skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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

I definitely don't mean to paint every anti-aging proponent with this brush, and I agree that there's danger here in responding to people who say "I just think death is bad" with "why does this guy over here claim more than that?" You're not responsible for Bostrom's writing, you don't have a responsibility to answer for every person in the anti-aging movement, and I definitely don't mean to create the impression of a monoculture, I apologize for doing that.

But Bostrom is literally making the argument that we should drop everything, the text even advocates accepting significant compromises and costs in other areas in order to end aging. So to the extent that the Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant is a formative text in the anti-aging movement, then there should be some grappling with or at least acknowledgement of the fact that a formative text in the movement has these problems. I don't think I'm being dishonest at all about that; if Dragon-Tyrant is actually representative of anti-aging views then those views have got some pretty toxic baggage attached to them.

Of course if someone is just advocating "we should research slowing/stopping aging", then go wild, I don't have a problem with that or you. My objection is specifically to the phrasing of The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant. I don't believe the text is a neutral argument that death is bad, I think it has a lot of political assumptions/values built into it, and (worse) that it phrases those political values as a moral imperative for anyone who believes that death is bad. But you are not the text.

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> Test-missiles were fired but fell dead to the ground or flew off in the wrong direction. In one tragic accident, a wayward missile landed on a hospital and killed several hundred patients and staff. But there was now a real seriousness of purpose, and the tests continued even as the corpses were being dug out from the debris.

[...]

> The king had undergone a personal transformation from his earlier frivolous and thoughtless self. He now spent as much time as he could in the laboratories and the manufacturing plants, encouraging the workers and praising their toil. Sometimes he would bring a sleeping bag and spend the night on a noisy machine floor. He even studied and tried to understand the technical aspects of their work. Yet he confined himself to giving moral support and refrained from meddling in technical and managerial matters. (emphasis mine)

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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant is filled with quotes like this that are advocating for pretty specific political/moral worldviews far beyond "death is bad".

I definitely don't want to paint people with a broad brush and (while I suspect you are over-optimistic about both technology and treatment cost), I don't have a problem with people researching anti-aging technology. At the same time, I don't think I'm being intellectually dishonest, deceptive, or bad faith in my reading of Bostrom's work, I think I'm applying a very straightforward interpretation of the text.
I'm not a hiker but I do cycle and a few times I was exposed for hours to direct noon sunlight. The contrast is clear, exposed skin is red and irritated where the skin under the clothing is white and unaffected. Any kind of synthetic clothing has a greater amount of sunburn protection when compared to cotton but most of the specialized gear comes with additional UV50+ protection.
I wonder if the metrics for CEO are OKR not "is what we are creating good"
Yes, servo is an outlier. But it also apparently isn’t that bad:

> Building it takes almost 40 seconds
>We can simply measure

That "simply" is doing a lot of work there. Measurement is never simple, or correct. Yes, it's much, much more precise than it was in the past, but it's never exact. Until May 2019, the magnitude of many of the units composing the SI system of measurement, including most of those used in the measurement of electricity and light, were highly dependent upon the stability of a 142-year-old, golf-ball-sized cylinder of metal stored in a vault in France. The mass of this cylinder drifts when compared to copies, and nobody knows why. Yeah, the effect is super tiny, but the measurements are demonstrably _not precise_
D is upstream in GCC since 2019, so it is actually superior to Rust in that respect. Days of proprietary D compiler is long past.
>C#, Java? Managed code with JITs, not supported on a kernel level no-way no-how. Ditto for Python, PHP, JavaScript, and other high-level languages without pointers and all that jazz.

C# has pointers and can be compiled to native code. I think the main problem is GC which is required for most of the standard library (you can avoid heap allocations but that would be unidiomatic)
The std::future::Future from the rust standard library works with every runtime.

Not sure I understand, what kind of interoperability you are talking about. What kinds of code works in C++ across runtimes, for which the equivalent in Rust doesn't?
I think being familiar with the basics of the standard model of physics (very basic, I don't claim to know much at all) influences one's perception of the experience induced by psychedelics. I would say that I am still more or less a materialist, though with greater appreciation for the idea of panpsychism, but really what I believe is that these ideas are not in conflict. The ephemeral, empty nature of all things is very much in line with our modern understanding of physics. The Standard Model bears surprising resemblence to certain Zen Buddhist ideas.
Sure here is an article from a candidate screening startup, Plum: https://www.plum.io/blog/the-issue-with-the-interview-confir...

A confirmation bias is not a conclusion, it's a skewing/filtering of how you see something. Read the book "A Thousand Brains" by Jeff Hawkins. The way your brain works fundamentally is that it makes predictions and assumes that the prediction is what will happen (the book explains this better). That's why in my original comment I said " Of course with an amazing interview performance you can switch a predetermined no into a yes, and with a very poor interview you can turn a predetermined yes into a no."
A lot of negativity here for this, but I see the benefits in some scenarios for privacy: We may want to share family pictures with more of our family, but not have those pictures piped out to social media/the public. Especially for less technical users, this provides a reasonably decent protection from that occurring.
It has customer relationship implications. I guarantee you it is updated by a support agent.
It tells you a lot of the level of expertise in a country, if a physicist like Viola Priesemann previously not involved in any kind of disease modelling is able to be a significant voice in the national conversation. The 'experts' that are listened to are either numerically illiterate like Drosten or non-experts in disease control like Priesemann. Moreover the actual tools and quality of code that is used to model the situation are so far away from what would be ideal it is laughable.
> Again, the point is that the non-mobile URL redirects to the mobile URL.

And I would argue that this is not only the point but the problem we are talking about. It makes the m. pages appear all over the Internet although they are less suitable for some devices (they are, I'd argue, even less usable because, e.g., the page history is missing when you are not logged in).
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Yes, and the Dutch East India Company was just a trading operation that had no long-term repercussions on the world. They're both transnationals (something that is an abomination against humanity, in my opinion).

There is no good faith reason to be on Twitter's side unless:

1). You work there, and it aligns with your interests for your current employer to continue to operate and generate profit (likewise if you hold Twitter stock).

2). You genuinely believe Twitter is furthering your goals, and you believe your goals to be parallel with the common good.

Otherwise, Twitter is not a person with a life, emotions, and hardships. It's a hollow corporate shell that's only purpose is to generate profits for shareholders.
Stacks Accelerator announces CityCoins track
Acceleration program for teams building on CityCoins and Stacks protocol.
[2014] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/kellogg-s-london-offi...

800 out of work, plant closed, production moved elsewhere.

> Pressed for time, consumers are springing for the cheap breakfast sandwich to go at McDonald's or Tim Hortons. Breakfast now accounts for 12 per cent of America's restaurant industry, adding up to a $42-billion US business every year.

Yes, let's blame the consumers, and not adapt and adjust for floating trends in consumer needs.
> There's no way to block this without breaking accessibility.

Then sooner or later someone will break accessibility just to prevent this. And everyone will follow.
Yep. It reminded me of GEB: magical mental fapping lost in the clouds.
> where people who trust the market don't want to create laws that help the working class

I would say even that is a straw man. The argument is that I’d rather trust the market than governments with that task given their respective track records.
It’s fine to have opinions, but you’re stating them as if they’re fact. The Linux kernel maintainers disagree with you. They’re experienced engineers, and ultimately, they make the rules.
> not taking it and dying

COVID survival rate is > 99%
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...

"In September, unvaccinated persons had 5.8X Risk of Testing Positive for COVID-19 and 14X Risk of Dying from COVID-19 compared to fully vaccinated people"
My email is in my profile now.
>I am not aware of a common cold that resulted in hospitals being overloaded to the point planned surgery needed to be postponed. Severe cases maybe a rather small percentage, yet in absolute numbers they are big enough to be real problem.

Which is exactly what I wrote. The problem with covid is its rate of spread, the actual complication rate per infection is very low. That's why I explicitly said the only possible justification for vaccines now is to prevent hospital overload.

>Well, if I were an anti-vaxxer, why would being called one be a slander? Either I am one or not

No, this isn't binary. Not all vaccines are created equal, and it is perfectly rational to be in support of vaccination in general but against covid vaccines. To blindly group such people with antivaxxers is disingenuous.
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> There is absolutely no way to stop the spread forever.

Well, there is, we just don't want to pay for it: vaccinating poor countries, where effectively the mutations are being created by high infection rates.
My view is always a bit alien, but I get the sense if you follow the wrong person out of curiosity you get banned, which takes on weird reputation risk in itself. It seems like a vice anyway. A strange game, the only way to win is to be like everyone else.
Hardware level. It's a compromise imposed on the chip builders because the MPEG decoder or part thereof that they're using is subject to patent licensing. So in order to not pay the patent license, it's shipped locked-out. When you pay them a chunk goes back to the licensor (presumably MPEG-LA).
This is exactly the key in all conversations about banned accounts on private companies. In my opinion, either our habits regarding information intake using the internet needs to change, so that we use "the old commons" more often. (like real town squares)

Or there NEEDS to be a jurisdiction where if you are big enough, you can't just arbitrarily ban users from your space. The propagation of free thought and sound ideas depends on one of the points completely. There are huge problems, like how a company can be regulated when it is a global company. I don't want US law to facilitate Swedish spaces.

Honestly, the first idea where habits are formed back onto the "old commons" is probably the only real solution. But it's not exactly simple to change the habits of an entire planet.
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Some vindication in the threads this morning, for all the people who told me it was essential for social media to address "fake news", and that my "slippery slope" argument was a figment of my imagination!
I think that jump was due to lto (link time optimsation) getting activated by default for Firefox on Gentoo around that time. It looked very strange at first, because the build log just pauses while the lto passes hog a lot of cpu and memory for 20min or so. Rust has been in Firefox for about 5 years now, I think.
And case numbers are the best metric we have to predict deaths and hospitalization. Together with vaccination rates, age and so on. But overall, if cases go up, hospitalization will go up a couple of weeks later. Why would we not use that to enable to us act instead of reacting once it's too late?
>I still read reviews on Amazon before ordering elsewhere

Why? I'm only adding more so it's not a one word response, but seriously, why are you still putting any credence whatsoever to Amazon reviews which is like scientifically proven to be gamed?
I know, but I haven’t found that to be true either.

By the time I know what I want to buy, it’s not hard to find it on Amazon. Amazon already has my payment info so it’s a few clicks and I’m done. I don’t understand the argument that it’s easier to find the manufacturer’s website, navigate their web store, and then enter all of my payment and shipping information.
Wayland _is_ different, because that combo indeed works fine for me too. It's just strange that Fedora are shipping with an unstable default.
Thanks for chiming in!

Tanning, historically, is quite a chemical-rich and polluting process. Is the tanning process similar for myco leather?
Oh really? So you mean things like the no-cloning theorem, no-copying theorem, the whole idea of quantum indeterminacy, and the fact that actual randomness exists gives you evidence for objective reality? Actually, it's exactly the opposite. A =/= A. Even if there was objective reality, it's not available to us.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_indeterminacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
>PowerShell prompt beats having a cmd.exe prompt any day hands down!

That's not a very high bar to exceed. A glass of water seems like champagne to someone in the desert.
> We start with the quickest measures of immunity. As better data comes in, we change our opinion.

This is exactly the problem with pandemic messaging. Too many claims based on garbage data that end up being wrong later. The result is a population that doesn't trust its government's guidance.

Vaccines were supposed to end the pandemic. Then it was they would keep you from getting sick. Then it was you'd still get sick, but you wouldn't spread it. Now it's you'll still get sick and you'll still spread it, but you won't die.
Wide brimmed hat, pants and long sleeves.
It took just weeks after the virus was DNA sequenced to make the first vaccine. The trials are what took so long. The vaccine existed before we started shutting stuff down in the US.

https://covid19.nih.gov/news-and-stories/vaccine-development
Back in the 1990s you could buy a big IBM mainframe with 8 CPUs, and they'd ship you one with 16 CPUs and if you decided to upgrade later, they just sent a guy to flip a secret switch.

This was never popular with the Free Software crowd, who believe in the principle that the owner of the hardware has the right to do whatever they like with it. They would say you have the right to flip the secret switch yourself.

This is the same idea, but updated for the 21st century. My laptop came with hardware support for virtual machines - In a few years time, perhaps features like hardware-accelerated virtual machine support will be separately licensed premium features, instead of being stock features.

Some companies already do this - for example, some Teslas have autopilot and long range batteries, but they're disabled in software. And if you buy a Tesla with those features second-hand, Tesla can disable them until you pay them.
So vague, it invites abuse: how Twitter’s new privacy policy helps the far right
I'm not sure what UK data you're looking at

From ONS: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

"Those who have received at least one dose of a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine continued to be less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than those not vaccinated; people who reported receiving three vaccinations (including booster vaccinations) were even less likely to test positive than those who had a second dose of Astra Zeneca or Pfizer more than 90 days ago in the fortnight ending 14 November 2021."
>"The only explanation for allowing abortion is because they are evil and they want to kill babies. No other explanation exists." ... is fringe

>"The only explanation for limiting/acting against immigration is racism/white-supremacism. No other explanation exists." ... is universal

This is wildly out of alignment with my personal experience, which is that of much closer parity between the commonness of these two extremes. Though it's only my personal experience, I think you're being overly generous in your interpretation of instances of the former and vice versa.

This is not even to mention that, in reality, there certainly is a minority of people who overzealously oppose immigration due in significant part to racism, while the same is not true to the same degree (to put it mildly) of people who just enjoy killing babies. The two things are very different in various ways, and therefore it's difficult to usefully compare irrational attitudes about them.
There are cave paintings, found all over the world, of humans with mushroom heads or covered in fungi fruiting bodies.
Regulatory capture is impossible without government enforcement.

The way to fight it is not by giving more powers to government but giving less.
It looks like you mistakenly thought that having a drug-induced spiritual experience would somehow make spirituality more "real".

No matter how much you felt like you were in the presence of the Light, it didn't change the fact that the Light doesn't exist. It was just a trigger in a part of your brain that can bring on neurological changes in many people.

I'm not an atheist because I want to be or because I haven't had spiritual experiences. I'm an atheist because facts and logic have led me to the unfortunate conclusion that this life is all I'll ever have and that when it ends, I have no belief that something else will continue for me.
"artificial" is the key word -- it is referring to intentional manipulation rather than legitimate engagement.
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The commander's tank doesn't have them.
The parent was using a rhetorical device, but I'll take the bait all the same.

If your country is committing a genocide, black bagging people for making accusations of sexual assault and cracking down on your free press, you may be a bit mustache twirling level of evil.
> wow. just wow. So morally a person should only be paid what the need to live

Do you want me to hold that strawman while you give it a real good bashing? It can be satisfying, strawman bashing. It would however be more productive it you honestly tried to understand the argument I'm making. What do you think, do you want to give it a try? [0]

> If so I certainly hope people that think like you never attain any real power

Well, don't worry. The con-artists, faudsters and moochers from the swamp have everything under control and from what I see the populace-at-large is not interested in mitigating the pain and suffering and damage that crony-capitalism is brought upon us in or in correcting the course towards societal collapse which that entails. The hucksters meanwhile will continue to squeeze every last dollar of profit everyone else while their bought-and-paid-for politicians make sure that nurses and teachers and - well, everyone else, there a theme for you - pays a higher share of their income in taxes than their masters, while they themselves gorge on the ill-gotten gains their corruption, leaving behind the soiled and despoiled corpses of land and people.

The only alternative is raising taxes, the horror.

But hey, all power to you.

[0] https://constantrenewal.com/steel-man/
Tom Scott's speculative fiction about the end game of a DRM-based future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E

"Welcome to Life"
Python was the first programming language (outside of ti-basic) that I was able to master, after trying to learn c and java. I learned it to script blender games, which had a very fun little game engine.

Blender's use of python was quite extensive, as a way to quickly retool the program as an animation studio experiences many changing requirements from clients. Fun fact, blender and python both have dutch roots.

I think Python's main acceptance came from it's uses as an embedded scripting language, and as a perl or bash replacement for automating computing tasks. Tools like scons to replace make, or PIL to do image processing were pretty big deals. You would often hear about such and such replacing their complicated patchwork of tooling and manual processes with something more organized built in python.
Calling out to another script/dynamic powershell, or maybe is referring calling a cmdlet(is that what they were called) with the wrong arguments, goes power-shell check for that? It’s been almost a decade since I used it but I echo the sentiment. It was a difficult overly verbrose language that I avoided at all costs even going so far to install cygwin so I could use bash as a command line and scripting language
Ah yes, it would be easy to confirm a good alignment, identifying if any alignment is the best there is would be more difficult I guess, indeed.
1. "Quadratic voting"

Not all web3 apps will use this, in fact most will run away from any kind of voting system, so moot point.

2. "on a handful of very-expensive-to-run nodes hosted on Amazon Web Services and maintained by insiders."

Use Bitcoin, with lightning, runs in your Raspberry.

3. I don't even get the point he's making.

4. Ethereum themselves suffered a leak that drained their cryptowallet of $55M.

Again, use Bitcoin, don't use centralized hackable shitcoins.

5. "These attacks happen at least a few times a year. Some famous events are Bitcoin Gold in 2020, Etherium Classic in 2019, and Verge in 2018."

And again, the answer is use Bitcoin.

"Any entity (or group of entities combined) that control 51% of the hash rate have the collective power to control the network,"

So you want to buy 51% of bitcoin's mining capacity? You absolutely can, it would only cost you billions, well within the reach of any tech magnate or nation state. But the more you pour into it, the more profitable the mining becomes, thus other miners get more BTC, that they can in turn transform into USD to buy more mining equipment.

6. Artificial scarcity.

I don't even follow.

7. Early adopters etc.

And again, the answer is to use Bitcoin, not preminted centralized shitcoins.
FDA discussion: does the Pfizer vaccine kill more people than it saves (4h20m)?
Eeh, Excession is very good but a still bit hermetic for an introduction to the Culture. It's the only other book I wouldn't recommend as a first along with Consider Phlebas.