deepdriver

While it may not have the shine and polish of Sid Meier’s Civilization 6, at least FreeCiv doesn’t force glitchy unwanted advertise-- er, launcher updates that break the game years after release:

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/nkdh4d/follow_up_to_th...

Truly can’t describe how aggravating it is to have Civ 6, my after-work happy place, effectively torn from my hands years after purchase by some MBA manager and bargain-bin programmer. Bypassing the launcher only sort-of works on my PC. Can’t roll back to an earlier version because Steam. At least we’ll always have FreeCiv.

Thanks! That's quite the dire warning about PVC cement. Maybe I'll stick with silicone tubing for my first setup.

You may enjoy reading about Lunar Palace 1, China's latest experiment with regenerative life support systems:

https://www.space.com/40610-china-mock-moon-mission-lunar-pa...

Or BIOS-3, the Soviet Union's experiments in this area during the in 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS-3

The EU has the MELiSSA program, which has a nice website and lots of meetings but no human-scale enclosures of which I'm aware:

https://www.melissafoundation.org/

Does PVC leach anything into the water, especially when exposed to full sunlight/UV?

Starlink latency is somewhere around 50ms on average according to friends, more than adequate for e.g. online multiplayer first-person shooters.

Thanks for the in-depth reply! I guess I'll start out by copying some Hoocho videos.

>I should point out, that hydroponics is not the ideal situation for every plant.

Yes, I've also garnered this impression. On the bright side, the difference between hydroponics and a soil-filled container with automatic irrigation seems quite small.

I've tried it myself in SkyrimVR with my Index. That part that impressed me most was the speed of recognition; NPCs reply at least as quickly as a real-world conversation partner, if not faster. Huge immersion boost. Can imagine all sorts of ways in which this might increase dialogue options, since they're so much easier to browse and discover by speaking rather than clicking, especially in VR.

Overfunding via federally-guaranteed loans is what led to bloated administrations and tuition fees in the first place, so yes it ought to be rolled back. A lot of the “woke” stuff comes from diversity equity and inclusion staff who are part and parcel of the bloat, and constantly seeking to justify their own position:

https://www.fox28spokane.com/study-shows-university-diversit...

You're also begging the question by implying ideological coercion is just "abstract learning."

China has a history of brain drain to the West for exactly this reason (and others, like quality of living):

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/2010-...

Speaking based on my own experience with young Chinese colleagues in academia and industry, this flow was already reversing before 2020 kicked idpol into hyperdrive.

And never mind the anti-Asian hate crimes, where we aren’t allowed to notice or discuss common characteristics of the perpetrators (not that it stops folks from noticing or discussing). Michael Burry of Big Short fame recently found the Justice Department burying relevant data on the perpetrators:

https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1556003057699209218

Use of such themes and terms is increasingly mandatory for academics, even in the hard sciences:

https://unherd.com/thepost/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is...

What happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College (before he became a pundit speaking far outside his subject area) is now happening to everyone. There is less and less room for a Weinstein or a Thomas Sowell in American academia.

It’s my belief that this coerced monoculture of identity politics and ideology will significantly degrade the quality of American universities, to say nothing of K-12 education. The long term effects on American economic competitiveness and the ability to attract foreign students will be severe.

Given the perverse incentives of US university funding, this ride only ends when Chinese and Indian grad students look elsewhere and the federal government turns off the guaranteed loans faucet. I don’t see the latter happening without dramatic political upheaval. Until then, colleges will continue not caring whether they’re preparing students well for the workforce or merely puffing them full of the latest political buzzwords.

Are there any "gold standard" books or learning materials for hydroponics, like an O'Reilly guide? I've read about many individual setups, but have yet to find a comprehensive manual.

>But what does "greater depth of consciousness" really mean? What are the metrics one uses to compare counciousnesses?

Completely agreed. The meta-question I’m asking is, how will we tell if we’ve built the right metrics? The answer used to be “if it passes the Turing Test,” but we’re rapidly superseding that answer and its replacements.

Maybe the answer will become obvious as our knowledge of the brain advances. Or, maybe we’ll be satisfied with a simplified model of consciousness that mostly works but is wrong in subtle yet critical ways, like Newtonian physics without theories of relativity. I suppose we’ll just have to keep asking questions, and aggressively pushing the limits of what machine intelligence can achieve relative to humans.

This alludes to an existential worry I have about machine intelligence. I worry that we might emulate the human brain approximately, to where it manages average human-level tasks but fails to accurately mimic the brain's full complexity. It'd be like a Nintendo emulator that isn't cycle-accurate; passable, even good most of the time, but inferior to the real thing in many small subtle ways. It's not clear to me how to test for such a condition. IQ tests maybe? College-level exams? Poetry contest? If a limited AI were to succeed humanity as the dominant life form on Earth, or as the being we send out to explore the stars, and if its flaws ultimately made it just too dumb to self-improve, that first biological spark would be lost for good.

>But by 1750, the Quakers were kind of on their way out; by 1750, they were a demographic minority in Pennsylvania, and by 1773 they were a minority in its legislature as well. [...] What happened? The Quakers basically tolerated themselves out of existence. They were so welcoming to religious minorities and immigrants that all these groups took up shop in Pennsylvania and ended its status as a uniquely Quaker society.

Fascinating.

>This is in the US.

In both my current and previous US city, downtown libraries function as de facto daytime homeless shelters. On the one hand this is good, as people in unfortunate circumstances can get Internet access, apply for jobs, and retain access to email. On the other hand some of those people browse porn, play music, and watch videos without headphones on the library computers. Others wander in off the street to have loud conversations with the front desk staff.

Where I live now, this feels like the library’s main purpose. Either as a cause or a consequence, library staff seem to see themselves as social workers first, activists second, and librarians third, as reflected in the library’s public services and calendar of events.

I can't find it now, but there's a piece by some writer where he interviews a New York City art critic. It takes some wheedling and wearing down, but eventually he gets the critic to admit that if a particular piece of abstract art weren't presented as "by so-and-so the Famous Artist," the critic wouldn't consider the work notable, valuable, or really very appealing at all. By itself, the work isn't very good. It only has value when attached to a brand and the according social expectations.

That's what I meant by context and social cueing.

If these murals were posted to DeviantArt under a fake name, I think most would react like the parent comment. Social cueing plays a big role in how people publicly respond to art.

Pakistan has a porous border with Afghanistan and thousands of its own armed extremists (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, Islamic State offshoots) who are frequently at odds with the government.

Still vulnerable to a breach that exposes user data at any one of the services you've signed up for, unless you use a separate SIM for each.

The hacking of Nortel, which goes back at least to the year 2000, started around the same time Dunn began messing with the numbers:

https://archive.ph/TZM9A

Whatever other issues Nortel had, the theft of their IP, internal communications, and strategic plans certainly didn't help.

In the case of TempleOS, a hand-built operating system where every aspect of the software was written by Terry himself, I think it's safe to assume no outside factor twiddled those bits.

Huawei destroyed Nortel through grand-scale espionage and robbery. They openly support the Uighur concentration camps and totalitarian surveillance in China’s Xinjiang province. Banning import of their products to the US and Canada is a moral, economic, and strategic imperative.

https://aragonresearch.com/cyber-war-flashback-the-huawei-ha...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834860/huawei-leaked-d...

>The historical contexts in which the NT & OT Characters existed (including Jesus) did not have a scientific world view, but they did have a story telling tradition which handed down stories as the closest thing to "fact" in the time period.

So did the ancient Sanskrit (Hinduism, Buddhism) Greek (Hellenism) and Nahuatl (Azctec) written cultures. Their cosmologies and moral systems are totally at odds with one another, let alone Christianity or Judaism. The pitch for all of them is essentially still, "just true me bro." The more recent variants of Christianity alone are often cosmologically and morally incompatible, sometimes violently. We don't have a full picture of historical "original" Christianity as the Apostles are claimed to have practiced. And then there's Islam, which being newer has arguably more historical documentation than any of the aforementioned faiths. So, which to choose?

This reminds me of a story involving Terry A. Davis, the late schizophrenic programmer behind TempleOS:

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

He had a famous video (which I won't link here, as he goes on a racist tirade about incandescent CIA employees) in which his random word generator- which he claimed sent him messages from God- prints the words "China virus election." The video is from 2017. Of course it printed lots of random garbage too, and any impression of prescience is merely coincidental, but certain corners of the Internet did notice and remark on the coincidence.

These dark corners of the Internet, 4chan in particular, have their own large populations of users who sincerely think they're victims of gangstalking. While it's amusing to see them find strange coincidences like COVID and the output of Terry's word generator, it's depressing to see such ill people feed off each other's delusions.

I was with you until you called them "white shit," using an immutable physical characteristic as a pejorative. This has no place on HN.

Is it more or less the same problem as running a GNU Mailman listserv in 2022? That is to say, a fairly hard problem of staying on top of security patches, avoiding getting marked as spam, and avoiding getting put on the big email provider's badlists. In theory, the problem seems simple: replace a manually-managed BCC list with an alias to said list, so it's less hassle for the user/sender. Maybe the answer is an email client plug-in that just autofills BCC to-addresses? Assumption would be the user's sending this email from a known provider like GMail or Fastmail.

I imagine it would be easier for the completely self-hosted email system if signup gave receivers a from-address they could whitelist, if their email provider allows it. Maybe you already do this.

Edit: I'm also assuming email is sent one-way to whoever signs up, maybe with a link to the dynamic chat server/app/platform of the moment. Slightly different from a GNU Mailman list, which enables back-and-forth conversation.

I've told the "two different apps named Google Wallet" story for years to illustrate G's internal dysfunction, but didn't know there were so many brands/apps in addition to the two Wallets. Incredible.

Wait until you hear about the World Economic Forum’s plan to put digital ID chips in clothes. From the team behind “you will own nothing and you will be happy,” here comes “you won’t even own the shirt on your back.” Ralph Lauren will participate in the leasing or sale of “your” polo shirt at every stage of its product life. Framed as good for the environment, of course:

https://www.weforum.org/videos/how-digital-id-codes-on-secon...

And let’s not forget the big one, “racism,” whose creeping semantic expansion by academics and Tumblr users has consumed and confused Americans since the Obama years.

Every browser plug-in is an additional exploit vector. Never know when the plug-in author might sell out or get hacked. When that happens you’re one auto-update away from catastrophe. I also enjoy the more creative sponsor segments, like Internet Historian’s.