skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of those innocent deaths were "justified" by the "need" to defend the "Aryan people".

The whole Nazi project was precisely to create an ethnostate. The enthnicity they had in mind didn't have much of a historical existence, true, and neither did the genetic group they imagined to make it up. But what defines an ethnicity? They had a founding myth, and they definitely managed to generate some real "Aryan" self-identification in people's minds. What does any ethnicity, including Jews, have besides founding myths and shared self-identification? It seems to me that the Nazis either had as valid a "people" to work with as any other, or at least were well on the way to creating one.

And yet somehow I really can't work up any sympathy at all for the Nazi's "purification" project, or for the "Aryan people".

Speaking of "states for peoples", a whole lot of those innocent deaths were aided by other states' unwillingness to admit Jews who were trying to get away from the Nazis. It seems they also wanted to keep their countries pure for their own "peoples". Maybe if they'd been less concerned about having states "for their peoples", they'd have been more willing to take in the actual individual human beings who were about to be slaughtered.

For that matter, even after the war, creating Israel let the winners feel a bit better about themselves while still not, you know, letting too many Jews in. I don't know if not having to "take" Jews was a major motivation, but I've heard that some of their leaders at least thought about that.

Oh, and by the way, while the Nazis definitely had a special hardon for Jews, they killed a shit-ton of non-Jews, too. If making sure people have their own country is the method we're using to save people when a genocidal psychotic system takes over the place they're living, then it seems like maybe we have to create some more countries.

Should the Roma get a country? They're definitely a "people", and they were targeted on the basis of it. Should there be a gay country? OK, not a "people", but still a targeted group that's at very serious risk in a bunch of countries today, if that's the criterion you're using.

Or, better yet, why not just take the view that Nazis, or equivalent, don't get to run any countries? And why not put a big fence around that possibility by saying that countries shouldn't be built on ethnicity at all? Would it be so awful to have a system of administrative districts without "national identity"?

Maybe there's no way to get there. I fully understand that that's now how people work.

But I don't like the idea that the way to protect against ethnic violence is to feed and further legitimize the "this for our people only" tendency, to do things that generate stronger ethnic divisions, or to make your personal safety contingent on you being able to find a state that happens to consider you one of "its people".
> In other applications, like cars, aircraft, public charging stations, USB-A is here to stay

Newer cars are getting USB C. Not just luxury cars either. Some cars have both A and C.

One nice thing about USB C is you can also charge laptops with them.
Cryptocurrency scams targeting Australians as scammers bank $100M
Not every use of goto is a sin, at least according to Linus.

How would you write it without goto? Duplicate the code at the bottom, then return? Abstract what is clearly part of that function, into a new function, pass acct to it, call it twice? Neither seems much better to me. And both lead to multiple return statements in the function, which is also considered poor style by some.

Goto common code at the end of a function, such as error handling or clean-up, is idiomatic C. Often where you'd use an exception or conditional execution, in another language. I mostly avoid it myself. Outside of that use, it's probably most common in the drivers as a way to simply implement a state machine.
Discord is awful to use a desktop application. It's sluggish and cumbersome, not snappy and lightweight like a native application would be.
Apparently, Google's strategy is to target the middle class (Eric Scmhidt said in some interview) which is like the majority of population in any country. Then to give them incentives to use their platform. This worked for Youtube by giving creators money and in some countries when they wanted adoption for their payment apps, they gave back good cashbacks as rewards. The cashbacks diminished after sufficient adoption was attained.
News sites don't view people as "users" but as "pageviews". Clickbait and SEO drives pageviews, and you monetize pageviews by getting the highest payment per impression.

This obv comes at a long term branding cost - but only large brands like New York Times can really afford to care about the long term. Most news sites are commoditized and barely surviving these days =/

I don't agree with the practice, but I also kind of understand why it's there.
This zone hosts the infra to manage the rest of the zones. DNS management is also here and can easily cause a global failure.
In Chicago I believe “commuter rail” almost always refers to Metra.
It’s really hard to get up and log on when I’m not.
I lerned to touch type using Dvorak in 2001. I’m useless at Qwerty! If it’s the only way you can realistically learn to touch type, stick with it. Absolutely no RSI - but I might just be lucky. I don’t have Emacs pinky either… :)
> For home projects, please consider gabions

Not sure these are permitted in LA Country. Having tangled with the permit office before, I know just how ugly it can get (brutally ugly!) to try to do something they don't have a checkbox for.

I can see them for decorative purposes (a firepit or bbq island). Even then, one of the problems we have out here is that you are guaranteed to have all kinds of insects make a home out of a pile of rocks. We have nice ones, like black widows, that you really don't want anywhere you are going to be walking around in flip-flops.

Interesting look though.

https://dpw.lacounty.gov/bsd/lib/fp/Building/Residential%20C...
Sorry, didn't realize it's not standard notation. In English:

"Water is to wetness as brains are to qualia" reduces to "water is to qualia as brains are to qualia."
Biological are even cheaper.
That’s a profoundly unsatisfying answer. I really am interested in who you consider to be a part of the discussion. If qualia are not phenomena, how can we talk about them besides in the hypothetical, since conversations are phenomena? If someone claims to not experience qualia, why would you take that claim any more or less seriously than the claim that someone does experience qualia, or the claim that qualia exist at all?

…or is it possible that qualia are phenomenological?
Not even sure what a "cryptocurrency scam" is. Cryptocurrency IS a scam.
Oo you know what would be cool is if we could have an anonymous coffee chat/virtual meeting. That would be fun!
I think being "multi-cloud" is going to be a feature more prominently displayed in days ahead.
There's a stigma with 'mental health'? Jeez. Will we keep having to change the names of things because people get offended or upset at a descriptive (and accurate) word?

Mental health and emotional health seem like very different things. I think that's more of the problem than a stigma with the words 'mental health'. Truth is, being depressed is mental unhealthy the same way over-eating is physical unhealthy. (and mentally unhealthy too, hah!)
During my first lsd trip, I was sitting on a rock in the park, and I'm not sure what happened or why, but suddenly my entire reality fell apart, disintegrated into a bright light and small pieces, and I became intensely aware of how we are seemingly are just built up from particles that came together. I think those pieces were the atoms and molecules that came together to create my experience of the world.

Less about the psychedelic experience itself. I also think that the existence of these drugs show that someone's reality is constructed from chemicals and cells doing what they do. Psychedelics are like throwing a wrench in a machine. The chemicals and mechanics are working differently now and the conscious experience changes with it. Depending on the drug introduced the perception changes, or consider some drugs like anesthetics where you can be awake and responsive but not have any personal awareness of whats going on.

On DMT trips I felt abstract thought fall apart along with the idea of my self(Ego death maybe?). I couldn't form ideas, and there was no longer an idea of self. "I" didn't exist. But this happens because a chemical is introduced into a system that is generating a conscious experience and it changes because of it. A typical brain creates these abstract ideas, your self identity, interprets senses in a certain way. That's the illusion created.

Since drugs being introduced into the system can turn off that sense of self, I, your soul(anesthesia, ego death) I don't think dualism is really applicable, the mind seems to be generated by the brain/body and its chemicals.

Hope i explained my self alright, not a topic I get to talk or think about much
This affected on region, us-east-1, which is the oldest and largest aws region, and also hosts many core aws services. Each region has several availability zones (AZs) that are basically whole datacenters. In theory AZs should be mostly isolated, but as we saw bugs happen. Reading between the lines of the status updates, it sounds like this either affected some core infra shared between AZs, or was from a change rolled out safely previously (maybe last night) and failed later (eg due to increased load in the morning).

At the end of the day, building redundant systems is expensive (and may introduce whole new bugs), so they probably did the math and figured the risk of a whole region outage was less than the cost of building redundancy in some systems that are hard to make redundant.
This really tarnishes any trust you might have had in Amazon as a professionally run business.

(of course outages can happen and are to be expected especially at Amazon's scale, it's just the bad communication and the amateurish non-redundant setup of their own core services that is shocking)
Twitter Blue Reviewed, Feature-by-Feature
Every few months over six years - he'd have to be an incredibly slow learner for that to have been just poor estimates all along.
> would seem unconstitutional at face value

On what basis? Would a boycott of a protected class of persons be permissible?
Car Thieves Can Steal Your Ride with Apple AirTags
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Thanks! That's an interesting perspective, and helps explain how it's lasted as long as it has when bought with own money and cared for as a personal laptop.

Great to hear you managed to salvage yours from liquid sugar! Most laptops would struggle with just water alone.
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Bullshit. Inequality is rising within the countries sure, but it is falling between countries. Since 1980, there was a dramatic decrease of global inequality and it still continues to this day. It's just almost no one could mention it because people judge situation by that's happening in their country - and in almost every country, inequality rises. This is a natural outcome of globalisation - in a way this IS globalisation - it becomes gradually less and less important in which country you are and more important, who you are and what you do.

Simplest illustration of this is that living standards for the working class in the richest countries have hardly increased in 40 years, while same working class in poorest countries went from mass deaths from starvation, to quite tolerable, and still fast improving, living conditions. Over 40% of people worldwide lived in extreme poverty in 1980 and now barely 7% do. Outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, under 3% is deeply poor now and may well be under 1% in just 5 years.
I agree, although as my other comment states, the most frictionless way I’ve found is to make a quick docker-compose, and run maybe 5 Dokku commands on the server. Then from dev environment just ‘git push dokku’. That’s the level of friction we should also expect from Django built in.
FYI: for readers who are unaware, the first covid-19 sequence released from China was unauthorized - he released it through a partner lab in Australia. The research scientist immediately had his lab in China raided and he was fired.

So the CCP was not only active in continuing international flights while domestic flights were halted, but the CCP was actively suppressing patient counts and the sequence itself.
Frankly I think the fact that there are no current known omicron hospitalizations in the uk this week is what is not relevant. It’s just too soon to make any conclusion about the severity of omicron from this data point.

Maybe it will bear out, but the oldest known omicron sample is only like a month old now. Hopefully it will turn out to be much less severe, but it just doesn’t seem like it’s been spreading for long enough in the uk (or anywhere really?) to know for sure yet
Per your description below ("god, the consciousness that is and that experiences the universe") I would have pegged you as an idealist (god is and dreams the universe), not a panpsychist.
“ During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”

That’s what he said. It was not stupid or inaccurate.
If this is interesting to you, then you'll enjoy Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
My inner cynic says Amazon paid Flex drivers because A) they still need drivers available during the christmas run-up and B) screwing drivers would put Amazon in an Ebenezer Scrooge-like PR disaster.
The updated Notepad was just announced, so it’s not that.
At the risk of being "that guy", it has to be said that this kind of study is unreliable. Posting a bunch of messages to r/drugs and r/psychedelics to come take their survey is going to suffer from all sorts of statistical biases.

It is still better than the lowest for the study, the sample size of one: "Well this is what I experienced". Yet here I go.

I have always been a materialist, and I've also never done drugs (I'm in my 50s). A few years back I bought some lysergamides and tryptamines online, and over the course of two years did between 20 and 30 experiments, though never of high doses (at most, 200 ug LSD). I found the LSD to be quite interesting, but not the least bit spiritual.

The first time I did 4-aco-dmt (aka psilacetin), a very close relative to psilocybin, was a different story. It was a 25mg-ish dose, taken orally. It was far more intense, and dreamy, and soporific than LSD (for me), and it gave me a glimpse of what something I was hoping to experience: spirituality. It was unfortunately fleeting -- I was lost in "the light" but then became aware that I was actually lying in a bed, and without thinking, opened my eyes for a moment to confirm. I closed my eyes but that moment in the light was gone for good.

I've tried a few more times, but it has mostly been uncomfortable and confusing way to spend a couple hours.

Anyway, I came away from those experiments even more of a materialist than I was before. If a hundred micrograms or a few milligrams of small molecule can so disrupt one's mind, if it can profoundly change your perceptions, if it can induce a feeling of being in a divine presence, it confirmed to me that the brain is all just chemistry.
AWS, of course
Tor Censorship in Russia
As a defence contractor I have implemented many incredibly stupid or pointless things merely to fulfill someone's idea of "agile".

Fortunately all the projects I have worked on aren't related to combat or anything where actual people could be hurt.
Officially, it was switched because SLS is unavailable. The program had been trying to get away from it due to its enormous cost, but was only able to get this change through Congress when the inability of SLS to fly more than once a year became obvious.

The vibration issues were also very real.
There is an underlying argument that one shouldn't put a price tag on the mental health of the world's children therefore "profit" and "revenue" shouldn't even be introduced into the conversation. If the Meta counterargument is anything along the lines of "that is too expensive", then they already lost any ethical standing they could have had on the issue.
Not this year though! I’ve barely seen any all season. I guess the heat dome did a number on the trees and they aren’t sharing as much sugar with the mycelium? Or so I’ve read in a few places. Maybe it’s more complicated than that.

I love all kinds of mushrooms, and to me they do have distinct textures and flavours. Something like a porcini or a morel has a flavour I can pick out fairly easily amongst other stronger flavours. Shiitake might be one of my favourite things to eat in general.

I’ve wondered if it might be a genetic thing. Kind of like cilantro tastes awful to some people and great to others for whatever genetically determined reason. Maybe I’m a mushroom person and you’re not.
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If you think that’s bad you should see the outages when you self host without a big enough team to really manage it.
I use pandas or pyspark when I am transforming the data. When I am ready to distribute the data or serve the data behind an api, script or web app I write it to SQLite.

The benefit is every language can read sqlite, theres a rich ecosystem of sqlite tools like datasette and peewee to build with and sqlite can act as a serverless database keeping infrastructure costs low for serving the data.

I also like that sqlite has built in full text search and fuzzy matching capabilities making it quick to cook up a nice webapp for static data.

Also depending on your use case its nice to not have a dependency on pandas or take up a lot of room in your lambda package size for instance.
There's no truth claims. The point is that under the influence of psychedelics, you realize you can't know the truth.

I understand you're looking at it from a scientific point of view, but the discussion is not scientific. Consciousness is probably the hardest body of knowledge to integrate with science. Nobody knows where consciousness comes from. Nobody knows how to measure it.

I can tell you: "I'm conscious and aware", but there's no way I can prove to you I'm not a philosophical zombie(someone that acts like it's conscious, but isn't). Currently, there's no way to measure consciousness.

>By your own standards, I could ask how you know there's something called a brain, that it has something to do with perception, etc. Maybe you hallucinated the brain? Maybe it's just some weird belief you have? Maybe hallucinations aren't a thing? How do you know what other brains do or don't do differently? And why can't some of them be wrong?

I think you nailed it. I don't know whether there's a brain, or if there is something else, and this something else is hallucinating this reality where there is a brain, or maybe something else entirely. Sure, we can make scientific claims about stuff when analyzing the reality within the bounds of our perception, but if you try to go beyondg that, you're own your own.
If only Yahoo’s “Story Continues” button actually worked on an iPad, then I could read the whole story.
100%. To abstract it even further, I have some defining moments from my teens that are monumental to me and uneventful at best to everyone else. Gaining perspective is largely an individual experience, it's just that some things seem to have more influence in sparking a change in perspective than others
Not quite cured, so much as shed light on.
It's the same story all over again. Somehow the us navy managed to win WWII in the Pacific, in spite of the bureau of ordinance.
Yep, already happening.

Boston Dynamics robot with gun:
Quote: "At the Association of the US Army’s annual conference last week, Ghost Robotics unveiled its Vision 60 quadrupedal robot, which wielded a custom-made gun atop its already eerie figure."

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/328299-robot-dogs-now-fi...
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There's only a couple dozen country governments that have more revenue than Facebook
I'm assuming you're someone that uses some sort of hardware tokens--if not, ignore this.

How do you manage your tokens with WebAuthn? I have several but I've never really used them as much besides a repository for TOTP tokens because I just can't wrap my head around it.

So I've got one I leave in my device, another I leave laying around the house as a "backup", and another I'm supposed to keep secure off-site somewhere.

I register a new account. What's the process?

Register on the one I've got in my device because of course. Then go dig out my backup token and add that to the account. Then... ?

Pull out a journal and write down the account I've created, swing by the bank once a week/month/quarter to swap my on-site backup for the off-site, go back through my journal and find every account I've created during that time period and enroll the new backup token?

What happens if my house burns down during the week/month/quarter I've registered a new account? Is that account just gone?

This is easily mitigated with TOTP--just put the TOTP secret into a separate keepass file. As soon as I've registered it's backed up off-site. I'm very risk averse in this area, so I just can't see a path to using webauthn that makes any sense.
This is such a silly conversation. We have cameras and all sorts of equipment that tracks a constant reality. Who gives a shit if people perceive it with varying levels of accuracy?

What does it matter that introducing substances to the brain can reduce your ability to perceive it?

There is evidence of reality, and childish mind games and semantic debates that it might not.

I drop you off in the Gobi desert with no water (or acid) and let's test the boundaries of reality. Let's see if you can perceive yourself some water.
You should absolutely tell the recruiters as much as you can about how you disagree with the ethics of these publicly held wall-street run companies, and also capitalism in general. Embellish as much as possible. Mention unions, worker's rights and try to fit proletariat in there somewhere.

This will hopefully prevent spamy recruiters bugging you incessantly with high paying job offers in future.

Then you can find a job at a nice small or medium size company, because there are almost never any ethical issues that come up at these kind of places.
A movie may have an average rating 2/5 but still be a 75% match for you personally, there's no discrepancy here.
Psychedelic perception is also repeatable. And sober perception is not reliable.
Like any other artificial asset (US Dollar f.e.)
And, by association, F = m*V^2

The risk of serious injury in an accident increases exponentially with speed. This is especially true for pedestrian victims.