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> Your definition of misogyny is far too narrow then, if you're focusing entirely on the concept of individual agency, yet ignoring the larger structural inequalities and power dynamics that constrain women's choices and perpetuate exploitation.

There's a long history of imagined threats being used to take away people's rights. At the end of the day, you're saying that you know better than individual women what is best for them, and implying that you wish to take away their right to choose in ways that are inconsistent with your views. It's the pro-life argument, just in a different context.

> Just because there are some regulations in place doesn't mean that exploitation doesn't occur. The fact remains that surrogacy often involves financial transactions where women's bodies are being used as a means to an end. It is not at all misogynistic to critically examine this.

The problem with your argument is that there's ample evidence of successful surrogacies, with all sides walking away very happy. Your argument rests on some tortured process of explaining to people that no, they're actually super unhappy, they just don't know it. Which is nuts. Anecdotes from third world countries without adequate legal protections for surrogates are only useful for making the point that we need strong legal protections for surrogates, which I totally agree with.

Ultimately, I do believe you're coming from a good place. I disagree though, profoundly, that banning surrogacy will in any way elevate or protect women. It will not. It will mostly harm same-sex and infertile couples. Many of which contain women. (It will also lead to many, many instances of people choosing to be surrogates anyway, except with no legal protection or framework.)
Sonos secures big win against Google in lengthy patent dispute
Functional and structural changes in the hippocampus of Covid-19 patients
While I'm pretty sure that it can run on a small budget, I'm less sure that the owners have the time to maintain the site (a static website still needs to update the server, domain and certificates and while this can be automated to a degree it's still a lot a work).
Whatever you do, always let some manager decide about the actual key, then you can always blame them for their mistake :)
To shore up the FX value of the USD in an emergency,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_reserves

Most other countries hold USD for this purpose, but of course the US can't do that.

Note that this has literally nothing to do with the ability to repay debt, and that the Treasury bills market is larger and more liquid than the gold market. The US holds like 600 B$ worth of gold. There are like 30 trillion dollars in outstanding treasuries. Even if all the gold was liquidated at current market value without slippage, it would only be enough to pay back 2% of the debt.
As a non-american I must say I don't understand where the latter half of the article comes from. Why care about race? Why must a racist reason be sought behind everything?
This is losing the plot when it claims that a motorcycle somehow improves on a cheetah.

Sure it goes faster, but it can't self-repair, procreate, needs a boatload of supporting infrastructure, is not even remotely as energy-efficient, can't hunt, can't think, the list goes on. If a motorcycle somehow started driving around on its own, it would be completely fucked as soon as humans didn't maintain that supporting infrastructure, stopped feeding it gasoline, or didn't service it. The cheetah has no such problem. Compared to a cheetah, a motorcycle is pathetic in so many ways. We can't even "build" a cheetah. Pretending we can make something better is nonsense.

It may be very well the case that intelligences made from silicon will always be beaten by organic intelligences on self-sufficiency - simple because organics are the way to build such "machines". Any intelligence that is overly reliant on maintenance by organics is ultimately too much at our mercy to be a danger. Just like a fire they may be dangerous, but will ultimately die out without support and constant intervention.

Even when we humans want to keep some complex electronic system running, without fail something goes wrong eventually and the thing goes tits up. Most electronic systems can't go a year without a human directly maintaining them - not even counting all the humans indirectly involved in keeping them running. Meanwhile most organics keep running decades just by themselves. Silicon sucks.
Not really tech news -- unless you count it being an aberration from natural science and the process of decay -- but quite fascinating!
Sex has been separated from reproduction, at least in the few species we know of that partake in it for pleasure only. Humans engage in a variety of sexual activities that ostensibly cannot result in a pregnancy.

You talk about verbal contracts, how is that different from misrepresenting yourself if you said you were on the pill or you had a vasectomy? The verbal contract of consent can be delivered or revoked during this stage as well.
You're using terms differently. What New Zealand did was border closures. The word lockdowns refers to forcing everyone to stay at home, closing all the businesses and schools.

Neither approach worked. The NZ approach merely delayed the inevitable and was horrific for citizens who wanted to return home and were unable to do so. One NZ citizen had to rely on the kindness of the Taliban because nowhere else would take her. Incidents like that are nothing to be proud of.

Meanwhile, good luck implementing such controls in places where it's easier to get to!

History will record that the country that ignored the hysteria came out with some of the best results in Europe, revealing the truth that expert advice was damaging and futile. Something that was already clear in 2020 to anyone who cared to look.
> property prices and investments

Most of the value of Venice is cultural and it's not measured with money.
I remember reading about this when i was a kid. And I'm not so young anymore.
The dark forest claims another victim.

> Yancey's Dark Forest
theory of the web. The “dark forest” is a place that seems eerily quiet and devoid of life. All the living creatures within it are hiding. Because “night is when the predators come out. To survive, the animals stay silent.”

> The predators here are the advertisers, tracking bots, clickbait creators, attention-hungry influencers, reply guys, and trolls. It's unsafe to reveal yourself to them in any authentic way. So we retreat into private spaces. We hide in the cozy web.

https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web
In this case, it seems a perfectly valid choice of words.

"irreconcilable" basically implies that there is a binary choice -- either use a TUI or aim for accessibility, but you can't have both. The responder was saying that actually it's not a binary choice -- there are degrees of accessibility, and some accessibility can be attained within a TUI.

Disagreeing with someone, using valid arguments, is not the same as squelching discourse.
> It's not like they lost their job or something; it's just a 2-day event.

One wrinkle I haven't seen called out is whether this was a paid speaking event (I assume it was) and if the demotion came with a part cut. If there was a pay cut that pretty shitty IMO, and does get a bit closer to losing ones job.
> Do you really trust China to manage the World's currency?

No, they have terminal credibility issues when it comes to how they handle things, and its real hard to support something like that when you have no laws protecting foreign investors.

Netflix's The China Hustle was a great documentary providing visibility on these issues. A world currency is a foreign investment in any country that accepts and denominates in that currency.
> It's a very clearly disgruntled senior member of the community who has just ragequit

That’s leaving out the important context that it’s just the latest in a string of senior members in that community who have been disgruntled enough to quit. The entire moderation team quit all at the same time. Since then the leadership team has been “an interim leadership”.

Rust governance has been an ongoing shitshow for at least several years.

As someone who’s not directly affected since I stay well out of “the community” I’m less concerned about “community drama”, but as someone who makes (and will be held responsible for) long term strategic technical decisions for my company I can’t help but wonder if I want to hitch my company (and my reputation) to a language run by the sort of people who’ve let this drama fester for so long. Is some language feature going to be voted on, implemented, publicised, become a critical dependency in my codebase - only to get rugpulled by some anonymous core team member like this keynote speaker? I mean, probably not, but Rust leadership sure as hell haven’t done anything to earn my trust and seem to actively be working toward eroding it. In ways that I’ve never even had to question to myself about the leadership of Perl or Python, or even Java.
The only "big tech bad" law that really makes sense would be making non-free software illegal.
It's also on torrents and English subtitles should exist (if they are needed at all)
Prediction of political ideology based on facial characteristics
dinvald said, “The problem is, of course, these systems are fundamentally incapable of human-level intelligence and cognition.
There will be a lot of wasted effort in pursuit of this unreachable goal (with LLM technology), an effort better spent elsewhere, like solving cancer or climate change, and stealing young and naive people’s minds away from these problems.”

In response I said, “While we’re at it let’s encourage people to stop making music and peanut butter as well.”

Then dinvald said, “Your point?”

Can you explain to dinvald what my point was?

ChatGPT:

Absolutely. Your response is a form of reductio ad absurdum, a strategy where one extends an argument to an absurd extreme to point out its flaws. In this case, you are challenging dinvald's claim that efforts towards developing Large Language Models (LLMs) is a waste of resources that could be better spent on solving other problems.

By suggesting we also discourage people from making music and peanut butter, you are demonstrating that dinvald's argument could be applied to any human endeavor that isn't directly tied to solving major global issues. Your point is that not every pursuit needs to be measured against solving the world's largest problems, like cancer or climate change. You imply that just like music or peanut butter, AI development also has its place and value.
So it's a big solid state transistor rather than a relay?
Show HN: YouTube Summary CLI
This simple tool was born out of a personal need for a more efficient way to consume YouTube content.
It provides you with a short and segment-wise summary of a YouTube video. Each segment is printed with a link to that part of the video. I know there are several Chrome extensions that do this, butI work with different browsers so I wanted a simple CLI app for that.

Hope this helps anyone else. Any feedback would be much appreciated
Setting aside the cost, this is a good thing.
I did that would have to depend on what the strong reactions were in that case. There are reactions to someone getting slapped in the face that I would consider to be overreactions.
"The accuracy of predictions was 61%."

"Science".
Using machine learning to predict ideology from facial photographs
You can just boot into KDE and do whatever on the Steam Deck. Projects like EmuDeck are often used to load emulators onto the Deck, which can include Dolphin. The root partition is read only by default (which is why Steam Deck users don't often brick their systems within a week opposed to many other beginning Linux users) but you can disable that st your own peril.

However, most people aren't very Linux savvy and even Linux savvy people will need to deal with the small screen. You can pick between running shell commands or running Flatpak through discover, and I honestly can't tell which one takes longer. Typing commands on the deck sucks despite Valve's best efforts but Discover + Flatpak seems awfully slow for no clear reason whenever I use it.

Installing Dolphin through the controller optimized game interface would be a lot more user friendly. It would also help with Steam's native input UI, allowing the devs to set good presets for their emulators, and it saves having tk manually add a Steam shortcut and setting up the right properties to make the emulator usable from game mode.
I don't think its ironic. Its just that a shared ownership model is more complex than having a single person in charge, making decisions. And its a reasonably new idea - not many of us have the experience and skills we need to make it work. Inevitably, more mistakes happen.

In many ways its sort of incredible and impressive how well rust functions. There's probably hundreds of people involved, from core compiler tooling, language design, cargo, crates.io, things like rustconf, steering and governing everything else. The fact that for the most part, it all works to make the language and ecosystem improve constantly is a pretty impressive feat.
It can but it won't.
dan usually does this manually on hot threads. Really nice to have it as a plugin

thanks for sharing
It's a ridiculous position if one can't just ask the court "is this infringing" without needing an inter partes legal proceeding.

Maybe neither side here wants an answer, but having an answer would seem to make things better.
They just have to drop the ML based self driving (since it is a nonsense...) and take the easier path.
Video: Man who opened plane door in midair tells police he was ‘uncomfortable’
I don't believe its accurate to say that most EU states have no separation between executive and legislative branches.

The split is around 50%-50% with a majority of states actually having a bicameral system where these branches are separated, and this practically includes all major economic states of the EU as well as Poland and the EU itself. [1][2]

In recent legal material, your country (Poland) is a well-known example of an EU state where the governing party has been systematically breaking down this bicameralism and state of law to accomplish exactly what you're describing though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_parliaments_of_the_Eu...
[2] https://data.ipu.org/compare?field=country%3A%3Afield_struct...
'Sideloading' simply means not using the official Steam client to install a piece of software. Basically you switch to desktop mode and install it like you would install any random Linux application. No jailbreaking needed and you have full root access to the underlying Linux distro out of the box. That being said, navigating and installing software in desktop mode using just the controller is a major pain, and you really need to plug in a keyboard and mouse to make it easy to do. Also having a basic working knowledge of Linux and the command line is often required.
Trust is a fickle thing, and requires credibility.
>It all seems so fabulously irrelevant

Except (in my opinion) it's not, if the set of people responsible for the progress of the technology you(and mabye your company) are going to be using are able to make such terrible decisions, it opens doors for far worse on a scale where you will start to care(take a look at the code of conduct stuff(edit: I meant the trademark stuff); if they went ahead with it, which is very possible if they're willing to sidestep all ideas of democracy, then there would be some notable repercussions).
How to Recover Deleted Files from Any Drive in Linux
There was an attempt to blatantly push eugenics via a sperm bank[0], and it was active until 1999. Nowadays they are just more discreet about it.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choi...
Ya that’s not how proof works. People can do the same with humans. Not understanding things happens to be not a sign for the lack of capacity of understanding in humans.
> Most code files are usually too large to 'cat' because of the context size limitations

These are command line tools though, not piping it into the llm.

My point though was more about giving it space to reason. It's very important for good results on more complex tasks.
You mean like Spotify, that started in the large and populous country of Sweden?
I really don't think that is what is going on here. So far, all I have heard anyone say is "Behavior occurred which should have been unacceptable regardless of who it happened to. By the way, the optics are particularly bad because of race issues."
Curfews and other such measures had no effect and this is clear in the data. It's been looked at extensively and there's no correlation between severity of lockdown measures and outcomes.

It was clear lockdowns would end this way almost immediately. The diamond princess cruise ship proved that SARS-CoV-2 spread through aerosols, like a gas. It can spread through air ducts between locked rooms. The moment you accept that, the failure of lockdowns becomes entirely foreseeable. Nor was this unexpected. SARS-1 could spread the same way, as proven by outbreak investigations at the time.

And yes, there were people pointing this out in early 2020. The idea that nothing was known so the most extreme response possible was justified is:

1. Wrong

2. Illogical anyway! There are always unknowns, if you always overreact any time you're in s new situation we diagnose you with an anxiety disorder. It's not normal or healthy.
Elasticsearch/Lucene do not use HNSWLib, they use their own Java implementation of the HNSW algorithm. But Java, being a virtual machine, doesn't have access to some lower level CPU instructions known to make certain calculations of vector similarity fast (aka SIMD).

Java has taken its sweet time exposing these optimizations in a consistent way. They're available by turning on a flag. But the API for using these optimizations is fairly brittle and could change in the next Java version.

But long story short, they implemented something to turn on the flag, and improve their own HNSW performance. Fingers crossed Java gets its act together.
Can we acknowledge that we, software professionals, crave drama just like soap opera junkies?
There is an older DVD release (2007?) from before the remaster, which I’ve heard has bad English subtitles. Not sure what you’ll get via torrents.
Yup. The actual meaning of a composite symbol cannot in general be guessed from its constituent elements.

This is pernicious in languages where the writing system has even a little of such character, and leads to stuff like e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22

It's OK to use this sort of playing with words in your stand-up routine, (e.g. Tylor Tomlinson's "Lot of my friends are settling down. Some are just settling, period, end of sentence") in a song, a book title, that sort of thing, but we shouldn't pretend we've got a serious argument here, we've got a coincidence maybe, at best.
I would require 5 year mandatory security updates for all devices and another 5 years of support which customers can purchase for a fee which is capped at 5% of the sale price per year.

Manufacturers which don't fix CVEs within 90 days must accept returns at full sale price.

That would fix the whole economics around vulnerablities.
That is not true that most of the world doesn't have internet. Multiple sources say it is about 64% by now. You should be careful about thinking the world is worse off than it is. Thinking former developing countries is worse off than rich countries is most of the time a outdated world view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...
Yeah like -she wasnt' famous and now we made her so or whatever
The complaint wasn't about the web prefix, it's the ambiguity of the name.
Journalists should take everything as heresy and then do the job they're supposed to do, which is prove or disprove it.
"White" is rather emphatically not like other ethnic or racial labels. Throughout the history of the US, who counts as "white" has been redefined many times to suit the political goals of the people at the time. In the era of the founding fathers, the Irish, Spaniards, Italians, all considered not white. Then during various times, often driving by waves of immigration of some other ethnicity people were freaking out about, drive a process to include them in whiteness as allies against the new threat.

There's a great deal to read on this topic if you're genuinely interested. Otherwise I just want to warn you that the way you phrase this comes across as rather ignorant and stepping on the border of racism.
It is it not also true that the hypothetical family would never go bankrupt if we assume they could pay in debt instruments indefinitely?

Instead of balancing a checkbook, they could simply buy groceries with IOUs. Of course, in an emergency scenario those IOUs would be heavily discounted by creditors seeking to make good on the debt. In this scenario, the price of gold as denominated in discounted IOUs would be much higher.

The entire exercise and the term emergency illustrates that there are indeed limits. This is the reason why they claim to hold gold.
Is hot-reloading code useful past the development stage? In what way? (I'm not familiar with 3D development at all).
Bombing of civilians was the norm for that era. The atomic bombs are pretty much not unique on that dimension. It happened in the European theatre too, where there was an actual distinction between civilians and military. In Japan this distinction essentially didn’t exist anywhere and would completely dissolve near the front.

Kant never had to choose between 225,000 dead (Hiroshima + Nagasaki) or 70,000,000 (the rest of the population who showed every sign of willingness to fight to the last child).

Japan was routinely fighting all the way to 80-90% casualties in battles, which is AFAIK completely unheard of in modern warfare. That number was going up as they got closer to the homeland, not down like when most militaries are clearly losing.
rust needs it's empaths, too. if we can all figure out how to adult, be decent, work together, and understand the strengths/weaknesses of our very different personalities and skills, hopefully we can all continue building cool stuff together without alienating important voices.
We are discussing a system that is very interesting precisely and only because it produces human language that at least superficially looks as though it was produced by a reasonably smart and educated human. For one thing, I don't know how one would disabuse someone of their fantasy projected onto LLMs and a lack of understanding of humans without making comparisons (while, of course, being wary of anthropomorphizing the former.)
No. None of this stuff works without people. There's a reason we have representative democracies instead of true democracies. Why we elect people to make those decisions.

I'm not saying it's working but I don't think true democracy would work any better either because the underlying issue with democracy is you're relying on ill informed people, people who don't understand either the issue upon which they vote or the consequences of a vote either way, to make decisions.

People easily manipulated by social media filter bubbles and ridiculous slogans. Or in our current democracies just money.

I think democracy is probably the best we've had to date but it's showing its flaws.
Honestly I think, such projects must be funded instead of stupid thing called development aid: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_aid Because money does not solve poverty problems. Especially wiring them directly to corrupt governments.
That doesn't sound like a dependency in the traditional sense. Being completely unable to function at work is often a symptom prior to acquiring medication, and I'm not exaggerating. Are you saying you were able to work before being medicated?
Sounds like you're over it now, any idea what helped? I also developed long covid as a healthy 30 y/o white male, but haven't been able to kick it after 8 months.