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1) Stallman was attempting to morally distinguish sex with a minor who was being coerced by a third party with rape or assault. He wasn't saying that the former is right, only that it's less bad than the latter, and that the distinction is important. You can say "he shouldn't have approached such a radioactive topic" but the moral philosopher in Stallman compelled him to; not addressing it meant conceding defeat to people who conflate less bad actions with worse actions for their own gain. For example, to name one closer to Stallman's wheelhouse: conflating copyright infringement with theft. Or piracy. The very fact that sexual offenses are radioactive provides ample opportunity for information and context to be lost about the nature and severity of a deed, and this has dire real-world consequences for people. People end up on sex-offender registries for life for relatively innocuous offenses like peeing on the side of the road or being that weird kid who tried to kiss a girl in his elementary school class. Do you think the report of the offense will say "oh yeah, he was a weird kid who didn't know how to act appropriately around girls back in the fifth grade, but a talking to from the principal set him straight"? No, it will say "INDCNT ASSAULT, VICTIM UNDER 12". What do you think that means to anyone reading the report? Like a neighbor, landlord, or employer? That's why these moral distinctions are important.

2) At least two eyewitnesses, including Minsky's widow, claimed that Minsky turned down Epstein's girl. He only took money from Epstein back before it was widely known that Epstein was a perv. At what point do we say "let's not drag Minsky's name any further through the mud"? Should we disbelieve these accounts because #BelieveAllWomen? Should we assume that Minsky did in fact have sex with Epstein's girl because of a "context" in which Minsky's friends and associates are known, or thought, or assumed, to have done likewise? Should we adopt a Wikipedia-like standard of evidence wherein the abridged, quoted out of context, sometimes heavily distorted press accounts are considered more authoritative than reports from people who were there?
So I should listen to all podcasts?
Good luck driving through the Siberian taiga or the Arozonian desert with a battery-powered car.

Or what about emergency vehicles with electric motors?

“We’re sorry, Mr. Miller, we can’t come to your burning house right now, we need to recharge our batteries first.”

I’m sorry, but battery-powered cars have a very limited usecase. There is a reason why the vast majority of cars beind sold are still using combustion engines.
Replace with a projector :) you don’t watch OTA channels, do you? So any other media source should be hookable to a projector. Sure you need a dark room to watch stuff, but that’s a plus as it’ll induce you to watch less tv ;)

Also - the soap opera thing can be turned off in decent newer TVs and as discussed in other HN threads you can just deny the TV an internet connection so it behaves dumbly. You might still need to contend with clunky UI but really - just select your video source and start watching, so the pain is minimal.
No safety critical feature should depend on complex software. If I want my car do drive by itself, then it should be opt-in by an easily to disable or remove module.
A pump moves a fluid and a compressor reduces the volume of a fluid. If your fluid is compressible, such as air, then moving it will entail some compression. This was the GP's point about a fan.

This means there are not two distinct binary categories of pump or compressor that these things can be neatly classified as. This is compounded a little as fluids are often erroneously thought of as only incompressible fluids like water without realising it's a much bigger category.

Due to my brainfart regarding turbines, I assumed the GP had misunderstood the mechanism of action so I used the simpler word pump to explain. It is not incorrect to describe the action of a turbocharger as pumping more air into the cylinder, especially in my native dialect of English.
> But once she turned 16, she was suddenly a pedophile and a stutory rapist because I was only 15? Again, that seems insane.

After some high-profile cases (usually involving minorities and disapproving parents), some states in the US have corrected this via "Romeo and Juliet Laws".

(Had to look into this due to having a bit younger girlfriend right around that age)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_rape#Romeo_and_Julie...
The real bias here is the cherry picking to showcase a narrative. The point that ML is just a statistical machine would be apparent if they put beautiful and handsome side by side. 51%+ of the time, beautiful is associated with women. 51%+ of the time, handsome is associated with men. Yea, clever is used for guys. Sharp is usually used for women. Same meaning, but you use it for different genders unknowingly. Not a big deal. It's just as bad as arguing the difference between a kilt and a skirt. Same damn thing. My only real surprise is, "he teaches". I'd assume that'll have a more female connotation since women are typically associated as teachers. But it depends on the learning data set as well. Maybe the set just happened to accidentally be guy centric regarding "teaches". Hell, if you have a data set based solely on metaphysical new age books, you'd have an ML pump out which crystal to keep in your pocket to cure polio and to stay away from vaccines. Doesn't mean the AI has any special insight.

Theres nothing special here. Its human pattern recognition over fitting fishing for attention and a stamp on their simp card using political hot topics.
Congrats on the launch!

Some feedback from a potential customer:

The first thing I read on your homepage is: "A faster and more engaging way to empower your team."

This means absolutely nothing to me - I have no idea what your product does. Something like "Faster issue tracking for remote teams." would be better.

Hope this helps!
they don’t have to announce anything to the data protection authorities. it’s funny you think anyone cares.
I feel like this is a temporary state of affairs that falls into the bucket of "regrettable but unavoidable". Over time I think the standard march of mass manufacture, refinement, miniaturization, and so on will result in every single USB-C plug on a general purpose device (like a notebook) doing the max of the standard. They'll all be Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 or whatever, and thus able to do everything. Cables production will also scale up and become cheaper, and at some point every single cable one would typically find will be capable of handling whatever. There aren't any fundamental scaling blockers, like some dependency on rare metals or something.

But it's still costly at the start of the refinement cycle, and it's hard to bootstrap without allowing manufacturers to do cheaper cut down feature versions to get the ball rolling. It needs to provide some marginal value in the mean time and real promise, even if it means some higher overhead in the establishment phase. So for someone buying a new device in 2025 or 2030, USB-C may still exist but I think issues with what ports do what will be lessened. We already see devices like Macbook Pros where all the USB-C ports are functional, and while those are on the higher end of pricing they aren't stratospheric enterprise territory either. I suspect it won't take that many hardware generations for that sort of thing to spread downward. The question is if that's worth the immediate trouble.

And at least for USB-C, I personally think it'll be worth it. It's a good connector, and the improved capabilities are valuable. We've had USB-A for a long, long time, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to guess that USB-C will stick around similarly. There was demand for something more compact and reversible with other QoL benefits along for the ride, and I think it's worth the upfront cost to get the whole industry onboard something that can converge rather then ending up with various manufacturers going their own routes.
> All of those sensors are pretty standard fair.

For example automatic speed limiting works off cameras that read speed limit signs. I really don’t think that’s an off-the-shelf standardised sensor. And standardising it would probably hold back how quickly they could innovate in it.
Statistics education helps or "How 4,000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino its Worst Week Ever":

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2015/09/one-winning-mo...
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Very similar. Either complaining about non problems, or complaining about some default they can change, or suggesting solutions that are over-complicated and simultaneously inadequate anyway.

Same underlying reason, except it is worse, because it is in the quadrant "they think they know, and they really don't".
You know what requires a lot more metals? Cars and houses and apartments and railroads and highways. When we’re trying to reduce our impact on the environment, we’ve got to not waste time on the small fry while ignoring the elephants. Problems should be attacked proportional to their impact. Don’t think that using metal straws but driving a new gasoline powered SUV is making an improvement.
The Turkish lira is a new currency - only in existence since 2005.

Turkey had a pretty strong military in the 80s and 90s, enough to crush the Kurds, keep Greece at bay, and prevent Cyprus reunion.

Its currency devalued 35% per year from 1985 to 1990, 70% per year from 1990-1995, 170% a year from 1995-2000, and 20% a year from 2000-2005

The same thing is happening again.
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If I walk into a shop, the shopkeeper doesn't know if something in the window caught my eye, if my friend recommended the helpful staff, if I saw the advert they placed on a billboard, or if I just came in because it's raining.

But the shopkeeper knows if you came in through the street entrance (maybe saw the window display), through the mall entrance (maybe saw the sandwich board), or through the communicating door to the next shop (maybe saw the merchandise).
Not in the published, peer reviewed sense. But the group of doctors at Rikshospitalet, that treated some of these patients, is confident that the vaccine is the only plausible explanation.

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/KyGv2G/professor-says-...

Quoting from the somewhat poorly translated VG article:

>"We have the reason [for the blood clots]. And there is no other thing than the vaccine which can explain that we have this immune response, says Holme."

>"[...] we have no other history with these patients that could create such a severe immune response. I am confident that these antibodies is the reason, and I see no other reasons than it being the vaccine that triggers it"

Original, in Norwegian: https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/QmwR1V/professor-om-mi...
Most Turks just keep their money in a foreign currency, or gold.
If I am not mistaken, about 65% of the deposits in Turkey are denominated in a foreign currency (mostly USD)
Advertising has perverse incentives, which encourage business models that require invading privacy and optimizing "engagement" at the expense of civil discourse and mental health.

When you don't pay for something, you are the product.

We should come up with some sort of alternate system which enables wide participation in non-predatory media platforms.
It was considered heresy for AMG to be anything less than a big V8*. Then came the 4cyl 45s. Then came the non-hand-built 35/43/53 "notareal" AMGs.

Now the next generation C63 is supposed to be a 4cylinder hybrid. The cries of heresy have already started. I imagine the generation after that might be fully electric.

(* yes, I know there were early non-V8 AMGs, but AMG seems to have built their reputation on putting a massively powerful V8 into everything).

The only options Porsche will eventually have for 911s will be to go electric, to kill the 911 brand entirely, or reserve it as non-roadlegal track toy. Might not happen in 5 years or 10 years or 20 years, but it will happen. Assuming humanity hasn't killed itself yet.
It’s not the problem about being dispensable, it’s just that regardless of the hard work Stallman did over the past decades, it’s becoming harder and harder to justify his presence when many other contributors are losing faith the org because of him (such as the 33 people who signed a joint statement on the GNU project: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...). Stallman should at least have apologized over some of his awkward and potentially offending behavior over the years and do some self-retrospection (which is what Linus did, and as a result has much higher ground than Stallman, since even if he still might think the drama was overblown it still shows that he cares and emphasizes others to a certain degree.) But it seems that none of that is done even at a superficial level, so I expect FSF would significantly lose more trust among developers after Stallman’s revival. (Note that HN isn’t the only place to measure overall dev opinion...)
This is at least the 4th time that I read about this.
The first time must be more than 10 years ago.

Is anything being done? Are algae or seaweed being added to the cow's food? If not, why not?
This is a really fascinating and challenging story. Highly recommend reading it if anyone comes here to get the TL/DR.
I would argue that it only makes it hard to write type safe generic functions that return modified slices. If you're writing generic code for the sake of writing generic code, Go is probably going to give you a bad time, but if you're trying to solve real problems, you can get a very long way with slices, maps, and interfaces/functions.
"...it’s not that Substack will compete with existing publications for their best writers, but rather that Substack makes it easy for the best writers to discover their actual market value."

Thompson on point per usual
> This was not negotiated as a friendly trade deal as done with Canada, US etc. It was clear they were doing something the EU doesn't want to make an example off. Tensions from both sides.

No, Canada and the US are literally an ocean away. The UK is so close you can swim there. The EU made it clear that a it makes no sense to have the same deal as a partner that is on the other side of the world than it does to have with a partner that is so close and have other interests and conflicts to discuss.

All the deals I used as examples are better deals than the Canada and US deals they were all offered and rejected by the UK.
it doesn't sound like modern software. At my current employer (to remain unnamed) when I started there were a bunch of MS-SQL servers with an SA password of <blank> (i.e. no password). It took a long time to fix that because we had hundreds of local installs of the client app that had SA/<blank> in the app config file (yes, they were setup to access as system administrator), so fixing it meant reconfiguring hundreds of local installs. (at the time we didn't have a mechanism for automating it.) We still have "enterprise" software that does no password rules, and would happily allow a blank password.
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I don't understand why hate like this gets so many upvotes. IoT devices are in their infancy, it's not fair to constantly berate their inadequacies instead of focusing on the technological marvel that they are, what they can achieve and how they can be made more whole. The resistance to change on HN is real.
How so? The oligarchs in China seem to be under control of the state/party, not the other way around.
I think you bring up a good point about auto recycling generally. There is a large industry in the US that recycles cars and car parts. About 80% of a car can be recycled. I wonder how the move to electric vehicles will impact a car’s overall recyclability.
Would his getting a diagnosis and publicly sharing that private medical information make you start treating him as an actual human being, or nah?
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There are more pounds of live cattle today than there ever were wild bison. There are close to 94,000,000 cows in the US right now.
99.99999% of the revenue of any large public lottery comes from people in poverty (not because more of them play the lottery — the ratio of people in lower economic brackets who play the lottery, to people in upper economic brackets, is only roughly 2:1 — but because the people in poverty who do play the lottery, buy more lottery tickets per capita, play the lottery more consistently, and play multiple lotteries if available. People playing “for fun” don’t tend to do any of these things.)

These people play the lottery not exactly because they’re addicted, but because the hypothetical maximum reward, if obtained, would bring them out of poverty, and this fact excites them (i.e. gives a dopamine hit when they think about it), so they actually try to act in a Homo Economicus sense, trying to intuitively maximize the likelihood of this happening by buying as many lottery tickets as they can (while still not actually doing the math to see whether their extra spending them is getting them appreciably closer to winning.)

In the best case, these people are rationally ignoring the likelihood ratios (and thus the actual EV) of winning any given amount in the lottery, because they want to hold onto the hope that buying a lottery ticket generates for them: the hope of suddenly being able to afford things.

In most cases, though, these people just didn’t get a very good education, and don’t know how to “just do the math” required to realize that the deal is bad, and that they’d end up with more money (usually far more) by putting each dollar they spend on lottery tickets into a savings account.

Educating this group — when you can get through their stubbornness about it and actually get them to pay attention to what you’re saying — actually changes their mind about playing the lottery, and they tend to stop permanently.

(A light goes out of their eyes when they “get it”, though; it’s like watching someone realize that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. I advise people to only bother with this kind of education if they’re prepared to then go on and explain savings and compound interest and what equivalent investments to their lottery-ticket spend would be getting them. That usually perks them right up.)

Lotteries would not, and could not, exist without there being a large number of these people.
Look at India. There you have more than a billion people who don't eat cows.
That reminds me that in 1999, looking through the referrer logs, I realized that if the link came in from an Outlook email, Outlook+IE would report the subject of the referring email as the referrer (iirc with user name, something like “mailbox://user@site/subject-of-the-email”).

So we started looking for those more seriously in my company, and got quite a bit of interesting Intel from potential investors, competitors we knew about, and some we weren’t even aware of.

It was just the subject and user, but was often surprisingly informative.
Opening the mouth is fine, nobody has fallen from the sky fully learned about everything ;).

If you learned something that is interesting or useful to you, then great.
> You may be surprised to learn that cattle herd size has remained relatively stable over time.

Do you have a source for this? Wikipedia says there are an estimated 75 million ruminants worldwide, while there was a peak of 1 billion cows on Earth in 2014.
... Are you really using iot for a co2 sensor of all things? It's one thing if your smart toaster fails to start when your car enters the garage, it's another when a device to save your life decides to do an npm update at the wrong time and you go to sleep. For good.
I've been on C# for over a decade and I'm still very happy with it. I think it's highly underrated in the startup space.

When helping start my current startup, one of the founders asked why I chose C# as he was asked by others why we'd pick that language/stack as it's not common for SF startups. I told him that it's less about the language and I could do just about anything with it. It's turned out great and of all the things to worry about, the language hasn't ever come up again.
There's no way to upgrade from one Postgres version that keeps the database up and responding to arbitrary queries for the duration.
> It's not the purpose of a translation service

And I can guarantee you've never used this line of reasoning against translation services performing spelling or grammar checking. Yet those are also "not the purpose of a translation service".

It's always interesting to see the twists people will go to try to use post-hoc justify an opinion.
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Is that from cow herd size increases or other causes? OP’s point was that with q fixed herd size the amount of methane accumulating in an atmosphere is stable.

Lakes don’t grow and grow and consume the world.
It’s not magical, it’s simply a market where technology allows for extremely low marginal costs so if you can launch your business over a high moat (such as overcoming network effects with tons of cash), then you can print money once you are entrenched.
>it's a route to burnout if you end up being the hero who has to keep saving a dysfunctional organization

The same dysfunction that led to disaster after disaster is likely to lead to very little reward (if any) for actually being the hero, also.
Is your claim that people whose “arguments are based exclusively on emotion” are “very bad at estimating risk?”

Do you use the term “argument” as meaning a decision making process or an advocacy method?

Is there a significant population of people who base a decision making process “exclusively” on emotion or is that a straw person? (And how do you know that?)

If there were a significant population of people whose decision making process was based on emotion, how would one falsify the premise that they are “bad at estimating risk?”

Given the causality claim that emotion based decision making poorly estimates risk due to availability cognitive bias, could the same causality claim be made that “educated professionals” are often bad at estimating wholistic risk because tunnel vision is also a product of their specialization?
>It is not how it happened at all.

It's how it was communicated in the media, which might as well just be how it happened for the public opinion in many countries.

I saw no USA/UK media outlet saying this is proper procedure, it's normal and happens all the time, and institutions are working as they should.
We aren't "poor sods" or carrot-led horses. We're just motivated by different things than you. In my case, fully mission driven
So, is the for grass-feed beef, or this is for corn-feed beef?
I was questioned on my "insecurity" for not "trusting" people.

"I trust people just fine. I trust people working for outside companies dependent on information gathering to gather information. Google has no fiduciary duty to our clients. Same with Facebook. We DO have a fiduciary duty to our clients and it includes not doing things that may send their confidential information to third parties because SOME of the information used may be useful to our marketing department."
So whats going on that first photo (after the video)? I see a bunch of spiders and a much larger cricket. Either those spiders are micro tiny or that cricket is some kind of super giant beast of an insect.