skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that the claim that Plato's "actual argumentation is generally pretty bad" is something that might be challenging to defend. It is a very sweeping claim, and it also assumes the argumentation of the author is reflected by the characters in the dialogues. Even if we were to weaken this to say that the actual argumentation of the characters in the dialogues is generally pretty bad, I think that it would be challenging to defend this claim. I'm not saying it's not possible; but it would be interesting to see if it could be sustained. My guess is that it would not be possible to sustain such a general claim.

Bertrand Russell, of course, is a master of logic. But if you are drawing from his History of Philosophy, I'm not sure that is a particularly good source for views on ancient philosophy. I tend to think the best way to justify a claim is to look at the primary sources themselves (if we have them—which in the case of Plato we are pretty sure we have everything he wrote and then some extras).

In terms of scratching the surface, much of what Plato contributes is ways to approach particular problems. For example, if you look at the treatment of universals in the Parmenides and the Philebus, the approaches in the arguments here (severally considered) have a lot of staying power: in particular, you find related arguments being made regarding universals by Aristotle and on, going all the way up to the present day (including, for example, Bertrand Russell). What is going on here is not merely philosophical scepticism (though there is that), but also approaching and techniques that need to be solved in order to make progress on a particular problem. So, that is an example of how the dialogues go beyond simple scepticism. There are so many other examples: the dialogues are packed with them — which is part of the reason why treatments of many modern philosophical problems and approaches can be traced back to Plato.
This is a little awkward. The Touhou album in question is already in the Touhou Lossless Music Collection (at least the last release: http://www.tlmc.eu/2018/01/tlmc-v19.html since it's from 2005, it's probably been in most of them), and has track 3 ("The End of Theocratic Era" by "弘世"). I just checked the TTA and track 3 sounds fine.

If anyone is terribly curious what it sounds like, I've put up an OGG copy here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u88u1xpdmdxbqal/03%20%E5%BC%98%E4%...

Oh well. I'm sure it was a great learning experience anyway. :)
Have you checked out light phones? There's a light phone 2 in the works now:

https://www.thelightphone.com/

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design#/
> But the problem then is that getting enough ethernet ports in the thing to equal the average router is price prohibitive.

Unless you actually need the ports to do some kind of network segmentation, one solution is to just plug the inside port into a five port switch (~$15). Which is how a lot of the consumer grade routers are implemented internally anyway.

You also can find quad port gigabit cards around those prices. Currently $22: https://www.amazon.com/HP-NC375T-Gigabit-Ethernet-539931-001...

There are scads of used quad port cards for even less on eBay.
If you want to avoid having to do this you might want to look in to embedding error correction data on to your CD/DVD (or even on to separate media) at burn time, using dvdisaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvdisaster
Nora Jones Describes Why We Need More Chaos – Chaos Engineering, That Is
It's not really all that unusual to see URLencoded non-ASCII in URLs, especially if you frequent non-English sites.
> If you want to make really interesting exciting things that have never existed before, if you want to make a tiny little difference in the industry and change the world just a little bit, then you do need that degree. If you want to make the tools and libraries that the lower-level people use, you do need that degree.

I wonder if the author considers Node.js to be really interesting and exciting and never existed before. Ryan Dahl doesn't have a CS degree (but does have a mathematics degree).

Another (pretty cliché) example: Bill Gates never finished his degree and went on to create many great, exciting and interesting things.
I'm afraid you're mistaken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Naming
It’s not native vs VM, but rather “has stack semantics/value types” vs “no stack semantics/value types”. In particular, OCaml’s standard implementation is a native, not VM.

Also worth calling out Go, which is rather unique in that it has stack semantics but it also has a garbage collector, so it’s kind of the best of both worlds in terms of ease of writing correct, performant code.
Harbor pilots are viable because of scale. Even a shipload of iron ore is valuable enough to justify the cost. But it's at the other end that scale really comes into play. Job scheduling is in NP and even for a busy port n is small enough that ships can be scheduled to harbor pilots by hand. The same is true of freight trains.

When n is at the much larger scale of trucks, efficient scheduling requires a large number of "slack" pilots to handle modest variations in demand.
Any more insight on the dead site or how it became a standard? Is its DB still available?
Story: Writing Scripts with Go
But profits and copyright you see!

If we allow piracy like that to exist, how will the owners of the copyright be able to ensure that the works are kept accessible?!
'mistermann I just took a look at your recent comments here on HN, and I think you've failed the Turing Test. People keep telling you to focus, to consider, to be more open-minded. Instead like an automaton you post screen after screen of your intensely personal impressions of others' impressions of your impressions of whatever-the-hell-it-was-we-were-talking-about-but-we've-all-forgotten-now. You complain when anyone uses humor or shorthand or exaggeration, all of which are human expressions that might confuse or upset a machine. You complain when anyone narrows or broadens the subject of discussion. You model the mental states of others in a rigid fashion: you're far more likely to say people are lying than that they simply have a different opinion than you.

I'm not sure: what is the HN policy on the participation of rudimentary AI? You may not be tall enough for this ride. Great nick though.
It costs money to intern Irish patriots without trial in your colony's concentration camps
No one busts their ass like government workers! Government jobs are well known for high job security and very few performance based incentives. Not exactly a recipe for hard work.
Bear in mind that the existence of obviously fake reviews doesn't imply that all fake reviews are obvious. Maybe it would be prohibitively expensive to do a really good job of producing fake reviews at scale, I don't know -- but surely some companies manage to avoid the obvious tells.
For speed purposes? This post is for example already talking about how fast JS is getting without types.

I'd say it would be a lot easier to simply focus on the WebAssembly format, you can write your code in a number of (typed) languages and compile into wasm which is designed to be fast.

Javascript already comes with a few decades of bagage, and things are already changing really fast (ES6 and newer versions). Not everyone likes types and the people who do can use typescript (or flow). And the people who need insane performance (games, etc) can use WebAssembly.
>Let me offer a better question: is the universe finite or infinite?

What is the concept of infinity but the outer limit of our mind's ability to conceptualize?
Touhou is, iirc, basically completely public domain. It's a gigantic, bizarre diaspora fueled entirely by dedicated fans.

Everybody who thinks that copyright is required should see the success of 2hu.
The author did disclose his bias up front and was responding specifically to a question about a traditional degree vs. a bootcamp. I personally still think that general education holds a lot of value. Of course it’s not for everyone, and I think it’s a problem that it is marketed as such. Nonetheless, there is a lot of value in liberal arts, in learning to think not just about software but other things. Good developers, scientists, mathematicians, artists, etc., etc., pull inspiration and insight from fields beyond their own. And we don’t apply software in a vacuum, we apply it to real problems in some field, typically other than software. I think a broad knowledge is part of where the “advanced stuff” comes from, and degrees are tailored to impart some of that over, say, a four week coding course.
Try to get a valid review on a forehead thermometer on Amazon. It can’t be done.
> people graduating with a Computer Science degree from supposedly top tier schools with high GPAs that supposedly mean something

Who claimed that a high GPA from a top tier school meant something? Top tier schools are notorious for giving As to everyone. The point is that you got in.
While it might not be shiny, could you not point to the math involved in encryption used in day to day usage like HTTPS, OTR, cryptocurrencies, etc?

ECC is still used in RAM, and bitwise math is still used in RAID arrays. Again, not shiny, but still valid examples.
Most of the TLMC rips are range rips with unclear CUE data, which makes it difficult or impossible to verify they were correctly ripped.

For this album in particular, the audio CRCs of the other tracks don't match up between TLMC and a fresh rip:

TLMC:

01.wav: 9A5E3226
02.wav: 577A675B
03.wav: 3548C299
04.wav: E5DEC006
05.wav: D33AC4AE
06.wav: 7427AC6F
07.wav: 83A58517
08.wav: 0DCA8419
09.wav: 703BAEAC

My rip:

01.wav: 565F2B5A
02.wav: E916B3A2
03.wav: A595BC09
04.wav: D989F0D6
05.wav: C6A2DD2B
06.wav: C8403284
07.wav: D01D6BC4
08.wav: 8786C1AA
09.wav: 1E3641DD
An Urban Planner Plays Sim City
This is actually very likely to be true.
Over the entire amazon catalog, spanning some completely ridiculous number of items.

That of course, makes it a pointless statistic, and hopefully, not something, they seriously tell themselves matters.

I'm sure it sounds great for the press though!

IE you really want to know STH like "What percent of reviews are fake for the first two pages of items in the top 100/1000 categories on amazon"

or something that is weighted towards things people see/look at, not "amazon's entire catalog"
Simulating the manipulation of a cube, and physics in general, is more complex than simulating a board game.
> Well once airborne, aircraft already fly themselves and do everything except the last 100 feet of landing already.

That's only if nothing goes wrong. On the other hand, if the airplane I'm in loses both its engines and has to land on the Hudson River[1], I'd much prefer to have an experienced pilot and copilot in the cockpit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
I did something slightly different: I was donated various low-power, low-noise PC parts from a friend, one of which was a motherboard with two ethernet ports. Chucked FreeBSD on it, configured one port as WAN and the other LAN, connected LAN to cheap-ish switch and from there also to wifi bridge.

Never had a better setup.

It blows any consumer router I've used out of the water in terms of stability, performance, flexibility, security, and user experience.

Getting emails for potential security issues, custom DNS domain for local network, fail2ban bruteforce prevention, QoS, alerting when WAN goes down, and so on, has all been a breeze to set up.
When we start writing legal documents in emoji we will have taken hieroglyphics full circle.
The other thing that makes Java nicer than C is the ease and depth with which you can profile it to discover where the bottlenecks actually are. While it's certainly possible to profile in both cases, the runtime reflective and instrumentation capabilities of the JVM really add a lot of power to it.
Too bad they don’t mention Lord of the Swastika.
> Touhou is, iirc, basically completely public domain.

Zun actually does have a semi-formal license/terms of use (it primarily bans commercial use but also quite a bit of other stuff, much of which I think goes ignored): http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki:Copyrights https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-14/tohou-proje...
A Way to Benchmark Your Deep Learning Framework On-Premise
The fox chasing its tail is an iconic brand, and also an iconic color scheme.

I like the other icons that carry forward the Firefox color scheme to other shapes (system 1, row 2), that still feels firefox-y without being Firefox, and would be a good look for firefox affiliated products. When you get down to the third row of system one, or the "master brand" icon, it loses both the recognizable shape and the recognizable color scheme of the Firefox brand.

System #2 is just a mess. I don't even know what they're going for there.
Might as well sign up to get in on the future class action suit
> should get you thinking why there is so much hate for blockchain

Where "there"? I haven't seen hate anywhere.

> Read books about Bitcoin and Ethereum?

I know what Bitcoin and Ethereum are. What I don't know is what they are useful for in the real world (except, obviously, speculating on Bitcoin or ETH prices. Well, I guess buying/selling drugs with them online must be pretty good too, and malware authors love it... what else?). If you know books that cover that, you are welcome to suggest.

> The "how blockchain will help people" is a huge subject

I do not ask you to cover 100%. I ask you (and anybody else, of course) to start with 0.01% and then we can proceed from there. But you're not giving me even 0.01% - you tell me "read books, it's huge!".

> Did you spend hours/days/months thinking about how this can affect governments,

I must admit I didn't spend months thinking about it. But people who claim they know answers to these questions surely did, didn't they? So where are those answers? I want to hear them. I want to see a good substantial proof why blockchain voting is better than plain old voting and how it is sustainable on the scale of a country like the US, in the long run.

> If you think you ever in your life had to deal with corruption or simple mistakes then you can think of a blockchain solution.

This is a point I know somebody tries to sell me a nice vial of snake oil. Corruption is human nature, and if you think some cleverly arranged crypto is going to fix it, you have some surprises coming your way. But ok, maybe I'm just stupid and cynical and you're smart - tell me how blockchain fixes corruption. Don't give 1000 examples - give three best ones you can think of.

> Asking about "how the internet will affect our lives" in 1995 would be the same

If you asked me how internet will affect our lives in 1995, I could talk to you for days with specific examples. Surely, some of them would be wrong, and some of what happened I couldn't predict in my wildest dreams. But by then it was clear there's a big thing coming, even if not as big as "old economy does not apply anymore". I don't see why a series of hashes plus a good marketing strategy allowing to sell those hashes to people who hope to resell them to the next greater fool equals big thing. Maybe it's because I'm stupid - in this case, it'd be easy to show me some conclusive examples. So far I've see a lot of vague handwaving and very little specifics. Which makes me even more suspicious.
So we should just stick with the inscrutable pre-installed proprietary firmware?
I keep hearing that I I can't understand how anyone can make that argument in good faith.

If I decide today to switch banks, I'll have everything handled in a week at the most. I'll probably have to visit a few bank offices in person, show ID etc, but it's at most a few hours of work.

To personally enact a different set of bank regulations through the ballot box, I have to do... things that are so superhuman and unrealistic that I don't know that anyone has ever done it.
And when the govt wants to expand the program beyond the voluntary largess of billionaires where does that money come from?

Moreover, a more honest title would say "Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, to give $500 a month charity stipend to residence of Stockton, California."

Whatever the source it is not income, basic or otherwise.
Ha.

In a choice between mandating people rent their routers, or pushing vendors to offer patches, I wouldn't bet on ISPs picking the latter.
It's not so much that someone has touched <acronym soup> rather the kind of people that think just listing all that out is useful, are typically not the developers I want.
Right, but those supreme rulers (not a single ruler, but many) may not marry, they may not own stuff (kind of a monk caste), and they are not hereditary, but relentlessly sieved out until they reach that ruler status in old age.

I doubt that would have appealed to Hitler or Stalin.

I think your judgement is clouded by „democracy is good“ which is (a) a very modern stance and (b) one that many philosophers through the ages opposed.
you will love the movie 'Annihilation' then, in case you haven't already watched it
Is this the case with Merlin's firmware too or just the OEM FW?
I very much agree with you!

> You only really get any improvement in runtime if your compiler guarantees anything (and bakes it into whatever it is compiling).

I meant this in reference to runtime speed optimisations coming from types. V8 is improving every day!
There are a lot of these and they usually do seem to fit the groups/locations/corporations in question. I've heard Mexicans refer to "Mexican time," and I've heard Mormons refer to "Mormon time," and various corporations also have equivalent terms.

Amusingly, a lot of these terms seem to have their origin in people who were really annoyed by the phenomena.
ZUN has granted blanket permission for fanworks distributed in the spirit of the original games, but explicitly forbids distributing arrangements of his music through mainstream sales channels (music stores, iTunes, HDTracks, and so on).
How about you read the article?
It's a great post. Thanks for taking the time to write it!
I'm the other way.

CS grads are lazy programmers with the mentality that someone else will do it.

I am self taught and can usually rig a solution to a problem in a few hours. A CS grad will tell you its impossible.

Maybe they need to do hackathons, but its like they have been taught to doubt instead of taught to think.
Yes, the database has been published.

https://twitter.com/whatcd/status/923942203080273921

EAC was the standard because it was the only free tool that could bypass firmware error correction (with 'secure' mode) and log the whole process securely, in a way that could not be tampered with easily.
The Lighthill report was not a bungle: it was an honest and dispassionate review which showed how massively overstated the UK A.I. claims were.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthill_report

(I'm biased. Sue me)
It should be a requirement to have each student complete a modern full stack.

Some schools have pitiful results for what they say is a degree.
Fakes are at least three years old. At least, that's when the great I Was Given This Product For Free Or At A Discount plague started.

Plus these Chinese companies just rebrand and post new product listings free of the bad reviews, leaving the old ones to die.
Alternatives or additions:

* Store par2 parity information alongside your cloud storage and/or NAS: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline

* Use a file system with strong data checks and repairability, basically meaning, ZFS with a sufficient redundant set up. "zpool scrub" can do wonders, and you can guarantee backups to a different pool are identical to the source.
How Movie Trailers Manipulate You
So think of it this way, how would you feel if a socialist government took over and decided that your 401k is fair game for extra taxation? But it's _your_ money, capitalism promised you! "Boohoo", you should have thought of that before entering into a clearly unsustainable pyramid scheme.

Not so useful or interesting in terms of commentary, is it?
They design Ferrari's and put a big badge on the side - lot of Ferrari fans out there :-)
If you sell anything on Amazon and get items back from FBA before they hike up prices near the holidays you will see items returned which were not what you shipped...books for example.
I get why that's funny, but I actually thought that made a good point: regular expressions in the wild can become unruly and difficult unless you break them down, but the concepts of regular expressions are very simple and natural to understand and easy to work with if you're writing your own very simple regexps. I don't know much about traditional parsers, but if this tool simplifies parsers in the same way regular expressions simplified text-based state machines, it sounds like a major innovative step forward!
Do you want a 200k/yr 50hr/week job? If so, Get the bestest degrees.

If you want a 110k/yr to 1B/yr job, self taught with some confidence is my recommendation.
>The war crimes and multitudes of unspeakable injustices?

Playing Devil's Advocate here, but moralizing such things is indeed the product of subjective human imagination. Nature doesn't moralize, though it does appear to seek balance on some levels while at the same time violently evolving.

If we look into our own body's on a micro scale, we see the same mass conflicts of micoorganisms massacring and genociding eachother. Is that injustice? Without it human beings and living things in general wouldn't exist.
Is there such a thing as an audiodiff to tell how different they are to yours?
Fry's Electronics should pay this man for the plug at the end. He made a good case to go there if you need to conduct an experiment requiring an unreasonable number of unique disk drives right now.
> As an information theorist, I used to be able to point to optical disks as an application of my field, and be like "see all that math is useful for something," but now I don't have anything shiny to point to anymore :(

Surely there's some forward error correction built into, well, pretty much any physical media these days? I can't imagine BluRay would need less of it than a CD.
I don’t think this is a property of dynamic languages. This groovy example is almost certainly the best case for the JVM (arithmetic, few allocations or polymorphism, etc). In other words, probably not taking advantage of the dynamism.

Dynamic languages can be fast by being well designed and simple (Wren) or highly optimized (JS) or both (LuaJIT). There’s also the experimental GraalVM, but this is definitely the exception and not the rule.

Writing performant C++ is actually not hard if you have rudimentary C++ knowledge. That said, rudimentary C++ knowledge is a lot more expensive than rudimentary knowledge of other languages. But the options aren’t just dynamic languages vs C++; there’s a ton of middle ground with VM languages like Java and C# and native languages like Go. The first two aren’t much harder than dynamic languages and I find Go easier than any dynamic language I’ve used to date (I’m a professional python developer). But all of these languages are on the order of half of C’s performance and 100X the speed of CPython or Ruby and 10X of JS.
Multiples of $500 a month is cheaper than one incident on the other side. Emergency room visit, police, etc. I don't think of this as UBI as a solution over a larger universe.
Says who?

Ive seen things and these self driving cars are already here.
A certain now dead site's successor also parses EAC logs (and relies on its checksumming).
Hi, I see that this is your tool, just wanted to say it looks amazing! Also I did not realize how much of a difference syntax highlighting makes for this kind of thing until I clicked through to your Try Owl link, and, wow! Have you used this in anything? Do you know of anyone else using it yet? It looks like you've only been working on this for half a year, so it's still young, but it looks thoroughly built and well thought it. Very impressive!