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> cardinals are mathematical games

Totally agreed, as with 2+2=4. It's an interesting topic in philosophy that we often gloss over because the naturals are exceptionally predictive of so many things in the real world.

> cardinals aren't necessarily commonsense

Maybe. The two notions being applied are (1) that if you just rename everything in your set you haven't changed it's size, and (2) that if all renaming attempts necessarily leave some elements out then the set containing those elements must be bigger. Any "size" capturing those two ideas is equivalent to a renaming of the cardinals.

> naturals vs even naturals

Any topological sort of the infinite subsets of the naturals preserving the set inclusion partial order is going to have some weird oddities. In particular, you'll have a lot of incomparable sets (like the evens and odds, or like all the vertex-deleted N-{x} sets) which are artificially bigger/smaller than each other or artificially the same size, despite the order superficially looking like one based on set inclusion.

> other more commonsense alternatives to cardinals

Even just looking at infinite subsets of the naturals, any ordering you choose must necessarily have the property that there exist infinitely many sizes which each either do not have a next bigger element or do not have a next smaller element. That's a decidedly weird property that doesn't manifest for finite sizes, and it's entirely unavoidable. I'm potentially okay with "size" not being used as the name, but as a counterpoint the motivation is to extend the notion of "size" for finite sets as best as possible.

> cardinals aren't useful

They're often used to prove things that you do use directly. Sometimes those proofs can get convoluted, but a surprisingly effective technique in many domains is just arguing that two sets have different sizes so they can't be the same (or can't map to each other in the desired way or whatever). Cardinalities agree with our intuition about size on finite sets well enough to directly extend to those sorts of proofs. As one example, the math leading up to the fixed point theorems proving the optimal solution to a GAN yields the desired probability distribution is usually done (and originally done iirc) via infinite counting arguments.

I'll be the first to admit that my day-to-day as a programmer doesn't often do much with infinite cardinalities, but given that the mathematical world we've constructed for ourselves happens to often line up nicely with the real world, "mathematical games" that leverage existing intuition to expand our knowledge of that mathematical world still seem valuable.
Loss of sword makers is a global problem! There used to many sword makers you could get a sword from as an Army officer - now there's only a couple left.
+1 I actively avoid listening to podcasts on Spotify because I strongly disagree with them trying to take over the one type of content that remains fairly open and not locked in to any particular platform
Thanks, good tip. I am using gmail and occasionally log into the accounts to ensure the emails are being received, and there are not problems with the account.
Have they always been in control? Yes, for the entire existence of the US it has been legally capable of creating a US Dollar and of turning it into a fiat currency.

However, for large swaths of the time the US has been around that has not been politically feasible, and I'm not sure it would have been economically feasible, fiat currencies seem to have taken a while to gain stability and acceptance.

For a large period of time the US was on a gold standard and de facto did not have control over monetary policy. It doesn't matter much that they technically had power if they didn't use it.
Tell HN: Imperfect Foods Is Imploding
Multiple VP+ level staff left and they just did a huge swath of layoffs today across the org. They are trying to keep it clamped down - managers don't even know which of their employees are being slated for termination. People found out because GitHub and JIRA access was revoked before managers knew what happened and IT was flooded with tickets + requests and then accounts dropped like flies off slack. Feels like a mutiny brewing. Expect even more rounds to come as well as waves of resignations. Might be a slow burn or could go up in flames any second.

Be careful out there!
I wonder if it could be the hardware acceleration? Hardware acceleration can be weird at times and cause strange behaviors. They are not always consistent across all computers. I couldn't find the information if there is a way to disable the hardware acceleration in Safari.
> no one has demonstrated a preimage attack. So given just an illegal hash one can't construct an innocent image with that hash. These demonstrations show only that a second image can be transformed to have the same hash as a first, given image.

Isn’t this exactly like that?
Or am I missunderstanding something.

https://twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1428269674912002048?s...
> part of managing your life is also giving up on trying to convince strangers that you're awesome.

Amen. I find that it’s easiest to just focus on being awesome and let others figure it out on their own. Some won’t—oh well!
Thank you! I do prefer to defer to a framework of Bohr's than to Zizek's.
That would make sense from a perspective of the transactions being higher risk, so higher transaction fees could cover the additional risk. Why would they not have explored that option in the first place, though?
They're all equal in the sense that physically they're all the same. If you load every hardware thread equally, they run at equal speed. In a sense each thread is exactly 1/2 of a core.

It's not like "logical CPU 3" is slower than "logical CPU 7"!

This is like a highway with equal width lanes. Sure, there might be more traffic in some lanes, but the lanes themselves are equal.

The new Intel CPU is like 8 wide lanes that can be used by up to 16 motorcycles or 8 cars (or combinations thereof), alongside 8 medium-width lanes only usable by small cars. It's bizarre for a desktop CPU.

PS: Looking at the die shots, it boggles the mind that they didn't include 16 efficiency cores! They're so tiny that it would have been a negligible area increase, but given the relative performance it seems like it would have been worthwhile. I'm guessing memory bandwidth limits are holding them back somewhere...
Doesn't M0/1/2/3 have to keep up with population growth? I'm no economist, but dividing the S&P by M3 seems like a category error. In the US, we've got 130 million more people than we did in 1970, and 50 million more than we did in 2000.
What a terrible, and dare I say, wrong summary. It's more like politicians staying on irrational positions because changing it would mean things like political suicide (by low-information populist voter outrage)/admission of being wrong.
>and where the US government used a sham vaccination campaign to collect genetic samples from a whole community in order to locate and assassinate a single terrorist.

What story are you referring to here?
> why can't the other UC system members learn to replicate whatever is necessary in order to work towards having a reputation in the same league as UC Berkeley?

Well, they're not independent. You apply to the UC system and you get a decision back telling you which schools you've been admitted to. So the system is free to decide that one campus is better than another one and implement that decision by assigning better students to the favored campus and worse students to the disfavored one.

I believe that's how Berkeley ended up as the 'top' campus in the first place - it was the best one because it was supposed to be the best one. UCLA is different; it "worked its way up" via applicant preference, by having better weather and/or proximity to Hollywood.
I think ecosystems are more interlinked than we realise, and perhaps conditions became more hostile to animal life on land too over time.

Marine ecosystems got wiped out quicker than land ones, perhaps because there is a tipping point in oceans beyond a certain level of acidification, temperature increase and oxygen depletion - after which marine life dies relatively fast, faster than it can evolve
Joe will be the first to say he isn't well informed at all and that's yet another reason why he likes having long conversations with all kinds of people. He's incredibly transparent and authentic, and that's what people seek more than anything. It's the reason for his rise along with many others building independent followings now.

Whether you like him or not, or agree with his views, is entirely subjective. But it's interesting to see how much control people want over others by the topics and conversation they want to prevent and suppress, and those actions speak far louder than words.
Some of that time I was bored. Really bored. I think that was a good thing and it helped me think deeply about a lot of things.

I mostly filled the time with traveling the world. I made it to all 7 continents, so I put that time to good use.

When COVID hit, that was too much. I was losing my mind from nothing to do. I started coding again, built an art website and newsletter.

Then I started studying and landed a job 6 months ago.
Berkeley is super selective and huge mate.
I subscribed to watch season 8 of alone. Each show had about eight thirty second commercials that you couldn't skip. Last time I'll try that way to watch something.
For me, I realized though that you do have control. The solution is counterintuitive, though. If I am at risk of burnout I slow down a bit, but I don't outright quit. I also queue up labor that will derive small tangible, almost guaranteed wins. Although programmers seem to burn out a lot (probably because there are almost no limits to how much effort you can put in... There's always more code to be pushed, after all), programmers uniquely have the tools to reschedule small tasks (e.g. refactoring, writing those tests you've put off) that can create small emotional "success hits", sometimes even with primary stimuli (green passing tests dots). These can serve to reassociate effort with reward.

Conversely, taking a vacation immediately after burning out is likely the worst thing you can do, because it associates not-effort with reward. Typically I like to drop in a timing-non-negotiable vacation far enough in the future to dissociate from the burnout, e.g. 2mo.

Anyways, it's been many years since I have had a full-on burnout. (I have had project burnouts though, where I refuse to continue working on a given thing and pivot to something else with a more favorable seeming reward schedule).
Exposing Fraud and Deception in the Retro Video Game Market
We'll get you someday ;)
"Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean"

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-oxygen.html
I am sure you repeat the same argument with practical application when you go and tell a caveman that the earth is not flat.
The dream of carbon air capture edges toward reality
I'm in total agreement about the potential of growing AGI out of these methods, but there will be bottlenecks well before the gods of the singularity come knocking.
But OF didn't announce a move to crypto payments. They announced that they were wiping out a massive amount of their current business in order to stick with traditional payments.
> The various health authorities told people not to use masks at first because: Hospitals were in danger of running out of protective equipment.

We pay the CDC. Not the reverse. And we don’t pay them to give us socially engineered advices depending of the politics or economics of the day. We have other federal organizations to screw up that part of our life already. And it always ends up badly when you don’t tell the truth to people. Never in history we never came to conclusions “What a relieve we lie to the people.”
> However, for example, my understanding is that Greece was _forced_ by the ECB and others to undertake some wildly unpopular austerity measures. It doesn't sound like they had a lot of control.

They weren't forced per se. Their government was close to bankrupt, facing loan repayments it couldn't pay. The choice was either refinancing or default. The EU offered refinancing loans, but on strict conditions including austerity measures. The Greek government decided that those austerity measures, as painful as they were, were a lesser evil than the immense economic chaos and uncertainty a default would cause. The situation the Greek government faced wasn't hugely different from that repeatedly faced by some other governments such as Argentina. The main difference between Greece and Argentina is that Argentina controlled its own monetary policy, and hence had some control over exchange rates; but, when faced with massive debts you can't repay (denominated in international currencies), control over your own exchange rates is only of modest help.

It was commonly said at the time that if Greece defaulted it would have to leave the Eurozone. I'm not sure how true that actually is – the Eurozone has no formal mechanism to expel a member, and so if a defaulting Greece refused to reintroduce the drachma, I don't think there is anything the ECB could do to actually force them to. However, in such a dire economic crisis, there is a decent chance the Greek government may have decided that leaving the Euro was the best option, and negotiated with the EU for a voluntary departure. Since default was avoided, it never came to that.
That is not the point. There's the legal system. Then there's morality and how you raise kids. If the parents act like these, they shouldn't be surprised they're raising little filthy thieves.

In other words: parents raising kids giving them values like respecting the private property of others (no matter if it's actual physical gold coins, a bicycle, Bitcoins or whatever really) probably wouldn't use such pathetic tactics to try to dismiss the case. But the real point is: parents raising kids with actual values probably wouldn't be raising scummy thieves in the first place.
Then why don't they convey their uncertainty? Seems like the bare minimum. Also, they clearly lied about their reasoning in the initial guidance not to wear a mask, you can understand why people would mistrust them and a public health agency lying to the public at the start of a pandemic is ill-advised yet no one has faced accountability for that deceit.
> I'm not an anti-vaxxer but was holding out.

No judgement, just genuinely curious, but what was your reason for holding out?
O only use onenote for quick anotations on my phone and bookmarks. The rest is concentrated in joplin.
How much oxygen comes from the ocean?
Can a state university expand to other states?
You might also enjoy FutureMe: https://www.futureme.org

You can send emails 10 years into the future! :)
I was told that with gemstones, a stone of lesser hardness can never scratch one of greater hardness, no matter what. I wonder how that relates to a cheap potmetal sword and a strong, hardened one...
I know a capitalist when I see one!
Yeah I'm over macOS, since 10.12, having used Apple OS's since System 6, sufferung years of not ready for prime time OSX but settled into that regime for almost 20 years. And now its Fedora Linux #1, Windows a distant #2, and then macOS.

The churn in macOS is annoying. A few year old version can't run the latest TeamViewer, I'm running into more of that now where on Windows 10 that's not even a thing (yet, maybe there will be a breakthrough with Windows 11).

shrug
I agree completely. I left at least $200k in RSUs 2 jobs ago because the general atmosphere. At some point I could barely get out of bed the depression was so intense. The day I quit I was literally involuntarily laughing on the way out. Only after did I realize how dark I had become. It’s really not worth it.
They weren't opinions. I stated facts about what "free speech" applies to, and what it doesn't. You pretending to not understand it does not change those facts. Neither does your repeating your contrary-to-fact, silly assertions, which have nothing to do with actual government restrictions on speech.

Let me just reiterate this, on the one-in-a-million chance that you actually don't get it: Joe Rogan can restrict the speech of whomever he fucking wants, for ANY reason, and that does NOT constitute any actual restraint on anyone's "free speech" rights.
I'm surprised anyone has a good repair experience. I've had a hilarious amount repairs and complete replacements over the last 6 years (before then, not much), and now most Apple stores need to ship the mac away for at least 7 days to get it inspected. Fuck. That.

It was the case even in LA when I was stopping through on a road trip.
Uhhhh I'd have to take Quadraphenia in any best Who album list...I think I've bought it at least 6 times in like 4 formats and I can still listen to it end-to-end without effort.
> The ACLU used to understand this probably better than most organizations and today, like much of CA and NY, they're lost

This is a line I've read from texts dating back to at least 1973 by conservative authors, nearly verbatim.

I think cultural mores change and conservatives have a hard time adapting.

Alternatively, they've simply been dishonest with themselves since just after WWII -- start with the nonsense about FDR allowing Pearl Harbor to happen -- because they believe the ends justify the means.
Right so it seems somewhat similar to the profits you can make programming. Doesn't seem like a crazy get rich quick scheme, just years of hard work paying off.
It's a bit of an open secret at this point that Amazon is also using 802.11 PAF (Public Action Frames) to aid in the magic "unbox an amazon device and it immediately is online". Would admittedly be interesting to have this side of the Echo devices also look at as the paper seems to not mention this portion of the OOB experience
The Chief People Officer as PM
Affects: RSA SecurID Software Token 4.2.1, Citrix Receiver
and Cisco AnyConnect 4.7 and earlier

Ouch. That's going to break a lot of remote work.

Side note: I guess I hadn't seen, or maybe really looked at "codesigning" as a single word before. It reads like "co-designing" for me.
Dude! The risk may be small, but it is not zero.

For someone who already has natural immunity, that matters.

If serious adverse events are 1 in 100,000 - and I believe they are higher the younger you are - then that's significantly better odds than playing the lottery to end up hurt.

And for what?

"The greater benefit for society" is actually negative if you've been confirmed to have natural immunity.

If there's any point that you have to argue against this, I'd hope you make it instead of throwing out assertions.
This is exactly what I mean by "disingenuous bullshit". CPI is a distorted corrupt measure of price levels. Money supply cuts through that.
Don't forget to ask for your signing bonus.
> All the packages that have been built can be accessed from the Janitor APT repository

So you can choose if you want to roll the dice on cutting edge releases.
Well you can use this relationship to establish the cardinal numbers. You can use "there exists a bijective function between sets X and Y" as an equivalence relation between sets. And with a equivalence relation you can talk about partitioning things into their equivalence classes. But because we are talking about a relationship between all sets it gets tricky to formally construct things (because there is no set of all sets for you to use to define things, so you can't just say "take the sets under the equivalence relations"). There are multiple ways to explicitly construct them, but they tend to be pretty complicated compared to just talking about bijections. The constructions I know about either require the axiom of choice or the axiom of regularity (every non-empty set A contains an element that is disjoint from A). But you don't need any of that to establish a lot of the properties of cardinalities
“Stop worshiping the comedian I don’t worship!”
Especially while driving. I've shut off podcasts because I can't sit there listening to the same 2 minute interview-style ad for the 10th time.
There's more to immunity than antibodies. When comparing the effects of vaccines versus prior infections we also need to look at memory T cell activity over an extended period of time. So far I don't think we have any conclusive evidence on that one way or the other.
I don't see any adverbs in the post being referred to, making it even more pointless. "Speed" is a noun, not a verb. "Time" is also a noun, so in both cases we're looking at adjectives.
this all makes sense, I guess I misunderstood, thanks for the response
Wait. Your fearmongering about adverse reactions to the vaccine, but you acknowledge that you had an adverse reaction to COVID and indeed, the # of people with serious COVID complications dwarfs those with vaccine complications by orders of magnitude.

Also, this study doesn't seem to segment what the strain the 'natural infection'. The current vaccines are not engineered from the delta strain, but the alpha strains, and therefore it is not surprising you get breakthrough infections. But they don't seem to distinguish in this study between a natural alpha or a natural delta infection.

And there is an argument for getting it at this time:

1) If you get a booster, the chances of re-infection/breakthrough go down. In other words, you will not be an infectious disease vector that spreads to other people and increases the R0 value.

2) If you don't, and get re-infected, you will go on to infect other people. Maybe the symptoms won't be bad for you, but they may be deadly to someone else.

Whenever these debates about vaccines or masks come up, people always talk about my body and my freedom, but they never seem to consider the fact that their decisions are actually impacting the wider community. This isn't like a libertarian property rights decision about your own fenced in property, when you are infected by COVID, you are invading other people's bodies from your territory, and it behooves you to try and stop spreading to other people.
My bad.

Having a few will have the flagged photos sent to their servers, now liable to be obtained by external forces. Then processed by a second visual hashing algorithm, liable to the same type of collision attacks, using obfuscation as its promise of security.
Why would you reply with an anecdote to someone specifically mentioning they’ve heard plenty of anecdotes but want data?