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I’m kidding. The /s is for satire/sarcasm. :)
What a terrible company. They're not forced to do this, DMCA/copyright doesn't cover other people's tools.
Unsure if you intended with that example, but Bezos is among other things building a half billion USD yacht.
What is the reason people lose the ability to appropriately parse and manage themselves in the context of sex?

Because you've lost the context of what sex is and what it has been in society, and in humanity as a whole. Sex is inherently primal, bestial, even brutal in nature. We've been trained over hundreds of thousands of years to build ourselves up to it and in return we get rewarded with brain chemicals and the continuation of our species. You can't just expect to rewire millions of years of evolutionary drive and wrap it up in a cute discrete transaction. You're ludicrous for even trying. Every job has its occupational hazards. These the hazards of selling your crotch online. Either accept it, or move on. Stop trying to frame it as some sort of empowering path when in reality peoples' lives just get ruined.
In Mahayana tradition, there are many many Arhats (not only in the Mahayana but in the Hinayana too), and some Bodhisattvas, even today. Of course, they don't announce it but they were certified by Patriarchs.
At the risk of you having already read them: https://qntm.org/responsibility

https://pastebin.com/gA4aRc0T

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...

This seems to have a similar premise, but I haven’t read it (yet). It seems interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
> You (generally speaking) cannot get infected with STIs, pregnant, assaulted, raped, drugged, stabbed, murdered, convicted, jailed - for being a camgirl.

This is not really a true statement.
This isn't going to be a welcome question or politically correct, but why do you let your wife continue to engage in something that is "majority trauma" and that makes her need therapy?
He threatens to ruin the guys's life toward the end of the thread.
> but in Eastern Europe they moved straight to a caricature of hard neoliberalism

Please don't generalise.
Have you been to Czech Republic or Poland? There are no such neoliberalisms (I would say same about Hungary, but considering Orban, I'm not sure, I haven't been there)

We have good welfare and educated people don't beg on streets, not to mention plastic bags on windows.

Your description looks more like one for Ukraine.
Your grandfather's license should be taken away (and, if he drives anyway, his car should be confiscated so that he stops before more drastic solutions are needed)

One problem we have here (in the UK) is that unless you've committed a crime the most likely person to assess that you shouldn't drive any more is your GP (doctor). But doctors operate in an ethical framework that prioritises the interests of each patient as an individual, resolving both silly theoretical ethical problems ("Do I kill this healthy patient to save these other dying patients?") and real world practical ones. So, "grandpa's driving is bad" only meets the threshold when it's so bad he'd likely die, if he will just kill or injure other people that's not an ethical obstacle in this framework unless grandpa is uncomfortable with it, in which case he should stop driving without waiting for the license to be taken away.

This is something you're seeing in health policy right now. Sticking needles in people's arms is something medics do, but they all operate under this ethical framework. So, while a government may have good reason to vaccinate Bob, the doctor is only willing to vaccinate Bob if Bob wants to be vaccinated and it's personally in Bob's interest, regardless of whether it'd be better for everybody else.

Still, where it's important to public policy you can sidestep the ethical problem by sidestepping the medical procedure, here are two examples used today in the UK:

1. If somebody claims you're the other parent of their children and you owe child support but you disagree, the government can decide to make you get a DNA test (you get a refund if they aren't your kids). But the DNA test is a medical procedure, so if you really don't want it, the medics won't do it. Instead you'll end up in court, and the court will look at the available evidence and most likely say, well, seems to us if you were not the parent of these kids you'd have taken that DNA test and proved it. You owe child support. (Owing child support isn't a crime, so, there's no need to meet the criminal evidence standard).

2. If you're in a vehicle accident or just it seems obvious to them you might be drunk, the police can decide to test for alcohol. Some of the tests they could try don't need a medic but do need your co-operation, others would need a medic. Either way you might refuse and so, the law just provides for a penalty for "Refusing to provide a sample" that's almost exactly the same as the penalty for drink driving you might hope to avoid by doing so.
An "app drawer" is going to look extremely weird, with every entry starting with a "K"
They've had a year and a half to fix their API such that it doesn't allow downloads unless you've authenticated and are paid up.

Instead, he threatens to send the developer to a gulag.
Results aren't good according to... You?
There are approximately 1000 vehicles on the road which are equipped with the Tesla FSD Beta software. To date, no vehicles equipped with this FSD Beta have been involved in any collision while the software has been (or recently had been) in control.
While there's a fair amount of hypocrisy from other countries going on, the core issues are more about human rights and fascism than about hipness.
Nobody directly accused the PM of treason, the PM is suspect for the circumstantial reasons.

1. Pegasus spyware is only sold to Sovereign governments, so clearly some government paid for it. If not the Indian government then its a matter of serious concern if China or other neighbouring countries are spying on Indian citizens.

2 Instead of addressing the issue of foreign governments probable spying on Indian citizens, the government blamed the news leak on "western powers" who dont want India to be "developed".

3. The people being surveilled were the leader of the opposition and Chief Justice of the Supreme court and owners of Media houses critical to the government. Which begs a question why are foreign governments interested in survelling the opposition and not the PM himself?

4. Governments reaction to the issue, Instead of considering the issue to be a matter of national security and assuring the nation and opposition that due investigation will be done, the government went of the defensive and said "Ohh we didnt do it".

This kind of handling leads to doubts if the government was indeed involved in the spying of its own citizens and opposition leaders.
> we can demonstrate the need for critical thinking

Good luck with that. Humans are not always rational and don't always act on their best interests, much less on the whole species' best interests.

If we leave saving our species to individuals, I wish the cockroaches better luck. I, personally, would bet on ants and bees, as they seem to be much better organized than us.
> According to the ads, it understands your code well enough to write the unit tests for it!

Yes, Github Copilot marketing has overstatements -- but it also has caveats about its limitations and creating errors.

In other words, the landing page has a mix of statements ... some hyping up the potential -- and some disclaimers to mention the reality and pitfalls.

Excerpt from that same Copilot landing page about it being wrong more often than right: https://copilot.github.com/

>How good is GitHub Copilot?

>We recently benchmarked against a set of Python functions that have good test coverage in open source repos. We blanked out the function bodies and asked GitHub Copilot to fill them in. The model got this right 43% of the time on the first try, and 57% of the time when allowed 10 attempts.

>Does GitHub Copilot write perfect code?

>No. GitHub Copilot tries to understand your intent and to generate the best code it can, but the code it suggests may not always work, or even make sense. While we are working hard to make GitHub Copilot better, code suggested by GitHub Copilot should be carefully tested, reviewed, and vetted, like any other code.
They support who they can control, that’s it.

Nothing to do with them thinking one is better for the citizens living under their selected rulers control.

Israel doesn’t care about half the people within its borders. Saying they choose who to support based on how that person will treat their citizens is laughable.
"We wouldn't have had an Apple had I not grown up in a very open technology world."

This stood out to me as a key quote in the article. When Woz tells the Apple II story he talks about building the computer from off the shelf parts & minimizing custom hardware. He also talks about expansion ports.
And here in Poland we already have problems since few years, people that oppose judicial and media independence are in charge, elected mostly by elderly and eastern parts of the country.
I can relate to this a lot, also with my own experiences of Somatic Experiencing and forms of therapeutic breathwork.

I did a few retreats myself, with the knowledge going in that it would be fucking brutal and that I could bring a lot of shit to the surface that I'd repressed for years. I had a therapist before, during, and after, as the primary focus was healing integrated with tantric practises.

Even then it was 6 years of deep introspection, an enormous amount of suffering, and eventually a complete mental break that led to a few suicide attempts, self-harming and a year or so on medication. I didn't blame the retreats for that, or the meditation, and I still don't. I just didn't have the capacity to deal with it all and I never had a good coping mechanism in the first place, yet I was still facing this incredible amount of torment head on. Truly staring into my own abyss.

I would not recommend this, or any kind of deep meditation, to anyone. Not unless they have a support network in place and only if they understand that it is a difficult journey that can and will see things getting worse for you before they get better.

These days I'm off the medication, and I'm a different, more resilient, more self-aware person. Enough to know that what's done is done, the past is exactly that, and there's a lot more for me in the present moment. I am still very fond of what I learned through Tantra in that sense, and I'm glad I found my way through enough of that past trauma to start being able to live with it.
Backend has lots of diversity, you could get into devops, automation, databases, etc.

Or you might want to transition to being an architect so most of your time you'll design the systems to be built / maintained.
Although I would pay to see a ge9x running on rocket proplant
> Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson

I wish Ken writes more papers & documents.
Since I quoted part of the journalist's question and nothing of Bezos's answer, it stands to reason that I was talking about the journalist.
> and has consistently answered wrong

"Consistently" is too strong a word. We have ended up where we are today, but let's not pretend societies didn't explore a lot of dead ends along the way. Sometimes very destructive dead ends, with many dead.

Nor can we state that today is the "best of all possible worlds", and that we wouldn't have ended up somewhere better had the advice of elders been heeded more often.

This is a case of survivorship bias.
This post is by a guy who is a blind and works as a backend web developer: https://www.vincit.fi/fi/software-development-450-words-per-...
It's not puzzling if you realize that the motivation is to subvert a society and assert control over it.
Bezos and Amazon aren't the reason children lack access to proper healthcare and taxing them won't fix that problem.

To provide proper healthcare to every child (and adult) on earth we'd need to stop the people who are currently limiting the availability of healthcare: the hospital cartels preventing the construction of new hospitals, the medical associations preventing the training of more doctors, the pharmaceutical companies preventing the free trade of medicines, and the governments colluding in all that.

But they'll fight that every step of the way and one of them most effective ways they fight it is by talking about money, as if lack of healthcare spending was the problem. It's not. We'd actually spend less on a more accessible healthcare system, because all the people sucking the money and life out of the current system wouldn't be getting richer.
The difference is that we knew that the Y2K bug was coming. It was a given that we were going to end up reaching 1/1/2000. Here, it's not a given that backups will ever need to be touched.

Spending a lot of money to fix something that is known will happen is easy to justify. If you don't do it, you will end up losing significant amounts of money.

For something that isn't guaranteed to happen, it's harder to justify putting a lot of money into it. What is the value of doing thorough testing of backups if they're never actually accessed? One could argue that it's purely a waste of money.
> may do something unpredictable at any point.

I think that's a good assumption for most human driven cars as well :)
A majority of billionairs globally are self made, having grown their wealth themselves. This mainly means building and growing companies that provide valuable goods and services, and employ lots of people doing productive work. Their wealth isn't in piles of cash, it's in their ownership and control of the enterprises they built.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/majority-of-the-worlds-riche...

I'll ask you a question. Who else do you think should own and control those enterprises, and how should the control and ownership be taken away from the current owners? Is doing so really in the public interest?

The exceptions I think we can agree are parasitic behaviours. Inherited wealth, rent seeking, corruption, however these are a minority of billionaires, and looking at the developed world a small minority.
I'm not sure I agree. In the UK, the lower middle class are (to generalise) materially well-off; they own their own homes, they have a couple of cars, they have large televisions, one partner does not have to work, etc.

And through pure boredom/decadence, they were radicalised through years of negative messaging from the populist press into 'caring' about things like Brexit, immigration, welfare claimants, etc.

These are people that have most of their needs met and are comfortable, yet their emotional buttons were pushed over the course of years into making them foam at the mouth about things they largely don't fully grasp and that definitely don't have an impact on their lives.
Sounds like a good theme for a Patent Expiration Hackathon!

A great project would be to upgrade the Blender Noise Texture Node, by adding a Perlin/Simplex switch:

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_node...
> The company said Tina did not report the racial slur and it was not detected by the site's moderation system because it was pluralised.

Wow, that's not a very robust moderation system...
Don't forget about competition. It's a good thing that Musk has both Bezos and Branson biting his ass from their own rockets, if not only for PR.
I'm sure the highest probability densities are around and between Pantex and Y12, and then to ports and silos.
Seriously.

I think about how Linux will be around forever, but Windows and MacOS could be gone/corrupt in as little as 5 years.
It sounds like you're able to use bright screens, and for (potentially) lengthy periods of time still. Depending on your linguistic abilities you could look into tech writing, or copy writing. Your technical background could be quite useful here, in addition to the attention to detail that comes as a part of front-end development.
Carbon offsets store the CO2 in plant matter that will eventually decay if not maintained. Carbon capture pumps it into the ground, where it is stored permanently - so it’s a matter of your timeframe. Personally, I prefer carbon offsets as carbon capture is likely to get much more efficient over the next 100 years (lifetime of a tree), so it’s better to pay for it later.
I would say the difference is fixed-cost vs cost-plus contracts. Paying for the development or paying for the result with less constraints on how it is achieved. Look how hard Boeing has stumbled trying fixed-cost with Starliner.
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I came to the conclusion that politicians are a big problem. Not sure we can get rid of them but they are.

FWIW I just see them use the money of others for their own purposes coactively and provoke a lot of polarization. Many times with bad intention for selfish interests. I am talking about ALL of them.

I think people should be able (Hungarian case at hand) to choose whether they want certain contents to be taught at certain age for their kids. No matter which ones. It should be a free to choose thing.

The minimum stuff we must all agree upon should be not killing, discriminating, etc. in legal terms. But when you try to force people to like or dislike something, instead of respecting others (whether they like or not other people ideas) then you have this highly polarized environment because you will always find the other half resisting, since it is imposed contents highly ideological.

I think that things could be way better with fewer of these people.
On the contrary, a rejection rate that low implies rubber-stamping, prima facie. You would need positive evidence to support your assertion, e.g. that FISA submissions are unusually high-quality. The actual case is, I am sure, that the system was constructed to make allowing the warrant to be easy, rejecting it hard, and the people involved are just responding to incentives. Namely, since it's all secret they are only accountable to each other, so why give each other a hard time?
Probably once people like this got involved in research decisions for politics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Proxmire

"Proxmire stated that; "it's the best argument yet for chopping NASA's funding to the bone .... I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy".[33]"

I think we can look back and say that this was short sighted, NASA helped kickstart things like cordless power tools, among other now everyday techs. Would we have discovered innovations without them? Maybe, but seems unlikely.
> we should "follow the science".

This is a clear misrepresentation of what science is and is not. Specifically, science is not normative.

Science will teach you how to build the bomb. It will never be able to tell you whether you should detonate it.

When people disagree about whether to detonate the bomb or not, one side may be able act like the predictable consequences automatically determine the ethical norms that should guide the decision while ignoring the implications of the unpredictable consequences. This side may attack the other side as "ignoring the science" in order to ignore the more difficult normative debate. A counter reaction to the initial unfair sleight of hand is sometimes to act like one should completely ignore the scientists anyways, and then maybe the accusation is more justified but still ultimately meaningless: norms are simply not grounded in facts. People also aren't necessarily consistent with their own norms. They might agree on some premises then when presented with conclusions that follow, just find the result so repugnant that they search for a way out. That's when we search for chinks in the science, because admitting to our own natural moral hypocrisy is just too painful. But we can always just change our basic norms and reach a different resulting decision and we know this in our gut, so searching for the facts to support a predetermined conclusion doesn't seem so different.
Anyone using this as a daily driver? What’s the experience like?

(I’m hoping to move to a Linux phone when my old iPhone finally bites the dust.)
Why? Now I'm here and enjoy the moment. Now I'm not and the body just lives on its own doing it's job like a robot could when I could be dead and not mindful of anything. A minute is gone. To me this seems rather simple. Perhaps my verbal abilities are not enough to explain.

Once, as a schoolboy, I've heard about Buddhists who train to always stay consciousness while living, talking and whatever, I considered this amazing and have then progresses from 80% daydreaming an 19% struggling life to some way more (although still very far from 100%) present, more mine and more happy.
> creating the problems for yourself and then heroically prevailing over them, how very commendable.

Such an arrogant comment. Not only did you completely miss the point of the GP's post, but you're showcasing a bunch of disdain for people simply making mistakes and fixing them.

I have no words. None that abide by the guidelines, at least.
You can edit the content of any web site via the browser's dev tools. It's not hard. This only changes it locally, although it can have effects on poorly designed sites.

I have used this to buy tickets to an event for $1.
> If they don't want to hire hardcore commandos to protect their property, maybe they deserve to get robbed/looted?

In places where there is sufficient law enforcement, this is not required but even then some extra-high-risk shops like banks still do. In places where there is not sufficient law enforcement, like failed states, favelas and the internet, almost all shops should hire guards (or their digital equivalent) or risk being robbed. In this particular case, the long term fix is to extend the rule of law onto the internet but until that time having good security is not optional.
Is it surprising that extended, intensive mental practice (in this case, mindfulness style meditation) can reshape how our brains work?

As babies, we form our sense of being - from what touch "feels" like to what food tastes like - from our experiences. And we tend to go through life adding and slightly modifying those fundamental neural pathways we've built.

But if you then do a 180 and start practicing and reinforcing very different pathways, where will you end up? In the article, where he ended up seems bad indeed, but that is relative to where he started (and where most of us live).

Probably many of us here have at one time or other spent way too much time and focus on one obsession. Take chess, for example. If you spend hours a day focused on chess, it will absolutely reshape the way you think, and that will bleed over to non-chess moments. You may find yourself sitting at a restaurant, mentally playing out the possibilities and scenarios of an impending conversation with the server where you will attempt to avoid having to buy dessert (because you don't want it, or whatever your reason). Or you may find that in the middle of a meeting, you suddenly only exist on a chessboard, stuck in a game problem you have been trying to find a good answer to.

But with this mindfulness meditation, especially since it also explicitly closes off external reality, you will be building some very strange new paths in your mind. Stay there too long, and perhaps you get lost.

The old wisdom is probably worth heeding here: all things in moderation.
I have driven the original in Japan, first time going over a mountain I was wandering if it would survive. The sound of the CVT is alarming if you hear it for the first time. Otherwise a good but boring car.
> But so is this idea that people like Bezos have any duty that we one-percenters on HN don't also have.

If, for the sake of the argument, I am indeed a "one-percenter", I would be more than happy if "people like Bezos" were to follow through with the same duties that I do.