skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never heard of this Kastrup fellow, but it's pretty hard to want to keep reading about an issue so delicate with so heavy-headed a first page. For example, here's a thing he claims we know "about the universe irrespective of theory or metaphysics", an "empirical fact", he declares, "accessible to anyone through simple observation":

"There is subjective experience. This is the primary and incontrovertible."

This statement is a fine way of starting a conversation and far from a silly thing to assume as a first pass.

But what happens if we try to square his claim that what he is presenting "avoids any a priori metaphysical assumption or bias" with the need to clarify what he means by "subjective"? Is subjectivity a means of knowing (from the inside)? The phenomenal aspect of consciousness (a rug appearing redly)? A way of categorizing facts (the domain of what can be seen from a perspective)? All that matters for now is that any of these responses will result in his first Grand Fact being completely different. And, further, that any answer will involve theoretical machinery, however implicit it is to most people.

What if we then step to the next word and argue that the concept of "experience" is both dispensable (we can do all explanatory work without it) and adds to confusion (by muddling causal and justificatory dimensions of our behavior) and that we should replace it with a family of more restricted concepts? So much for incontrovertible.

And what if we keep going with the second clause of the statement and counter that nothing, in general, can be primary and incontrovertible (that all concepts must earn their keep in explanation)?

It would be tedious---but easy---to do this for every one of the "facts of nature" which ground his pretty pompous exposition. It's easy to think this sort of response is just being clever, but being comfortable with everything being up for grabs and being more modest about what we are actually doing is really the only way an issue as hazy and messy as consciousness can be seriously approached. The playfulness used by Dennett or Hofstader, for example, is not just superfluous or "mere rhetoric", but essential for the stage of understanding we're at.

An aside: I was only scanning for modest evidence that the author was aware of and responsive to the complexity of the issue to see if it was worth my time to read further, not that he actually explicitly addresses every possible move! Also, his substantive position, as far as I glean it, can still be interesting. FWIW I personally have idealist sympathies (appropriately construed) and think both subjectivity and experience do earn their keep...so far.
For the first part, OpenStack fairly widely uses bindep (pbr is a pretty OpenStack ecosystem thing too). It's not really perfect, but it is a fairly standard way for a CI environment deploying from git to ensure the binary dependencies. If a project doesn't have a bindep.txt file, in CI it falls back to [2] for example.

I guess your second point means something like symbol versioning for Python libraries, which I'm not aware of any solution to, apart from just running things in a virtualenv.

[1] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/readme.html
[2] https://github.com/openstack-infra/project-config/blob/maste...
Comparing the Bias in Telemetry Data vs. The Typical Firefox User
Has anyone tried both Sublime Text 3 and Atom 1.20? I'd love to see a compare/contrast
the murder parts
> May be there is racism that is institutional, but the point is most people even those who are against harsher sentences today thought it was a remedy.

That's exactly the irony of institutional racism: it's so rarely _consciously_ racist. It is often "colorblind".
Use a square wave.
I think we are saying the same thing :)
For the curious or non-British: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/whingers
Huh, could you link to the law?
So there are natural numbers with an infinite number of digits and that is my point. The average can't be larger than the largest number.
I'd recommend this even for non-emacs users who use terminals a lot. The tiny bit of extra comfort from ctrl-C in a shell alone is worth it. Add in tmux ctrl-B, or any readline shortcuts you use a lot, and you're onto a winner.
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Have you also read "Abstinence Helps Reduce Opioid Addiction, According to New Study"?
It's not 100% fallacy if there's slack in the labour market.

If you have 10 chaps hanging around, all of whom have broken windows, there's a gain in both wealth and employment if some of those chaps get organized and start fixing windows.

To the degree that the novelty is good, keeping otherwise unemployed people active producing novelties is neither a loss nor a waste of time. Of course it doesn't make sense to go around breaking windows to keep the dynamic up, unless breaking windows is enormous fun and gives people lots of utility (which it might!).

More generally, thinking about these things in terms of money rather than wealth, production and consumption (a stock and its positive and negative flows) leads people to faulty intuitions. They're familiar with household budgeting and other situations where money seems tangible. But money is just a way of accounting for the stock, and measuring and transporting the flows. It's the actual wealth, production and consumption that counts.
I think for anyone interested there'll be lots of docker containers and forks that keep up to date with upstream and simplify getting the binaries.

I feel kind of bad for the authors here, the rollout of this hasn't been perfect. Right now they're suffering the wrath of folks angry at what they perceive as a bait and switch. (Although I think that's a little harsh also, given that you can compile your own for free)

It seems like they would probably have been better selling it as a commerical venture from the get-go as a niche premium version of nginx.

Of course, then it's harder to gain ground that way.
> (scroll-bar-mode -1)

...what? You're gonna take away the scrollbar just like that? Implying that the scrollbar is worthless? Scrollbar is very important to me at least, (especially a well-implemented one). It gives me a quick and instant visual understanding of how big the file is, where I am currently in the file, etc. The only improvement I have seen on the scrollbar is Sublime's minimap... I knew there exist emacs methods to get it working, but I could not get it to work (on Windows) in less than a few days so that's of no use to me.
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> You could argue the mouse is slower. I'm not sure if this actually holds up to empirical measurement

It is slower, and does hold up to empirical measurement. Yes, if you want 'ease of onboarding', then vim is not for you. It's a powerful tool for professionals, and like a lot of such tools, it requires some training. No-one ever complains that Photoshop requires training, yet a brand new user to Photoshop is completely befuddled and it takes a long time before they're proficient.
I just started learning Python, what does this syntax mean?

**json.loads(my_json))

from

with_slots = [get_size(MyUserWithSlots(**json.loads(my_json))) for _ in range(NUM_INSTANCES)]

Edit: I mean, I get what it's doing, but specifically I don't understand the double * (somehow it's not rendering in this comment)
Non-state owned media is hardly better in this regard.
Sounds like the National Labor Relations Act needs to be repealed as opposed to right to work laws.
I was! Thank you.
I think it would make the parsing a tiny bit more inconvenient though
That article doesn't support your point. The law being referenced here is the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, signed into law 8 years earlier by Reagan [1]. You are correct, though. The Black Congressional Congress and the majority of black congressmen at the time supported the ADAA, even helping draft it.

But, I still think that it would be wrong to assume that there was universal (or even majority) support among the black community. One confounder would be the media; studies have shown that public opinion about drug use and drug crime were/are directly related to media coverage [2]. With Reagan publicly saying drugs "are as much a threat to the United States as enemy planes and missiles", I think it's difficult to disentangle anyone's true personal feelings about the law from the sociopolitical influences that were present at the time.

The view of policing at the time was simply different. Some might have viewed the ADAA as a much more honest form of policing black communities, as opposed to the efforts undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s: stifling civil rights-related protests and other actions, along with actions by high-powered militarized SWAT teams being concentrated in poor black communities [3].

Even in retrospect, the issues are complex and unclear. Is it really difficult to believe that most people at the time, policymakers or not, were simply incapable of fathoming the results of the ADAA? It's clear that the imbalance in policing, partially as a result of the ADAA, has decimated the black community. Most of the damage, I would argue, is due to an ugly amalgamation of the rise of the prison industrial complex and the transparent willingness of policymakers to look past the needs of poor and minority communities in writing criminal law over the last 30 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Drug_Abuse_Act_of_1986
[2] https://academic.oup.com/socpro/article/41/3/425/1671880/Set...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/02/ameri...
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I'm saying that what you claim to be the ideological basis of the war is untrue.

The ideological basis and the geopolitical basis are two entirely different things.

I still consider it rather ironic how Ho Chi Minh was originally a supporter of democratic instutions and a friend of the US, until he decided the independence of his people mattered a lot more.

That's a place where the USA really f'd up!
How can people have theories of consciousness and not include learning. The brain is constantly predicting futures, thinking multiple steps ahead, and on surprise, check what past prediction was off, hoping to correct it and learn.

In a way, we are observers, that closely observe ourselves.
> The Unix m4 macro processor is probably the only widely used tool that uses the `quote' combination as part of its input syntax; however, even that could be modified via changequote.

I remember staring for a long time at the file when I first saw an m4 macro. My brain was telling, surely this has go to be a typo, but then everything worked as expected. Then I learned that's a proper way of quoting there.
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Israel has 10 as well.
>And of course I used ascii analogues to type these into HN :-(

But why, though? To the best of my knowledge, HN supports unicode quite well, including the following quotes: »«›‹„“‚‘ (available with the help of AltGr and sometimes shift from keys y, x, v, b when selecting the German keyboard layout on my computer).
Validating JSON schemas with rspc and dry-validation
Her patent doesn't really look like what we think of as a fidget spinner though. It's more like a spinning top.
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This uses the key-value pairs as keyword arguments.
They're referring to C-16, but the idea that it criminalizes speech is bogus. The law only steps in if it's happening in the context of employment, public accomodations, etc.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/20038/why-is-ca...
Unpacks the object into a dictionary. It's syntactic sugar:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2921893/66202
It's not in Bosnia :D
It may not be clear because it's very obvious but one of the primary optimizations in haskell that make it fast despite heavily using currying and lamba functions is that haskell doesn't have dynamic dispatch. This is completely unrelated to purity and lazyiness. This means it's possible to inline every lamba and partial function therefore use them at zero cost without the overhead of a JIT compiler or vm at runtime.

The JVM can do similar optimizations because it knows the class hierarchy at runtime and therefore declares every method as final until it finds a class with a method that overrides the previous definition. It's also capable inlining dynamic dispatch by profiling the type of the object it's dispatching on. If 99% of all calls go to class X then it can inline the method of class X and catch the remaining 1% with a fallback clause. Of course this comes at a cost. You need to retain the bytecode, class metadata, profiling information and duplicated code that is generated from inlining in memory.
The API is frustrating because it is meant to hide the fact that Android audio sucks giant hairy donkey balls.

If you give Web developers access to raw samples, they are going to expect it to work. When it doesn't on Chrome on Android, lots of people are going to start complaining and filing bugs.

So, instead of fixing the audio path, they decided to bury its crappiness under a "higher-level" API which has fuzzier latency and can be built with hacks in the audio driver stacks themselves.
I think there were alternative designs but either no one cared or people were determined to push WebAudio despite faults. An example alternative that was proposed is http://robert.ocallahan.org/2012/01/mediastreams-processing-...
Thank you. That was the point of my submission. The importance of the article is not so much that the US is funding weapons to Syria (as many commenters have said, that's unsurprising); the key point here is that they are using nefarious means to do it, and thereby undermining international law and control mechanisms such as the UN Arms Trade Treaty.
>or who just want really friggin' stable shit.

Critically for potential desktop users, this means you can't necessarily expect things like touchpad drivers to work. Hardware support, especially consumer hardware support, can take years to trickle into centos releases.

That stability may well be deeply desirable in a server that has to undergo security audits every so often, but it won't help you install it on a laptop.
This article confused me a lot more before I realized Ford meant the company, not the individual.
Likely they're referring to https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-16/

I'm providing this to be helpful. Discussions on this on HN have historically devolved incredibly quickly into flamewars. Anyone choosing to discuss this I ask that you reflect on why you want to do so: are you looking to truly understand what others think on this? Are you truly open to having your opinion changed? Are you hoping to convince others of your position? Shout down those you disagree with? If you're looking for something other than truly productive, respectful, thoughtful, charitable discussion, please refrain from commenting here.
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In the words of Neal Stephenson, they are '[opiate]-seeky.' They have a tendency dug in at the neurological level to seek opiates, even if they aren't doing so at the moment. The distinction offered by Stephenson is that '*-seeky' is an adjective that modifies an individual, rather than a noun such as 'addict' which overshadows and eclipses an individual.
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Pleasure. Keep following OCCRP: they are the world's best kept secret in investigative reporting.
Children also weren't expected to continuously be monitored by adults before. They left the house and hung out with siblings or neighborhood kids until it was time to eat.
Also Ruby:

%q{This is a string with an %q{embedded quote}.}
Ask HN: IT careers for those who hate people
Over my 20+-year carrer it seems that there's same pattern for me, - enthusiastic hiring, 2-3 years, and I'm fired over issues management has with me (nothing atrocious like stealing, being late, hygiene etc -- just not a team player and not corporate friedly). I'm not a people person, and I can only hypothesize that people sense that and distance away, and finally have enough. Remotely too.

So now I feel that here's coming another round, and I find it somehow pointless to go for another job hunting, because the cycle will most probably repeat itself. I wonder if there exists anything IT-related so the human contact is minimal?

Am programmer by trade

Thank you
What are A, B and C initiatives? That they stop recruiting women and minorities? That they allow more hate speech on youtube? The civil rights issues of our goddamn times.
I was replying more to jospar's post about learning what an 'if' was, what a 'boolean' was, etc. What's an 'if'? Ultimately it's a comparison of two numbers and a transfer of control based upon said comparison. Some architectures that's one instruction, some two.
I have javascript on and gigabit internet. It still took over 10 seconds for this page to show me readable content.

This doesn't just apply to the people with JS off.
And the prices have been dropping. My girlfriend got me one recently and I do find it good for keeping me focused if I'm reading or watching something.
Given that justice reform for low level drug offenders has gone precisely nowhere in the last 30 years, I'm thinking we haven't really learned anything from the epidemic in the 80s.

I'll let you fill in the blanks: If the 80s epidemic and the current opioid crisis are experiments and the sentencing scheme remains identical, what is the independent variable?
Not the only one, simply the most plausible one!

I can't answer the ultimate skeptic except to say that not only do skeptical arguments against knowledge depend on that very same knowledge, and so undermine themselves, but even if that were not so, abstract musings will never be more plausible than the concrete reality staring you in the face.
In London, with their right positioned drivers, more than once I got a scare of the phantom drivers. :-)
I'll add another point. Even if you believe, today, that Google is good/noble, it's still best for the market to promote competition. If you allow too much power to concentrate into an oligopoly, the cost to capture the market drops to a level where coercive actors have the capability to do so.
It's useful to remember the ADAA in the broader context of the 1980s push towards harsher federal sentencing across the board. It's not a coincidence that federal sentences were revised and federal parole abolished just a few years prior, or that the Willie Horton ad would run in the next Presidential election.

It's true that there was mainstream black support for anti-crime legislation, but that support wasn't distinctive. Blacks weren't leading the charge; they were just another part of it.
I also find it better to say the author when commenting on articles. In cases like this it's a famous person so not so important, but generally I haven't taken the time to find out who the author is.
Non closable pop-up.
A system where everyone has to wade through a bureaucratic mess occasionally is certainly not dystopian.

A system where only a handful of people have to wade through a bureaucratic mess with alarming regularity can get very dystopian very fast for those few.
Can't go short? nobody can make returns on a down day except possibly selling back to USD?
On top of that, he acknowledges that there is a much, much simpler solution, known from the dawn of Java, and this is to have a polymorphic children() method.

But that would (gasp!) require adding those implementations. Which is tedious (it is not with a bit of inheritance or some other technique but ok). OK, so, it requires a bit of work. But those methods would take a few (or a dozen) nanoseconds to dispatch; you can't go faster than that. What's the alternative? To build your brittle infrastructure? Hmmm, I must be missing something...
It was the same with pogs, and knockoff tamogatchis.
Interestingly, it was the same for me. I was really confused for a few seconds until "self-driving" sank in and it became clear that Henry Fore could not have been alive for that.
If I'm a criminal who is going to take advantage of the hacked data, and I know everybody is rushing to do the 90 day fraud alert, I'll wait for 90 days before I take action.

It is better to think from THEIR angle.
You have no Linux or Windows support though, right?
This is a left-leaning take on Peter Thiel's philosophy.
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Curiously, reading through Web Audio API bug tracker find items such as https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/1305 and https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/938, that echo the point from the article quite well. Oh dear..
But having a knockoff wasn't the same. I mean, there's no such thing as a knockoff fidget spinner because there is no official one.
the government admitted that her leaks endangered no one

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/secret-government-repo...
Good example. You won't click the top organic link (Wikipedia) because the answer is right there, and you'll miss the pop down banner ad from Wikipedia where they are asking for donations. Just below it, you see a bunch of questions related to the Eiffel tower that generally jump to ad filled pages, but only pages where the ads come from Google. And on the right you'll see a link to Google maps for the Eiffel tower where, if you click on the map link, you can find places that advertise on Google where you can eat or visit and some reviews of them, if you click on the Eiffel tower link you'll go to a web site that sets up tours. (and pays Google to be there)

What you won't see are any Yelp recommendations or links for the Eiffel tour (you would if you searched 'height eiffel tower yelp' and got https://www.yelp.com/biz/la-tour-eiffel-paris-4 as the first link).

Google has effectively wrapped your 'factoid' type search with pretty much any sort of commercial intent query you might have, around their content, so that if you were a restaurant you would much rather have a lot of Google reviews because you would rank higher in that map link, and if you were a tour operator you would want to bid on the link under the 'keyword'. And if you were a content site you would want to have your links up at the top of the page under likely queries you may not have thought of yet, but once you read them you go "There are two? Really? Lets check that out."

Having operated a web search engine and seeing all the ways the product guys and gals could, and did, "tweak" things I look at that sort of page much more critically than the typical user.
I didn't want to convert this to a full-fledged trading platform with Stop Losses and orders etc. it requires too much effort. but if you want to test that I can recommend you Etoro's virtual mode.
But thanks for your comment :)