skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original text is the best, I think (maybe look at Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy's treatment of the subject [1]).

The way I like to think of Berkeley's position is like an equivalence argument. Suppose one is arguing that mind-independent objects exist (that is, there are things out there that cannot be perceived, but one claims to exist). Berkeley's conception of the world (in which such undetectable objects do not exist) is equivalent, at least from the perspective of any observer. Any mind/observer in the world, by construction, cannot perceive or detect (even indirectly) mind-independent objects. If they could, then those objects wouldn't be mind-independent. So a world in which mind-independent objects exist is indistinguishable from Berkeley's world.

Does it really make sense when materialists argue that unobservable, undetectable, totally unperceivable and uninferrable things in this world actually exist?

So, Berkeley argues that reality is actually contingent on our minds (and he tries to show that this isn't as big of a deal as it sounds).

Berkeley's real argument goes a bit differently (as I understand it), but I think a claim of functional equivalence may be more convincing for people with a math/CS background.

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/#2.1
The best article I've read about Katerra is still from Construction Physics, it goes into much more technical detail. [1]

[1] https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/another-day-in-ka...
Hypochlorite (like they add for disinfection) will break down on standing, or faster with aeration. Chloramine (also added for disinfection) won't, which is why aquarists use various chemical treatments to remove that.

Neither is too important for plants, though. The usual problem for plants is chloride, which can't be removed except by processes like reverse osmosis or distillation. Most plants can easily survive chloride at typical concentrations in tap water; but if you don't water to runoff then that concentration may slowly increase in the root zone, eventually harming the plant. You typically want something around 10% runoff, though that will vary with your plant species, water, fertilizer, etc.
There's nothing to apologise for.

And as I noted, if I now think my earlier notions were bonkers, it would be sensible to consider that my present notions might be no less bonkers.
The plan is to use atmospheric processing to produce methane and LOX on-site using renewable power. So it’d be net-zero carbon emissions.
It makes me think of Metamucil. Fibre for regularity!

I guess now they've got the entire crap-in crap-out pipeline covered.
I don't know. If I did that, won't it ask for a credit card when I try to update the thing?
"Politics is downstream from culture"

I think this could be a canary in the coal mine for the Biden admin and the Democrats at large.

The Post also covered the Biden laptop scandal just before the election which was suppressed by all major social media and the establishment media.
Sam Singer Chevron Memo [pdf]
> That's why I'm really skeptical of the architecture of landing atmospheric stages to the surface. They are just unnecessarily heavy. You have maybe quadrupled your total launch amount from the surface (haven't done an analysis).

Lunar starship is not an atmospheric stage.
What reason is there to even use NFTs?

How about he does exactly the same thing, with exactly the same outcome in the real world, just without making any NFTs, burning any coal, or shilling any get rich quick pyramid schemes?

What tangible difference would there be?

None whatsoever.

...Except for no bullshit, no proof of wasted energy, no precious GPUs buried in landfills, no contribution to climate change, no carcinogenic smoke, no lung disease, no cancer, etc...

Did you know: rocks used to be perfectly good companions and construction materials aeons before and decades after the Pet Rock craze came and went.

The cardboard box and the $4 price tag were just a gimmick. So are NFTs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
Hide that website as app.xyz.com so it takes work to get there from www.xyz.com
What are the ethics of writing code that would result in its "suffering"?

Do you have the same concerns about other, perhaps much simpler but also virtual and pseudointelligent entities, such as computer-controlled players in games?

It does raise some deeply philosophical questions about life and what it means in general.
That is a particular solution to the paradox of tolerance, it is not the paradox itself
There's a "real estate" model, similar to "ownership" of domain names and address space. Developing on the "Street" is licensed by the ACM, and the compute to run it comes from income from a trust fund.

There's also an IP licensing model going on too-- selling avatars, video games, amusement parks.
The state can shut down anything in theory. In practice it is much harder in a liberal democracy to shut down a network where operators are numerous, interchangable and have low capital requirements.
Yeah, it was like a shaggy dog interview.

Here come the punchline!

...

"the book has been out for 30 years and anyone can spin ideas out of it."
Well in Snow Crash the metaverse is controlled by a crazy billionaire who controls the brains of his employees by infecting them with memetic viruses .... in Zuckerberg's case ....
The UK has never had unqualified free speech. For most of our history we haven't had it at all. This wiki article is quite good on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kin...

Further back we had punitive taxes on newspapers, laws on blasphemy, laws on obscenity, laws against "sedition" and most kinds of assembly..

The idea that the UK is a bastion of liberty is mostly a confection, really. The only thing we are a bastion of is liberty for the very wealthy - and only in the last twenty years or so have we really had a strong conception of rights in law. Our supreme court only got created in 2007: in all those historic free speech cases before then (and all the rest) the outcome was decided by literal aristocrats who had inherited a title.
thanks for the reminder. I just use the css.
This is a fantastic comment, and so . Thanks for the laugh. :)

[0] the intentionally missing word is "true"

[1] the intentionally missing reference ([0]) is after the word "so"

[2] there are no more omissions
I love that Firefox desktop can start searching with a '/' keystroke! I think Chrome can do it too, but I can't recall.

Hopefully other applications will pick up more of these over time
Reason is how you figure out if something meets a criteria. Rhetoric is how you convince people. That's a simple fact of the human mind and not one that can be easily outplayed.
There is no in-protocol mechanism to increase transaction fees in reaction to declining inflation.
(We asked X some questions about Y) ≠ (X reacts to Y)

I'd have expected Axios to be a bit more bland about it.
A man is an adult male human.
Not sure if this is rhetorical, but you can (1) use rg -l to open a bunch of files in vim (2) qq make change, select next pattern, esc. (3) qr 100@q :bufferdelete esc (4) 100@r

If it’s a simple replace symbol, its easier to do it with rg -l and sed -i, of course.
It's run by CPAs, not PGeos.. something to note. Very generally speaking, having a company run by technical professionals is better than having a company run by financial professionals.

Still, an interesting find, worth looking into.
Signal's userbase is different from Whatsapp's, they made a conscious decision to put up with some of the inconveniences for ultimate privacy. Once the canary is out they'll leave.
I found Outbreak a pretty poor movie and hard to sit through after watching Contagion first.
Im curious to know what happens if they find some water floating.
FYI: US radical feminists are hoping/predicting to reproduce without men. Doesn't sound like it would work with this mechanism.
They probably reduce the precision to give some plausible deniability in the face of people who have their network connections monitored.
Thank you for your suggestions! I have read some of N.K Jemisin and enjoyed what I read, the others I have not heard of except for Liu Cixin. I've read the three-body problem but I found it a bit jarring how 'magical' the resolution was - it was speculative but in a bizarre/surreal way rather than in a 'plausible extension of reality' way. Is it worth pushing through to the later books?
I’d consider human spiritual realms the precursor to meta verses we can actually implement.

Tons of visualization through art, and ways and means defined through story.

Of course tend to need to be very literal about these things.

Frankly a computer meta verse isn’t that interesting

I’d rather figure out how to grow neuron structures that let me believe or have skills in anything and just babysit this stupid fleshy husk literally
GP did not make any such claim.
It was supposed to launch in sept. I haven’t kept track to see if it did.

I think Planet’s next gen microsat approach will be more sophisticated but that’s a couple of years away.
This would have been easy if Windows had something like strace.
There's no such thing as competition in markets anymore
Thank you for all your suggestions and commentary!
> computer-controlled players in games?

Nah, I'm not particularly worried about that. Because those are all currently based on models too simple to conceivably have anything like consciousness.

On the other hand, once we can simulate a human and its environment at OpenWorm's targeted level of abstraction, presumably we would have a conscious being there?
Fun summary:

Civil order that it is a crime to breach. So you could get slapped with one on "balance of probabilities" while becoming criminalised for something fairly arbitrary like entering an area or being drunk. I seem to recall somebody was given an ASBO forbidding them from having noisy sex - which they subsequently did and then faced criminal sanction.
Hard to speak for everybody, but I think a common opinion is that it's a neat project that has some pluses and minuses and doesn't seem to be worth the effort to switch to.
Swift works the way this article describes, except that instead of the rules being built in to the compiler, they are defined by the standard library, and you can define your own precedence levels and associativity for custom operators.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/3ea9e9e55281b9957d2b5486...
There's likely trace elements in fuel. In the case of that area, the Capitol Expressway is a very busy highway system.

If RHV air quality is monitored, then so should some locations around the highway. In fact, there's enough cars surrounding the airport that it would influence air quality measurements inside the airport perimeter.

I mentioned the quake issue because I have seen documentation that RHV is part of the emergency response plan for transporting relief cargo.
While I completely agree that waste is inexcusable and helium is really important there are many grades of helium and they are basically all industrial biproducts. The stuff at parties is mostly air and unsuitable for most scientific applications (checking leaks with a mass spec in a vacuum system is one of the few).
Even the high grade welding/scientific stuff is little more than a biproduct of natural gas extraction. The value of helium recovered from a well is essentially nil compared to the natural gas, so it’s conservation is not really possible since there is no real market force regulating supply (we would basically need to restrict natural gas consumption to nil, which is a good idea long term but not really feasible for civilization at the current stage.
PyTorch Benchmark
I think the origin of the term (or at least the first time I saw it) may be this 2001 article from Joel Spolsky, https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
Not to start a holy war here but I recommend learning both Vim and Emacs just to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of both. Both editors have built-in tutorials you can cover in one day.
"It seems more often to be driven by some form of mental or emotional trauma."

Maybe we are the ones with emotional trauma, staring at a screen 11 hours a day, obeying authority and aging without scratching the surface of life...
I'm not sure why I was downvoted, but I believe this too.

Same goes for music and video - we won't be legally allowed to hear and watch non-DRM-playable devices as the speakers and displays will be rented not owned by corporations.

We have almost arrived at the Rental Economy, where we dont own anything and are at the behest of corporations. It's modern serfdom
I thought a lot of the ideas in snowcrash were very interesting - particularly when you consider that the book was published in 1992 and so a lot of the elements that were cutting-edge on release have had time to diffuse into scifi culture. For example, the potential for 'ideas' to be viruses of the mind, or the degree to which thought is shaped by language.
Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth series[0] and Vernor Vinge’s Zones of Thought[1] both scratch a similar itch to Stephenson novels for me

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
I'm guessing this is in response to the fact that Google won't maintain an official YouTube app for them anymore? It's a shame that companies are only interested in releasing SDKs when they can eke out a petty win (not to mention their hardware is basically irrelevant by now) but it's nice to have nonetheless, I suppose.
Also, aviation engines are in general pushed far closer to their operational limits than a regular car engine. The latter might see full throttle and need to generate its rated power for a few percent of its life. Failures are not too dangerous. The former needs to generate rated power for a far larger fraction, and is also held to much higher reliability standards. Hence the requirement for high octane fuel and massive displacements relative to power output.
This looks like a great resource! Thanks for sharing.

> STARKs, not SNARKs, will dominate

As an uneducated person, I perceive STARKs like hash-based signatures. A lot of hashing, it works, but it's bloated and unless quantum computers become a thing one day (highly unlikely) they might never get used.

Now, I might be completely wrong, and depending on the application these might offer very competitive benefits. I'm looking forward to be proven wrong while reading this tutorial :)
No it wouldn't. This laptop costs more than twice as much as a retail laptop, and the last thing VR needs is to be even more expensive.
As a vim user (sample size one) I’m not tempted to try it due to differences, especially:

> Kakoune’s grammar is object followed by verb, combined with instantaneous feedback [in vim, it’s verb followed by object]

> vi treats moving around and selecting an object as two different things. Kakoune unifies that, moving is selecting. w does not just go to the next word, it selects from current position to the next word

(source: http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html )

The increased interactivity seems nice but the loss of backwards compatibility and having to relearn and retrain basic commands seems not worth it to me.
Hm interesting, except hotels are very dense and I’ve never been in a hotel room without a window. I believe it’s illegal. If it weren’t, then the market would show that people want windows.
I'm curious where the traffic is now going that isn't going to Roblox? Steam player count doesn't seem to be jumping much. Maybe just mobile games?
May the fates hold off the coming of the storm.
> the rest of the gender system makes no sense, like a car is "she" but the plane is "he" -- so no one bothers with it

It's actually pretty straightforward. Generally, nouns ending with an "a" are feminine, with an "o" are neuter, the rest are masculine.
I would add to this that certain combinations of modern SSDs (like nvme) can put disk performance equal to or in excess of RAM performance, too, so there are other considerations besides resilience, too.

I've seen people do this for DB-intenstive things like large search server deployments and map rendering. Doesn't take many nvme mirrors to get past DDR4 speed.
I worked for an SMS provider at one point testing some new things (e.g. i8n). I had to buy dozens and dozens of old cell phone models from eBay. Nearly all of them had not been cleared. A very surprising percent of them had naked photos of the owners or their lovers on them.
Open all the files in Vim either by starting that way or with something like :args, then :bufdo normal @@ to execute the most recently executed macro on all buffers.

On occasions when I’m doing things more iteratively (because I’m using a few macros and personal judgement), I commonly end up with :wn<Enter> in one of the macros.
> It's not porn if it's text.

One of the first erotic text adventures is literally named "Softporn Adventure". [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/the-o...
The various Open Simulator grids (known collectively as the hypergrid) are interoperable like that. As long as the one you created your avatar on (which can easily be a self-hosted one) is up, there are many worlds to teleport to.
I've heard this a lot recently in regard to Intel's latest CEO coming from an engineering background. I can intuit it, but is there something to back up this claim?
Iterating can take many forms, and different teams have different workflows. For my work, I would rarely be able to make a "quick prototype" even if I wanted to, since most of my projects need to modify other people's code. And they have to be deployed to be validated.

In those cases you better have some consistent plan that everyone agrees on before anybody else lets you touch code that they are responsible for. Yes, you can still make mistakes and iterate, but you need to plan for those too.

But I agree with you if you can prototype with a fresh body of code, not touching shared repositories.
It does, sort of. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
Was in 2017, but things probably have changed: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-could-you-represen...
ProcMon fills that role a little bit.

I also think that if the author here used that in the first place they would have arrived at the registry problems much sooner. ProcMon is often the first thing I reach for when dealing with a 'missing files' kind of problem on Windows.
Our evolution has also been altered by dogs. We may have evolved the trait so that we could better communicate with them. Or we mimic them, a cultural thing.
What annoyed me about integral calculus was that it all seemed to be a bunch of heuristic rules. They showed me how to differentiate "from scratch", as it were, like from first principles; but integration seemed to be working backwards from the results of differentiation (which is roughly what you just said).

That is, it didn't look like maths to me. It didn't seem to have the rigour of, say, trig.

I expected maths to be deterministic, and I hated having heuristics in there. It was a gut reaction, it happened when I was about 17, and I'm sure that integration isn't heuristic in that way; I wonder if my mental block might not have ocurred if it had been presented to me differently.
Youtube kids videos.
I don’t know if anyone can speak for the whole community. Personally, I use vim for a similar reason that I use Postgres. It’s open source and well-tested. The rough edges are extremely well known, and relatively polished or padded.

And, if a feature is desirable enough, I know it’ll end up as a vim feature sooner or later. Like JSONB, timescaledb, etc. for PG.

Kakoune looks like it has some cool features! They’ll probably end up in Vim (or nvim) eventually.
> Cumbric and Cornish for starters. Both are Brythonic ie like Welsh, Scottish and Irish.

Small correction: Welsh is indeed Brythonic, as are Cornish and Breton, as they derive from the Celtic languages spoken in pre-Anglo-Saxon Britain. Scottish Gaelic and Irish, on the other hand, are Goidelic, as they come from the Celtic spoken in Ireland.
Maybe it's just me, but Facebook seems to have more in common with the Snow Crash virus than with the Metaverse.
If you work on Linux all you need is sshfs to remote mount and if you have pycharm add the remote interpreter as the project interpreter. It works like a charm even when debugging.
Probably. Roblox's original value proposition of 'kids making games for kids' has devolved into 'adults making dopamine slot-machines for kids' which is pretty sad :(
Steam is usually targeted 13+, since most users are under 13 I doubt most are on steam. Probably mobile games (as you said), Minecraft, YouTube, etc.
I appreciate such recommendations, thanks!

I’ve used vimcasts.org and found it helpful as well.
It's only freedom of speech if it protects speech which is actually controversial. This isn't high school. People should have the right to give offense and behave antisocially, if for no other reason than because there is no one who can be trusted with the power to determine what falls into these extremely arbitrary and subjective categories.

Yes we should tolerate the speech of white supremacists and other hateful characters, because the alternative is to see reasonable statements lumped in with them. Where we should draw a clear and sharp line is at violence.

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
- William Blackstone

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The Surreal Dreams of AI-Generated Art (YouTube:LilyAlexandre)
Plus there's a huge amount of power that comes with being part of the United States. Imagine having to renegotiate every treaty from scratch.
I highly recommend downloading their tutorial .zip folder here: www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.zip

I also highly recommend visiting the workshop here: http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_workshop.html

Very fun to play with!
Something I haven't really seen discussed anywhere since I first saw this earlier:

>Sunsetting non-certified channels

>With the release of the IDK and beta channels, Roku will remove non-certified channels from the platform by March 2022. The Roku IDK and beta channel feature will facilitate broader innovation, improve beta testing, and offer a better development experience and a more standardized development process across streaming platforms.

So basically, channels via code seems like it's going away. I hope they have a suitable replacement in mind with the IDK
> qb, where keyboard gets first class in the application

No need to contribute to the Chromium monopoly, luakit (what this comment’s sent from) and some other browsers (off the top of my head: nyxt and, to varying extents, Palemoon, lynx, and eww + evil-mode) offer the same thing.
This was an amazing write-up. It never ceases to amaze me how anyone can reason through decompiled code.
Check out Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos.

Iain M. Banks is also a lot of fun.
You are absolutely right.

It feels real and almost awkward. Awkward as in you feel self-concise around beautiful women. It took me a while to get over the intensity of it.

As a shy guy who usually is like Raj around women, this made me think if we can have some sort of training videos for shy/socially anxious people. Like just a video of having dinner in VR. Or a video of audience, so you can practice your speeches etc.

I am making a few of such videos with my friends. Just don't know next steps.
Clostridium, a nasty pathogen, makes an infectiously delicious confection