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Karl Popper and David Deutsch, among others, took up the position that the key characteristic of rationality is the ability to criticize other positions. This goes beyond rejecting authority appeals, and instead emphasizes that all possible philosophical positions are fallible to some extent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancritical_rationalism

A related concept is anti-foundationalism, which would purport that no system of knowledge can be based on infallible axioms. Their starting assumptions would always have to be defeasible, and thus can be criticized.

There are many forms of anti-foundationalism ranging from those stating that knowledge is a social construction based on changeable norms, to there being no such things as "givens".

And of course in continentalism Critical Theory literally takes being subversive as the role of its tradition.
Is there support for C in the pipeline? That would be nice, because lots of binary data manipulation in C even now, and it could use some quality-of-life updates.
90%+ on the OS speaks otherwise.

Yeah technically it's not a monopoly because there is Linux.
The death rate is low because we have managed to keep it somewhat under control. If the ICUs fill up, the death rate for all age groups will greatly increase.
“Interviewing 700 epidemiologists is a fool's errand providing no useful information.”

Do you seriously believe there is “no useful information” from such an exercise? None? Methinks you are being facetious.

I agree you shouldn’t necessarily follow what they say they do, but even realizing there is a diversity of responses among those who have some formal training is surely of some value. Especially among the target audience of the NYT that tends to believe what an authority tells them more than the average American.
I wrecked my back this year for always working from home for the past 10 years and only got out when I needed to.

I couldn't sit for a few minutes anymore without pain and all I could do was stand, sleep or walk (luckily this still kept me going by working on the bed) and since I was too lazy to go to gym or just walk to a nearby park routinely, I decided to force myself to walk by renting a small office at < 30min distance and put my work gear over there, so I had to go to work and come back to sleep.

Back has since been doing good and will keep this habit as I hate to work like a worm again.
Thank you so much for sharing this!

I forgot I'd done this already (already had a message from them in my history), but it will probably be helpful for anyone else.

I've added it to my KB.
I just don't think it's an issue for the majority of consumers. If you went up to random people on the street and ask whether they would rather have a smart TV or non-smart TV, I think mostly you would get dumbfounded looks of "of course I want the one with more features built-in".
For those more interested in Islamic history around this time period, I would recommend http://abbasidhistorypodcast.com. For more about the history of science and philosophy, I recommend the “History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps”.
It must be very frustrating to lose your business or your job because of public health restrictions like banning outdoor dining, while at the same time you see the government doing nothing about other activities which are far more risky.
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Actions could have been taken, and the cost of those actions could be much lower. It's because we keep comparing those numbers that we forget what really matters. The only reason economy matter is because people matter.

Even if those restaurants would be having a difficult time, or even close their businesses. I don't think those people work there would just die. Unlike those "high-risk individuals" you just so causality decide don't matter.

It is ridiculous.
> Any newer version via Windows Update or Intel breaks the card after a standby-wake cycle.

hahaha that's insane.

I've seen some weird things come out of HP machines in the past, so somehow none of the above would surprise me.

> No, I started to see some lines in the display like a faulty GPU draws.

Ah, interesting. There was a drive bug in the i915 module that could potentially cause a panic on certain hardware. I never experienced it myself, but I ran into someone who had a similar issue. I don't think their problem was tied to the i915, but it was also resolved by a kernel update.

> A Realtek card works reasonably well for most of the light loads but

Yeah, and the Realtek chipsets are much more cheaply designed. Although, what puzzles me is that most of the Intel chipsets aren't that much more expensive (depends on vendor, of course, but you can easily find off-brand dual-port cards for ~$40USD with an Intel chip). It really makes it pointless to invest in Realtek cards that are both cheap and may or may not work at all.

I remember having an issue with the onboard one in my desktop where it would randomly disconnect after negotiating 1Gbps. If I forced it into 100Mbps it would be fine. But, as with the earlier discussion(s), that was also resolved with a kernel update. I used an Intel card for a few years because of that reason, so I have no idea when it was eventually fixed.
You are a disgrace to people with autism. People with autism can not camouflage their “oddness” because they don’t understand the world around them. You’re just an unsuccessful attention parasite
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense!
These comments are getting tiring. I'm not a big fan of chat apps in the workplace, but I can see their necessity. How about you get your org to use IRC and show your results.
Right. Just like the story of a memory leak in a missile.[1]

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst
Belief propagation is hard to parallelize because, in its basic form, it’s a sequence of serial computations. If the graph is a tree, though, then it’s actually pretty easy to parallelize. The only issue is you have to wait for all the incoming messages from your children to arrive before you push your message upward. Once you reach the root, you can fully parallelize the downward pass (in a tree).

The other main issue is that in graphs with multiple paths to a single node, you can’t quite do this forward backward pass and get the _exact_ answer. You can approximate it by just passing messages in these cycles that arise, but you’re not actually guaranteed to converge to the right marginal probability anymore. This is called Loopy Belief Propagation. Additionally, there’s no real true ordering of nodes for a passing order. There’s not a natural sequence like there is from leaves to root and back when you can go around and around in circles.

It surprisingly works reasonably well in a lot of cases anyway though. BP and the various approximate versions are super interesting. The original algorithms really only work on low dimensional discrete spaces or things with analytic solutions to integrating from conditional/joint to marginal distributions. However, there’s been some really cool stuff coming out in the last 5ish years about using particle based approximations to work on more complicated/continuous spaces.
Journal article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc337

"One of the [Voyagers'] remarkable discoveries was the detection of shocks propagating into the interstellar plasma from energetic solar events. These shocks are typically preceded by electron plasma oscillations excited by electron beams streaming along interstellar magnetic field lines ahead of the shocks.... Relative timing between the cosmic rays reflected by the shock and the onset of the plasma oscillations allow us, for the first time, to estimate the energy, ~20–100 eV, of the electron beams responsible for the plasma oscillations. These observations are combined into a self-consistent model called the foreshock model that describes the interaction of shocks of solar origin with the interstellar plasma."
We had one of those - a PDP11/23 - it ran our cyclotron. Handled about a thousand inputs and outputs, using RSX, a DEC real time OS. Ran almost continuously for about 30 years. I say again, it ran our cyclotron almost continuously for about 30 years. Outlasted DEC itself - eventually HP (which took over DEC's customers) told us they wouldn't renew the service contract. We kept it going with spare parts on hand. Eventually we replaced it with about a dozen x86 boxes running Linux.
It’s not clear that’s how they found out. The post just says that they were stunned by “what happened”.

If someone offers their resignation to their skip manager or some other manager in their chain, it’s not surprising that they might accept it without consulting that employee’s manager.
It's difficult for people to reconcile the real person when all they know is the carefully crafted public persona.
The situation is evolving rapidly with regards to rapid testing. The White House super-spreader event was in September. Since then, new methods have been rolled out:

https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/new-cutting-...
Link disintermediation:

https://medium.com/@phila_31297/why-a-land-value-tax-is-inev...

(And reputation and trust matter.)
Is it just me or does anyone else find Microsoft Teams horribly unusable? Every time I try to log in (for a client's project) it wants a goddamn SMS authentication and Slack never had me do that BS. I don't even use SMS and so I have to dig through Twilio API just to log in.
That's not entirely correct, given that most software projects tend to deliver new versions of something that already exists. Maintenance releases generally tend to be successful.

It's new projects that are hard and often have disastrous failures or cost overruns. I don't think software is unique in that regard. The Berlin Brandenburg Airport [1] and the new SF Bay Bridge [2] are cases in point. The latter included serious concerns about the integrity of the bolts that secure the East end of the suspension cables to its pier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport#Ove...

[2] https://www.wnyc.org/story/316201-brief-history-64-billion-b...
I never enjoyed running as you cant think while running or for few hours after. Walking is my way to detach. I now picked a weird habit of walking at home, inside a room or from room to room. It helps me think and a great break between tasks. My step tracker counts about 6000 steps.
So is walking good for me? It definitely is great for my mind. Is it also good for my body, I am sure it is better than doing 12 hrs straight in front of a screen. But I am also sure only running can improve my endurance and decrease my resting heart rate
I am talking about the total cognitive load of modern C++. Not one specific class.

I highly doubt people express in public that a particular library is too complex. They simply choose not to use it. I remember some Boost Graph library once. What a a mess. I never expressed publicly that I couldn't figure out how do use it. Nobody does that, because nobody wants to appear stupid. Instead I just wrote a graph library in C++ from scratch myself. Discovered that was faster than figuring out the template insanity in that Graph library.

I have worked on usability for a number of years and done usability testing on people. And rarely if ever do anyone ever blame the system. They blame themselves. Or they shut up because they don't want to appear stupid.

That is why when you do usability testing you have to sit an observe people. You cannot rely on questionnaires because people seldom admit the system was complex.

Actually observing a variety of people try to program modern C++, would likely have been a rather sad experience.
> unfortunately, the processor tech seems spectacular from all accounts.

Why is it unfortunate that their CPUs are great?
BBC is reporting on one random person trash talking online.
Might also be worth running a local instance of Postgres 13. Super easy to do on Windows without administrator rights.
That is a very well written and interesting story.
Reading it reminds me of various stories I heard, first hand from POWs - (Prisoners of War - in German prison camps during WW II.)
How everyone was fairly healthy after a year or more, of being hungry. Since everyone was equally hungry, and exposed to a very limited and meager diet, many of the pre war diseases and physical disorders, disappeared. (Of course they had other problems.)
China hasn't fully beaten it and doesn't claim to have done so. They regularly have to reimpose new measures in areas where the disease flares, up to and including lockdowns - the most recent lockdown I heard about started just two weeks ago. (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3110817/coro...)
State-level funding sounds good on paper but would work poorly in practice because the federal government benefits from its sovereignty in ways that state governments don't. The vast majority of Americans' tax revenue goes to the federal government, not to state or local governments, even in wealthy, high-tax states like California. And state governments, unlike the federal government, don't have access to effectively unlimited borrowing capacity at <2% interest. Also, California can't shut down its border to Floridians - or prevent Californians from traveling to Florida and then returning - to stop the virus from being carried from Florida to California.
I enjoy https://reddit.com/r/starbucks/ since it's just baristas being angry lol
> take a moment and walk a bit in someone elses shoes, someone who has spent the past decade working to build a business or trying to support a family and was impacted by those measures and if you are honest you'll admit that it would probably piss you off to see that

Obviously that would piss anybody off. Which is why it was pumped in their face 24/7 to keep them angry at the other group of plebs, and distracted from the professional looting. The proper response was to demand a pause to the finance that was actually responsible for threatening their businesses and families. Instead they fell right into the trap of thinking that being unable to pay rent is a character flaw.

> Leaders need to understand that people react on a emotional level to things and if you are asking for someone to make great personal sacrifices you need to be above reproach when making those requests.

Ends meet should have never been a sacrifice anyone was asked to make. This isn't a failure of leadership, but rather outright corruption by the plutocrats. Continually lowering interest rates over the past two decades to keep The Line going up, and then no relief for people squeezed in the debt vice when a hiccup occurred and the calls came due.

> Again if Trump conducted himself in a more socially acceptable way and spent more time considering how his words and choices appeared to others, I suspect this new vaccine would encounter less resistance.

The problem with Trump isn't just a lack of presentation, but that he's an empty conman. Covid is back with urgency and yet he's focused on his latest con of "stop the steal". Given his constant politicking and general rejection of expertise, being skeptical of corruption at the FDA is completely understandable. The problem runs much deeper than a lack of leadership - it's a failure of institutions.
Most outdoor dining I've seen in the bay area looks downright scary to me.

The guideline is 2 meters of distance WITH masks; considering eating can't be done with masks I'd want at least 6+ meters of distance without masks, and in reality many of them don't even meet 2 meters.

Add to that wait staff who aren't wearing a proper KN95 or N95 masks while serving dozens of customers; many of them have only surgical or cloth masks which wouldn't make safe handling my food.

I'm also in a risk group for COVID though so I'm extra cautious.
I have multiple office365 accounts and within those accounts, and in a large number of different teams. The UX of switching between these is absolutely terrible.
You are specifically describing being stuck with C++ for legacy reasons despite trying to disprove it. You say you cannot use D and Rust because of the FFI needed for integration. How is that not a legacy issue? You got existing C++ code you need to integrate with. How is that not a legacy issue?

What I am talking about is that if you don't have to use a C++ library to solve your task, there is simply no sane reason to pick C++.
If a product has no "redeeming features", it does not matter what restrictions are placed on your use of it, people will often not choose to use it.

If a product is, however, a leader in a field, then many more people will likely make the tradeoff to use the product and restrict themselves.
You don’t need to MitM. Squid can use SNI to allow whitelisted hosts, for now at least.
Is there any risk of contaminating Earth with something “not good” that normally would burn up when it entered our atmosphere
I had the same question a few weeks ago so I went on r/philosophy. They recommend starting with Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Blackburn
Suns should really have taken that market. People were using workstations of on routers already. The were perfect positioned to get into it. Scott McNealy called it one of their biggest failures.

Their slogan was literally 'The Network is the Computer' but they failed to go into routers.
Scientists are investigating the possibility that deaths in Asia have been relatively low due to prior exposure to another similar coronavirus.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientists-investigate-whether-...
> The state government has not provided evidence that outdoor dining is responsible for much of the spread.

When Los Angeles County recently ordered outdoor dining to be shut down, they were sued. A judge just ruled that the county must provide evidence linking outdoor dining to COVID spread: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-02/covid-19...
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Bayesian network is a synonym for directed graphical model.

Any time you see graphical models, they’re usually BNs. Undirected graphical models are very closely related too (all directed models can be represented as undirected models, but not all undirected models can represent directed models), but they’re usually not referred to as BNs.

They’re used all over the place. One school of causal inference is heavily steeped in BNs/DAGs. This shouldn’t be surprising because the creator of BNs, Judea Pearl, is heavily involved in causal inference now.
Aston has been pretty broke for a long time, so they really don’t have the cash to develop an electric platform all on their own. They have a new investor in Lawrence Stroll, but it’ll take quite a few years for that to materialize in the shipping cars. Right now the company is bet on the DBX SUV doing well (basically taking a page from Porsche 15 years late).

That said, it’s inexcusable to sponsor fake science and journalism to cover up the gaps in your business model.
>Another flaw of our thinking is conservatism — an insufficient ability to change our common views and beliefs with the new data, new evidence. This is understandable — changing basis views leads to a reconsideration of all related knowledge. An enormous amount of rebuilding is required. Our biological brains just can’t do that in a short time, also it’s much harder with age. Because of this, we give much more weight to old knowledge rather than new evidence, thus making a conservatism bias.

Painting conservatism as purely a human flaw is poor thinking in itself. The positive side of conservative thinking was neatly summarized by G.K. Chesterton: "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place."

There may be things you don't know, or which have never been known, which the conservative solution to a problem addresses either by accident or design. For examples, see traditional methods of food preparation. Indigenous peoples in South America have passed down numerous traditional recipes for the cassava plant. Every recipe involves a process to remove cyanogenic glycosides [0], which are present in all parts of the cassava plant and lethal if ingested. These recipes were developed without any modern understanding of chemistry or toxicology. Deviation from the old recipes without this knowledge, e.g. to apply a new time-saving cooking technique, could have disastrous consequences. Old knowledge often runs deep.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/jun/22/cassava...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/10/2...

DAUs - so unless it auto-embeds somewhere and counts those users (which it doesn't, but I'm only in one O365 org) it's legitimate users.
The original Hayabusa 1 did enter the atmosphere - after suffering many malfunctions and other hardships it managed to deliver it's precious sample capsule back to Earth. But after all this, it had no more fuel left for an avoidance manuever like Hayabusa 2 just did. So Hayabusa 1 burned up in the atmosfere, sacrificing itself to deliver its precious asteroid sample.

This has been captured in what might be the sadest spaceflight related manga I've ever seen: https://web.archive.org/web/20100615002512/http://drawr.net/...

Even if you can't understand the japanese text in it, I'm sure it can convey its meaning regardless. And it migh make you shed a tear or two for the brave probe that fulfilled its mission agains all odds and came back home...
That depends on why the tax is applied.
> 13 days' quarantine

I'm pretty sure not leaving the house for 13 days is pretty standard for an American family over the holidays and Winter, esp this year, though I guess I'm not sure if they're staying healthy either.
On one extreme, I'm sure most people would agree it's not worth spending millions of dollars to add months to the lives of geriatric patients. How much collateral damage are we willing to endure to add another 9 to the probability a senior citizen doesn't die from the pandemic? It's a balancing act.

I don't pretend to know the answer, but in general I am opposed to another shutdown given how much we've progressed in handling this disease.

On a side note, I'm not a fan of how the 15% rule makes it seem like we're on the brink of being overrun - you have to keep in mind 60 to 80% of hospital beds are occupied by non-covid patients.
Teams is electron too, and really hungry on battery, and slow, and only recently re-added the ability to open chats in separate windows (ability lost when migrating from Skype for Business), and even that is slow and clunky and only for individual chats, not for group chats or "channels"....
Funny how people obsess about getting "every last bit of performance" and yet we are building applications in layers upon layers inside bloated Web browsers...

I think that is a bigger problem than using a language that gives you 10% less performance than C++. And anyway algorithms are typically are more important than the language in terms of performance.