skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, fully agreed.

I think trying to quantify such things can sometimes be useful as a tool of thinking, but you're always have to be extremely careful not to confuse the map with the territory.

If you're making weird calculations with hypothetical utility values, you're making your argument on the map - and you always have to make sure it still makes sense when converted back to the territory.

Numbers can also be used to make wildly unrealistic assumptions seem reasonable or hide additional circumstances that would be required for the argument to apply.

E.g., if you mapped back the utility values from the OP to an actual situation, you'd have a gifted son who is somehow absolutely thrilled to move to the suburbs and a disabled son who is mostly indifferent about whether he has to travel for several hours frequently or not.

The only situation I can think of in which that behaviour seems remotely plausible is if they were already living in the suburbs and the decision is really about moving to the city (and losing their complete social circle) or staying where they are.

If that were the case, the "low additional utility" of the disabled son would more likely be a conflict: The son might appreciate a lot not having to travel so far, on the other hand, he doesn't want to lose all his friends. So, in numbers, a high positive and a high negative utility, which the theory assumes you can simply add up to get a total utility. But that assumption doesn't seem to have merit to me.
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That might actually be another useful case for a NFT, /24 blocks can be traded in real time and when combined with the RPKI can be used as proof of ownership.
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If you've ever done a map reduce on a dataset you've used category theory, whether knowingly or otherwise.

You don't need more than highschool maths to understand the category theory behind common typeclasses.
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> Have dinner with the depressed friend [...] Seems perfectly consistent with even simplistic utilitarianism.

Well, the problem is specifically stated as the concert having higher total utility.
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The framing of Assange as an innocent “journalist” being persecuted for just doing his job is, in my opinion, disingenuous.

I do not necessarily agree with all the actions the US Government has taken with him, or their handling of some of the information that was leaked.

However, I do not agree that a “journalist” should be able to enable espionage, let alone encourage/incite it. In case my point is unclear, I consider setting up a website purely designed to encourage leaking of potentially classified information and assisting with the ability to do so as being no different than any other criminal conspiracy.

Further, I am of the opinion, being someone who was quite literally in Afghanistan when he leaked the information he did, that any probative value of the information Manning leaked was overshadowed by the indiscriminate way in which it was done.

Assange is an activist, not a journalist. He should not be treated as such and much of the consequences he suffers now (e.g., confinement during appeal) is directly related to his own actions (e.g., fleeing to an Embassy).
It is absolutely a special–purpose computer. Of course it’s not a general–purpose programmable computer such as the ones we use today, but it is still a computer.
I’ve proposed to a crypto company that they explicitly prevent themselves from getting rich off the ICO. They were decidedly completely uninterested. We all know the actual motivation of crypto bros, they want money. They don’t really care about improving the world, it’s all marketing bullshit.
If the “utility score” was an overall rating for quality of life, it might change your view? Whether I assign a numerical or qualitative value is (arguably) arbitrary: as a parent, I’m still calculating which actions I should take based on some scoring mechanism.
Almost 50% of Americans voted for Trump. Almost 50% did it again a second time.

It's not that Voting for Trump is in any way related to being against Assange (It's my understanding that Wikileaks is well liked within that community), but I've learned to to speculate on what Americans might do.

I've taken to just expecting the worst possible outcome from any decision.
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The modern security state has made an example. Be silent and compliant and they might leave you alone.
'dumpsterfire' would be a lot more concise.
Better? Since when? During my lifetime in Britain it has only got worse. It's so bad now I no longer cycle myself for fear of serious injury or death and don't recommend others do either. Cars have become bigger and there are far more of them. We even see monstrous American cars on our roads now. They've taken more and more of the roads and there's no stopping them. Police don't bother any more.. The roads are in worse shape than ever. Far more money is put into car infrastructure than anything else. I assume you live in London or some other city. Outside of there it's way worse.
As the TRUN article says, only the symmetric NAT is impregnable, you can punch holes through other types on NAT.
Of course there are facts. A fact is just a reliable observation. Science and engineering couldn't exist without reliable observations.

I don't think facts are necessarily objective, because we don't have access to the levels of absolute omniscience required to know whether or not an observation is absolute for all qualified observers.

Even so. Facts remain persistent for us, and that's good enough for many useful things.

The article is just reiterating the difference between science and rhetoric. Science is not particularly persuasive because it's difficult, it requires special skills and knowledge, and leading edge research is always tentative, by definition.

Rhetoric is persuasive by definition, because it has been engineered to be persuasive. Lawyers buy books which teach them how to craft persuasive arguments. Veracity is not required, and may be deprecated. It's a completely different process.

The problem is that STEM-trained types do not understand this. Because so much STEM argument is about data and credible interpretations, STEM types are always blindsided whenever an opportunist/charlatan/crook turns up spewing obvious bullshit, but somehow still manages to take the public with them.

The solution is to educate STEM people about rhetoric.

Tribalism is just one aspect of it. There are many others.
Got it, and I just set up FF and DDG, full import, default switch.

Chrome is hard to get away from!
There should be a need to justify any deviation from this, too.

Hello, reality calling.

The world is not neutral and non-partisan --- and you can't make it so without introducing your own non-neutral bias, priorities and partisanship.

Nothing reflects this better than the universe of Linux distros. Which one should a neutral and non-partisan school choose? Be sure to justify your answer.
In other news, journalism is now an international crime and a capital offense.
Inane, perhaps.

I don't think these ideas can be separated from their time and place. Like most philosophical/intellectual movements, a lot of what they are is objections, dialogue and alternatives to previous ideas or competing ideas.

To us, 2-300 years later, we don't necessarily need a concrete basis for secular morality. We also don't expect morality to be reducible to a simle principle like F=ma.

To them, they were in a period where medieval theology was being replaced by secular philosophy and science. They expected morality to be solved like Newton and Galileo had solved problems in their domains. We don't expect this anymore.
Lol this is a totally fake Agenda 21 story put out by a global warming alarmist. Climate change is about planetary depopulation. The ultra rich dont want us anymore. It's about greed.
Is that one free with every order?
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Perhaps Mozilla should put the more advanced features and customisation options behind a monthly subscription. I know people dislike monthly subscriptions, but the browser is perhaps THE most important tool you can use. Maybe it's time we start valuing it properly.
Starlink will not have enough bandwidth, even after the full constellation is deployed, to compete with even one cable company in a major metropolitan area. Starlink is designed for places where there is not a high customer density.
But the one-dimensional scale also brings in a lot if implicit assumptions that you have to be aware of - e.g. that you can add or subtract individual utility values and the result will still be meaningful.
I assert less than that, merely that your confidence is significantly overstated, your opinion overfit. The bold, factual, and wrong “there to see” hyperbole renders discourse irrelevant.
Exactly, with this relatively low support for extradition it would be surprising to see a jury conviction. And that's with abuse of the jury selection process, presumably in both directions.
What a crazy world where Theresa May is deemed to be a good home sec.

I wonder how much pressure the Lib Dems put on her.
Which makes it easier for typical HN employers and YC startups (esp the social media kind) to stay afloat.
Romans knew about steam power? Never heard that one before, have a good place to read about it?
Assange is more of an editor / publisher. This is akin to the Washington Post publishing the Pentagon Papers.

As a reminder, this is why the US wants to punish Assange:

> Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-a...
What exactly are you interpreting out of this paper now ? How does this invalidate cancer studies in mice?

Most cancer studies in mice are xenografts of human cancer cells so any relevance of mice telomeres is completely lost anyway.

Also this obsession with telomeres being the fundamental key for all our biological problems seems so conspiratorial. Like you think our cells which do unimaginable things can't keep their DNA ends frothy? Like that's what is gonna spell their doom? Or you consider telomeres are just a symptom of a cells longevity decided by other factors ?
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These steps reduce the efficiency of the fuel.
This is an excellent article. How does GitHub CI/CD compare to this?
I disagree. OP is correct. Utility is a rhetorical construct. Sometimes it works well for describing morality, decisions, etc. Sometimes it's crammed in.

Using it to describe the two sons decisions is cramming it in.
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> Save yourself, don't use Scala, pick Rust.

That's an hilariously bad advice if you think hiring competent developers and onboarding juniors is hard in Scala.

Most things companies do on the JVM, especially at scale, are going to be a lot harder in Rust and its ecosystem.
Doxxing only works agaisnt normal people.

When someone lives inside one of several walled properties, hiding is unnecessary.

Offtopic: doxxing is evil. Don't do it.
> An NFT is distinct from the work that the NFT is tied to, which might not necessarily be digital.

Yep. Which raises the question: what exactly does the NFT provide? Is the work it points to in any way lesser through its absence? If no, then why does the NFT exist?

> You can copy a Picasso, but no matter how good your copy is, you can't copy the "original" quality of a Picasso.

There's a long philosophical argument to be made here involving the ship of Theseus, the teletransportation paradox, and frankly thousands of years of philosophy of identity. Let me attempt a short version: if you have two identical paintings, and lack external information as to their origin, can not either one (or both) be said to be the 'true' painting? If so, then what value is there in the information that 'proves' one is the 'original'? The origin-information, an NFT in this case, is a construction, an arbitrary assurance. What value has an NFT that points at nothing?

> The worth (or lack thereof) of copies is completely irrelevant.

I think we agree about what NFT's are, so the only real disagreement is about their value. Precisely because of the point above, I think we would both agree that their value is completely divorced from the value of what they point to, right? So the NFT's value must stand on its own without regard to the work it points to, right? Therefore, saying it represents the 'originalness' of a work cannot be where its value comes from because that is a derivation of value from the value of the work.

I assert that the value of an NFT is effectively 0. Anyone can make any NFT they want, and it might be unique, but uniqueness is not inherently valuable. Here's a UUID v4: 6dee29bc-8798-4560-ba13-de94bac69333. I generated it just now and it is the first and theoretically only time that UUID will ever be generated. Since I have generated this UUID, I have gone ahead and signed it with a private key and thus claim ownership of it. Here's a pastebin to the public key: https://pastebin.com/ddVJxvck and the signed UUID: https://pastebin.com/0MweD9qN. This is effectively an NFT. How much would you like to pay me to sign a certificate of ownership transfer to you?

Summing all up: The work that went into the creation of a thing is all that has value. NFTs can be created for basically free by literally anyone who wants to and therefore they have no value. Claims that an NFTs value comes from it pointing to something are bunk as we both agree the value of what it points to is irrelevant.
Lots of people are getting hung up on the measurement.

The key word is "imagine" y'know.
My 3D MMO engine can now have 2000 non-instanced animated characters each with an interchangeable item equipped at 60 FPS without a world on a 1050Ti (80W GPU).

My target is to keep that number above 1000 when the world + physics is in.

On Jetson Nano (1/2 Nintendo Switch at 5W GPU) that number is 300 and I hope 150 on release!

The server can handle 10.000 action players (no spraying/headshot but mario/zelda mechanics/physics) at an avererage of 50 players in view on a large AWS machine.

Nobody has ever played an action MMO (with fun gameplay and physics) that plays like mario but scales to 10.000 players yet. When they do, they won't play anything else ever again (or do anything else in meatspace) is my prediction.

You are spot on; gameplay is more important than surface.
I seriously love Li Haoyi Scala libraries especially the JSON one.

The hilarious thing is/was that Scala tutorials/books would show writing JSON parser as one examples. Yeah Scala makes it easy to write a JSON parser but you still do not want to roll your own.

Case in point Odersky's Programming in Scala.
> War crimes would generally refer to breaching international treaty and/or conventions

Understood. But there are international laws and conventions with no binding effect, and there are those ratified and incorporated into the domestic bodies of law of its members. I’m curious if Assange’s allegations are in respect of the former or the latter.
I disagree: video games do not have to converge on a single genre. Sometimes I feel energetic and ready for a brain challenge and I fire up Factorio, sometimes I want to play super-chess and I launch a Gary Grigsby game; sometimes I want to just immerse myself in another world and/or culture and I play Blackbook/Witcher/ACS, sometimes I'm ready for some fun with friends and it's CS:GO or R6, or Il-2 when I want the flying version of it; finally, when I want to just enjoy a good story, then it's time for Witcher or Metro.

I don't see why this diversity should disappear.
Yeah I feel like rust’s avoidance of HKT, I assume in the name of them being “hard” or confusing (try explain to someone what a monad is), just in turn reinforced why they exist. So many things would be easier if there weren’t these half measures.
That’s perhaps a testament to our dependence on modern machinery, if the skills did exist once.
>Utility is a fundamental concept in decision theory. Arguing it cannot exist is the opposite extreme to arguing that homo economicus, with superhuman evaluative strategies and no gaps in rationality, exists.

It's probably more like arguing that leprechauns don't exist.

The burden of proof [for its existance] is on those making up those "fundamental concepts in decision theory". I won't be taking it for granted just because they came up with it.

In any case, I'm not saying utility can't exist. I'm saying some universal utility can't exist, or if you wish: sorry, guys, you can't determine my utility function for me. I'll do it myself, thank you very much.

>So in most reasonable cases the mathematical axioms needed for utility to be defined exist in a reasonable way, allowing for comparison through a formalized utility function.

If we could have a "formalized utility function" for "most reasonable cases" we'd hardly have different morals, political parties, and so on...

It's mostly irrelevant (trivial) cases that have formalized utility functions. Everything else is political, that is up for debate based on interests, preferences, morals, and so on -- and especially based on idiosyncrasy.

Even maximing one's life/health is not some constant. Many prefer to smoke, drink, eat, knowing fully well it might have them, because their utility function favors enjoyment over life span. Others might sacrifice their life for some cause or another.
Right, it is an algorithm, coded in analogue hardware. It can _compute_ certain astronomical outputs for a range of inputs.
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Yes, unprovoked killing of civilians could be prosecuted as murder, AFAIK. Prosecution does not equal conviction necessarily - see eg:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-military-jury-acquits-s...
I worked very very briefly in the wireless service industry on UAPs and large scale cell antenna receivers. To me, this doesn't seem as much a conspiracy to obsolete old phones as a practical stance to not need to have two copies of antennas on every tower. The old antennas used in 3G don't go up to the frequencies needed by true 5G, so they need new ones. If they're developing new ones, they don't want to have to keep supporting old standards as well, so they don't code for it (and possibly don't even support it in the hardware). So now there are no more 3G receivers on any towers and therefore your 3G phone stops working. As a side effect, anyone still using a 3G device needs to buy a new one, but I don't think that is the main driver for the move.
Criticisms of Amazon need to overcome a fundamental problem:

Amazon has been one the most innovative companies of all time. As a result it has grown explosively and is beloved by customers. All with this policy in place.

In other words, this policy appears to work. Or at the very least, it doesn’t hurt. If you don’t like it, don’t work there.
He'll be in solitary confinement. Maybe worse than death.
Aeropress for example is quite cheap and makes good coffee.
> There are breathing, ideologically-bent individuals pushing this. Who are they…

For starters, there are the majority of Americans who believe he should be extradited. (In second place, those who don’t care.)
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To someone with a hammer, every problem is a nail. Web3 seems like it's primarily a horde of crypto-maxis running around hitting every damn thing with a smart contract, and see what sticks.

This is, arguably, going to be better than violently caging people, in some circumstances.

I take the GF comment to be maybe virtue-signally, but mostly pointing out that our legacy law system has an awwwwwful lot of people in jail. Maybe that jail-shaped hammer is not as useful as you think it is?
It;s an international community that controls finance and media, they're bound together by race and religion much like the National Socialists were. Name them, unite against them, and drive them from our institutions.
"Can't we just drone this guy?" -- about Julian Assange from the candidate in the 2016 presidential election that got the largest share of the popular vote
I think both you and the guy you replied to are right. It is just 2 aspects of life.

What matters is how do we want to live life ? Do you want to accept that everything is pre-decided, and that we are puppets to our own biases, or do we want to believe that the power of our destiny is in our hands, that we change in every fleeting moment, and we can decide to change for the better version of ourselves ?

Because what you believe influences deeply what you become.
Some one looking for work feels down on their luck and your advice is to stop looking for work and just get your mates to find you a job and leech off the reputation they have made.

Thats shitty advice, advice you admit wouldn't work for you but think is good enough for others.
There is absolutely tons of justified criticism of Assange. And there are tons more details about the crimes he reported on. But going into all of that requires a massive article that doesn't fit into a short comment; this stuff is documented elsewhere.

Despite all of Assange's many flaws, it boils down to this: he reported on war crimes, those crimes go unpunished and uninvestigated, but the US wants to punish Assange, severely, despite the fact that he is not American and never even set foot there.
I speak monads. I am a 50 yrs old high school dropout. Cool thing is - just because you are not seeing FP structures in non FP focused languages doesn't mean they aren't there.
I miss VB. it was really easy to use. There are tools out there but you have to pay every month for them.
It might have been partially activist, that still doesn't justify the extradition. The US had no standing, as I believe it's called. They can declare whatever they want "top secret", but that doesn't make a crime for a citizen of another country to publish it. The hacking and conspiracy claims have been added to make it appear as if they have standing, but these are empty. It's another triumph for big budget lawyer corporations, and an actual loss for the freedom of the press.
A whole paragraph dedicated to how anonymous internet commenters could be fake spin delivery vehicles, then the suggestion that Assange has been charged with "a relatively minor criminal offence", completely eliding a bunch of politically-motivated now-dismissed sexual assault charges that were the actual impetus for him to hide in a foreign embassy for years.

It'd be one thing if he was hiding from a "5 year max" charge of "assistance in attempting to crack a password hash to gain unauthorized access to military computers", but despite your comment clearly implying that this was the case, it's not.

I'm not going to accuse you of being a political actor, but what a weird coincidence.
> Those users can learn not to get taken advantage of

Spoken like a true scammer. It is pretty obvious to anyone who is even vaguely aware of phone scams that this will never be enough.
> Or you don't and then prices fall.

Falling prices are fine because homes were overvalued virtually by definition of the circumstances at the time. Your argument assumes this would lead to a run away effect rather than it all reaching a fixed point, but this claim isn't justified.

My position isn't that home owners were the worst actors here, but that the bailout should have gone to home owners rather than the banks; the moral hazard argument applies to both, but at least in one arguably most people get to keep their homes and you're not rewarding the people whose professional responsibilities were to assess risk and properly manage financial instruments.

I'm just claiming that this wouldn't have required a full/100% bailout, just like we didn't fully bail out the banks and let some fail.