skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a rather bizarre suggestion that one should read Plato in the order believed correct in antiquity. For one, it seems to me that the ancients were incorrect about that order. And, as you say, there are several dialogues the authenticity of which are in doubt and so should probably not be read before other (usually more central) dialogues the authenticity of which are not in question.

In terms of order, you can do worse than begin the five traditional "death of Socrates" dialogues. These are the Apology (Socrates' trial speech and the nature of the philosophical life), the Crito (the nature of law and implicit political contracts with the state), the Euthyphro (the nature of piety), the Meno (the nature of virtue and knowledge), and the Phaedo (the afterlife and universal objects).

These five dialogues are from different periods in Plato's writing: the Apology is probably quite early and is a good introduction to Socrates; the Euthyphro is a nice "what is x?" dialogue which comes to no resolution, which is typical of early one-on-one exchanges, and although fictional might be the sort of thing the actual Socrates went around doing; the Crito is probably a late-early dialogue, and mixes in some more serious concerns about the nature of the state that will capture Plato's attention in his later writings; the Meno starts out as a "what is x?" dialogue, but the second half transitions to consider the nature of knowledge and how we can know anything (if at all); and the Phaedo is a full-blown middle-period dialogue where Plato deploys his account of universals called the Theory of Forms (which he arguably discards or submerges in the late period, but is generally what people think of when they think of Platonic doctrine).

After the Phaedo, I would hit the other big middle-period dialogues that are classic Plato: the Republic, the Symposium, the Phaedrus. The Republic may very well be the greatest piece of philosophy ever written; if not, it is up there in the top five-to-ten. It ostensibly deals with the nature of justice, but it covers huge areas including knowledge, beauty, truth, education, and more. It develops some of the themes from the Phaedo. The Symposium is a collection of beautiful speeches on the nature of love, again developing some of the themes of the Phaedo, but also the Republic. The Phaedrus looks at the nature of love and the nature of rhetoric, picking up themes from the Republic and the Symposium.

That's a lot of stuff. If you want one and only one thing to read that's short, go for the Apology. If you want one and only one thing to read that's all-encompassing, go for the Republic.
When we decide to collectively remove the bought and paid for dinosaurs running this country through the ballot box.
I don't understand how this happened. Why would a client appending the port in the Host: header result in the server giving that reply? Is it a default joke reply if the npm repository server is confused?
You mean the letter-a-going-up key.

* https://superuser.com/questions/290814/
It's a pity that as soon as an app tries to monetize (even optionally), it's suddenly at the mercy of the megacorps. Now you need a storefront, a payment processor, a refund infrastructure, etc. Better to just let the tech giants who already have the infrastructure handle the billing, in exchange for taking a monumental cut of your revenue and imposing binding, arbitrary rules at a moment's notice.

This incident would be a poster child for the widespread need for something like the AppCenter being developed by the ElementaryOS team, where the apps can have a "suggested" price tag but be free to download:

https://medium.com/elementaryos/appcenter-the-future-of-the-...

Regrettably it's Linux only at the moment. It would be interesting to see what kind of landscape of FOSS apps we might get if it got ported to Windows.
How Cryptojacking Can Corrupt the Internet of Things
Schemaless definitely has a few applications, usually systems related to tagging. Luckily you can easily integrate schemaless into your Postgres database with no performance downside all thanks to the magic of JSONB or FDW, depending on which way you swing.

The very few pure schemaless databases that continue to exist and where I'm convinced they will continue to exist for a long while are those that specialize a lot (ie, Redis, Elasticsearch, a lot of the Timeseries databases).
It wasn't. NT was built from scratch.
“F**k Jared Diamond” (2013) Edited: this is the original title as published
For windows on ARM the windows store is the only realistic way to install applications. The only alternative is emulation at which point there is no reason to use an ARM laptop in the first place.
Sort of related:

I'm in Pennsylvania, and I currently get a "451" error code when visiting the DefCad website. I've never seen in the wild before. A bit scary.
Oh, that’s a pity. I was looking forward to you finding another launching point for a straw man you could patronise.

Busterarm: you were talking about posters with zero empathy who shut down conversation? You might need to widen the scope you think that applies to. The alt-light are just as bad as your progressives.
And Ironically, these same people probably have an appreciation for renewable energy but will spite the environment to settle petty scores.
Yeah, it only teaches you about term rewriting, boolean logic, iteration vs. recursion, algorithm complexity, higher-order functions, data structure design, closures, generics, statefulness, environments, mutability, concurrency, stream processing, modularity, interpreter design and implementaion, lazy evaluation, nondeterminism, logic programming (i.e. search/constraint), low level computer architecture, memory models, and the design and implementation of virtual machines, garbage collectors, and compilers. Just a total waste of time unless you're doing Lisp.
Ok, I can write out the script for this knowing only the headline.

- Elon defenders will jump in and claim it's all lies

- Elon haters will chime in with "j'accuse!"

I honestly don't know the truth about this (few would) but let me point some things:

1. I would find it strange if sales people were paid bonuses (let alone commissions) on non-real sales.

2. Even if bonuses were paid when no money was paid by the customer, this would eventually get reconciled and at some point pretty quickly that salesperson would get flagged.

3. Knowing that "tens or [sic] hundreds of millions of dollars" was in nonexistent sales would make an officer of the company guilty of any number of securities infractions. Not that this isn't possible of course but the severity of this has to be weighed against the benefits to make it more or less likely that it occurred given the potential outcomes.

4. Was SolarCity a public (note: "public" != "publicly listed") company? If so, there are financial reporting issues too. As well as any obligations to shareholders or financiers.

5. SolarCity was no stranger to lawsuits or government investigations [1].

6. The buyout by Tesla is, on paper, suspect. One way to describe it is: one of Elon's companies (Tesla) bought (arguably "bailed out") a second of Elon's companies (SolarCity) that owed a lot of money it would arguably default on to a third of Elon's companies (SpaceX). Not much happened here remotely resembling at arm's length.

7. People who get fired, rightly or wrong, have their own motivations for speaking out and rarely is it ever to say "yeah, I screwed up" but that's the case at least some of the time. Not that I'm saying it is here (again, no knowledge of the specifics) but just bear that in mind.

8. Ex-employees might be suing (or considering suing) their ex-employer for any number of reasons which may or may not be valid. I suspect if they had good counsel they'd say nothing. If they had bad or no counsel they'd speak about this publicly. So which is it? Who knows.

Anyway, just take a deep breath and fight your natural (and irrational) instincts to either pile on or defend Elon because none of us really know what happened (yet?).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity#Litigation_and_inves...
I used to work for a Language Service Provider (LSP). Typically it's used in marketing material, because a directly-translated slogan or message might might not 'work' in another language or culture. It might just sound bad or clunky, or it could even be offensive in certain contexts.

As others have said, the resulting text should convey the same meaning in the same tone, but needn't be word-for-word correct.
There is nothing to be gained from reading fiction? :/
Were they pulling out compute resources they knew in advance were not being used or part of the active partition for that particular job? Or did they let potential customers do the pulling themselves?
I understand your point, but you're wrong.
Working with other people towards a common goal does not equal becoming a slave to them. It does mean however, that if you don't respect their time then your actions serve against that goal.
This was all over the cell phone industry when I worked networks side. This was pre-iPhone era, just to give an idea how long ago.

I traveled around metro areas measuring signal quality, simple upgrades or maintenance, often stopping at nearby retail outlets rather than laptop in the truck.

I’d get to know the store staff and they’d talk freely around me about “fake” signups to juice numbers.

The trick was sign em up at end of month, cancel them before a bill got sent. That way the store appeared to hit their monthly target.

They’d often do fleet style signups; construction company would come in legit looking for 10 lines, the store would sign up 20 phones for construction company. Then return half before the 14-day no questions asked period.

This was going on all the time, across multiple stores, as far as I could tell. The details would change, from construction to startup or new business needing phone in a hurry.
This. I always have thought of something like this. Only trust person your know IRL and friends of friends... That way we could compute a "trustworthy" coefficients.

Needs a good business model though
Looks interesting but I am having a hard time finding its documentation.
bit of cross-selling never harms ;) thanks, will check it out. Already utilising various tools but always keen to find better alternatives.
That's true. I still don't know why we said "using two screwdrivers for these two kinds of screw is too hard, here's a sledgehammer instead", rather than build tooling to make it easier to build cross-platform programs...

I'm pretty hopeful these days about Qt for Python and this build system: https://build-system.fman.io/

Unfortunately, it costs money even if your app is OSS, in some cases.
Who turns up to a party on time in the US?
Matching megamindbrian2's comment, it never really goes away in my experience. However, some coping mechanisms I use are to read about new things in my field, play CTFs (even if I do poorly, just for fun to learn from write ups), and practice my reinforcing what I do know.

I find that doing things like that reinforce my confidence and give me the drive to go learn new things and build my knowledge. Also try to surround yourself with good people, that's easier said than done, but even following colleagues on social media that you find to be good role models is helpful. It's reassuring to me when someone I really look up to also experiences these same feelings. It's just comforting to know you're not alone sometimes in that regard.

But as far as shaking off the "nagging feeling" goes, I'd start with reinforcing what you do know to help build confidence, and see if that helps.
Have you tried to overcome the issue with putting some reflective or non-reflective sticker over that text?
Javvy's officially released their app “Javvy Universal Wallet and Exchange”
Your ISP is blocking with 451?
I've had a mentor in my life.

Starting out as a software engineer, I showed more interest in the product lifecycle and production behavior, I caught the attention of the tech lead.

What followed were two years of discussions, insights, actions and results that have stayed with me ever since. I grew more as a software engineer and as an... employee, than I did in any period of my life. Ever since I left that company, I have yet to find another person willing to share so much and to discuss topics at length.

I miss having a mentor.
> Cultural relativism is largely nonsense

There are multiple optima on the cultural space. Americans' individualistic and Scandinavians' committee-loving systems both work well, and optimize for a complimentary set of problems. Saying "ignore the students–go to the beach," on the other hand, is an objectively worse cultural tenet than "balance everyone's needs."
Bundling the graphic assets doomed this from the beginning. It was only a matter of time.
Well first off, I don’t see a time range here. This could easily be stretched over multiple years.

Secondly, if someone says “tens or hundreds of millions”, I assume that they’re giving a rough estimate based on incomplete information. If I’m evaluating the credibility of such an estimate, then I’ll consider the most conservative end of the range, which in this case is $20M. If we suppose that that was spread over three years, then we’re talking about 1-2% of total revenue. That doesn’t sound so implausible, right?

Finally, SolarCity’s 2016 revenue was $730M, not $400M.
> A train that leaves the station on time in Brazil would probably not be much appreciated.

Oh, it would be, as a train (or plane) is expected to depart at the right time. People get up and queue for their plane 15 minutes before boarding time, even though they have marked seats and boarding groups.

A meeting starting at the right time? Inconceivable.
Ha, right, no upgrade needed in that version... but eventually I did upgrade and recommend it to others, due to the generosity of the honor system they put in place in that version. Loved the software. Wait, maybe that was Winzip. Both were great.
An album is probably for the purposes of discussion somewhere between 70 and 700 MB. Is keeping millions of copies of it in storage really cheaper than streaming? The "management" has to be in place either way, or how do I get them on disk in the first place? The costs of each individual steam are not, I suspect, very large
Seconding this recommendation. It's well written and covers a very interesting period of Microsoft's history that many people don't know about.
> IBM uses special and completely unintuitive names for basic concepts

Once upon a time I worked as a (young) field engineer looking after mostly Intel based kit, peripherals and Novell/Windows/Unix OS support. Our company was subcontracted to look after a bunch of Perle controllers for another maintenance company that didn't have engineering staff locally (these were on two and four hour onsite must-fix contracts). Perle manufactured a range of clones of IBM's 5294/5394/5494 Twinax remote access controllers that you plugged stuff like 5250 series terminals and printers into.

Anyway, I had to go on a training to course to learn about the gear, usual faults etc. But I also had to learn the IBM lingo such as asking the remote ops folks to "VARY ON" and "VARY OFF" (i.e. enable/disable) controllers when working on them. There were other, now long forgotten, incantations you needed to utter over the phone to IBM ops folks when on site, but the VARY ON/OFF one stuck with me.

As an aside, I also ended up looking after and field repairing a bunch of System/36's[0], in particular replacing hard disks which looked like:

http://www.corestore.org/5360-13.jpg

Amazingly a sole engineer could carry out this task in about 30-40 minutes with no need for extra hands. These were well thought out and designed workhorses.

[0]: http://www.corestore.org/36.htm
As a Canadian who's had two immediate relatives undergo surgery to remove breast cancer, survive, and had paid nothing, while I pay a very reasonable $35/month to be covered by this care AND the provincially run health insurance system reports a surplus, I must disagree.
> Either way, you're doing it for entertainment

God forbid.
I think we read the OP differently. I'm just responding to the bit about errors being returned as an "Either" type. You are right that Erlang does not enforce pattern matching to succeed, though its static analyzer (Dialyzer) can catch many instances when it definitely won't.
Custom polymorphic code snippets in VS Code
By the way, claiming a statement is vague is quite disingenuous if you take the quote out of context. Especially when the author explains what they mean in the next four sentences:

> Programming today is exactly what you’d expect to get by paying an isolated subculture of nerdy young men to entertain themselves for fifty years. You get a cross between Dungeons & Dragons and Rubik’s Cube, elaborated a thousand-fold. I’m serious: Dungeons & Dragons requires mastery of an encyclopedia of minutiae; Rubik’s Cube is a puzzle requiring abstract mathematical thinking. That is programming in a nutshell. As a bonus you also get a toxic culture of intellectual one-up.
NLP Behind Chatbots – Demystifying RasaNLU – Part 1
>Really fascinating! Insatiable curiosity...

I see that several people commented on Leonardo's curiosity. When I was about 18 or therabouts I came across a book about Leonardo. That book made a big deal about how curiosity was the driving force in Leonardo's life. I was so impressed that I started to believe curiosity was the defining characteristic of humans. And I became curious about everything around me. I chose the study of how this world works as my mission in life. I chose not to make money. I only worked to make enough money to pay the rent. The rest of the time I was in the library. But there is a downsize to this. I now believe that it's better not to be curious. It's better to concentrate on building a business and make money. Because in this world money allows you to build new things and make new discoveries. Bezos can build his own rocket and go to the moon if he wants to. Google can and does change the world. They are not doing what they are doing for curiosity's sake. So I would not advise a youngster who is starting in life to be curious like Leonardo. I would advise to make lots of money so that he/she can achieve big things. I think the era of curious and solitary researcher is over.
Can you show me I where said all Brazilians are on time? Or that even all people in SP are on time or that what I said was anything more than an opposing anecdote to the one presented in the article? I'm not a journalist and if I was I would certainly be looking for studies as opposed to anecdote. I'm simply pointing out bad journalism, and it doesn't require a representative sample in order to do that.
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Alih
I learned to program with a book called Learn to Program from the great publisher Pragmatic Programmers around 2011 All I knew was just like you: some HTML/CSS, and unziping and embedding jquery plugins. Here's a link to the book https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Second-Facets-Ruby/dp/1...

I'd go for that and some JS on the side but if you got an iPad, I'd definitely try Swift with the Playgrounds app.
Reminds me of:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...
I don't think they were saying CS degrees are a waste at all, in fact I think the message is exactly the same as yours. Going to a bootcamp teaches you to use some specific tools and let you make basic projects. Getting a CS degree lets you learn how those tools work and even how to make better ones if you're good enough.
Unpopular opinion: Everyone is talking about abusive corporations, but it’s clear to me this rule exists to prevent abusive customers. Without it the store would be full of listings to the effect of

“See how awesome my app is! But, don’t be stupid enough to buy it here! Go to my website and use coupon code ‘LOLTHXMS’ to get it there for 5% off!”

effectively turning the store into a cost-free advertising platform. You might think Krita is special and deserves an exception. But, you know what happens when you make a very visible exception to one free customer among ten thousand free customers...
My high school had a VAX in the '90s that served a whole lab of terminals and was available over dial-up. A lot of my early programming was on that machine. Later I bought a VAX off ebay, joined DEC's VMS hobbyist program and provided free accounts to people at HobbesNet (https://web.archive.org/web/20050125003015/http://hobbesnet....). I kinda regret getting rid of those machines now. It looks like the Deathrow cluster is gone now too (https://deathrow.vistech.net/410.html).
This episode of reply all show how hard it is to identify fake reviews and what seller are doing to fake it. Really interesting in my opinion.
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124#episode-player
When it’s insanely competitive to get into a school, schools may also use previous student recommendations as a proxy. So you end up with a echo chamber.
Which fiction?
it's suddenly at the mercy of the megacorps

You don't need Windows Store to sell Windows software

Now you need a storefront

That's how you make people come to your product in an easy way

a payment processor

How are you supposed to do otherwise if you want to exchange units of bank accounts ?

a refund infrastructure

Yeah some people want their money back sometimes, this is not donations
How to Enable Cross-Continental Collaboration for Tech Teams
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Yeah
Cmd+Ctrl+Space brings up a searchable emoji selector on MacOS.
It's in ferret.org, apparently.
Inedd
So, while it's public information, they shouldn't report the names because most people won't read it? I'm not sure I follow.
They didn't copy directly, they just re-implemented from memory. I worked for Digital right out of college at the "DEC West" site off 520. A number of my co-workers REALLY hated Microsoft. Swore up & down they had colleges who had seen NT source code when they started working together with Microsoft on "Wolfpack" server clustering that they were using the exact same terms & constants (e.g. structs for system values were identical). Dave Cutler & his crowd were not popular. That $60M - $100M was payoff money to avoid a very public & very nasty copyright suit. And back then, $60M - $100M was considered real money.
Maybe it was done for copyright reasons but the image from the notebook is flipped horizontally. Anybody else noticed this?
ALL of the code seems to be stored inside the org-mode file, https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret/blob/master/ferret.org - which is the most unusual form of source code organization that I have ever seen.
That's actually a legit status code:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725

451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

> This status code indicates that the server is denying access to the resource as a consequence of a legal demand.
> (which leads to less 'binge-ing')

Disagree in my personal case; I binge on novel series just as hard - and often harder - as I do on TV series.
Data and code seem to be here[0].

[0] https://github.com/xinyadu/nqg
> A meeting starting at the right time? Inconceivable

I found a solution to this problem which is as effective as it is potentially insulting, and so is best left for later in one's career. Schedule a few more days than you think you'll need. Show up for meetings 15 minutes early and then, after waiting 15 minutes, leave. When asked about it, play dumb and imply you thought you got the time or location wrong. Reschedule, rinse, repeat. (It helps to have an aloof or distractible personality.)

By the end of the trip, you'll have isolated the most ambitious people (who will show up to things on time and thereby be able to interface with ambitious people outside their country), forged a solid and mutually-respectful working relationship with them, and found time to enjoy the place. Works well in Brazil, the Middle East and India.
Ember is a front-end framework, Rails is back-end.