skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a utilitarian argument. Unfortunately, that means the weights of the increased harm vs. decreased harm are what determines the morality. And those are arbitrary.

one could believe it is low harm for a young person to use OF, but massive harm to be in the traditional porn industry, and conclude that OF is a net plus. Ie, this argument is circular and based on preconceptions rather than a critical examination of the evidence.
It would be nice if CPU's had an instruction for "read the low 8 bits of this register, and require the high bits all be zeros (otherwise throw an exception)".

Then safety is free...
That works when there are only a few thousand satellites, or when you have a very low FOV, but once you have 100k+ satellites or you are doing a sky survey that becomes unfeasible.

This interview goes really in depth on these issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0w0dM_e9a8
Well, Western psychology purports to be "science". That means that results have to be replicable, testable, and observable. The Abhidharma was created by meditators, for meditators. Those people were not constrained by scientific method.

Some of the stuff in the Abhidharma reflects teachings of the Buddha; but most of it was constructed by monks, after the Buddha's death.

I don't know of anyother models of mind, other than Western psychology and Abhidharma. There must be other models; I'd be surprised if Vedanta, for example, didn't incorporate a model of the mind.

I suppose the dominant model of mind in a society reflects the preocccupations of that society.
How is that related? I only claimed that struggling artists were manufacturing authenticity. I made no claims about other sources.
>I think it’s important to distinguish whether the money they spend on personal joy rides has been taxed as private income or written off as business expense.

So if the mafia did it, it'd be fine because government didn't pay for it? I'm not saying that Bezos is a mafioso, but this is a false dichotomy. There are also good reasons to think that all "legal" businesses aren't legit and with litttle political oversight, maybe the profit of giant companies like Amazon shouldn't be deemed 100% deserved.

This comment is related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893518
Look at all the instances of "next" in this file: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/dbe4ddb1...
Loving it, that's very creative leoossa!
Haha, yeah JS integers "can grow". Kind of. And then they bite you in the worst way possible. Especially when combined with cryptography (e.g. nonces).

Try this:

>> const x = 288230376151711740;
>> x == x + 1
true

Or this:

>> 2\*1024
Infinity

JS doesn't even have integers. It only has floats. JS is by far the worst language I know of when it comes to integer support.

If you want a better example of arbitrary precision integers, try Python, for example.
I am very happy to read this. Most people in the west understand Mindfulness in isolation, and often only mindfulness of the breath as meditation. And the intention is to "feel calm" or "not think", or want the Headspace experience on steroids or believe they can brute force their way to "Englightement"...

Without Right View and Right Intention, without the morality development of the Noble Eightfold Path, there is no wonder that they practice unskillfully, and develop unfulfilled expectations.

I highly recommend reading / listening to the talks / going to retreat at (1) for a firm foundation for practice; for more in depth reading from one of the most important Theravadin monks who brings balance to the practice and emphasizes wisdom (2). A nice podcast (3) with also a good balance of teaching.

I hope this helps people better understand meditation / mental development beyond mindfulness and concentration practice.

1
https://rosemary-steve.org/data/practice.htm

2 https://www.watnyanaves.net/en/home

3
https://tunein.com/podcasts/Religion--Spirituality-Podcasts/...
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Quantum entanglement falls out of the quantum mechanics, so in some sense, the prevailing theory to explain quantum entanglement is quantum mechanics.

Of course, it's unintuitive and unsettling, so you could generate other theories about other dimensions if you like. But as far as predicting the results of any experiments we can do, QM is all you need.

Also, there are two very different theories of relativity, the special and the general. Special relativity is taught in 1st year undergraduate physics, you really only need high school math & physics, plus an open mind, to understand it. This has E = mc^2, twin paradox, length contraction, time dilation, speed of light as a limit. It's actually a pretty small topic, it usually doesn't have a separate course because it wouldn't fill a one semester course. QM is fully consistent with Special Relativity.

The other is general relativity, which revises gravity in light of special relativity. This is a much bigger topic and typically taught in grad school, although there are some undergrad texts now that don't require math as advanced as the grad school ones. QM and GR are incompatible, and the search for a "quantum theory of gravity" is a key plank in any "theory of everything."
>This is the face of your company, if you can’t handle the increased load on your blog why should I trust your other systems.

I suspect the sort of individual visiting this website and reading the blog will know that their services and blog do not run on the same machines.
I would have agreed with you if 'their blog AND their main service' also went down; Not just the website. But their main service is still up.

95% of the comments here parade about a hiccup of this service having a blog going down when that is not even their main service but continues to use an unreliable service like GitHub even when that goes down every month and they also don't use K8s either.

GitHub (and GitHub Actions) was proven to be very unreliable and the whole service went down multiple times and somehow that gets a pass? Even GitHub's status page returned 500s due to panicking developers DOSing the site. Same with GitHub pages.

But a single blog getting 500s but the whole service didn't go down? Nope.
I love that!

Thanks!
I believe the poster you were replying to was talking about JS's new `BigInt` type.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> PS. Do I sense some missalocation of resources in the western world ?

Yes, because your redistributionist sensors are malfunctioning.

Bezos goes to space on his own dime (essentially; maybe he got some subsidies - I wouldn't be surprised - but those should be eliminated even if they're comparatively small).

Public transportation is funded by plunder and debt (delayed plunder). And it's also incredibly wasteful and expensive (ever hear of "cost overruns"?).

Recalibrate your sensors at mises.org, buddy!
FM = Formal Methods
I wish clippy had a lint against downcasts specifically. I aso like that rust has no “int” type
> Fighter planes are coded in C++, not Ada.

https://www.adacore.com/customers/eurofighter-typhoon
https://www.adacore.com/customers/amx-modernization-program
https://www.adacore.com/customers/arinc-653
https://www.adacore.com/company/our-customers
I think it's reasonable to nationalize everything that saves lives. That's where I would draw the line. I support public pharma research (and trials, and drug development, and other expenses) for the same reason I support public healthcare and public firefighting.

Remember that once upon a time, firefighting companies would stand outside a burning building and watch it burn until the owner paid up? That's pretty much the current situation with healthcare - the healthcare and pharma companies just watch patients die if they can't afford to pay.

But nationalization isn't my suggestion for the problem of pharma patents preventing healthcare in impoverished countries. For that, just let those countries ignore US patents. They don't have a lot of money anyway, so allowing them to use lifesaving medications would not imperil pharma research.

Of course you're right, the world doesn't work the way I want it to, but I think saving lives is an excellent argument why it should.

If you think that's "bad faith" or "an empty appeal to emotion over reason", then there's really nothing more to say.
Creating more throughput instead of a quicker route isn't the same as saying "more lanes do nothing." So maybe your new highway lanes didn't cure congestion, but they did help alleviate housing demand some by letting more people commute with the same (albeit bad) commute time.
None of Octoblu's github repos have been touched in a year, some are 5+ years without any commits. Is it still alive?
I hear you but it is weird to see America falling behind in these things while the rest of the world catches up. Americans built a World Class Highway System in the 50s and I am sure we had the same argument back then on how it is so expensive or democratized that we cannot take away people's land etc etc. Yes it is tougher in democratized countries and there are good reasons for it but do we really give up ? I cannot imagine that.
Throwaway because hooooboy.

I started using a cam-girl's services when I was dealing with a break-up.

Where things went wrong was, this worker happened to be local to me, and happened to know the person who I broke up with. When I said I wanted to find someone with a personality like theirs but in real life, they offered to meet me in person.

The short version? I was catfished for 2 years while helping them build their career (their partner, who I never knew about despite asking if they had one before trying to enter a 'relationship', didn't want to be active in helping her, since he was a pre-med student and was worried about the social fallout between that and his family.)

I got to learn a lot about the industry, more specifically around Reddit. I also got to deal with the pain of trying to get my videos removed, polite requests didn't work and I had to go right up to legal threats to finally make it happen.

What I was able to figure out:

- There are cases where this line of work results in a grooming 'feedback loop'. A surprising number of these girls had partners, many times said partners were successful individuals in other careers. And also involved in various other scenes (BDSM comes to mind.) It often struck me as a cover for predatory behavior; some of these workers will find it hard to shy away from the money that can be made, yet at the same time the constant barrage of misogynistic behavior from clients almost certainly has an effect on them. Their partner gets someone conditioned by the environment.
- My abuser, last I was aware, was fairly resigned to working small office jobs and/or sticking to camming until they finally decide to have a child. When I first met them they wanted to be a teacher. Make of that what you will.

- There were cases of extremely controlling behavior within the communities themselves. I heard stories of one of the more successful workers having a sort of 'ranch' for workers that wanted to come by and up their game (and, of course, play with them and their partner.) The ranch itself was almost cult-like with it's management of time and tasks.

- A lot of these workers have serious mental health issues, often unresolved. Some of these women are abusive and manipulative towards their clients. I experienced this firsthand, and when I made the mistake of trying other camgirl's services long after the incident noted above, I had my consent regarding hypnosis violated by more than one. Unfortunately, the common case of stalkers/creeps means that predators are usually able to get away with their actions, because any attempts to call them out results in the perception that the victim is a stalker/creep for trying to pierce the corporate veil behind a bad actor in the industry.

FWIW, yeah, I went to a -lot- of therapy over what happened and in a much better place.
Do these types of contributions give them access to data/roadmaps/internal comms that they might not otherwise have had?
Docents are usually volunteers, so it's not like there are general budgeting concerns. There's also usually bodies to fill these positions since it's almost like a title/labor of love for someone who doesn't need the money or a resume builder for someone who does in the art world, where good paying jobs are hard to come by.

It must put a lot of pressure on a security guard to do double duty like that. What if someone defaces a Warhol while they're talking to someone else about it? I'm sure The Broad probably has redundant controls in place, but in general, you shouldn't really expect to be able to bother or distract security guards.

It's not about leaning into a person's natural curiosity; most museums take care of all the staff with regards to entrance & tours if requested. It's about liability, insurance, etc.
This tutorial [0] is by far the best resource I have found for learning the intuition of reverse-mode automatic differentiation in Python

[0] https://sidsite.com/posts/autodiff/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
One thing to consider is that these routes, if they get proper use, do tend to bring the population density and GDP along with them.
I'm no expert but I also lean toward superdeterminism. It's either that or the universe is not deterministic at all. Believing that the universe is only partly deterministic is the same as believing someone can be partly pregnant.
> in your view, we have gotten around the first amendment.

There are principles that the 1st amendment protects, and it is those principles that matter.

For example, there are laws that prevent the government from locking people up, without due process. If someone were to find a way to get around that law, by having a private company lock people up, without due process, that would be getting around the principle of due process.

> But you said that that was okay, that if it was so important, we could gather support and bypass the first amendment.

It is "ok", in the same way that it would be "OK" to change the constitution, so as to remove everyone's right to due process, and allow the government to lock people up without a trial.

And by "OK", I mean, you better have a really good reason for it, and you better have to follow the extremely difficult process of removing everyone's right to trial, and you really shouldn't be using a loophole to do that (such as if private companies locking people up without trial, was allowed).

Thats what I mean by that. That getting around these principles, should require a very high bar, and you better be able to convince a whole lot of people, if you want to remove everyone's right to trial, or some other similarly important thing.

> as a cudgel to allow the government to strong-arm businesses into acting the way you'd prefer.

Common carrier laws already exist and are uncontroversial.

If you want to call that authoritarianism, ok, go ahead. But most people think that these laws are perfectly ok. Most people do not think that anyone's 1st amendment rights are infringed upon, because phone companies have to carry all users.

So, you don't get to say that extending these already existing, and uncontroversial laws, are some giant change, when they aren't.

If we really want to go even further, we could talk about the civil rights act of 1964. That forces businesses to not discriminate. But few people would say that our rights are infringed upon, because businesses can't discriminate.

Your line of argument, should cause you to think that anti-discrimination laws, are some "cudgel" to force groups to associate with people that they don't want to.

Which would be an extremely controversial argument to make, for you to say that all anti-discrimination laws, are authoritarian.

> you want the authority to force people to (in your view) be less-authoritarian. Hopefully you at least recognize the irony.

It forces people to be less authoritarian, using authority, in the same way that the civil rights act forces people to be less authoritarian, using authority.

If you want to call the civil rights act, or common carrier laws, ironic, well OK I guess.
War, civil war or re-education of local populations.

Note that either of these would be unlikely to succeed. Just about every EU state has survived numerous occupations; some partitions; some ceased to be nation states. How can you possibly hope to force them to see themselves as Europeans first and nation A second? If anything, force or even threat of force will likely result further digging in.

Overall, I agree with your post though. I personally think both France and Germany simply use EU framework for their own purposes ( Germany actually just had an interesting case that may finally shed some light over whether EU law is above German law -- that should be fun to watch - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/eu-launches-le...).
They're also supporting the development of automatic pdf tagging in LaTeX too.

Mentioned here but probably more succinctly elsewhere https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2020-tagged-pdf-f...
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Why do you feel it's necessary to gatekeep this general term? We already have a word for people who literally have sex for money, and it seems perfectly reasonable to place it under a broader "sex worker" umbrella.

Also, not that it matters, but you really seem to be minimizing the issues that camgirls etc. face. Sure, a prostitute may be putting themselves in more physical danger, but the downsides to these jobs do have a lot in common. See all over this thread for examples.
Ehm, just so you every european country has such a system. Since you have to compare europe as whole to the US for size comparison. You can drive anywhere in europe through a system of highways and interstates. You can also fly to each city, but we still have a rail system.... That goes everywhere. You can drive from the northern most point in finland down south to the most southern point in italy. Same from west to east. You could even drive to moscow, china, korea and japan.

Tldr the americans interstate system is nothing more than a copy of the german autobahn... And was never something unique.
Basically yes, that’s what they signed up for in project mercury. The initial plan had nothing for the human to pilot. Mercury only got manual controls and a window because the astronauts fought for them.
Wearing out the bodies and dignity of Amazon floor workers.
The capsule and booster seperated and the capsule landed with parachutes
Look at used passive cooled stuff with mobile CPUs! I have 2 boxes with i3-7100u CPUs, 32GB RAM, and a proper SATA SSD that use around 2W of power each most of the time.

The peak power is of course higher than a Pi, but they generally are near-idle most of the time.
Something like the Garmin inReach is pretty accessible these days. A few hundred dollars for the device and as low as about $12/month for the subscription. If I did a lot of solo stuff in out of the way areas, I'd probably have one.

That said, I agree that casual hikers doing dumb things and getting lost definitely happens. But cell phone reception is hardly a panacea. Just because you can call 911 doesn't mean that someone is going to come get you if the conditions are bad. I actually have very mixed feeling with the newish assumption a lot of people have that their cell phone will always work and that, worst case, they can just call for help.
It's amazing what a country can accomplish when they invest in themselves first and foremost. After rooting for the US in the last 2 years, I'm of the opinion that the US is too corrupted to ever regain its stature.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210719192200/https://nymag.com...
"C" is a tough one and genuinely frightening. Not just the digital assault like you describe, but the danger of physical assault or other crimes.

But "A" and "B" are becoming less of a concern for a lot of people thanks to rapidly changing attitudes towards sex work. Most people I know who do some kind of sex work either aren't concerned about a family member of employer finding out, or their family members and employer already know about their work. I hope we can all do our part to continue pushing our society towards being more accepting and less damning of sexuality (market-oriented or otherwise).
I agree privatization is a benefit - i believe that was my final statement in that they are complementary. I think that the bulk work is still done by public agencies, however the privatization part capitalizes from a revenue perspective on the work done by the public agencies.

It's not dissimilar to how most energy technology makes its way to the private companies. DOE research labs do most of the work with college collaboration and then it gets released through private equity into the public domain.
By the way. If you like high speed trains, you should check Swisspod[1].

They are developing a viable hyperloop. I know that word might sound like space travel to some of you because we've been hearing it over and over in the last years but it's far from that.

It's also relatively cheap, eco friendly (batteries or hydrogen, you choose) and it has some nice tech behind.

[1]https://swisspod.ch/
That's stretching quite a bit the definition of a nucleus.

Neutron stars are held together by gravity, not nuclear forces. Also, the mix of particles is very different from an actual nucleus. The physics are pretty different.

It's a bit like saying the SpaceX Starship, and my mechanical pencil are the same thing, because they have the overall same shape, and are made of stainless steel.
But the point stands, if the most popular method of teaching guitar is wrong and can lead to serious injury then potential students need to be aware of the risks.
I'll never understand entanglement. Every explanation makes me wonder why it can't be used to instantaneously send a message. I never fully understand the explanations why it can't be used to do so. I don't understand how you can be sure about the state of the other particle, what if someone already measured it and then did something to it?
As I wrote someplace else before: his job was done by dogs and monkeys before, so it's hardly mission critical for him to even be conscious. In fact, the mission would have been considered a great success even if he had been unconscious the whole flight, as long as he survived. His presence was the key point.

Throughout Mercury, the astronauts had to fight for control elements to even be included in the spacecraft because automation was considered the safer option.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan and these steps were incredible milestones, and I certainly wouldn't have wanted to switch seats with anyone.

Here, I am sure Bezos can/would argue that "someone had to make observations on the performance of the rocket and the spacecraft, as well as himself throughout the mission". Sure, the goal here is commercial, but it's hard to argue that Gagarin's flight was made to gain pure scientific knowledge to finally answer the pressing question of how humans react to spaceflight, rather than political/technological.
> I don't think they'd go that far as to intentionally denying Firefox users access to their sites even if they wanted, because that'd immediately draw some lawsuits.

This already happened, some sites wouldn't work in Firefox unless Firefox had the Chrome user agent string.

Also who is going to sue them? Firefox? That's like kicking yourself in the balls.