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>Since you started it, I'll ask for a citation on this too. I'm sure you have a subjective sense in which this seems true, but I'm not personally convinced that humanity and human problems have changed all that much, nor that stoicism as currently understood is all that different than Epictetus's conception.

Human problems haven't changed all that much (in some sense).

But the application of Epictetus philosophy has changed greatly, from sincere following for centuries in times when it was a survival tool, to a lifestyle accessory in times when it's a fad (of which several others have come and go in the 30 years I've followed the space, and more will) - from people who have no modesty or charity (philanthropia), but like to "play the stoic" as one in the 70s would play the world savvy playboy type or in previous decades the rugged boostrapped guy, and so on.

>Extreme poverty is now very rare (1 in 7 people)

That's a feel-good statistic, about third world people being able to get a few dollars whereas they had even less before.

You can be several steps away from "extreme poverty" in the Hans Rosling/Steven Pinken sense to have serious money issues (and not because of some personal irresponsibility of lack of trying).

Billion nominally out of this "extreme poverty" are struggling very hard and very real, with exhausting jobs, eviction, feeding and educating their kids, paying the rent every month, covering health payments, and so on. Everywhere, including the first world, job precariousness, shitty jobs, money anxiety, debt and so on is very common (most people). To the point that e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/19/56percent-of-americans-cant-...
"Investigate" what? Amazon would never disclose or discuss proprietary bizops.
Looks like they're initially targeting countries that have a large proportion of gaming revenue come from mobile games. (Japan is another)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County
It's popular if you weight by dollar spend, sure. That doesn't mean it's popular if you're weighting by actual productivity.
Yes, it certainly can be.

You can refer to almost any political talk radio, any hosted segments on cable TV news networks and any opinion piece in the newspaper for starters. Almost no fact checking and incredibly biased, or downright misinformation.

Think about what you’re saying: No open discussion can possibly contain misinformation. That’s certainly not true by any stretch of the imagination. That fact that a statement is made in public doesn’t make it true.
Your Google result is actually "Towards Platform Democracy: Policymaking Beyond Corporate CEOs and Partisan Pressure"
He says what people want to hear. People like having their sensibilities pandered to, so they tune in and the whole thing turns into a pretty lucrative cycle.
> demonstrate the ability to withdraw these [mandates] in the same manner in which we put them in

Just as people commonly rush out of a burning building, then swiftly right back into it. Because they’re safe from the fire now, and being outside the burning building is a life threatening emergency.
I suppose HPI[0] kind of is that? ;)

A community repository would be super nice for those. Something along the lines of DefinitelyTyped[1], all managed through git, easily integrates with other stuff (like shown on npmjs.org when the @types package exists), allows maintainers to "own" the adapters they contribute by making a PR. It's really the N adapters * T time per adapter that really makes it hard for one person to do. That plus monitoring API changes/flakiness of each adapter to make sure the data is still solid.

[0] https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI

[1] https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
FWIW, Android is now on it's 3rd (4th?) Bluetooth stack rewrite (latest being Gabeldorsh?). I haven't done Android dev in a long time, but bluetooth reliability was a real pain to get sorted even for Google.
Donald Trump got more than half the country to vote for him, that doesn't make his 4-year tenure any more impressive.
There have been shenanigans in the past

I am curious for examples.
That's a thorny one. I had a knee jerk reaction but upon reflection they're right about something if perhaps for some different reasons. Crux of it is, all great writing is really great editing. So called "privileged" writing in journals, newspapers, and paragons of English style like the Economist and the FT, along with literary fiction, or even crappy genre fiction - will have had the benefit of an editor.

Their argument seems predicated on the idea that either the author is the only writer and the text leapt from his head like Athena fully formed. (like these comments of mine, surely), or their entire sample set of student newspapers all had equally competent sub-editors. I'd say their argument that privileging any text is a "language ideology" is weak because the percieved quality of the writing should be attributed to the additional work that went into its editing, whereas they're saying it's due to the authors social status based on zip code. Chances are, the smaller school papers are just some yahoo publishing their own copy.

Too many holes. It seems to just elevate the same critical theory as a pretext for asserting a qualification to govern GPT model training, by using the same problematizations it uses on everything else. (e.g. call it x'ist until you control it, invent an unsolvable problem only you can manage, dilute and destabilize consensus with exogenous concerns, etc.) I'd agree a lot of good stuff is probably not making it into language models because it's not edited (or ironically, not gatekept), but I'm not sure the authors are really sincere about improving language models. To me, they're using a very narrow interpretation of quality writing to assert that GPT models require governance and political accountability.
There are many cult fighters online but the crown belongs to Sonic Fights MLM’s
The worlds of multi level marketing and Sega hero Sonic the Hedgehog collide in a strange story about fighting against cults on the internet. The link includes the account in question and an interview with the creator of this amazing avatar. This is what a justice warrior looks like in 2022.
Really nice idea!! I started building a product for creating single property pages over a year ago. One of the things I got asked was a way to use it to manage tasks / inventories for a home. At the time I was not able to implement that but I'm now thinking of going back to do that.

In the meantime I open sourced it so people can add functionality and take it in the direction they want.

This was the feedback I got on hacker news when I first discussed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24339608
I used to read Ars Technica a lot more, but since ~2018, the comment sections there started becoming extremely toxic and one-sided very quickly.

I'm wondering if it has something to do with Condé Nast, because WIRED isn't doing too great either in that regard.
And the Weinsteins are both very smart. But being smart can mean you’re very good at making a compelling argument for something that’s wrong.

That’s what they do. Same with Jordan Peterson.
It’s more like sharing a shopping mall with them. Merchants don’t endorse each other and may not have many customers in common, yet outsourcing common construction and parking and security is better for all of them.
I've found the best compromise to be a Bluetooth receiver with 3.5mm input. I feel comfortably untethered to the desk, I can still use them while charging, and I can quickly switch between other 3.5mm devices.
Carbon offsets are like indulgences. An elitist way for the wealthy to justify their large pollution footprint is okay and shift the blame to the poor sinners who consume far less but can't afford them.
Yea he asks that Jamie guy to look up stuff all the time. That's all he does lol
Isn’t that essentially what fedora Silverblue is?

It’s an immutable desktop OS where everything is ran in flatpaks/podman pods for the most part and it’s actually a really great experience.

Can play stellaris on steam with it for example with no issue.
> I'm not sure what's preventing it

It takes time to to train doctors and nurses, they don't grow on trees. Opening immigration for these professions could be a short term solution but getting a US license is complicated too (maybe rightfully so).
Maybe not. I can't imagine Spotify wanting to set any precedent in this area. Who's to say it would stop with JRE and not end with all of their content creators fighting to platform each other. There is a lot of potential for objections across a broad swath of art.
Apparently Spotify's 'Very High' means 320 kbps[1]. Tidal uses FLAC, which uses as high a bitrate as is necessary; I've seen flac bitrate as high as 1800 kbps. There is an eternal debate among audiophiles as to whether FLAC makes a difference, and because the debate is about sensory quality, it seems unlikely to ever be settled: even if you say that the variations between the two are below any perceivable threshold, people will say that it causes distortions that are perceivable.

As far as I know, there is no one who can reliably tell apart 320kbps mp3 and FLAC, and I'm CERTAIN that I can't. Here's a website that let's you try: http://abx.digitalfeed.net/spotify-hq.html fair warning: it's very tedious and it takes a long time.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/
His opponents aren't arguing he's not entertaining. The argument is that he platforms dangerous misinformation.

Militant extremists, climate change deniers, COVID misinformation, antivaxxers, etc. And he's generally credulous. He had Jordan Peterson in doing climate change denial just the other day.

This misinformation has material negative impact on all our lives. He's like Paltrow's Goop but for men.

And while we have freedom of speech, we also acknowledge as a society that some lies are too dangerous to allow -- that's why fraud, perjury, slander, filing a false report, false advertising, etc. are all illegal. It's just that reality itself can't sue for defamation.
Um, if you can compromise "passwd" it's game over; you are root equivalent.

Looking at other suids in /bin...

Compromise mount, game over.

Compromise su, game over.

arping? ping? Dunno; they can generating normally-prohibited packets.

umount? Hmmm.... feels like some kind of clever trick lurking here.

As for kernel subsystems, there's very little which cannot lead to full system compromise, either directly or indirectly by tricking a user.
It's not a flex, I'm just saying that it's not super rare for people to get those returns. If you're really doing 45% that's above and beyond though and would be curious what your strategy is.
duh, what do you think training is for?
Someone could make a negative-joe-rogan podcast which is just the edited out bits.

Audio equivalent of selling donut holes.
Your anti-vax comment history indicates that you may be particularly fond of Joe Rogan.
I would not agree with that analogy regarding masks. Nor, I suspect, would noted expert on infectious diseases Dr. Monica Gandhi. I recommend you listen to her recent statements on the subject.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/monica.gandhi
The OS that I work on (FreeBSD) does that. I believe Windows refers to it as amd64 as well..
Welcome to Hacker News, Mishaal! Glad you made it eventually. :-)
This is the same defense Jon Stewart always used. "It's a comedy show". I'm not sure whether you're a credible news source absolves you of responsibility of spreading harmful misinformation. He has a huge platform and a huge voice. What he does isn't illegal but it's definitely not the most moral behavior.
Fedora Silverblue is a Linux desktop container distro
https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
You're right that noise comes from the other ear. But I am able to listen at a lower volume when ANC is activated. I often listen while walking near traffic noise, which the ANC is fairly effective at defeating. With ANC — even in just one ear — I can preserve my hearing a bit.
I’m beginning to worry that the 100% sarcasm in my post has gone un-noticed…
every large company does it. I've done those courses at Microsoft, Facebook and Google. It's just run of the mill corporate training.
Reddit tests allowing users to set any NFT as their profile picture
diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

Also known as anti-meritocracy? When you hire people because of who they are rather than what they can do, you will slowly destroy competence, and quite understandably, a lot of people should be furious about that.
Yes, but I don't consider that easier to maintain. The appeal of a dockerfile or k8s manifest means I can expect some degree of isolation, and easily distribute that experience to others. Getting something to run in Cube OS is more of the VM experience, than container experience. I do like both.
So two objections. First, from the minutes:

> So can we take it, as far as it needs to go, because I don’t know that it is going to end with one book. I think the process needs to include a bigger plan to holistically redact things that we don’t want in there. We hope we have good employees, like minded culture, centric folks that fit with McMinn County, that they’re going to make the right discretionary decisions to redact that literature in an appropriate way for the age related presentation.

It is very hard for me not to read this as political censorship in nature.

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And second, given the teachers were planning to inform parents and censor the nudity/profanity, it is hard for me not to read this as an objection over students being taught about any subject that borders sex or sexual content. I think the "inappropriate" objection takes on a different tone when people are saying that it's inappropriate to teach literature even after the swear words have been whited out -- at that point we're talking about subject-matter, not profanity.

I view that as both unrealistic in general (I wonder if parents have the same objections to mature topics in To Kill a Mockingbird or Shakespeare), but I also view it as explicitly political. It is a political statement to say that sex as a topic should not ever be mentioned in middleschool.

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But last but not least, even if this were only a discussion about profanity (which I don't think is the case), government censorship of profanity in schools is still a heck of a lot closer to a 1st Amendment violation on the sliding scale of censorship than people ganging up on each other on Twitter is.

I still don't really accept that someone could legitimately find the first to be irrelevant to free speech conversations, but the second to be critically important.
I wouldn’t take that bet, if only because I hope you’re right.
I find my self doing the opposite. I’ll often create a Cloud Task that will call the same server that created it, just to make sure that another container will get spun up to handle the load if needed. Using Cloud Run this way quite happily for a mix of OLAP and OTAP workloads.
Stretches across my whole desk.

Apple just started supporting the full resolution, natively, a couple of releases ago.

It's spoiled me rotten.
It takes a minute, they often have the best price, and vetting a new vendor -- with their own unknown challenges -- is non-trivial.
Yeah, but the bro-science community went bonkers when the gyms closed and he's definitely part of that group. This pushed him so much further.
Those of us who live in the US enjoy free speech, which clearly allows types of speech that are considered misinformation. In order for a platform to censor speech that is otherwise legal, they must either do it out of principle (they simply don't like a certain kind of speech) or as a calculated business decision because it's what their customers want.

It turns out a significant number of people who support free speech also want their favorite platforms to not allow speech they don't like. The argument is "this is not free speech, it's misinformation and it's damaging." If there were valid scientific arguments proving that what we call misinformation is actually damaging, that would be a reasonable position. However, so far I have not seen anything that convinced me.

All I've heard are "just so" arguments akin to "TV/videogames cause violence." What if fake news do not change people's minds as much as it may appear? We tend to listen to viewpoints (fake or not) that confirm our beliefs. All the information confirming our beliefs is out there, cannot be removed from the internet, and we will gravitate towards it. If that is true, then we are paying a high price (asking platforms to police speech beyond the law) for little or no benefit.

Edit: downvoter, I would appreciate if it you could explain how you disagree with my comment.
It's only bad for 3D because nVidia has their secret sauce (and corner cutting) in the driver and locked down firmware blobs that have very restrictive distribution.

If you have an Intel or AMD GPU everything either just works, or works with the latest drivers (might require an added repo if the card came out after the last stable release).
I think it was clear I was not offering a public policy idea. I was explaining the common emotional response most of us have when they see people make decisions that they know will cause physical harm others. Like poisoning a river or driving drunk.
Some might feel apprehensive about visiting US government websites. I have been in this position before, so I often think like that. I figured I’d offer an easy to find alternative source.
Yes, but my point is clearly that if Young had more leverage, Rogan would be off Spotify right now.
Goldfish was trained to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land
Anti harassment training is mandatory because its a requirement for the Farragher-Ellerth defense. (Absolves corporations from paying damages to victims of harassment.)

https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/I0f9fbe84ef0811e28...
If you're comparing to the flu you have to compare apples to apples, you can't just exclude people who are more likely to have a bad outcome from covid. You are the one who is creating the discrepancy.
The difference is that the Daily Show looked and acted like a traditional news show, which of course, was part of the parody. No one has ever confused the JRE for that.
Very... well said my friend.
I have never heard of this (until now). Thank you! I've been loving NixOS so I hope it's easy to build the world like that. :-)
Walmart is given a wholesale price by Kellogg’s. Walmart’s choice is to set their markup over that wholesale price. On average, the wholesale price by Kellogg’s cereal would be $1.64 and the wholesale price for the GV would be $0.715.

It’s complicated for Walmart, because there is documented evidence of them telling suppliers what wholesale price they will _accept_, but that does not change that it is ultimately Kellogg’s wholesale price that is being met by Walmart.
Hearing people say "Hes still on Apple", yeah, so is the JRE podcast.

Its come to a point, one platform bans someone, you can get them on other platforms. Cancel culture isnt going to work (and thats a good thing!)

I'm an old school, turn the dial liberal.
> PayPal sucks—big surprise. But at the same time, I preordered a Turing Pi in February, they communicated in March that it was processed, and then I didn’t hear from them again until May 25, and then it showed up in early June. That two-month communication lapse between March-June might have been your problem with PayPal disputes. Next time, communicate more.

Similar experience. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a lot of outstanding orders and disputes that have prompted PayPal to keep their funds on hold.

If you're taking credit card payments, regardless of the processor, you need to stay on top of these things. A trend of disputes or chargebacks will trigger this with any processor.
> Rogan supposedly pulls in 200M monthly listeners while Young's spotify page says he gets 6M per month.

Somewhat pedantic note: this statement seems misleading to me. I think you mean "200M monthly listens", unless you're claiming that 2.5% of the world's population listens to Rogan every month?
I'm not GP, but I just ordered from a reputable seller online.

They're closed for several weeks because the warehouse staff is out due to COVID. Who knows when I'll get the several hundred dollars of stuff I ordered. I'd already have it if I had ordered from Amazon.
I don't understand this whole misinformation thing that's appeared in the last couple of years. I've seen a ton of documentaries and listened to music that spreads misinformation. Why is doing it on social media different? I'm asking an honest question. Why can't people just listen to what they want?
As if the regular media hasn't had their own fair share of misinformation.
Gavin isn’t left. Or lefty. That is misinformation. 19 years ago Gavin was saying things like:

“Last month, he wrote an article for Patrick Buchanan in The American Conservative boasting of having converted Vice readers to conservatism.

He actually leans much further to the right than the Republican Party. His views are closer to a white supremacist's. ''I love being white and I think it's something to be very proud of,'' he said. ''I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.”[0]

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When was the Proud Boys purportedly just a joke? Also, 4chan, Vice’s non lefty people like Gavin, have hid behind the cover of “just a joke” for decades.

There are many times where Gavin calls himself, Proud Boys, or others alt-lite/new right. A distinction that means nothing when the people who label themselves as these, are no different than the alt right. I have a very hard time believing Proud Boys was ever created as a joke in good faith and not as cover. Nothing from quick reading shows your take to be true.

Is it not true that Proud Boys was created in 2016 on Taki's Magazine, a far-right/alt-right site?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/style/the-edge-of-hip-vic...
even hello world needs feature improvements
Heh, I had one of those players as well. A coworker of mine purchased it, didn't use it often and when he decided to use it for biking, it stopped working. In the meantime the company went out of business and he couldn't even get it serviced. So he gave it to me. I did manage to fix it after waiting for spare parts for many weeks.

The reason why it looks like a Toblerone bar is because they decided to use through-hole electrolytic capacitors (because audiophile reasons) and the battery was round too (an 18650 IIRC): http://mikebeauchamp.com/wp-content/gallery/pono-teardown/ca...

The triangular shape and inability to carry it comfortably in jeans pants pockets doomed it from day one. I'm amazed something like this passed the design stage. And first encounter with user testing would have made it crystal clear that the shape was a no-go. Yet it not only got funded but was also mass-produced. It was a massive waste of money.
Not really. NY was standing up to Spotify's bad decision to broadcast dangerous misinformation, and he was making a protest to try to get them to see sense. Good for him! I hope he sticks to his principles.
If you mean them hating expats and entitled nomads, everybody does. That's not racism.
How about preferring people outside the car over people inside the car?

Every time I got the option to swerve into a barrier instead of killing a person I took it. By getting in a car you’re accepting the risk that entails, especially when it’s a self driving car with experimental tech. Pedestrians made no such deal, so they shouldn’t have to take on that risk.
The true derangement is using iOS in spite of abuse just to stay in touch with family and friends.
> Is there any big corp that doesn’t do “never use these words” training?

As I stated I've never seen it, in the context of anti-trust. If your company has to have that in literature, they are already skirting and it's just a matter of time.