skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fragmentation of platforms is an issue, but it's already reality today, any market that is large enough gets to dictate their local rules. I'd prefer if we adopted the US idea of free speech globally (or at least online), but I don't believe it's going to happen.

My main problem with the idea of hate speech is that it hinges on individual judgement and is weaponized to suppress opposing speech. It's vague and in the end is only defined on a case-by-case basis by looking at the majority or the position of powerful institutions, and generally sympathy-based - a terrible foundation to build rules on.

You're certainly right that outlawing cancel culture would get us into trouble as well. We do have far reaching rules for compelled speech & association (not least via taxes that are redistributed), so I'm not sure there's a good reason to say "but we won't add this one" (I see no good reason to protect religious but not political convictions for example).

My favorite solution is to find rules that everybody is happy with, even if big tech fires all employees tomorrow and replaces them with proponents of the opposite ideology: build the shoe in such a way that you're okay if it's on the other foot tomorrow.
No, the other reply has it right - I'm just pointing out that what we see of as the caste system is not what is originally intended. It should not be about inequality
HEPA filters are good enough for the exhaust from BSL4 labs. They work. But they only work on the air that passes through them, as a barrier between separate environments. Just placing one somewhere in the room probably won’t help much.
>Nope, Apple is taking care of it's customers and protecting them from Google's ad exploitation.

Apple is "protecting" its customers by restricting and patronising them like little children. Privacy by default is good, but many of their restrictions are clearly aimed at rent seeking.

Where customers really need protection, Apple is stabbing them in the back by aiding and abetting human rights abuses with their pointless side-loading ban and their willingness to let dictators run their own iCloud service.
Legumes are interesting in that there are many crops that can be companion planted. Can they get to quantities that can sustain a family? I don’t know. But pole beans are known to grow better as a companion plant to corn than by themselves. There are many other types of legumes — the Mesquite tree here in my neck of the woods (lower Sonoran) is a nitrogen fixer, with some varieties producing bean like pods that can be harvested. (They require a mill to get the full use pf them).

My point is that there is a lot more options out there, and what is possible is a lot greater than people think.

As far as wheat goes, I have not heard much from permaculturists doing that. I hear more about cultivating amaranth and quinoa as nutritionally dense pseudo grains.

Generally, I also hear a lot more about winter squashes. That follows the design principle of “Catch and Store Energy”, with squashes being a very durable store of sunlight and nutrients. Speghetti squashes can be made into pasta-like noodles. Not so much with bread.

Cauliflower can be processed to make a kind of flour that can be used in a lot of baking. Again, I don’t know the yields that can sustain a family. Depending on where you are, they are a fall crop. (They are a winter crop for the lower Sonoran, zone 9b/10). Probably grown in succession so that they can be had for a while. Maybe the flour can be stored over winter.

There are also sunchokes. These are in the sunflower family, and are considered invasive. They are very hardy, and their tubers can be harvested during a time when few other plants can be harvested. Their flowers open late season, and also nourish pollinators at a time when they don’t have a whole lot of options. They will grow in poor, depleted soil, and will probably edge out other pioneer plants. So not bread for the winter, but a good source of calories nonetheless.

Maybe that will the challenge my wife presents to me: finding the a good set of crops that would allow her to bake.
> I switched iphones and google authenticator did not bring my 2FA's over

I recommend using an encrypted local backup created with a Mac (or iMazing), as _everything_ comes over except Secure Element-based info (Apple Pay cards, Touch/Face ID enrollment).

Also, a better TOTP manager app; I use OTP Auth.
Some people are happy to buy the Apple speil re privacy to knock web apps, all while using apps like Tiktok that'll probably violate their privacy much more than a PWA ever could.

The privacy argument is without basis, imo. Google is terrible on privacy too, and somewhat evil, and its browser is terrible at managing memory (I say this to prove I'm not a Google fanboy!) but at least it's not stifling innovation on the web.
It's a Strong Church-Turing so you're correct that sceptics just say they don't believe this.

Actually it's not uncommon for AI "sceptics" (the sort of people who write these articles not just people who suspect we'll have another AI Winter) to just not accept Church-Turing at all, or to insist upon squinting at it in a peculiar way that renders it tautological.

I'm consistently disappointed that people who feel they're quite sure general AI isn't possible mostly have bad intuitions about Computer Science. Twice so far I've been recommended books by sceptics "which will show you why you're wrong" and been disappointed with the poor quality of argument deployed which sometimes is little more than a show of incredulity or a resort to mysterious dualism.

A more robust attempt at this sort of argument was put up by Stevan Harnad, who taught an undergraduate class I sat in on many years ago now (one of the privileges of a post-graduate is that they're entitled to attend relevant undergraduate lectures and so I did). Harnad thinks† you need to build a robot because the intelligence will need some means to experience the universe for itself. But Harnad doesn't disbelieve that general AI is in principle possible, he just thinks our present methods can't get there.

† In general with people who've made a career of such thing they are very careful with words, and so I have doubtless mis-characterized (or even misunderstood) the details and you should blame me for that not Stevan.
None of your comments are relevant to machine learning applications, and all you do is throw blanket statements about ignorance. Your comments are very far from the problem and from being helpful.
If by "soul" you mean an emotional core, then you'd be correct. Emotions allow us to short-circuit the processing required to ascribe value to a thing or situation.

But that has nothing to do with dualism or theology.
1. Which democracy in the world do-not have corruption?

2. Where in the article is the mention about government intervention in Judiciary? I read it, but could not find it.

> Free and fare Judiciary and democratic institutions are fundamental to a democracy. I hope this substantiates the original comment.

Your original comment was that India's democracy is close to Putin's Russia. I agree that India being a young democracy need to develop better institutions. However it is not comparable to anything in Russia.

If you really want to compare, why don't you specifically list what happens in a mature democracy like UK, compare that to what is happening in RUSSIA and then show similar issues in India, while also showing that it does not happen in any of the model democracy you have in your mind.
The model is that the community living there has sole authority and exclusive use of the land. If you're not part of the community, you don't have and can't obtain exclusive rights to the land. I can't speak to the original example of Ecuador, but this is how it works in American Samoa as well.
There may be some more complex elements to this, but I don't think about this in a complex way. It's very simple for me. When you are face-to-face with a person, especially a person you know, there is a connection which forms through body language and other factors I can't identify which makes it very viscerally real that the person across from you is a human being who has their own unique experiences that have helped them to craft a particular worldview. It engenders at least some measure of respect, perhaps enough to give people the benefit of the doubt and to hear them out.

When you're online, you don't even know if you're talking to a person who is being sincere in their beliefs or a troll trying to get a rise out of you, or perhaps an advanced bot intended to drive discussion in a particular direction. There's no indication of the motivations, the sincerity, or even the reality of another human being when you interact online. I can't imagine how a conversation intended to be deep and nuanced couldn't be dehumanized by the Internet?
You can become hypersensitive (read: allergic) to a lot of things, including nickel. It won't happen to everyone but its more common in women that you'd think, perhaps related to jewelry.
This is from "Living with Siva":

> The original caste system had these four divisions. The divisions were all based on the ability of the individual to manage his body, his mind and his emotions properly. If he stopped fulfilling the dharma of his caste, society would recognize that he had moved from one caste and was now in another. The original caste system was based on self-discipline through education and through personal sadhana. The original caste system was based on the unfoldment of the consciousness within each individual through the fourteen chakras.

> People everywhere naturally divide themselves up into castes. We have the workers. You go to work, you work under somebody else--that happens all over the world--that's the shudra caste. We have the merchants, who are self-motivated. That's the vaishya caste. We have the politicians and the lawmakers and the law-enforcement people. That's the kshatriya caste. And then you have the priests, the ministers, the missionaries. That's the brahmin caste. Every society has these four castes working within it in one way or another. In today's world, if one is not fulfilling the dharma of his born caste, then he changes castes. For instance, if a brahmin husband and wife are working eight to fifteen hours a day in a hospital under others, they are no longer of the brahmin caste, because they are not performing the duties of the dharma of that caste. They are workers, in the shudra caste.
You may want to be aware that in western groups any talk about national or racial intelligence is usually considered pure racism. I assume it's not like that in India; I've also had a short discussion about this earlier with an Indian colleague when the topic of intelligence somehow came up.
The GPU supports multiple tile layers and has 128 individual sprites so updating every pixel on the screen in a single frame is unlikely to be how you use it.

This is in style of 8-bit machines that had hardware sprite support and tiles graphics rather than treating the display as a flat framebuffer.
> native file system access APIs[0]

Come on, stop giving people false hope, that API is like 3rd incarnation of the same thing by Google, always shot down by Mozilla and Apple. Even today if you restrict yourself to Chrome your PWA can use the older version of the same thing, but what's the point if that works only in Chrome?
Lenovo Yoga laptops have them too.
I live in Los Angeles. If there's bright lights outside, it means the guy down the street is being an asshole again (he keeps rearranging his outdoor sensor light to point out at different parts of the street) or someone kicked a neighbor's garden lights (why do people even have these?)
You missed their point.

Apple only allows the Safari browser engine to run on their phone.

So Google (and other web developers) can't do what they do on other platforms which is only test their website on Chrome or block users of other browsers.

For example, Firefox on Android gets a crap Google search from like 2005 unless you spoof your user agent and it works perfectly.

By that mandate has kept complete control over the browser space from Google.
> We can see around us the deterioration of the system which has been abused beyond the point of recognition. Members of the brahmin caste are now beating their children, abusing their wives. Members of the kshatriya caste disrespect the laws of the land. Members of the business caste are deceptive and dishonest. All are confused, living in anger and in jealousy. No wonder their families break apart and their businesses fail. In the eyes of the Gods, most of those who adhere to the caste system that exists today are low caste. This is because they live in lower consciousness. They look at the world through the windows of the chakras below the muladhara. These undeveloped humans are struggling through the lower chakras, trying to get out of the dark worlds of the mind. Let us not be deluded about what the sapta rishis had in mind when they casted humans according to the soul's unfoldment in one or more of the fourteen chakras. We should totally ignore the Hindu caste system as lived in India today and, through example, show a better and more wholesome path for modern society.

From "Living with Siva"
Global Warming. Inequality. Covid-19. and Al Gore Is Optimistic?
> I feel that it is one of the few companies that has kept their product simple and streamlined

I'm a longitme paid Dropbox user for personal things and I have the exact _opposite_ feeling.

I want Dropbox to a be a single folder that is always synced perfectly to anywhere the app is. Things like link sharing, API access, "smart sync", etc are nice bonuses.

But, they had VC money (and are now public). They couldn't have been content with a complete product, there always needed to be _more_. I'm a paying user, but I still have "pay us more!" banners. They want me to connect my calendar [1]. They want me to use their writing suite with my (nonexistent) team. Their mac app has become increasingly invasive over the years. [2]

I constantly feel "left behind" by them as a customer. Their product motivation so far from the reason I joined them. Each year as my renewal date looms, I look for reasonable alternatives. Ultimately it has the best syncing and I've stuck with it, but I'd almost pay extra to get rid of all the extra junk that's "integrated" with the service now. Just sync my files.

[1]: https://cdn.zappy.app/b874d95cff539ec74d76e9dcd8679dad.png
[2]: https://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-di...
2.4 GHz ;)
Flutter Wayland support under development
PWA is useless for any non-toy desktop-replacement apps in its current state because of what you mentioned.
Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea such existed. It's hilarious and I'd totally wear this if I was still cycling (let alone going outside).
I am a capitalist and I think politicians just reflect the situation on the ground. If the conditions are right Market will automatically take the lead. If it hasn't happened in India yet probably the market conditions are not right and there may be few one can explore but the bottomline is mineral availability.
It's to help society be more organized so that we can collectively work together better.

> The original caste system had these four divisions. The divisions were all based on the ability of the individual to manage his body, his mind and his emotions properly. If he stopped fulfilling the dharma of his caste, society would recognize that he had moved from one caste and was now in another. The original caste system was based on self-discipline through education and through personal sadhana. The original caste system was based on the unfoldment of the consciousness within each individual through the fourteen chakras.

> People everywhere naturally divide themselves up into castes. We have the workers. You go to work, you work under somebody else--that happens all over the world--that's the shudra caste. We have the merchants, who are self-motivated. That's the vaishya caste. We have the politicians and the lawmakers and the law-enforcement people. That's the kshatriya caste. And then you have the priests, the ministers, the missionaries. That's the brahmin caste. Every society has these four castes working within it in one way or another. In today's world, if one is not fulfilling the dharma of his born caste, then he changes castes. For instance, if a brahmin husband and wife are working eight to fifteen hours a day in a hospital under others, they are no longer of the brahmin caste, because they are not performing the duties of the dharma of that caste. They are workers, in the shudra caste.

From "Living with Siva"
Passing an indifference test should however hardly be the right bar to clear for a field of research.
Nature and nurture who woulda thunk
They will kill it as they did the same to the two previous versions of the same thing...
This isn't precluded under US regulations. Broadcasting means transmissions intended for the general public, as opposed to other amateurs. One way communications are generally prohibited too (except in certain cases like beacon stations and remote control), but as you note-- what you want doesn't need to be one way.

It's not even uncommon on HF for people to blather on for many minutes at a time without pause.

People could totally do lectures with Q&A, and I imagine many repeaters would be perfectly fine with that use.
I'm also NAL, but circumvention is not always illegal, nor is running a legally purchased copy of OS X on non-apple hardware (or at least that was true when OS X was distributed on physical media, which is also when that clause was written).
It sounds like what you want to do is print the number with the smallest denominator (from the range of numbers represented by this bit pattern). A quick search turns up a plausible formula for this: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2494774/questions-c...
James Damore threw away an engineering job at Google with a long, generalized, and internally-shared rant about women, listing off their "Qualities". He then tried to start a lawsuit making it about his politics, which never went anywhere.

Why is there sympathy for this man?
Why do you think they were specifically talking about open source?

Windows for home users is also "free" and ruling the world.
Would appreciate more info. We are on .xyz and haven't had issues but maybe haven't noticed.

TIA
Nope. We have no information of the OPs setup, bill, or anything. This entire thread is based on assumptions. I common examples of developers screwing up and generating large bills. Explain to me how machine learning is any different.

Do we know if the instances used for MLing are running 24/7 idle until customers use them? Do we know if the utilisation is optimal for the workloads?

We know nothing. So claiming that cloud providers are not good is very far from the problem and not helpful.
Why do we think computers can achieve intelligence? Where did this idea ever first come from? it sounds almost childish if one traces the history and wild misconception it must have emerged from. The idea maybe dates to Turing? maybe even Leibnitz? What was the idea based on? On seeing that some machines can "behave" i.e. do things a human does? And they started thinking if ultimately that machine might be able to do everything a human does? That a human is nothing but a " complicated machine" in the sense that we can formulate complex but finite rules for its behavior? maybe even simple rules which when applied on appropriate substrates would lead to "emergence" of such behaviors? That is a BIG assumption to make really. Intelligence and cognition here are treated as lists of rules which can be applied to any substrate. An electronic computer is just one substrate. i should also be able to do this on a sufficiently giant mechanical computer.

Even physics seem to have this rule-obssessed assumption. Can we really simulate the universe AS IT IS? Sure we can some parts of it. But is there a theory of everything really? After such a theory we would need to know nothing. physics would be pretty much done with. This theory would explain all observations in the past, present and future of anything we make in the universe.

Even in our search for the smallest particles can such a "bottoming out" ever take place?

EDIT: grammar
It hasn't had a chance to impact the secondhand market yet. The laptops with the T2 chip are relatively new, and aren't getting decommissioned & recycled in significant numbers. It will be a tremendous waste when they are.

Those laptops will still be valuable for some parts, but considering now that not only the RAM is soldered to the motherboard, but the SSD too... there's not going to be much left to use.

I find the "theft" argument very hard to swallow for two reasons. First, thieves will consistently steal electronics -- smash-and-grab first, discard later. A thief unable to sell your irretrievably lost phone is a pyrrhic victory, to be sure. Thieves with domain knowledge may be savvy enough to stay away, but I would bet that is rare and more limited to organized theft rings.

Secondly, and more damning, Apple has repeatedly paid lobbyists to parrot the anti-theft security scenario at hearings discussing enacting right-to-repair laws (as well as spreading misleading FUD on repair safety). Apple could work with legit recyclers to find sustainable ways to recover donated products, but they very deliberately refuse to. IMO this makes their security arguments suspect.

In general, I'm very distrustful of a security model that relies so heavily on their cloud holding all the keys.
I read Scott Aaronson's piece but don't see how it fits.

Pinker says that he's safe in his position and does not worry about being canceled.

The people doing the criticism specifically say they are not trying to cancel him. Quoting from the open letter linked by Aaronson:

> We want to note here that we have no desire to judge Dr. Pinker’s actions in moral terms, or claim to know what his aims are. Nor do we seek to “cancel” Dr. Pinker, or to bar him from participating in the linguistics and LSA communities (though many of our signatories may well believe that doing so would be the right course of action).

They are:

> calling for the removal of Dr. Steven Pinker from both our list of distinguished academic fellows and our list of media experts. We, the undersigned, believe that Dr. Pinker’s behavior as a public academic is not befitting of a representative of our professional organization, that the LSA’s own stated goals make such a conclusion inevitable, and that the LSA should publicly reaffirm its position and distance itself from Dr. Pinker.

Even if that action were taken, how is that meaningfully "canceling" someone?

Aaronson argues that it's a first step to test their power, and a veiled threat of what might be to come if they actually have power.

Which I cannot distinguish from the age-old rhetorical technique of pointing to the extremists of any movement, then argue they are representative of everyone in the movement, in order to dismiss the entire movement.

Aaronson's piece uses a similar argument to Pinker, with:

> Again and again, spineless institutions have responded to these sorts of ultimatums by capitulating to them.

Can we have a list of examples please? Without concrete definitions and examples, we can read anything into this topic.

We know there are many cases where spineless institutions did not intervene despite public outrage, eg, MIT's fondness for a certain rich convicted pedophile, so it's hard to think there's a systemic capitulation to the demands of cancellers.
The ILO studies ends in 2000 and shows a slight increase in the US near the end. Here's what happened after 2000: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRUG

(Note that it's not clear if decreases in worked hours are actually desirable. Some people believe many part-timers would want to work more if they could.)