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Directly related to dithering and compression, Return of the Obra Dinn is, to an certain extent, an "unstreamable game".

When this streamer on Twitch tried to play it [1], the quality of his composited webcam would immediately drop as the compression algorithm focused on rendering the high-frequency dithering sections of the screen. As soon as he would aim the camera away from the fancy rendering (to the sky for instance, or the menu), the video quality would immediately improve. Really a fascinating clip.

[1]: https://imgur.com/S191sI0

Here's a thread of someone complaining about it on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/ls06j5/the_unstream...
I don't know why this is downvoted, because I have also found it to be true (within my immediate family).

It's hard for me to dig to the actual reasoning, but I've poked and prodded, and I think it might just be some rationalizing to help them cope with the idea that they are, in fact, vaccinated against certain diseases.

Also they're just ignorant in some cases. I got a response to the tune of "yeah (I'm vaccinated against some things)--against diseases, not viruses." Which clearly fundamentally misunderstands some things.

I've also heard people who are just against mRNA vaccines. And some who are (somewhat reasonably IMO) against mRNA vaccines until they've had a reasonable time period to let side effects etc play out.
Correct, I am not ok with 10’s of thousands of completely unnecessary deaths because people believed dumb antivax memes on Facebook
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I noticed that a borg list command executed way faster after e.g. the Zurich upgrade. Thanks!
My take too. It has not followed anywhere near a normal process for a medically safe/effective drug to be approved. I'm for it being completely legalized but the medical aspect is very weird.

The DEA has not helped this at all but MJ is basically legal at the state level(s) because activists successfully argued against the war on drugs and via political will. Not because MJ treatments have been proven scientifically safe & effective.

The thing I am most skeptical of is the safety of delivering the drug via smoking raw Marijuana. This is completely off the reservation compared to most medical drugs.

Activists swear that it's safe to inhale MJ smoke into your lungs and you won't get cancer but it's extremely hard for me to believe with a straight face. Almost any type of smoke you inhale into your lungs has very bad side effects over time. We can make it legal but then we might discover it does increase lung cancer rates like tobacco once you daily smoke for 30 years. It's possible no one has really been able to smoke it at that level due to it being so criminalized.

I agree this doesn't matter for a terminal cancer patient cause they are dying but so much of medical MJ has seemed like a political foot in the door to get it legalized for recreational use.
The Hopi and the Mohawks off the top of my head. There is a documentary about the regenerative and restorative practices from the Native American tribes. Permaculture is a synthesis of modern ecological science and drawing deep from indigenous practices.

And yes, I would say a history of civilization is a history of value extraction, exploitation, and fighting over resources.

You don’t actually need the science to live in a way to see things in wholes, but the science can help.
I knew a guy who assumed that if marijuana would be legalized, the streets would be consumed by masses constantly walking and driving around stoned.

Props to him though, for at least having some level of consistency. The same person also admitted to me he was strongly against alcohol and wish prohibition had succeeded.
I think one of the things we need to appreciate is the scale of video uploads that YouTube has to deal with. There are something like hours of videos uploaded to YouTube every single minute. Aside from dodgy medical advice, they need to look out for child pornography, revenge porn, snuff videos and incitements to terrorism and violence, not to mention copyrighted content. There's no way they could hire enough people to review every single video that's uploaded, so if they're going to have any review at all, it has to be automated.

Getting their algorithm to have any understanding of content that's being uploaded is an extremely difficult problem, and the fact that they're able to do so with any degree of accuracy is an impressive achievement, whatever the merits. Expecting a YouTube algorithm to be able to parse a nuanced reasonable argument from bullshit is to expect a level of AI sophistication that doesn't exist yet.

YouTube could, and probably should, hire people to review videos from high profile YouTubers, but this is only going to work for people who've already established themselves. There's no way to scale that down to everyone that wants to upload something.

So yeah, moderate voices pointing out that people who have already had covid have a solid degree of acquired immunity, or maybe we shouldn't shut down schools are being clobbered. That's a bad thing but it's tough problem to solve.

I also think there's a broader problem that a handful of private companies have such control over public discourse that they're able to effectively censor ideas at all. Or maybe they're not so effective, but the level of control that Google, Facebook, etc, have should give us pause.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that we should go back to the free for all internet that we had in the 90's where everyone who got online had equal access. This would allow a level of nuanced moderate discussion that we desperately need, but it will also allow crazies, and child porn and terrorists and all the rest. If we don't want that kind of stuff to be easily available online, we need to figure out not just where to draw the line, but how to draw the line. This is a hard problem.
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First of all I am fully vaccinated.

It is believed that Vaccine supporters are dumb and ignorant, could be, but how can you prove that the other party is small and well educated.

Such carpet will fuel further the conspiracy theorists and they would say to their followers, "See, we were right! they do not want you to learn the truth about vaccine"
This. We should by default oppose all expansions of bureaucracy. Only when it is impossible to not expand should it happen.
Yes, you can. Herd immunity as a public health policy includes protection from severe illness; COVID vaccines have consistently been shown to provide protection against severe illness even when new variants appear.

Also, to point out the absurdity with all of this: we wouldn't have as many variations as we currently have if people were to actually get their vaccines. Handwringing over variants while also resisting the chief tool we have for reducing the likelihood of new variants is ridiculous.
I have a cognitive bias poster on my wall that categorizes about 1/4 of researched biases as "Too Much Information" [1].

In the context of Democracy, the trouble with "actually, it's sort of complicated", is that there is absolutely no way that all citizens can approach everything this way and still have time for, e.g. the Pursuit of Happiness.

In other words, trust (and trustworthiness) is key. We must delegate to someone, whether expert or not.

Traditionally, organizations with cult-like properties envelop people in a kind of "information bubble" that makes deciding who to trust a tractable problem.

The culture of science does this to some extent, but is unable to compete well for a number of reasons.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Cognitiv...
People have become complacent and accepted the ballooning power of the federal government.
Unfortunately the websockets implementation only allows IPv6, and in my tests from a js app sometimes took seconds to start if it worked at all. I’m currently looking for an alternative broker due to those issues.
> There's an object lesson they sometimes do in university classes or corporate retreats where two people are asked to push against each other's hands. It usually ends with "why are you pushing so hard?" "Because you were pushing so hard."

Perfect example is the current crop of vaccination mandates being pushed by the federal government. Look up "New reported doses administered by day", and you'll see the number of vaccines being administered has been declining since the mandates were announced. If your goal is to get more people vaccinated and promote public health, it turns out forcing people to do so and censoring discussion actually has the exact opposite effect.
I've often thought companies should provide say $500/month for each of their developers to pay out to the open source projects of their choice. One month an employee might give it to Vim, another to Curl. I think a discretionary scheme like that would buy a lot of good will from the employees, potential hires and the development community.
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this advice seems a little harsh and direct, but i agree with it.

would just add, if you are in america, there is very little labor protection, so just find a new job.

i read about the one lady who helped create one of the vaccines - maybe biontech, not sure.

she got pushed out of everywhere, fired, demoted, harassed, etc. -- kept doing good work whever she went.

eventually had the breakthru, etc.

think she said, even without the prize money, she would have been happy/proud of the work she had done.

she had this consistent thought that every problem also presented an opportunity.

which i think is not a bad way to look at things.
He sound like he was ahead of his time for someone from the colonial culture.
>I think a factor we all underestimate is Elizabeth herself has this super creepy presence in nearly every photo and video where she makes an appearance -- something just seems "off", in an almost uncanny valley sort of way, and confirmation that something is in fact "off" in the form of an actual scandal

Got to learn how to recognize the antisocial ones. This is how you figure that out.

You can fake a lot, but the involuntary eye muscles don't move properly, so you can see it in the eyes.

Some use that to avoid certain people. Some use it to find the people they are looking for. The words that are said don't matter as much. You can just look them in the eyes.
The money needed for the “unlimited online access” is a tiny fraction of what the publishing industry currently devours. Arxiv and its clones already now serve a large portion of the whole scientific output at a fraction of the cost compared to the journal publishers. So that’s not a problem.
It's amazing that modern software techniques are so slow that speeding up rainbow braces is necessary (let alone worthy of an article).

Get off my lawn (while I water it with my tears).
They claim that for increased job security... What they don't understand is that they could get a more productive job somewhere else...

If they would defund the DEA now, how far could they push back the shutdown?
> if you just want to dismiss the observation.

I'm not and I'm willing to give it a chance. I'm just not seeing a strong correlation.

What I do see people doing when they lack control is to attempt to gain control. Put together a group, grab some of that sweet power through mass. The more ambitious ones fight their way up the power structure. Special bonus points if you can take over an existing seat of power.
https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1306805724975046659

This supercut should illustrate the way neo-nazis such as the proud boys [1]

are normalized and swept under the rug. Some 30% of the US voters will enthusiastically support such groups, and another ~20% happily look the other way.

Fascism is like a weed that must be continually demonstrated against. Else you end up with police departments executing their own countrymen in the street, pregnant and naked, gun to the back of the head; convinced that if they don't they "betray their brothers in arms". [2]

It is an insidious ideology brought about by increasingly desperate conditions of the proletariat and stoked by "might makes right" worship of the "glorious leader".

[1] https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/civil-war-brewing-inside-pr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Police

Learn from history, because it's already repeating itself.
Only if the cause is external to the system - like an asteroid. If the cause is internal ( war, shift in global order, etc ) the people with the money are the ones causing it so they aren't surprised at all. Only the ones out of the loop perhaps will be caught by surprise.
there was a mention of overall costs

""In March, Palari Homes and the construction company Mighty Buildings announced a $15 million planned community of more than a dozen 3-D printed homes in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The community has a waiting list of more than 1,000.

The same month, Icon announced it had teamed up with the developer 3Strands and DEN Property Group on

>>four 3-D printed homes in Austin, priced at $450,000 to $795,000.<<

Icon has also printed homes in the Community First Village in Austin, a project of the nonprofit organization Mobile Loaves & Fishes that provides permanent housing to homeless men and women""
I mean that’s a great pitch for universal healthcare as any I’ve heard. I would be for strengthening the FMLA as much as possible. But I’m not even sure covid is impactful enough.
Just to be clear, i wasn't suggesting that client-side validation was the issue.

See my response above.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28697485
This is a great article. I always find it tragic when people think changing language and wording changes reality. It's all the worst things about arguing semantic taking to an absurd extreme.
How do your fellow scientists get work through peer review without showing that it is trustworthy?

And how do they get funding to do science without showing its important?
Politics is about mass-manipulation of emotions, and I’m sure there are sciences to help with that.
React does a lot more than WebComponents. Primarily the reactive programming model of only updating subtrees whose props change, but also an entire parallel tree of state/context updates for propagating data that lives alongside the component hierarchy.
I think there's a substantial difference between impossible and illegal. Uber was mostly possible (don't want to minimize their efforts in operation optimization) but also illegal/unregulated. Same for AirBnB.

Personal Computers on the other hand... that's almost all innovation with a dash of unregulated (garage companies, surreptitious deals, etc).
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I am tasked with developing a new API and communication method for a bunch of networked devices that run embedded Linux. Initially I focused on MQTT, but have since decided to define an API in OpenAPI and implement an HTTP/REST-style interface because that's well understood and easily supported by third parties, whose APIs we might want to integrate with or provide a translation layer for.

But the devices need to alert a controller application to status changes... which so far I supposed they would do by POSTing REST-style messages back to that application. Do people combine REST & MQTT?
> "Liberals started doing it."

Let's be precise; the left started doing it. We are literally discussing how big parts of the political left in the US is moving away from the liberal ideals and philosophy that it once embraced and championed.
>If you're claiming something that hasn't been demonstrated through peer-reviewed scientific research,

That's not how science has worked, especially in this pandemic. Most of what we know about SARS-CoV-2 came to us through biorxiv preprints and posts on forums like virological.org; the added value of peer review has typically been minimal (but often adding 3-12 months of delay in disseminating information). Even the role of peer review as a gate keeper has been wanting, lots of garbage studies about Covid-19 with glaring confounders keep getting published in peer reviewed journals. You could probably find a few hundred trials with systematic age differences between treatment groups that have been published in respectable venues. Some of these studies even contribute significantly to misinformation about the efficacy of sham treatments like hydroxycholoroquine and ivermectin.

There is unfortunately no short-cut to the development of individual scientific literacy, no trusted tier of experts which can safeguard us from misunderstanding and falsehood. We're all more or less on our own.
All that is in the book "Bad Blood".
In my experience React, despite its complexity, was always far simpler to use than WebComponents because it has clearer documentation and established patterns. I'm sure WebComponents can do everything React can do, but they do not have anywhere near the ecosystem and developer support you get with React.
The tactics of one who's arguments crumble in the slightest glimmer of sunlight... I hope one day you can understand how hateful your positions are.
Perhaps we could redirect the DEA towards enforcing responsible use of antibiotics? You don't have to dismantle the Agency and we can do something about the antibiotic-resistant bacteria problem.
The not-so-hidden cost of AWS
The term is regulatory capture. There are a number of financial motives behind blocking legalization: drug and booze makers protecting their turf, religious wingnuts seeking moral relevance, law enforcement and DEA contractors. At some point the weed industry will grow large enough to have its own lobbyist army.
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Ultimately it boils down to the difference between traditional business model and the non-profit model.
They will get money faster that way than by not asking anyone for support.
YouTube isn't the government
Frankly "peer review" is the furthest thing away from wonderful. While the idea is legitimate, it is undermined at every step of the way.

* Reviewers are basically forced to it for free. If you're a researcher you won't have the time to properly fact check a 40 page paper for free, it just isn't going to happen. So they (we) don't. The review process isn't very rigorous.

* Journals are leeching off of the public money by double whammying both the scientists and the institutes while providing minuscule value. Their gains are absolutely disproportionate to what they provide.

* Even the most involved and convoluted peer review processes aren't as anonymous as you think. When there's already a handful of people in your field, you can pretty easily tell someone's identity from their writing style.

I would love to pretend that the system is great and works very well but it just doesn't and this pretense and the phenomenon of holding new systems to a higher standard than the current one is preventing us from actually improving the system.
> Now a days with open wrt and dd-wrt firmwares for many routers, there is not much point in using RPis and switches unless they are just laying around in your junk drawer.

I feel like it's the other way around. A Pi 4 is cheaper and more performant than many (Most?) consumer grade routers. They'll do cake at gig if you set the clock speed to 2 GHz.
The idea that Uber is not profitable is a myth isn’t it? I remember they posted some financial documents a while back that showed them in the red. But when I looked at the papers there were literal billions in advertising and expansion.

Uber runs the app. People call an Uber and they pay money. Some of that money goes to the driver and some goes to Uber. You’re really saying that Uber can’t collect enough money to run their computers and pay some staff? It just doesn’t make sense. Of course they can.
I disagree. I think we can all agree that we don't need videos talking about how the "bad ideas" of slavery/child abuse/human trafficking/etc. are wonderful things. I think we are right to suppress them. You can make the same argument that allowing these videos validates that they must be telling the truth or YT wouldn't allow it. If all you are looking for is confirmation bias, it is all you will find. It sounds like you wife won't get a vaccine no matter what so let's not argue semantics about what will make her even less likely to get a vaccine.
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I think so
Man, that last sentence of yours. Is it possible that breakthrough progress happens when semi crazy people that cannot think correctly pursue insane ideas and statistically some of them end up being right? If so the Nobel disease is actually a Nobel selection effect? It would be funny if this is the case.
The problem of correct motivation (and here I would argue understanding is the aim of science, not fact collection per se) is a separate problem, but it, too, is a matter of value judgement (what is the correct aim and motivation for science?). The concern for corruption cannot erase the essential value-ladenness of all activity, including scientific activity. Science is both shaped by and shapes value judgements and is itself suffused by them. You cannot escape from value. If you judge something to be valuable, you will act and shape reality according to that understanding of what is valuable. This is the essential nature of practical reason. All action is determined by value judgements.
Not even five bucks, just the old saying “it takes one to know one”
Not just the scientific method, but base reality itself.

When I was growing up the general idea was that there was a base reality and that we can perceive it to varying degrees based on our senses and other tools (e.g. electron microscopes). Postmodernism questions even the idea of a base reality and when you squeeze that lemon weird things shoot out like "lived experience" being more important than what actually happened.

Interestingly, to these same people if your "lived experience" is something you felt in church then you're just a moron who doesn't follow the science. But if your lived experience is within a set of approved narratives, it's 100% fact and we are allowed to riot over it.
I don't understand most of your comment (English is my fourth language). I don't understand "coming into this pretty hot" and "fast-forwarded a few exchanges". I also don't understand the part about empathy. What's empathy got to do with anything? I obviously understand the individual words, but not the idioms behind or what you are trying to convey.

In case any parts of my comment were unclear, I'll try to reiterate or clarify.

First I'm genuinely curious about what kind of wildlife would pose a threat to the point where you need to defend yourself by carrying guns in your car, and where you would risk such an encounter. I try to convey that this is curiosity more than criticism by comparing it to the genuine need on Svalbard.

I then address their claim about "gun rights". My point is that protecting yourself from wildlife isn't about gun rights. No one (as far as I know) is looking to ban a licensed hunting rifle or high-caliber handgun where the owner would need it for protection. My point is that many "gun rights" advocates want to have five AR-15 or a fully automatic Uzi—guns that are highly capable of killing a high number of people and not very effective against bears. In other words, I understand their clients' (legitimate) needs but I don't think it's relevant to the concept of "gun rights".