skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't square the mechanistic view of the world with the idea that we have any agency. The compatibilists just seemed to define things in a way that it logically checks out. Certainly I FEEL like I have agency, and if I didn't some self-destruct circuit would fire in my head. That's certainly an incentive to prove it.

When I was a child I thought "This is the way the world is, always has been and always will be", then as an adult I think "This system is what governs change, always have and always will,".

If reality is goverened by a mathematical structure, then there are a set of rules where it is no longer a simplified abstraction and there is no error term. Either A) there is a mathematical structure and we will iterate until we find it (or it is fundamentally unknowable, thanks Godel!) or B) our brains are evolved pattern recognizers, and we deem what is repeatable as "useful" and ignore the parts that don't repeat, building a world view based on logic that certainly exists locally but isn't the fundamental fabric of reality.
Something like "free will" could only fit into scenario B.

One attempted solution I've heard is the idea that we are all co-creating reality, and what really happens is the mathematically constrained union of all consciousness wills. But if the world was truly a mathematical system, then results can't teeter between alternatives like a ball on the top of a triangle roof. Any idea of free will implies there is SOMETHING that is indeterministic, and as we understand the world at a smaller and smaller level, our definitions of free will just push that indeterminism smaller and smaller. But it remains.

I don't think Buddhism denies the local existence of constraints, just as it doesn't deny the local existence of an orange or banana. But are those constraints truly fundamental or just as impermanent as decaying fruit (but on the scale of aeons instead of days)? "Emptiness" in the Buddhist sense doesn't mean things don't exist, or that things are arbitrary, or there is or isn't free will. To say things are arbitrary implies the existence of meaning. I like to translate the Buddhist "Mu" as "N/A". Disclaimer: there are so many types of Buddhism and my a la carte version of it suffers from the no true scotsman fallacy.

Sorry for saying the same thing in multiple ways. Personally I don't think any of this matters when it comes to doing the right thing day by day, but it's an interesting game to play. Someone reading this is thinking I'm one of the folks ruining Hacker News.
So? Something being "normal" doesn't make it just. Or even legal.
Maya's API around the DAG is unmatched, which absolutely everything in Maya is built around. If Blender would have such a thing, it would become pretty hard to justify paying the price for Maya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_neutrality
It's really amazing how much information is there for each location. Does anyone know more about how long was this info gathered and how ?
In our version though the system can require you to show whatever ID or authentication the designer decides so how can any process as simple as changing an ID in the URL be fraudulent. In this example the person who browsed other plans either wasn’t asked for any ID or the person fetching the documents didn’t check authorization. Either one is negligence on the department/sites side.
Ofttimes Sony's "input" isn't much more than "your licensing message needs to stay on-screen for another 0.5 seconds to pass acceptance test X.X". Maybe they're doing more for non-AAA devs these days?

They did help us out when we ran into issues with the dev tooling, but then so does Apple.

Source: I was lead engine dev on a couple of mid-cycle PS2 games.
>Aside from edge cases, the vast majority of smart people I know move _from_ Canada/Mexico _to_ the US, and not the other way around.

This has nothing to do with the comment you were replying to, specifically

>the massive uncontrolled immigration from Mexico
If you want to replicate the effect in the article, you'd be using a 24mm macro lens, yes. Mitakon makes multiple, and laowa makes multiple for all mounts.
> I have no idea why any single person would expect to have a disproportionate amount of power simply because of where they don't live.

Having disproportional political power based on residency is central to the American political system. What you probably don't understand is her particular preference as to how that disproportionality is arranged.
Right... "Business perspective". Come back when Apple spends marketing resources on literally every single game that is published to App Store.

(Also - if you downvote, then don't bother replying)
A single consumer GPU for ~hours
Sharp – High performance Node.js image processing
I mean it wouldn’t be a weekend fix because it’ll have to involve an audit of all existing systems to identify where else similar tomfoolery occurred.

But 50 million is a high estimate.
> In the meantime, these active cards are just sitting on my porch in a big envelope that says "CITI - URGENT - PLEASE STEAL ME" written all over it.

I have more than a few credit cards, and I've never encountered a card issuer in the US that mails active cards. All of them require some sort of activation process before they can be used. That way, it doesn't matter if they're stolen.
"Unencrypted" in this context means "did something we don't understand".
It is good business for gov, so of course it fails.

There is something similar that happens regularly.

Perhaps look at gaining citizenship at country that allows only single citizenship. It should make American citizenship null and void.
I’d say that’s a safe bet considering there are 90 job openings when you search “VR” on their careers page. Exciting to see what the future holds.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=VR&sort=relevance...
But they didn't do that. They just asked for a different file, not misrepresenting their identity.
Are you saying this is a good feature of Revolut, or that you'll be switching to Revolut because of this incident? Personally I'd be happy with this level of fraud protection, as a previous victim of fraud.
It wasn't her choice for the US to require non-resident citizens to file taxes.
I would also "settle" for picking the people I like.

Also, pretty sure that you have to be at least somewhat narcissistic to think that you should be president, and somewhat sociopathic to actually succeed.
Pop!_OS just published 21.10 beta yesterday so you're in good luck.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/q6xvv0/pop_os_2110_...

Having nothing but great things to say about this distro. Favorite Linux distro I've used.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805
He seems to like writing code
Of course, nowadays Australia won't even let people physically leave at all!
Its not normal in society to commit domestic violence, most people in western society would find themselves ostracized from their peers if they were a known wife / child abuser. If I told my friends the website allowed me to see other plans and I checked them out they would just ask if I saw anything interesting and chuckle at the flaw. Curiosity is normal; beating your spouse is not.
Halide does focus peaking, albeit only in manual-focus mode.

In general, though, you're right - I wouldn't want to try for the same kinds of shots with a phone that I get with a DSLR. My macro rig weighs about five pounds, which sounds like a lot and is in comparison with a phone, but between the damping effect of all that mass and the ability to get a good grip with both hands, it makes for a much more stable platform overall.
Despite the rude response from the previous commenter, I agree with the general response. It seems like you're suggesting we all revert to subsistence living by growing our own food on little family farms or something.

Fact is people actually like civilization. Modern civilization has led to an unprecedented quality of life for a larger portion of the human population than ever before in recorded history. People are hard pressed to give that up. Put another way, humans prefer to reduce their current misery than ensure all the future's climate issues are solved.

Stepping away from modern civilization and our systems would result in unimaginable suffering.
yes, that's the calibration aspect of it. for instance, we implicitly accept a 1% lifetime chance of dying in a car accident because of the great utility of automobiles. that's a useful calibration point because it has (nearly) universal acceptance and application.

a 6% chance of dying is nothing to sneeze at, but it's still far from probable, which by definition is more likely than not (>50%). and while it's 6 times death-by-car, it's also dependent on contracting covid in the first place (a prior, in bayesian terms). and that prior probability depends largely on whether the grandchild has covid themselves and how contagious they are (how much and where the virus is), and given that as an additional prior, what relevant precautions they take. this chain of dependent probabilities is also why most precautions have marginal effect (because multiplying lots of fractional numbers results in a smaller fraction). none of this chain of reasoning requires great precision by the way; a single digit of significance at each step being plenty for sound decision-making.

finally, note that a 100-year-old has a 30-35% all-cause chance of death: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html . the addition of covid risk is not immaterial, but relatively not overwhelming.
And, in the process, double down and cost the reporter his career and entire life savings as he pays for a lawyer to keep himself out of jail.
I don't recall when anyone "reached out" to me for comment.
Ah gotcha, thanks for replying! I think I'm seeing how this ends up being useful in a lot of sites for navigation. That's a pretty "simple" change to normal searching that feels like it can do a lot, which is really cool. I'll give this a try at some point soon.
> So, the bet you're making is not 'volatility swings will wipe me, the whale investor, out'.

No, the bet I'm making is that if BTC goes to zero, it won't affect my life in any way, shape or form.

If, on the other hand it continues going up, which I believe it will, it provides me with additional side money to play with.

> his system will eventually supplant governments and fiat money systems, which it directly competes with

I don't believe BTC will supplant government-managed money systems.

As a matter of fact, I don't even think I wish for that to happen. I'm much happier for it to remain a parallel system, an escape hatch if you will, to keep govts honest because they know if they decide to shave their flock too hard, there is an alternative.

Basically, like in any political system, you want to have counter-powers if you want everyone to behave.

And up until now, there was no such thing on the currency / wealth preservation front: all the power was in the hand of the govts.

BTC is a very welcome change to the status quo.

> "They'll never object to that, or make it illegal or anything. That would be RUDE. And anti-freedom.'

You seem to imply that I'm looking at the situation from a very naive pov.

I think that there's a high likelihood some governments will try to make it illegal. Specifically for the reasons I outlined above (escape hatch).

What I count on is the historically established tendency for sovereign powers to profoundly disagree with one another and using said sovereignty to explicitly allow some things that their counterparts forbid.

A political marketplace, if you will, and one in which you can participate because of the highly cross-border nature of BTC.

> they've gotta come up with defenses against the whales like you

???

What a very strange thing to say.

First, you're inferring from my handle that I am a bitcoin whale ... that's quite a stretch. I like Bitcoin, that's clear from my posts, but you have strictly no clue how much of it I hold.

Second, you seem to be implying that I'm somehow hurting other people / society ... another giant stretch and something I feel is a completely unjustified attack. This whole 'King over everyone' business is particularly strange, the only creature on this earth I sometimes lord over being my dog when he pesters me too much.
Yeah, even leaving aside the T-word; there's a broad swath of the US population who are willing to believe anything that is expected of them by their chosen authorities (mainstream Democrats are as guilty of this as Republicans, they just chose different authority figures). Sometimes, insanity is the only sane response to an insane world.
> There has been an explosive growth in component software technologies since the first edition of this classic book was published. The advent of EJB, J2EE, CORBA 3, COM+ and the .NET framework are evidence of a maturing market in component software that goes 'beyond OOP'.

This book seems to be discussing distributed object systems, which is a sense of the word "component" that has little or nothing to do with the sense used by game developers in reference to the ECS architecture. Distributed object systems are designed to enable an object-oriented design philosophy to be used for a system which spans multiple address spaces or machines. The entity-component-system architecture is a methodology for organizing data layout and program functionality, usually within a single address space on a single machine, where the data associated with a given entity is spread across multiple components or subsystems and associated by index relations (much like a relational database), rather than being all grouped together in one place (as encouraged in OOP).

These two concepts (distributed object systems and ECS) are designed to solve different problems, they are generally used in different scenarios, and they apply at different levels of system organization. There is so little resemblance between the two that I have to conclude someone calling them "sides of the same coin" is either completely unfamiliar with one of them or is being deliberately misleading.
> How is this protecting me?

Go read up on the history of securities trading prior to the various acts from the 1930s.
I wonder what those people think about music. Especially polyrhythmic instruments (piano, drums, guitar when overlapping low and high tones). It's a massive walk into deconcentration of attention.

Also their mention about "pure mind" reminds me of an event 10 years ago. Got to job further than usual, 10km along a path on the forest, never been that far, it was a new environment. Sparse forest, calm, but disturbingly so. Sparsity allowed to see far away, but the perspective made trees difficult to differentiate from someone standing still. My mind turned into a hawk-like state. It wasn't fear like fight-or-flight, with accelerated heart beat, sweat, anxiety.. no it was more like a slight hunger and extreme calm focus (also I'm a thin, non combat/chaos trained person, being ready to survive was not a natural thing). My brain also operated faster.
At many of these papers, advertising is the greater source of revenue than subscriptions.
I’ve heard that Japan will classify murder-suicide deaths as suicide deaths, because their word for “suicide” actually has a slightly different denotation.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866458
So, my thought when I said that was back when Obama mentioned keeping tires inflated correctly and getting tuneups to reduce oil consumption, and looking into that lead to this[1], which puts it at 0.6% on average, but up to 3% in specific cases.

So I guess the question is how does 0.6% fuel economy loss on average for current tires compare to the loss in efficiency for using a Tweel, but according to some data from Michelin here[2], it looks like they're actually projecting them to be more efficient than current tires? I didn't read through the whole analysis, so I'm not sure, but that's what Table 7 looks like to me at a cursory glance and reading a few paragraphs in that section.

1: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.jsp

2: https://manufacturing.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/uploads...
The Silicon Valley / Wall Street part is highly inaccurate, and I'd dare to say plain wrong as it comes to the specific crypto we're talking about: Bitcoin.

Bitcoin's invention and surrounding culture comes from cyberpunks. Whom are anti-government, anti-regulation, encourage civil disobedience, and so on. Unsurprisingly, culturally Bitcoin is highly popular with libertarians, which in the US you could qualify as a sub culture of the right wing. As such, it's an almost opposite of SC culture, which is liberal all the way to left wing (largely in name only).

As for Wallstreet, they only got in late 2020, and barely so, so it's quite a stretch to state that Bitcoin is a toy for Wallstreet.

In reality, these supposed hard lines uniquely found in US politics are soft as butter. Bitcoin isn't made for any group in particular, it is for everyone. It can be used by a greedy hyper capitalist day trader as well as a refugee looking to protect the little they have from inflation or confiscation. Bitcoin doesn't care.
This is why my outlook on the future is growing dim. Politicians are threatening revenge, using the power and purse of the state, against people who embarrass them.
I know a lot of people who regard it as a hybrid southern/midwestern state. Plenty of confederate flags to be found in Missouri, certainly, and the MU/KU rivalry is, on our side at least, heavy on "bleeding Kansas" rhetoric and imagery, which keeps Missouri's Southern-sympathizing role in the war alive in our popular culture (such as it is). Lots and lots of our local icons, oft-mentioned historical figures, et c., relate back to the war, and especially folks who supported the Confederacy. County seats with those late-addition cheap confederate soldier memorial-statutes outside the courthouse are, AFAIK, quite common in the state.
I used to work for that company at the bottom. Naively I thought we were the only bottom feeder. The company would use up the tool budget on useless things, then ended up hand working everything.
I was thinking of another Aleph One who made both ARM processor upgrades [0] and biofeedback boxes [1]

[0] http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/32bit_UpgradesA2G...

[1] http://www.aleph1.co.uk/about-us.html
> malicious actor

malice implies intent. If we take author at their word, there wasn't any, though you could say they took it too far by looking at other stuff they probably knew it was ethically wrong to do so.

Though, sometimes it isn't clear you're in compromising territory until you're in it.

If any of the confidential information obtained wrongly gets used to advantage … that's malice.

If the parent set out to exploit the insurer by finding inconsistent/unfair pricing, etc etc … that's malice.
“A trivial problem”, the wise alignItems retorted: “that which is out of the ordinary or a symptom of something not-normal can be safely disregarded as a pathology. It is only rational.” And everything was good with the world.
Make all the in-game presentation accurate but comical so it falls under 'parody'.
Whatever the point you want it to have, really. You don't need external validation, it's exactly what you, and you alone, want it to have. It can be fluid, static or maybe you can feel you already achieved it.
Maybe it's to do whatever to make yourself happy, or the people around you happy. Money, popularity, love. Maybe it's following others' ideals. Or watch it passively.
Whatever you choose. How grand or pathetic it is, it's also up to you.

This also means no one else can tell what is the meaning of YOUR life, you have to pick it yourself, or not, also your choice.
I see where you're coming from, but here's the thing: every single photo taken on a modern phone goes through a pipeline of 10+ stages of image processing, including multiple exposure merging. The iPhone isn't even taking a single photo... it's picking the best frame(s) out of a running buffer of video.

(unless you shoot in raw, and I haven't read enough yet to know what processing, if any, Apple does to ProRes/RAW photos).

Call it "tricks" if you want. I call it using technology to give the non-professional camera user the best photo possible at the time. If that bothers you, pull out the DSLR, shoot in RAW, and spend time afterwards in Photoshop/Lightroom.

edit this is also why apps like Halide (or ProCamera or Filmic Pro) exist... if you want to control more of the options instead of letting Apple choose, the capability is out there. Most users probably don't care. They just want a good photo of their kids to post on Instagram.
Say no to this. We do not need another FINRA-like cartel.
Just to make sure that I got both experiences, I also lived in Texas for three years after leaving Florida.
Have they steered the conversation at all, though? From Bloomberg:

> “There’s trading venues and lending venues where they coalesce around these, and they have not just dozens but hundreds and sometimes thousands of tokens on them,” Gensler said Monday at the Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California. “This is not going to end well if it stays outside the regulatory space.” [1]

Coinbase already got a Wells notice, and whined about the SEC being "sketchy" as a result. [2]

I really don't think this conversation is moving in their favor in the actual regulatory circles.

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-28/unregulat...

2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-08/coinbase-...
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Google is an advertising company. They own YouTube. This is the way.
I initially believed this, but I have come to realize that pure functional programming is transformative for both business logic and infrastructure. Its a lot easier to get started in the business logic side; dealing with effects in the context of pure functions is a lot to figure out, I don't even know if you really can do it in not-haskell. But, via Haskell I have been able to achieve far greater levels of producitivty in these tasks than ever before.

The main downside is that its a lot to learn, and it takes a good while before you get productive. But I am absolutely more productive now in Haskell than just about anything else, save perhaps ad-hoc text munging task; the shell DSL is just so handy for random one off stuff.
No, even if you can open a bank account as a US citizen, most services will be restricted. If you want to get a life insurance, they won't have anything for you, if you want to open an investment account, same issue, etc...

So, first it's difficult to find banks that'll even accept US citizens and then once you do, it can still be very restrictive.
Avoid Authy, Use Aegis
When someone says that a story "took that out of context", we should always ask "what 'context' would lead us to view that differently?"

Or is it just that they don't like the story?
My hope comes from personal experience. Not exactly empirical. I’ve been involved in the climate movement for a long time now (since before I was even a teenager) and things have improved vastly during my life alone. If you asked me this question a few years ago I would be down in the dumps, but what I see around me these days has me much more positive of how humanity makes it through this. (I’m sorry I don’t really have one specific link or citation. Yale Climate Communication is a good place to start though)

There is still a lot of losses and a lot of inaction. I don’t know if humanity will have a peaceful time mid or late century, but I don’t think the situation is as dire as it used to be.