector, which isn't really helpful on a host that's likely to be serving other stuff), and I can only assume there's some hidden firewall dependency that I've missed.

Such as shame, as it shows great promise.
The thing I took away from Capital in the Twenty-First Century was his conjecture that the post-WWII (until about 1990) period was one of the few times in history that prosperity was widely shared with workers. The era that I consider to be normal (since I lived it) is in fact very abnormal.
Im assuming you want information regarding bluetooth traffic monitoring and not how big tech forces users to give up privacy.

Here is a paper I found that covers it, I worked in the traffic industry and attended several presentations at IMSA trade shows regarding this subject.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/2018/3251598/

Actually that paper is about a newer technique that would require an app to be installed.
The method I am aware of and currently in use, uses the 48 bit unique identification of phones with bluetooth discoverability turned on. When a car with one of these phones in it drives down the highway the address is timestamped at multiple sensor locations. From analysing these records, traffic flow can be observed. Eg. It took 2 minutes for a phone to be discovered by two different sensors(beacons) 2 miles apart, therefore traffic is flowing at 60mph.

Not everyone has a phone with bluetooth discovery turned on but there are enough to make a usefull observation. As a matter of fact, I currently live near a Highway and just scanning for available wifi hotspots, I am amazed at how many cars drive by with mobile hotspots active. (I pick up thier SSIDs)
My hope is that after this pandemic (assuming it slows down or we gain control over it), governments around the world will enact policies that prepare us for future pandemics. Like a postmortem type of thing where they document what went wrong, what could be done better, and what they can do to mitigate the impacts of future pandemics, in a rational and blameless manner.

Similar to what happened after the financial crisis with additional financial regulation.

I have no doubt another pandemic will happen, and we'll likely have forgotten what it's like, so having policies in place becomes even more important.
Yeah pretty common thing across all industries. I would expect things like maybe the vibration is slightly out of normal spec, or an abnormal amount of bad sectors on a fresh unit.

But I don't understand how them maybe not being top quality would make part of the SCSI protocol disappear in the firmware. That indicates that these drives had a different firmware developed for them with missing features which makes no sense.
This is an aside (and I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place - my first time here)

But... speaking of sports and radio/ streaming: I'm working on an early stage project in the sports streaming space and looking for a technical co-founder. A friend recommended HN as good community to ask in. Any interest/ thoughts/ direction welcome!

Again, my apologies if this is outside forum norms - happy to take feedback.

Thanks for reading
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It's worth noting that Piketty has an astonishingly basic misunderstanding/non-understanding of the marxist analysis of capitalism despite the titles of his books. He hasn't even read Capital. I like his politics relatively well as far as most liberals go but that is still pretty disappointing.

“What I mean,” Piketty says, explaining his differences with Marx, “is that your class position is not enough to determine your view of what’s the best system of property, education, taxation. We need ideas and ideologies and we need to take them seriously.” (Guardian in Feb). However, that is a trivially wrong mischaracterization. Marx himself was from a relatively privileged background and he, Engels, Lenin, etc have never argued for a mechanical determination of ideology.

In general I think his analysis is that "capitalism should just change some specific things to reduce inequality" without any materialist, political-economic understanding of why inequality is so rampant in the first place - why capital's dominance comes from the structure of the economy. That is why marxism is interesting, marxism makes a very compelling argument for it, and liberals ignore it at their peril.
I have used Zotero for years. I can't imagine writing a paper without it. I know some academics still do all their citations by hand. Fuck that shit. I can't imagine doing that - especially when journals often have their own citation style and if you get rejected by one and submit to another you may have to change all the citation formats.