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This is a right/authoritarian heavily moderated “safe space” where people who hold specific right-wing beliefs can repeat those beliefs by rote, free from challenges. You’ll struggle to find highly rated comments that support anti-trust initiatives or closer regulation of the tech industry. You won’t find a lot of highly rated comments that contain meaningful critique of any YC company, or many advocating higher taxes on companies or the rich.

Just by making my comments, I had people accusing me of “social authoritarianism”. Because my complaint that my viewpoint is not always welcomed was, in their mind, proof that I was trying to “forbid” them from thoughts.

I’d say more, but I’m banned from posting with any frequency on this account. Again... that is because this is a heavily moderated safe space.

That said, I’d argue that there’s no value in putting together a strong argument here anymore.

People are rewarded for writing a few pointless sentences that sound smart and agree with the common view. They are not rewarded for intelligent challenge. Voting is used to reward agreement with a viewpoint, and to punish disagreement.
I would ask the author of this post whether he cared if it turned out to be empirically true that an effective altruism strategy ended up doing more good in the world than some control group strategy. Whether his theory is sound or not, would evidence to the contrary change his opinion? Because, it seems like this should be possible to test, if that matters.
I think the trick here is just better design. I’ve used both. Coinbase is “prettier”. Though certainly harder to use.
Check out the ML policy, it sounds like it would currently be classified as a "toxic candy" model due to the non-free data, but it sounds like you could re-train to avoid that.

Using CUDA also means it wouldn't be considered legitimately free enough, although folks are working on getting AMD ROCm into Debian.

Tensorflow isn't yet in Debian, but there may be folks working on it.

Another problem is that Debian doesn't have the hardware for doing training.

I'd encourage you to talk to the folks on the debian-ai mailing list and IRC channel to discuss these and other issues.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ai/
ircs://irc.oftc.net/debian-ai
That is the rule for RP. Lots of English are afraid of sounding posh and avoid it. Estuary English is what the elite kids speak these days so they can blend in with working class.
>or useless pollution
Given the energy needed just for one transaction the currently popular ones are actually about useless pollution. It's not like bittorrent when it's not a technological problem but rather copyright owners agenda. In case of bitcoin, it is actually unsustainable technologically as a currency (as opposed to an asset). I get that cryptocurrencies can be efficient but not the ones that are popular right now.
> "We've seen your activity on our issue tracker and we would like to hire you (short term for now) to help us out (home office work). Are you interested, and if so, considering other obligations you might have, how many hours a week would you be able to contribute to the project so we can ballpark a first payment?"

I think this only really works when you reach a certain size and/or get lucky with really good early contributors. I did a quick analysis of the repo and this is one year of activity:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=wind...

Right now it looks like petethepig is doing the lion share of work (switch to the impacts view to see this) and I'm not sure if they have enough previous contributors to really pick from.

Side Note: Don't download my tool as the current docker image has an expired license which I need to sort out when I get the time.
https://render.com is one
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GitHub pages and GitHub. Super minimal, don’t need to install anything, and easy to export the whole repo.
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Why can't they just disagree with the analogy? After all, analogies are inherently a comparison of two different things. People are prone to reaching for analogies as essentially just an insulting oversimplification, by pointing to something Very Bad (frequently a dramatic historical horror) and simply declaring that it is equivalent to whatever they're criticizing. Part of the allure is the positive feedback back-patting that frequently comes with it, without adding anything else (e.g. your reply, and the "insanely apt" reply from a now-banned account).

Regardless, it's destructive to reasoned discourse to treat people like enemies ("cognitive dissonance" is being used as an insult here) when the only thing you know is that they disagreed with you.
At Youtube, there's gotta be hundreds of engineers.
I like those axes. I also enjoy conversations with someone where I disagree, and I wouldn't downvote purely based on disagreement, but generally due to some other factor.

Perhaps I'm only acknowledging that I'm less likely to downvote someone that I agree with? For example, if someone speculates wildly but it's consistent with my own experience, I'm not likely to downvote. If someone speculates wildly and it's inconsistent with my experience, I'm far more likely to downvote.

Probably where we disagree is whether it's OK to downvote a comment that someone put effort into. I've seen someone ask a question about a particular technology, and someone who clearly has very little experience with that technology posts a long screed where they're ~~talking out their ass~~ sharing their opinion in a way that sounds authoritative. Or maybe they're repeating business-level talking points instead of getting down to technical brass tacks.

I hope that gives an idea what I mean. I don't want to see comments like that on HN, regardless of how much effort or how well-meaning the comment is.
This exists, provided you compile with the (default) unwinding panics

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html
Somewhat similar is https://huntr.dev
yes, but i can have addon that will clean that cookie everytime i leave that sit and that cookie is only relevant for that site that set it.. i also can disable third party cookie at all so a site cannot see cookies for other sites.. and they can only track what sites you go that have their ad or their social media buttons..

afaik you cannot disable floc with an addon and you do not have any control over the floc id is assigned to you.. the floc id is calculated once a week based on the sites you visit on the previous 1 week.. so it leak information of what sites you have being visiting if anyone is able to reverse the sites that generated that floc id even if the site does not have adds or social media button on then or you use add blockers..

and i bet all the major tracking players will have farms calculating all possible floc ids from all the popular sites..

maybe do an addon that load randon stuff from randon domains in the background to taint the floc id so it makes harder to reverse the actual sites you are visiting.. or just use an browser that does not have it..

but beside floc, browser fingerprinting already allow tracker to identify people almost uniquely even without using cookies, there is already work on how to fingerprint someone without using either cookies or client side scripts, just by analyzing the timing when accessing several random subdomains using hundreds of redirects..

floc is just one more info they will have on you with no added benefit..
> Sure, but this can be configured :) Someone in one forum said they were able to set their system's stack size to "unlimited" and were able to utilize more than 500MB of stack space in a quick test

Yeah, but run the same test in a multithreaded program and it is no longer that easy.

> This is the closest I've heard to a real explanation so far. Still- if the downside is just performance, would the cache benefits not potentially outweigh the performance downsides? I'm not a compiler engineer, but if I were I would definitely do some experiments around this. Maybe people already have and it's known to be a dead end?

The performance downsides is that every allocation on the stack could cause an overflow and therefore needs to be checked. Every CALL instruction and everytime you declare a local variable. Maybe with smart compiler optimizations you could get rid of some of these checks, but I don't think you could get rid of them entirely. The other big problem that I didn't mention in my last comment is that the language needs to support movable pointers. If you move a stack to a new memory segment all pointers to locations in the stack suddenly becomes invalid and has to be updated.

For small and fixed allocations, allocating on the stack when possible is certainly a good performance boost over heap allocations, but the advantage may not be very big for large dynamic allocations.
Yeah, ROCm is a bit of a mess. I actually have an AMD GPU in a server, but the drivers in the mainline kernel don't work properly, so have never been able to use it.

If I were into conspiracy theories I'd say that AMDs failure to compete in the GPU/DL space is to do with the relationship between the AMD CEO and the NVIDIA one.

Tensorflow is just awful, as is anything that touches bazel :)
> If you take a filename in C, and then have to display it somewhere, you're facing the same problem

If you have such problem, it is often better to ignore it and pass data around without any conversion (to force data to be valid utf-8). For example, if i have ls-like tool, who just read filenames and display it, then it will work even with non-utf-8 filenames when used like:

for A in $(ls-like) ; do ...

But if the ls-like too tries to be smart to interpret data when they are displayed to stdout then it will break them.
Doctors are supposed to do no harm.

And erroring on the side of caution is what tends to happen in democracies. An authoritarian government is much more suited to taking bold and controversial action. I’ll personally stick with the overly cautious government.
There's a good video of the robots they plan to use here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKrcpa8Z_E
or maybe VLC could clone the interface
Then why not just say 'domain-specific meaning?'

Term of art doesn't really have a clear meaning in general (native English speaker, and this is the first time I've heard this), and it's unclear/ambiguous as to what it actually indicates.
So what you’re saying is that their’s market for obtaining different ip numbers.. its
almost exactly like a commercial VPN service
Long wanted to see “spark graphs” [Tufte] next to vote totals, indicating the dynamics of up/down votes over time. I’ve had comments generate lots of activity, yet votes balance out to something mundane (like +2) despite wild fluctuations.
Note the different scenarios: an amicable conversation (a collaborative exploration of ideas) rather than a written academic piece where you need to make a claim (defend a thesis).
Sure, but if you use coinbase you’re locked it. And in some cases unless you produce an ID you can’t even get the money out. Pretty weird you can dump as much money in as you want but getting it out isn’t as easy.
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I know I’ll probably get banned for calling this out but I find it disgusting that silicon valley was crucifying Brian Armstrong for his “no politics at work” stance but now everyone is back to kissing the ring now that he’s made everyone and their grandma millions of dollars.
Seems like "idiomatic" already fits this perfectly. Is "term of art" in some way different? maybe has a more of a "you can't really understand it as an outsider," sense?:

Idiomatic:

A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in keep tabs on.

A specialized vocabulary used by a group of people; jargon.
Code that treats UCS-2 as "wide ASCII" can be subtly wrong even for western european languages. For multiple reasons, Unicode has multiple representations for the same glyph[1], so if you have ü, it can either be a the two bytes 00FC[2], or u followed by the ¨ diacritic U+0308. If you don't account for this things like "reversing a string" or "give me a substring" or "how long is the string on screen" will be subtly buggy. If you handle UCS-2 correctly, then it's fine and a reasonable technical limitation, but the emphasis of that sentence is on correctly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence

[2]: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00FC
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This is true, but the problem is that you rarely know if political advocacy will work until after it succeeds, and even afterwards, it may take a while to study the impact of the change.

GiveWell did study some political advocacy groups, but apparently it’s just hard to know what to recommend with confidence. There is a spin-off organization (Open Philanthropy) that uses funds from rich philanthropists to do more experimental work.
I agree with you, my opposition is actually regarding posts. I have been active on a number of posts over the last couple of years that were very much on topic but were on controversial issues, and they will get flagged to death after being on the front page for a few minutes, and at that point further conversation is dead and the post sinks into irrelevance.
The examples are really impressive! Are multiple voice tones/genders supported?
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I am interested what sources of news people in Australia recommend. Is there anything that’s free, high quality and not ideologically driven?
No, it’s not. And this isn’t an IPO. It’s liquidity for investors before they lose their hair.
There were no dive computers in 1960. Read up Rolex Submariner history. It actually started as a tool and was used by divers for decades.
I figure it will have the same problem as GIF which is that each frame triggers a repaint.
>you eventually hit a wall where different sub-communities will simply have different standards for what is acceptable to them

with the utopic assumption of infinite moderation, I don't see a problem here. Different houses will have different rules and levels of moderation (a meme community will have different standards from a more sensitive topic). As long as the moderation informs newcomers of the rules, they behave under that sub-community if they choose to participate (while respecting global community rules, and of course server country laws).

This is all under the assumption that "sub-community" is distinctly defined. For something truly monolithic like Twitter, the only choice seems to be to leave control to the individual, and perhaps allow private groups to be formed.
The intuition is: all the debris from a collision now has an orbit passing through the point of collision (at that point of time). Collision at 300km means all the debris must have an orbit that passes through 300km at that moment.

The orbits will be elliptical: exactly how elliptical depends on the directions of the two objects hitting each other and the dispersion of the fragments (how much the fragments have sped up or slowed down compared with original objects, and change of direction).

The fragments the stay in orbit the longest should be those that remain closest to a circular orbit?
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> Any code that uses the unsafe wrappers technically must be checked

If that is the case, then your unsafe wrappers are unsound.

Safe functions need to be impossible to use in an unsafe way or else they should marked as unsafe.

That could take the form of a runtime check that the function's invariants are maintained or a proof that the function's invariants are always maintained.
I get why this guy is engaging with Peter Singer, I think, because they're both academic philosophers, but I'm not sure that is really the major driver of EA, but perhaps I'm just blinded by the communities I'm adjacent to.

This doesn't seem to be a fair characterization of EA at large, though. I can't speak for Singer specifically, but this is missing a few things. 1) Forget the tithing aspect. A lot of that is just guilt alleviation for relatively well off people, but the reality is a whole lot of people already donate a whole lot of money, but most of it to Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum of New York, already fabulously wealthy institutions that don't need money and are mostly using it to entertain or educate people who are also rich. EA is largely about redirecting the existing flow of charity to better uses. 2) The Moneyball aspect. Unless you're a Koch brother, how much of an influence can you make politically? Massive, massive resources are already thrown into attempting to influence government. There is little point in trying to add to the heaping pile of cash and time and effort and mindshare already being thrown at hot button political issues. You can stretch the impact of a marginal dollar much further by focusing on the issues that nobody else is paying attention to. 3) Where to focus charitable giving says nothing about what else you direct energy and effort in general toward. Scott Alexander is probably getting linked here more often lately than any other outspoken EA advocate. The writer here may notice that Scott is somehow able to exert quite a bit of effort attempting to nudge policies and particularly his own field of healthcare is better directions while also managing to give a percentage of his income to malaria nets. One doesn't preclude the other. It just precludes giving that money to Harvard or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or whatever local congress wannabe has been spamming my SMS the most lately.
Frank Wilczek has argued that there’s too much wasted complexity in our universe for it to be simulated.

Not necessarily. Some of that "wasted complexity" may be related to some function that we do not yet understand.

We have not yet learned "everything about the universe". No more than we did around 1900 when it was proclaimed that we "knew everything that there was to know"
Pretty neat trick right? Super easy to “buy” coins. Impossible to take them out. Quite the moat.
In theory maybe but in practice I don't think you'd want that.
And he fell on the sword so his sons could walk. There is absolutely no way they were both in the dark.
Thanks. And so in 1NF, would you ever have a column of type boolean?
> global capitalism is the major force for extreme poverty in this century.

On what basis are you claiming this ?

All data clearly shows the extreme poverty has declined significantly in this century:

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

While the cause can be debated, it's quite clear that the global trade contributed significantly to reducing the poverty in the world.
That sounds like they didn’t want to get in trouble. Doubtful they would do the same for an average joe.
It's an iPhone app. You walk through the house waving your phone around and you are done.

https://matterport.com/3d-camera-app-iphone
push!() couldn't be allowed anyways, so try_push! looks like the only safe/easy to read option.
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In terms of the intersection of "awesome" and "self-hosted" I am surprised to not see Cloudron[0] mentioned here or in Github Awesome list.

I'm not affiliated in any sense but a lazy+loyal lover of their service.
https://cloudron.io
Clean slate definitely object/packet based - just because we need to find the dimensions of the screen doesn't mean it needs to be done via control characters.
Ansible? Compared to terraform, it should require less effort from the user, without having to worry about states. Compared to aws cloudformation or gcp cloud deployment manager, it should require less effort as well, without having to learn the different idiosyncrasies of these proprietary tools.

> It's just drivers for the cloud API in question

Exactly, and if you are on gcp, both the ansible modules and the terraform modules are even generated from one code base: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
How is it that we vaccines we're confident are effective, but haven't been able to draw a conclusion on this, yet?
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This what frustrates me about grammar fanatics. Clearly language changes and evolves, and grammar is defined as standard usage, not some rule formed 50 years ago that no one follows in common speech. In short, grammar is fundamentally descriptive, not proscriptive.
If an unsafe wrapper can be mis-used, it's not actually safe, and so the bug still lies inside the wrapper.
For a more interesting critique of Effective Altruism and Peter Singer see: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/05/21/how-and-how-not-...

Effective Altruism is a particularly base version of utilitarianism. It cheerfully accepts situations where you would be required to eat your grandmother or allow your child to starve in order to feed a village of people you've never met in another country. Peter Singer argues that it's okay to be a concentration camp guard because if you refuse, someone else will be found to take your position, and they might be more brutal than you. Do you believe the earth is overpopulated? If so, and if you cannot live in such a way as to offset the damage caused by your existence, effective altruism calls for suicide.
To be fair to reddit, there are plenty of subreddits that have similar policies (e.g. /r/science). It works most of the time apart from when a particular post ends up x-posted or on /r/popular or something similar.
Our organization just started looking at Crossplane instead of Terraform. It apparently gets around the lock issues [1] and is better suited for K8S environments. Some folks I work with think the community will eventually adopt Crossplane over Terraform.
Anyone have any experience with it?

[1] https://blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-vs-terraform/
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we are working on it.

Check our latest work https://edresson.github.io/SC-GlowTTS/

You can also check other released models here

https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/releases
This seems neat, but I wish they had more examples of how to use it as a library. Most of their tutorials seem focused on training new models
This is only true if the cost of the launch dominates the total mission price. That just isn't true any more. Engineering labor is the dominant cost until you have very high volumes. Even then, component costs are still far higher than launch costs.
Love that when I add it to the home-screen it has an icon. And, when I open it from that home-screen icon it has no navigation bar.
I desperately with that more people would exploit the web technologies for more of these sort of apps.
If I can play Cyberpunk 2077 on my iPhone through the Stadia web app, what isn’t possible?

Great work. Love it.
Err, that's exactly what 80,000 hours, the EA career advice organization, recommends. The recommendation to pursue a high-earning career is last, they recommended pursuing research, policy, and joining altruistic organizations ahead of that.

You have to adjust the message to the audience though, 80,000 hours is aimed at college students and young grads, it doesn't make as much sense to emphasize these things if you're talking to a late career software engineer.

I think the EA advice regarding donations is more of a common lower denominator sort of thing. Not everyone can do research and policy work, but a lot of people have at least some disposable income.

The author of this article seems only aware of GiveWell and Giving What We Can, there's other EA orgs doing things beyond advocating for charitable giving.