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I was mainly talking about soft power and our alliances.

I'd say we are worse off militarily though, in a relative sense as other powers are rising, eg NK has nukes, China is flexing its muscle _much_ more, Russia's position is better, Iran is largely unchecked.

Our military and weapons development strategy is showing its weaknesses as well though. When exactly is the last thing we actually "won" ? How many places did we spend years/decades with our thumb up our ass, while bleeding lives and money?
Your second point is what I first assumed this paper was doing before I read it.
The biggest things ended up being Managed Redis, APAC regions, and SSH access, all of which would be available later this year. We'll likely start working on object storage early next year.
Define `harmful` and `misinformation`.
I'd like to recommend this podcast about online radicalization, produced by the NYTimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
Scientist #1 said that if she mentions anything against the vaccine, there would be retribution against her. This includes publishing any data that detracts from the vaccines safety. They're essentially creating an echo chamber where all news about the vaccine is good news.
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I'm not retreating anything, that is still my assertion. The miners alone cannot delete your money. That was the original claim[1]. My responses[2] from the beginning have been addressing that.

It is a common misconception that miners, because they are the ones who produce new blocks, have power over the network and set the rules. That is not the case. Miners determine the order and inclusion of __valid__ transactions. Deleting your money would require a fork. Even if a majority of miners mined their own fork but didn't get users/nodes on board they would be wasting their time on what is essentially an altcoin that they alone care about. The network would ignore them and your $100M has not been deleted because it still exists on the chain everyone actually cares about.

There are only so many different ways I can state the above idea (going-on 4 times in this thread alone). If you still disagree, then I'm sorry I wasn't able to explain it any better. I'm going to politely decline from responding any further to this thread because I think we are just wasting each others' time.

[1]

"I guess you'd better hope you're never on the wrong side, politically, from a majority of ETH miners."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678451

[2]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28681802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682258
Up until ARG_MAX is reached, or you run out of RAM that is...
https://serverfault.com/a/844666
Holy crap, that sounds exactly like mine. We dont know the reason why I had kidney failure and there was so much damage a bioposy would not be fruitful. The guess is blood pressure, but its not known.
Cool, nice tip.
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As wealth grows through greater prosperity, if we do not increase the money supply to match this growth in wealth, we start to value prior labor far more than new labor. This is incredibly unfair to people who were simply born later than others, particularly since it's far easier to accumulate more money if one already has a good amount of wealth.
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essentially it could license the open source for commercial use transparently and automatically, when you pull the library/package.

zero negotiations, zero lawyers, just a commandline one-liner or something.

micropayments for package management.
None in particular, and I'm sure you could generalize the three steps to something else people are worried about.
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They both said they feel immense pressure not to speak out against the vaccine or publish anything against it. So the regular channels of dissent have been removed.
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I don’t know what level of convincing you need, but here in BC, unvaccinated people are about 25x more likely to show up in a hospital than vaccinated people:

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021HLTH0058-001843

Over the past two weeks:

> After factoring for age, people not vaccinated are 25.8 times more likely to be hospitalized than those fully vaccinated.

(The age correction reflects the fact that vaccines aren’t distributed evenly by age).
The Covid vaccine does not work by directly stimulating the immune system, like all other vaccines do. Instead, it inserts synthetic molecules into some cells, turning them into little machines that constantly produce a toxin that is released into the blood stream. The immune system is supposed to learn to fight this toxin. This has NEVER before been done in any other vaccine. We could speculate for hours about what could go wrong, but for the moment lets just say that myocarditis and blood clots are definitely NOT mild side effects.
YouTube Is Banning All Content That Spreads Vaccine Misinformation
I, too, would expect a "do no harm" approach to be overly cautious in recording potential side effects or symptoms post vaccine. To error on over reporting rather than this really odd refusal to consider even the possibility.

I'm not surprised that they're not afraid to look too hard about COVID-19 though. In the current climate, that road leads to loss of job and income.
Honestly this is one of the most ridiculous things I've read on HN, and yes I mean that perfectly literally. Its almost as if this comment is itself a piece of performance art, because the Mona Lisa is (sometimes literally) the standard for all art (at least paintings).
I am not an American. I actually live in a country that was a kicking baloon of totalitarian powers for decades.

The first instinct of an autocrat is to strangle free speech of his critics. This has been the case since forever.

For all their errors, societies that do have wide freedom of speech rarely lapse into tyrannies on their own account. The freedom to say that the emperor's new clothes are bullsh*t is precious.

As for your historical examples, Weimar democracy was deeply flawed in that it tolerated party militias and a lot of violence in the streets. Once people are threatened physically, they will seek 'protection' from gangsters. But violence is something very different from actual words.

And China isn't a case of a democracy that was taken over by cunning speeches of its enemies. CCP got into power by winning a civil war.
Except that, there are RCTs showing the positive impacts of Fluvoxamine and monoclonal antibodies so this is entirely false on all accounts.
I listed some of them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28536296
>moderate the content

Censor. The word you're looking for is censor.
So then why just don't leave those anti-vaxx people alone? They are 10-15% now top. Everyone else are even vaccinated or had been sick and now recovered. With Delta variant infection rate everybody will get their immunity pretty soon. Some will die because of their stupidity and there's nothing can be done about it. Or, even better, maybe one of those Israel drugs will come up good enough for emergency use.
I would treat Democrats that refused a vaccination because it was Trump's FDA with the same disdain. The fact that this issue is divisive along political lines is what is so damn infuriating. This is science people, one of the few things left on the planet that can conceivably be free of emotional discourse and we're actively killing it for financial gain.

I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a scientist.
I gotta admit, I like the open core model. When it's done right, it seems like a reasonable way to monetize while still getting development done and encouraging a community and ecosystem. I've been looking at how Ghost[0] set things up[1] and it seems to be working very well. The company is non-profit and has certain restrictions in place to ensure that they don't become evil. Still, it won't work for everything and it can't work for smaller libraries.

[0] https://ghost.org/
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a...
Yeah, I don't really see functional programming being that great of a fit for VR. I mean, the 3D environment is inherently object-oriented and stateful. And you're working in an extremely performance intensive task, such that pure immutability really starts to get in the way. Also, Haskell's lazy evaluation has a bad reputation for poor and/or unpredictable performance. It's better to have a higher mean execution time with an extremely narrow standard deviation so you can plan your frame budget and not occasionally blow it, dropping frames all over the floor.

What you want is something that puts the movement of memory between processes and threads front-and-center. Half the difficulty of writing a 3D rendering engine is coming up with a good memory model for loading 3D models and textures to push them onto the GPU. That really sounds more like Rust's wheelhouse than Haskell.
I define a radical group to be some collection that seems to be consistently peddling false material for their own ends, with an overly provoking tilt that makes it easy to go viral. Some specifics out of the past year would be vaccine misinformation, prejudice that incites racial violence in Myanmar, organizing an occupation to the capital in the US. Shouldn't we put a stop to these communities if they sway people to start peddling this information themselves?

At least in the US, free speech is most free within public forums. But even then we already define some speech that is too dangerous if it's known to lead to poor outcomes. You can't yell fire in a crowded room, not because yelling fire is inherently a crime, but because it's going to incite people to a detrimental ends.

Plus social networks don't have a constitutional obligation to be town squares where free speech can spread unfettered. You have to draw a line somewhere. And as the people who write the algorithms that can amplify or bury content on these networks, I think it _is_ our obligation to at least set parameters on what constitutes good/healthy content interactions on these social platforms and what doesn't. The ML algorithms have to optimize over some loss function.
It depends on your view point. A lot of art is critized for the artist's abilities and techniques to create the art and much less for the subject matter. The David could have been any random dude, but it is the ability of accurately recreating that randome dude in stone that makes it impressive. Some of the painted pieces that are extremely large and take up an entire museum wall are impressive just for the shear accomplisment. Yes, it helps that it looks so real as well.

>See also: displaying unfinished sketches. Nice for a collector but let's not pretend there's any artistic value in it.

If you imagine those sketches being underneath the painting and realizing that those sketches were how the artist worked on creating the actual piece is interesting in the same way watching behind-the-scenes videos on how a movie was made are interesting--to those that are interested in the first place. Similar to Show HN articles on some use of fad language to redo something else already in existence. If you have no interest in that language or the thing being made, they aren't interesting.
it's basically the perfect moment to change the economic model from looking only at GDP to looking at GDP + CO2 + resilience. A little (actually, a lot!) more planned economy is needed than what we have.
Considering the publicity, I think both parties benefited. The only loser is general public.

Having majored in fine arts, I appreciate all kinds of art forms. Even Banksy's work demonstrates mastery of the medium. Hell, I'd challenge most people to recreate Rothko's paintings.

But this? It's an expression. It's a commentary. It can be a lot of things. But to me, it's not art.
The difference between "marijuana" and "hemp" is only legal, not biological, so a distinction without a difference. Hemp growers use a variety bred to have little THC in it. The species is the same.
Yeah, because the US lobbied for it through the UN.
The launch thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883

Interestingly, unlike most HN launches, the majority of the comments were actually positive, instead of "why not just do X instead?".
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No, even when you set the QoS to 2, "ExactlyOnce", you may still hit edge cases where you loose data, without knowing it, especially on enterprise networks, or if there is an high throughtput.
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I signed up on 9/30/2011 and the registration form was sparse and a little confusing to the point that I ended up emailing support to make sure my account was set up correctly. Got an email back from some dude named John Collison who helped me out. Of course I had no idea who he was at the time but instantly recognized the name several years later when I came across the email again - Gmail had automatically put him in my contacts and I kept thinking it must be a mistake bc there's no way I have John Collison as a personal contact. Stripe has been good to me as a developer over the years and I hope they continue to innovate well into the future.
The chilling effect is made worse by the fact that this censorship is conducted entirely by algorithms, and there are no reasonable channels available for appeal other than knowing Google employees or hoping to gain viral traction on other social media.

Rational people making a living from their channels will therefore decide to avoid the topic entirely, even if they have something substantive to add that’s in the public interest.
It also had immense influence on eng part as well. Stripe despite being a fintech startup set benchmarks of what we can expect in terms of developer friendliness.
Agreed. Post-modern art by itself means nothing to me, but when I learn about the artist and their journey to create a piece of work, I really enjoy it. It's like they say - its not about the destination, it's about the journey.
Has anyone challenged this under the equal protection clause?

Maybe the differing licensing requirements cover that!
Well it works for Hunter Biden so why not?
Actually working in the field, I hate stuff like this so much. Like, it's a cool project, but the reporting and marketing and hype is all so fucking awful. Imagine if a person had done this instead of a model:

> [I] Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony

> Now, thanks to [my] work, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.

And so on. Your reaction would probably be "no, this isn't Beethoven's vision, it's some random person's vision." In this case, it's that much more egregious because it's not written by a journalist through a game of telephone. It's actually written in this breathless magical way by the person who built the model.

There needs to be a new fallacy or something: "Appeal to AI." Because otherwise we treat "AI completed Beethoven's vision" as somehow more True or Correct than "I completed Beethoven's vision." And it's much more dangerous when we apply that free pass to things like "AI predicts recidivism." Is it just riding off of how people perceive mathematical correctness or something?
The issues I spotted are how the protocol is implemented, not how the packets are stored.
I think you may have fallen prey to a common misconception about art: Art - not only the modern kind - has and always very much had a "first mover advantage".

It's not about the fact that you couldn't paint coloured squares on canvas Rothko-style. Quite possibly you could. It's that he did it first. There are tons of artists in certain Chinese villages who have perfected the art of pointilism possibly almost as good as Seurat (certainly indistinguishable for an amateur's eye), yet their paintings sell for a couple dollars, not a couple million.

You could also easily extrapolate your argument about scribbling on the canvas to the realm of software development and argue that creating e.g. Facebook or Amazon or Wikipedia is really nothing special. A few lines of code will get you a usable MVP. I'm sure you could have done it (I'm saying this completely unironically). However you didn't. Someone else did it first. There may be dozens or hundreds of copycats but the original idea and/or the successful marketing of said idea is all that counts. The rest is noise (sometimes rightfully, sometimes not).
Censor someone because disagrees with your position is plain stupidity. Keep the conversation going is a healthy path. The problem is that currently social platform want to CONTROL full the discourse in their platforms. By the way, it's the pandora's box of censorship. Hold my comments.
I'm surprised that the Russian audience is so valuable. Perhaps this will lead them to reconsider.
And how can you be so sure to know what views are shared by the majority of the population?
They said they feel immense pressure not to say anything negative, and that they feel they have been silenced. They're not even allowed to ask basic questions about the vaccine as part of their work, even tho that's what they do for a living.
> My personal wish for gauging this work (once it's complete) would be more quantitative: a "classical music earworm neural net" plus a "composer uniqueness rating".

This sounds a little like marking your own homework...
Too easy. Now fit any dataset using a substring of digits from the binary expansion of pi
Title does not match article, which literally read "Why Render".

This is an ad.
That when you use QoS 2 "ExactlyOnce" (or 1), you will never loose a message.
I think you're too focused on freedom _to_, while completely ignoring freedom _from_. Seat belt laws optimize for freedom from traffic deaths, which is more meaningful than freedom to not wear a seat belt. In other words, they increase the total amount of freedom.
Freedom is nothing more than the right to do the "wrong" thing.

The "free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" crowd are more dangerous than the coronavirus.
Well would you look at that, according to my criteria [1] that’s not art!

[1] https://wndr.xyz/posts/9fjM1tOJO7MWX4fYw3AU2Q==/what-s-art-a...
I thought this was simple math. The reproduction value R of the original type was estimated to be around 3 (one sick person infects on average three other persons). So to get this below 1, we need a vaccination rate of around 2/3 (1-1/R). The delta variant has a higher R of 6-8, so we may need as much as 90% of the population to be vaccinated. It's completely plausible and has nothing to do with lying.
1. What does the author suggest we do about it?

2. Why doesn't the author of the blogpost list his or her name?

3. Has the author taken any action in their own personal life to decrease their own CO2 footprint?
> I would absolutely recommend Rails for most startups whose central product is a web application.

I think that depends on the product. I'm working on your usual "unbundling Excel" product, and I don't see what Rails has to offer over Django or Laravel. Maybe Rails has a better integration for "you don't need to write JS" stuff like Hotwire? But other than that, I don't think Rails is still the silver bullet that it once was.
That is not rational at all. It's a manageable disease class with limited health impact on population, in death numbers comparable to strokes. It is not appropriate to compare it to war at all; in most places people are not afraid of COVID much.
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There should be a term for this, when conservatives in USA have so little exposure to actual leftists that they confuse MSNBC, the Democratic Party, and censorious anklebiters with "the Left". Here's a hint: actual leftists aren't cheering on the persecution of Assange, like everyone on MSNBC is.
Every one of the people you describe had time to consider the information they got and to look for more information to confirm or contradict. Again, that is nothing like sitting in a crowded theater and hearing someone shout, "Fire!"

The analogy simply does not hold.
Yes, it is a fundamentally misleading assertion.
I think the economy has become overly financialized - It has become too difficult to earn income through value creation and too easy to earn income through financial schemes - People are realizing this and giving up on value creation en mass. Fraud has become institutionalized (and therefore legalized).

IMO, the financial system has already suffered irreparable damage to its reputation. I think there might be calls for asset seizures and redistribution soon. In the US, the BLM movement has already been campaigning for 'financial reparations'. South Africa just passed a law to allow land to be seized by the government without compensation. I think this might become more widespread - Hopefully it will only be restricted to specific assets; I think big corporate stocks are a likely target for expropriation because they have benefited the most from money printing; it will be easy for people to find evidence of wrongdoing and use it as a basis to seize and redistribute shares (or simply nationalize the companies altogether).

My gut feeling is that we're headed to some kind of partial-communist government - First, they will only seize the assets related to big finance, big tech, big pharma since this will have public support. Maybe later once the public has warmed up to the new form of government, the government will be able to make a move on all private property.
To never loose a packet on QoS 1/2.
It's an interesting comparison actually. I think it's more common for people to say they don't like classical music than that they don't like modern music. There is such a huge variety of music being made that there is something for everyone. Whether that's hiphop, death metal or electronic.

But here's the thing, the same thing actually goes for drawing. There are a huge number of people drawing various stuff, such that anyone could find something drawn recently that they would like. Whether that's murals, concept art, manga, street caricatures or memes.

But here's the kicker: Music isn't defined to be the music played by the annointed elite. But art is defined as drawings (/sculptures, etc) made by the annointed elite.
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Just because it can easily kill you if you overdo it doesn't mean the effects are such that it should be illegal. Basically, the effects of caffeine are very mild, until you are dead, but the mild effects of caffeine are culturally celebrated in the west
From the speech itself, "only 1 in every 160,000 fully vaccinated Americans has been hospitalized due to covid"

According to the most recent data from the CDC (https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html), 960 out of every 160,000 Americans has been hospitalized due to covid (this is across all people regardless of vaccination status).

So there is _at least_ a 99% reduction in the rate of hospitalizations for the fully vaccinated, according to the figures he cited.

The message he's sending is that even if you are vaccinated, _you're not safe_. Why is this an effective message for persuading those who might still be convinced?

Is the overall outcome better than if our political leadership continued to transparently emphasize vaccine safety and outcomes, rather than scoring points with their political base? You convince more people to become vaccinated by being convincing. When you get more people vaccinated, you save more lives.

If someone's position is, that it doesn't matter if the overall outcome is worse, because the bad outcomes are more concentrated in selfish/stupid/red-state people, then I simply disagree with that.