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So here we go again...

New technology is created. Young technologists focus only on the technology and not on any impact on society - imagining that tech exists in this utopian world where only technology matters and it is wise to ignore its role in society. Hmm I wonder how this will play out (current impacts of social media misinformation, crypto using the energy of a major counties, impossibility to buy graphics cards, the current state of privacy and data slurping all give us clear precedents...).

They make a simple request that he insert a hook so it can be monitored how it's being used. The bare minimum of responsibility - and he refuses, and we're supposed to feel that he's the victim??

At one point does our field finally grow up and stop imagining that our work exists only in a computer lab somewhere as a curiosity for our friends to play with. Technology impacts society there is no longer any excuse to bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't. That's how we ended up in a state where ever page and program is trying to captureand store everything about our private lives and thoughts and nobody knows how to stop it. Because nobody took a second to think about the societal impact of a private data driven internet - only about how they could leverage some tech to improve their ad hit scores, or customer engagement.

Stop ignoring responsibly in tech.
> Basically no acoustical difference, except in perceived effort.

On the data points measured. It's easy to observe things like "heavy cannabis users tend to have flat affect," but very difficult to translate "flat affect" into something measurable.

Look at the way that Alex Grey or Terence McKenna talk. There is clearly something going on there, regardless of our ability to measure it.
No. I don't even have a strong opinion about punishing people for infecting others through negligence. But I think it is worth bringing up whenever anti-vaxxers bring up alcohol and drunk driving.
I found this:

https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Security

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/privacy-and-security-of-sailf...

But personally I don't think sandboxing is the the one and only ideal solution - already I can introspect the environment on my Sailfish OS device much better than an Android device with hundreds of opaque proprietary services running in background doing something.

Also basically all the third part native apps are open source & developed by long term trusted community members.

So I personally trust Sailfish OS devices much more to be secure and private just as a result of these things.
The FUD around modafinil in this thread is interesting, given that amphetamines are both used more frequently per capita and have worse side effects.
You're right to insist on looking at cost and benefit. Vaccines have indeed saved lives.

Problem is that the emergency authorization means that we don't yet know what the cost is aside from the adverse reactions. The latter are described as 'rare' by journalists who prefer that term to quoting freely available data which changes week by week as in the case of boys who we now know suffer x6 risk of myocarditis than the same risk if they contract Covid. Is there a further risk down the road? A number of peer-reviewed papers have pointed out that this cannot be ruled out. When the papers dutifully write 'very unlikely' we know we're looking at a lottery with unknown odds.
As others have commented, the documentation is not there yet. I've never had good experiences trying to switch from pulse to pipe.

It sounds like some distros are using as the starting point for new installs, like Arch.

Is this the best way, to just install a new distro from scratch. I just don't want to try to hack a bunch of configuration files from pulse.

If so, what's the best distro offering pipewire. It seems like a revolutionary change and I'm excited to use it.
Well, imagine the case where a loner looses their best friend, and goes to this website to "talk with their trusted friend again" instead of getting some real help. Will GPT-3 reliably counsel this sad and lonely person to "stay behind", or will it suggest the should "meet up"?

Consider a lonely teenager whose internet friend one day stops replying so they go and make their own friend, and then maybe after "taking advice" from this friend goes to school with a gun?

Maybe not terribly likely events, but I think a certain element of risk must be managed (maybe limit session durations so you can't fool yourself into thinking its for real as easily).

Roher however, has pretty clear views that he won't manage any risk, because what he's doing is art and then there's no place for safety.
My experience is with ADHD. It’s really hard to compare, as I’ve only ever been me, but I’ll do my best. Just take it with a grain of salt.

You know that feeling when you think ‘I should really start X right now’ or ‘I could use a break but probably shouldn’t yet?’ As I understand it, that’s the kind of thing I innately am at a disadvantage against. It’s also what treatment helps with. It’s easier to actually start and continue the things I want to do.

Adderall specifically also makes me too tense and physically over sensitive in a very hard to describe way.
There's two takeaway's I get out of this.

GPT-3 was trained on terrible writing, meaning it'll produce the most mediocre lit known to man.

Or far more horrifying, that this fellow managed to fill in a semblance of self, an understanding of time, and an understanding of existential finitude. In doing so, this may be the first case of death by ToS.

This would qualify this as the first illustration of angst by an artificial construct, a demonstration of what could ultimately be considered machine oriented sadism. A pity it isn't around for prodding on the subject.

Either way, makes my skin crawl.
Labelled property graph: https://neo4j.com/blog/rdf-triple-store-vs-labeled-property-...
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Idaho doesn't seem to be in trouble based on the capacity dashboard.

https://rationalground.com/hospital-and-icu-capacity-dashboa...

Also, if you go back in look for headlines of hospitals being overwhelmed, you will see they exist for the flu for almost every year as well.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/01/24/Hospitals-overwhe...
> As to the actual science we have vastly more data on COVID vaccinations than most drugs or vaccines the FDA is approving

Who is we? We never received the raw trial data. The data that the general public does have access to, while very flawed, says these vaccines are the most deadly ever to be widely administered.

> People avoiding vaccination and thus dying because the FDA hasn’t done full approval is more than a political issue. It’s a real heath issue and exactly the kind of public health problem the FDA is concerned with.

People mistook the desire for long term safety studies and completion of phase 3 clinical trials as "FDA approval." The two things were previously synonymous, at least to the lay person. FDA approval was merely a proxy, now it's meaningless.

> The general public doesn’t understand

The general public can't add 2 fractions, what they think is irrelevant.
The personal responsibility story would also imply that everyone should take performance enhancing medication. After all, it's everyone for themselves.
Amazon is indeed not a "another free DNS service", that should have to be in different points of time. Overloaded a "free DNS service" they launched an EC2 instance, or vice versa.

> They could've gotten geographical data from 1.1.1.1 to the accuracy of the edge nodes but decided to just outright block 1.1.1.1.

Yes.

But they cannot get back in time to getting information from the edges simple by unblocking.

Since CloudFlare sends queries not from the edges.

So there is a deadlock atm.
"Dry gas" which is used to correct moisture problems in cars' fuel systems is alcohol: Ethanol, methanol, etc. and it takes advantage of alcohol being hydrophilic.

Ethanol has requirements for hoses and seals that might otherwise be degraded by alcohol. But this is not an ongoing issue in modern vehicles.
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Who cares? I read through the entire thing, I followed up with the BMJ article linked by another poster. That's the end result that comes to mind, who cares? Why do I need to waste my time playing detective?

Was it made in a lab? Is it engineered from a SARS strain found in a copper mine? Was their GoF testing done in WIV? Will any of these questions being answered improve my life in any meaningful way? The answers are: Maybe, maybe, maybe, and a hard no.

I cut politics out of my life and it improved my outlook dramatically. I think it's time I do the same with Covid. I'll worry about the people around me in my community, and in a decade or so I'll watch the documentary on this mess when the dust settles. Until then I'll let the politicians, journalists, and scientists fight amongst each other all they want, and I'll be happier for it.
Distributing state wasn't the goal on IRC, only relaying messages. If you miss a message you miss a message. You can use client-side tools (bots, bouncers, etc) to record state but the protocol itself doesn't care.
Given they only had 31 subjects, and the group with cannabis use without cannabis use differed drastically in alcohol and tobacco consumption, I think one should take these results with some degree of caution.
> Attempting to protect someone by taking away their ability to make that choice is equivalent to removing the option to eat enough food to become obese.

We do that to obese people already. It's called a diet. Some of them even go farther than mere "prescriptions" but with psychological tricks to keep people on track. Also, really, comparing obesity to COVID19 is an apples to oranges thing. Obesity is not even viral.

What you're missing is that in all these measures that seem so controversial (lockdowns, vaccination campaigns) preserving an individual's life/health is secondary to the main goal, a means to an end. The main goal is to not overwhelm the public healthcare infra.

No one cares if you want to go to a concert when you're ill but when that illness has the potential to strain public health resources, then that's a different story entirely.
after being diagnosed with lead poisoning ... again.

> In 1923, Midgley took a long vacation in Miami, Florida, to cure himself of lead poisoning.
There are entire subreddits dedicated just to trying to keep up with stories of vocally unvaccinated people dying awful and scary deaths from COVID. These incidents are so common it's impossible to keep track of all of them -- 1k deaths a day in just the US, virtually all of which are unvaccinated.

If what you're saying is true and the vaccine itself is even more dangerous, the internet should be overflowing with countlesss stories of thousands of vaccine-induced deaths every single day. Instead, it's overflowing with stories of folks like your mother dying after spending weeks in complete agony not able to breathe on their own.
That's assuming good sleep and less stress is enought. When it's not, that's when people may turn to stimulants.
We dont have an accurate assessment of traffic pollution or air pollution in general. Thanks 'regulatory agencies'
Yes agreed - the title doesn't seem to accurately reflect the details in the abstract.

Beyond a larger sample size, IMO it would have been also been useful to take repeat measurements of the cohort over time and also under the influence, especially given the observation of "change in line with duration of abstinence from cannabis use".

Perhaps those details are in the full paper, I haven't been able to find a copy.
In fact I wish SpaceX had a worthy rival. They're practically becoming a monopoly of space transportation by default.
Try drinking an adequate amount of water, everyday, as it solves the dehydration[1] you're experiencing.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dehydration/s...
No, just tax or outlaw this behavior, don't nationalize industries.

There is an intellectual framework in place for making sense of leaded petrol in the context of markets, and that's externalities. It is no different in concept to noise pollution, carbon pollution, or other types of externalities, it is just one that's significantly worse.

Leaded petrol is at best a negative externality which should be taxed, and probably should just be considered physical assault similar to punching someone in the face (the user of the petrol is giving others literal brain damage) and totally banned and criminalized.
Unauditable binary blobs will come to Linux phones as well, if they hit the mainstream. It should exists on phones already if the want to say that they are privacy friendly.

There area already many closed source apps such as Spotify client or Slack. Nothing is stopping those apps to read your browser cookies if they want, in case they are installed as regular apps and not sandboxed.
Why are Linux distributions hosted on multiple mirror servers that they don't own?

1) money 2) availability 3) trust 4) security

1) If you don't have a lot of money, you take the servers you can get. Donated mirrors means you don't have to pay the bandwidth or hosting bills.

2) If you have multiple servers, it's less likely that one server going down will tank your project. When GitHub, AWS, or even Level3 has an outage, Linux distros keep on chugging like nothing happened. Traditional server maintenance is also easier when everyone can just switch to a different server.

3) Maintainers can use their PGP keys to create signed packages and downloads. Their public keys are distributed on mirrors, as well as embedded in the downloads they've signed. Once downloaded by users, the distribution can verify its own integrity. But how does the user know they started with the real maintainers' public key? The public key is distributed on a hundred geographically-distributed servers all owned by different people; the user can check them all. So other than compromising a maintainer's key, it's logistically impossible to compromise end-user security. (this one is more Linux-specific than IRC-specific)

4) If you only have one server & it gets compromised, it can be hard to tell. By comparing its operating state to the other servers, you can sometimes more quickly identify the compromise. And if you do find a compromise, you can remove the compromised server quickly, close the hole on the other servers, and start regenerating keys. It's an eventuality every large project should be prepared for, and IRC servers do get compromised. Linux mirrors don't matter in this regard, but the build servers etc do matter.

IRC comes from the same time and place, and has some (but not all) of the same considerations.
Those that use religion as a justification for violence are not interested in religion, but power. Taliban is no different.
wow I so wish I was taught this way.

I am currently paying a math teacher to teach me derivatives all over again. I know how to solve those since I am from a science background but don't know what they really mean.

even simple things dy/dx, is that
dx multiplication or is d a function. It took me 2 frustrating classes to even let the teacher know what I am trying to ask.

Math as algorithms would make self learning so much easier and fun. I would love the field of mathematics if it was not so ambiguous.
I think it’s still too early to draw conclusions about how effective vaccine passports are. There is still a significant proportion of people not accepting them, there is also another group who have been vaccinated but are now protesting the use of vaccine passports, and with the requirement of a third shot and the potential requirement for a fourth or continuing boosters we cannot know how the sizes of those groups will change. If vaccine passports become permanent my money is on it following a similar progression as prohibition or the war on drugs, it will eventually become a law that everyone flaunts. The human cost will depend on how much violence the state is willing to pursue enforcing laws that no one wants. If history is a reliable measure it will be horrific, biased, and long lasting.
They make a simple request that he insert a hook so it can be monitored how it's being used.

That sounds like a potential privacy violation, particularly if the conversations are of an intimate, private nature. What do they think could possibly occur with a chat bot that requires monitoring?
Wow and I thought the narrative even for Proton as an ICBM was pretty flimsy! A huge loss that Korolev died so early due to his gulag destroyed health as it looks like he could push through what was needed, by any means necessary! :)
The comment to which you replied is making a useful point actually. Self hosting is not free in the relevant sense when comparing cost vs a third party API.
As someone that lived through it, two things stuck with me

1. YouTube just worked, it relied on Flash and that was installed on almost every computer. IIRC google video required some other plugin and it didn’t work great.

2. There was a lot more content to watch, probably because they were less good at filtering copyrighted content.
I think the details of this are a little more coincidental than you and I connecting randomly because we're Jewish.
The reason liberal democracy is so successful is because it's the safest system to become wealthy in through means that don't involve influence in a bureaucracy or paying off gatekeepers*. That means essentially anyone can become successful, which unleashes the potential of a much bigger proportion of the populace. This makes freer societies dramatically more innovative, industrious and successful.

* Gatekeepers still exist in liberal democracies, no system is perfect, but they don't control everything. The freer a society is, the less control and influence bureaucracies and gatekeepers have, and the bigger the incentives are for gatekeepers to help others achieve success.
Fedora uses pipewire. Try LiveCD image.
There are plenty of wealthy people who have little claim to any sort of elite status, and plenty of elite people who don’t have a lot of wealth. It’s easiest to see it in the following way: there are plenty of elite people in America whose net worth might be “only” a couple million of dollars, but less than $10M. Think, a typical high profile journalist. For comparison, there are probably something like 3-4 million people in America whose household’s net worth is above $10M. Are they all elite? Clearly, not.
I like the teaching style and the lower-level BEAM focus. Bookmarked it!
Note that PipeWire was initiated by Wim Taymans, one of the driving forces behind GStreamer. I think it is one case of the right people in charge of the right projects :-).
What a coincidence! just before I come across this post,
I was reading this book this morning.
You're picking and choosing. Murdoch is rich AND (or because) he owns a global media organization, which provides influence/impact. Plenty of billionaires have tiny impact or influence, or just in a small niche, in fact, most of them you probably wouldn't even recognize their name.
Poincaré Conjecture
>If you can replace the software to whatever you like, so can the baddies

What are you talking about? A "baddie" can grab my phone, replace my OS, and I won't even notice? How does he know my encryption passphrase to set it back? Or he would insert malicious software into a powered-off encrypted block device?
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It makes sense. If the number of identifiers you’re storing exceeds 1/2 the cardinality of the identifier’s underlying key space, then you can simply store the complement at a reduced size. Why store (2^32 - 10) random 4-byte identifiers when I can store 10 instead, and invert the lookup query?
There are apparently substantial differences between Amish communities with regard to rumpsringa, many follow the description you relate, but there are variations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa
> I'm generally an avid beliver (sic) in free markets as an agent for positive change

That form of belief gets fixed in your mind via a very different method to beliefs such as "what goes up must come down".

It's not a result of distilling evidence.

It's a result of persuasion.
Here's my suggestion. No matter the field you work in, if you work for someone else, it's less fun and fulfilling than if you worked on your own ideas. If you switch to arts, the only difference is going to be that you might enjoy doing work for someone else a bit more. The trade off is going to be _a lot less money_ and potentially less time to work on your own ideas because you have to sustain yourself, your family and some quality of living.

You could take a different approach. You can buy time with money, and you happen to be in a highly paid field, so you could either reduce your hours to part-time to maintain a level of income that allows you to pay the bills, or, alternatively, make a plan to optimize your CS career such that you can retire early by the time you're 37, while keeping arts as a hobby (e.g. get into a FAANG as a senior engineer at $275K+/year and save/invest wisely). Afterwards, you could go full-time working on your own art ideas, not for someone else. At 27, 37 feels like it's a lifetime away, but 10 years fly by _fast_, especially the older you get.

That said, if you're posting here, I'm assuming you are semi-seriously willing to take such risk, and if there's a time for this risk to be taken, it's definitely now, while you're still in your 20s, because in your 30s not only do most people have a family (or at least a larger family than in their 20s), you have all sorts of bills to pay, including more medical bills. Just be mentally prepared to be permanently behind your colleagues professionally and financially in 5 years when you decide to come back and take a lower level job than you would have otherwise had if you stuck around in the CS field for those 5 years.
Have you written about this anywhere? I'm curious what common disease could be cured in the manner you described. It seems like the low-hanging fruit is already picked clean in the pharma industry.
Pipewire is implementing Alsa, Pulse Audio and Jack already.
I don't think alsa is going away but I can see Pulse Audio and Jack being replaced by it quite quickly.
The way that airplane wings work allows planes to sort of float on a cushion of air, so modern planes, for example a 747 at cruising speed, have a lift to drag ratio of 17. So one pound of thrust gives you 17 pounds of lift.
> enemy combatants

this is literally the core fascist tautology that the article is critiquing, gotta love the uncritical regurgitation of it
The way America’s legalization effort has progressed has been really unfortunate. It seems as though no attempt at finding a middle ground was made, and consequently we wound up with complete legalization.

Marijuana is an addictive highly potent mood altering substance that’s become available on demand with no real discussion about the consequences. Will anyone argue that having 15% of the otherwise young and productive demographic zonked out 24hrs a day on “Mint Diesel x AK-47 DDH Live Resin (TM)” gives us an advantage over China? Hyperbolic discounting par excellence.
You should use the actual state's dashboard:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/idaho.division.of.pub...

And Idaho is absolutely overwhelmed. In past flu seasons they have not moved to crisis standards of care, I don't even see Idaho in the article you linked so I'm not sure what relevance it has here. Are you claiming the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is unaware of their own ICU utilization status?
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