jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Two objects of the same logical form are—apart from their ex-
ternal properties—only differentiated from one another in that
they are different.
differentiated in that
they are different.
It is a mediocre circular reasoning. The correct statement could have been to say that they are internally structurally the same object but have different identity like e.g in nominal typing.

HOWEVER, I skimmed the tractacus years ago and now I update my jugement:
The tractacus has many flaws but it is not pure bullshit nor a bullshit detector test despite the striking irony of Wittgenstein saying in the preface and in the conclusion
Its whole meaning could be summed up somewhat as follows: What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.
And then spending a hundred a pages talking in a non clear, vague manner about a few conclusions that are one 1) obvious to any rationalist
And 2) that can be summed up in ~one page Cf the symbol grounding problem, defining empiricism and that metaphysical questions are by design out of the scope of science and therefore cannot be answered (well an exhaustive list of the possibles can still be given).
This book has a very low signal to noise ratio which make it easy to mistakely take for bullshit/pseudo intellectualism.
As a NLU researcher some of his thoughts are actually interesting about how do define a semantic space even if most of them are trivial.
> The problem [is] that people think they measure a permanent aspect of themselves. In truth, people's personalities are malleable...

The one and only time I did the Myers-Briggs stuff, the speaker made it absolutely abundantly clear:

1) Traits were contextual. We're different around family, friends, coworkers, commuting into work... (Duh, right?)

2) Though people can fake traits, like an introvert acting extroverted, doing so requires more effort. So maybe ponder that your resting state traits are more likely the "real you".

2.1) The speaker used an ice berg metaphor, which stuck with me. People present an aspect of themselves in public. With effort, you can rotate your ice berg to show other aspects. Removing the effort allows the ice berg to find its resting state.
Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. was in my mind and many others greatly preferred to the current mess we see caused by 230.

Please tell me how your 1A hypothetical works out. Genuinely interested in hearing how you think 1A and SCOTUS will support your side of this argument.
When you say you can't import/sync data from your phone - Couldn't you just decommission Signal Desktop from your phone, nuke the desktop installation, and reinstall from scratch?

Not to dismiss the annoyance involved. I'm just trying to understand what this bug is really about.
Yes I saw this, and got a little disillusioned at first, but after looking carefully this is not big data, their entire dataset fits in RAM. When your dataset can't fit in RAM - this is where the last resort comes into play. Sadly most companies, I agree, don't know when data is really big data. Most of the time it's just medium data. And I agree about the overhead costs.
I work exclusively on remote servers. My remote "servers" are a 500 node cluster, and I do research and development for a parallel and distributed language and runtime system. The remote systems are setup for development, are managed by full-time staff, and continuously backed up.

Not everyone has the same workflow, partly because not everyone has the same work.
I have one. It's ok. It's not very stable so the monitor arm I attached wobbled with the LG-34UM95 I have.

It was a cheap arm and a cheap desk. A cheap desk with a better arm might have turned out better. I am kind of wishing I had looked at a few more desks, but I worked things out by shimming the monitor arm and putting 110 pounds of lead on the desk to stabilize it. I hope that doesn't burn the motor out!

The sit/stand functionality works well. If you go to Ikea you can see one in person in the US. Their stock info was wrong when I went and they didn't have the regular desk only the corner desk which was 100$ more.
You don’t understand - there is no need to setup backups. Every user has a full “backup” of the repository (unless using sparse checkouts or other niche configs).
However right you may be on this, just a bit of feedback; accusing someone of being ignorant, prejudiced and lying could also come off as “salty”.

Misinformed maybe, but they admitted they were wrong.

Also:

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
we've been making these since the beginning of time, we call them humans
You can move your mouse anywhere on the screen and get different images for each point. Moving over the the cat vs. the fluid simulator doesn't make a difference, except that the points are mirrored over the Y-axis.
I find that everything in Jupyter-land is as inconvenient to reproduce as it is convenient to experiment with. Case in point: last I checked, you still had to do gymnastics in order to even store your notebooks in Git in a meaningful way (e.g. allowing merges).

It really throws me off the whole thing (Julia + Jupyter is even worse...) because I’m not keen on putting effort into stuff that nobody, myself included, will be able to use in a year or two.
Will citi get the profits the hedge fund realises on the $900m while it's in the courts? I am guessing no, and the earnjngs will make money for everyone including both sides lawyers.
I searched youtube for some: (I like seeing them work..)

this newer one seemed like a decent intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjfrzGeB5_g

This is the older one I used initially:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8eIe_Pjjp0&t=921s
They're always tweaking the UI, so Looking at it again, it seems a little out of date.
conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab=3
Firefox _used to_ handle it (ui.key.accelKey = 91) but it's been buggy since Quantum.
ERCOT also successfully claims sovereign immunity, despite being an industry association and explicitly not a part of the government: https://abc13.com/10362037/

The reason appears to basically be what you say - they are critical infrastructure, and if they are sued out of existence, there won't be an electrical utility. It's not like a normal market where customers can just buy wooden toys from someone else.

It must be nice to have all the rewards of being a private business with all the risk of being a sovereign government.
I was at this talk at Blackhat Amsterdam last year and recalled it when hearing about an app called Gyroscope.

Essentially gyrosocopes can be used to pick up speech vibrations and therefore can become lousy microphones. The point is microphone access requires permissions, yet any app can have gyroscope access without permission.

Props to Yan Michalevsky, GabiNakibly and DanBoneh for an interesting paper and talk.
>>The age of the fossil fuel personal car is entering its last decade.

I wouldn't be so confident. Right now, Tesla addresses a small portion of the expensive sports sedans segment in a few lucky parts of the world. Even then, Tesla cannot make enough cars to fulfill demand. The grid as it is, cannot handle a sudden and drastic increase in demand for electricity and the additional infrastructure needed will be neither cheap nor easily obtained.

I do think the internal combustion engine (w.r.t. to cars) will be relegated to history, but I won't think the transformation will be quick or easy.
Wouldn't it make more sense to go with JSX and Flow?
this isn't quite the same. if you compare like-for-like as much as possible (eg, base 2000 honda civic vs 2020 civic), msrp for new cars has not kept pace with inflation. adjusted for inflation, the price of an entry-level car has fallen in the last twenty years (even as the lowest end cars have become far more capable, safe, and efficient).

easy access to credit may have increased the average price paid for a new vehicle (by shifting buyers up-market), but unlike in the case of housing, this does not deprive buyers of the chance to buy a cheap car. people buying bmws on 84 month loans doesn't mean you can't get a brand new versa for $15k OTD.
The explanation is clear, but I just don't see it as being particularly convincing.

Sure, I didn't ask for evidence. Now, I am. Where's your evidence?
Big companies are already almost entirely maintenance.
Not one bldg. There are multiple House and Senate offices and the Library of Congress. It's a huge complex which does not seem well designed from a security standpoint. I don't know if they've fixed that, but after 9/11 it was a mess of access.
I think to prescribe irony would mean that the people downvoting simply have conflicting opinions and made a mistake or something. Parler is an app that, regardless of its intentions, is used to promote far right extremism and many of the people on the platform promote terrorism and facism. These people don't care about free speech. Their lives suck and can't conceptualize the fact that its not black people's fault or other's fault for their crappy life. Its the people they vote for and their immediate surroundings (so probably parents) that are at fault.
I've done the last 10 months at work in CoffeeScript. The previous 12 were full time client side JavaScript.

I think if you have a team of people dedicated to keeping your dev and build environment working then CoffeeScript might be worth it. Maybe.

You just lose so much. You lose debugging tools. You lose being able to run your code outside of a build environment. You lose being able to copy/paste between your code and the browser. You lose being able to understand what happens when you run your code (unless you memorize the full implementation of CoffeeScript.) You lose being able to differentiate between foo and var foo.

I actually feel like there is a movement back in the other direction. Pure js. Small modules that do one thing well. Functional programming. It's not a terrible scene.
$4 BT audio dongles like this one

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5mm-USB-Bluetooth-Wireless-Stereo-...

will work fine, only problem is double compression of audio - it sounds like crap
Strange, how comes that Youtube deactivated the rating for this song?

This can be interpreted as a kind of censorship, which is really not a good sign for Google.
As a BlackBerry 10 developer, this is pretty bad. It pollutes the store with garbage apps like the Play Store. The difference with the Play Store is that there are enough good apps there that they rise above the noise. It seems like BlackBerry needs to work on getting more significant apps on the platform, and needs to work on filtering out crap like this.

I'm making what I consider to be "good" apps, but I'm just one dev. It's a really crappy problem of the fact that phones aren't selling due to lack of apps, which doesn't incentivize developers to create apps because there aren't many customers.

It's really an unfortunate problem to have that I don't have a good solution for them to get out of. It's a fantastic development platform, and a fantastic OS that really blows Android, Windows Phone, and even iOS out of the water in many ways.

I'm more excited for BlackBerry's future than ever, but I'm also more worried than ever. sigh
I think this should be some sort of internet law. It's happened to other platforms, and it'll happen again. I'd be interested to see what Google is doing to prevent this from happening (or if they would embrace it at arms length).

"Should thou ever integrate video with a payment system, thou shalt be sundered full of naked bodies"
I also played Frontierville for a bit, but never spent money on it. I even got a lot of fake Facebook friends that were Frontierville players so I could have more neighbours without spamming my actual Facebook friends.

The one thing that suckered me into it was the sound effects and sparkles whenever you do something "good" in the game, like gather coins or hearts or wood. They are absolutely brilliant and complement the progress bar very nicely. For me, they just hit the reptile brain button labelled "good boy!". Clingeling cling cling caching... Oh yeah...
If they (and I'm looking at this site in particular, but it applies to anyone using that design pattern) actually wanted to fix this they'd have the tweet be a reply to @sfvote (or something like that), as opposed to a stand-alone tweet. Doing that would allow your tweet to show up in search results - which allows counting and gauging of opinion - but would only show up to your followers who are also following @sfvote, to whom the tweet would probably be of interest anyways.

The downside of this, from their point of view, is that it makes it much more difficult for the site to really spread (which is clearly their intent). People running this site _want_ your whole contact list to be able to see it (because it opens up a whole new wave of person-to-person advertising) so that more people use it, regardless of how your followers would treat the information.

Maybe add an option along the lines of "Do you want to send this to all your followers?", but even that wouldn't really be in the site's interest.
Is the Desire really that much different from the Nexus One, they are practically the same handset but with some minor modifications..
I can understand why he's equivocal. Facebook has pushed the social graph as far as it has by becoming the medium it manifests in - and in so doing has put itself in a culpable position. The people who use it can now blame Facebook for things that were once their own stupid fault. And through publicity and hype they have become the new privacy whipping boy. Any decision they make will be criticised. There is something to be said for artificially prolonging the debate in order to encourage a more organic consensus.
Sucks for the investors. $22M in and less than $3M out.
Yeah, that was around the time the internet wasn’t even relevant to the majority of the first world population. Trying to make comparisons to how it might look today is pointless.

At AOLs peak, it had about 35 million subscribers. Comcast alone has nearly that many.
> This is essentially a global expansion of what has been normal everyday life in much of Asia for decades.

"For decades" is right. When I was a kid in the 60s we always picked up all sorts of clones when in HK, TW, SG, MY, ID etc (didn't go to mainland China in those days but doubt this would have been true there at that time...)
That whole argument of the teachers need a complicated tax code is cancerous. There's an easy way I'm happy to solve it with. If you're a public school teacher, you can skip paying taxes. You already aren't paid well enough, this ones on us.
All good - I may have been reading between lines that were not there.
not to mention that it's almost impossible to buy actual bonafide HEPA filters from consumer facing vendors. True HEPA? Nope that's marketing speak for something else
That seems to kick the issue down the road. It defines 'species' clearly, but it doesn't make it clear how to assess 'fertile reproduction', or why it should be the criterion.
Thanks, I just spent 30 minutes debating what a species was with a friend because of this article. The ring species concept clarifies quite a lot.
The marginal cost to use an ATM is low but what about the fixed costs of installing them and the ongoing maintenance? How much methane is released into the atmosphere feeding bankers porterhouse steaks?
Let’s talk larger game - assume the btc-denominated economic zone becomes non-negligible in size. The best defense for neighboring economic zones is good fiscal governance. Because BTC land will be an anarchic mess. It will have multiple germanies and Greece’s and Nigeria’s within it, and Cartel controlled sub zones, etc. who will deal with rising levels of indebtedness in BTC instruments? Who will deal with fraud, cartels seizing companies and households’ reserves, or simply defaulting on debt in this “trust less” Dystopia?

Vastly different levels of productivity between regions of the same economic zones or between zones can result in crazy social friction without trade regulation and controls - how will BTC land manage this friction?

Additionally - the energy and security requirements of btc zone participants will become crushing. Why will market participants continue to labor in this spiraling High energy hell when they can retreat to the much lower energy state of a trustful, managed economic zone? It will be like a breath of fresh air.
Yahoo was originally almost entirely human curated. I remember having to pay around $500 to get a business listing for a mortgage broker added.
taking out debt to pay out dividends does not make any change to the capital structure of a company (i.e., the debt load increased, but the equity structure stayed the same). This basically means the company is losing that money paid out, and thus, the equity's price would drop by that equivelent amount, and then added a debt obligation (so an even more loss).

This, no shareholder controlled board would ever authorize taking out debt to pay dividends, unless there's some special circumstances for which this makes sense (i can't think of any atm).

The difference with buybacks using debt is that buybacks changes the capital structure. I suppose if the debt is artificially cheap (say, the gov't is forcing interest rates down to lower than what the market rate _would_ be), then it makes sense from a financial perspective, to borrow money, and pay (to the shareholders) the difference between the "real" market rate and the artificial rate. But this predicates that the real rate is much higher (transactional costs, and other overheads might easily dwarf this difference in rate).
The put it there because they want people to read it, and nobody is going to read it if they put it on their private wiki.
Those jackasses don't buy anything. It's all sent to them for free.
Those of us who pay attention to finance

HA! Those of us who LEARN about finance understand that this person has no understanding of even basic finance. Not one mention of NPV or future earnings, cash flows, dividends, etc.
Is nonsexual nudity really something we need to "protect" children from? All those shows is that people have genitalia.
I think this story actually dovetails with the "Mac is done" story:

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonic-shifts/2010/06/08/do...

It's been posited that Apple and Google understand the cloud, and are moving as fast as they can to get EVERYTHING into this mode as quickly as they can. From all indications, Microsoft is going to be too far behind when the tipping point happens.

Thoughts?
> I doubt Sense makes a difference in battery life. It's also my understanding that it's just a home screen; change the preference for which app manages the home screen, and you are back to plain Android.

Absolutely not. Sense includes replacement applications for loads of stuff (contact list, phone, etc...) as well as a specific keyboard, it's a complete revamp of the Android UI.
Is there a video of this online anywhere? I'd love to see the talk after reading the slides/pdf.
The best site to register is Network Solutions, as they are partners of the enterprise that is .co.
>PSGI might appear to be new but much of the guts of Plack are pulled from previous framework-specific code so the various workarounds for server insanities are already there. It's a lot more reliable than you appear to think.

I see.
Perhaps my vision of the state of PSGI is not right indeed.
Nethertheless, my apps run under Fast::CGI
and I really don't see the advantage of PSGI.
tldr: ""The trigger for this event was a network configuration change. We will audit our change process and increase the automation to prevent this mistake from happening in the future."

AMZN has gotten a lot of flack over this outage, and rightly so. But I do want to dissuade anyone from thinking anybody else could do much better. I worked there 10 years ago, when they were closer to 200 engineers, and the caliber of people there at that point was insane. By far the smartest bunch I've ever worked with, and a place where I learned habits that serve me well to this day.

I know the guys that started the AWS group and they were the best of that already insanely selective group. It is easy to be an arm chair coach and scream that the network changes should have been automated in the first place, or that they should have predicted this storm, but that ignores just how fantastically hard what they are doing is and how fantastically well it works 99(how many 9's now?)% of the time.

In short, take my word for it, the people working on this are smarter than you and me, by an order of magnitude. There is no way you could do better, and it is unlikely that if you are building anything that needs more than a handful of servers you could build anything more reliable.
Which "Math and Statistics" book?
AWS was numero uno in terms of customer visibility and the image of a pathbreaking cloud service, before the incident.

Lack in transparency in reaching out to customers is the biggest mistake what AWS did. They would learn from their mistakes, their servers and networks would be more reliable than ever.

This incident has given a reason for people to look at multi-cloud operation capability, for disaster recovery and backup reasons. AWS monopoly would be gone, there would be many new standards which would be proposed to bring in interoperability and for migrations between clouds.
> Nobody in their right mind has been using CGI::Fast directly for years

Could you extend on that?
Been using it for years,just works fine.

>PSGI is just a means to present various HTTP bearing things to the app

I really still don't get the benefit though.
But perhaps I should dig into it more
(for now, the python implementation doc was helpful but still did not bring me that much clues as to the real benefits about it)
The difference is with WiFi, someone can take $50.00 worth of service, and you wouldn't even see their face. If someone tried to come up to your house and take $50.00 of water, you'd probably notice.
wasd works
Ok, I think I need to clarify what I believe an "idea" to be. So, this is both to you and Random42...

To Random42's point, simply having an idea like: "Wouldn't it be cool if cars could fly" is obviously worthless.

I think that I was not clear enough:

I think of an idea as a vetted plan. An idea, based on an understanding of a problem and a market, a vision on how it will make money. A design a spec and even mock-ups.

Far more than a simple statement of wishful thinking.

For me, whenever I have "an idea" I take it as far as I can take it sans having it developed.

For example, I have a current "idea" in the medical space (which is where my current full time focus is) that is a patient entertainment system.

This idea is based on several years of full time health care systems design experience designing two hospitals each with a budget of more than $500 million. It is an iterative evolution of a previous idea which we implemented and built and released open source, and a solid understanding of the market, the challenges and the sales cycle. Further, it is arrived at with the inclusion of hospital IT and Clinical staff that I have worked with on two projects -- and input from the founder of one of the existing market leading companies in this space.

I have a product spec, financial model, business plan and mock-ups.

This is my "idea" -- it is not worthless because it is a proven, fully informed documented product plan.

I still need development and a host of other things to accomplish this.

I have millions of simple wishful thinking ideas as well, but for anything that has value - real potential I go through the above.

I apparently was not clear with what I thought an idea was... I hope this makes my perspective a little more clear.
Gross stuff like Oracle Financials or similar big ticket ERP consulting pays about the same rate in the USA.