Don't read it end-to-end like a novel. It's a great book to keep around. Open it, every once in a while (even at a random page), read a passage or two, think about it, and go on with your day. Over time the ideas seep in and really change how you approach certain aspects of life, I've found.
What do you use? -- I've tried with lynx and its ilk but I find that too many websites these days are completely broken without javascript, and the layout often unreadable without CSS.
I've been a (paying) user of NewsBlur (https://newsblur.com/) since Google Reader shut down and haven't looked back.
p.s: In HN spirit, it also happens to be one developer's side-project-turned-profitable-business, and the "social" features a totally non-intrusive, but there if you want to know what people are sharing and commenting on.
I use NewsBlur as well ever since the demise of Google Reader. The native apps are fantastic and it’s been dead reliable. I feel the small amount I pay for it is totally worth it and is definitely one of my most used apps. I don’t think it gets enough love.
After Google Reader went away I was actively looking for a reader where, by giving the creator money, I was ensuring it would stick around. And also where I was the customer rather than the product. There's a free version you can use to try it out but it's limited in the number of feeds. And $24 a year isn't a high price for what I'm getting.
Newsblur is also YC S12. And it has been worked on ever since with some cool features: you can forward your newsletters to it and turn them into RSS feeds(!) for example.
Yep, been using NewsBlur since almost day 1 and never looked back. The two killer features for me are (1) mouseless operation and (2) the blurblog where I can send favourite stories then make them available via a single RSS feed.
Did their Android app ever get any better? I used it from when Google Reader shut down until a couple of years ago, but always had horrible trouble with Android client (lots of people reported it being fine, but I think the differentiator was number of feeds - I had lots of feeds) getting into weird loops where it would just cycle through the same 10 stories.
I've been using Newsblur for years now. I love it most of the time, but it still has a lot of UI bugs/quirks that are occasionally frustrating. I might have to work up the energy for another round of GitHub issues.
Yes you should do this. I’m about to hire somebody to work on the NewsBlur web issues while I attend grad school. I have a strong feeling that a lot more is about to happen once I start hiring other developers to build it further.
Perfect time to start moving (and contributing) to decentralized services.
I've been following the development of https://beakerbrowser.com and I really hope it captures wider attention. -- It's not just super user friendly already, it's actually easier to set up a Beaker website than one on the regular net (literally one click).
Ask the people arrested and jailed for posession of cannabis. I mean, both you and the parent comment are right: we, the people, shall resist; but we, the people, must also do our best to prevent such legislation come to pass.
My point was that marijuana has remained popular in the US, despite several decades of draconian suppression. But perhaps people won't care so much about freedom of expression online.
Yes, it's time. But notice how everytime there is talk about a decentralized project, some of the comments are like "so how will this censor child porn or copyright infringement on the network" or similar.
Decentralized projects will have to resist the urge to listen to these people, because otherwise they shouldn't even bother if the decentralized projects will have built-in censorship mechanisms.
Law enforcement should go straight after the criminals, not after the platforms, just like when they go straight after the people publishing child porn on the Tor network, not after the Tor browser. That's how it should work.
> Decentralized projects will have to resist the urge to listen to these people
Think about it like this: "how will this censor calls on the network to censor the network". It's quite a conundrom.
Your proposal to well just don't listen to them is a form of self censoring -- not in the usual sense but I don't know a better term. Two sides of the same coin. One is the optimal case, you stay ignorant and it goes away, all do their best. On the other side, you can't just shut your eyes and ignore everything, which leads to various problems, some you don't want to or can't deal with and others can be resolved satisfactory. ...
Funny by-the-way. Zensur in german also means school-related "mark", "grade". Sp census is just evaluation. Weighting. Multiply content by its grade and you get zero contentrating for zero census votes. ... does that make sense?
> "really understanding" is just something a computer program thinks it can do once it gets complex enough to be conscious.
At the same time, consciousness might not be a requisite of higher intelligence at all; it could merely have been
evolutionarily advantageous early on in the development of complex brains because of our natural environment... it's hard to imagine an intelligent animal with no "me" program doing very well.
But maybe a digital intelligence (one that did not evolve having to worry about feeding itself, acquiring rare resources, mating, communicating socially, etc.) would have no use for a central "me" program that "really experiences" things.
YouTube has a skip ad button after 5 seconds, and I'm not convinced there's an advert on every clip (at least on the YouTube app on phone - obviously no adverts on the desktop)
uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, Privacy Badger. You are not obligated to watch ads. Don't fall for the lie. Your computer, your rules. Google are already rich enough.
Anecdotal: nothing helped my IBS. Dietary changes, exercise, nothing. Drs said nothing looked wrong. By the time I was 26, it was so bad I would stay home and not socialize often. I would need immodium like candy just to get through a social function. It was truly a nightmare. I was ready to give up.
4000 UI vitamin D a day, and about four weeks in it magically goes away 90%. I've gotten thanks from other people I passed the tip to.
Incidentally, the symptoms started abruptly about a year and a half before my diagnosis of melanoma; another disease with a vitamin D link.
A common type of IBS is actually caused by an autoimmune condition whereby the body begins to attack the protein vinculin instead of attacking camplobacter cdtb. There's a blood test you can now get which tell you if this is going on in your system.
This article has too many holes to count and reads more like someone in denial.
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BUT, as an aside: I think a decent argument exists for the non-certainty of intelligence explosion.
The argument goes like this: it takes an intelligence of level X to engineer an intelligence of level X+1.
First, it may well be that humans are not an intelligence of level X, and reach our limit before we engineer an intelligence superior to our own.
Furthermore, even if we do, it may also be that it takes an intelligence of level X+2 to engineer an intelligence of level X+2 (Etc. for some intelligence level X+n.), in which case we at most end up with an AI only somewhat superior to ourselves, but no God-like singularity (for example, we end up with Data from Star Trek TNG, who in season 3, episode 16 fails to engineer an offspring superior to himself -- sure, Data is far superior to his human peers in some aspects, but not crushingly so).
I think everyone agrees about "non-certainty". Where people disagree is on how likely an intelligence explosion is; and in particular, whether it is likely enough to warrant expending effort to plan for it.
We don't know enough to know whether it's possible. If it is, we don't know enough to know what approach to follow to get there.
Is it worth spending effort to plan for it? Maybe some. But if we don't know what approach to follow to get there, we don't know what it's capabilities and limitations will be. That means we don't know what we have to plan for. Any planning will therefore be either very speculative or very abstract.
I wouldn't start pouring effort into planning for it, as if were the most important problem in the world...
While of course the current move towards exposing harassment in the office is important, I don't hear much recognition that the people getting the most benefit are those whose prospects are already cushy to begin with... how much of this is actually "tricking down" to people working in often dehumanizing conditions?
I worked minimum wage until my mid-20's, and most of my high school friends didn't do college (or even graduate high school, in some cases); my parents (who both hold degrees) also worked in warehouses and stuff like that for a while when we first immigrated. In many jobs, being treated like trash, bullied, etc. is the norm. Being constantly talked down to and treated like a child is certainly the norm. And the sexual harassment stories are also much more frequent, and much worse. But people at the lower rungs don't have the social capital to take to Twitter safely, jump ship to a different company, etc. Doing so risks losing next month's bills, losing a good reference, etc. So it's just the way it is.
And I'm talking here in Canada where we have much better worker protection laws, so I can only assume it's even worse in the US.
Same with workplace safety. Sure, on paper you have the right to refuse unsafe work. But don't be surprised if all of a sudden you start getting less hours or get reprimanded for "not being a team player" or some crap.
Things like this are why I love seeing articles / comments on HN telling kids not to go to college, to do trades, etc. Or when you overhear someone at a dinner party saying how they wish they could quit they're good-paying desk job to go work i a restaurant kitchen full-time. The grass looks greener but it's certainly not easier and your body can take a beating.
