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Once again I am getting the message that I am posting too fast. I think its when I am flagged for my 'contentious viewpoints'. Last time it was 3 hours before I could post, but I will submit this when I can. HN can be very frustrating.

Whether we agree or not, if you appreciate my taking the time to reply and provide you my thoughts, feel free to upvote me - I think a higher score may help in allowing me to respond in a more timely manner!

Back to your post.

Strangely (or perhaps not so strangely given my 'feralimal' handle) I was thinking about feral children and their inability to speak.

I think you would say they live a worse life than you. But why? How do you know? You do not.

You and I live in our classification systems - we probably share a very similar type. We were taught our classification systems at school and they are self-evident, right? Eg: "A whale is not a fish, its a mammal.", "this is a tree, not a bush", "tomatoes are a fruit", "peanuts are a legume", etc. This is an example of how we live in the ideas that we were given.

Think now about the feral child. This child will also have some sort of system to interpret the world. But its system would be very different to ours. It would have developed it on its own. The feral child wouldn't necessarily see a distinction between itself and the nature it lives in.

Now step back and apply some value to that. Which is the better way of living?

Is it better to live in your head, with layers and layers of classification systems filtering your engagement with the world? Going to work, coding, making some money to be able to pay your mortgage, and afford some takeaway?

Or is it better to feel a connection with the external reality, even if you can't talk about it?

I honestly don't know.

I can say that trying to engage more deeply with 'reality'. I suspect I am forever separate. Maybe feral children are too. But, I think innately, connecting to whatever is the source is what I yearn for. And I suspect it is the same for everyone else.

And then, my assessment is that the education we receive is about making that possibility almost impossible to even conceive of.

I just realised I didn't answer your question: "Who decides what is neutral? What if you are trained by masters or schools with conflicting thoughts? What if you read all sides of an argument? Is this information not valuable to the informed choices of an individual?"

You decide. You are free to view all information, and consider it. You can judge for yourself whether the argument you are presented with is sound or not. Whether all the assumptions are stated and whether the conclusion that follows is rational. If you don't have all the information, that is fine - you can work with your best hypothesis. I think the key thing is whether you are acting in good faith. If someone presents some information that you can't reconcile easily, that is likely an indication that you need to investigate further. You may get some data that will better inform your understanding.
I kind of didn't want to put the statement out that way actually, although I didn't delve much deeper.

There are places where engineers' and creatives' opinions are valued and taken into account when making decisions, for instance certain quant funds or Hollywood studios. If you want to not be considered a second-class citizen, so to speak, work in a place where ideally your job isn't just coding or building content, but also convincing others of your own ideas (sales) and building consensus within the organization to back them (marketing).
Google employees will return to work in September 2021
In laptops, the performance of the CPU in sustained use is heavily tied to the cooling solution. Almost all laptops will hit a performance ceiling due to thermal throttling. A desktop is at a massive advantage here.

There are also potentially OS differences or other config differences. You'd need to normalize everything to get an accurate picture when comparing the two CPUs.
Not intended behavior. I have it on my list to fix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415446
> I luckily grew out of it

There's always a lot of hand-wringing about what kids and teenagers spend their time doing, and I wonder if it's not just a natural process of your brain figuring out a system, going "oh I see" and moving on to the next thing. Like, in other words, it might not be luck, it might just be the learning / exploration process working normally.

That being said, there's definitely an aspect where video games are a super-stimulus. It's true that video game designers are creating explicit reward loops in a way that, let's say the writers of Gilligan's island were not (to compare hand-wringing about games to hand-wringing about television)
That's not true though, the air weighs at 1.27 kg whereas the 12" macbook weighs at 0.92 kg.

That's about a quarter lighter but not anywhere near half.
Kid has tv remote in mouth constantly.

I guess she’s tasting her tv shows.
True, but I believe graviton is still not like M1. Do they support i386 / backward compatible?
You can go to any city in a developing nation to get a similar experience. I've been in homes where the toilets abut the street and drain directly into an open sewer that runs along the street. Those sewers pool into a "pond" at the end of the street or subdivision.

Then layer on the smells of farming, cooking, heating and animal processing and you get some really dominant odors.

On one trip, my local hosts picked me up at the airport. I spent the ride wondering whether to ask them why the air smelled so incredibly bad. The sharp smells were a mix of sewage and burning flesh. But my hosts were happy, sharing treats with me and excited to have me visit. I felt it would be rude to ask such a question. (Location unnamed.)

Another location was downwind of a sugarcane processing plant. You may think the sweet smell of sugarcane would be all that you would smell. You would be wrong.

Olfactory adaptation set in pretty quickly though. I didn't notice the smells after the first couple of days.

Our "smells" in the modernized west are tame by comparison.
Well note that this seems to be nearly all single-core (or low-core) benchmarks, whereas AMD's Ryzen performance recommendation has always been around its multithreaded performance, with its single-core performance called out specifically as being a compromise (until the 5000 series, anyway, which wasn't used here).

Something like an ObjC or C++ compilation test would be very interesting here.
> * Recommender engines (e.g. music similar to the one I'm listening to)

Is only ethical when opt-in, otherwise it violates user privacy to build preference profiles and requires additional private data to make accurate inferences.

> Face unlocks for phones

Heavily racially biased. Facial recognition in general is heavily racially biased.

Other than that, I guess that's a good list. If ML stayed in those arenas it might be a net good, unfortunately those things on the list are mostly side-effects rather than targeted intentions from where research is going (where it's funded). The vast majority of ML/AI work is focused on hijacking people's private data to steal their attention and psychologically manipulate them.
Forensic Report Shows Dominion Voting Systems Intentionally Insecure
Change my view: GDP is Goodhart's law writ extremely large - and if you think the government is in some way responsible for your lack of material well-being, that complaint is pretty much as valid in times of "good" GDP figures as bad.
Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services hit by outage
Don't forget very awkward video clip hosting.
I just created https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4275 - thanks!!
By the way, does someone knows where RISC-V stands regarding this ?
That helps for the cases where someone is abusing a child and the police were involved. Does it help when a 15/16/17 year old uploads their own pictures/videos without anyone knowing their actual age? Or when someone's boyfriend/girlfriend records them and uploads it without the victim knowing?

Like Youtube's filter will catch me uploading a video with a Taylor Swift song in it but not someone uploading a video using one of my independently produced/distributed songs, because their filter doesn't have my music in it.
I didnt downvote you but I'd guess it's because you're calling something "psychotic" that many on this forum aspire to or at least respect.

Maybe you meant something more like "extreme" ?
> If there is a strain that is more fatal or more virulent, it will be the UK's own fault.

Why's that then?
Diversity Pricing
I am very excited to see what the M1X and other higher power variants is like.

I have an M1 MBA with the 7-core GPU, and it is a stunning machine. It is fast in everything, and in ways that Intel and AMD laptops are not. Every single interaction is fast. You will shave seconds off of everything, and it adds up over the course of a day.

The other big thing is the battery life. I do not use this laptop plugged in. I tend to charge it overnight, and it lasts through my entire day and night.

But this is of course Apple's lowest power chip, and it is plenty fast. What does a chip from Apple look like that has a lot more thermal headroom?
One of the most plausible interpretations is that dopamine's primary role in cognition isn't to model reward, but to predict uncertainty.

This seems to be roughly in line with how subjects with excessively high or low dopamine behave. Those on heroic doses of amphetamines become convinced of the most harebrained ideas. ("I know the CIA is listening to me through the toaster, better take it apart.") Whereas schizophrenic catatonia, a lack of will to even move, is often caused by impaired dopamine receptors.

This clarifies why dopamine drives addiction and compulsion, without a corresponding reward in terms of actual satisfaction. The evolutionary environment heavily incentives risk aversion. The downsides of any major risk almost always outweigh the upsides. Keep pursuing a more nourishing but unpredictable food source and you'll eventually starve, regardless of how well fed you are in good times. Keep fighting opponents that are even matches, and eventually you'll get your head bashed in.

Our brains are heavily wired to seek out small but certain rewards to the exclusion of large but risky ones. This is confirmed in behavioral economics, where subjects will instinctually and irrationally prefer low-risk, low-reward bets even when the payoffs are measured in pennies.

If you feel shitty and depressed, then eating ice cream, banging heroin, or scrolling social media won't fix all your problems. But you know for sure it will make you feel a little better right away. In contrast taking positive steps to improve your life, like exercising, eating better, developing relationships, or mastering marketable skills are ultimately more rewarding but risky. You can put in a lot of effort for a long time and still have no guarantee of seeing any tangible payoff.
I used to use Google Business but they stopped the free plan so then I tried out ImprovMX and that sucked. Recently found a startup Forwardemail.net and its free and super easy to use! (I use it to forward emails from my Shopify store and website to my outlook mail)
I mean, having used Facebook and Twitters ad systems the targeting is absurdly granular even if you spend no money. I doubt there's much advantage to being more granular in terms of actual ROI. Most of the big spender tools from what I understand are for the logistics of managing such large spend while bound by the rules of the parent company more than improved performance per dollar.
I think powerful intermediaries to the common spread of information, like Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are proving troublesome.

Views like "masks might make us safer from COVID" were suppressed not too long ago. It's a wacky place we're in. Some of the criticism out there (COVID denial, election fraud, etc) is dangerous, but legitimate criticism and nuanced points are getting crushed too in the process. And the entities involved in the suppression are powerful, moving in lockstep, and have limited accountability to the public.

Worse, these platforms have the illusion of being grassroots and open, but you never know when you're getting state-sponsored manipulation or what kinds of content isn't permitted to flow through them today.
London, sure. If you live somewhere with -25C winters, you either need layers or a set of different jackets, because a heavy down coat rated for -30C will be hot and sweaty if you so much as fast-walk at -5C. I find it more economical to own just a light synthetic jacket and wear extra layers than having an expensive down jacket just for the few weeks at -20C and below.

Layers are also a must if you do outdoor winter activities. You want to remove layers when you're active so you don't get all sweaty, and put them back on when you rest. Because sweat + cold wind is a really nasty combo.

Having said that, as far as I can tell most people in the city here don't do much winter sports and just own like 3 different coats for different weather.
Why was "return to office" changed to "return to work" in the submission? They are currently working as far as I know.
I wonder if anybody uses smell as a mnemonic device when studying. Anybody have any examples of doing this themselves? It seems that since smell is so closely linked to memory we should be taking advantage of this.
Yes, Apple's current lineup is a little confusing. The 13" Pro and 13" Air are so similar, and almost the same weight.

I still use a 12" MacBook, and it's just amazingly small and light. If Apple makes a 12" MacBook with a M1, it would be awesome. A dream machine for me.
My primary dev environment is in ec2. I don't really care about multiple monitors. It's so convenient.
I own a Carbon X1 and it's one of my favorite laptops ever. I work exclusively on Linux, and detest Apple and the Walled Garden strategy in all their consumer products. That strategy is ridiculous for developer-related product, and I dislike that MacOS is hard to customize compared to Linux.

I would still cancel and order an M1 instead. It's that impressive of an upgrade.
I've been looking on Mastadon, and not finding that much. Especially compared to Twitter. Might just be where I'm looking though.
Feeding 2020 headlines to GPT-3 trained on 2019 data
Although there's some mix up with bootstraped and bought out vc stories in indihackers, I'd say it's more geared to the first one more than the second
CPP might be able to ban access to the block chain, or some part of it, but they wouldn't be able to replace it with their own version that was accepted outside China.
Another by Shaw, one might say in the startup spirit:
"“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
The previous one, Summit, was indeed IBM POWER9. So basically, HPC people will adopt any ISA, it's the hardware that matters.
Yet it provides no additional value to the user if the user is only going to spend 3 minutes per day on it. Only downsides.
This is my theory - Dubsmash buyout by Reddit could be purely a bet on short form video content in Indian market. After TikTok was vacated forcibly, Dubsmash and other homegrown alternatives grew 155% in just 3 weeks[1] and with 30.4M users India is likely the largest market for it.

Reddit might even be able to get its ROI on Dubsmash from just the Indian market.

[1]https://sensortower.com/blog/tiktok-alternatives-growth-indi...
They actually provide instructions to change the search widget - i.e. the bar at the top of the screen - along with changing the browser.

And honestly, I agree with them. I'd very much like a way to integrate my chosen search engine into the Android search subsystem. I actually seem to recall this being possible on older versions of Android, where the default search widget would allow the user to pick a search "lens", say Files, Music, or eMail for example, alongside that of Google Search.
> "What we’re particularly worried about is that this iceberg doesn’t have a very deep keel,” Tarling said. “So the amount of iceberg under the water isn’t as much as you would normally expect for an iceberg like this.”

If this thing is a massive ice cube floating in the sea then surely they know how much of it is under the water?
> This is an extraordinary claim.

How so? I would argue that folks using millions of dollars in investment capital with no real goal other than to cause disruption, regardless of whether it helps anyone or even creates a viable business, is what's extraordinary.

Think for a second what a dumb goal 'disruption' is on it's own. That's what bored 15 year old's do to amuse themselves, they disrupt and break things simply to see something, anything, happen. As an earlier commenter pointed out, disruption is often a side effect of making a large change in an industry, typically in business this has meant changing something for the better.

When the side effect of causing disruption becomes the main goal of a business owner rather than creating value of some sort, I really don't know what to call that other than degenerate behavior.
Linux works great on X1 Carbons, not so much on new Apple machines. Keep the X1 if you care about that.

Also the next gen Carbons are supposed to have a 16:10 screen.
I don’t know if you consider freenode to be “hosted by corporations” but if you don’t, the channels dedicated to both specific libraries and the languages themselves are at least active, last I checked.

The one downside I’d point out is that language channels tend to be filled with purists, of the, “ you shouldn’t want to do that” variety.
Surprised to see codeproject so popular without me knowing about it :)
Perhaps we could let a man decide for himself what he might wish to do with his life.

For me, it's neither pornography nor “going after women”, a practice that thankfully isn't common in my culture, I find having debates on the internet and consuming quality fiction to be more rewarding than either.
How would one benchmark memory performance (DRAM latency & bandwidth) on the various chips?
> The utility of philosophy is that we create a shared lexicon and set of ideas to make sense of the world and be able to create new things in the world and communicate them to one another.

Honest question: What "new things" has philosophy created?
damn thats easy - to start they need to ditch identity politics and insurance industry money for an actual materialist analysis & labor first policy
All these gains will be entirely swallowed by software in a few years.
Or if your floor is colder than the rest of the room, put something insulating under your desk to keep your feet off it. I use an old couch cushion.
Reddit's strategy is to shift blame to the moderators of the subreddit in question. This is really their biggest innovation, delegating the burden of moderation to the users. Then the Reddit administrators effectively need to manage a much narrower set of users. They don't need to manage the hundreds of thousands of users in /r/news, just the few active moderators.

If the NYT or another big outlet publishes a hit pieces, Reddit will just ban or quarantine that particular subreddit. We already saw this play out with The_Donald and a few other subreddits (one on hating fat people, and one with a derogatory slur based on racoons come to mind).
Several years ago, there was a site called wowdetox.com, where addicts of World of Warcraft and also other gamers shared their stories.

One of the posts there contained a striking observation: The most tragic aspect of the game is that it hits the hardest workers the hardest.
Or in other words SEO for corporate filings
To be frank, everyone complains about the design of new Reddit, but my biggest problem is just how incredibly slow it is.

Plus, it feels like I get CDN inaccessible or server busy errors daily.
Nice! Congratulations on launching
In general if you spend more money you get better performance. Isn't this, and shouldn't this be the case with Apple products as well. They cost more, no? Apple-tax.
No mention of IRC? There's still dedicated channels for many-a-thing on Freenode and others.
"Performance vs. Power" is not something most people are going to understand. It's supposed to indicate greater power efficiency -- more cycles on more cores with less power consumption.

"Latest Laptop PC Chip" is just deceptive -- and it's confusing, too. How would it look compared to laptops with the Ryzen 4000 mobile series? Not quite as good. They're not obligated to add that, but if a (presumably smaller) business is trying to emulate that marketing strategy, it's not going to work quite so well because smaller businesses have to market in the teeth of skepticism while companies like Apple do not due to their massive brand equity.

Apple has seen a massive boost in sales this year for Mac laptops. You could attribute this to Covid and you could partly attribute it to product improvement. I don't think it has much to do with the marketing, which is just Apple boilerplate.

How to market CPUs in the contemporary marketplace is really hard in general because they are so much less comprehensible than in the era of "more mhz means more faster / 2 cores better than 1 core / 4 core better than 2 core"). For the huge majority of users, it's nearly incomprehensible. It's not an easy thing to communicate about to the normal market. Talking about battery life and general performance is probably the best that you could do. So I'm not saying that this is an easy thing to present in a Powerpoint, just that I didn't think that Mac's sales strength this year has much to do with their marketing and has more to do with the circumstances of 2020 and the strength of the product itself.
The Internet Is for Porn
Sure, you can, but its still not the behaviour you'd expect and the problem in my example is that "if it looks like a declaration, it is", so "foo bar;" and "foo (bar);" can be the same thing.
None of this keeps my hands warm.

Or makes me feel comfortable.

After growing up in a house with no insulation and being miserable all winter long, now for an extra ~$50 a month during the winter I get to keep my house at a nice toasty 74-76 degrees F and I'm comfortable year round.
This is a wall of text that reads like GPT-3 and the actual site is 3 blog posts chock full of obvious SEO-only content, but somehow this lands on the front page?
Reddit's entire experience was always gonna be shit, it just takes a lot of users for that to become obvious.

Echo chambers, flame wars, brigading, etc. – all were inevitable results of the way the entire platform is structured, and are far worse than the UI having more whitespace.
This isn't how the M1 chip works.
I'm glad they're doing it, but it kind of feels like we've been in this cycle for a while now.

I mean, the price of freedom is constant diligence, so I guess that's to be expected. But I think the ultimate issue with all of these content hosting sites is that almost no real effort has been put into making moderation a community wide responsibility (and also difficult to abuse).

I really feel like improvements to moderation systems is the thing that keeps failing to happen and eventually kills every form of social media.
One nice aspect of Big Sur and the M1 is that you can run the iPad version of many apps, rather than the Electron desktop version. The iPad versions often use way less memory.
I hope so. His reason would obviously be because of all the democratic emails and such released, but justice is justice. One positive thing coming out of his presidency would be better than none.

I think the assault on Assange was completely unethical in the first place. The Obama administration did it as a grudge for being embarrassed, and it really bothered me that they could commit such a dissonant and unlawful action.
There are two kinds of accommodation in London. As you say, shitty rented accommodation. And then accommodation that's really property-turned-bank deposit for the rich. No one lives in those.