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> That compromise doesn’t exist in SF. The political space for it to exist doesn’t exist. There is a refusal to admit the problem on one hand. And a vilification of the incumbents as idiots, or worse, in bed with the criminals, on the other.

In "The Three Languages of Politics" Arnold Kling classifies three basic perspectives that can become central in a person's mind in such a way that expressions of the other perspectives are incomprehensible. The perspectives are described through axis of 1) oppressor-oppressed, 2) civilization-barbarism, 3) freedom-coercion. In the original article the author describes social media communication on the part of government staff that highlights the oppressor-oppressed without acknowledging other perspectives. Similarly people victimized by or by witnessing crime or crime-hype may find civilization-barbarism the most salient perspective. Without a consideration for all axis a productive conversation is unlikely.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17831052-the-three-langu...
Just got an answer from the dev of Karabiner Elements[1]. It won‘t be affected.

[1] https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2760
That would be awesome if that is possible some day. I still run OpenVMS in simh. And the new owners of OpenVMS are busy beavering away on an OpenVMS port to the amd64 platform and most software should compile cleanly so I've read. Can't wait !!!
Cl cant kill Giardia oocysts, they have to be filtered out.
> From its southern point, at Punta de Europa and O’Hara’s Battery, the view across the Strait to Africa is like nothing else in the world.

It's not 'Punta de Europa', It's just 'Europa Point'. I've no idea where the author got this idea from (perhaps Wikipedia?).
The city of Austin has a chilled water loop and more. It's pretty neat how it all works. https://austinenergy.com/ae/commercial/commercial-services/d...
Maybe it'd be good if more people had to pay for data? Website owners might actually try to optimize their sites rather than constantly making them worse.
how do i use this website. Don't see any signup button.
Well, that's why you need at least $1M (stressing at least) to retire in US. That's insane!
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Is there anywhere in that video or web page that has a date?
While breathless press announces are indeed often too hyped, I think we should keep in mind the history of the transistor. We went from fragile expensive single transistors to VLSI in half a century. And we consider that amazing.

That doesn't mean the same thing will happen with QC, it just means that maybe we should QC some slack, and keep cheering for the incremental improvements that arrive every couple of years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor
Karabiner Elements switched to DriverKit already. I think it will survive the next transition but it’s surprisingly hard to find confirmation.

[EDIT: see sibling comment - developer confirmed the above.]
You argue that belief systems are both equal and not equal.

Pick a side.
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It's almost like there is a lot of money devoted to making people think that this is a much larger problem than it is.

People want you focused on a fake enemy, so you won't realize who is really trying to hurt you.
> If only we had thermocouples with solar panel like efficiency...

Thermocuples are still heat engines converting thermal energy (heat) into zero-entropy energy (electricity in this case). Second Law of Thermodynamics limits efficiency of all heat engines as per Carnot theorem [0]. No free lunch (aka perpetual motion machine of the second kind)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot%27s_theorem_(thermodyna...
My impression is that the adults who have children and dislike them are outliers. Perhaps the children of such parents are disproportionately likely to grow up and write memoirs, producing the impression that you have.
Right, your point that two hot sauces aren't similar, because they just aren't. Me pointing out their heavy similarities really drives home how un-similar they really are. That's just silly.
It's not about the elites. If China's not afraid to disappear their richest, most internationally well-known celebrities what does that mean for the average citizen?
Switching airplanes to hydrogen has a much higher cost than replacing fossil fuel with carbon-neutral biofuels in the existing planes and engines. This is by far the easiest way forward. Still tremendously difficult - it does need electrification of bio-fuel production, something which we haven't made outside of a lab setting.

But the same tech is necessary for carbon neutral food production anyway. Today's agriculture is fully dependant on fossil fuel energy, both for running the machines and for creating the many inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.
I used to cross this at least twice a day going to and from school. One time as a teenager a friend and I were fart-arsing around very (very) slowly until a stern warning came over the tannoy and we looked Eastward to see a plane coming into land, much closer than we would have liked. Silly idiots.
I fully understand the point you make

However, having spent time with funds now -- it feels like those two criteria (market/team) are defined with heavy bias to what exists today

So building some radically new tech -- that is not directly comparable to unicorn X or Y who vaguely exist in a similar space -- will fail at first funding hurdle unless you move that R&D work closer to what X or Y are doing -- to the point you're just building a clone of something successful today

This potentially eliminates a lot of tech that is innovative -- try showing a VC some tech that is not SaaS right now as what you're trying to achieve doesn't lend itself to that model

Same on the team front -- VCs appear to expect a founding team to be defined as B, C, D and any team that does not fit those boxes must be missing some critical skills -- leading to pressure on founders to fill gaps at start that they don't think are gaps -- just to jump through some artificial hoop set by the VCs who only seem to want to put pegs into predefined holes
They are also the ones brigading the comment section on news segments.
> don't want my advertisements shown to any random person on the internet

Indeed, win-win that ads are targeted. Easily done on search engines because the query shows intent. Less obvious on the wider web but then perhaps it's the advertisers job to identify their market rather than rely on ad-network datapoints on visitors.

CPM/CPC ad payments are of course ripe for abuse by automation. CPA not so much.

Could potentially argue that the surveillance is essentially to make targeting more convenient for advertisers rather than being implicitly required to advertise. Market forces and ROI are surely the best measurement which CPA does a better job of doing. The problem with CPA is the trust required in order for the ad network to be paid.
The current "Netflix Optimization Problem" is how to spend the minimum amount on content but still keep you subscribing.

The Netflix prize also put Netflix on the map in terms of being a company that solves hard problems. We are still talking about it today and you'd better believe it has inspired talented people to work at Netflix; they could easily blow $1M on recruiting people and have much less to show for it. It's why Netflix is part of "FAANG".

Reed Hastings genius is that he led Netflix through a number of transitions between fundamentally different businesses: he built a strong brand with the DVD-based business without permission from the studios, transferred that brand to streaming when the studios saw it as "free money". By the time the studios understood what it was worth Netflix decided it was cheaper to buy than rent. (just as a consequence of having more customers)

The new frontier is that they use your engagement data not just to "suggest" the next movie but to design movies that will keep you engaged.

It's a little bit scary with these services that are "all you can eat" games for $10 a month because you're giving up "voting with your dollar" but creating a trail of engagement that will be fed back into satisfying your narcissism. Taking screenshots and videos of games seems fun and harmless at first but somebody knows I had a big crush on Nikola and Chiara from Valkyria Chronicles 4.
>if you maintain a temporary list of IPs you have seen in the past minute or hour.

This is totally surveillance. Just because we delete data after a while, it doesn't mean I didn't surveil you, nor does it mean I haven't used that data I got from you for my own benefit.

>This is your best argument why we have to track and profile every human on the planet around the clock?
You just asked for an example. If you are suggesting that my argument is to prevent abuse of systems I would say that it justifies tracking every person on the planet.
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Update to correct myself - can't believe that it's not fiction..
Just like any other even remotely dangerous activity, having someone trusted with experience is the best way. Otherwise start very low and wade in. I would ABSOLUTELY tell young folks to not just go buy alcohol without knowing somewhat how to deal with it. Alcohol at least has enough cultural guard rails that a kid will generally know that drinking an entire liter is a bad idea.
Not sure about lesswrong.com, that definitely needed to be lesslong.com
Nice article. I think part of the reason why things are the way they are in this 'human v elvish magic' dichotomy is largely due to our capitalistic society where there's always a boss to bully others into accumulating more wealth for the boss even if it hurts the land and the people under them. Capitalism with its absentee ownership norm always is at odds with Nature whereas you can compare the more communal/mutualistic lifestyle of the Hobbits in Tolkien's work as the more sustainable/healthy lifestyle comparable to that of the Elves who've master that lifestyle from just living longer as a race. I bring this up because Tolkien always seemed like someone on the edge of saying they were a Christian Anarchist by the way he spoke of power and leaders (being that Aragorn didn't have to bully the people of Gondor to follow him, he simply led by example).
And even if it were required, Karabiner-Elements is already running as a userspace DriverKit device instead of a kernel extension:

> Changed the virtual keyboard and mouse implementation to DriverKit from deprecated kernel extension.

https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/releasenotes/#karab...
> whether strategically it’s wise to teach kids externally imposed restrictions rather than learning to restrict themselves intrinsically because something else is worth doing?

Judging from observing my peers, extrisinc worked better in long term. With few exceptions, those whose parents did not restricted gaming just continued to play really a lot. Those whose parents did were more likely to discover something else to do.
Look at the costs at borders between states. If you have family in Danville, IL, you might want to retire in Attica, IN
Tell him to prove that he should send 1 BTC to the wallet that mined the genesis block and take exactly 1 BTC out of it.

To Downvoters: Do you have any better ideas on how to prove that this random person is Satoshi Nakamoto then? Or do you take his word for it?
It's not to wrong tho. In many western countries you can not take your children of school. Or even have no real choice which school they may visit (if you can't pay for a private one that is) if you do not agree with your local schooling system that appears tyrannic in a way.

I am sure I can't find other examples. Not saying what china does is right, but we obviously haven't mastered raising children either.
it was valued $5B only one year ago
Dear Mashable, reminding elected public servants of their accountability is not "trolling"
They always come together.
I believe it's worth continued study, however my understanding is that the Chinese government has been somewhat reluctant to allow these sorts of studies to occur.

Personally I'm suspecting an accidental leak of non-engineered (eg, naturally occurring) virus is the most likely cause, if only due to the actions of the CCP. That said, I'm an engineer and have no training in virology or infectious disease studies, so my opinion is basically worthless.
I don't think this is basic statistics. I think it the correct way of reporting the improvement, but it may be confusing for someone that does not understand the usual notation in the field. Moreover, I had to look at the paper to be sure what they were reporting. (Actually, they report the log of the improvement, i.e. something like "8" that is better to put in graph to compare different methods.)
Yeah I dislike this framing.

Elite overproduction isn't about "good enough," it's about alignment.

Trump was never accepted into the NYC elite social circle. They had money, elite education, and influence. But they weren't in-group.

Bannon also is a good study.

And there's always a couple of weirdos at prep school who don't quite fit in.
This is DDG’s model, right? Instead of stalking me all around the internet to find out I’m looking for a new car in order to show me adverts for a new car they show me the advert when I search “best new cars 2021” which is probably a pretty solid indicator that I’m looking for a car that doesn’t involve any tracking.
I can share my twitter account password instead of those permissions you want. Same results anyway
The argument basically boils down to the conclusion that we must keep our superiority complex to keep us sane. I'd rather have a correct assessment of myself.

The hypocrisy Lincoln is talking about didn't lead his nation to emancipation, they delayed emancipation by over a hundred years. Emancipation was going to happen much earlier otherwise.

There is no claim to moral superiority here. I live in the west and I guarantee you the government has facial recognition trained on me, access to public camera and to my phones' camera any time they please, and access to my voice prints. So I don't see why I should feel superior. I don't like lying to myself.
I found a singing bowl to be much more useful myself.
No that is not accurate, I am arguing that if the goal is to tweak an algorithm to reduce "harmful" information then the criteria for what is considered harmful should not be narrowed down on the basis of one's personal politics.

Any sincere effort to minimize harmful information would start with astrology, superstition, religion, homeopathy and other such content - not some local USA "problems".
I wonder what is the effect on neuro mascular conditions like cerebral palsy. It's more of dead neurons than connections between them but still if it increases the number of connections/strength between the existing neurons it can compensate the fact of having less nodes in the network.
> In the winter [...] you get to pay twice.

That heat in the hot water is coming from somewhere, and you're paying for it regardless of where it came from. The question is _how much_ you're paying.

The magic of heat pumps is that in many cases, they can move X joules of heat by expending less than X joules of electricity. As an extra bonus, in the winter, any "waste heat" from the heat pump doing its work is still inside your home and not wasted at all.

So you could view a heat pump water heater as a way of converting one type of heating cost (the fuel/electricity used in a conventional tanked hot water heater) into another type of heating cost (the fuel/electricity used to heat your home).

As long as the cost of the electricity used by the heat pump is not astronomically higher than the cost of whatever is heating your home, it should definitely be in the green.

edit to add: Many state and local governments along with utilities are offering incentives/rebates/discounts to install heat-pump hot water heaters.
Oh, absolutely. I got excited for the SwiftUI .toolbar modifier last year. It was wildly broken during the betas, and they just... didn't fix it for iOS 14's launch.

No idea if it works now, but definitely a lesson in the dangers of the new and shiny.
There’s versions of this in NYC that use the bay as a first pass heat exchanger. Not sure how deep or cold the Chicago river is but I’d think they’d be able to do the same.
It most definitely is. Football was pretty much a religion in Ohio.
They already can: extension authors can specify that their extension only operates on specific URL's.

The problem is that most extensions are designed to work on all web sites, so you have to choose between security and convenience. https://yvanced.com/

Most users pick the latter and trust the former.
220v is still a lethal voltage, and 220V at 10A is enough to sustain a nasty arc in the right circumstances.

An arc can have the temperature of four times the surface of the sun and will not neccesarily trip a noormal protective device due to its impedance.

Just for interest, vaporised copper has 67,000 times the volume of solid copper, this is why it makes quite a big bang.

I am an electrical engineer, most people do not fully understand the dangers of electricity and the lottery they play even at 110VAC.

The "physics" of electricty are tricky at all voltages, there are recorded cases of people dying from electric shock from a 24VDC truck battery.
> Not having a tripsitter was the biggest mistake I've made.

Agreed.
You can't just make up stuff and go with it, you need to be a little more complete with your analysis. Especially worded the way the other comment was and your comment is, you seem to think there is some sort of confusion because you're lumping in one programming language with another and essentially saying, I don't see the difference therefore something sinister may be at play. Your ignorance is not an excuse. Either know what you're talking about or ask questions without your very, very leading premises.
2.5 grams? That's enough for an exeperienced psychonaut to have a good time. That's way higher than what I would believe a therapy session would be going for, so I'm not buying these numbers one bit.
I'm not a fan of cooking either but I can recognize when a tool can be beneficial for it.
The idea of an unsupervised child being being cooked in a car as hot as an oven is unsettling to most. Doesn't take long for a child to succumb to the heat.

Only couple of months ago in my area a mum had left a 3 year old and baby in the car, walked into her house and fell asleep for an hour. She woke up, realised what happened, ran to the car and the kids were dead. Another more recent incident occurred where a child was left in a day care bus unknowingly by the driver. He did not inspect the seats prior to locking up the bus outside in the sun. The child was found dead when he got back in the bus that afternoon.
> You can't address societal problems before you address your own problems.

To me this just sounds like more of the same stuff our societies keep pushing: that all the problems are ones of individual responsibility, not systemic flaws. You're depressed because there's something wrong with you, not the world you live in, so fix yourself instead of trying to make the world better.

> And who is "we"?

I guess any society where >10% of the population, and growing, is on an antidepressant.
The anecdote suggests a lack of experience. Some writers recycle bad memories through a memoir and a couple of novels. Whether in total the story fetches them more than $400/page, who knows?
It would be more expensive, but I don't think it would be infeasible for an organization like Mozilla. Focus just on the desktop use to start with (extracting recommendations from the YouTube app would likely be challenging) and pay a representative set of users to install a browser extension that records the videos they are recommended. Then go through some subset of the videos and evaluate if they are harmful or not. It would definitely be more work, but at least that would give some useful new information on this issue, rather than confirming what was previously known.
Exurb1a is great, and if you haven't yet you should check out his youtube channel[0] as well. He doesn't talk that much about this sort of systems thinking but he does talk about many other interesting things.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/Exurb1a/videos
Agreed, thought I think you're in a special sort of hell. I'm on Bell and I'm at $75 / 20GB "Unlimited". After the 20GB I'm reduced down to 512KB/s so I never actually get cut off or a huge additional charge.
Thanks a lot for the clarification! I hadn't quite puzzled this together in my head.

It's really counterintuitive that creating a hardlink is allowed based solely on the permissions of the directory it is created in. I think I was expecting another permission check based on the directory the file is sitting in, since that's gating unlink() and rename().

It also means that, any file you can "see", if you have write access somewhere on the same filesystem you can prevent it from being deleted[¹] — even if you can't read it. That feels like a possible privacy issue…

[¹] If the user trying to delete file is aware of the problem, they can truncate it to 0 bytes, but that's not what a plain rm does (because rm is also the tool to remove hardlinks…)
That was certainly one of the books I was specifically thinking about. From memory, the book starts somewhat before the show and explains the setup better.

The best of the books reworked the plots significantly, even when they were written by the original screenwriter. Sometimes what works on the screen doesn't fit the page and vice versa.
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I got caught by that one.

Looks like the two graphics are in the wrong order. The "magical insurance" graphic is the one prior to the alcohol map.
We sell and host our own advertising which is content-based (office furniture ads on office design content) and think it is a good solution.

Instead of selling space by impressions or clicks, we use length of time (monthly) and find it to be a good way to prevent ourselves from trying to game impressions with clickbait or clicks with fake users.
> What's the fraud scenario?

1. Page owner / Ad network / Ad space auction market middleman fakes clicks to get click revenue

2. Page owner's rival fakes clicks to devalue ad spots

3. Advertiser's agency fakes clicks to make numbers go up

4. Advertiser's rivals fake clicks, to waste advertiser's budget

5. Ad networks 'accidentally' classifying legitimate clicks as fraud, to reduce payouts to page owners.
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Hey there,

I've been working on a web app to help engineering teams facilitate this exact thing. I'd be interested to hear more about what you are trying to do. Could you get in touch to chat more? ( email is in my profile )
Do you find you go through that much data? Do you do a lot of tethering?
In most of European cities a 30 minute walk gets you over to the next town, not the nearest pub :)
Those are horrible fees. You can buy local sims for cheap when travelling to avoid those roaming fees.
My utility solar cost average 50% over regular electricity $ for 2 years.

Texas suffered a doomsday scenario last winter, power demand far exceeding renewables ability under prolonged bad weather. California has frequent rolling blackouts; bizarrely, solar roofs are disallowed to supply the homes they cover.
The reasoning you cite is a retcon of the original reasoning that the OP got right.

Beyond that, #1 is factually incorrect, Facebook has positive rights that you don't, and #2 almost never holds starting from the realization that you're assuming that profit is inherently wise and that maximizing profit almost always requires the maximization of externatility. So using your rights wisely to your maximum advantage essentially never brings the most value.
I think last time I just avoided all the gun ones and they eventually went away. I since clicked on another style of annoying video topic and a faster way to get rid of an annoying category is to actively go and dislike the videos