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The problem with libertarianism is the subjective theory of value, the idea that everything is worth what the purchaser will pay. Under this framework any action which boosts the relative exchange price of an asset can be claimed to create value, even if the action is purely destructive. A gain in relative exchange price can be achieved without engaging in production merely by increasing scarcity of alternatives. In other words by increasing the marginal unhappiness felt by dispossession of an asset, by destroying the productivity of the commons and quantity of freely available alternatives, without increasing happiness for anyone. If a government creates money to purchase assets and services at subjective prices it could be promoting unhappiness rather than happiness. At least at the interface between the public sector and private sector (taxes, spending, public loans & grants) some other ideas are needed.
Back when Ada was as young as Rust and Zig, we only had magazines like BYTE and Dr Dobbs, and BBSs for driving hype.

There were no free beer compilers and no 8/16 bit home computer was capable of hosting an Ada compiler, Basic, Pascal and Modula-2 was the best they could manage.
Crazy will do crazy. What's new?
I am going to assume you are American by the reference to liberty.
Every US immigrant is /already/ required to have eight different vaccinations and a negative TB test. They quite literally take your blood before you can become a resident.

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/designated-civil-surgeons/vaccin...
You have seen what Mars looks like right? That planet had way more potential for you to perish than this one
I Googled "SARS immunity 20 years" and the first result is a research paper abstract[1] stating "SARS patients might be susceptible to reinfection >3 years after initial exposure".

How much effort do I spend assessing whether I believe this research paper? It's probably not what the OP had in mind since it conflicts with what they were saying. Do I make arguments from this paper (either for or against the OP's claim)? Again, it's probably not even what they were referring too.

I know just asking for a source is low effort, but it often seems like the best starting point.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/
Looking at the last comparison on the page, the grass isn't just becoming green, it's being "puffed" out from its original geometry, as if the grass geometry is being vertex-shaded with small spiky-ball-like objects. (A bit like the look of "static grass" in model making.)
Your story of the origin of money is one that anthropologists have been trying to debunk for decades, because there's simply no evidence that any group of people have gone through the timeline "self sufficiency--barter--money".

In most money-free societies, you'd simply go to your lentil friend and say, "Hey, I'd like some lentils. Come by any time you want potatoes." (Or more likely, you might let your lentil friend overhear you say to someone else, "Oh, what would I not do for lentils right now?" and the desire for credit is implicit.)

Barter only happens between complete strangers, and only under large doses of suspicion. (For what is barter if not trying to pawn off some worthless junk to a less suspecting person in exchange for something cool? It suffers from a perpetual lemon problem and is a business fraught with threat of violence.)

It's also important to consider separately money as a numeraire (in which capacity it has been around for a long time in e.g. legal codes) and money as a medium of exchange (in which capacity it's primarily been used imperially, to make the feeding of armies more efficient.)

I highly recommend reading about money and value from a historical anthropology perspective. Few things are what they seem in this field.
All you talk about in your example is risk-taking, which is orthogonal to intelligence and is heavily influenced by one's economic situation anyway.
For the (north) Europeans here, there is a German project Luftdaten (also available in English) that does more or less the same [1]. Provides guides for air quality measurement devices [2], firmware and a 'worldwide' map that shows the location and measurement of each device. They have around 14.000 at the moment, mainly in Germany and the Netherlands. The device works with Domoticz, so you can get the read-out integrated in your dashboard. Shows temperature, humidity and PM10 & PM2.5 - very happy with mine!

[1] https://sensor.community/en/
[2] https://sensor.community/en/sensors/airrohr/
It's not deadly to the vaccinated. That's the whole point of the vaccines.

Or are you arguing that the vaccines don't work?
How do you deal with people abusing Tor for illegal activities? I assume that operators would receive a lot of attention from the police.
It seems alright if you do use the humidity compensation. It might be off by 100 ppm or so, and wildly off if there are a lot of VOCs in the air, but if you're just using it as a "should I open the windows" kind of thing it'll do fine IMHO.

For example, the two sensors I have right now, with the windows open, the S8s report 478 and 455 ppm of CO2, while the SGP30s report 400 and 405 respectively. Without having calibrated instruments it's hard to know if any of these values are good, but they seem at least not too wildly off.

The SGP30 is a lot more compact and much less of an energy pig than the S8; the S8 will actually take so much current on the 5V rail that it'll cause the voltage to sag if you're powering it through USB with other devices connected (https://blog.jean-francois.im/2021/05/08/building-a-simple-a...). It's also a lot cheaper.

However, the SGP30 approximation can be off by a bit, and the calculation of the humidity value to give the sensor is a bit gnarly (https://github.com/jfim/air-quality-monitor-firmware/blob/ma...). It's also pretty obvious that the SGP30 has a hardcoded floor of 400 ppm CO2eq and that it won't ever return a value lower than that.
Will it still eat head gaskets for breakfast too?

Sorry can't help it, as my Outback has been horrible regarding the issue.
Except that level of security I could already do with Pascal dialects like Turbo Pascal or Modula-2, hence why I really don't see much value in Zig, other than being more appealing to younger generations.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen POLi presented as the only option, but it’s commonly the only fee-free option (BPay isn’t always offered). For myself, as soon as I learned what POLi was (because it asked for my bank username and password) I decided I hate it enough to pay a few extra dollars of credit card fees.
Most of the time government standards are based on "advice" from industry so it ends up as regulatory capture. A case of forcing fees to zero sounds less bad than usual.
Some of us don't support the US doing it either.
another nazi troll story, wow, so creative hacker news. ycombinator is like the donald trump of the startup world
aaaaaaand the nazis weaponized it like fucking morons
My understanding is that the reason it was required to have the same first and second dose was to make it easier tracing if there was a problem with a particular vaccine and to get the efficacy numbers manufacturers were promising.

From what I heard, in normal circumstances is even recommend to give a booster vaccine shot from a different manufacturer.
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From what I can tell, the whole reason the road "looks like a video game" is that it's using a source texture and then stretching it along the road's geometry, "diluting" the level of detail as seen from the camera viewpoint.

The image enhancement here is happening "in camera", like a fragment shader; but it's using a lot more context than the sort of local/cellular kernels that fragment shaders usually are.

Look at e.g. the gutters on the roads, where there are leaves/dirt — they get filled in with tons of extra perceptual texture (texture that exists in the projection plane, rather than texture that exists "on" the road), bringing them up to the same LoD as the rest of the road.

If that texture was "pushed back" to the origin texture, said texture would have to exist at some sort of ridiculous resolution that modern graphics cards wouldn't have a hope of rendering.
If in doubt about the cosmic law, there's an actual labour law about managing employee welfare well enough to prevent burnout (phrased as responsibilities for employee health) in a lot of jurisdictions.
CPI is the benchmark against which inflation is measured. It's the definition, so if CPI isn't going up, there's nothing to acknowledge. IMO it will go up, there will be a transient spike that will dissipate.
Sure but probably tsmc and Samsung are the company that can build them in usa, good relations , interdependence , continuous innovation is necessary from USA in the long run , national safety (for us) will be better served with Taiwan in UN and asking Samsung and tsmc to distribute fabs to avoid risks like china , drought, earthquake, .. this distributiin already start to happen
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Amazing how this is all done in real-time, and incredible stability of image.

Further, I’d love to also see a tech demo using a Californian dataset as the input: To my originally European eyes, it’s simply making GTA look more like video shot in Germany vs more realistic (there’s a difference!), though I get that any data set can be fed into this :)
I'm surprised ligma isn't on this list.
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The line is that the adding additional functionality requires an informed user's explicit and understood consent. This is a blurry line of policy which is not able to be limited via technology. The developers of tools like iSH and Pythonista have to tread carefully.
The other day it struck me that we live in a literal fairy tale, with real monsters, fantasmal lands and people and creatures, and unthinkable, magical phenomena. Most people choose mundanity (even when not constrained by socio-economics) and they set themselves up in a bubble where they "forget" there's a fairy tale outside. Somehow people like you reject mundanity, and I find this all fascinating.

Edit: This reminds me of the concept of "social integration" in sociology. Some works of fiction cast it as "conformity".
What do you say about the studies referenced in the article that show improved outcomes for homeless people involved in programs that provide housing based on positive desired behavior outcomes like addiction treatment, passing drug tests, going to doctor appointments?
I can try to provide a high level intuition. For actual experts, please forgive my errors of simplification.

Drawing samples from "simple" distributions like normal distributions is computationally easy. You can do it in microseconds. Sampling an arbitrary 1-D distribution is a bit harder - you have to invert its cumulative density function to recover probability under an "equivalent" uniform random variable, and potentially use a rejection sampling approach to sample 1-D values under this distribution.

Sampling a high-D distribution (such as an image) is even harder - you need to learn a mapping from this high-D image back to "tractable" densities. This imposes some pretty harsh "optimization bottlenecks" when trying to contort the manifold of images to normal distributions. The whole point of this exercise is that the transformation respects a valid probability distribution, so you can start from the normal distribution and apply this mapping to get a valid sample from the image distribution. This in practice is pretty hard, and the quality of samples seems to be lower than other forms of deep generative models which use less parameters.

Now instead of learning such a complex, hard-to-optimize transformation to valid densities, what if we instead learn a function E(x) that outputs a scalar "energy". The energy is low for "realistic" images, and high for unrealistic images. Kind of like inverse probability, except its not normalized - the energy value tells you nothing about likelihood unless you know the energy for all other images possible. This tends to actually be easier than learning densities, because the functional form of this energy function is unconstrained.

Furthermore, not knowing likelihoods doesn't stop you from getting "realistic" image, as all you need to do is descend the gradient x -= d/dx E(x), which takes you to an image with "lower" energy (i.e. more realistic). Under certain procedures (e.g. adding some noise to the gradient), this can be thought of as actually equivalent to sampling from a valid probability distribution, even though you can't compute its likelihood analytically.

The diffusion probabilistic model you refer to can be thought of as such a model - the more steps you take (i.e. the more compute you spend), the better the quality of the model.

GANs can be thought of as a one-pass neural network amortization of the end result of the diffusion process, but unlike MCMC methods, they cannot be "iteratively refined" with additional compute. Their sample quality is limited to whatever the generator spits out, even if you had additional compute.
As others have said, changing the Bitcoin protocol can be tricky.

Another issue with replacing Ed25519: the best "post-quantum" asymmetric crypto we have so far is a lot less efficient and compact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography#Comp...

That'll probably make it more disruptive than, for example, swapping out SHA-1 for SHA-256.
In practice it was an excuse for serial killers to get away with murder. Many dueling deaths were from people who would insult people, get into duels and kill folks for fun.
Yep, you're alright. I like that you talk like a person and not like a copywriter.

The lack of creative (or just non-dogmatic) thinking in this place is something else though. At times it feels like there's no human in the loop, which is disappointing because this is one of the few interesting forums remaining on the whole Internet...

And even here's not immune to waves of people bulldozing over a nuanced conversation by parroting whatever ideological orthodoxy they've had to internalize to be able to successfully signal "lookit me HR I'm normaaaal".

Fitting to mention Eliza - designed to be a shrink simulator IIRC? - sometimes I wish someone developed an AI to make people reflect on their blind spots in the rudest and most efficiently disruptive way possible. Thanks to the magic of AI, the ethical concerns of doing that to someone would vanish into thin air!
What bothered me for decades—-terrifies me—-is that there’s a point of no return, where it becomes an unstoppable slide to the bottom.

No way to take a shower. No way to be presentable for a job interview. No way to have clean clothes. No way to be reachable. No way to take bathroom breaks.

Basically, no way to reintegrate back into society because there is no real safety net.

I really, really hate this aspect of the United States.
Do you know what the name of this program is? I'd be interested to see if I could find it online somewhere.
Nice! Tested it and it works great!
Did you release the sources for this by any chance?

I have been playing with the idea of doing something like this for a long time. But it seems like a huge job and I haven't been able to motivate myself towards it yet.

My bank even supports showing a lot of those spending stats as in Lunch Money, but it is entirely on their end and I'm not in control of it at all. I can look at the graphs and numbers in the app but I can't export or store it in any way.
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You can use value types and do manual memory management in C#, F#, VB, D, Nim, Swift (RC is GC).

Then on the past languages that failed to gain steam, Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-07, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Eiffel, Sing#, System C#, Component Pascal, among many others.

The only thing missing is that many are badly taught, use new everywhere and don't bother to fully understand all language features.
Do labs store collected DNA results of PCR? I wonder if a database of DNA of millions of people will emerge on black market one day.
Bad bosses are just intolerable. In fact, it often takes some sort of psychological disfunction to rise up the corporate ladder. Or you are endowed with such a personality due to cultural integration.

What do you do for money though? I know you mentioned odd job or two but my biggest concern is long term sustainability. Surely one needs to pay the bills somehow after the honeymoon period is over.
Vaccines work - but they are not 100% effective. If an unvaccinated, COVID positive person comes in close contact with 100 people that are vaccinated, a number of them will get sick. Way less than had they not been vaccinated. But way more than is acceptable.
If you’re referring to this part of the comment:

> First we show them, then we explain to them what we did, then they try it with supervision (this is where most of my learning occurs), then we let them do it without supervision.

It strikes me as coming close to the TWI job instruction training method [1] the US developed in the 40’s to train workers for war production.

[1] https://www.allaboutlean.com/twi-job-instructions/
To provide the correlate to @simondotau’s answer: in cooking, density hardly ever matters. All recipes should actually be solely in units of weight, never in units of volume. Professional chefs, and especially professional bakers, work solely in weights.

Liquid measures by volume are mostly ok, since liquids vary hardly at all in density (for a given liquid).

Solid measures by volume are a joke. It’s easy to be off by 10% or more, depending on how fluffy or packed down your ingredient is. When you’re baking a loaf of bread, this is the difference between a soggy mass and a dry pile of crumbs.
It was a legitimate concern and a ruinous strategy.

I believe that competent leadership could have rallied the public to the cause of reserving PPE for hospitals for a month. Even if you don't believe in the basic nobility of the common person, congress could easily have passed emergency confiscatory legislation to pull all PPE off consumer markets without public health officials knowingly misrepresenting the truth.

Trust in institutions was already low at the start of this, and the sort of misdirection that a series of supposedly noble lies has evinced has taken it to a new low and left us where we are now.
Erm yea they still wouldn't pay for this as long as other free alternatives are available. Messengers are a commodity product in terms of functionality.

If the captive audience walks elsewhere the messengers dies (see Yahoo Messenger, MSN, AOL, the 250 different ones Google had at some point or other...)
You cannot download and execute arbitrary files, so had to have something interpreted.

They could pick something easier to emulate perhaps, but x86 has benefits from a compatibility standpoint.

Maybe one day there would be a benefit of targetting WASM with a natively implemented syscall api?
> as a business/employer why would I continue to pay you your current first-world salary rather than find someone top-notch for 1/3 your salary in India, or any other English speaking country with a lower cost of living?

The company I work has hired a lot of personnel based in India over the last several years. While some of the hires are reasonably competent, many of them need a lot of hand holding to get through tasks that most locally hired people would not.

In other words, they don't seem to be getting up to speed in a reasonable period of time based on past experience hiring new university graduates with no prior professional experience. That, in turn, increases costs because they're not accomplishing nearly as much in the time alloted.
from https://plato.stanford.edu/info.html: "crawl each entry for indexing (subject to reasonable network usage constraints), and distribute each entry only as permitted below provided that the purpose of the distribution is non-commercial."
For what it's worth, I've recently been interviewing candidates who straight-up resigned from their previous employer after facing a "return to work" ultimatum. You can too!

I'd like to add that there is a big difference between "most of the company is in-office with some remote workers" and "company is fully distributed including leadership" - with the former, it's not necessarily a positive work environment being the remote person when everyone else is talking to each other in the conference room (or in the hallway).

In other words, even if you do negotiate an exception to your employer's return-to-office policy, it's likely not a good career move.

There are plenty of companies out there who have transitioned to remote-first, and the technical skill-set is still highly prized. Take advantage!
I can’t tell if this is trolling or you’re really this out of touch with reality.
Linksys WRT54G, Netgear 614/624 routers: sending `DCC SEND foo 0 0 0` would boot people off IRC

Norton Personal Firewall: `startkeylogger` would boot you off of IRC

These would typically be combined into `DCC SEND startkeylogger 0 0 0` to grief a whole channel of people
>coming from a city that is marketed as having handled the situation well

Marketing which is completely bullshit. Singapore has had around ~60k covid cases, 6x more than Hong Kong and 60x more than Taiwan, just somehow the government managed to downplay it as most of the cases were in poor migrant workers and apparently they don't count as people.
At best, being able to build things that are built elsewhere would indicate parity. Further, for passenger jets, the C919 is far from being 100% domestically built (e.g., the engine comes from an american/french venture).

I'm hopeful we'll see all countries converge onto a similar pace of innovation and progress. Large countries/regions (as a simple proxy for population and access to raw resources) will hopefully reach this parity sooner than later. At that point, I also hope that 1 country/ideology will never be able to pull far ahead of another - short of some fluke breakthrough that can be kept secret.
This works in WA's favor in some contexts. I have a fresh wave of friends who tell me I should reinstall WA, because they "don't do data sharing in Germany".

I note that their terms still say that they do share data; they just have a PR line outside the terms that says they'll do it as soon as they "reach an agreement" with regulators.

I further note that their entire business model for WA depends on sharing data for advertising. Trusting them on their PR agent's word not to share data is the fox guarding the hen house.
The tech industry runs on damaged people. People don't age out, they just get better.
Yeah that's my fault for making that quip. I am sorry it is getting upvoted, I forgot that humor isn't required here. @dang, can you please detach my comment and all the replies? Sorry about that.