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Hello. Author of the post here.

Thanks everyone for reading and sharing thoughts. I expected responses would fall along these lines and I had my qualms about posting at all (which I mention in the piece). Ultimately, after lots and lots of feedback and contemplation, I decided that, on the balance, it would be probably be more helpful than hurtful to post. And I'm glad I did.

To address the questions about whether it is fair, or accurate (whatever that means), to characterize my state as depression, I can say that 1/I was formally diagnosed by a clinician 2/ I was severely suicidal (though it would have require a close read to have picked that up) and 3/this clinician and I were seriously exploring hospitalization. My depression was and is not chronic.

I am well-aware depression looks different for everyone and was clear about representing anyone else's experience in the post. I don't mean to be snarky, but I would hope that after all this time on the internet, encountering all kinds of people in all kinds of places, we might be able to grasp the diversity, variation, and nuance in the human experience. I think it's worth reflecting on whether or not you believe someone else's experience has to match your own in order to have validity.

Most importantly, though, my heart goes out to any and all people who are hurting, in any way shape or form.
> I am sorry to wake you up, but the existence of Google revenue is based on what it knows about you. Of course they don’t sell your data, because they are big enough to use that data all by themselves, giving them competitive advantage.

And? Thats far better than what most companies do. Credit card companies for example. There's a whole slew of 'traditional' companies that sell products and STILL sell your information.

I'd rather they have my data and allow me to use it for useful things (contextual search, maps, etc...) and use it to match me ads to make money versus companies like MS that would make me pay for their products, still shove ads in my face, then try to lock me into more products with a bunch of dark patterns, etc...

> The whole Youtube in these days is one the worst websites in the web, because of the systematic addition of user-hostile features for free users. Do you really want to support service like that?

Youtube enables creators in a way nothing before it did. It literally created a new type of publishing. As for ads on free Youtube, it's still far less than all the commercials that permeated cable TV since its inception.

Google is far less hostile to users and creators, free or paid, than cable companies and traditional media companies were for decades.
This is similar to a securities line of credit(SLOC). Brokerages already have this. Am not getting how this is so different from todays system. M1 finance and E*Trade, IB all have SLOC. If you own a house you can get an equity line of credit. Either way you a borrowing against an asset that has some value. It just so happens in this case it’s Bitcoin. Is that the only difference?
Yes, well said
What is the mathematical model used for designing linux or chromium or any kind of hyper-complex software?
None, there is no need for a specific mathematical models in general and it's very cringe to claim otherwise.
Sure mathematical models can help in the specific and in the general but there is no set of open problems in mathematics that lead to an impossibility of making AGI.
Sure p!= np but it would be ridiculous to think that brains can bypass algorithmic complexity.
The real problem is that we haven't found the winning lottery ticket software and this software spoiler alert is not at all only made of neural networks
Hes not asking that “every imaginable need be fully covered”.

He’s asking for the well funded sanitation department to do their job.
Well, it’s a kind of debt. Think of it like this. You have a car. Your car is worth $10k. You have no money. But if you had $1k today you could have $2k next month. One way you could do this is sell your car. Now you have $10k and you can spend $1k and next month have $11k. But you’d much rather end next month with a car and $1k rather than $11k.

This is a tool that lets you keep the car and get the $1k by mortgaging the car for the $10k. If car prices drop precipitously next month, you won’t get it back. But if they go up, then you have your car (now worth more than $10k) and you pay back the loan and keep the extra $1k you made too.

Perhaps you are familiar with house mortgages, etc. The closest thing a normal person would come to this is probably a HELOC.
I see your confusion but you don’t have more. After borrow, you have your deposit plus your borrow.

As to why, there are any number of reasons.

- you can avoid capital gains in deposit since a loan is not capital gains. Pay for an expense or start a biz. Anything.

- you can keep your btc while borrowing usd and put it into a yield. 5-20% isn’t uncommon to earn.

- you can buy other coins with the usd to extend your exposure although risky.

- you can borrow any coin, not just usd, as an effective short. Borrow a meme coin and pay back same amount of meme coin later but it’s worth less usd now.

Compare this to say credit card borrowing rates of 20+%. Borrow rates are based on the coin but can be effectively zero.

The why is up to you. It’s just not something that is possible with the regular system because of lock out.

When you use defi for a while, it becomes clear how much the traditional system locks us all out.

I personally deposit usd to get 5+% apy and then borrow for investing or expenses.
The problem is that the mechanisms that regulate real art are clear.

Take a painting. You have to stand in front of it to truly appreciate it. A pic won't do it.

So the buyer of the painting has an exclusive asset which produces returns in terms of appreciation but also periodic fees when they lend it to museums.

NFTs have nothing of the sort because the enjoyment is essentially the same between owning it and right clicking it. In order to mimic the real world enjoyment you'd have to find a way to immerse the asset in a virtual world in which avatars pay for the privilege of seeing/using that art content.

The NFT maybe here, but the virtual world , not yet.
> I wrote the parable, at least this version of it. I hope I haven't missed its point entirely

Haha I obviously didn't catch this. I guess then I missed your point. Between your essay and the parent comments, my takeaway is about the danger of enforcing collective decisions on everyone, because even if everyone says they agree, they can still all be delusional, or at least just too scared to speak out.
This doesn't make any sense.
Aging is certainly a problem that needs to be solved, but the idea that you expressed here seems to be that younger people are better at their jobs - which is very wrong.

This line of thinking is akin to "If less of the postmen had diabetes, I would get more of my mail faster!"
Don't fall for these ageist logical inconsistencies
Base 64 is good at nothing and bad at some things.

- Hex is human readable, case insensitive, not that "inefficient", and always aligns to bytes.

- Base 85 and basE91 are efficient.

- Bitcoin uses Base58 because they thought base 64 was too human unreadable. Ethereum uses Hex.

- Base 256 (bytes) is efficient and the native language of computers.

Base 64 is not efficient, not human readable, and not easy to encode.

The biggest problem with base 64 is that base 64 is not base 64. Are you doing base 64 with padding? Are you doing base 64 with URL safe characters or URL unsafe characters? Are you following the standard RFC 4648 bucket encoding, or are you using iterative divide by radix? I think a great place where the cracks show is JOSE, where for things like thumbprints there's a ton of conversion steps (UTF-8 key -> base 64 -> ASCII bytes -> digest (bytes) -> base 64 thumbprint).

My personal advise for 90% of projects considering looking at base 64 should just use Hex or bytes. If needing human readability, use Hex. Otherwise use binary.
Please, explain to me what legal rights an NFT-holder asserts over someone that claims ownership of your token. Do any countries respect the blockchain enough to take you seriously?
> So in contexts where one is actually trying to solve the _same problem_ as a group, placing very high weight on the honest information received from previous experts can be critical.

Another "loose attempt to make this argument rigorous" might be to invoke Grim Trigger [1] strategies from repeated PD games. A very large negative weight is placed on "dishonest" behavior across a communication channel (game).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_trigger
Your thinking is correct, the only thing you're missing is how frequently the treasury rolls over debt into new debt. Most debt isn't 20 or 30 year bonds. Take a look at the link below and see how much of the total outstanding debt is in t-bills. These are instruments with a duration of less than a year. That means throughout the year, the treasury has to issue new debt to pay off the old debt, essentially refinancing constantly. This makes the government particularly vulnerable to interest rate risk.

https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-treasury-securit...

During the previous admin, there was talk of issuing a 100 year bond while rates were so low in order to reduce some of this risk, but nothing ever materialized. I'm not sure if this idea is on the present administration's radar at all.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-mnuchin-idUSK...
The David Bowie version is pretty cool too.
The logo is similar to ours https://www.lovo.ai/
+1 for Cloud Run. I run a few production workloads with it, and its dirt cheap and reliable. It has come a long way over the last two years.

As for lock in: we habitually put abstractions between things like key-value stores, messaging and queuing services and the business logic -- so moving this stuff to, say, fargate/dynamo/sns/sqs would not be a lot of work -- probably a few weeks to rework the terraform scripts, figure out a good approach to roles, and thats it.
there are only credibility concerns among people who don't understand vaccines and who don't trust people with decades of experience to know what they're doing.

this group is an EXTREMELY vocal micro-minority.
it just sounds like you found the most hospitable climate for yourself, you don't have to feel bad for being a clever biological organism that is more efficient than your neighbors :)

we're all trying to do the same! it's arguably evolution?
>To them, all visible blobs are equally bad, regardless of whether one can completely compromise your system and another one is completely harmless and requires no trust.

For a company that values software freedom above all else this is completely fine. If they are called Secure Software Foundation then your arguments would hold more weight. For example, I really doubt that FSF would claim that GNU Guix is more secure than Open BSD
Don’t they “choose” Teams because it integrates with outlook/sharepoint/etc? That seems to be the case at my job. Basically, Teams replaced Skype.
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I am sometimes called an expert. I strongly focus on things that I or others already tried and did not work. And then hypothesise if the circumstances are the same or similar this time around. Looking for arguments that they haven’t changed (enough).

My track record is ok-ish.
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Of course they are the brighter guys.

There is a good reason Alan invented the Turing- and not the fruit-machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_machine_(homosexuality_t...
Is it true that college-age gay men have more sex than college-age straight men? The post was an anecdote (and anecdotes are fine) but the question is empirical and there's probably solid research on it. Anyway, all statistics are stereotyping.

As far as the article goes, Harold Bloom (the western canon guy who died a while back) argued that gay and bi people are significantly overrepresented among great writers and poets. I'm not sure if he had a theory as to why.
Mine would be booting into a minimal Linux installation/hypervisor that fires up a Linux and a Windows VM, both full-screen, between which you could swap with a pair of keyboard shortcuts.
Ah. So something can be both rich and reasonable at the same time!

Reality never disappoints.
It is precisely the same but provided in a decentralized fashion. This allows anyone to participate with any amount (theoretically).
I don’t buy tools sold at Home Depot. (Consumables, sure, but not tools.) The nice folks at Laguna and Harvey and Rikon and Festool still seem to understand how a customer relationship works.
But these ransomware operators are so comfortable in their country that they don't even bother trying to leverage the anonymity and just simply like the convenience of crypto
and this is why arxiv is not the same as peer review.
When someone today complains that solar power is still too expensive, or that cell phones and flat screen TVs in the hands of poor people proves they aren't really poor, they immediately flip my Bozo bit. To be fair people who hate nuclear power have always flipped my Bozo bit although they might have done the job delaying its adoption long enough for solar power to become cheaper by now.
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The Creative Destruction of Sears
Tesla is the one that supplied the VIN 686 roadster (~109k opportunity cost) but enormously benefitted from the marketing and social media crazy of launching a car into space and having a website dedicated to tracking it (they don't even pay to run this; lucky TSLA) https://www.whereisroadster.com/
You don't believe in the "wisdom of the crowds" ?
This is why eyewitness testimony can be unreliable . People are sure someone said or believed something, or that there is a consensus about something, but this may not be true. Social media can make this worse, particularly by forming false consensuses about issues in which no such consensus may exist.
There is the most common answer on FaceID problems. I just dont like the idea of a Timepiece that requires day to day charging. If they could have make a strap or band that last weeks if not months I may actually buy one.
I believe that argument is based on the same FUD that I addressed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29290087

...at least, I don't see any such code in the actual deblobbing script: https://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.15....

edit: since you called linux-libre a "fork", I feel compelled to point out that Linux-Libre is just the vanilla Linux kernel with that script applied. No more, no less.
I would imagine insurance fraud would be a big problem when it comes to anonymous cryptocurrency based ransomware coverage.
Because of him? Or because of the job?
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San Francisco spends $100k+ per homeless person. We have the resources it’s about how they’re used.
I thought Henry Kssgr was dead 30 years ago or something!!
If Microsoft said it didn't happen, why would anyone believe them?
Agreed, and particularly ironic in a video promoting an accessibility product. Like, what?
Not really sure what you think I disagree with, since the metaphor is so vague and wishy-washy it could apply to anything from theology to stamp collecting, but it sounds like trying to conflate late binding with some manner of bad coding style.

Well, since I have been privileged to work with several really great Ruby teams over the last couple of decades, whose large and well-structured code uses metaprogramming techniques yet remains easy to follow & comprehend (and debug and extend), and who remain splendidly productive to boot, I can say, if this bunch of guesses at the intended meaning of that "soap bubble" metaphor hold water, then yeah, I disagree.

Conversely, shitty code can be (and is) written in explicit import and early-bound languages. The enterprise world, for example, is riddled with massive hairballs of brittle, unmaintainable, boilerplate-heavy Java.

All of which only goes to show that people, not the programming language, are the problem.
"LibreJS is a good example in order to kill any potential Spectre/Meltdown attack. There is no attack when no code is being run."

If attackers who cannot add a comment to their exploit are in your threat model.

Personally, I've been using a browser extension that blocks JS unless it has a comment reading

> This code is NOT evil or malicious!

at the top. Haven't been hacked yet!
But that's the system we built. Starting in college you're going to spend a decade and a half studying to be a world-class expert researching a topic of your own choosing.

And as soon as you become a professor you stop doing research and start begging for research funding so others can do what you did. And no one sees the problem with this so it continues.
I really do believe eating meat is wrong. I don't decide what books to read based on my personal ethical beliefs, especially when it has nothing to do with the subject at hand.

Sorry for the subtlety, I'll remind myself of readers like you in the future.
This seems like an opinion.
If police starting executing 10 random homeless people every night, it wouldn't necessarily "solve" homelessness...

That would rapidly cut back on the obviously, highly homeless population. Over the course of a year, that would be 3650 fewer homeless in the area.

When I was homeless in San Diego, there was an estimated 10k homeless on the streets of that city. Such a policy would tentatively eliminate the population of street homeless in just three years.

(Couch surfing is another form of homelessness but it is less obvious than people out in the street. Also some homeless float from cheap hotel to cheap hotel, being bled for more money each month than rent would cost but unable to arrange permanent housing.)

In the meantime, lines at homeless services would get shorter. This would leave more resources to go around for the remaining homeless, making it easier for them to solve their problems.

It would be draconian and have other effects, like normalizing the idea that police can play Judge Dredd and be judge, jury and executioner -- at least if you commit the crime of being very poor. Personally I would rather see us resolve the dire shortage of affordable housing that is a known root cause of homelessness in the US.

My point being: If that policy were instituted and the homeless suddenly began getting their act together, it wouldn't be solely due to people being "more motivated" by fear. It would in part be because of reduced burden on limited resources for solving the problem in question.

It might also be because fear of execution would free people up to try things that are currently "unthinkable." It would cut through their own internal red tape concerning "acceptable" behavior and likely also have other people looking the other way because "Well, hell, I would do that too in order to avoid being executed for the crime of being poor."

It might also make people decide they strongly disapprove of this outcome and make them more likely to donate to homeless services or volunteer, thereby adding more resources to the system to solve the problem.

Having written the above, it makes me wonder if these monsters were effective in part because they were operating in a low resource environment and reducing the burden on the available resources helped the remaining people be better fed and more effective and/or helped people decide they didn't care about looking foolish or breaking some social taboo. They cared about not being shot.

Of course, it's politically incorrect to analyze it and then say that's what happened and thereby "justify" their abhorrent actions. So people say they were monsters and say that we just don't understand why anyone put up with them.

Ideally, in a humane environment, we find ways to think outside the box without having to shoot people to make that socially acceptable.
This seems to assume that experts' advice can only be valued (or not) as an appeal to authority. But that would ignore that experts can also provide _explanations_: "This won't work because this subsystem would violate the laws of physics" e.g. -- and that explanation might then spur someone to find an equivalent subsystem without that flaw, or perhaps one would find a flaw in the initial reasoning, or whatever.

Similarly, seeing a list of past failures may inspire variations that seek to overcome the shortcoming without having to waste time first reproducing the same failure. One can try to learn _why_ it failed and use that to guide future attempts.

The advice to be wary of experts reminds me of the advice to avoid criticism while brainstorming, the idea in common being that criticism and negativity supposedly stifles creativity. However, it turns out that criticism _enhances_ the brainstorming process https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/should-we-allo... It seems that criticism from expertise could similarly be a boon to future advances.
I mean.. Einstein did prove himself wrong a bunch he just hated it. Its not like the work was flawed, or not performed. Its hard to find the sort of fault in that you seem to be implying.
> It comes across as patronizing

I think the thing I'm stuck on is how someone talking solely about their own personal lived experience during a low point in their life can possibly be patronising?

Is this not an interpretation that we as readers can choose or not choose? As opposed to something the author is doing to us?

If she was saying "depressed people should just do X, what's all the fuss about. Losers." then maybe I would feel patronised. But she's not doing that.

It's obviously a sensitive topic because a lot of people seem to share your view.
It's just like the Protestant Reformation. DeFi is less about what it adds and more about what unnecessary intermediaries it removes.
Well I am not defending the paper thesis but no it's time to realize that we are in a new AI winter where progress has stopped.
Sure we can make accuracy progress on tasks that were underesearched before, moreover we do make extremely slow (and with increasingly diminishing returns) accuracy gains on core tasks.
But the diminishing returns are diminishing fast to the point that progress in terms of applications has stopped for core AI tasks such as NLU.

However there is still some hope as the vast majority of papers bring an innovation but almost never attempt to merge/synergize with other papers innovations.
If human resources where allocated at merging the top 10 papers on a given task, I'm sure it would lead to a major accuracy improvement.
Audacity.
> They have done pretty much the opposite - they added a proper API of theming instead of having a stylesheet override.

That's not theming, that's just changing accent colors in the same theme. If I don't like dark background color, I can't change it. If I don't like the light background color, I can't change that either. All I can do is change accent colors.

The entire GTK and GNOME ecosystem is heading towards Android like customization and theming, which is basically non-existent at this point.
I carry a physical, metal key for my car that I’ve used once in four years. It’s part of the key fob. It’s on my key ring. I carry a physical, metal key I’ve never used. It unlocks the back door of my house. I carry another physical, metal key I’ve never used too, now that I think about it: the one that unlocks the keypad front door if the battery dies.

Do you not have other keys? Or like, is it up to Amazon or whoever, along with battery electrochemistry, to let you into your house, too?

(“Physical, metal key”. That actually makes me incredulous, to be honest, as if carrying three grams is a burden. Are we just a parody of ourselves now?)
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