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If you were to read some content that's useful to you, does it matter the source?

yes, very much. the source of the content is half of its value.

there is a big difference if i read a physics paper from richard feynman vs one from a high school student or one generated with AI.

i expect the feynman paper to be thoroughly researched. i expect the high schoolers paper to be a collection of interesting facts that the student learned and is excited about and i expect the AI paper to be a random collection of stuff found on the internet.

the problem is that it has already been proven that it is possible to write good sounding nonsense and have that published as scientific research. therefore the only thing that makes me trust any text is the reputation of the author.

an AI generated text can't possibly be useful because it is inherently untrustworthy. at best it can function as entertainment, but i believe we already have enough mediocre entertainment, we don't need AI to generate any more and drown out the less common better quality work out there.
I guess they have some superficial similarity but the vehicle dynamics are really different. In a scandi flick, the weight transfer is used to unload weight from the outside tyres to make them slip. In two wheel counter steering it's to initiate a balanced lean to the inside. In both cases, the driver turns the steering to the "wrong" direction.
Who out of interest?
I use apple pay for youtube premium. Sure, that's just a mirror for a credit card, but it is an option.
This is... dense. And I think in some ways it's just giving credence to things we should just discard. For example,

>In 2001, he uses this method to plot a graph and then predicts unbounded life expectancy by 2011

and then Dan cites this sentence:

> In the eighteenth century, we added a few days every year to human longevity; during the nineteenth century we added a couple of weeks each year; and now we’re adding almost a half a year every year.

Like, let's lay aside the predictions. Between 1980 and 2000 US life expectancy increased by 3 years. So let's just shelve the question of the predictions, this person is clearly making shit up. Whoever is making this prediction is simply not getting even the most basic facts correct.

In some ways I think the approach of this article is backwards. You don't apply retrospective rigor to old predictions, you define a rigorous process for future predictions, because there's no way someone is going to luck into being rigorous, and I think most of the futurists are even aiming to be rigorous. A lot of futurists are essentially sci-fi writers. What they're doing is fundamentally entertainment rather than rigorous scientific method. So I don't see why you would set out to judge them by a rigorous scientific method.

In some ways I see a parallel between this and effective alturism - EAs often think other forms of charity are misguided, but there's no point judging non-EA giving by EA standards because people just fundamentally don't agree with the core ideas of EA.
Quite literally what happened. My groceries cost over twice as much.
I failed to read the full article as the warmup graph of human population is not the full story, and the conclusion is incorrect. We need to look at the full picture, and that is that we are on track to reach a stable human population of approximately 10 billion iirc. This is due to greater global education levels, and subsequent lowered birth rates. There is a fantastic book called factfulness that addresses this directly, and also calls into question the dramatic effect of graphs in isolation, and how they can ver much be S curves etc.
Recognize that every two years for the past 10 years someone has posted basically the exact same thing as what you just posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
...once someone else had thought about it and executed them in an intuive manner
Callous comparison.

Take a step back and imagine what success, and reflection of good rankings algos would be on these sites. Longer engagement times and multiple videos (+ads) for YouTube. Shorter time on site and less videos for Pornhub.

The interfaces would be designed accordingly with those end goals in mind.
As far as I recall from an old episode of the "Hello Internet" podcast, such a company exist, it might have been Israeli but I can't remember.
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>My electric bill fluctuates so wildly based on how much

This is a beyond dishonest excuse when your utility a) is likely required by state law to publicize rate changes in some capacity b) breaks down your bill on the invoice so you know exactly how much you're paying per unit.
SSH is a secure shell protocol. You should rotate your keys as much as possible.
Why using it outside its context?

I use an ed25519 GPG key secured in a hardware security key. It’s convenient and secure. My SSH keys are ephemeral as much as possible.
Many construction crews in the islands consist of a combination of European and US expats and Dominicans with a few Haitian laborers thrown in.

On all the islands I worked on, it was rare to find people actually from that island who were capable of that kind of work.

The Dominicans and the Haitians were fine, but the US and European guys mostly treated it as one big vacation. They would stay out all night partying and then come to work and do just enough to not get fired.

As another commenter mentioned, those guys knew they could always find work elsewhere even if only temporarily because skilled trades were in high demand. So they could quickly move on until they burned another bridge.

I was on one job in Antigua where the project managers were able to avoid this completely. They flew in hundreds of people from Indian and had them live in a “tent town” where they never left except to go to work each day. No alcohol or drugs allowed.

Myself and two others were flown in to install all the cabinets and other mill work. With the except of the stone guys from Turkey, we were the only non Indians on the entire project.
And i'm sure mining for coal, building ever expanding suburbs or driving cars doesn't contribute to killing any bird or mammal.. I'd need the figures but i'm convinced that human activities are far more dangerous for other animals than the activities of our pets.
I don't think they were annoyed by the follow-up, they were annoyed by being softly accused of an inaccurate story and not being given the benefit of the doubt. Removing the "I don't think the story adds up." and changing the period of "This doesn't sound like 'a small game studio in Oklahoma'." to a question mark would've have helped make it less accusatory.

In my opinion the original story was a bit misleading though, reading as if the small game company's novel IP was the original Medal of Honor, so I do think the follow-up was warranted:
"They took that momentum and started on their own novel IP as a quake licensee. They made a ahem mildly successful game named Medal of Honor."

I also think the response to the questioning was a lot more hostile than it needed to be but ultimately that there was rudeness on both sides
Sounds to me like you played through the whole game under the assumption that you have to use a lot of guides, calculators and perfect ratios to get anything done.

While some people do enjoy this, it is absolutely not necessary and can take a lot of fun away.
I'm sorry I wasn't directing it at you. It was more just a response to the gestalt of the thread.

I'm sorry I put it under your comment... I wish it was just sort of like taking turns in a conversation with a group of people... But with text and threads, I don't really know where to throw this in...i don't think there was any one comment that I could sort of respond to, it wasn't just one thread, it was vibe from multiple thread.

I guess if we'd been having a conversation and we're next to other people who were talking and I'd said that I probably would have expected you to take it in the sense that I was responding to something that someone else said but it was something that you could appreciate.

I like film, but I'm not a film nut. Thank you for the recommendations

Ask questions, rather than make wrong assumptions

I totally agree with that, and see this all the time. Again I wasn't responding to you, I think there are some people in the thread who what I said could totally apply to though. I guess I just expected you were someone who could appreciate that :) ;p xx :p
Very helpful, thank you. Looks like some of that cost is to redo something that was already done. If turns out that doesn't make sense right now, then maybe there's another opportunity if they later have to redo tooling anyway for other reasons.
That’s kinda horrifying!
It's almost as if all publicly traded markets are ponzi-schemes on some level, but with better regulation.
It's effortless on a motorbike. On a bike it's effortless squared, a near-undetectable planck-scale force on a handle, or just a body action.
I thought about that, but then I realized I'd have to be logged in to my Google account, and for privacy reasons I'm avoiding this as hard as I can.
>> but that Bitcoin would replace all currencies (as early advocates would have had you believe) was not one of those reasons.

Bitcoin was not bought because people believed it will replace all currencies. They bought bitcoin to get rich fast and cash out BEFORE the expected crash.
you just described the definition of good design
You dont have to use the same ssh key you use to connect to a server. A ssh key can be created for just any purpose.
After several unfortunate book purchases I finally realized that the more enthusiastic comments there are about it on HN the more likely I am to not make it past the first three pages.
they'll add ads to that once enough people are using it
waste of my 10 minutes just to find out it's old and not updated in 4 years.
No thanks.
If anyone from EA is reading this, please consider this to be a formal invitation to kiss my skinny white ass.
Boneworks is a very different approach, and also very inventive on the devs part, but I think it falls pretty flat too.

You can physically hit enemies but it's a very limited system. If you play with it for a bit you'll probably come to the conclusion that "fighting" is impractical and the best option is to hold forward movement and stab people with your arm outstretched. Because your input movement is wayyyy more maneuverable than your physical movement. Trying to two hand a large weapon is difficult because your hands don't lock to the object irl but they try to in game and you rarely get satisfying bonks with the sweet spot of a weapon. You can grapple enemies, but it's a stretch to say you're grappling. They simply become rag dolls that don't do anything once you grab them. You can also grab them with one hand and punch them with the other but it takes FOREVER.

And lastly, while I grinded through the nausea and didn't feel like puking by the end of it, it still was vaguely unpleasant to climb and jump. It's a good example of physical presence in video games. it'll be hard to do better than that but it still kind of sucks
Nebula is trying to bill itself as an alternative, but I am not convinced it will gain the traction it needs to become what we might call a YT alternative. Users have griped about the ads on YT for years now, yet they keep using it, which just affirms that YT can inject as many ads as it wants without risking its user base. By continuing to use a product we complain about, we are giving that product permission to continue doing things we don't like.
That is like attributing the Big Bang to why inflation is at 8.6% currently.
I think that response is natural especially for anyone who builds things, software or otherwise.

But my mindset completely changed after listening to a lot of economics stories on planet money. There was this dude who tried to make a simple toaster on his own, down to refining metal. None of us can make even the simplest consumer product, let alone an consumer electronic product economically.

https://www.npr.org/2014/09/12/342138931/how-do-you-build-a-...
My understanding is this: Gödel proved his earth shattering result in the 1930s. Then the dust settled and mathematicians thought it might be “academic” and that mathematics might not come tumbling down after all. Then in the 1960s Paul Cohen proves that the continuum hypothesis is undecidable. That is, we will never know whether an infinite set can have a cardinality between the natural numbers and the real numbers.

My understanding comes from Keith Devlin’s wonderful book “Mathematics: A new golden age”.
Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, and Old Habits must be destroyed eh?

We've been here before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds

The reason I was in that factory today is because the woman who runs the tech company I work for sent me there, lol.

But go ahead, explain to me what a chauvinist oppressor I am.

I don't think it is language that keeps women out of tech, and I don't think this flash in the pan cultural moment is going to change our habits on a word that is older than writing.
based on?
> the Paris agreement was a minimal effort, California and all other governments are on track to fail miserably at following even that.

Could you clarify what you mean by "on track"?

According to the Guardian[0], "California Governor Jerry Brown [issued] an executive order calling for the entire California economy to become carbon-neutral by 2045" and "In order to stay below the Paris climate threshold of 2°C global warming above pre-industrial temperatures, humanity must become carbon-neutral by around 2060 or 2070."

Are you saying that California looks like it will miss its target by 25 years?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
We experienced the same thing. Pulled the plug on using the cloud version
Fully depends on the local wildlife. If the local fauna naturally devleoped alongside wildcats, such as in the UK, then outdoor cats are of very little concern to wildlife populations.

If they didn't, such as in Aus, then yeah they can be devastating.
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And don’t get me started on windows and WSL. WSL has no access to USB. And there are no device pipes only file pipes. There is a solution for this with a custom process on windows which passes the Fido key over a file pipe/socket (not sure about the specifics anymore). There was no on click setup at the time when I did this. Maybe that has changed.
Questions with no data aren't known, merely theorized. Questions for which no data can be obtained can't (really) be theorized is a proper sense of the word - it's down to a belief system. Some call that religion, depending on the belief.
What I don't like about this article is it is almost entirely focused on price. If bitcoin would have went up, it would have been a wise move according to the premise of the article. I think a longer timescale is needed.

I'd like to see an analysis of the situation, assuming that the value goes neither up or down, but simply holds a constant value in an inflation indexed manner. Would it still be a bad idea in that situation?
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I am not in nursing, but from what I have seen in corporate America: even when there is a lot of churn, bad managers always think everybody else is the problem.
> just pay for YouTube Premium

This would imply signing-in. I don't sign in and reset the cookies regularly because I don't want my history tracked and suggestions personalized.

But Okay, I would sign-in and pay, if every video page had a download button and the whole thing would give me an API exposing all the features reliably (so I could use it easily in 3-rd party players with search and suggestions).
> I self identify as a communist,

I view self identified communists as I would self-identified Nazis.

Both are horrendous philosophies that resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.
That would seem to suggest that the obnoxious YT-style thumbnails are mainly driven by children. (Or, at least, with strictly adult-only audiences they don't appear.)
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Public key cryptography is used in many applications. What’s the motivation for using encryption tools in a transport protocol for signing data or documents? It’s not a full solution, and makes the SSH code base larger, and harder to maintain.

GPG has key management tools and various functionalities around signing. Minisign is another clean tool to watch for.
Yeah the controls part is always tough. Remember, a mechanism can be out in place but it needs not be fast nor easy. Maybe slowness can help? Good luck!
The part of the tire that touches the road is flat as opposed to being curved.
If a snarky YouTuber doing the “this one time at bandcamp” voice is the best argument, I dunno what to tell you. To borrow his condescending tone, he is making the argument “you think line go down, but line go up!” the latter half of which is the title of Dan Olsen’s high-profile video of the cryptocurrency boom.

Unless it becomes practical to pay for something with cryptocurrencies (which for me should be the primary use case of any currency) they basically seem used by people who want to time buys and sells according to the current boom/bust or pump/dump cycle.
Data Looks Better Naked: Clear Off the Table - https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/clear-off-the-table
Or you could pay for YouTube Premium to support the creators :)
It's obviously meaningless, at least in the US. A private contract between two individuals in the US cannot abrogate the ability of a court to compel someone to testify in a criminal trial. When someone is put on the stand under oath, they're going to testify.

If the wording was something like "won't call the cops if you're way too fucking high" I'd find it more believable.
If thats all there is your understanding of open source and closed source business, then youre a fool.

An ignorant hardheaded fool, with head in the sand like an ostrich
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I do receive youtube's request to purchase premium about each time I go on the site (I am not logged in, use privacy protection) for years now. I am so pissed off by their aggressive marketing and with every click to get away with the banner my decision becomes more solid. I will never be able to pay for it.
Stopping meat consumption will likely have unforeseen consequences.
> the frictions (e.g legal fees, time, access) prevent small everyday externalities from being reasonably addressable

Small infractions by small operators, perhaps so. Small infractions by big operators, hell no. Thanks to class action, civil suits are perpetual hearburn & lost sleep for them. There's always a batch of aggressive trial lawyers ready to take the case on contingency, and even if the original plaintiff's damages are very small, it still adds up to big money when you include payouts to the rest of the class, & of course, punitive damages--which can exceed the damages by orders of magnitude.

> It also would rely on a judiciary that can't be bought

Buying off judges and juries is a costlier & dangerously more sensitive task than promising a comfy board position to an agency head over drinks and a meal at a restaurant in DC.

> It hasn't failed.

The microplastics in our bloodstreams and the glyphosate in our cheerios say otherwise.
Getting a machine dedicated to games where I don't do much else has been a decision that, although costly and annoying, keeps being correct.
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I just mirror all channels locally. This way I can also control what my kids see.
Slanted walls per se are a bad idea, but arches are self supporting - instead of a vertical load on the slanted wall you get a compressive one along the centerline of the "wall".
Why would they want less time spent on the site? That's optimal perhaps for the user not site, and the article discusses how the site is designed to keep the user searching.
I think you didn't get the point. If you represent references between objects as integers, you are back to having no help from compiler in case you keep a reference (index) longer than the object exists in a sensible state. This works fine for immutable data structures where you usually can ensure that you have no dangling references at build time. With mutable data structures you are back to use-after-free if you are not accurate. This time no sanitizer will help you to detect it. Now you have to invent some smart pointers to help you (like the MiraclePtr described in the article). The fact that all objects are owned by the same holder doesn't help you at all.

Deque-like data-structure obviously has 2 memory references on each access instead of one with regulare pointers or with indices into a vectos. Didn't you want to have a more efficient datastructure?

You didn't address the fragmentation issue either.

Just to clarify things: I am not saying that using data oriented design is bad in any way. I am saying that proposal to use it specifically to prevent memory issues in self-referential mutable data-structures is nonsense.
Exactly - these days you can’t tell:

- what’s actually going to be in the box

- how soon is it going to break after you open said box

- is the thing so cheaply made it’s going to give you cancer
No. The issue is that it's sometimes OK, sometimes good and sometimes hilariously bad. I don't want to play russian roulette with docs so I installed W3School blocker extension to weed out the problem at the root :)
Or just pay for YouTube Premium. I'd say it's worth it given how much value I get out of it. Take away Youtube, sure I'm sure there would be good alternatives eventually (with the same ads anyway), but it would leave quite a large hole in my life.
>get rid of any engineer and the minimum impact is 3-6 months code and culture familiarisation

On a big project, say 100 devs over 3 years, 6 man months is 1/600th of the work, so a single person is replaceable and it's not even noise. If the replacement takes 6 months to get up to speed the replacement is certainly not a very good developer, even on the biggest projects. At that size, there's lots of small side projects, testing groups, and the like, so there should be plenty of smaller pieces to work on, and some on those small projects are always happy to jump into the main work, not needing 3-6 months to be useful to it.

This is not highly damaging on any but the smallest, shortest projects. And even there people move around all the time and don't destroy projects.
I have Vimeo and DailyMotion installed but I almost never find stuff there...