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I'm pretty sure every craft has some form of this same discussion. It's a really weird thing spectators of any craft get hung up.

Where she gets micro managing and macro planner is beyond me. Pantser and plotter are the terms most people have been using for 20 some odd years. Plus, pretty much every writer is a gradient between the two. I've never read or heard anyone beyond the fanfic/wattpad crowd think it's a black and white, one or the other writer type. This whole article sounds more like someone met a published author for the first time and is trying to talk about "secret knowledge". I think Brandon Sanderson does the sharpest, fastest discussion between the two methods, pros and cons, then moves on because in the end "it doesn't matter which you are".

Adding "the psychology of.." is super damn pretentious as well given theres not a lick of data collection, just personal anecdotal meditation on the topic.
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Well, if we are to follow the parent's mention of Peter Singer, you could go check out just about any source of preference utilitarianism. Briefly:

An animal has a conscious will to live on, a preference so to say, and those preferences are the basis of moral consideration.

A plant lacks those kinds of preferences (lacking any brain activity - what we can see are mostly just hormonal cell responses and such; things that all living cells have) and thus the plant in itself is not worthy of moral consideration.
FOIA results can definitely go into public domain. That's sort of the point.
> Does that not depend on your perspective?

Well, it depends on your breadth of understanding of the issue. If you have a limited scope, it doesn't seem like a big problem. And it also assumes that we all agree on certain basic human rights. If we don't then yes, it is a matter of perspective.

Read "Weapons of Math Destruction". It discusses how existing algorithms discriminate in the following case-studies:

- courtroom sentencing (and recidivism prediction)

- mortgage and loan rate determination

- educator performance

- job applications that use 3rd party screening tools

The book looks at specific examples of where these black-box algorithms are deployed that have ruined people's lives with no accountability. The ethics concerns that are being raised were needed a decade ago, or more, but it is only getting worse with the ad-hoc deployment of this un-baked technology to almost every industry.

I have to stress again that these black-box algorithms are ALREADY IN USE and cannot be subpoenaed by courts because it is considered intellectual property.

So yes, it is urgent to crack open this technology because it is all too easily being sold without any investigation, accountability, or thought to the consequences. "Move fast and break things" doesn't work if it ruins peoples lives by landing them in jail, or pushing them into poverty.

The book demonstrates this is not a what-if strawman, but reality.
The fact that this isn't in the conversation has always surprised me. Both Regan and Obama supported it. The Republicans did that whole "taxes on a postcard" skit, but we don't even need a postcard. We're talking about TurboTax, well how many of you also log in and all the information is already there? I don't see why we can't replace the 1040 with return free filing, or at least the 1040Ez
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Wrong. Warfare for most of human history was an opportunity for rape, sexual slavery, and pillaging valuables. That's the entire reason one stranger would be willing to risk their life for someone they absolutely have no relationship to. The vast Roman legions ran on the prospect of these outcomes. Only in the last 200 years or so, scoping to continental Europe, has it even been considered that warfare become an occassion for principled conduct with respect to civilians and private property.
>> Simply paying for a service doesn’t remove the economic incentive for the service provider to add tracking.

No, but it can remove the necessity.

Some people can be satisfied with a business of X profitability, but once it goes public there is really no hope IMHO.
I had good luck with the M1 native Azul OpenJDK for my testing.
Gorillas and Chimps have harems. Is what you're saying accurate?

The harem strategy is the most successful reproductive strategy throughout all of the MAMMALS not just the apes.
not true. many design their sites THOUGHTFULLY and as a result they can be accessed without js. case in point: site i,m writing this comment on. counterpoint: almost anything on google.com domain these days.
Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web [pdf]
The landing page covers half my screen with cookie legalese.

Why does this page need cookies at all?

I don't want to sign a contract just to read some text.

We don't have a relationship.

Why should I trust you.

Yes it's easy to put all that jibberish on the screen.

Please don't.

It doesn't matter.

I can turn on NoScript and bypass it all anyway.

It's just wasting my time.

And yours.

Good luck.
that is true tautologically. If it is right wing it is fake news and if it is left wing it is simply news. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetings,_Bloody_Meetings

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> But it's not a good idea to let ourselves get carried away, we still have two binary operations going on. At any rate we have to impose that n·0=0, which can't be writen cleverly as "repeated addition" and worked up backwards.

Why is this not a good idea?

Can’t we just accept/postulate that the additive identity is different from the multiplicative identity?

And still define a relationship between the addition and multiplication?

Maybe I misunderstand the issue..

(I’m not trying to be pedantic, but my math background has some holes :)
Why should not the UK and EU trade freely, given that free trade benefits both parties, even after the UK has left the EU? It's my impression that the EU want to punish the UK for leaving to deter others from leaving.
It is not much of a question of what's wrong with GTK, Qt, etc.

Flutter is cross-platform. Canonical is doing the work for Linux. Toyota is doing the work for embedded devices (to use in their cars). Microsoft is doing the work for their foldable tablets. At the moment, Flutter has the momentum to be the UI for everything. Whether it will pan out, we will be here to see.
> Kind of. But if somebody else wants to publish these books in particular, they could probably buy the rights to do so for a suitable price.

I highly doubt that. "Dr. Seuss" is as much a brand as a collection of works, and the decision to stop publishing those books is pretty clearly brand management.
While I could agree to a point, it's hard to separate the flavour of ethics from the need for reflection itself.

A thorny ethics example from my own role was a decade+ ago I was hired to do a privacy impact assessment (PIA) on an ML solution for detecting benefits fraud. It had all the ingredients for a complete debacle: "artificial intelligence"(?!), a vulnerable population, credit reporting companies, arms length government agencies, highly paid consulting firms, etc. What we delivered was modifications to the system to solve their core fraud risk problem without making peoples lives (more of) a dystopian hell.

Privacy is the currently the technology ethics department in large institutions, and I really see the AI ethics people as fancy privacy people with more math. Privacy has moved on from being a technical discipline that old hacker dudes like me did to being one largely done by women with law degrees. The tension between the security architect competency and the privacy policy analyst is still there in the field, but now we all see how they add a lot of value without needing the bottom-up view of a technologist.

The flavour of ethics in the privacy field has evolved, and I was absolutely suspicious of the change, as if you weren't a cypherpunk in privacy in 2005, you were a 5th column infiltrator looking to co-opt it for corporate ends - but of course, that's not true. Anyway a lot of text to say don't throw out babies with bathwater on AI ethics, but I'm saying they're not as new as anyone thinks, and if you think privacy is important, then you will probably recognize ethics in AI is important as well.
The parent commenter has probably, like me, heard that pigs are remarkably intelligent. I haven't heard the same of cows.

That may very well be a skewed understanding, but it's likely why they choose that grouping.
Using brave for more than a year now on my phone I sometimes forget how terrible mobile browsing is for most people. The only thing that reminds me is when I sometimes open a website in Chrome.

If the trend of paid search engines or browsers start I am buying. Ads and tracking are cancer of modern life. It's literally offering free stuff to make your life worse in exchange. It's "I will give you this item if you let me punch you in the face" kind of deal.

I can't wait to support a company that collects money for their software and uses part of it to fight the cancer.
I have family who still live a pretty rural life, close to nature. They care very little about animals compared to my urban friends and family. They view animals as little more than "moving things" or simply food.
It's more than 20 years later and still I don't understand these complaints. ALSA was designed to have a broader API than OSS, and it has supported OSS emulation for quite some time. What else could have been done when OSS went non-free?
This is the big reason I still use Go for a few of my projects. I would prefer to use Rust but the lack or an SDK has me waiting.
It's a nice way for the conference to make it seem they are the ones who decided to terminate the relationship. That's like quitting right before getting fired to save face.
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Don't share any of that, use the desktop/standalone version.
Fixed. Thanks again.
Dusty. Gives the sky a dull reddish color. Also makes Martian sunsets blue.
I've read elsewhere that while this seems logical, it often isn't possible for commercial landlords as their loan terms are tied to a given rental price.
This reminds me of Aaron Christophel's work [1] to get custom code onto cheap fitness trackers with the Arduino IDE.

[1] http://atcnetz.blogspot.com/2019/02/arduino-auf-dem-fitness-...
We agree at least that there are a lot of things wrong with your calculation.
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Great question!

It requires the search provider to utilize NaCl to decrypt (requires buy-in from the engine).
So you want to tackle the mainframe? – USDS
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Very cool! I wonder how DJI justifies the R&D costs of this drone when it (and their existing lineup) could possibly be banned overnight by the looming UAS regulations?

Where does this drone sit with regard to the current set of regulations? It will certainly at least need operator ID markings, yes?
> I'm not sure that your scientific facilities cumulatively spent as much CPU time as DeepMind spent playing StarCraft.

You gotta pay if you wanna play. Humans are the result of a much longer and more expensive evolutionary process. It's only normal to have to pay a little to do the same for AI.
Up one for the toy chicken (I'm thinking rubber chicken).
> Multiplication has nothing to do with addition and at some point we have to stop teaching students that it's related.

My apologies if this is a stupid question, but when does the intuitive (layman) understanding of multiplication as repeated addition break down (mathematically)?
There is literally a form you fill out for your employer to tell them this information so they how to much withhold from your paycheck: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf
I wonder if it might be time to shift the majority of package installations to user-local. Outside of things where system-level is unavoidable (e.g. kexts) are there good reasons not to?
That’s a whole lot of text to say... nothing.
Thank you so much for the comments! I totally agree with you!
> How many large cohorts does it take before identifying a person

It takes 33 “perfect” yes/no questions to identify uniquely anyone on earth. It is seemingly large since each question splits the world in two.

Of course this is in a perfect world, but I remember seeing quizzes which would guess any object given a few yes/no question. Or perhaps it was people.
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> Many people believe it to be the future global reserve currency. Whether you agree with that or not, there's a non-zero probability of that becoming true.

Mayyyybe. I don't think that's why most people are buying it, though. I think it's your last point.

> Also if you look at it historically, it has been the best performing asset in 10 years out of it's 12 year existence which kind of reinforces people's beliefs.

Yeah, this is what gets me. BTC is valuable because BTC is valuable. I don't understand why that loop doesn't unroll, and it breaks my brain a bit. I can't think of anything else that has value _only_ because it has made other people wealthy, and that has so consistently appreciated off of that fact.

The idea that an asset needs _no_ intrinsic value in order to be valuable, or that the intrinsic value may have been defined a long time ago and is now irrelevant to its current value just doesn't compute to me.
Sometimes I am ashamed of my species
We fix bugs we didn't know about as soon as they're reported. To assert malice not stupidity needs more evidence, or else it's just based on your ill will. ICYMI, thread:

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1367161348166017024
Portability. You can't carry emeralds, golds, etc with you. You also can't encrypt them to prevent theft.
AI panel urges US to boost tech skills amid China's rise
It means it’s the perfect time to phase out the deductions, because they are very low at the moment.
It's an initiative by Imperial Family Companies [1] which uses GigaBlast as the provider.

[1] https://imperialfamily.com/
Feels like the most interesting thing here is the shareable link after every commit that effectively lets you share the current edition of the site without your collaborators having to build locally themselves.

That's cool! Great for collaborative site building.

Are there any advancements here on the singleplayer front? E.g. does this notably improve the experience of building a personal site let's say?
As a computational mathematician, I must object. The world is large enough for multiple deep specializations. I can't think at this level of abstraction (hence, I quit number theory after bashing at it for a few years). I can, however, read a math paper and put together an implementation as long as I'm familiar with the notation and the axiom of choice hasn't been used in a nontrivial matter. But then, my implementation would probably piss off software engineers who like to castigate research software that doesn't meet their standards (rather than, say, helping out).

Expecting everybody to have mastery of every specialization that their work touches is toxic and unproductive. I look forward to a team of motivated undergrad number theorists to tear into this and hack up an implementation.
Ah I see what you are saying. Not that this approach is an anti-pattern compared to other serverless setups. But that serverless in general is an anti pattern.

I can see where you are coming from. What we are doing with SST does seem very complicated just to get a good local development setup.
Statistical fallacies as they arise in political science [pdf]
>> just sending random data over google-analytics.

Back when I was in the security field, I heard discussions about this sort of thing as a form of attack. The question was whether a computer that sent false or incorrect information was either engaging in a DOS attack or was violating the CFAA in that it was using false information to access a service. The DOS attack would be on the tracking system rather than a website resource, false information to degrade the effectiveness of the tracking system overall. The CFAA angle would be that participation in ads/tacking was part of the contract for accessing the 'free' service, that by blocking ads or sending false info the user is using a false credential to access the service. At the time, many thought that by using an ad-blocker that users were failing to pay, passively stealing website content. Those who sent false information were engaged in active theft.
I set up a meeting for tomorrow through your website (look for a meeting with Brendan), we've got a large use case for this and it could really help us out.
An individual person will act to the best of their ability. A group of people at bare minimum has to pay communication costs, and so will act to less than the best of the ability of its members.

Furthermore, since dysfunctional organizations aren't quickly removed, the reality is usually a lot worse than the ideal. Depending on how much slack there is in the arena of competition there can be almost no limit on how dysfunctional small pockets, or even large slices, of the organization can become without leading to the death of the host.
Google announces Flutter 2 with support for the web and desktop apps
The main "pro" of a successful Chapter 11 is that a viable but struggling business is saved (along with the jobs provided by the business), although the investors in the business may see their investment wiped out. As mentioned elsewhere, being able to pick and chose which leases to assume and which to reject is one of the principal benefits. The main "con" is that unsecured creditors don't necessarily get the deal they agreed to, but (a) the claims of even unsecured creditors are prioritized over equity, and (b) bankruptcy is a known risk for unsecured creditors, and is presumably priced into the debt in the first place. Also, while a Chapter 11 is not going to help a company looking for cheap debt, there's a whole industry of providers of credit to Chapter 11 debtors. As long as there is a viable plan to reorganize, the company should be able to find financing or otherwise emerge with a functioning business.
I agree that it wasn't intended to be literal fact, just figured I'd take the opportunity to flex my mediocre optical systems knowledge. :p
Importance of Simplicity in Technology Excellence
Asp.net Core and Webpack 5 and React
In floc no personal data or web history is uploaded to the cloud. This is the essence of "federated learning" - your browser does the big ml computation, then just uploads the result.
“Problematic” being the catch all term to throw out rather than make an actual claim. Was the study faulty? Was the funding clandestine or did they attempt to conceal it? Does the Gates foundation support meat reduction for ideological reasons, rather than evidence based ones? Is The Gates foundation an industry that has a vested interest in continuing that industry (like an oil company funding oil benefit studies), and if so, what “industry” is that? What would they stand to lose, or gain, from the outcome of this study? What would they stand to lose or gain from any study, when their goal seems to pretty clearly be based on using the best available evidence to inform their charity programs? Is there anything at all beyond a charity that focuses on evidence based programs funding research to help inform their programs?
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While you both take two sides of the argument, the truth, as it tends to be, lies somewhere in the middle. While I agree that there are some qualified scientists, etc. that have taken up this issue, there is still a sort of extension of cancel culture of "LinkedInfluencers" and such that just hop on the bandwagon of hating anything vaguely AI adjacent. I think the playground dismissal of his point: "Don't dismiss them all because you disagree with some of them." was rather thoughtless.
Yeah this is kind of where distributed systems theory comes up against practice, and I think is very interesting. On a theoretical level Nano is just fundamentally flawed, as are all coins which use this "everyone has their own blockchain" eventual consistency concept. The problem is this, as far as I can recall (I looked at this three years ago): imagine a network partition occurs, where two different exchanges are in different partitions. For whatever reason Eve still has network access to both partitions. She broadcasts a different transaction to each partition, each transaction sending all of her Nano to a different exchange. Since Nano uses proof of stake, these transactions have to get a certain number of votes. I don't recall the exact threshold (I think 1/3 of all extant Nano has to vote?) but it is possible for both transactions to be confirmed as long as the partition stays in place. Possibly long enough for Eve to convert her Nano to a different cryptocurrency and transfer it out. Once the partition collapses one of the transactions is rolled back and the exchange is left holding the bag. IOTA solves this problem by just saying "the partition containing the coordinator is the real partition" lol. Humorously the more centralized Nano voting power is the less likely this scenario is to occur, too - although then you get the existential threat of those big-vote accounts getting hacked! They have to stay online with their private keys accessible, after all.

As you say, this has never happened (to my knowledge). So it's possible that even though the problem is real, it will never actually occur in practice. In the end the real measure of success is how well these systems perform in the real world, so we could say this analysis of the theoretical problems doesn't hold much water. On the other hand if something like this were to happen, it would probably tremendously undermine confidence in the currency & destroy it overnight. So this could be more of a thanksgiving turkey situation where each day seems better than the last until thanksgiving arrives.
Who cares? Companies rush out dumb comms under pressure then walk em back or change them.

They're not obligated to stick to the first thing they said on a topic -- especially when it's customer comms.

It's not a good source for answering what they did / why they did it.
Love my M1, but a heads up – if you're dependent on Postgres-based tests running inside of Docker (quite a common usecase!) the performance is completely unusable still:

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5236

We're talking a suite that normally takes 30 seconds taking 10+ minutes.
I remember playing it on alpha and I realize that it was one of the coolest software phenomenons ever. I bought it early and was well rewarded. What a fascinating story, especially to all the minecraft clones
What does"sub-milliarcsecond territory" mean? I know nothing of satellite tech.
Author here for your IBM 1401 questions :-)
If/when that happen the HN crowd should look at it as a business opportunity.

I can be an early customer.
Red Hat's survey results on the state of enterprise open-source software
Are you aware that the space for the outdoor living room and butterfly garden are almost certainly mandated by the planning code’s open space requirements? I suppose the builder could have left them as an unlandscaped pile of dirt, but most of the cost is a statutory requirement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_Who%3F

"Each player starts the game with a board that includes cartoon image of 24 people [...] Players alternate asking various yes or no questions to eliminate candidates."