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Despite this weird sub-thread, the article isn’t talking about “dangerosity”. They’re reporting on the increase in evil activities by anti-environmental mega corps, who are also murdering opposing activists.
I would expect there is. I take lot more are murdered in absolute number now than then were let's say 40k humans on planet.
> in environmentally damaging activities such as logging.

That's most probably the case, yes. I live in a country (Romania) where a lot of illegal (or borderline-illegal) logging activities happen and a few environmental activists have been physically harmed while one or two foresters have actually been killed.

The issue is that many mountain communities (where the logging happens) are dependent on that activity for their actual survival, because honestly there's not that much one can do in a mountain village to gain your daily bread, and of course when outside forces (like the central administration that employs said foresters, or the environmental activists whose income does not depend on those trees being cut down) come in and threaten that survival the inevitable happens, i.e. physical violence.
>>I'm not sure the points you've raised demonstrate that there are many New York teachers that should be fired that have not been.

Only 75 public school teachers were fired in all of New York between 2015 and 2016, over a span of 16 months in total, coming to a rate of 56 teachers fired per year, for a work force of ~75,000 teachers. Now unless only super humans apply for teaching positions in New York, that points to an extreme lack of accountability for New York teachers.

In the real world, many people get hired for jobs they are not well suited for, or are not prepared to commit themselves to enough to do the job competently, and shortly thereafter, are let go.

>>New York city is also one of the most expensive states to live in so any financial comparison would need to be relative to cost of living.

Median income in New York is $67,000, and that's dragged up by the very high median income of the large bloc of public sector workers. So the public sector workers are the elite, even in relation to other New York residents. What's troubling is that the entire media is unionized too, so they share a common interest with the public sector unions in perpetrating the ideological narratives that keep unions in power.
I personally dislike middleman parasites and thought the internet would allow people to directly do business with creators.
But then I have to admit the convenience of a single store.

I think Apple wants avoid a Trivalgo or Booking.com situation were people search for hotels but book a room directly on the hotel's own website for less.
OK, I see your point. "Innate" was a carelessly chosen word and on closer consideration a red herring. The risk of getting killed by opponents might just be inherent to protesting in a lot of places.
OP probably mistyped 'Bitcoin' instead of 'BitTorrent'.
One interesting point some "truthers" make is that the welded steel lattice frame of the buildings should have been an efficient heat sink transfering heat away from hotter areas to colder areas. So warpage is unlikely to have been significant. On the other hand thermal expansion of relatively straight beams is likely what brought the towers down.
> This is murder

Worse, it's corporate murder. Not some "crime passionel" or a marginalized mental patient going bezerk.

This is big corps silencing dissent, premeditated and usually paid for.

It's hard to get justice in these cases, like in this case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co.
If you look at the corporations named, none of them are owned by locals. They’re all global mega corps, owned and operated through Western parents. They exploit the local chaotic governance to their advantage - and evade prosecution in their home countries by virtue of it being conducted on “foreign soil”.
You're right, I should have said "solvable" instead. Maybe some people wouldn't react so poorly to the comment. The point was that dumping the combustion products into the atmosphere and as a result reducing the total mass of the plane as it flies isn't some unsolvable advantage of jet fueled planes compared to the electric ones.

1) Detaching heavy objects while in-flight is a tried and tested technology. We've been doing it ever since flight was invented.
2) UAVs are not making the news anymore and fully autonomous landing has been commercially available since the mid-60s, granted, for very different type of aircraft, but it's becoming more common for light aircraft too.

Dropping UAVs from airplanes is of course a whole different ball game, but wouldn't you say it's.. doable? Ultimately whether the added complexity is worth it depends on the proportion of energy used during taxi, takeoff and climbing compared to the total which varies wildly depending on distance and other factors, but tends to be highest for very short (but also very long) flights which is where electric aircraft currently stand a chance.
Sounds like things "smart people" are generally guilty of. I am guilty of those things too from time to time, I just hope I notice when I am.
It must be "soul food". There's material world "below" and there's world of ideas "above". Matter has essence, so it's substantial; and ideas must be "supersubstancial". That "lord's prayer" tells something along this line: "oh, the god who lives above, your name is sacred, your material world reflects your ideas above, give us soul food, save us from duality, ..." (my own interpretation, sounds a bit egyptian).
One thing I actually liked about the Stanford workshop that accompanied this white paper, was the emphasis on, what in physics we often summed up as, “More is different”[1] Basically, it's the principle that drastic qualitative change and stable structures commonly appear as you scale up base units, which would be almost impossible to predict when you just have a unit level understanding. I.e. qualitative structure that emerges, let's say, when a certain system has 100 million units does not do so linearly such that if you see a system as it scales from 1 unit to 1 million units you would have any evidence of the emergent behavior at 100 million.

It is irrelevant when folks point out "but human cognition isn't any different at its base than the machine" because we can very clearly see there is a massive qualitative difference in behaviors, and there is a wide gulf in architectures and development that there is no reason whatsoever to expect a qualitatively unique (so far as we can tell) behavior as conscious language use to ever emerge in a computer model. It's pretty remarkable that the only other cluster of biological systems that can even physiologically mimic it are songbirds/parrots who come from a very very different part of the phylogenetic tree. Who could ever predict that aberrant homology if I just gave you the 4 nucleotides?

More is different. You don't get complex structure by just crudely analogizing and reducing everything to base parts.

[1] Anderson, Philip W. "More is different." Science 177, no. 4047 (1972): 393-396.
The point of having the denominator is so that you don't need to assume anything, you can just know which way the rate is going.

Perhaps you're right that in this case, the rate isn't going to stay constant. But in general, with news reporting, I found it safe to assume that if the rate was rising, they would've reported on the denominator too - the reason to omit it is usually because it would kill the story.

EDIT:

To expand on this further - and again, I'm defending the original question as a perfectly legit one, not trying to diminish the fact that we're talking about murders here - you always want to see the whole fraction spelled out, numerator and denominator, because the other common trick to deceive with numbers is by providing only the ratio itself. E.g. "over past year, incidents of $crime rose by 80%", or "$substance increases your cancer risk by 300%", where the unmentioned denominator is "3" and "0.00001", respectively.

The way I see it: even if we're talking about clear tragedies or acts of evil, it's always better to have an accurate picture of what is being talked about.
I think so Brain, but what about the other letters? Narf!
Presumably, all that Jesus does is a reinforcement of the self-same Logos. There's a lot of repetition of the same principles across different contexts.
In most countries you could take public transport to work.
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I doubt that. Users reluctant on data sharing will mostly see government as the larger security issue.
The severity and number of side-channel attacks is slowly becoming cripplingly ridiculous. At what point do we just give up with side-channel attacks on consumer devices and assume the mentality that all consumer devices connected to the internet should be treated as insecure by default.
netlib BLAS/LAPACK, openBLAS, AMD libs, intel MKL, eigen, armadillo, GLM, Blitz++, PETSc, Trilinos (and I am not even starting on more "specialized" such as sparce matrices).

There are maybe one hundred libraries in the field.

IMO all of them and certainly any new/active one(s) should clearly differentiate (or state) thier purpose/goals and what makes them different. Please note, I am not saying what makes them better but different.

I am also tired of reading/hearing "HPC/simd/parallel" without ANY benchmarks/timings to support such claims. Isn't it strange that software implementing mathematics make claims (almost all of the times) without any measurements/proof?

Thanks for the info though, I might remember to try it in the future.

edit: the rant is not about Blaze, it is more of a general rant about similar libraries. I feel I have to mention that Blaze at least tries to address what I am complaining and I also saw that they have instructions on how to replicate their benchmarks on ones' machine which IMO is what every project should be doing.
This was my first instinct as well! Running binwalk on the binary dictionary file immediately outputs that it's a series of zlib-compressed values.
I am, at least on Firefox on desktop. Doesn't help me on mobile though (I use Brave; AFAIK Firefox doesn't support plugins on mobile).
What are you talking about?

Apple unsubscribe is pretty darn solid. Phone > Subscriptions > toggle to off.

Dear auto renewal app, get stuffed.

I use this feature often, and it’s excellent.

> I don't subscribe to a lot of services, but I find that eg. subscribing and unsubscribing from Netflix is a much nicer experience than subscribing from something that uses Apple's service.

Wtf. How easy does it have to be?

Come on, let’s be specific here instead of vague hand waving.

What exactly is this great unsubscribe service from Netflix that is better than a three step toggle?

Settings > subscriptions > Name > alter or cancel.
> there is not necessarily a reason to assume that the percentage of murder of activists is going to stay the same if you increase the number of activists

If activists are being murdered for activism, the rate among activists will go up. If a greater share of the population is becoming activist, and are being randomly murdered for non-activist reasons, that’s a different story.
Genuinely surprised "radiation" didn't make the list.
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Well the key word is occupational. They are just a regular regime, not occupational. And they take “handouts” from their ally of choice just like every other state. There’s no occupation going on and they aren’t a puppet state.

If you topple the Saud dynasty then another regime would take their place. They aren’t suppressing some kind of egalitarian wellspring. If you disagree then I have 2000 years of history to show you.
Sorry, typo. BitTorrent, obviously.

And why would the centralised or decentralised nature of the search affect user behaviour?
Not sure if that's quite right?

The ones targeted by the law and activists for illegal logging are usually companies connected to politicians. They are indeed violent, but they don't get to benefit from any excuses like the one you presented.
I have an ARM board with 4 A53 cores with just 1GB of RAM. Despite these limitations I can successfully cross compile from my host. So yes, under circumstances memory might not be such a big issue.
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/safety/127118-meow.html

https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/i-had-hear...
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i disagree with the implication that murder somehow shouldn't be looked at in statistical terms. I am not saying it should only be looked at in statistical terms, but it is one important way of looking at it.
In the case of the team moving to a new compiler, what are you suggesting? We can’t merge in use of a newer compiler until there are zero warnings in all our products? Who “fixes” all those code bases? Who touches the pieces of code that were last touched 5 or 10 years ago?
I think the tenth (Cauchy residue) and eleventh (Fourier domain) are my favourites, and what I'd use if I had to produce a proof to save my life.

I didn't know you could use the Stirling Approximation though. Anyone who does any thermodynamics should be very familiar with this trick, but I think people rarely include the second order term with the suspicious sqrt(pi) factor, much less think about where it comes from.
What indication do we have that environmentalally unfriendly companies are murdering activists?

I cannot imagine that being their best PR strategy, not to mention the fact that murdering your opposition attracts a lot of scrutiny, investigation, and which corp exec would want to risk going to jail for ordering a hit on an activist. Far more practical to lobby or spread counter marketing spin.
Remote inspection and checksum of the device firmware can solve this problem. You should worry about intentional hacking of the firmware, i.e. self-replicating botnet.
>>Your hypothetical HIV vaccine example is not relevant to the situation with Covid.

I never posed a hypothetical HIV vaccine example, and your deliberate mischaracterization of my point is another demonstration of the bad faith and manipulative tactics you employ.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938405 (227 points by mapmeld on June 20, 2016 | 90 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226174 (165 points by da02 on Dec 21, 2016 | 113 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22120285 (422 points by lelf on Jan 22, 2020 | 247 comments)
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So you are okay with corporate murder, as long as they don't murder more than have become activists as a ratio?

If murder rates have doubled that is bad, regardless of the number of people becoming activists.
the idea that there's no possible way to reasonably estimate the number of environmental activists seems very unlikely to me.
> The only gap I could fault all involved with would be somehow expecting the unexpected -- that plane hijackers wouldn't be interested in flying the plane to safety, but would instead intentionally fly it into a building.

Sadly it really shouldn't have been unexpected.

> ...between 1994 and 2001 CTC [CIA Counter Terrorism Center] collated no less than twelve specific reports warning that terrorists were scheming to hijack an airliner and fly it into a prestige target. Several of the reports actually named bin Laden and al Qai'da..

(from the book Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-Ups by John Hughes-Wilson)

The amount of intelligence collected really shouldn't have been missed. There was tons of it, from all sorts of sources, including suspected terrorists on lists that were taking flying courses and asking about flying big airliners, who didn't have any interest in landing or taking-off It was an epic failure on the scale of the US intelligence epic failure of Pearl Harbor.
It's also somewhat weird to have both the prefixes super- and sub- in the same word.
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There's a good reason for this -- the version of GPT-3 used for these tests was fine-tuned on CYOA adventures, where this kind of sudden death is very common.
The trouble with regret minimization
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The so-called progressive movement, which now fully backs the vaccine mandate, has NEVER been for the War on Drugs, even when it hadn't failed. And the kinds of behaviors that the political left regards as protected vices are not limited to those engaged in by addicts. For example, high-risk sexual activity that leads to HIV infection rates 100X higher among gay men than the general population, is not associated with any addiction, and yet the vaccine mandate supporters by and large would be the type that would be aghast at any suggestion of deterring such behavior with punitive government measures.

So yes, the motivations are suspect.
It is, but:

* it's hard/impossible to prove - given how many factors go into ad targeting there isn't a conclusive way to prove whether an ad was targeted because of illicitly-collected data.

* as you see here even blatant GDPR breaches and acting in bad faith doesn't actually land you in trouble, so although it's "illegal", the law isn't enforced. Experian (or Equifax) got caught by the ICO knowingly misusing people's credit data for marketing purposes and all they got was a warning, so clearly the message is that "breaching the GDPR does pay".
Maybe something from this:?
„Fathom Analytics”, „Matomo”, „Simple Analytics”, „Plausible Analytics”
Not used any of them, but they seem interesting.
Do you happen to have some sources for a reasonable estimation on the number of, say…

• hackers?
• crackers?
• political activists?
My guess is they will just stop doing “Top” lists and do more categorised “Featured” lists and “App Spotlight”. I think the end result will be the same, exposure for the lucky developers and potentially increased revenue.

If there are other stores, antitrust no longer applies and Apple can feature whoever they want on their store front.
Wouldn't you expect the number of murders to go down if there are more activists united in one region?

To paint a clearer picture you would have to look at the distribution of both murders and new activists. I bet there are more online activists now, but it doesn't necessarily translate to having more helpers in poor areas. Which are where the natural resources are.
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> Why would you expect the murder rate to be constant?

they didn't expect it to be, they said if it remains constant.

You seem to be the one making the assumption -- that it wouldn't remain constant -- otherwise why would you have made that comment?
The user might otherwise compile it on a newer compiler with new warnings. You don't want such new warnings to break the build for users installing the software.
You can remove the "probably". The manufacturer of Ivermectin states there is no scientific evidence [0] supporting the use of the drug for COVID-19. So much for the notion some espouse that "Big Pharma" pushes their drugs on us without fail.

[0] https://www.merck.com/news/merck-statement-on-ivermectin-use...
If I saw someone pour grape juice from a teaspoon into their drink, I would definitely assume that "grape juice" was slang for some type of drug, since people don't generally pour fruit juice by the teaspoon. The fact that the person sniffs the grape juice would only confirm my suspicion. It seems to me like GPT-3 is drawing perfectly reasonable conclusions based on the intentionally weird way that the prompt is phrased. Phrasing things in a way that intentionally misleads, and then claiming that GPT-3 failed at the task because it picked up on the weird/misleading phrasing, seems just a little disingenuous to me.
These are murders of people. The pertinent comparison (for those interested in the whole "murders" thing) is with how many murders there were in previous years, whether it's gone up, etc, information which is covered in the article. To say there's nothing newsworthy about these murders, just because you were personally interested in a number you couldn't find in the article, is crass.
I wouldn't mind a toggle switch in settings that requests me to push "Yes" if I place my phone on a wireless charger. If you leave this function off, it just charges (for people who don't mind the risk).
Incredible post. Ticks all the boxes and exciting to see this coming to Zig. Protty has got to be a domain specialist when it comes to atomics and threads.
The increasing number of activists murders to me only indicates that the killers and especially whoever is behind them isn't being caught and is still free to eliminate again and again people they find inconvenient for their businesses. If each one of them was arrested and given a life sentence after each murder, whether committed or by contract, we probably would have solved the problem ages ago.
Those people have shitloads of money at disposal for hiring gunmen, so I expect they can buy other people among the local law enforcement too.
Apple has the luxury of making these decisions for everyone. Their gobs of money come from elsewhere.

Netflix only has subscriptions. They think about them a lot.

The hubris of Apple is such that they think they can change the businesses of everyone around them. They want all businesses to wear turtlenecks, pay their 30%, and stop complaining about individual business needs.

Imagine how hostile it must be to also have the giant telling you how to do your subscriptions turn around and launch their own movie and tv streaming service!
Wow. Not sure I want to even try replying to this uninformed mess of a comment.

I’ve never been more sure of the sad HN bubble.
For some it's the exact opposite, the, are forced to meet up in small 'badly' ventilated rooms to have their cig.
How do you estimate the supply/demand of your career?
For me, to plan one's career, they need to know what rules/skills/tools are becoming in high demand, and also what roles/skills/tools are becoming easy and commoditized so there is a huge supply/competition, One can check Linkedin/Indeed/etc manually to gauge demand, but I am sure there are better ways, also how do people check what skills are becoming crowded to run away from?
You seem to have mixed up your conspiracies, DuPont itself was the one calling ozone depletion "a science fiction tale … a load of rubbish … utter nonsense", according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
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nope. What has that got to do with my comment? Someone was implying that it was impossible, I was saying that claim was implausible. People estimate those kinds of numbers all the time for statistical purposes.
Since the first PipeWire integration in Fedora (beta), the majority of my problems with Linux audio, especially on the wireless side, disappeared.
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I think what the author means is 'new chip could be used as a single decoding circuit instead of having a chip combining all the protocols and algorithms'.
> Here in New York, we had the Rockefeller sentencing laws in the 1970s. There's people still in jail, today, for offenses that would get a slap on the wrist, these days.

That's so sad. Lives were ruined and society not only pays to to ruin their lives by keeping them in prison, but also basically destroys any means of rehabilitation. We really have to rethink our justice system when it comes to drug abuse.
There were so many senseless studies that I am not sure this one was real, but at least one study a out a year ago claimed vaping makes it worse, while cigs didn't.