skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is inevitable when you try to abstract and systematise anything. You cant think about big and complex things will all details in mind. You abstract. Same way you don't see a person in front of you as collection of millions cels. You see it as an entity.
I don't understand what's murky about your hypothetical as proposed. Go help the depressed friend. Even if you successfully pitched the startup to the investor the utility gained ultimately is indeterminate vs. the very immediate and real utility gained from a successful suicide (presumably permanent) prevented.

Your example though is good to illustrate the fallacy of "end justifies the means" type thinking. When you suppose the outcome (talking to the investor leads to the startup being created which then presumably prevents suicides) for one scenario but not for the other the entire thing is meaningless.

With these types of scenarios you can see the error by applying one scenario and overlaying it on the other:

1. Talk a friend out of a suicide who does (2)

2. Engage in a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity for suicide prevention.

Clearly 1 includes 2, so 2 is the answer. You might say that's not the scenario you posed, which is true, but I'd counter and say that's the issue with contrived examples to begin with.
It is absolutely not a computer, though. They observed the observable astrological phenomena was cyclical and made a system of gears for their periods to predict it's state. It's interesting, but for context it is centuries younger than the first Greek geared clocks, so it's definitely not something we should be too surprised that existed.
That's basically bollocks, isn't it?
Thing is, context means something to people, a new person coming in starting shitting all over everything has no context for saying that, they may be right, but the don't have any shared experiences of why it is so, and that makes a difference.
Having suffered through things together, it makes a difference, it softens the words, or at least, it points them away from people, and into situations, situations of the past, that a newcomer cannot know, and so, cannot be referring to.
"The specific distinction to which actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy."
done, thank you.
The majority of the money by total value in the whole housing crisis was taken by the people that took loans, i.e., got money, and did not repay them, causing the crisis.

Lehman didn't crash, wiping out investors, because investors took money and didn't repay it. The system crashed because everyday people took out loans and didn't repay them.

Sum up the values and then tell me who made out like bandits.
>The US is murdering international journalists.

The USA is in 4 ongoing wars crossing 3 different administrations.

The USA likes killing international people.
The crypto equivalent of "think of the children" are the people who scream money laundering and ransomware. Sort of similar to people who used to oppose end-to-end encryption and TOR.
Are the executives included in these measures?
Single player cinematic games (without much freedom, not open world) are lovely experiences. Sure, I enjoy unwinding in Minecraft, but you seem weirdly dismissive of single player games with good writing. Some such games are cartoonist and wonderful, some are photorealistic and wonderful, and some are going beyond realism into something completely new (also wonderful).

As long as we still enjoy reading good books, we probably will continue enjoying watching good movies and playing good single player games.
The one-sided UK-US extradition treaty has never been a good idea, not sure how his defence team can argue against extradition with it in place.
4.5. Constant UI redesigns and changes for no benefit.

5. Ignoring any and all negative feedback.

6. Taking more and more control away from users.

7. Being funded by their competitor and never really looking for an alternative.

8. Firing a good chunk of their engineers when needed most.
Thoughts on Legacy Code and How to Live with It
I'm not the grandparent, but there's been a slew of deserialization-related vulnerabilities in Java and .NET libraries where user input is used to instantiate arbitrary classes and invoke methods on them.
So if I post something criticizing China's policies towards, say, Tiawan or the Uyghurs, I must include some criticism of a random terrible US policy or I'm a hypocrite? Do I need to also include a criticism of, say, Russia's policies towards the Ukraine or is it only the US?
I don't know how it would be fixed, but in the west it would simply be forbidden to build a house driveway onto a highway.

If the road is being upgraded into a highway, they would alter the driveway so it no longer connects to the highway: a service/access/frontage road, or some other route.
He can work for Alice or anyone else in the world without having to deal with intermediaries and bureaucracy.
>>Realism is not the goal. Freedom is the goal.

Says who? There is place out there for both Minecraft and for extremely high detail one-off experiences, we aren't destined to all move into the Oasis.

>>The goal is to build the real matrix

Again - says who? Who has that goal?
I'm really glad you like it! It should soon get its biggest update yet, related to sharing features / learning in public. More details at the end of this last article: https://paulbricman.com/reflections/thinking-in-public
It's also an interesting form of a regressive tax in the form of a confirmation bias in selecting richer debate partners.

Maybe the GP is just more well-off than their interlocutor, who might not make rent this month if they'd lose a $100 bet they're 99% sure they'd win, whereas the GP is only 90% sure, but would find losing $100 a minor inconvenience.
Pooping hippos create ‘community guts’ in African ponds
"It creates jobs"
What exactly is the "metaverse" supposed to be, other than a marketing term to sell a more expensive class of IO devices?

People will not switch over in droves to do their text/image/video editing in VR all of a sudden, because other than a few special design applications, there is no point in doing so...it's slower, clumsier and the input devices are much less precise than mouse&keyboard.

Another supposed target demographic, people in IT won't switch either. I see no point in virtually grabbing a glowing code-ball and throing it into the "deploy-tube", or navigate a codebase using haptic gestures with the huge meat-styluses at the end of my arms, when I can simply type `git push` or `/myAwesomeStruct`

I also have a hard time imagining management sitting in meetings while wearing a 400g headset for 3h. Or companies being willing to cough up 350+$ for every employee just so they can join meetings, when Zoom is basically free.

So, what else is there? Gaming and maybe some "recreational apps" (aka. alsogaming, only less interactive). And since not all games will take place in the same unified MMORPG-ish permanent universe (yes, people want to play in sessions, and people want to play single player, and people want to play while not connected to the internet), this will not be a paradigm-shift, but rather a new toy in an already large collection of other toys.
This was the US government's appeal because the US lost at first instance. However Assange will now also have his own cross-appeal because even though he won at first instance, the court rejected all but one of his arguments.

Aside from that, it will go to the Court of Appeal and/or to the UK Supreme Court.

So potentially 2 or 3 further appeals.
A useful technique along the same lines as the one you mentioned is called "pacing and leading." In this technique you begin by agreeing with them as much as possible (pacing), and then lead them towards the better position.

https://leversofpersuasion.medium.com/pacing-and-leading-133...
> 4. Rich editing similar to Google Doc is very very complicated subject with lot of landmines

They (Ink & Switch) are actually working on that too, see https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
This sounds awfully naive. I have a very small company that sometimes deals with large corporations. Large corporations already want to push a jurisdiction onto you in their contracts. Usually the jurisdiction of where they are headquartered, which makes sense because they have lawyers that are allowed to work at those courts and know how to deal with that specific jurisdiction. So now you want them to be able to choose some big-corp-friendly-private-crypto-court? Sorry, no thank you. In a world where everyone has exactly the same power this scheme might work, but I would hate to have to negotiate with big clients which crypto court to choose.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the OP, or you, but the 1950's and '60s should be "mid-20th century", not "late". I don't know if there's a commonly accepted definition of "early", "middle" and "late" that does not involve waving hands.
Maybe the gifted teenager by getting priority early on would be able to better support his brother later in life. Parents aren't going to be around in old age.
Depends on how you define interpolation and extrapolation.

In high dimensional spaces basically everything is extrapolation including in pixel space and embedding space.

> The notion of interpolation and extrapolation is fundamental in various fields from deep learning to function approximation. Interpolation occurs for a sample x whenever this sample falls inside or on the boundary of the given dataset's convex hull. Extrapolation occurs when x falls outside of that convex hull. One fundamental (mis)conception is that state-of-the-art algorithms work so well because of their ability to correctly interpolate training data. A second (mis)conception is that interpolation happens throughout tasks and datasets, in fact, many intuitions and theories rely on that assumption. We empirically and theoretically argue against those two points and demonstrate that on any high-dimensional (>100) dataset, interpolation almost surely never happens. Those results challenge the validity of our current interpolation/extrapolation definition as an indicator of generalization performances.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09485

Also:

> The location of decision boundaries inside the convex hull of training set can be investigated in relation to the training samples. However, our analysis shows that in standard image classification datasets, all testing images are considerably outside that convex hull, in the pixel space, in the wavelet space, and in the internal representations learned by deep networks. Therefore, the performance of a trained model partially depends on how its decision boundaries are extended outside
the convex hull of its training data.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09849
Redesigning always happens in little pockets though. And it often takes years due to how broken infrastructure planning is. So the first people to take advantage of it are the rich. And so shit without cars gets the stereotype of being only for the rich. And the cycle continues.

I've accepted it's just never going to change in the US. There's too many opposing forces all at odds with each other. Really makes you fucking mad how much the "Greatest Generation", in addition to their cancer boomer children, really fucked this country.
Someone in another thread here said Teams itself is required by the FCC to be able to make 911 calls and that is the root of the issue. MS teams implementation clashed with the OS dialer (iiuc).

Completely unacceptable on Google's part.
Wow, didn't know this was available! They should add a message when the dev tools is opened to let developers know avout this developer edition. Thanks, will give it a try!
Nono. Only saudi arabia and russia are doing this. US is just following the law. Nothing wrong with that, right?
Such scores are clearly possible. If you define a one-dimensional scale you can project everything onto it. Clearly you lose a lot of information in doing so, but if your scale is "overall utility" of some kind and that utility is the only thing you care about, then of course you can do it.

In principle anyway - you can't actually calculate someone's utility. It's a thought experiment.
Those are all examples of Post Judgment IMO, I don't agree with you conflating the last two phrases with using the n-word as they are very different.
How do You feel about "Lets go Brandon"? oops did I just destroy my earlier argument?
If you hire a PR person they do they work it for you.
Citation needed? First time I'm hearing anyone say that this mechanism is not an anachronism based on current historical timelines.
They apparently plan to stick him in the court in East Virginia, which is effectively an intelligence court given the group of people who live in that region and the political bias. He will not receive a fair trial.
Why would he do any time at all? Because the people who actually should be doing time are the people in power so they are somehow immune?

Also, Chelsea could transition to a woman without prison too. The fact that they ended/will end in prison while people who actually committed crimes that these two (and Snowden) exposed speaks volumes about how fundamentally different USA is.
If only someone, anyone, had been warning us about the military industrial complex.

You think America secures all the resources you rely on by being nice?

“My way of life is built on military imperialism. Why is my government awful?”

Shit n hellfire. The adults are just turning off Sesame Street
It's pure journalism. And why would he even have to worry about the laws of a country he wasn't in when he did the activities anyway? It's like worrying about whether what one is doing is legal in Bhutan.
Assuming he gets to trial, and has lawyers that understand how to use the media, I think it may be difficult to convince the entire jury to prosecute.

Rehashing US war crimes, which would certainly come up, won't be great for the prosecution either.
The UN has a nice document explaining what war crimes are and how they matter: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml
Did I miss that he finished the mechanism? From what I've seen he went into hiatus and has been only posting ClickSpring "clips" for a while now?
Could be. Do you have a good example?

I do know a few places that aren't entirely clear about whether they're a road or a street. None of them anywhere near as extreme as those American stroads, but Amsterdam definitely has a couple of important connecting roads (especially around the centrum ring; Stadhouderskade etc) that's explicitly intended as a main thoroughfare for cars to reach different parts of the city, but in some places still has bikes on the road, houses and shops, etc.

It's not pretending to be a highway or anything like that, and certainly in the more complex parts, it's just a single lane in each direction, but it's definitely intended to be one of the primary connector roads in the city center, and a valid route if you want to go from the west side of the city to the east side.
Some dodgy businessman might be a crook and criminal (no reference to Assange), but also a vital intelligence asset.

It might be in the immediate interest of citizens to know that, and have the guy tried, but not so in the *long term. I would expect a competent intelligence service to keep the guy safe and his misdeeds under cover.

Of course that can go badly wrong, I just mean, a priori, there may be very good reasons to keep secrets from your own people. But then this is why intelligence services need civilian supervision, just like armed forces do.
Listen it doesn't work out great in either Snow Crash or the Matrix; I don't think I want that goal.
Halo has always been a very slow (and therefore kind of boring) FPS. I guess its real claim to fame was that it was the best one could do without a mouse. Super overrated game IMO.
This was inevitable to anyone who read the original ruling.

What I said 11 months ago:

" actually don't think this is such great news for him.
Extradition was specifically blocked on the grounds of a particular regime he might be subjected to (to be fair, probably the only legal grounds on which he had any chance of succeeding). That leaves the US with a way out if they want to proceed with the extradition - guarantee a different set of circumstances.

If the judge had found on more substantive grounds, those would have been much more resistant to that. For instance, all the claims based on language in the extradition treaty and other international agreements failed and they failed for pretty fundamental legal reasons. English courts only have regard for domestic law and it is for parliament to pass laws consistent with the treaties that have been signed, therefore claims based on treaty language won't work.

That means that none of the claims on the political nature of his activities were upheld and those would have provided a much more robust and durable bar to extradition."
If we don't get on it soon, "history" will be written by archaeologists in about 4000 years.
Define "scam" then. I am 100% sure I can buy drugs, fake IDs, CP and other illegal goods and services with crypto, how's that a scam?
And we see this in defi already - taking out a flash loan to rig a thin market that an oracle depends upon is a standard exploit.
Newer phone networks are much more efficient than old ones. For a certain amount of 3G spectrum the carrier can serve more customers at higher data rates with 4G or 5G. From their viewpoint it is expensive to keep serving 3G customers.
It's the same people/culture in the State Department, DOJ, and intelligence agencies who pushed that Clinton-funded Steele Dossier into the system to fabricate the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

Assange has exposed them time and again and they want payback.
The making of Chapter 46 of The Feynman Lectures
Idk man, how do you think people survived prior to 1945? We do not have to go far back into human history to see the alternative to car centric development. Were pre war cities and towns gentrified and devoid of commerce? Did everyone have no time for anything but walking? It’s always striking to me the extent to which people will take a 75 year old radical experiment (car centric suburban development) as the normal and the natural mode of civilization, and consider any deviation from that mode completely impractical. I guess people were entirely impractical for 8000 years or so?
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The elected governments of the US and UK and the laws they've passed?
> I would argue that neighborhood character is prioritizing people. It's prioritizing the ones who live there already, who have built their town into a desirable location, and want to protect what they have.

No. It is prioritizing the loud ones over everyone else. Also, most people don't understand what makes a good city and have hardly seen anywhere else. They just want other people to pay for their unchanging city.

> There is no rational basis for living in fear of getting hit by a car.

This is so completely wrong. In the US, you have lifetime odds of death in a crash of 1 in 106. That is just for death--the odds of getting struck by a driver are MUCH MUCH higher. That could include permanent injury.
Thanks for the research. I am a musician myself, and, I can say that I would defo go 100% into the blockchain if these things get real (with the copywritting)
fixed it for you: "US announces funds to support <the right> independent journalism and reporters targeted for their work"
War crimes would generally refer to breaching international treaty and/or conventions.
The "Patriot" Act rebranded torture/abduction so as to not fall foul of these. "Advanced interrogation techniques" ....
China too.
I guess a part of my question was, is WikiLeaks _really_ a good thing? I just don't know. ELI5 if you'd like.

I'm deliberately keeping any personality assessments out of it. Assange seems like a strange guy, but even if true, I agree that's besides the point.
>Will he be tried by a common jury or a military one? No way a common jury finds him guilty.

Neither. This is the Espionage Act, so he's going to the spy court. Those doors will be closed and the jury will consist of people who work for the government. The court case will be over way way faster than you might expect.
Reality Winner and Manning are American citizens. Assange is not.

What "games" would YOU play to get out of being extradited to a foreign country for crimes of publishing factual information? Your consolation is that it's only a decade or so of his life in a cage unjustly, no big deal?

You think it is the definition of intelligence to submit to that?
People use that word when they are grave danger of death, not necessarily means that he died, right?
Have you watched the past 5 seasons of real life? It was incredibly poorly written.
You can have low-bandwidth realism with a heavy client, for example you can enumerate all people on earth with 33 bits.

But to me, video games with fancy CGI is like a chessboard with ornate gold pieces. Impressive, but in the end it's still just chess.
There's nothing _particularly_ surprising about the Pyramids, though; they were fairly obviously possible at the time and made sense in context. The Antikythera device was more surprising; if nothing else, it's the oldest known example of clockwork in that part of the world, by _centuries_.

There's no magic here; it clearly did exist. But it's surprising that it did; it feels out of time in a way that most artifacts don't.
Another very good related video about the Antikythera mechanism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv-zWbxm2lY
Elite? Half the people on here couldnt change their own tire. that isnt elite. Being dependent on strong skilled men is not elite.
That series still isn't over. It just got interrupted a couple of times. The first interruption was explained in Episode 10 - that was the discovery that the way one of the wheels was divided in the remaining teeth likely indicated that the mechanism was based on a lunar rather than a solar calendar, and that part needed to wait for the peer review and publication of a paper before the series could continue. The next interruption had more to do with Chris's real passion of watch and clock making - he had access to a couple of decorative engines (a straight-line engine and a rose engine), probably temporarily, since they would in no way both fit into the little closet he has for a shop, and he did some rather impressive guilloché and enamel work with those. When the series picks up (if it does), the hard parts are yet to come, like the planetary dial and its crapload of pointers.

One thing Chris has done that people like Michael Wright didn't was to assume that anyone who was building something like that, with its obvious signs of not being a rough prototype, would have made some sort of jig for some of the parts rather than, say, laboriously walking off tooth spacing for every single gear, and that some sort of lathe, which was known to exist and be used for wood from illustrations both contemporary with and far preceding the device, would have likely been used to make round things out of soft metal.
Ah, yes. Back in the day, we'd run both xsnow and xearth on our SPARCstations, so you could see xsnow's Santa Claus sailing around the earth. :)
What Covid Can Teach US About Programming
Give fd a try. It work how you'd expect find would.

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
I'm having issues understanding this:

> let’s assume that the utility gain for the gifted son from living in the suburbs would be larger than the utility gain for the disabled son from living in the city. A pure utilitarian, then, must choose the suburbs.

Everything's okay so far. But then he says this:

> Nagel’s view is this: if you say that you would live in the city for the sake of your disabled son, despite it being the case that moving to the city creates more utility in total, you are not a utilitarian

Didn't the author just say moving to the suburbs creates more utility in total?? And now he's saying moving to the city is what creates more utility?
Does that mean that Anne Sacoolas will be extradited to the UK?