skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transhumanism isn't just advanced medicine. The idea isn't to replace a human heart with an artificial heart that's mostly functionally identical (current-day technology). The whole idea is to transcend biological limits using technology, i.e. develop eyes, ears, and brains that are functionally different and superior.

Prolonging human longevity is just one of the (many) goals of the transhumanist movement). Its core definition (according to Oxford dictionary) is: "the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology."

The original transhumanist dream was that we would each gain more control over our biology (that sounds like freedom to me); the realities of today's world mean that we would instead gain marginally more control, while corporations and governments gain exponentially more control (that sounds like tyranny to me).
I think Google proved you can live and thrive without the China domestic market.
I know leftists that have been banned from Twitter too.

I'd encourage you to read this thread about moderation on social media platforms from the former CEO of Reddit: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440
Yes, but would you have it if you didn't need it? That was my point. I can see using transhuman augmentations to help those in need...give the blind sight, amputees limbs, etc. But my concern is when it becomes a vanity issue over a needs-based issue. Replacing body parts should not be a light decision unless it is something needful.
Hmm, interesting genesis:

> When it was 2014 or 2015, we had some big events in Russia (Crimea related) so many people here were excited. I was too, so I wanted to program some new project.

https://sourceforge.net/blog/march-2020-community-choice-pro...
You could potentially make a thing that acts like you, that's it. The only reason our existence is tolerable is that we agree with the guy that when he goes to bed he is dead and I take over in the morning and I make the same deal tomorrow.
The difficult thing is seeing the forest from the trees. It's great that some advice worked for a particular person in a particular situation. It's impossible to have principal component analysis of what really worked.

It's even more depressing to see what a large role that randomness plays in lives and careers. E.g., if Yahoo had bought out Larry & Sergey for a million, would their advice be worth more than now? If Steve Jobs never returned to Apple?
Make sure any "fruit clone" can run Armbian or OpenWrt, otherwise you'll never get updates for it.
The reason we have freedom of religion is because when we don't, we get things like holy wars, massacres, and genocides.

It's not because it's some kind of privileged form of understanding the universe. You need to do a lot more work to have your hobby horse hitched to the protections and privileges it receives.
I did read that, but it doesn't address my questions. Actually, it doesn't even begin to answer them.

On one level - you don't even seem to have recognized what I was asking about. I wasn't asking about the justification for this particular decision: you'll note I explicitly mention that this is in the mandate for the organization. So any reading that thinks I'm talking about that is actually just a misreading of my point.

I'm asking if it even make sense to allow the government to prevent discussion of political issues using a mechanism which has some basis in being mathematically rational? It really doesn't seem obvious to me that the government ought to have the power to do so. I'm not asking for the justification for this decision. I'm asking if there is a justification for political oppression of the mathematically minded more generally.

That said - even under the framing that the letter answers the misunderstanding of what I was asking about - I still don't find it to have done so.

The letter is vague with respect to which particular issue they were breaking; it listed the things not which of the things they contested were not the case. The extent to which it is vague is such that even on the linked page PredictIt contends it still has not broken the commitments.

This isn't the extremely specified justification you seem to think it is - at least not to someone who isn't extensively familiar with PredictIt; and apparently given PredictIt didn't acknowledge that it felt it was out of line - it isn't even something that someone with extensive familiarity can easily spot.
NumFOCUS, IBM, and Academic Institutions Announce Open Source Science Initiative
I'm pretty sure the NTP ads only show up if you use Google as your search engine.
Not sure how that question can be meaningfully answered unless it's for a specific safety requirement/standard. Are you suggesting that for most standards that require certification, there are no compiler implementations certified except for C/C++ ones?
Well, I have worked on safety-critical projects in the industry, though there wasn't a lot of C/C++ (health-care software connected to the internet). I currently work with researchers, some in the software security domain.

I don't think it's clear that the OP organisation is stuck with C. Perhaps it's the case, but I think it's also time, in 2022, to push a bit to move toward safer programming languages.

You describe an excellent set of rules and processes, perhaps too much for most projects. It sounds like it could be even better with a memory-safe programming language. Also, I doubt that most secure critical C/C++ projects proof their source code correctly in Coq or similar.

I also think many security issues are tightly related to the programming language. For example, SQL injections are because of SQL, XSS because of HTTP/HTML, and Buffer overflows because of C.
Obviously “post-modern”.
One more comment from someone else. IP does not last forever. Specifically patents only last for 20 years. So whatever you discover for your employer, the whole humanity gets profit from, just later.

If the alternative is that the same thing does not get discovered at all, or 30 years later, then the tradeoff is good.
The thing that a lot of people don't understand about SWE (and a lot of other 10x professions) is that years of experience has a very weak correlation with skill. A top tier junior engineer could easily become better than a 15 yoe senior engineer who's not so top tier.

If you work at a Fortune 500 and then jump to a FAANG, this difference is very obvious.
The Fed won't stop until they break the back of the labor market and unionization movements. The only lever they really have to pull to get wages until control is driving the economy into an iceberg. An actual NBER-approved recession is coming fairly soon (2023/2024) and something will blow up in the broader economy (CMBS?) and will be much worse than current economic conditions.
In the Linux kernel world Linus is the final arbiter and decision-maker--he takes input from people he trusts but ultimately he and only he has the final commit. Python used to have this model too with Guido at the top as the "BDFL" (benevolent dictator for life), however when he stepped down they replaced it with a consensus of a steering committee: https://peps.python.org/pep-0013/ Both projects have very different governance as a result.
I still have my 2009 13 inch mac book pro. I've long since swapped out the hdd for an SSD and maxed the ram to 16GB but it's perfectly usable for light tasks and as a backup machine , has a lovely keyboard too. The battery it toast though!

My wife has said several times that I should replace it but I can't justify getting rid of a dependable machine.
Not sure that's accurate. Animals aren't trying to create things that break down easily; they're not trying to do anything but survive. The argument is circular: if animals make it, it's part of Gaia else it's 'unnatural'. Animals didn't make plastics, so they're 'unnatural'. By definition I guess, not by any real difference between them and bone or termite mounds or dinosaur bones or geodes...you know, things that can last for millennia.

Hell, even the Earth itself is made of crystals and granite and lead and arsenic and on and on. What's more natural than mother earth?

I don't applaud plastics entering the environment carelessly. But not sure we have a handle on why it's bad, when we say its not natural.
Likewise, if family farms, businesses, and trades were still viable corporations would have to pay more to lure people into working for them.
1 bit color encoding is black and white (represented by 0 or 1). 8 bits can encode 256 colors (2^8).
Wow that is cool. I have been wanting to build both a router and a NAS and run nixos on them since I run nixos for everything else I do. Thanks for writing and sharing about your experience!
Lollipops Hustle on Amazon Costs Candy Business Millions
I remember reading about this in Steven Levy's crypto and elsewhere, there was a lot of internal arguing about lots of this stuff at the time and people had different opinions. I remember that some of the suggested changes from NSA shared with IBM were actually stronger against a cryptanalysis attack on DES that was not yet publicly known (though at the the time people suspected they were suggesting this because it was weaker, the attack only became publicly known later). I tried to find the specific info about this, but can't remember the details well enough. Edit: I think it was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis

They also did intentionally weaken a standard separately from that and all the arguing about 'munitions export' intentionally requiring weak keys etc. - all the 90s cryptowar stuff that mostly ended after the clipper chip failure. They also worked with IBM on DES, but some people internally at NSA were upset that they shared this after the fact. The history is a lot more mixed with a lot of people arguing about what the right thing to do is and no general consensus on a lot of this stuff.
But competing messages are allowed so while the rich manipulate public opinion, they are not unitary and other voices are still heard, wealthy battling wealthy and large social movements too.

These false equivalence’s are really tiring. China’s control of public speech and media is on a wholly different plane.

It’s not even remotely comparable to manipulation in the West.
It's a really good point, a wire based sensor eliminates a dead battery and interference as failure points. The Wireless accelerometer feature should come after the basic animation concepts have been ironed out and tested. I really appreciate the reference to RMF* type radios - I had not come across them in my reading.
Interesting model of the brain https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08/page/n69/m...
Proving that scarcity forces you to think ahead.
Could be very useful for AI/ML models today.
> Look at what happened to rates between 16-19. They slowly raised rates in little baby steps, but the moment the 2019 economy started to weeble-wobble, they cut rates almost in half.

Yes, raising rates to control inflation during an expansion and then cutting them when the economy weakens is... pretty exactly the usual simplified distillation of “things are behaving as normal” monetary policy. As is greater caution in raising rates (which fights inflation but slows the economy, with the downside risk of triggering/magnifying recession) vs. cutting rates (which stimulates expansion but risks inflation.)

Not sure why you are pretending this totally conventional wisdom description is some kind of contrarian hot take.
That's why I like to download vinyl rips.

But some vinyls actually come from a digital master anyway.
The real answer is that the meaning of this phrase "printing money" is unbelievably more complicated in the modern world than people understand.

There really is not a thing called "a dollar". It's better to think of the dollar is a complicated engineered system. "Printing money" frequently means tweaking some subsystem of that system to move liquidity to specific places. That may sound like semantics but those types of money can only be used in specific ways and aren't convertible into each other.

One thing Jeff Snider talks about (who is someone I find to have interesting thoughts on this topic but isn't beginner friendly, and also puts out some low quality content) is that people are focused on the quantitative expansion of money but that over the last 30 years, the potentially more interesting story is the qualitative expansion of money, IE we have invented a huge amount of subtly different new types of "money" all of which have different effects on the system and none of which are easily understandable by the average person. He argues that the central banks no longer really understand this system either, that large banks probably have the best current understanding but that really no one party fully understands it, kind of like how no single person understands every detail of a modern smartphone.

Some of the basic categories here are

1) Understanding the differences between base money and non base money

2) various repo market products and other types of "interbank liabilities"

2a) the various Fed facilities which moderate liquidity in these markets

3) All the other Fed Facillities, especially things like Foreign Central Bank liquidity swaps which is really another totally different category of money

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/central-b...

4) Offshore dollar markets (eurodollar markets) and their dollar repo markets

5) And then QE (which simply means buying the long end of the bond market as opposed to short end which was traditionally just called Open market operations, but also happens in bigger volumes than OMO)

As someone else mentioned, Joseph Wang's book could be a good starting point

Here is a really interesting talk on some of these topics:
https://youtu.be/itTpI_-OcPc?t=962
> No one said they were better because they are a subset, they're saying the superset of the subset is not said to be worse. That is, a nuclear family is not said to be worse than an orphan child. It's entirely an argument of your own making to imply one is saying the superset is worse than the subset, when nothing of the sort was implied.

There are no supersets of a nuclear family that are worse than the nuclear family? There are possibly properties of a nuclear family that only exist when it is a singular nuclear family and those don't necessarily extend to every superset, which is why I asked my original question.
I think you should go back and rename this "using a pretty modern machine".

CD drive, yup all of my computers have them.

i-series Intel chip, nope, none of my boxes have them. I am still on Core-duo/quad technology.

I don't really consider my computer _very_ old, and it runs all of my stuff. Granted, I am a sysadmin and do not do a lot of GIMP/ffmpeg... I am in the "cobbler has no shoes" camp, and not really by choice, but to say an i3 is really old or that you use a "very old" machine seems a bit of a stretch. It was not too long ago those came out.
> For Cameron, transhumanism looks as frightening as ever, and he honed in on a notion he refers to as the “hollowing out of the human,” the idea that “all that matters in Homo sapiens can be uploaded as a paradigm for our desiderata.”

Jonathan Coulton, The Future Soon:

Cause it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here

It's important to note, if you're not familiar with JoCo, that he is a satirist and this is a song about someone accidentally becoming a cyborg supervillain who causes a robot uprising, all because a girl dissed his secret admirer note in high school.

Do you want to be a transhumanist because you are embracing something, or because you are running away from something, like the fictional character in this song? The latter is deeply unhealthy, perhaps fatally (or in this case, genocidally) so.
Yes, memory safety is a solved problem, and research has mostly moved on. The best solution is to use a memory-safe programming language. Yet we find security vulnerabilities all the time in software written with memory unsafe programming languages.
I largely agree with the article but that example wasn't a great one.

I don't remember the last time I've seen a modal where it was possible to have an "accidental background row click". Industry standard has been: modals have a modal on top and a full screen modal overlay between the modal and the content (usually darkening the content). Click events are handled by the overlay and do not make it through to the content underneath, and the only thing the overlay does onClick is close out the modal. It's so common I don't know any user who would expect different behavior. If they've used a modal before they would expect clicking on the overlay would close it out without saving the data. Modals are pretty big, I don't think an accident like that would be common.
If it were 2005, I'd agree with you.
Cardinality Estimation for Disjunctive (OR) Predicates in SQL Server 2014 Onward
Verbatim is useful, but it's also going to an extreme.
My favorite cron “feature” is that the day of week field operates acts as an “or” and not an “and”.

This will come as an unpleasant surprise when you try to schedule something to run on, say, the first Friday of the month.

There are workarounds, mostly involving backticked date invocations, but they’re hard to both write and read.
See also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...
Reminds me of Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
It turns out there are different styles of burger. Who knew, right? And surprise they picked the photogenic one for the banner.

Here's the beauty of reading an article on cooking, and subsequently of cooking for yourself: you can take what you learned and then make your burger however you like. And how you like your burger might not be how someone else likes theirs.
That's what they called modules that were built from active and passive components. As opposed to a "monolithic" integrated circuit.
Yep, I've actually got some of the fanless guys branded as "protectli" or something like that around the office, I didn't know there were generic ones on aliexpress - that's a good link, thank you.

And yep, I've only ever used dd-wrt, never openwrt directly, so not sure about that, but I've no desire to hand edit iptables rules or anything like that - I'll take a GUI any day.
OP here - thank you for replying and I think 1 & 2 are more suitable for my background and interests. Again thanks for the guidance.
Fair enough, my bad!
Another explanation could be, he’s not actually that good at running a business
What can you do to prevent sites from getting removed from DuckDuckGo as a side effect of Bing mistakenly deindexing the sites?

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disa...

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bing.html

https://io.bikegremlin.com/28530/microsoft-bing-serp-gone-ov...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-bing/help-w...
Try the exercise. Choose one and then choose your tooling. If it's not C, C++, or Ada, I'll be surprised.
China is a totalitarian state—the Chinese government can coerce its corporations to take any action for any reason at any time. If the Chinese government is an enemy of the US, and Chinese companies function as an extension of their country's government, then we must treat those companies as enemies. The people who work in those corporations are mostly average Joes like you and I, but the CCP can harvest their organs at any time, so we are forced to be wary.
Efficiency is good but not the most important thing when it comes to thinking, idea generation, journaling, etc.
I think I'm most bothered by Helium lying about their corporate users. There is no longer a question in my mind that we need better government protections for consumers in the crypto space. Whether we ascribe their false marketing to negligence or outright malice, companies like Helium and their investors should be held responsible for exploiting consumers.

I purchased a Helium hotspot last year and was drawn in by what seemed like a real use case for a decentralized system - it made sense to me as far as what value was being provided by miners compared to other PoW cryptocurrencies. I was disappointed by the rewards being somewhat low, but I chalked it up to bad timing.

A few months later, the helium network proposed a change which would take a % of rewards away from hotspot operators and gave it to large holders of the token who have staked it(validators). Sure, this change was 'voted' on - but having more HNT tokens gives you more votes. If large capital holders(at least 50% of the supply seems to be held by the top ~25-30 wallets per https://explorer.helium.com/accounts/richest) can outvote those actually providing utility(hotspot owners), then it doesn't really strike me as a particularly fair and decentralized system.
> Edit: This is my opinion on what I consider a fact based on a fair bit of research and first hand observation. People are free to disagree with this

You replied to my comment of "genes don't even have to boost intelligence for kids from smart parents to be more likely to be intelligent" with "Unfortunately intelligence is mostly genetic, look it up..." I'm not sure why you used the word "unfortunately" or what you want me to look up since you didn't even appear to be responding to what I wrote.

> but if they've made it to this point still holding that opinion[...]

I'm confused as to what this is intended to mean.

> [...]then I think it's unlikely anything I could say would change their minds.

How can you know to what extent anyone reading this has made up their mind about anything?
> Force Touch was the same tech as 3D Touch…

"Both 3D Touch and Haptic Touch fall under the umbrella of Force Touch functionality. This is Apple's general name for its technology that lets input devices distinguish between different levels of pressure when you touch them."

https://www.makeuseof.com/apple-force-touch-3d-touch-haptic-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Touch

So, 3D Touch was one implementation of Force Touch.
Although for some reasons 2021 was a great year for distortion/saturation plugins.
They could have paid them in dollars.
The difference is introducing and broadcasting disinformation to the world. There are doctors hawking bullshit cures that they know does not work, and pharmacists espousing untested products using their previously legitimate credentials. Hell, one of them is in a competitive race for a US senate seat.

This is counterproductive to society’s long term interests, and they are actively working against mine and my descendants and fellow citizens of the world’s interest.
They might be talking about Bluetooth requiring location permissions, which seems reasonable to me. Their reasoning is that if you can scan for Bluetooth devices you can fingerprint and potentially get a location anyway.
Why are you saying “no” and then agreeing with what I wrote? Am I misunderstanding something?
When Gaddafi was overthrown, they sodomized him with a bayonet before shooting him. There are serious consequences to having your populace hate you.