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> "Whether others are also abusive or incentivize dehumanizing behavior is irrelevant."

Only irrelevant if you want to fix symptoms, not causes.

If you demonize a specific company, you might change a company's practices. This is good for the workers at that company who are treated inhumanely.

But know that by focusing on the behavior of a specific company rather than economic system that incentivizes companies to treat humans as disposable cogs, you're letting off the hook every other company that engages in the same behavior. By focusing on the behavior of a company rather than dearth of meaningful regulation to protect workers, you're enabling the exploitation of workers across a swath of industries.

If your appendix bursts, morphine will make it hurt less. But it's probably better to do surgery to handle the root cause.
It is simply unfathomable that so many prominent people knew about Epstein’s activities and simply turned a blind eye to him. Similarly to the sexual assault scandals at USC, Penn State and US Gymnastics, the Catholic Church, etc.

People know but action is only taken after years or decades of awareness.
> For example ".all", in Ada is used to "dereference pointers" while in VHDL it is used to import everything from a library.

In VHDL, the meaning of the suffix all depends on kind of the prefix. When the prefix is an object of access type, it behaves similarly to Ada.
Rather than a difference, I can mention a similarity (at least for my region: EU) between CCTV constantly watching employees work and this system constantly watching employees work:

They're both illegal.

You can have cameras film employees, for example when they take things out of a safe. Or if there has been theft and you monitor the area where this took place. There has to be a purpose, you can't simply film people do their work as a blanket measure all day long, that's invasive, unethical with the ethics I was brought up with, and illegal in any country where the GDPR applies and perhaps also the European Convention on Human Rights since this might be based on article 8 (privacy) (fun fact: Russia signed the ECHR, though I rather doubt they'd care if they were actually sued in the ECHR). It's similar on public roads: you can't simply film anyone who dares to walk over a sidewalk or drive over a road near you. But you can if there have recently been cars set on fire and there is a direct reason to film your car that is parked on the street. There just has to be a reason that trumps the right to go about your own damn business without constantly being watched.

Amazon honestly might have a case if it truly improves safety by a lot, or if they employ this for particular drivers in some higher risk class perhaps. But it's also invasive, so they have to have a good reason and apply the least-invasive measure that achieves the same effect.
it's been productized for employee theft as well when tied into register systems. Most checkouts probably have that (or many do). Register doesn't balance, find clip of employee taking the $20, train model a bit better for next time. Find some scan fraud - train model off those clips etc.
Tbh, you'd have to choose the right church. Something like the Anglicans or mainstream Presbyterians. Unitarians would be ideal.

Otherwise you're soon running into creationism, or purity culture, or speaking in tongues and the evil of backsliders, or why women can't hold jobs, why dolls violate the 2nd commandment, or, imo, one of the worst, Calvinism and it's TULIP doctrine[1]. I'm not sure what's worst, L, wherein God only saves some, and sends the rest to hell as an example of his grace to those going to heaven, or P, where if you express reservations or concerns about the church, you're obviously not actually saved and are going to hell.

[1]: http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_41.html
Same true for any language too. Depending on the size of a language's vocabulary learning 10,000 or 20,000 words is a matter of years of effort.
Good counterarguments, thank you. Some caution should be exercised when reading pop sci-like books.

The parts of the book that were meaningful to me were the summaries of other foundational studies and generalized beliefs based on lots of research. His conclusions were sometimes a bit of a stretch, but I accept a little 'dressing up' of results with additional opinion as part of writing to a broad audience
Yes, bring it back in secret. Hide it behind the moon.
Different people follow for different things. Some people like seeing that other stuff. It would be very helpful if Twitter let accounts tag tweets into categories, and let people choose to subscribe or unsubscribe to those. Maintaining multiple Twitter accounts for different content is very tedious. No doubt your point is valid as well, it's easy to get addicted to that platform, and the likes and notification system gamifies that need for validation.
>First Bitcoin was NOT fiat currency (despite being one of the most fiat currencies by definition)

What is your working definition for fiat currency?

Mine is:

"Fiat money is a government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold."

Government doesn't issue bitcoins. Stopped reading after that as you seem uneducated on the subject.
Are you sure about that 64% number? At my IIT, it was more a 6:1 ratio.
Wait, what? How are other people allowed to use the content? I mean, I'm sure it happens, regardless of being allowed, but it seems like a content owner would be able to issue a DMCA takedown to stop it.
I'm curious if Melzer addresses Discourses on Livy or only The Prince. In an introductory political science course at my college's Straussian department, The Prince was read early as an example of esotericism, and that reading was (implicitly) proof that we should read other texts esoterically.

My understanding is that Discourses on Livy is far less esoteric, though. It doesn't surprise me that particular works are esoteric, but does Melzer successfully advance an argument that entire bodies of work or even an entire era should be approached that way, without needing to evaluate each text on its own?
Corey Doctorow writes about the "turning humans into robots", or more specifically systems that "the machine uses the human for support" and describes them as "Reverse Centaurs":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-...

> Emmanuel Kant's "Formula of Humanity" told us that "treating people as means" was a violation of the supreme principal of morality – humans should be served automation, not harnessed to it.
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Seems like a potentially great way to transfer a lot of wealth from taxpayers to the aerospace industry for a very long time with little oversight or roi.
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In the field of psychology and trying to determine what's going on in some particular person's mind, "common sense" doesn't really work, even if it may sometimes work in more objective scientific fields.
For those interested. This is a fascinating documentary on the Scythians. https://odysee.com/@ashalogos:92/conspiracy-our-subverted-hi...
No problem. Looked again and I can't find the exact article. Let me know if you need any specific configuration from me.
Extremely wrong. If you don’t agree to speak with police you will always have an opportunity to clear your name in the future, through an attorney who knows the game either before or during court. Every shred of information you share with them is ammunition and, again, you have no clue how they will use it, what it may appear to confirm or even what crimes they are actually investigating.

Every assertion you make to police opens you up to being prosecuted for completely separate crimes, including lying to the police, depending on what other information they already have (correct or incorrect).

Take the advice that every cop, every attorney takes and also gives to their kids: don’t talk to the police. Just get an attorney.

(A wild scenario of police catching someone in the act of a crime is not only not what we are talking about, but that individual was not exonerated.)
> I always wonder whether contributor names to closed sourced software should always be transparent.

In my opinion, absolutely not! The company or corporation holds all the cards: they manage the budget, the schedule, the hiring firing and promoting. The company is responsible to marketing and what sales people are telling customers. In most cases every bit of code the developers produce is wholly and entirely the property of the company.

Blaming the developer, to my mind, only empowers companies making software like this to make more of it and to sell it more widely. I would argue that we should see harsher penalties for organizations that produce and market (or mis-market) software that is causing harm.
>Authorized code scanner
z/OS V2.5 is planned to provide, as an optional priced feature, an authorized code
scanner of Program Call (PC) and Supervisor Call (SVC) routines for development
and test environments. This scanner is designed to prevent unauthorized
callers from being incorrectly granted an authorized state by detecting potential
vulnerabilities in these routines with diagnostic information for remediation, as
needed.

So, is this a virus scanner for mainframes?
Caring for the elderly with a shortage of young people will be difficult (see Japan today). Which is one of the reasons Japan is so interested in robotics, although it is unclear when or if they really can replace nurses and assistants.
Maybe this?

history | sort | uniq | awk '{print $2;}' | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -10
Good. We need some serious global action on China, maybe the US finally has a president who can do that. I hope the rest of us in the UK, the EU, Aus, Canada, etc can follow suit.
That is an odd comment to put using HTTP onto a process listening to port 443 so it can be stored by way of sending certain bytes to a different process listening to a port.
In fact, pay to play has been the requirement for some time now. Organic discovery is long gone. It also effectively lowers net book margins.

Got me to thinking that I'd like a way to signal Google that my intent is either info or buy. Now it's all buy and the results suffer.
Yes, it’s DynaRec (dynamic recompilation) which is a form of JIT. (I suppose you could call it an optimizing JIT of sorts) - with a fallback to a more “normal” JIT for x86 code which is emitting other x86 code (like Unity games).
Also, I was in KW recently and it seems like there was tons of development, but all either (a) high density core development, or (b) medium density suburban development (stacked townhomes as far as the eye can see in seemingly all directions. I understand the Places to Grow Legislation effectively killed 3,000sf single family subdivisions.
The vast difference here is that the energy consumption required by Bitcoin is integral to its model. The stated goal is to make massive amount of otherwise useless computations.

If there was any way to stream porn using less electricity, we would consume less electricity for that. If there was any way to make those billboards consume less electricity, we consume less electricity.

As soon as there is a new way to do bitcoin related operations using less electricity (eg: ASICS), the security of the network decreases. And everyone moves to the new model, in order to go back to consuming a lot of electricity, in order to restore trust in the network.

On a macro scale, Bitcoin has to consume lots of electricity, any possible improvement in that area needs to be wiped out by just people going back to consuming more electricity, otherwise the model fails. The whole bitcoin trust model revolves around people being ready to waste a ton energy for it. That's not the case of porn, or billboards: the energy consumption is just a side effect and not a requirement, they have value outside of the consumed electricity. Bitcoin entire value is only dependent on how much people are willing to invest in it, which roughly translates on how much electricity is wasted.
> I really do think cryptocurrency and block-chain technology is cool. But the level of hype and double-think is getting insane.

I agree with this, the amount of hype makes it hard to find the true innovations in the space, because most of it is honestly shit.

> There are plenty of ways to do digital transactions

Yes, but Bitcoin was not initially made to just "do digital transactions". It was made to be able to do digital transactions without any trusted 3rd party. The distinction is important, because that's why Proof of Work exists and is energy intensive in the first place.

Now a couple of years into blockchain technology, we have some alternatives that _might_ work as well as Proof of Work (Proof of Stake for example) but we've yet to see if it actually can work on the scale that Bitcoin operates in. Time will tell.
Well, atheism's general view is that it's bullshit.

My personal view is more nuanced than that, but it's much too long a story for an HN comment. The TL;DR is that the divergence between science and religion happens very, very early in one's thought process. Humans seek to explain their experiences, but there are two very different kinds of explanation you can choose to seek. You can pursue mechanism, i.e. what are the laws that describe the phenomena we observe, or you can pursue teleology, i.e. what is the purpose of the phenomena that we observe? If you choose the former, you end up with science, and if you pursue the latter, you end up with religion.

Neither approach subsumes the other. Science fails to identify purpose, and teleology fails to identify a mechanism. But humans want both, so we struggle to put together some kind of synthesis. BioLoogos is a valiant attempt at a synthesis, but it's not really supportable by anything other than our desire to construct a unified theory of our existence, i.e. to tell a story that makes us feel warm and fuzzy. IMHO it's problematic from the perspective of both theology and science. But, like I said, it's a long story.
Pianoteq models pianos very accurately, but in my opinion, it doesn't reproduce the effect of using the best condenser mics and the talent of pro audio engineers.

Top-of-the-line sampled piano VSTs may lack the dynamic range and versatility of Pianoteq, or its ability to reproduce sympathetic resonance and partial pedaling, but they at least capture not only a great piano but also the added effect of pro mics mixed/recorded by pros in a pro studio.
Man discovers lava is hot.
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Second best is to do it without the support and discipline of a teacher. It's just like any other thing that takes skill. You can either stand on the shoulders of giants and learn from their wisdom, or you can go it alone and make the mistakes and form the bad habits they could have warned you about. And when it comes to a musical instrument, it's all about the FEEL and POSTURE as you play, which only in-person teachers can show you.

Anyone can take a hammer and saw and build something that resembles a table, but the one who learned from a craftsman (even for just a little while) will be able to produce far better work with far less effort and mistakes. Knowing how to draft and read plans will also go a LONG way towards getting good results.
I wonder if having an adjustable center of mass would solve this problem.

A mass ejection method would have to be maintained too often, but CoM adjustments can largely be automated (at least in principle).
Sort line of text | filter to only print unique lines | print just the first word of each line | filter the print just the unique lines and the count | sort the counts numerically | print the top 10

Given a bunch of lines of text, this reports on the frequency of first starting words.

Probably the -C should be lower case?
War with who?
So, everyone here has realized how inane this article is given that it doesn't account for the price of Fe and Ni plummeting once this much supply is introduced to the market.

But what is the actual value of something like this? Surely something comparable has happened in the past where a big reserve of some rare mineral has been found and monopolized, and its price didn't go to zero.
So now you can blow through your data cap twice as fast?

To me the whole angle of this seems wrong. Who out there has a solid LTE signal and is going “oh if only this were faster”.

On the other hand when I have 1 bar I might has well have nothing at all. Shortening the range of the base stations doesn’t seem like it would help this.
It's a fairly new material but it already has some uses.

https://phys.org/news/2016-07-lab-titanium-gold-alloy-harder...
Maybe I am missing something but while the monetary value of the metals would not add up to that sum of money, wouldn’t we actually add a bunch of value to our global economy if we made these metals virtually free, therefore making the cost of goods associated with those metals go down significantly?
Also, if we cure all the diseases, where are we going to put all the people on this already over-taxed air bubble?
The only reason to publish something to social media is to promote your business initiatives. Otherwise you're just letting an ill behaving private company monetize your personal/social life. You can either be exploited or leverage the system for whatever gain you can eek out of it.
Using GDP as your metric would put China as the 2nd most developed country in the world.
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It does actually, thousands in Texas had no electricity while I did. Cost me 1/5 of a Bitcoin.
Thanks, a lot of this is new and useful to me.

> Recently I've been wondering if there's enough interest for a Discord server or something. (In the spirit of STEPS, it'd be ideal to make a new collaborative thing that's really different than static text/audio/video on the web, but gotta start somewhere. :) ) Unfortunately, I have had other, higher-priority projects at the moment, so I have taken no initiative to try to build a community.

I don't really like Discord because they keep asking for phone verification and early on, they were pretty aggressively shut down alternate client attempts.

What about Mattermost? I could try to set one up though initially, we wouldn't have email notifications or a CDN. Might not be so good if the initial group is small.

Slack? Don't know how they compare to Discord but at least they don't ask for phone verification.

A subreddit? A mailing list? Some kind of fediverse thing?

If there's some possibility of migrating to our own platform, I guess it doesn't matter as much where we start.

I could try to set something up in the coming week. But interest in this HN thread will still have died by that time.

> I did get Nile + Gezira to work (albeit in a very crude way by printing numbers to the console rather than hooking it up to a frame buffer). That's how I met Dan. I don't want to betray any confidences with him, but there is ongoing work with Nile.

Nice! I'm not anywhere near that. I'm still looking for a description of what it _is_ and at a very high level, how does it work internally? Something like "it's mathematical notation to describe the pixel positions/intensities implicitly via constraint equations; it uses a <something> solver for ...". What's in quote could be way off and is from memory of what I remember seeing.

> I've gotten both up and running. I seem to remember the Boehm GC was pivotal in getting Maru to bootstrap and then run Nile.

I also vaguely remember something about getting the right Boehm GC version so that some of

> Pymetaterp is cool! I agree: Warth's work on OMeta was impressive. In some ways, Ohm feels inferior to me, though they're both good tools with lots of potential.

Thanks! I share similar thoughts about Ohm. Having a visual editor is very nice, though I tend to use breakpoints for parser debugging [1].

Edit to add that id-objmodel [2] is another STEPS project I found to be simple and useful as an idea.

[1] See, for example, "Debugging" in https://blog.asrpo.com/adding_new_statement
[2] https://www.piumarta.com/software/id-objmodel/
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No, that's what 5G enables but 5G itself is something else.
> Lying is a loose concept. Is it lying if I believe it is true? Is it lying if it's just an omission of truth?

I think what underlies this discussion are assumptions that lying is, by default, unethical and that we can trust truth-telling to be beneficial. I have found that neither of these things are factual.

Truths can be devastatingly harmful with no discernible benefit. I have found this outcome more likely when one assumes truth is a moral high-ground, while disregarding the well being of the person on the receiving end.

This led me to conclude that honesty is a poor goal, in and of itself. It is at best a tool, that often requires consideration and compassion to yield a positive outcome.

Much of the same can be said for lying. It isn't the opposite of truthing so much as it is a different tool. Wielded like a blunt weapon, it's harms are legendary. Used with precision, with empathy and with wise consideration of larger outcomes - lying can be used to smooth over small rough spots and avoid large disasters.

In short, it isn't uncommon for lying to be the most ethical of our choices.
Dynarec
I'm curious, how does this approach fare with classical pieces where learning by sheet is the norm? The melody and chord progression is not hard to for a lot pf pieces (e.g. pop and jazz if you have a trained ear for complex chords), but learning Listz's Un Sospiro by ear is going to be really hard no?

I learned that piece by its 6 page sheet then memorized it, would be amazing if that could have been done by ear, if possible.
My personal reasons as someone who has learned the language quite intensively but ultimately decided not to use it: (i) Vendor lock-in and too much future dependence on Adacore (other commercial Ada compilers do not count as alternatives to me because they are super-expensive), (ii) I can't always use the MGPL and would prefer MIT licenses of important Ada packages, (iii) the user community is split in a weird way between very professional aerospace and high integrity systems engineers and fairly dilettante hobbyists, but not many users in the space in-between those extremes, and (iv) not enough libraries for mundane tasks/operating system integration/GUIs.

I'm currently using Go. Although I would prefer Ada as a language, (iv) is in the end decisive for my tasks. If I used Ada I'd spend half of my time reinventing the wheel or interfacing with C libraries. I'm hoping to find a use for it in the future, though.
One could say that the Robb Report is targeted at a readership that has a very simplistic understanding of money and value.
Don't the engineers in this situation have more decision making powers than developers in your typical corporate environment? In my opinion, more power would need to be given to developers before they could be held accountable in the same way as engineers on bridges or buildings.
Their does seem to be an inverse correlation between what we consider free and rich societies and despotic poor societies and their equality in STEM fields.

You need not look far, even very conservative countries such as Belarus have stronger representation in IT than a much more liberal society such as Sweden.
No it wouldn't, especially if energy to convert it skyrocket.
I guess? It would take a lot of manpower, the probability of it staying a secret is very small. It would probably be easier to set up an illicit currency printing operation without anyone knowing :D