skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe there's a dentist, or maybe you have to drive to the next town over for one.

As part of the plan he specifically says "save an excellent spot in the town center to offer at low cost to whomever decides to practice dentistry there"
Find someone your values match with and hopefully you have a good history with.
> But to oversimplify, under the Mirror Protocol, the idea is to keep prices of the synthetic -- or “mirrored” -- equities in the ballpark of the real thing by offering incentives for traders to arbitrage price discrepancies and manage the actual supply of tokens. Users can create, or “mint,” new tokens when prices are too high by posting collateral, and destroy, or “burn,” tokens when prices are too low, driving the price up or down.

> Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, has already drawn the attention of Germany’s financial regulator by offering tokens that are tied to the performance of popular U.S. stocks but backed by the actual equities. Binance may have violated securities rules when it issued the tokenized shares of Tesla, MicroStrategy Inc. and Coinbase, BaFin said in April.

Binance's version of this seemed relatively straight forward, although you had considerable third party risk. But I imagine if they were regularly audited or had a redemption mechanism for the underlying stock, this is much preferable to the more complex method used in the Mirror protocol.

So much of DeFi is focused on getting around regulatory barriers. I get that the state uses finance and money as a way to control nerfarious activity (illicit substance sales, tax avoidance etc), but it leads to giving up a lot in privacy and freedom. Maybe they should give up on trying to attack it at the money level and focus more upstream. Why shouldn't you allow just about anyone to buy Tesla stock?
It definitely didn't work well in that star trek episode where garak gets addicted to his pain implant.

https://youtu.be/ESo8MM01Qv8
Couldn't this cause addiction to the implant instead? Or really nasty "withdrawals" if the implant is removed?

Wouldn't be very different to opioids or painkillers; just different mechanisms if action for similar phenomenon
Wrath of Gnon is one of my favorites.
Yes, unity and unreal engine are game engines which are sold to game developers. Doom is a game which was sold to end users, and whose engine was free. Clearly those are different...
This isn't correct, they are carbon neutral.

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The infrastructure, agricultural optimization, crop cultivation and breeding, city growth, and other technology that supports the several billion people that are alive today was built over the last century. The capacity growth is also exponential, so the relevant infrastructure is on an even shorter timescale than that.

Global ecosystems are also far more stressed from the load of humanity than they were 100 years ago. The regenerative capacity of biological systems responding to that system is not simply "barely at capacity", it is in a negative state. On top of that, we will be accelerating the rate of average temperature changes, in a time when access to weapons of mass destruction (ones that are orders of magnitude higher than what existed 100 years ago) are higher than ever.

The nature of exponential growth and what it does to fixed capacity regenerative systems is certainly difficult to internalize. Cracks form over time as stress is absorbed. Collapses happen fast. The transition between the two is hard to time.
Every (posix) directory has "." and ".." which are both hardlinks to a directory ..
Chechnya, on the contrary, clearly showed that armed civilians can deter even a hugely disproportionately powerful invader. During the first war (1994-1996) the Chechen had plenty of good weapons, and kicked the Russian army to the point of winning (they re-took Grozny!). Then the Russians took measures in order cut logistic lines and re-attacked in 1999, focusing on further barring civilians from obtaining weapons and any related material, with a great success (the Chechens had to build inefficient homemade weapons). This is documented, see for example https://reaperfeed.com/5-homemade-weapons-from-the-chechen-w...

The ongoing civilian war in Syria isn't pertinent, as it isn't "civilian vs. regular army" but many tribal factions and armies fighting each other and volatile alliances.

Iraq under Saddam also shows that armed civilians (the Kurds) can resist to a tyrannic government. Others were not well-armed and were indeed crushed.

The rebels during the 1991 uprising could not grab weapons. "U.S. troops that were deployed in southern Iraq defended arsenals or blew up them altogether to prevent the rebels from arming themselves, blocked the rebels from advancing onto Baghdad and even actively disarmed some rebel forces" (sourced at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq ), in practice killing the rebellion by discouraging it.

In Myanmar civilians aren't really armed, and even decades-old ethnic guerilla groups aren't (they even lack cartridges). Read https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-06-02/souring-peace-marches...

> India in Kashmir

Kashmiri separatists are notoriously badly armed, their main approach is a sort of Intifada (throwing rocks)! As far as I know Pakistan gives very few weapons to some subgroups read as not too dangerous for them, and India yells about it but after years and years fails to show serious evidence, probably because there are too few weapons.

> Pakistan in Baluchistan.

Baloch separatists are losing not because they cannot resist, but because their cause is dying as the majority of the population (especially Pashtuns) doesn't adopt it and as the central government concedes more and mode towards decentralization/autonomy.

> More guns? Easy, just pile on more repression. It works.

I doubt so.

> Personally I'd rather put my trust in democracy.

There is no mutual exclusion between weapons and democracy. Switzerland, one of the (or rather, at least IMHO, _the_) more advanced democracy, is shock-full of weapons and has a solid weapon culture.
Ok, external perturbation, got it.

Yeah, that makes sense. Otherwise it would just very slowly spiral in, due to losses from general relativity.
My theory is that two things changed: 1. complexity. As time goes by, systems become more complex, leaving less and less room for people to introduce changes swiftly. It's just like George Martin had a hard time shipping his latest A Song of Ice and Fire because there are just too many threads to figure out; 2. Culture. As times goes by, organizations bloat, and average quality of employees starts to decline. Plus, some people get promoted with controversy. Not everyone is Jeff Dean or Sanjay, after all. So, gradually and then suddenly, people create projects for promotion, and long-term vision goes out of the window. The two factors combined, a company transitions from being great to be mediocre.
I think it means avoiding prescription of addictive substances rather than helping addicts. Unless I'm reading your comment wrong?
Sure. But it was also eaten by folks that stayed home all day. By store clerks and children and school teachers and grandparents and other normal, every day folks. Other folks on different traditional diets worked hard too.
I was responding to this statement - "Except there was never any evidence that Trump got involved, even after multiple independent reviews."

The IG review specifically noted all the ways that Trump / Whitehouse blocked the answer to that question.

The Whitehouse then also got rid of IG Fine in April 2020 - I mean, this guy served 28 years in justice then through bush / clinton / obama terms as an IG.

Amazon also dug up stuff where Trump promised to GET involved.

No one "cleared" trump in this. He stonewalled as long as he could.
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After having dealt with and released projects with Unreal/Unity and done some experimenting with Godot throughout the years I've completely ditched the idea of using a 3rd party engine for any serious project of mine. I think they're fine for quick prototyping, but I'd take the full control and learning experience of having a custom engine for whatever I want to do than to a) try to fit my design/vision in whatever paradigm the engine is made to work for b) in the chance of a hit (unlikely) give out what could be a substantial amount of money to Unity/Epic (this doesn't cover Godot obviously) and c) I want to own my source and not have done obscene amounts of work in basically closed source environments that don't guarantee future support etc.

I don't recommend this to the general user or game dev though. Most people just want to create their game. I want to do that and have the control. Yeah, I can't make AAA engine by myself, but then again even if I could the assets for a AAA game are staggering. I think the industry should actually pull the reigns a bit on these enormous budget pieces of entertainment software for it's own good and scale back a bit, but anyways, that's another discussion.

As for Amazon and this initiative I wouldn't touch it based on principle since I don't want to support Amazon and their business practices.
Mostly peaceful, I'd say.
By the way, sharing the dumps is probably a copyright risk.

Science in some countries enjoys copyright exemptions for doing research, but not for publishing raw data obtained from commercial sources.
Space Odyssey trilogy did this right. Develop films and novels in tandem, with neither more canonical than the other. And both are all-time sci-fi classics, and Arthur Clarke's novels are definitely reputable and respected.

In any case, I think harlequin romance is probably considered less reputable than this.
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But the practitioner doesn't need to know the memory model (aside from "memory models are complicated").

To solve that problem, the practitioner only needs to know that "mutex.lock()" and "mutex.unlock()" orders reads/writes in a clearly defined manner. If the practitioner is wondering about the difference between load-acquire and load-relaxed, they've probably gone too deep.
Usually (having worked on the editorial/production side of some novelizations) the author is working from a script, because the book has to be written, typeset, and printed before the film is released.

The folks on the Hollywood side do not understand publishing schedules.
People lived in Texas before there was AC.
Personally I think we should stop using the words intelligence or learning to refer to any of these algorithms. It's really just data mining, matrix optimization, and utility functions. There's really no properties of learning or knowledge.
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What evidence do we have that the Covid NPIs were actually successful in suppressing other viruses (but, notably and strangely, not Covid)? Empirically speaking, viral interference may fit the facts better than "masks work against influenza but not SARS-CoV-2": https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/a-viral-mystery-can-one-...
Honestly man, I really wanted to get at your reasoning for your position but your statements are all assertions and no reasoning. Markets can't optimally distribute resources because there are NP hard problems, but machines can approximate NP hard problems so NP hard problems are no problem for central planning, as to whether a market can also approximate? Who knows. That's your narrative so far. So why did you bring up NP hard problems in the first place if they're mostly irrelevant to your argument?

I did enjoy this conversation though. And again, I'd love to read what you have on decentralized planning in anarchist planned economies and NP hard problems humans have to solve in markets. If you can show me a paper that demonstrates that markets require participants to solve NP hard problems I'll be done with markets.
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Cool, but why are they on public display? Sufficiently hard to hack as-is?
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I think that’s a given, isn’t it? When most people (in the US at least) are financing their education via loans if they’re going to take out increasingly larger loans they’re going to have to expect more in return in order to pay those loans back. I don’t know I would call that “entitlement” though.
Someone straight out of college is going to be making close to $50k. $170k would be a very senior person to come in at the top level. I can't imagine building a cloud platform at the government. What type of hardware is the procurement department going to get with the bidding process? You'll also won't able to get unix machine or macs to run as your development machines, it will be windows boxes filled with spyware. I say this as my dad worked as a senior scientist creating software / models to track oil spills and toxic chemical spills. On his last year before retirement, they banned his team from using Macs.
Your example of a "large organization" is the state of Arizona? Australia Post, a tiny regional mail delivery company? What's your definition of "large"?

Also, it's evident they cannot service those customers. Australia Post has a large contract with AWS. Whoops.

I've worked in many large organizations. I've received GCP pitches. I've participated in evaluations of GCP as a technology solution. It's substantially worse than Azure, plus according to their leaked massive losses on the product it'll be shuttered this decade.

>This feels very hyperbolic to me

Their dashboards are typical Angular heavyweight clunk, with confusing error messages, infinite loading spinners and things break constantly. It's been discussed here extensively. [1]

Their actual decent products (BigQuery) are hamstrung by the rest of the failing platform.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25357409
The really fun part of having docs in confluence is that if Confluence goes down, you lose access to ops playbooks.

I’ve had similar fun experience with Slack-ops when slack goes down.
Some of these "traditional European architecture" accounts have a darker side to them: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/...
Not sure about the lake temperature, but the energy company just announced that all their bitcoin mining operations are carbon neutral.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/greenidge-generatio...
Chime has been suddenly closing accounts, not returning customers’ money
Crash reports contain memory dumps, and private information.

Additionally, they disclose client IP when submitting, which is city-level geolocation of a user of a particular piece of software.

They're fine if you get advance consent from the user before transmitting. Sending the contents of memory (especially after a crash, where it contains by definition unexpected things) is a serious security issue/data leak, if done automatically.

My position is the opposite of authoritarian: it's that these sorts of interactions should happen only with the full, informed, advance consent of both parties involved. Authoritarian is a good way to describe devs who feel completely entitled to all information about their software running on computers which they do not own or have any rights to.
Strange that that answer doesn't include the fact that they were heavily influenced by Aristotle (who had just been rediscovered by Europeans) who explicitely recommended doing this.
If anyone here has an Apple watch, they likely experienced the "intrusiveness" of the breathing app.

At first, it did indeed caught me off guard... why was Apple, a company whose products I equate to be the pinnacle of principled UI design, so pushy and so annoying with notifications that I take a moment to breathe.

But then I observed something truly remarkably: it wasn't just randomly, aimlessly spamming me with the notifications... it was giving me these notifications at very key times. It gave notifications during times of acute distress, times when I was feeling off one way or another. And by golly, when I did then stop and take its suggestion to stop and do its guided breathing exercise, wow, it helped.
Zynically this instantly came to my mind, too.
Oral history interview with R. Blair Smith (IBM s/360, AA and creation of SABRE)
Coming or already here? Millions of people were already infected a year ago, and now the rest is mostly vaccinated. So where are they coming from? Do the vaccines prevent it?

Or is it a long haul side effect from the emergency approved vaccines?
...Using breaking and not widely tested mRNA technology
I'd be open to any source if you know or have seen something.
Given current circumstances, it seems like hardware guarantees for numerous things are going to be necessary. Remember, we're solutions for people don't know WTF they're doing.
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... except that's _literally_ how science works. People _have_ looked into the "bright side" of the holocaust. Refusing to expand human's knowledge and understanding of the world because of political taboos is a mistake. Yes, we wouldn't purposely warm the planet in the interests of "increasing our knowledge," but since the experiment is already underway, there is an obligation to learn from that.
I'd venture the opposite, that people have an inherent need to believe that humanity is special in an objective sense, that drastic change and collapse cannot happen in the timescales we operate in. An adult variant of "pulling yourself under the covers and hoping the monster goes away".

After all, wasn't this sentiment one of the reasons we collectively failed to address this issue using the reasonable mitigations that were available to us when it was possible? A belief that the "scaremongering" being done by climate scientists for decades was out of proportion?

> Cool-headed rationality and straigthforward honesty don't have the same downsides of excessive demoralization or creating a credibility fatigue.

I'm confused as to what part of my commentary you found irrational or dishonest.
Fair point, but anyone who knows how to dump firmwares knows how to publish files anonymously.
Mesh networks don’t actually scale well compared to traditional fiber topologies. If you have the opportunity to bury fiber from the get-go, that’s a much better option for most optimization criteria (latency & bandwidth, for starters).
There was a time when humans were not the dominant species. There will be a time when we will again go lower in the ranks or disappear.

In the arrogance of being higher than all things we forget, we are but a line item in the larger excel sheet of planet earth.

The threat is not to mother earth - worrying about her is above our paygrade. The world is not ending - Its going to get by just fine. It will evolve and thrive. What will happen to humans, well, that's another story, we'll have to live with the seeds we sow.
> You and I may prefer 20 problems that practice straight subtraction, but that's not what the science says is actually the most effective learning strategy.

Hi, I'm an pedagogue and a licensed teacher. Another way to phrase that, is that humans tend to find repetitive tasks overwhelming and boring. Got a load of dishes you have to do? I bet most people feel right at home in that gnawing urge to postpone that mundane and monotonous task. I mean how many times haven't you sat there with a really dull chore and started daydreaming until someone snapped you out of it?

The fact is, humans need variety, but more importantly we need a sense of agency. You kinda lose that when you're forced to do something repetitive over and over, and so naturally it's not a very effective way to learn or teach.

If you're faced with repeating something 20 times, even with slight variations; first off it's overwhelming, and second if you feel that it's forced on you, then you lose agency. In other words, you're no longer the owner of the task. In turn that means you're no longer in control, so why would you slave away for that "evil" tutor over there? This is why repetition isn't very effective pedagogically speaking, because worst case it can even create antipathy towards you or the task you're trying to teach.

On the other hand, it's exactly repeating something over and over that makes you master it, though... But how can you master a thing when it's too bloody boring to learn in the first place? Enter motivational strategies! And tactics to heighten morale.

This is explains why you may prefer solving 20 problems that practice straight subtraction, because you're already motivated for it, and then it's easy. But when you're dealing with an entire class of pupils, you have to make sure as many of them as possible feel the same way about those tasks, or they'll fall behind. And so, at the most basic level, teachers need to vary their approach to a topic in order to effectively teach it. This means finding new ways, new angles, to look at a problem, and make sure you get some variety in between, so the thing doesn't become boring. Meanwhile, if you already know that your pupils are very motivated, you can get away with more straight repetition.
The source you cited below doesn't mention other religions by name, nor does it have a special category for one of them.
https://archive.is/zCPOX
This is something I think about a lot when I glance over the constant daily penetration scans on my small self-hosted website's logs.

We would obviously care and do something about people streaming (physically) through neighborhoods to test every door/window/mailbox on every building.

For some reason, when it comes to the metaphorical "buildings" of our digital spaces, the general consensus seems to be a half-sarcastic: "If you can't install and maintain impenetrable state-of-the-art locks on all your stuff, you had better just give up and move into the Facebook highrise."
Which is more bloated? Rust or the egos of its holy crusaders?