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Veering off a bit more: books written in 1896 may not be readable any longer. Not because the ink faded, or the paper got stuck, but because the spelling and vocabulary changed, or the type font has been relegated to the dust bin (think Fraktur).

It may sound a bit silly, but it's also a reminder that even these "monolithic" sites are built upon knowledge of others.

Normal keyboards have staggered rows. This design doesn't seem to permit that.

Well, some of that actually is common among the Protestants in Western Europe. The belief is that God will punish you for doing bad (quite common in many religions), and therefore that your are faithful if you're doing well. These were not the persecuted minorities that fled to the USA, but dressing greed as piety did cross the pond.

So national interest doesn't exist? It's all at the whim of a demented money grabber, just because a small majority of the voters (if there really was a majority) got riled up?

He definitely isn't a Catholic. "Thiel is a self-described Christian and a promoter of René Girard's Christian anthropology." says Wikipedia. He grew up in a fundamentalist evangelical household. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Religious_views

An insane take. If you could read, ypu would have understood I'm not in favor of dictatorship nor censorship. Nor am I part of any echo chamber. Thou doth project too much, methinks.

I think we may assume these sites won't go away, and also that a personal blog is not a solution for the vast majority.

No, it means that the role of the Swiss president cannot be compared to the cases discussed. It requires a different organization of the state, not just a term or age limit.

Wrt to the latter: the Swiss system prefers the elder candidate.

Unfortunately there's a lot of magical thinking around LLMs.

In tests, reseats allow you to take the maximum, not the average. The maximum goes asymptotically up.

First among equals, the president of the Confederation has no powers over and above the other six councillors and continues to head the assigned department. Traditionally the duty rotates among the members in order of seniority; the vice president of the Federal Council assumes the presidency the year after the officeholder's tenure. The president of the Confederation is not the head of state because the entire Federal Council is the collective head of state.

Per wikipedia.

> maximises the luck component

No, it doesn't. Repeating it ad infinitum does that.

But therefore it's a good thing grades aren't just pass or fail, but have a range, from 1 to 10, or to 20 or whatever. Too bad there's so much external pressure on the system.

Yeah, that's not going to solve twitter, facebook, instagram, etc.

I'll make my position clear: many parties try to influence people, and quite a few of them do so with grave consequences. The swing to extreme right politics cannot be seen separate from internet interference. In the words of the article: it's already not "technology serving people", but rather "controlling" them.

If extreme right (or left) parties come to power, your freedom of speech and privacy is over. So it's either moderate moderation, or authoritarian moderation. And if it's up to me, it's not your choice.

? Are you meaning to say that the same tentatively beautiful things always illicit the same 'sensation' type in all people?

No, just that we have managed to learn to apply the word "beauty" to things that cause a similar mental state, just like we learnt to label things "red" or "acid".

> What is hindering you from accepting the existance of multiple perspectives/points of view?

Reality? Our "brain" adapts itself continuously. But it goes either way. It gets desensitized when overstimulated. When using the label "X" for "Y", that didn't carry that label before, you assume that "Y" now gets part of its perceived values from "X". But associations of "X" are equally at risk to take over part of the anterior values of "Y". If you call too many things beautiful, it starts losing its meaning, and possibly numb you to the experience as a consequence. And if the original association of "Y" is visceral enough, chances are that you cannot overrule it, and that the reverse will happen.

Instead of faking smiles in order to pretend happiness, it's better to learn to accept things for what they are, warts and all.

I think the elephant in the room here is the reaction of other people to scars, especially so big and visible. Calling your scar beautiful and making that known is a passive-aggressive, pro-active move to avoid judgement through suppressing socially unacceptable behavior.

> But to deny that things managed by the State are more expensive overall is a clear sign of ideological blindness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208837

Your argument seems to imply that the only thing that an exam is possibly allowed to measure is ability to answer a question at some arbitrary point in time. It also separates the people with the wit to understand a bunch of topics in a span of 3 or 5 months, the ability to plan accordingly, enough self control, and some motivation to see the plan through from the ones that don't. That's not a bad thing, as diplomas are often used as a proxy not only for intelligence, but also for suitability to certain jobs.

It's good to be reminded that "frontier models" aren't particularly good at most tasks. They happen to be good at programming, since there's a lot of training data available, and the task has parallels with report writing and story telling. For skin cancer? Probably very little. Also, images of skin cancer probably don't translate that well to a Large Language Model's internal representation.

The post speaks negatively about the tumor that was where the scar now is. Why didn't they consider it beautiful?

> This was about gaining a perspective for appreaciating scars

Yeah, and that's trying to make it sound good. It doesn't change the scar. They want you to trick yourself into thinking is is pretty and nice and sweet and, probably, meaningful.

> they carry memories

No, they don't. They may remind you of something.

> something thus far hidden

How was it hidden?

> Therefore it is also mediated by language

No, it isn't. Beauty is a word expression a sensation. The language doesn't mediate the sensation.

> [words] they have any unique power

As I wrote. So you're the straw person? Anyway, the assumption that you should be able to trick yourself into thinking something is beautiful is just as valid as the assumption that it will change the power of the word for you. The euphemism carousel is a vivid example of that.

It's positivity for the heck of it, to get clicks. In internet parlance, it's gas-lighting yourself.

Many people don't have the option to isolate their houses better.

But, if I'm not mistaken, the damage you speak of is caused by disrupting sleep. So the idea is that if a white noise generator can drown out the interruptions, it helps you sleep better. There are studies that say noise doesn't help, and there are those that say it does. And it's all real-life medical research, so pretty unreliable. I found one controlled study (https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsag001), but it's small, and only 7 days, and it's in a lab, so not guaranteed to translate to normal conditions either.

And don't ignore the placebo effect. Perhaps believing that pink noise helps is sufficient for some.

Perhaps a better recommendation is good ear plugs.

> Wouldn't a better solution be to more heavily tax voluntary vices? Gambling, drugs, prediction markets

That's just taxing the poor.

The press release speaks of "a rigorous source-code security assessment by NCC Group." That suggests more than a bit of url scanning. Somebody is lying, that much is certain.

The whois creation date is 2026-10-02, which is 20 days ago. I suppose the parent misinterpreted something.

log4shell was a different kind of vulnerability, but in line with the Java way of thinking and the eco system.

For workers, you only need to strip the types. There's no need to do the expensive checking.

Idk. Apart from the fact that benchmarks are generally of questionable value, what's the point? Is the TS compiler unbearably slow?

> Whatever happend to Voltares "I disprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it"?

O tempora, o mores. Back in Voltaire's (sic) days, this would have been an issue between debating gentlemen, not one of massive spreading of hate. It's the fault of media and internet, I know, but that's not so easy to stop.

> who decides when its not in the people best interest? Oh right, not the people

Damn right it isn't, because for most of them it is against their own interests. They vote out of emotion.

It is a great place to find fonts. I download them and serve them from our own platform, to avoid precisely the privacy issues.