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Ignorance isn't evidence of absence. Epistemic nihilists call themselves skeptics and there have been plenty throughout history, the earliest I know of being Pyrrho. Moral nihilists call themselves hedonists (or if you're being really strict, moral skeptics) and they are legion, many here in this very forum, plenty in the history of philosophy. There were a dozen or so Russian political nihilists for a while and you could probably argue that all anarchists are political nihilists in a sense (especially Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Max Stirner). Then there are many really niche ones like mereorological nihilists who, I'd argue, call themselves monists. Existential nihilists, who deny a meaning to life and/or value, call themselves existentialists and absurdists and reigned in continental philosophy for half a century (the blog is vague but seems to mainly be referring to these.)

I'll give the author that I've never heard of a serious metaphysical nihilist. It's hard to deny that something does exist and that it does work in some way.

There's another flaw in the analysis too: Why would people write about things they don't believe in and don't care about? Anti-theists do that, but what if they're the exception rather than the rule (because of a certain oppressive history in the area there.)
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I don’t care about hypermedia in particular, but it is intriguing how one can say that “apps are just forms” and justify all that tooling. Might as well just go with CouchDB.
More precisely, the first ~$100k of wage income. Many common types of income do not qualify for this exclusion.
It must be difficult to see it so close.

I've been feeling a mild/medium case of the same thing just from the general news.

Every other story is about a bitcoin multi-millionaire, or companies I've never even heard of and that don't seem all that impressive, valued in 100s millions, NFT's sold for millions, etc, etc.

Most of it seems relatively un-earned/un-deserved, to me.

It all just completely devalues the 'real money' you get paid for full, hard 8+++ hour days and makes you wonder, why bother.

It wouldn't be so bad, but you just know some of these 'highly successful investors/entrepreneurs' might get to positions where they're demanding you change the button background color to fusia, now!, or you're fired! etc.
Calling GPT-3 a product in this context is disingenuous. As it's a fairly new tool many people have been experimenting with it since it's come out. This article is a poignant exploration of using GPT-3 to tell stories. It feels very experimental artistic to me.
Even without the fundamental error of calling aspartame an amino acid, this argument is also similar to saying that chlorine and sodium can't be toxic since they are "in" sodium chloride, and salt is perfectly safe.

Betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of chemistry.
Oh my God. I've become this guy.

I simply do not give a shit about whatever the latest opinionated framework/tech of the week is. All I've gotten to is the point where what I really care about is "Can I fit all the necessary bits and bobs in my head?" The rest is just branding, mind share, and the cult of complexity.

Example: Yarn
I finally figured out why I hate it. It tries to "help" you optimize your runtime namespace via hoisting. Causing higher level builds to create a distinctly different runtime footprint via hoisting than running each of the lower level builds individually.

What. The. Heck. Who wants to inflict that on a user? I don't use a computer to do things in ways where I have to go through the torment of cataloging every bad assumption at every level. I'll take more pessimum, but easier track the reality of over more optimum, yet opaque any day.
If a place is no longer safe for some people should the solution be to shut down that place? Or burn down? People lose their business, their job, their home, their savings, go into debt, hospitals are full. At some ratio evacuation should be preferred. Of course one wants to stay where one is but if the price is to see that place destroyed in front of your eyes it doesn't seem worth it.
I had never seen Lamport's idea of structured proofs. I just read the linked paper and I love it.
Tangent, but wouldn't it be happiness = expections - reality?
Such an utterly ridiculous argument. The processes that occur when vaccinated with an MRNA vaccine are very well understood. This is not something that they just started researching. You don’t understand it, but it’s a rather simple thing to the scientists who designed these vaccines. My suggestion to you - when you find yourself afraid of the dark, turn on a light. The genesis of your fear is just the knowledge you lack.
This is actually hilarious.
The fact that _you_ are putting “smarter” in quotes, proving my point, means that you’re losing the argument - and, furthermore, viewing a random exchange on the internet in terms of ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ instead of viewing it as a means of finding the truth or at least exchanging different perspectives already says a lot more than could fly beneath your head.
To add insult to the injury, by your own request, you already accept the fact that PhDs are “smarter” only in terms of arbitrary metrics _defined_ by the PhDs.

I’m sorry if you actually spent money on getting yours, though. I would try to let go of the ego and accept it and not try to cope with it in a thread that everyone forgot about (the only reason I’m replying is because I’m getting reply notifications from the ‘HN Replies’ bot).
VW’s software quality is pretty atrocious, especially now that that they can rely on OTA updates.
I feel like a lot of people with kneejerk reactions against this article didn't actually read the whole thing. Just jumped to conclusions.
"Very fragile" and the Bus Factor: those things ignore the Lindy Effect (as modified by Taleb).

Monarchy in one form or another has lasted thousands of years. It does have the succession problem (or the Bus Factor), but requiring the monarch to designate a successor is the usual solution to that.
On one level yes.
I just can't imagine (anymore) pumping money into an ecosystem that purposefully makes it so difficult to run free software.

I admit that excludes more and more modern hardware, but apple is the most expensive and profitable.
Everyone says this but it misses the point. Fruit in it's natural state is a complete package of nutrients, fiber, and unrefined sugar. It has less of an impact on blood sugar than processed food with the same amount of sugar.
You've greatly summed up the tax law, well done.
> More profoundly, though, Agre wrote in the paper that the mass collection of data would change and simplify human behavior to make it easier to quantify. That has happened on a scale few people could have imagined, as social media and other online networks have corralled human interactions into easily quantifiable metrics, such as being friends or not, liking or not, a follower or someone who is followed.

As Hannah Arendt wrote in 1968 (!)

> From a philosophical viewpoint, the danger inherent in the new reality of mankind seems to be that this unity, based on the technical means of communication and violence, destroys all national traditions and buries the authentic origins of all human existence. This destructive process can even be considered a necessary prerequisite for ultimate understanding between men of all cultures, civilizations, races, and nations. Its result would be a shallowness that would transform man, as we have known him in five thousand years of recorded history, beyond recognition. It would be more than mere superficiality; it would be as though the whole dimension of depth, without which human thought, even on the mere level of technical invention, could not exist, would simply disappear. This leveling down would be much more radical than the leveling to the lowest common denominator; it would ultimately arrive at a denominator of which we have hardly any notion today.

> As long as one conceives of truth as separate and distinct from its expression, as something which by itself is uncommunicative and neither communicates itself to reason nor appeals to "existential" experience, it is almost impossible not to believe that this destructive process will inevitably be triggered off by the sheer automatism of technology which made the world one and, in a sense, united mankind. It looks as though the historical pasts of the nations, in their utter diversity and disparity, in their confusing variety and bewildering strangeness for each other, are nothing but obstacles on the road to a horridly shallow unity. This, of course, is a delusion; if the dimension of depth out of which modern science and technology have developed ever were destroyed, the probability is that the new unity of mankind could not even technically survive. Everything then seems to depend upon the possibility of bringing the national pasts, in their original disparateness, into communication with each other as the only way to catch up with the global system of communication which covers the surface of the earth.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Men in Dark Times"
Kosovo/Bosnia was about the new incoming French president Mitterand doing private deals with Milosevic, who promised him that the enclaves will be okay. They weren't. Srbenenica caused the NATO airplanes finally flying, ending the sieges and genocides.
But isnt that too far fetched? Most people dont care about anything else than checking emails and playing candy crush. They dont think about empowerment or subjugation or changing the world.
It is very well supported and also loved by the community as far as I see, also I’ve been a long MySQL user so PostgreSQL should be a fairly familiar tool. The easier thing with OpenStreetMap maybe is that it can cache a lot of stuff to serve it faster since most of the features is contains remain “static” and unchanged, I can’t always do this since I have to add and remove stuff very very often and still get a response back as fast as possible to not annoy users. I guess I’ll have to try it out and see what works out best
Perhaps surprised that they can't make the trip in the car with the specifically selected Premium Leather Seats and the Piano Black trim within the next 2 weeks? :)

In all seriousness, that's not entirely true. From first person accounts I've heard, in the early 80s and throughout the 70s everything was more or less OK in the Soviet block. Of course the selection was not as great as in the West, but essential 20th century conveniences were available. In the late 80s things really started to fall apart and it became painfully obvious that their economic model is not competitive and ultimately unsustainable.
you're really harping on the "product advertising" angle. If you dropped that angle completely, if you didn't think this was about that at all, would you still be mad? Why?
As an observation, we have become extremely accustomed to the unprecedented easy with which we can buy things, from a gigantic selection of vendors, levels of quality and design, and other (real or artificial) differentiators.

Now that this comfortable situation is starting to unravel even slightly, the reaction is one of incredulous disbelief. "Surely this can't be happening, we live in prosperous times!" seems to be the gist of a lot of people's reactions.

We have become so used to (near-)instant gratification, that maybe we need to take a step back and recalibrate our desires, demands and expectations.

I'm glad my family has always had a modest outlook and ability to comfortably live within our means, often finding creative solutions when money was a bit short.

It has ingrained in me that compromise is not a hateful thing, realistic expectations make everything more manageable. For instance, I don't hold the specific car I own• to be some essential part of my identity or image. I take the more practical view that if it performs the tasks I need and meets an acceptable level of quality and economy, I am satisfied. Then it doesn't matter if it's a Mercedes, a Toyota or a KIA. If someone looks down on me or thinks less of me because they don't agree with my choice, then that is their problem, not mine.

• I don't own one right now, but it goes for any other possession, really.

Moderation needs to come back into fashion, in a big way.
This was achieved also by ignoring open issues and simply closing the bug even though the issue still exists. An example of this is:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21526

In general, I find too much emphasis is now on "closing" an issue as soon as possible. I understand that open issues can be a burden for maintainers. However, filing issues, especially making them reproducible, can also be a burden to users, and users will stop filing issues if too many of them are closed unilaterally without actually correcting the root cause.

As I remember it, the Emacs maintainers used to put a lot more emphasis on actually correcting issues instead of only closing them, and this may also be the reason why fewer issues are reported now.

A great attraction of Emacs is how easily one can actually report issues, using Emacs itself: M-x report-emacs-bug RET.
It’s not really a comprehensive interpretation of intercalation but I think a geometric interpretation can help some non-chemists understand how intercalating molecules bind to dna.

From the purely geometric model, some of the molecules you proposed have pretty large functional groups adjacent to rings which I think may make the intercalation process less efficient. That being said, if you took those molecules and gave massive doses to rats, some may comeback as carcinogenic.

I think that your multi-ring point is fair. The multi ring structure to me suggests that the more the pi orbitals are able to delocalize their electrons the higher the binding efficiency. I have tested 1-2 molecules where non-fused rings showed some affinity but not near the potency of fused ring structures. I would also say two rings with a carbon-carbon link seem to be potent binding as well. I presume that it’s also related to delocalizing pi orbitals and extra degrees of freedom in the intercalation process but I suppose that’s just speculative.
That describes pretty much every dictatorship or tyranny; from "right wing" ones to "communist" ones.

Words (like this one) can change their meaning in their popular use and that's fine but probably better to use better terms, especially with emotionally loaded ones.
Looking at that data, RSV looks to me like a normal yearly peak, albeit earlier than usual. COVID is over 100x more cases.
> When they own all the v4 ips

... there won't be any value in them any more.

if the only folks left who can use IPv4 are the hosting providers ("big three" or not), then nobody will be using using IPv4 to contact all the hosted services.

large swaths of users have IPv6 available to them. if there starts being some inconvenience to not having 6, we can be sure adoption will pick up even faster.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Is the real estate market (esp. for renting out) actually dominated by private investors and their savings? Here in German cities, it feels like it's dominated by faceless investors and corporations but I have no data to back that up.
Many schools around the world have mandated masks for over a year. Show me one that has observed negative impacts on child development. My point is that folks on one side of the debate routinely accuse the other of making decisions based on ‘fear’ and not data, but then are guilty of the exact same thing when it supports their position.
From your own linked study:

> It is important to not single out sugars as the enemy to be avoided at all costs. Sugars are a naturally-occurring, integral component of many unprocessed foods.

> A positive correlation between sugar consumption and obesity is only apparent when sugar is overconsumed, which is the topic of this review. It is worth recapitulating that obesity is a multifactorial disease. This review focuses on the association between sugar consumption trends and obesity prevalence. However, for a holistic understanding of the causes of obesity, we must also take into account such factors as physical activity, economic status, and consumption of other macronutrients, i.e. fat, and micronutrients, among others.

Yeah, I don't think we will come to an agreement here.

Seems you really want to do something against obesity and you are ready to accept quite a lot of collateral damage by punishing people with extra tax who don't need to be protected/helped at all.

I on the other hand believe that the sugar itself is a minor problem, the bigger problem is the lack of physical activity and micro-nutritients. There is some overlap here, because added sugar has zero good micro-nutritients, but I personally believe that low-carb is great not because of the lack of carbs but because it's easier to get your body satisfied with everything besides calories when eating ingredients rich in fat and protein than those rich in carbs - but even here there are exceptions (such as pumpkin).

But that's my personal assessment and as your study says, we don't know enough yet how much impact the different factors really have, so no one really knows. However, increasing bureaucracy based on not well understood concepts is probably a fairly bad idea.

Oh, one more thing:

> It's about taxing the biggest contributor that is adding lots of excess calories into your diet

Sorry that doesn't make any sense. If I ate 2500 calories today and 500 of them were "excess" (because daily I burn only 2000), then which of the 2500 are now your so-called "excess calories"?
Hello -- Been in and out of this country as well as other regional countries a lot in the past decade and I can attest it's probably some of the best in the whole latin american/caribbean zone. Fibre to the home rollout across the country in places where you wouldn't expect it like the beach and the jungle. What's spotty isn't as much actually the internet access, but the electricity. I usually make sure I'm in range of 4g and keep good batteries for the two hours or so that the 4g towers have batteries. After that it's time to go eat a mango in a hammock or something until it comes back on. Being in central time zone also helps for doing stuff like calls when you're dealing with people on both east and west coast and in between like your brother may be considering.
Lessons I’ve learned after 2B lambda executions
Thailand is coming close to a digital nomad visa.
What's your point though? That building walls is a useless endeavour or that anti-fascism is evil becay an anti-democratic state abused the term for propaganda reasons?

If it's the latter, I hope you'll never look into the historic use of terms such as democracy, freedom/liberty or "free elections".
If they were sick of it, they wouldn’t lap it up. People like drama. If they didn’t we wouldn’t have reality TV
Need to widen your similes.
They're gonna feel so silly when they get all the way here to kill us and realize we solved their silly little problem and they have to turn right back around and go home. The looks on their translucent non-existent face things...
I don't believe it's that pragmatic. There's a great sense of the unknown, as if society will totally shut down. After all, you don't see people shop the same way when they plan to be home for a while (vacations, kids not going to school during the summer, etc)
It's sad that we can only think of touch screen interfaces as "dumbed down". The affordances of a touch-centric interface have yet to be fully explored; at least in principle, there's no reason why they could not be made just as capable as a keyboard+mouse.
> However these cases of polymer fume fever were mostly present in people who had cooked at 390 °C (734 °F) for ≥4 hours.

My oven goes up to 250 °C, though I never use it above 220. What cooking processes go to each of these thresholds?
Also like the story:

> A fellow got backstage after the violin maestro's performance. "That was amazing", he gushed! I would give half my life to be able to play as well as you do! The violinist looked at him and nodded. "Yes, that is about what it took!"
Are Windows, Linux and MacOS really better platforms for lots of tasks, performed by mainstream and professional users for daily tasks, principally because they are used to pipe text between command line tools? This is delusional.

I have good news, iOS user's productivity woes are solved. Using iSH you can pipe text between command line tools all day every day. Finally the power of the iPad is unleashed!
> GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages

This is extremely misleading at best. As far as I can tell from reading this stuff, the only thing that has changed recently is that github-repository-files.githubusercontent.com has started serving an AAAA record. (Perhaps other subdomains as well, but that’s the only one reported and it’s definitely not all.) That’s nothing to do with GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages has unofficially supported IPv6 for more than three years apart from the DNS records, so if you’re brave or foolish enough you could add AAAA records on a custom domain that’s handled by GitHub Pages.
Humans are built to progress technologically and socially. It would be weird and unnatural if people didn’t want things to improve. It doesn’t matter how bad things were in the past. Your argument is a bit like saying we shouldn’t work on new CPUs because what we have now is so much better than an abacus.
In theory it's supported, in practice you might lose the machine.

Tried on 3 tests VM last month, nuked 1 out of them, failed somewhere mid process after removing half of the system packages. That machine never rebooted.
> And refusing to be vaccinated in the midst of this pandemic harms society in a significant way.

Getting vaccinated can also harm oneself in a significant way:

Clot risk to 18-39s from AstraZeneca vaccine is twice as high as Covid death risk, Euro study finds https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40328123.html

Being forced to vaccinate in order to maintain one's livelihood is simply beyond the pale:

Covid-19: Mandatory vaccination violates fundamental right to livelihood, says Meghalaya High Court https://scroll.in/latest/998409/covid-19-mandatory-vaccinati...

"Vaccination by force or being made mandatory by adopting coercive methods, vitiates the very fundamental purpose of the welfare attached to it. It impinges on the fundamental right(s) as such, especially when it affects the right to means of livelihood which makes it possible for a person to live."
Personally, I moved to CentOS from Debian (and then to AlmaLinux OS) because of DNF modules. You get multiple versions of different language runtimes and you can pick the ones you want to use - so I stick to the LTS versions. You aren't necessarily stuck to just one packaged version of a language runtime now - and 10 years of support is lovely.
This is a simplistic take. Haiti has been buffeted by serious internal political forces which have negatively effected its growth trajectory and stopped it from having a viable economy.

To blame it purely on France enforcing the debt is missing a fair amount of Haitian politics. It's not it wasn't a factor but it's way more complicated than just France bleeding Haiti dry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti#Political_str...