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by schoen 3y ago
One related way to think about this is that, if (non-utilitarian) people are ever able to change their own utility functions, other people's utilitarianism gives them an incentive to do so, because it can make them more likely to get w
902.
by schoen 3y ago
I think the people you're responding to are taking the modus ponens for your modus tollens, saying that interpersonal utility comparisons are not obviously possible or meaningful, and so aggregating utilities across persons is also not
903.
by schoen 3y ago
Can you explain the "for any reasonable treatment" part here? How is the least upper bound property (or something equivalent to it) getting used in quantitative ethical theories?
904.
by schoen 3y ago
But notably not threatening or committing violence toward anyone else!
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by schoen 3y ago
Isn't 1.6 kW a reasonable average amount of power consumption for a home? Not peak, but average? Yes, when I'm running my toaster or electric kettle or electric heater, my home may consume more, but I don't run those most o
906.
by schoen 3y ago
This is really clever, but I found a couple of limitations: (1) It seems to be based only on total distance, not weighted in any way for example with regard to transportation routes or methods. So for example, people coming from San Francis
907.
by schoen 3y ago
> I had to remind it to be correct! It's so funny to encounter the effects of language models producing the highest-probability completions of a prompt, and how those aren't necessarily the same as the most correct completi
908.
by schoen 3y ago
I think there's some hallucination creeping in here! (1) This HN discussion is the only Google search result for each of these syllabics strings. (2) I tried using https://syllabics.atlas-ling.ca/ to transliterate th
909.
by schoen 3y ago
With some LLMs, emphasizing the possibility and appropriateness of saying "I don't know" has reduced the frequency of hallucinations.
910.
by schoen 3y ago
This is very impressive! Problems I see in the Latin: (1) The sentence beginning "verum, si Angelorum" loses the thread in the middle (as you can also see in the English translation). The if-clause (protasis) has no main verb, whi
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Ask HN: Delayed open source licensing / “eventually open” examples?
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912.
by schoen 3y ago
The concept you're describing is a "cognate". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate
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by schoen 3y ago
I once took a bike safety class that included practicing "quick turn", "rock dodge", and rapid braking. (I guess the last is included in "how to use your brakes".) I'd like for my skills at each of these t
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by schoen 3y ago
I think Hayes had a patent on requiring the pause, so competitors' modems sometimes didn't enforce the pause aspect of the design? Or is that an urban legend of some sort?
915.
by schoen 3y ago
I'm surprised to see that, but all subsequent authors have required it to be infinite (as a condition to distinguish it from other models of computation), and Turing himself later referred to it as infinite: https://en.wikip
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by schoen 3y ago
The other controversy that you'll see in a computer science context is that the Turing Machine specified by Turing has an infinite tape (or at least an unbounded tape; there are no conditions under which it can produce an out-of-memo
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by schoen 3y ago
Conceivably, the ADS-B data source might be the same as the data source for this API, at least in that they might be calculated from the same instruments and flight systems.
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by schoen 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia#Legacy
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by schoen 3y ago
His name is misspelled both in the submission title and at least twice in the linked article.
920.
by schoen 3y ago
Maybe some of my formulations are too weak. How about "everyone has a nature that will lead him or her to do wrong and incur guilt"?
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by schoen 3y ago
There are lots of good reasons for Apple to avoid a defamation lawsuit about this. (1) Streisand effect (mentioned by another commenter) - it would generate tons of free publicity for their opponents. (2) Civil discovery - the defendant wou
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by schoen 3y ago
Some people would probably formulate the notion of original sin as "everyone is inclined to evil" or "everyone is prone to evil" or "everyone is vulnerable to committing evil" or "everyone is broken"
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by schoen 3y ago
Unfortunately, the article says it's currently attested from a single inscription made by people who didn't necessarily even speak the language themselves, so we may not manage to learn very much about this language for the time b
924.
by schoen 3y ago
It might be a European vs. American cultural thing because week number is much less used in America, and Siri was developed by Americans. Maybe this is more of a localization failure than a generic functionality failure. If it gave you an a
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by schoen 3y ago
(2003)
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by schoen 3y ago
Yeah, they were actually kind of practical, at least for some products and geographies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#Historical_use I remember seeing a big one of these built at the CCC Congress. It had
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by schoen 3y ago
If they've got the explicit space in there, then four bytes!
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by schoen 3y ago
Não acho que os leitores aqui costumam aceitar submissões em idiomas além do inglês, pelo menos sem tradução.
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by schoen 3y ago
That looks plausible to me.
930.
by schoen 3y ago
You might want the vocative of "world" (MUNDE) and the singular imperative of "go" (I). The latter is a bit easy to confuse with the Roman numeral for the number one, though!

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