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I'm not sure why you say "in my version" because I didn't say I believed in reincarnation, just that the parent's comment kind of only makes sense if you do.

Personally I have no particularly strong views on these matters but some form of non-dualism (in the the sense of advaita vedanta) seems to me to make the most sense.

From that perspective many of your questions kind of go away because at the most fundamental level there is only one consciousness. You don't perceive the experiences of others because consciousness has created a construct within itself that filters out experiences that don't make sense from "your" point of view. The part that I admit is difficult to get one's head around is that it has created not one but many (perhaps even infinitely many) such constructs. We are only able to experience one dream at a time but absolute consciousness/brahman/God/I or whatever you want to call it experiences many.

EDIT: Sorry I did want to address one of your questions more specifically:

> How can I prove to myself that I'm not a brain in a vat?

I don't think you can, even in principle.

In fact advaita is a lot like that in some ways, or like the simulation hypothesis. Where I think it differs is that "brain in a vat" and the simulation hypothesis are both making assumptions that what's outside the simulation is something like what's inside it. Advaita makes no such assumptions.
Microsoft rolls back default macro blocks in Office without telling anyone
Could you remind me which country took over Hong Kong and which country is trying to take land from India?
Wow, never knew that! Also never heard that song before it was at the end of an episode of “Mad Men,” but it’s pretty great.
Perhaps. But saying with 20/20 hindsight of the 2020s that people of the 1970s should have made momentously different decisions for the future of whole national industries for decades to come doesn't feel any less arrogant to me. And that's even assuming that the international situation decades ago was the same as one of today, which it wasn't either.
Thanks for that. Are you able to tell us what books got you to where you are now? I've just started Emacs Lisp An Introduction as I'm wanting to dive right into Emacs (coming from a life-long Vimer), but I'd also want to expand to other Lisps.
I don’t know what the quality of masks is like overseas but one thing you don’t see is cloth masks. If you do see them they are always over the top of an actual mask just for a fancy design. But never cloth only.
Interesting how something that is so specifically and unexpectedly devastating, yet known for such a long time without any serious public awareness from companies involved, is referred to as a "bug".

It makes you lose data and need to purchase new hardware, where I come from, that's usually referred to as "planned" or "convenient" obsolescence.
stuff like this is why i sometimes still buy physical games. ofc nothing stops people from just disabling the reading of the disc from the software side if not connected to internet or wtv. buying discs is only going to be slightly more "own your stuff"
Fantastic point. Confidence in independent creators has definitely skyrocketed.

Haha why do you think I’d downvote that?
Yeah as long as I have a bunch of grunt work, unnecessary fire drills, canceled projects, 2 AM pages, and low pay I'm a happy camper.
What made Uber special was that it ignored medallion/license laws. Those were central to taxi mafia. For example in São Paulo there was a period of time where some 30.000 or so drivers had passed all requisites, paid all fees, but whenever they applied for a license the government would only say they needed to wait. But if you paid 100k USD to certain guys, they would drop a cab, license and everything you needed at an agreed drop point, without any of the exams, testing, courses, etc...
Yes, perhaps you're right! It could be frustrating, either because it doesn't give you enough to understand the introduction to an area, or because it doesn't give you any depth. I think it would be a bad mistake not to take a maths book with exercises and solutions to ones desert island.
Monkeypox is now at 10,000 cases worldwide with a growth rate of 12% per day and we're seeing the same lagged response as we did with Covid. We've learned nothing.
The number of people who were in tulip mania isn't relevant. Yet, whenever this comparison occurs, people try to debunk a comparison that isn't being made - instead of looking at the actual comparison that is being made.
It's consistent with the other branding I saw on their website, but that doesn't mean it's good. It makes me think of laser tag and go-karts.

If it works for the people who actually buy their products, or those people don't care what their $1.9M fashion accessories look like, then I would suggest they keep doing exactly what they're doing. But I still think it looks cheap.
In my corporate software projects, a particular engineer owns the outcome. They have lines of communication with the managers of other assigned engineers, and considerable pull in their performance reviews and promotions.

The floor is that someone cares and the others will make what could be mistaken for a good-faith effort, which is lightyears better than a school project.
> For each pair, the rater was instructed to click on the photograph corresponding to the answer to the following question: “I feel like I'm better able to understand the feelings or the emotions of [choice among a pair of pictures representing different organisms]”.

If ASD folk are constantly told "you're bad at understanding feelings and emotions", then tested on whether they feel they can understand feelings or emotions... this study does not have good methods.
I wonder if the no logging case actually tested what the author intended, or if the compiler simply optimized away the empty loop that was supposed to stand in for doing useful work in a transaction.
Initially, the main reasons were:

- Identification (bi-directional)

- Privacy (or secrecy)

A side-effect of those are tamper resistance. As the internet got older, more tamper-based abuse was happening and the benefit of tamper resistance became practically more important than the identification part. To be realistic: most people don't actually know how to identify what website they are on, and they also don't know what the identity should be. This is also why EV (extended validation) is completely worthless and mostly purged from webbrowsers.
I understand one does not own the game as that entitles the user to additional rights. But I feel like the user should own the license and they should not be able to revoke your ability to download/play it barring they go out of business or something.
The pages of code beginning on page 82 bring back some memories. There was a certain childhood thrill that came from changing some of those values despite not really knowing what was going on.
Why Is God Not Nice? Ulrich Lehner Demolishes Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Not sure why this is downvoted--that's basically exactly how the app picks videos for you to watch. YOU click on things or linger on them; the AI remembers and shows you more.
Ugh ICIJ. Cherry picked stories without ability to look through raw files/data.
I absolutely love this map and I'm using is frequently for kayaking, trekking and bike trips planning and during the trips as well - only thing missing is the social aspect of google maps - photos and comments for locations

Google maps became really unpleasant to use for me after they changed rendering/color scheme - I'm aware that it was meant to improve maps readability for people with different color perception but for me current color scheme and flat, bland map is off-putting.
> historically the Establishment Clause jurisprudence would prevent it

The USA isn’t France. It’s freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The US Federal government is forbidden to establish a religion but the states are free to do so.

New Hampshire had a state church until 1877.

http://restore-christian-america.org/statechurches.html
How long can you wear an N95?
Systems that are older than general SSL and TLS usage do indeed have those features, but they are mostly unsuitable for the majority of internet users.

Sadly, it could have been better with varying options of choices in connection, stream and content encryption methods, but that simply isn't feasible with the users and scale we're currently working with.

For niches (and operating systems and software packages are niches, even if an end user is somewhere under the hood using it) it can still be pretty good, especially considering the mirror system where you distribute files to mirrors which might themselves use TLS but you'd still want the distribution authority to be the only one signing those files.
if you plan for it in advance, you lower the desk count to where its useful so as to save money. My current employer has started talking about moving to a new office building and hot desking etc. I've already started looking for a new job.
A specific distance isn't going to prevent a crowd of people from forming; but it does it give police officers the ability to punish/threaten/intimidate witnesses for something that was previously legal.

I hope people don't downvote you for expressing an incorrect opinion, but I do hope that you understand that the purpose of this law is 100% about preventing scrutiny. The angry mob scenario that you describe is fiction used by police officers to prevent you from looking into their job performance.
This has been my experience--once and awhile a new topic will start showing up in my feed, say 1%'r motorcycle clubs or peanut-butter-whisky drinkers. All it takes is a couple "not interested" clicks and poof, back to people showing off vintage computers and HAM radio videos.
> "medical failure"

Medical failure in the literature is a jargon term. (Internal) medicine and surgery are traditionally two distinct fields of, er, medicine. So it is just a matter of fact that a disease such as Crohn's that is refractory or resistant to treatment with medicine is a "medical failure" - no spin on it, that's what we call it.

Biases in referral across services is a complicated topic, and there is quite a bit of literature about it over the years. I am not sure about Crohn's/IBD specifically, but it's one of the well known co-management touch-points between surgery and GI, so there might be something written on the subject. There are many complexities at play here, some is definitely due to human factors, but the simple thought of "medical failure" doesn't have much to do with it. The average internists make thousands of consults to surgery every year, so that's really not it, there's much more to it.
>Monkeypox is now at 10,000 cases worldwide with a growth rate of 12% per day

Unless there's some additional context to this the figure of "12% per day" doesn't tell me much. Is this better or worse than covid? How does it compare to other endemic infections like the flu? Without knowing how bad the spread rate is, it's hard to know whether "the same lagged response" is justified or not.
It might illuminate the limitations of the study.
I would choose bash, but the syntax is just too awkward for me.

I feel comfortable with parentheses, curly braces, freeform whitespace, etc., if/else, do/while, foreach, etc., and that's how I write my Perl.

I sometimes call it "PHP style Perl", because most of the code i write can be copied and pasted almost verbatim between PHP and Perl, and I use this to my advantage.

I don't use PHP a lot, but I do find it one of the most convenient ways to duct-tape things to a web server.

On the whole, I've settled on a strategy of writing most code in such a way that it could have been written (with perfect foresight of the future) 20 years and go and have worked the whole time.

I think of it as exploiting the Lindy Effect to my advantage. :)
Teslas spend more time receiving service than almost any other modern car. EV's also need tires rotated and changed far more often than ICE due to their greater weight and torque.
I thought that "airborne" meant "could survive in water aerosols for long enough to get breathed in" not "sprouted little virus wings and flew through any hole it could fit through"

And I assumed water droplets were in fact several orders of magnitude larger than the virus, but would still be caught my masks. Otherwise what's the point for any virus?
It's why I mention "effective" charities. Corruption and inefficiency among charities is yet another issue that we can solve.
Technology Connections did a really interesting video showing how a traditional clock face can give a different perspective on the flow of time through the day, as the face and hand let you easily judge the remaining fraction in an hour.

I don’t think this format is antiquated at all
Some forms of mining, asbestos remediation, industrial work, etc.

They've been used extensively by enough people the burden of proof lies on the folks claiming they're somehow dangerous at this point.
I've found that that belief in future violations of present-day theory is actually quite commonplace. Judging from conversations with colleagues at the lunch table, not only are violations of theory considered to be possible, but specific violations such as time travel, and warp drive, are considered to be as good as certain.

Every HN thread about FTL travel includes multiple comments warning us not to treat present-day knowledge as final.
The incentives today are crap. YouTube takes on a ton of liability if they get a valid takedown request but they leave it up, so the safest thing for them to do is immediately take down anything with a claim against it. This is obviously gameable by bad-faith actors.
Oh no. US billionaires do, indeed, have a military. It is the largest, most powerful, most well equipped military in human history. It is the US armed forces. They also have police departments across the country. This is a very large subsidy to these billionaires, as are: mass transit, food stamps, WIC, etc. Without these government services (which the billionaires put in place through politicians whom they purchased), the billionaires would have to provide the services or be killed by angry mobs.
No disrespect to those who feel different, but personally I don't like Notion because I feel uncomfortable editing documents live without a separate step where I can review changes, where a stray keypress might do damage to the document that I don't notice. Google Docs tends to affect me the same way.

Also, I think a lot of stuff that winds up in Notion, in the contexts where I have used it, would do better living in the relevant repository so that changes to docs can be better tied to changes in the code.

Also also, every time I use it I wind up with The Hues Corporation's Rock The Boat in my head, and while I like the song it shouldn't be on loop in my head more than once or twice a quarter please.
Change hates -> drags and it'd still be the same meaning just less strong. I know many people who hate meal prep but that's totally separate from the actual act of eating which is absolutely not seen as a 'drag' by most people.
If your local library offers Hoopla, Hoopla has a "Great Courses Video BingePass": https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14738022

If you like indie stuff, you should also dig into archive.org. A lot of really good educational content ends up there.

https://archive.org/details/zor_physics_teen_waves_OL_interf...

https://archive.org/details/peduca-P-SPAN_556_-_The_Science_...

https://archive.org/details/abou-farman-2

https://archive.org/details/podcast_migration-darwin-college...

Vintage educational films: https://archive.org/details/educationalfilms?sort=-publicdat...

Use the bang !iarchive to search directly with duck.com.
At this level, they're just selling the experience and the type of person that wears them. As opposed to the item itself.
Taxi companies operate with the advantage of state monopolies. They have lobbyists too, and they were so well-connected that they allowed exactly zero innovation for decades before they got blown out of the water by Uber.
As someone who avoids Google stuff mainly for privacy concerns, I love this.

I wonder why Mozilla hasn't given their own extension the "Recommended" badge on their add-on site.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=Translati...
Agreed. I consider myself to be pretty technical and I explored Github Wikis, static site generators, local markdown, etc, and then Notion showed up one day. I could click to create a new markdown-ish document, collaborate on it with the other people on my team, embed images, write equations, and do way more than I could in any of the other solutions I sorta hodge-podged together.

I don't have time to write notes app, and even if I did, I probably would've made something like notion, but worse.

At this point, I do all of my technical writing in Notion. Equations, tables, nesting, publishing... I can even embed an interactive graphing calculator or videos of my work. A plain markdown file can't do that and neither can LaTeX.
Valve could use their market power to prevent this kind of rug-pulling behavior by publishers. Customers expect Valve to ensure that the software they provide is free of viruses, spyware, and harmful defects; this seems like a similar type of defective and/or malicious software that they should prohibit from sale.
So a watch serves as a proof of work, and a distributed ledger of watchsmiths can verify a watch for you, anonymously, for a small fee.
awesome! I will put myself on the email list. :)
I completely agree. Another thing I like is that Tiktok is also nearly completely anonymous. I don't see anyone I know on there, showing me their stupid kid videos or telling me about the latest thing they just bought. I see OTHER PEOPLE's kid videos and things they bought and if I don't want to see them, I just scroll on.
https://github.com/hnhx/librex/blob/691da9bfcc9517d282e6a426... is apparently the "meta search engine for Google" part
Thanks. But it doesn't work with Safari, and I really don't want a Web-based thing anyway.

I sympathize with your complaint about Firefox, though. But check this out: https://blog.karimratib.me/2022/04/23/firefox-webmidi.html

Ugh, now that I've skimmed that, it looks like it's still a major pain in the ass. With Firefox fading fast, you'd think they'd be a little smarter about enabling features that make it competitive.

Aaand now that I've tried your page and another WebMIDI test page mentioned in a Firefox issue with Firefox 101, it still isn't working. So I don't know where that article is getting all that.
I’ve been working on a RTS style game where the resources are the map itself. It’s mostly a simple proof of concept. But I was working with a hexagon grid but calculating all that was rather tricky. I like the idea of instead using a triangle grid. Way easier to manipulate and calculate. My thought was to basically treat it like a bunch of springs that try to reach equilibrium.
It’s easy to spend other people’s money.

The base argument of democracy is that because none of us knows the downstream effects we all share decision making.

In other words: “that’s just like, your opinion, man.”
Water is great mainly because we have so much equipment already invented for handling it automatically. Imagine if you had to invent pumps and pipes before you could demonstrate your idea.

Cables, pulleys, and winches are another mature technology. If you can provide a large constant force on a cable over long distance, reversibly, without need to build anything that long, you might have a winner. You should be able to share the expensive bit, the motor/generator/winch, with lots of cable reels. And, it is better if the winch and reel are off-the-shelf items.

So, put a float with hundreds of tons of buoyancy on a cable through a pulley screwed into the sea floor, thence to a reel and winch on shore. You can share the expensive motor/generator/winch among as many reels as you like. The float might be a sealed balloon full of lithium-saturated liquid ammonia, which is half as dense as the water it displaces.

Air handling is a little less mature. Pump air into a big, light tank well anchored to the sea floor, displacing water. Let the air out through a turbine. People invent elaborate systems to avoid losing heat, but when marginal cost of generation is zero, efficiency doesn't matter so much. The tank only has to be strong enough to hold back the buoyancy of the air. You can add as many tanks as you like. Or, use natural cavities beneath the water table. Maybe pump hydrogen down there, instead. Or hydrogen in one, air in another.

There will be zillions of storage schemes, that all work, until we settle on a few we like best for their secondary benefits. Certainly pumped hydro will remain important.
Non-Uber taxi apps in Germany are horrible.

The apps are buggy and the service is unreliable.

Uber is far better in my experience.
> watches, they are socially accepted forms of men's jewelry. after advent of smartphones they are hardly about time anyways. its mostly style & flex.

As a daily wear of a “dumb watch“ I somewhat agree with this statement. Having a watch that matches my shoes and belt certainly makes an outfit look both more professional and well coordinated (RE jewelry/style).

However, I find that when I don’t wear my watch and just have my smartphone it is a significantly diminished experience.

Having to pull my phone out of my pocket to check the time is both socially less acceptable (am I checking the time or am I just bored with our conversation?) and far more likely to pull me into some rabbit hole and off of what I was currently doing.

So… it’s actually kind of nice to have a watch around, even if it only cost ~$100 (Skagen are amazing value for the price).
I miss my childhood :(
> I suggest there might be a distinction between: 'Goes to Church on Sunday' and 'Everything is Jesus, Hooray!' kinds of affiliations.

Yes, some affiliations treat the religion as kind of embarrassing or don’t actually demand anything of their adherents that would be even mildly embarrassing with atheist/agnostic friends. Think Reform Judaism/Unitarian Universalism/ Episcopalianism. Others believe their religion means something.

> The later, impossible for public schools, the former, possibly.

This is actually exactly how the previous dispensation of no religion in public life, judicially started in the US. The Protestants wanted to be able to discriminate against Catholics like you want to be able to discriminate against religions that believe something in tension with the power of the state.
That's awfully binary. With SARS-CoV-2 it is a probabilistic thing, where your chances of actually getting an infection depends on how much SARS-CoV-2 you are exposed to and for how long.

Even a cloth or surgical mask does lower that probability. Not enough that it is likely to make a difference if you are going to be exposed for a long time, such as spending hours in room with infected people like might happen at school.

But if you are say going to just do say a quick trip to the grocery store and you only have a surgical mask available, wearing it will lower your chances of getting COVID at the grocery store compared to going maskless.

Some sources: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg6296 , https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm .
RDR2 came on 2 disks and still had a massive day one download.
Human injury is radically different than a bug in FB/TWTR mobile app.

Safety is expensive. In USA mine safety is regulated by MSHA. Is anyone surprised that much mine production (except heavy stuff like gravel sand coal) is done overseas and imported?
The lithium in your EV is not from USA.
I don't care about the US in this instance, but how many of those bases are wanted by the countries they are in? In most cases it seems US citizens are subsidizing the defense of many other countries.