skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the thing about the long-term philosophical dialogue generally is that it moves extremely slowly - and the discussion of technology isn't an exception. The concepts are well-grounded and thoroughly debated but they resist change. One could argue that, like the Catholic Church, philosophers are still on the fence about Galileo and this Ribbonfarm article [1] gives an interesting discussion how the rise of instrumental sensing was taken by philosophy (not well).

This situation that a lot of thinkers of science and technology wind-up doing what you describe Wolfram as doing ("Concepts are slammed together by private intuitive leaps") - some better, some worse. The work of Alfred Korzybski or the framework of original "cybernetics" are some of my favorites. But none of these has been rolled-back into the mainstream of philosophy and so science and technology continue their way and philosophy continues its way. Wolfram is only the latest example of this.

[1] https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/one-tenth-of-a-second
> Where do you click "I agree" when visiting a shopping mall?

There is usually an inconspicuously posted sign that indicates 'no loitering, no spitting, no foul language' etc. or they reserve the right to throw you out.
Um, with polite response: a lot of these points are ethically dubious and at best say “they’re well paid, so they don’t really count”. At one point it says one can marry to get out of their indentured servitude, which… yikes, dude, imagine what a dangerous position that puts someone in if they can’t divorce a potentially dangerous relationship for fear of deportation.
Sure, import duties could help domestic businesses and potentially laborers for said businesses, but doesn't ensure domestic businesses would pay their workers a minimum wage even with increased business demand.
> It was supposed to be cash without the burden of nation state oversight

While convenience remains the core point under contention, the secondary point of debate with crypto is the one you raise here: why is this a good thing?

Why would I want an unregulated currency, free of consumer protections or government oversight? If someone steals my credit card I call the bank and reverse the charges. When a bank gets robbed or collapses, the FDIC ensures consumers are unaffected.

Governments aren't a power independent of their communities, they're not aliens from outer space interfering with natural human ways of life. Government is how we the community organize ourselves to ensure our collective protection. They're, obviously, deeply imperfect, but a system completely severing itself from those organizing principles is fated to replicate them with even greater imperfection.
"Feel free to take part in evolution yourself, but leave the rest of us out of it."
Or international address
> While there were panics and issues before the era of active central banks, most fo the time, things were calm.

Wow - this is insanely inaccurate. Before the active central bank era (call it post-WW2), recessions lasted up to twice as long as they do during the modern era. Unemployment also peaked at much higher numbers: 25% during the Great Depression, for example. The pre-central bank localized agrarian and early industrial economic model leant itself to boom and bust cycles eg massive instability.
Not just "fairly benign": actively favorable.
If you're talking about drug possession, then I agree, and it's pretty quickly becoming a non-issue. What DA is going hard on drug possession in 2022?

The only qualification I'd make is that I think a prohibition on use for parolees is totally unobjectionable and this is an area where criminal justice reformers lose the plot. Probation and parole are just that -- you're by definition under a watchful eye. The state is saying, in effect, you have not yet demonstrated to us that you can handle free society and until you have you can't get drunk or high.

Not only does that strike me as totally reasonable, I'd say that anyone who finds themselves in that situation who nevertheless figures, "why not just get drunk/high, anyway" is a person sending a strong signal that the court was wrong to trust them.

Imagine yourself on parole. Would you risk it? Exactly.
The excessive arms supply and the war dogs returning when this war ends will far far exceed the damage done by either Taliban or ISIS.

Zelensky is a clown if he thinks he can defeat Russia. He is just prolonging the inevitable and throwing more of his men in the meat grinder.

Like they say: the US will fight Russia to the last Ukrainian/ Afghan

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?
Coinbase has Coinbase Ventures, for which they invest in many crypto projects.
Speaking of causality, Wilczek had been a professor for 4 years before the first delayed choice experiment was proposed (1974 vs. 1978), which would normally disqualify him from being a TA/AI. Not doubting your experience, but I don't understand the timeline here. Were you using "delayed choice" to more broadly mean "which way" experiments?

As an aside, Jeff Bezos had a very similar experience with his physics TA: https://youtu.be/eFnV6EM-wzY .
This would be a game changer for living in apartments, please expedite this as an affordable material
> continuous symmetry (you can translate by any amount in any direction)

Thanks for the definition. That is close to the math idea of automophic, that is, can map onto itself. So, what physics means is that translations are essentially automorphisms. Simple now that we have a clear definition!
Yes, I read it. It doesn't seem to address the question.
On the explicit index cover mentioned in the end, generic database question. Why do indices point to the primary key (which then needs to be looked up), rather than the address of the page where the data is stored directly? Wouldn’t you want to save a primary key lookup? What’s the benefit?
It seems pretty likely that Gladstone would have been happy to claim

Well, he did write a book titled The Ethnology of the Greek Races. Victorians had a fairly different, more granular notion of 'race' but most of them took racial determinism as a given, they were fundamentally racist in the most literal sense. They came up with stuff like this, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_race
I agree that political action is needed, but I have almost no hope that any substantive legal changes will pass in near future. Big money and power prevent proposals from getting anywhere. It is up to us to protect ourselves and loved ones. It is a fun sport to evade the surveillance state.
You might be right about PTCs though I now can't remember exact reason for choosing PT100. It probably wasn't just linearity. I think I had other problems like controlling amount of power dissipated on the sensor (large changes in resistance mean large changes in amount of power dissipated) and possibly other.
Hmm, it would be interesting to add capital investment and rate of profit on capital.
The cost to store crypto is quite negliable compared to the cost to store gold.

Easy to hide a billion dollars of bitcoin on a USB stick for 10 years. Good luck storing a billion dollars of gold, you couldn't even physically move it by yourself.
> Based on physics, information science and economics, we compute and compare the energy consumption and define what is the energy efficiency of both the current monetary payment system and Bitcoin cryptopayment system. We demonstrate that Bitcoin consumes 56 times less energy than the classical system, and that even at the single transaction level, a PoW transaction proves to be 1 to 5 times more energy efficient. When Bitcoin Lightning layer is compared to Instant Payment scheme, Bitcoin gains exponentially in scalability and efficiency, proving to be up to a million times more energy efficient per transaction than Instant Payments.

so when not used, it uses less than other systems when not used, but when used it uses up to the same amount of energy?

unless its a million times less, when you use resolve-it-later-bitcoin

I'm assuming they are going to be saying "if you do a million tx on lightening before closing the channel, it'll be only 1 transaction" or something?

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edit: it started going on about newton's laws, the equal and opposite reaction I had was to stop reading
Yeah.

Probably, a better hope is that polar bears are interbreeding with other species, like brown bears. The answer may not be the preservation of polar bears but the emergence of a new species.

Similarly: Coyotes, wolves and dogs interbreeding and lions that learned to hunt sea animals in some part of Africa where there is insufficient game on land.
Obviously it's the convicted felons who have haunted society, not the other way around. One should be very clear on this point.
They definitely have some fluff pieces talking about cases where it happens, no idea how common it is relative to those others though
Hash the dates you are looking for and do a binary OR. It becomes unreasonable to search beyond n-dates, so arbitrary searches are probably out of the question. It also depends on how you are storing the filter (I’m thinking of a scheme I worked on for work in GDPR anonymization which suffers the same sort of problems)
genocide? If I were you I wouldn't go about spouting stuff that I have no idea what it means.

Here is a video of US secretary of state saying that half a million dead Iraqi kids was worth it https://youtu.be/kgkYcHg8xeI

That's more kids dead than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima
Bryan Stevenson: "Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

There's a lot of people in prison for good because of something they did (or that happened near them; see LWOP) when they were adolescents. Plenty of people who are entirely different at forty or sixty years old from who they were at twenty, but who won't ever be out on parole because of the nature of their conviction.

Would /you/ want to be judged for anything based on who you were as a twenty year old, or who you are today?
that's part B.

part A is still annoying though. if you have inline images toggled and type in a new image it still turns into a link instead of an inline image.
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>> The data is conclusive on Single Parent vs. Two Parent and it's not even close.

Not sure where single parents come into this? I have no strong opinion on it one way or another. I was referring to the the argument for having both biological parents in the house, that it doesn't automatically mean the home environment is healthy. It doesn't mean that having both biological parents in the home automatically equals support for the child. That is what is lost on that argument, that the actual physical and mental well being and support of the child is not automatically granted just because it's traditional nuclear family home.

There are other family structures that can more than provide for the physical, monetary, and mental health of the child. Coming from a traditional (US) Southern up-bring, the moralizing I heard is how all the social problems can easily be solved if the parents would just "work out" their problems. At that time, and still in places today, it was code for the wife to shut up and obey her husband - and if he beats her, what did she do to upset him? if he sexually assaults her, wait, just kidding, he cant because providing sex was her on-demand-duty. Is he beating, berating or sexually abusing the children? No one will ever know because if it's happening, the wife is socially blamed (if it leaks out) for failing her duties and no-one dares talk about it. Mostly the same for the wife treating a child in this way, except this time the blame and responsibility is rightfully hers, if it ever gets out. Having women work outside of the house really messed up this racket, thats a lot of self-serving control to lose for those that have lost it, or the promise of it, and the moralizing I hear because of it got louder. My point being, obviously our experiences of childhood and family are all different - however, this is the lens I, and many others, view through
You mean UST?
That's right, I'm not. As Christopher Hitchens once said, "you're free to love your enemies, but don't ask me to."
So you think every single website has cookie banners as some sort of political statement?

Isn’t the simpler answer that the EU like most governments is incompetent and didn’t think through their legislation even though it’s 99 sections and 11 chapters?
Please get this Twitter-style debate tactics out of this space. Putting words in other peoples' mouths is a hideous trait.
>either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to predict, manipulate, dispossess

The thing is, is that actually true? What always comes to mind for me is the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which involved their self-declared 'psychometric targeting', which it turned out, after scientists did some studies had a measurable effect of zero on people's behaviour[1].

People love this idea of 'big data' as some powerful ominous tool, even big companies themselves seem to push it explicitly to seem more towering than they are. It's much more boring and unfashionable to think that people are a little more complex and have more agency and that companies push it because it makes them sound more sophisticated than they are.

[1]https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/23/17152564/ca...
I've got an Enron Broadband fiber map PDF for the entire western USA.
1.5x speed along with searching transcripts for topics to skip to helps.
Wow, thanks so much for taking so much time to leave such detailed feedback! I'd love to chat more in real-time if you're willing. You can reach me at my hn username at livefortunately.com to schedule some time that works for you if you're interested.

Some selected responses.

| 1. Help estimate life insurance needs for folks.

Yes! This is completely on vision and part of why we founded the company (my co-founder is an actuary). We have plans to do a gap-analysis style life insurance recommendations - your needs decrease as your savings grow. He's written on right-sizing your insurance (though income replacement style) at the white coat investor [0].

| Have you used Financial Engines at all?

Yes! I actually worked (indirectly) with Bill Sharpe early in my career, and one of the founders of FE is an advisor of ours.

| Is it Monte-Carlo based? If it's MC, then what data is generated and how?

Yes. We license our simulations from the same place that many hedge funds and the insurance industry get theirs. It's the best in the business.

| Look at how Open Social Security handles it. There is a year and a reduction percentage. He fills in defaults from the Social Security Trustee report, since they are required to estimate it based on current law

I didn't know. Thank you, this is super helpful and informative.

| Open Social Security uses five different mortality tables... Forced early retirement.

Yes! This is also part of the core product vision. It's just a bit tricky in practice to communicate in the product, so we haven't incorporated it into the product yet. Will check out Open Social Security.

It seems like you really understand our vision. Again, I'd love to chat in real-time if you're willing - you have a lot of wonderful insight and I'd appreciate being able to discuss some of these things in more detail.

[0] https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/layering-life-insurance-po...
It's not bizarre.

He’s saying the left went so far left that his only reasonable choice is a guy on the right. Imagine that. A guy who has voted Democrat is now moved to vote for a right wing candidate because the left's policies have deviated so much.

The far left have to come to terms that moderate liberals do not identify with people on the far left with their attitudes toward crime, identity politics, economics and other mainstream political issues that the moderate left of Bill Clinton and Gore of yore would not have supported.

If Bill or Al Gore or Kerry of 2004 were running, Musk would vote for them. So would the many who will vote out some democrats in congress come 2024. In large part people voted for Biden because he promised to return to the mean --but instead has embraced the left wing of the party rather than the center of the Dem. party.

You forget he's voted Democrat or independent in the US before now. He's leaving because he believes the left has left him (moving too far left for him).
So every mom and pop website is being political? Stack Overflow is being political?
As an outsider who enjoys a certain flavor of conspiracy theories, your confusion about a timeline involving a professor investigating delayed choice experiments tickles me.
TikTok investigating claims executive said ‘didn’t believe’ in maternity leave
Thank you for this one! Do you follow any of their newsletters?
Appears to be down at the moment, but https://alternativeto.net/software/littr-me/about/ was useful to describe what I wasn't seeing.
A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, and an FBI Excavation
The chairman of the fed is explicitly saying they will increase interest rates until inflation is down to 2%, even if that increases unemployment and creates a recession. Crypto collapsing won't be the cause of a recession.
> prison labor is slavery, but putting them in a box is not kidnapping/abducting

No one ever claimed this in this comment space. You are inventing a straw-man.

I am happy to vouch for the claim that prison labor is slavery and prison in general is coercive detention, ie, kidnapping, as are many others I'm sure.
It seems we’re looking for anything to make us feel better. It’s like living in a live action Don’t Look Up.
If the government didn’t pass meaningless ineffective laws this wouldn’t be a problem
> Never attribute to malice that which blah blah blah...

I think we need to hold journalists to higher standard than "complete idiot".

I've noticed the same pattern, and I can't believe it's not intentional.
Maybe not “wallpaper”…

”… with the scale layer being only 1/50th of the thickness of the wavelength of the sound that they are absorbing…”

The scales work in the ultrasonic range. Bats are 30-50kHz if I recall, maybe higher.

The oboe tuning the orchestra is ~440Hz which is a 75cm wavelength, so a “wallpaper” a bit thicker than a centimeter. Tuning for power line hum or traffic rumble will make the wallpaper about as thick as a banana is long.
> The pre-central bank localized agrarian and early industrial economic model leant itself to boom and bust cycles eg massive instability

Glad to see we put those patterns behind us /s
I've noticed my mental health is so much better when I'm outside for an hour a day. I worry about aging and skincare, but decided I'd rather look old but be happy vs be miserable and look good! I generally wear a hat and high spf on my face, neck and chest but let everywhere else soak up the Vitamin D.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-13/elon-m...

> Safe assets are much riskier than risky ones. This is I think the deep lesson of the 2008 financial crisis, and crypto loves re-learning the lessons of traditional finance. Systemic risks live in safe assets. Equity-like assets — tech stocks, Luna, Bitcoin — are risky, and everyone knows they’re risky, and everyone accepts the risk. If your stocks or Bitcoin go down by 20% you are sad, but you are not that surprised. And so most people arrange their lives in such a way that, if their stocks or Bitcoin go down by 20%, they are not ruined.

> On the other hand safe assets — AAA mortgage securities, bank deposits, stablecoins — are not supposed to be risky, and people rely on them being worth what they say they’re worth, and when people lose even a little bit of confidence in them they crack completely. Bitcoin is valuable at $50,000 and somewhat less valuable at $40,000. A stablecoin is valuable at $1.00 and worthless at $0.98. If it hits $0.98 it might as well go to zero. And now it might!
You realize the GDPR is 11 chapters and 99 sections don’t you?
You mean like Strom Thurmond, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Condoleezza Rice, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, Phil Graham, Jeane Kirkpatrick, George Wallace Jr and David Duke? All switched from Democrat to Republican and are either notable for high political office, or being racist. In some cases, both.

It is true that Civil Rights in 1964 began the switch. But it didn't really get going until Civil Rights Act (1964) really alienated Southern Democrats. Starting with Nixon's Southern First strategy, Republicans worked to appeal to them. With the rise of the religious right under Reagan there was a mass migration.

You can see https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-ov... to see that I'm not simply making this version of history up.

Did you have any references to it being just a "big lie"?
Did you use any particular tool or framework to build the website? It looks nice!

Got any thoughts as to what spurred this project on?
Forced labor is also inhumane and unacceptable. "I ate your lunch because it was just sitting there in the fridge" is an even lesser moral injury, but that doesn't make it right.
Also worth noting that in “the old days,” the sphere of “treating others professionally” didn’t encompass women, gays, blacks, Jews, and other ethnic, religious, or social minorities — and protesting that was considered “bringing your private causes into the workplace.”
Original title was: Privatising the Internet Was A Mistake

It got edited.

I listened to an interview with the book's author. The title of the book is "Internet for the People". It argues privatisation, i.e., opening the internet up to commercial use in 1995 and terminating the government's leases for the internet's backbone, lead to the foreclosure of other possible uses of the internet. Hardly a conclusion that required much thought. It never uses the word "mistake". In fact, the author states that privatisation was the government's plan all along.

The author defines "the internet" as a language, i.e., protocols, as it happens, TCP/IP. IMO, that is not a bad analytical framework. TCP/IP was by and large academic work, funded by government, i.e., taxes, i.e., the people. Whereas something like "QUIC" today is a corporate project initiated and led by an advertising company, funded by advertisers, not the people. (Funnily enough, these intermediary companies seeking to profit from the internet have seemingly become dependent on so-called "user-generated content", and actively try to recruit non-corporate "creators" who are willing to upload content for free.) The author recounts that the reason TCP/IP "won" over alternative protocols was that it was the only solution to work in time to meet a Pentagon deadline. As such, we have had a an internet that comprises a noncommercial language. As commercial use of this internet has exploded, and the internet has become monopolised by intermediaries, what will become of the noncommercial language.

But focusing on the "privatisation" of protocols is not where the author takes the discussion.

He does discuss two examples of community internet service ("community networks")

1. The EPB in Chatanooga, TN

2. Cooperatives serving Nelson, Logan and Kidder counties in North Dakota

The author acknowledges that the backbone will always remain private and so at best some parts of the internet could be public and some parts would remain private. He makes the same case for centralisation/decentralisation: some things could be decentralised but others would remain centralised.

There are many interesting stories in the book, many with which readers will already be familiar.

There is one that I always enjoy reading and that is "Page and Brin hated online advertising... Moreover, advertising wasn't central to the business model: revenue was mostly expected to come from Google licensing its search technology to other sites."
Interesting timeline of events driven by incompletely thought out policies and rules and the resulting stupidities. He lost my interest and support when his analysis and facts were extended to embrace a political philosophy.