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Re: Human beings are not animals.

Sorry, but they are. We're not the center of the universe; were not special.

Re: A responsible human is able to resist raping anyone they see.

In practice many are not. Live in reality as it is, not as it should be. World hunger won't go away simply because it "shouldn't happen". The universe ignores our shouldnt's, I'm just the messenger.

Re: Minors are sexually assaulted, and they do not "taunt hungry tigers" as you put it.

They are too young to understand that. But a 20 year old lady at the office showing off her breasts knows better.

Re: I urge you to visit a therapist and explore what has led you to the position you detailed in your comment.

It does seem I struct a nerve with my viewpoint and I honestly don't understand why. It's sound logical pragmatism to me.

And as I mention nearby, I'm NOT saying the aggressor is NOT responsible. I'm merely saying both sides have a responsibility. That's all. It may not even be an even responsibility, but provocateurs do have "a" responsibility regardless of fault scoring systems.

Don't ride a motorcycle without a helmet and don't go into the office without bra, because skipping either of those carries a KNOWN RISK. Don't taunt fate if you don't like its teeth.
I thought banks don't actually keep up with the hyperinflation, so your saving eventually dwindle to worthless.
Every vaccine we have developed in the past had reduced transmission. No exceptions. It is scientific blindness to abandon all of our priors and say “who knows if it reduces transmission?”
Gangsters aren't masterminds. They usually commit tons of crimes, large and small, including gun crimes. Inventing another crime doesn't seem likely to help your goal of "putting career criminals away".
What about all the other examples he listed. What about cancer detection? Or viral spread prediction? Drug discovery or medical imaging diagnosis? Physics research?

Machine learning is very widely used in the sciences and extremely beneficial to humanity in uncountably many ways and assuredly countless more to come. Of course technologies can be used for evil but so can nearly everything that exists. I believe your proposal comes from a desire to help or better the world, but to ban all non-human-readable algorithms is frankly ridiculous and demonstrates a naive understanding of the issue. It sounds a lot like the calls by the U.S. Congress to ban encryption.
You are stretching equivalencies here pretty hard with regards to capital investment of a product vs. expectations but I'll play along.

If I was told this plainly and openly up front then I wouldn't buy the car to begin with -IF- that is what I value in that specific vehicle. My car? Not a chance, I like my sports car and working on it is part of the fun I get from it. My wife's people carrier? If those repairs are close in line with other repair shops even after the 30% AND they'll come pick it up or tow it so I don't even have to mess with it? Absolutely, where do I sign up? Different tools have different uses and value propositions.
And conversely coders - work on your people/management skills (even if you are not a manager). I have worked with coders who were highly opinionated that a great coder is all about the code and not about relationships and people. He wasn't fun to work with and probably destroyed team morale more than his technical contributions helped. Being a 160IQ asshole is worthless, if it were my business I'd avoid hiring / fire such people or at least stick them on their own project away from everyone else.
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> A trusted source of accurate information is a prerequisite for entering someone's information into a rolodex. This even a problem with actual rolodexes.

How do you get someone’s phone number today? You just ask them. I don’t see a problem with this.

If you’re interested in a more clever way to handle public names mapped to keys though, you should look at Iris[1]. Users are verified by web of trust. And information stays up to date because you’re actually connected with them in the web.

[1]: https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger
Oh sorry I thought you were talking about roles on the entertainment industry. I also work in tech and worked in tech most of my life and even talking about this stuff in certain circles can get you fired. Not so much about the drugs thing, but for for reason the tech industry is very conservative regarding sex.
Clubhouse record rooms, it’s right there in their privacy policy (I think with a 15 day lifespan barring a order to keep data longer).
> For example, Google can figure out if you are a bot with its "I'm not a robot" checkbox. This means that they can probably also figure out that fake automated requests are indeed fake.

Not necessarily. Given a noise script doesn't have to run unattended, the script could easily just prompt the user to solve any captchas it encounters, so that couldn't be used to distinguish real from fake.
How is this for an idea - companies that provide links to a website that also can generate a preview, charge the linked site for the privilege of having a preview of the content shown. This shows that such things are valuable for the recipient. If Google had done that, then this proposed law wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Perhaps they should do this for other news sites now, that way it protects them from future laws like this being proposed in other countries. Being linked like this is clearly worth it to the publishers, as the law they support prohibits the delisting of the sites that the law applies to.

Second, how about having a way to add meta-information to web pages/articles saying what is okay to use as preview and what is not. This looks to me like the long term solution to all sites and services on the current web. As long as there is a single, non-specialized way for browsers to ignore attributes/tags/other info they do not use then it does not add complexity to browsers.
Looks great! Adds a whole dimension to the video. Thanks.
>> All of our growth at Waze post acquisition was from work we did, not support from the mothership. Looking back, we could have probably grown faster and much more efficiently had we stayed independent.

Pretty quickly debunks the idea of being better able to grow with a bigger budget from a 'mothership'. The constraints from the mothership create more drag than the extra budget creates lift.
could you go through the outside wall? then its just one hole on each floor. one out from the ingress point, 2 in (one per floor).

fill with caulk, cover insides with jack plates..

I'd just get one of the many mesh network devices and spread them out though. I use the google ones at home myself, love them.

i've done the powerline networking thing too, worked fine.
By the time of the Apollo program there was very little technology shared from military ICBM programs. ICBMs had moved on to solid fuel for quick response time whereas the civilian manned programs focused on liquid fuel for safety and payload capacity. Those were almost completely different technologies.
On the other, other hand. I find text far superior for creating and editing technical diagrams and images. Give my graphviz over any GUI editor to do the same.

In this case the diagrams are good for communication but terrible for expression, I think this distinction is being overlooked by many here.
> Are we really saying that people cannot stop using social media? Are we saying that people don't think it's bad for them?

Yes, that’s part of the definition of ‘addictive.’ Internet and social media addiction is well documented, even though not all users are addicted. Like gambling.
am i crazy or does this seem not scalable?

at what point does it make more sense to just have a wasm "html-lib" provided by a specific site that it can depend on instead of burdening webkit/blink with all these unsafory hacks?

if html-lib was versioned and slimed down to remove old hacks, it could he small enough to download quickly, and with hashing could ensure other pages that use the same version dont have to re-download again...

at some point we could have other web front ends than html that can represent "apps" on the web better too...

is that a crazy idea?
Russia 1990-2010 or so. We were coming off many decades of speech repression, and everyone understood that it's a treasure when people speak their mind. The Russian segment of LiveJournal had people of all imaginable political views yelling at each other all day, but when a US-based "abuse team" tried banning a few people for an offensive image, everyone saw that as a restriction of speech and rose up in protest. That's how I want the world to work.
> You can still measure: the immune response, antibodies, white blood cells, scenarios in which the contagion can spread, minimal social distance needed, length of exposure required for transmission, how much masks stop transmission, safety (risk reduction), and peak efficacy. [...]

Of course. These are all great uses for challenge studies, I was responding specifically to testing the vaccine using a challenge study on healthy young adults.

> If it causes problems in young adults, you quit because it would probably cause even more problems in riskier groups. If it doesn't, you move forward into older groups.

It turns out that both Pfizer and Moderna trials have shown much more adverse reactions in the young than the old.

Testing on the wrong population may result in rejecting a vaccine that could be perfectly safe on the at-risk population, but inappropriate for the general population.

> Let's not pretend you would learn nothing that would speed things along

Of course not. You could learn a lot, just not about the safety and efficacy profile of the vaccine on the at-risk population.
If so, and they post like that anyway, then they are coming close to violating the site guidelines.
Spot: Native Spotify client written in Rust for the GNOME desktop
Way, way, way back in the day there was Mobile Telephone Service [0]. Instead of a cellular network it was just a two-way VHF radio. MTS was operator dialed which meant you picked up your end in the car and an operator dialed a landline and patched it through to the radio. When cellular phones debuted in the 80s they were described as such to distinguish them from MTS phones.

The MTS phones needed a whole channel assigned to a phone which was dedicated in the whole service area. Cellular systems allowed geographic channel reuse so you could have a lot more users in a given area.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Telephone_Service
Yeah, it definitely depends for me too, but getting the nuances right from a video wouldn't work for me at all, even in a thing like dancing. Live instructor is an entirely different proposition (you can choose to focus on the bits that you care about, move around to get a better view, etc.). And I can stop them and ask for them to repeat, slow down or split their movement into more granular "part-steps".

Videos are simply not that for me. Perhaps with actual 3D videos and improved tooling we might get there (eg. ability to zoom in on an instructor's hips in "infinite" resolution if you are having trouble following that particular bit of their motion).

And I mean, you can sure learn from a video, but I just find it harder. Eg. I can go look at dance or basketball moves and try to reconstruct them, but it's usually a couple of core points that need to be taken in to achieve them that are much easier to grasp when broken into fundamentals.

However, videos where the gist of the work is on the student, vs on the instructor, are much easier to make, which I believe is part of their popularity!
Yeah, but huge grain of salt there. Several of references in that thread are being twisted out of proportion. Also, they couldn't be bothered to find single example where someone is being "canceled" or ridiculed for being too PC, which makes me think this is an axe-grind-with-the-left issue and less decrying the practice.
National plans for technological and social transition to net-zero emissions
How would we know which ones?
The root cause isn't algorithms, it's a lack of accountability (both of companies and of users). The problem with 8chan wasn't some inadvertently harmful AI, it's that the site and its users damaged the world for several years without facing consequences.
I don’t know, is plugging the good ole line out to some good ole line in not a thing anymore?

Is it so that if it’s not a big red in-app button, it’s too complicated?

I dunno, the journalists carry their handy recorders with them all the time, have they forgotten how they work all of a sudden?
I agree but there's also another side: voting by show of hands makes it more difficult for parties to enforce voting discipline. This in turn means MEPs have more of a choice.

All important votes are however anyway with electronic voting.
As an EM, 20% of time spent on project management sounds about right. What you are overlooking is the time spent managing the people on a team. Hiring, recruiting, promotions, coordinating parental leave, working out visas with immigration attorneys, check ins, comp adjustments, etc all take immense time and energy to do properly. It’s a full time job and then some.
Your comment got me thinking about the coordinate transformation needed to triangulate the position. Having done a good bit of this as a student, I can only imagine what a nasty bit of math that must be! Makes me shudder.
Australia doesn't really have a robust fourth estate. It has a Murdoch-ruled empire which is pretty much the propaganda arm of the rightwing Liberal government, though it's hard to say who wags who's tail.

FB is an insane echo chamber for sure but at least you can pick your chamber. Any exposure to the news in Australia is tainted by the Murdoch's foul agenda.
Startups tend to get very attractive credits on AWS et.al. This is carefully designed so that by the time the bills start to roll in and become surprisingly huge, it's way too late to try to unroll the dependencies on AWS.

There's definitely value in keeping options open by sticking to standard processes on Linux VMs so there is a painless migration path if and when the CFO freaks out.
Ask HN: Starting and running a boutique software development company
Please share your experience. Finding clients, pricing, etc... Success stories as well as failures.
> The policies are more than fair.

More than fair? Okay then, tell me what percent is fair.

> People on HN get mad when others make money, but they never get mad when they want to make money too.

The problem is not that they make money, it's that they are engineering a lack of competition in order to keep their prices arbitrarily high.

> It becomes much more difficult and time consuming, and why 10%? The service is unbelievable - it provides great access to a platform and its high spending users. That is worth more than 10%.

Charging a significant percentage for "providing access to users" is rent-seeking. That's not a good thing.
Maybe I should directly apply that language to my post-mortem open source projects:

This repository is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed code is placed here. Nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.
If your concern is for screaming "scientific racism" rather than encouraging an honest look at the scientific evidence and using it as a guide to try to improve the situation, then that says something about you.
It's depressing that even on hackernews where you expect people want to tinker and have control over their machines there's a probably a majority who are happy with the situation and use the think of my grandma (aka children) using iPhone situation. There could be numerous ways for Apple to let people run their own software or other stores without giving your grandma malware.
They're actually misunderstanding orthodox economic theory.

EMH and CAPM doesn't say that it's impossible to run an outperforming mutual fund over many years. All it says is that it's impossible to do so in expectation. Note that this is a statistical property pertaining to the law of large numbers. Nowhere in economic theory does it preclude a number of lucky outperformers, which is consistent with what we observe in reality (ie that there's a huge number of outperforming funds, and an even larger number of underperforming ones).

A finance professor would say "yes, there's hundreds of outperforming funds out there, likely some combination of luck and survivorship bias."
Yeah, like:
Raping is bad. If you rape anyone you deserve to rot in jail.

But drugging someone to rape them is particularly vile.

But not only did he drugged and raped a woman, that woman was not a woman but a girl. A 13 year old one.

For the life of me I can't understand how people defend this guy. I mean, all his pedo rapist friends in the entertainment industry obviously wouldn't be too hard on him, but everyone else.

Also, did anyone ever ask Jack Nicholson how an unaccompanied minor got into his party?
New Orleans, and mostly Furaffinity. :)
That's a good question.

In most states, as far as I know, it's illegal not to wear a seatbelt. So from the point of view of the law, it's not optional. Pragmatically, it's somewhat optional because it's unlikely that violations of the law are detected and prosecuted.

From a "should this actually be the law" point of view: I don't know.

I think that in US society, our championing the rights of the individual has led to a failure to protect the individual from themselves.
When you were alone with someone trustworthy.
If I understand well they vet the petitions because many proposals don't relate to EU law. If it relates to EU law and has not been done in the past it should normally pass?
Yes, I understand the caching part. If Gmail proactively loads/cache the unique pixel before users open the email, then the email reporting is garbage. If they wait for the person to open the email, it is very interesting (even if repeat are not tracked).
I'm not suggesting we abandon priors, but Covid does have some novel facts:

- apparently high asymptomatic rate

- somewhat unpredictable who will get severe case

- random neurological symptoms in a respiratory virus

And most/all of the vaccines we are using will be the first approved for human use on their respective platforms. It's worth looking at.

Also, for a pathogen that is so highly transmissible, it's worth understanding what we mean by "reduced transmission". Is it 10% less? 90%? Surely this would be important to know before following a strategy of vaccinating the young and healthy first. (Especially given the difficulty of doing so in a population that is least likely to suffer serious harm from the pathogen.)
Another HN thread mentioned https://www.clearinkdisplays.com/ ; their marketing at least seems to offer nearly everything I'd want in a color display.

(Their demo video shows the display reflecting ambient light sources like glass does, which is definitely a bad thing. I don't want it to look like glass and I don't want a glass panel in front of it. I want a matte surface that I can touch without smudging it.)
Or about Wild West (Karl May).
I feel like so many companies are moving to the hybrid or fully-remote model. If companies can have a successful remote-first culture (transparency, documentation, no secret water-cooler chats in person, pseudo water-cooler chats over chat + video), the the hybrid model is a no brainer.

I feel like I've heard about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Salesforce embracing remote work. And Stripe, Gitlab, Automattic, and many others had already embraced remote work.

Worksphere is definitely on the upswing of a sea change.
> There needs to be a system I can type "smithsonian" into and reliably find the right page.

You should look into what Iris is doing with web of trust[1]. To me, this is the future. But like I said, Status has a good mix of multiple solutions that includes ENS names.

[1]: https://www.hackernoon.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-internet-a...
UK approves first-of-its-kind study to infect young people with Covid
> a particular media company that currently dominates the media landscape here

What is this company, out of curiosity? My guess is ABC, but I don't know.
I feel safer with bitcoin. The reasons for it to exist are more solid than if Musk's helicopter goes down tomorrow.
Hah, I deleted a whole extra paragraph of reply about how it "used to be phone books", and before that it was the operator at the local telephone exchange. How exactly would you go about telephoning the Smithsonian, then? You'd remember the number? Or you'd use some centralized facility?
My counter argument is this:

Everyone I know who uses an iPhone or iPad is generally using medium to high quality apps, and not suffering from crapware, slowdowns or weird issues.

Everyone I know who uses an Android phone is always complains about weird app behavior, ranging from crummy software quality to flashlight apps that request access to your contact list. And my guess is these people use Googles Play Store.

Somehow, Apple is doing something that is beneficial to the average Joe buyer of smartphones.
If it bothers you enough, then don't play the division?

I actively avoid and don't buy/play games that require Origin or Uplay. Even when friends tell me about free games in Origin I don't give a fuck. And I'm a very active gamer.

You do have a choice. There are tons of awesome games out there.
I'm reminded of this quote which I once saw on lesswrong.com

The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.”

The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-color view . . .”

—Marc Stiegler, David’s Sling

It's true that "all humans are both sinners and saints at the same time" - but it's absolutely not true that all, or even most, humans have done something as bad as raping a child (to say nothing of the other people mentioned in the parent comment). This kind of sentiment is appropriate when considering the kinds of mistakes or sins that all humans commit, identifying the grey areas that people are consistently in. The existence of grey areas does not mean that somethings aren't black and others aren't white. I think, in this case, we can clearly see that what Polanski did was very bad and worthy condemnation and not "Who among hasn't..."
> Not to mention are you 100% sure those stores and your purchases will continue to exist longer than steam ect

This is more of people complaining about DRM and acting like giving Steam a monopoly over the market is a solution. If you're worried about a company going under and you losing your purchases, the solution to that problem is to not tie game access to an account.

People are looking at a clearly inferior system and saying, "it's OK, Valve will do such a good job that I won't notice the flaws."

You don't have a problem with too much store diversity, you have a problem with DRM and the constant need for you to have a good-standing Steam account and a computer running their client in order for you to access any of your games. But Steam is only a solution to your problem if the company never goes out of business, never bans you, never starts doing shady stuff, never gets overshadowed by competitor... those are not safe bets for you to make.
The thing about democracy is you're not supposed to be able to force the public to do things they don't want.

If Tories believe an agency without oversight is in the public interest they're supposed to come to the public, get a mandate for that, win support. I strongly suspect this is vehicle for backhanders, but even if it weren't then in a democracy they're care to win approval first.

If it's worth doing, it's worth knowing the cost of. I'm happy to explore having a low-financial return science/engineering group funded by pubic money ... but only if it's completely transparent (financially and politically).
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