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For me, the following statement stood out - The committee asserted that any missteps Watson had made were rookie CEO errors, and that she “engaged in a conscientious…process to maximize value for the Company’s stockholders.”.

I think there is too much focus on maximizing shareholder value and too little on doing business with integrity. Shareholders should get returns because a company is well-run and solves a problem. Otherwise, we are building a system that robs common people to pay the rich.
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No. No no no. Parents already have thousands of commercial and social interests trying to steal a child’s attention. You can’t possibly expect an overworked and criminally exhausted parent to come home from work and “fight the good fight” against a multi billion dollar company with huge teams of engineers and psychologists working day and night to capture your child’s head.

I say this every time this comment comes up and I always get downvoted but I just don’t care. I love my kids and I fight every day to keep them safe and healthy and I DO NOT NEED to fight a super villain with direct access to my child’s mind.

Social media is evil. It will be banned. Wait and see.
Let me know when it's available for Linux and Android so I can access my Linux desktop from my Android phone
>Fractional Orbital Bombardment System is new and very scary for the USA missile defense systems.

It's actually a fairly old technology as these things go, developed in the '60s and deprecated in the '80s. My understanding of HGWs that are currently being developed/fielded is that their potential FOBS aspect isn't what's scary--it's that they're more maneuverable than MARVs on traditional ballistic missiles and may be able to evade many currently fielded ABM systems.

That said, submarine warfare is indeed insane.
You wouldn't believe how many bands from the eighties/nineties are still around - out of the spotlight, some of them not with the original lineup, but still there for their faithful fans.

Except for R.E.M. unfortunately, who disbanded in 2011...
Pretty much everyone in a duplex would rather live in single-family.

Pretty much everyone who has lived next to a duplex would rather live next to single-family. (I'm not saying that every instance of living next to single-family goes well.)

Yes, duplexes are less expensive than single-family, so they're the best that some people can do, but that's no reason to make them the only option.
Where is the 27” 5K iMac display, only without the “Mac” part? Apple used to sell such displays, I still have one, and it didn’t cost $6K (it came with a stand, and for $1000 in 2010, it ought to). Are the panels just not available, so they all go in iMacs?
top comments are like: yeah, we're poisoning kids, but where's the profit if we stop. Guys, you're the baddies. Try invoking Godwins' law on your words.
Plus, one out of five South Africans has AIDS.
I've especially enjoyed this functionality since a very popular JSON Viewer extension on Firefox got taken over by tracking malware and started logging all your history.
FYI: My local Amazon Hub+ caught-up in under an hour.
For many things, you are right (or close enough for most purposes). For many, many other things, including the some of the things we care about most, the "true reality" is not so easy to discern.
She should be released. But probably she refused to accept the offered term, likely to admit wrong doing according to the Chinese law.

The crux of this type of incident is that, one who are aligned herself with western style of morality, would find Chinese laws often to be incompatible with those values. Often such conflict were named "authoratarian" "dictative" etc.

As a matter of fact, just like a lot of laws were passed in US without much democratic debate, most laws in China have no democratic debate in the process. There is public opinion collection phase, which does not have a open process. And that were seldom publicized for obvious distrust of the common people's judgement.

Then this lady probably did herself the ultimate sacrifice in practicing hungry strike, for proclaiming her own righteousness.

Unfortunately, this type of self sacrifice was not useful in changing the people's perception and mentality.

I always suggest people like her, western alike, to take a constructive approach to alter the CCP's behavior. I.e., one can always start by educating the normal citizens about the western values, one person after another.

Explicit and revolutionary conflicts are exciting, and probably can bring changes really quick. Like CCP did before, transformed the largest nation on earth from an old emperism led system to a socializism totalitarian system, in less than a few decades. But that causes a lot of human suffering, probably the worst in human history.

So, as I said, I want Ms. Zhang to keep herself healthy and strong. If she was imprisoned wrongly. Let the system know that you want to fight in a way that yielding is not an option, by actually living well.
I agree that people have experiences, but I don't understand why they must be magical or non-existent in the physical world. Why can't the word "experience" simply be referring to the physical processes that happen when our mind/body is in some particular environment?

Certainly physically ingesting a small amount of certain psychedelic chemicals can have profound effects on subjective experience, so it can't be too disconnected from physical processes.

The whole issue of qualia / experiences seems like it is an extension of the dualist/materialist perspectives rather than something that sheds light on it one way or another - dualists will view qualia as something non-material and so something that materialism can't explain, and materialists will view qualia as something material along with consciousness itself.
I say this in all sincerity: thank you for providing a much better example of the kind of hand-waving flim-flam I was referring to than I was able to.

I imagine that you are making some kind of point here, but this is just exactly what loses me every time. Is that some kind of mental deficiency on my part? I suppose it could be, but if it is then I don't think it's one I want to correct.
How is it simultaneously possible to be a personal friend to someone and not have had the opportunity to interact with that person?
True, but no one sees US dollar as an asset to "invest" into right? It's just a medium of exchange, or worst case, for short-term savings. People who see crypto as being any different can only blame themselves.
Aren't there programs restricting social media? Why parent's don't just ban the social media for their kids?
>An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region... AZs are physically separated by a meaningful distance, many kilometers, from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...
The frightening thing is how fragile it seems.

If you're going to concentrate risk on AWS, it better be essentially flawless, stable, and highly-redundant.
No, but the operation of Kubernetes is clarified by actually running Kubernetes. Hacking.. or “homelab”-ing is doing it for the pleasure or the edification.
You're right that playgrounds can't be steeply sloped.

But, first, many playgrounds are sloped up to 3%, people just don't notice that, and put tents on 3-5% slope without issues. (But if you mean tent for sleeping, I slept on 10% slope, without problems.)

Secondly, for playgrounds, you can put the pitch along level lines, level only the pitch itself and leave a steeper slope next to it to serve as a grandstand. Example from Finland: https://goo.gl/maps/CssidLvnTYCeZ6Qx8

Thirdly, a playground still does not require the entire lot to be leveled, which I see nowadays a lot. Earlier architects, if they wanted to build just a copy&paste standard project (rather than design something new with entries on different levels), they'd just put buildings and playgrounds along the level lines, and minimize levelling works. The lot would have 2-3 small slopes of 15-20% with grass on them between buildings or playgrounds. Nowadays, with digging machinery available, even if the same can be done, clients (mostly public agencies) order to level everything and build retaining walls at both ends.

My point is there's a plenty of ways to work around slopes in parks and land lots.
I suspect they are exaggerating, or that the claims were misunderstood. Yes, the FBI can find criminals who use Tor, but with extremely few notable exceptions from many years ago now, that isn't done by breaking any of Tor's protections, but instead using more traditional police investigation methods (e.g., "we got a tip this person is up to something, and this account only ever posts when that person is at home..."). We know this because details of investigations are public once they go to court in the US. Yes, parallel construction is a thing, but the idea that they regularly make use of exploits and this information never gets leaked in any sort of verifiable way (even with FBI agents who are apparently willing to speak of such secret programs with mere acquaintances ;)) means we can be relatively confident that, if such exploits do exist, they are rare enough to be too expensive to waste on anything but the most extreme circumstances. In other words, no, the FBI does not know what you're doing on Tor (assuming you're not at the far end of a bell curve, and ignoring everything other than what Tor protects).
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Ask HN: Snap's Lens Studio vs. Niantic's Lightship?
How do they compare?
* of self-imposed hunger-strike, ostensibly despite the best efforts of the prison authorities.
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What kind of freedom is it if it's completely dominated by hostile megacorporations?
The article raises some valid concerns, all of which can be addressed.

What it doesn’t do though is propose any sort of solution.
It'd be a travesty if she was lost. Her videos shined a light in the chaotic darkness of the beginning of this pandemic.

I've been concerned lately that a lot of articles critical of China's government have comment sections filled with things like, "America is no better, just look at their prisons" or "Europe has no right to judge, look at how they've handled the migrant crisis", etc. Or, worse, accusing the authors of being xenophobic or racist only because they cast China in a poor light.

There seems to be an odd desire right now to ignore any injustices going on in other countries, in favor of critiquing Western nations. Or even downplaying and excusing foreign corruption, to try to highlight how bad Western corruption is. This sort of Victim Olympics does nothing to help the foreign human rights activists, such as Zhang Zhan, who are crying out to the world and begging for our attention.

China's corruption is a unique beast that has unique impacts on its victims. Journalists like Zhang Zhan have highlighted this and presented rock-solid evidence. I dearly hope the Western world can quit its culture war squabbles for long enough to listen and offer all possible aid. It's increasingly hard to hear their plight over the sound of the West tearing itself to pieces.
Not to doubt your claims, but do you have any sources for them? I’ve never heard this.
As a disclaimer, I really dislike this train of thought to the point of feeling "icky" about discussing it. But that's my personal problem, and you are making good arguments in good faith, which I really like, so...

Rather than trying to address each point I'm going to try to address directly what I think is a misunderstanding. I don't know how other people think about anti-aging. I really don't think it's fair to talk about anti-aging as a community or a group or even an ideology, when at its core it's just the idea that we should try to actively solve aging as a problem in itself, rather than wait for the slow march of technology and medicine to do its thing.

There are two differences I can tell between me and your image of anti-aging.

First and most important, I don't think technology is going to work like you think it will. Most likely there are several causes of aging, and while some may be expensive to fix, I'm pretty sure some won't. I'm reasonably sure at least one, maybe several treatments will be at the level of a 5 dollar pill that will increase lifespan by about a decade. Either something like a cheap pill that does metabolic tweaking, or CRISPR-based one time treatment. I also think you're underestimating the power of tech - MRI machines are some of the most state of the art pieces of technology one can imagine, and yet they're still affordable to the point where everybody has at least a couple done during his lifetime. TBH, I have issues imagining how a truly expensive treatment might look like - maybe growing organs over printed scaffolding?

So I both don't see anti-aging as a pricing thing, and I don't see it doing big disruptions any time soon. It'd just mean more life for everybody, and more _productive_ years, which might bring some pretty amazing gains at society level. After all, we don't really know how good a professional can become with an extra decade to learn stuff. And as far as the expensive treatments go, the ones for the billionaires, they'll basically be sponsoring tech development for the rest of us. Any industry needs somebody to pay for the expensive and shitty prototypes in order to reach quality mass production. You literally can't skip this step - trying to just pour government money until you get a product... shudder we definitely won't live to see this happen.

And second, I don't think we should drop everything and start working on anti-aging. And I really think this is a very dishonest argument, btw. We're at the level where anti-aging applied research isn't even legal, and not really in the Overton window either. It's a bit early to say "but we should leave some resources for something else".
All the things about "community" owned just raise the question that what are the structures the communities adopt, what are the roles and what are their rights and responsibilities, and how are people elected to the roles. And how do you make sure these communities don't end up like the existing communities (countries, companies, NGOs, etc...) that you are trying to differentiate from?

You can't just have a bunch of people and call it community owned. By that definition then this world is already community owned, the internet is already community owned.

You can't also just bypass humanity, this world is the way it is largely due to humanity, not capitalism, not socialism, not because it's not community owned. If the human beings in your community inherently have the same traits as human beings in other communities, how can you make sure you community doesn't end up like the other communities?
> one can always start by educating the normal citizens about the western values, one person after another.

this is where you, if you started practising this, would be moved to a re-education camp. And then you'd change your tune after coming back out.
I think it'd be correct to call the AZ a failure boundary, not the failure boundary. the is hardly the first time a failure has exceeded an AZ.
Website is blocked in India because CloudFlare has a terrible ISP in India: https://github.com/RockstarLang/codewithrockstar.com/issues/...

I wrote a thread on why this keeps happening and why CloudFlare needs to fix it: https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1468454402956533761
I'd love to read a more in-depth overview/summarization on how fixes were implemented for each of the sensors. Great job to the NASA team!
Have you done any research of your own on this? I'm trying to get an idea of where to start. If yes, then in what way do you believe they are similar contrary to what my comment said or implied?
My kids aren't getting a smart phone and no screens except within sight of other members of the household. The house router shuts down internet during the night.

Welcome to North Korea. I will win.
Who/Why (non-bots) would fork 1k+ GitHub repos a month let alone 9k+?
Earth Round.
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> Journalists like Zhang Zhan have highlighted this and presented rock-solid evidence.

Could you please link some of the "rock-solid evidence" of corruption that she exposed?
Ah yes, let’s keep the web “free” as it is today.

Btw, anyone else have issues today because AWS-US-East broke?
With the protocols you mention, are you able to reach an unattended machine and take control of it or does someone have to be at that machine to grant you remote access?
let me be blunt: you don't understand what (business) strategy is, nor any of the dimensions of analyzing it. there's no such thing as 'product strategy'; product executes on the business strategy using marketing tactics like building features the target market wants. product features are not a strategy.

in a competitive market, there are two broad strategies available: cost (walmart) and differentiation (apple). youtube coerced its market into being favorable to itself by leveraging the anti-competitive aspects i mentioned earlier. that simply trumps product tactics, and even these two competitive market strategies; it subverts entire markets unfairly and uneconomically. i really can't teach you strategy or market economics in an hn comment; you need to go study that yourself. also, arguing from emotion is a sure-fire way to lead yourself astray.
Auth0 has more features, some of which are very useful for a PaaS/SaaS startup. That might be the original reason.
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> Your second paragraph is premature.

It isn't.

> There isn't enough history yet to compare them fairly.

I compare them on what they provide for what cost right now, and the kind of company that they appear to be building as of now. Hopefully it was clear that I wasn't making predictions about the future.
4.9x faster FP64, but only 1.2x faster FP16. FP64 is totally irrelevant for machine learning. A100 has been available on AWS for over a year already, while MI200 won't be available at all until next year. Nvidia's A100 successor should be out next year too. And Nvidia's software stack puts AMD's to shame. AMD needs to do a lot better if they want to start being competitive in ML.
> they're all quite niche in terms of intended audience

I wouldn’t say that of GNOME Web.

> I'm not going back to a web without Ublock

I do every day (switching between luakit on a laptop and firefox-mobile-config on a smartphone), and IMO a good /etc/hosts is good enough (edit: luakit can also read the same blocklist format as µBlock, though it ignores cosmetic filters).
Most online ad platforms allow anyone to start a video ad campaign with just a few bucks.

Not sure why smaller businesses don't do so. I suspect the targeting options aren't good enough to get "spatula city" good ROI.
Proposing is fine. Building is better.
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Part of it is likely that engineers/etc can build, where as the entirety of my job is ensuring things continue to run as they should. I have ~5 clients, and if things are going well the machine runs without me doing much. If the data doesn’t look good or the client wants a change, then I go do some work. There are prebuilt alerts in the system, but I don’t have any sort of access to create or automate my own.

For me there literally isn’t work I can do outside of that. I’ve automated a few things here and there, but that’s about it. Like the other commenter said, I’m definitely not allowed to do anything else. I don’t even have admin access to download software on my laptop.

Pay is great, hours are low. No complaints here :)
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The Hell No. Because it is for Ænglish, which is spelled wrongly and illogically.

In most (perhaps all) languages, assuming they are spelled phonetically, a syllable-based organization would be best. In most (perhaps all) languages syllables are mostly consonant-wovels-sequences.

So the bestest keyboard would be: consonant on the left and vowels on the right. The vertical organization would be: most common syllables are on the same horizontal line and the mostest common on the top (or center?) line, but those details depend of course on the particular language.
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1.)Quantum entanglement, to instill a sense of appreciation for the unknown. 2.)Astrology, to grant an understanding of the language of archetypes.
yeah. i know people who keep their pcs caked with dust and the stuff just chugs along.

i have to clean my office setup every often and i use a blower to remove the dust. dust bunnies and all. still, everything works.

you are right, people often talk about hygiene for computers but they are more resilient than we are made to believe.
Rhetorical questions are almost always a terrible way to make a point.

What is the point you are trying to make?
The web is free because companies are profiting off your data. In no way has server costs ever been free.
Sorry - run on sentences made it unclear. My mentor is the friend. I'm the one that's never interacted
> Define "thinking." Is an ecoli deciding to move towards or away from a chemical signal "thinking?"

Define "defining". Is a definition the thing that is being defined?

> How much have you read from people researching consciousness, vs reading half-baked layman ideas about materialism on web forums?

Will I not learn anything from dialog with you because it's on a web forum?

> Do you find "souls" to require less handwaving than materialism?

Do you find "materialism" to require less handwaving than dualism?

> Do you find "souls" to require less handwaving than materialism? Because if not, I have a lot of questions about souls that I'd love you to answer. Here are a few.

Did I somehow give you the impression that I'm an apologist? I'm here to talk about how conscious intelligence could arise from dumb matter, not about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and other such nonsense.
I think it's implied: don't pursue cryptocurrency or the blockchain where traditional methods work just fine.

The problem right now is that there's a peverse incentive for entrepreneurs to jump on the crypto/NFT bandwagon because a bunch of VCs are desperate to fund those sorts of companies. Nobody in that space is incentivised to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
You should try going to an Orthodox Church and see how weird it is. It definitely makes you think of the spiritual meaning of things.

THC alone makes me all spiritual feeling, and often in a good way. I think psychedelics would just take me to a scary spiritual place, not a euphoric one.
Do you have any other words for me beyond what you just wrote, or was that it?
He gotta make full use of those hardware somehow, by throwing unnecessary software at it.
What gives me chills is that she was denied tenure at the University of Pennsylvania.

Fortunately she got a side gig, and managed to stay on as an adjunct. She was able to keep working on mRNA rather than having to be a waiter or an Uber driver or something like that.

Now she's on just about everyone's short list for a Nobel Prize in the not-too-distant future.
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