skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the replay curious_yogurt. As far as going back to primary sources, I did that initially but it seemed to me like he was making flawed arguments—either that or I just was totally failing to follow the logic. That's where I ended up going to places like Russel's History of Western Philosophy (as you guessed), and Durant's The Story of Philosophy. You can see even on this thread though, others echoing what I came to understand to be the case: it's relatively accepted that the intrinsic logical merit of Plato's arguments is not very high.

That said, when you pointed out the universals qeustion it reminded me of the thing that probably impressed me the most in reading Plato. The level of abstraction he reached just skyrocketed things. It's there in a certain sense with the pre-Socrates with general statements like 'everything is flux' or whatever, but some of Plato's stuff does feel remarkably modern.

That said, I think my original point still holds: impressive for his time, but there are far better things to be reading now (unless you're looking specifically for historic content). Or maybe there's still something I'm missing?
> Think if Coca-Cola changed its logo

Semi-related, Pepsi has made major changes to their logo multiple times, https://www.logaster.com/blog/pepsi-logo/

Coca-Cola's changes have been less dramatic, the font has mostly stayed the same.
I would say that the number of permutations (while many) in chess and go are finite, while this has to adapt to anything "at hand."

addendum: there are most definitely a greater number of environmental factors (x, y, z axes) involved in solving such problems.
Our main customer has a global network of AS/400 systems. The employees make fun of the "old" looking text interface, but that system is pretty much bullet proof. The only times I ever see it go down are when their Windows based DNS servers crash.
This is really amazing work!

I think the only thing it needs now is to have https://ianh.github.io/owl/try/ wrapped up into an Electron app that can load/save Owl files and generate header files for you right on your filesystem. That would be awesome! Hmm, I think I see a project in my near future (eyes:winking nose:pointy mouth:open-smile)
Which was worth more, the government funding of the interstate project, or the almost unchecked power and monopoly of the robber barons of the Gilded Age?
Sold out, practical joke or shopping site broken on iOS?
> I started questioning what was even real.

The votes aren't real and they don't matter. This is true for FB likes or whatever else you can imagine. Reddit goes to a LOT of trouble to counter bad actors, but if you're in some subreddit that you think is full of abuse, then it's like any other part of the internet. Go somewhere else. This has little to do with Reddit as a whole, so the proclamation seems unnecessarily volatile.
They seem to be strong here in Canada. I hope that lasts. Walmart is the only other option and it's not really an enjoyable experience.
That’s all true. The flip side is that there’s also problems that do actually require specialized training. An example that comes to mind for me from a few years ago involved real-time simulation of a constellation of satellites. The accuracy was on the order of meters. I ended up implementing RK4 as a solver, and had to use pretty complex differential equations (2nd order effects matter at that resolution).

The project also involved real-time bitstream generation and modulation at 10MS/s. That was a mixture of understanding DSP and some clever hacks to get the performance we needed on the hardware we had. Oh, and concurrency without race conditions, because we needed to use every core we had to make it all work.

Yes, there’s lots of business problems that can be solved by programming without much computer science. But there’s also a huge pile of problems where it’s not even clear that it’s possible to solve using current tech. I, personally, much prefer the latter, but to each his or her own.
Oh sure, and the only reason one would do this is to keep Aws bills up to Amazon shareholders expectations
I admit the performance is improving.

But it's not c level performance. Throwing multiple cores at js to get c level performance glossession over an important detail: in C, those cores are free to do other things.
If any appointment is set to start at 7pm, I'm there at 7pm sharp or otherwise inform the host in advance that I'm arriving late and give an accurate estimate on when I will arrive (+-5 min). I find anything else disrespectful towards the host and, depending on the kind of appointment, towards the rest of the participants.

I guess some stereotypes on Germans are true after all...
Fascinating that you describe the logo as a fox chasing its tail. I’ve always thought of it as a fox snuggling up around a blue sphere (which I always interpreted as Earth or a globe).
I'm not saying I think trains will disappear, if anything, it seems they would likely benfit from increased capacity in the intermodal system, allowing them to move more of the type of freight they are well suited for.
Citation provided (for the first claim):

Qatar 2022 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-wo...

Russia 2018 https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/06/russia-world-cup-labor-a...

Brazil 2014 https://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2014/07/world-cup-work...

(a bit of a threadjack so I'll stop here)
“Reviews”, in general, are absurdly misleading on any site; Amazon is just prominent.

I’ve given real reviews on Yelp of businesses that had real problems. These negative ratings were shuffled off into their special bucket of maybe-less-reliable reviews, well under pages of HIGHLY questionable 5-star reviews. I also have a friend with a business who was plainly told that he needs to pay to ensure good reviews. Yelp is a scam, and wins by being a virtual monopoly (as Amazon reviews do).

It is also amazingly hard to get reviews on the App Store from real users, for instance. I imagine you pretty much have to ask 60 friends to “help” you, or pay somebody, either of which creates a pool of fake reviews. It really changes your perspective on any other “ratings” you see.

In the end, I think society will learn that this is another example of buyer beware, and you get out of it what you put into it. Since looking over “reviews” for 30 seconds is low-effort, it is low-value. If you want good results, you need to spend a good amount of time and effort researching products.
You're asking the wrong person: I can't reliably tell the difference between FLAC and YouTube.

When you've got a .wav file open in a hex editor, it's no longer really about the music itself.
Another +1 for Ubiquiti. Had a bunch of high end prosumer stuff, ddwrt/tomato, etc. It really is fantastic stuff at least on part with ddwrt and well matched hardware to boot.

Their cloud management stuff is solid(and free with spare PC!) which is great if you help your family set anything up.

Ars did a great deep-dive a whole back[1], it's a pretty good read.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/enter...
The article says "there were about 20,000 bytes different betwen each rip", which if it happened in one stretch corresponds to ~113ms of audio. Depending on the exact nature of the error and how it changes the samples, it may be very obvious (e.g. a 113ms burst of silence or static) or inaudible (one different bit in a few hundred thousand --- probably won't even get past the lowpass filtering on the DAC.)
Measuring the Quality of Life
I self-referentially disagree with the principle. We are conditioned to think that books and their writers and their roles and society standing are an implicit guarantee of quality or validity of their arguments. It holds to some extent, but I find it more productive to by default disagree with everything I read and let the author try to convince me. After all, not everyone agrees in this world and one has to build the anchor of their own ideas and convictions gradually so that they don't sway from one end to the other under the winds of the opinions they happen to consume. I would rather short-circuit someone else's argument and let it do its work behind the scenes in due time, rather than establish the practice of short-circuiting any process of building my own convictions and ability to argue my ideas. The important is to respect what you read and give it a chance to convince you. On the other hand, if you find yourself agreeing too much with something you read, you probably don't need to read it.
> This problem is quickly destroying Amazon's credibility with a lot of customers

It has totally destroyed their credibility with me personally. I used to be an avid Amazon shopper. It was just too easy. I now actively find stores locally to shop. Does it make a difference to Amazon's bottom line, not in the least. While it might be less convenient, I feel less dirty than supporting Amazon. There are times where local stores do not carry something, and I still have purchase from Amazon but only if I can't find it anywhere else first.
> It's already been established that pensions can be cut in bankruptcy, so, yeah, that's not even a question.

Minor nitpick, but it’s in Illinois’ state constitution that pensions cannot be reduced. Republicans want to change the constitution to remove this rule, but Illinois is an overwhelmingly Democratic state so that’s never going to happen. It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out.
Of course I read your post. I don't believe "judged only on academic merit" was ever how Harvard operated, and the IMO naive statement Students used to get accepted on academic merit alone was what I initially objected to. I'm not disagreeing with the point that that they might have engaged in some targetted anti-Semitic discrimination.
I think I might be the only person in the world that actually likes the moz://a logo..
But like most people say here, I am not a fan of the new system logos, but the system 2 browser logos are cool.
The book Sapiens uses the term "intersubjective" for your consensus truth. He describes such things as shared fictions.

Great book, as far as books that attempt to cover all of human history, science, and philosophy go.
I think exceptional genius combined with exceptional work ethic can overcome any shortage of credentials or education, period. But for the great majority of folks, a formal CS education will give you a great advantage over a bootcamp graduate, or even a self-taught hacker. The thing is, if you're smart enough and contrarian enough, you're not going to listen to anyone's advice on this topic anyways...so those of you who do care what other people think, I think it's best to get a CS degree. Boot camp just doesn't cover enough bases. It's important to learn fundamentals. The fundamentals change much less often than languages or frameworks or platforms.
Sadly (from my point of view as an American) it seems the French were prescient.
Exactly. This looks like yet another attempt to detach Firefox the Brand from Firefox the Web Browser.

Mozilla has tried this a number of times already, and they fail spectacularly every time. I wish they'd just own the fact that they're making a web browser, and focus on making it the best web browser in the world. Not some generic platform.

Purpose meets performance? WTF? It's so generic, it could be the tagline for any automobile, sportswear, or study aid.
It's thought the honey is the body's way of getting sugar during a viral infection, in which glucose might be a key factor in fighting the virus off.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/glucose-...
10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn’t
You have to look at the effect of the noise on the statistics of the bits, since those are what's physically changing, and not the PCM output after all the error correction layers.
My understanding was that if you take the CPU out of spec (e.g. voltage) while in an enclave, you’ll get MCEs and the CPU either nukes your enclave or forcibly reboots (idr which).

That said you can still shave it down and start FIBing if you have the $$$.
Tag the review with the info if the item was returned.
Interesting. I didn't read any snobbery into the article. From the tone, my take is he's talking about an interest and willingness to acquire CS knowledge and skills. He framed it in terms of degree or not because he was responding to a question about somebody who's in college wondering what to do.
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Sure, I'm sure he gets decent money from ads too. My point was that, I don't see why he needs sponsors in the first place. My 5000$ estimate was a bare bare minimum. Realistically, I would guess around $10k-$15k from Patreon and another $5k from Youtube at least (he has 1M subscribers, which is the "Made it" threshold).
> It seems like everything about automating a truck would be more expensive (cost of 1 truck = 5-6 cars)

Isn't that a good thing for adoption?

Here in the agricultural industry, self-driving technology can cost tens of thousands of dollars to add it to your equipment. But when a tractors cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, it seems like a drop in the bucket, so the buyers are willing to put down the money. You don't see many tractors around these days without it.

On the other hand, tens of thousands of dollars on a $30,000 car, potentially doubling the purchase price or more, makes for a much more difficult pill to swallow.

Humans aren't exactly well known for their rationality. Even if the technology provides tens of thousands of dollars worth of utility to the car owner as it does to the farmer, many will struggle to accept paying 100% more for the same car plus one more feature. Farmers see it as a 5% increase in price for one more feature, so, hey, why not tack it on?
I hope you all remember that Brazil is too big to assume that everyone is the same, thus everyone will be late to all appointments. It happens a lot, yes. But be careful to label people in advance. Many (!) Brazilians work overseas, including in Germany, and I'm sure those are not late as the article suggests for example :)

Also, what would be crazy for many people that live in small countries compared to Brazil, is that many workers live far away from their job or school. Up to 3 hours for a single way. It is also expected to have something not working in their way to their destination.

It's not a black and white thing. Writing a generic bold statement tends always to be harmful. Damn human brain that loves to find patterns to simplify information processing :)
> What else are you going to do? Look at the stuff "deep" people are generally into, it mostly revolves around POSIX some way or another. And databases, but nobody wants to talk about that.

Self-driving cars (controls, perception, planning, safety, sensor design, localization, mapping, integration, security, etc.), human-competitive NLP/image classification, advanced robotics (repeat list from cars here but for things in the air, off-road, on the water, in the water, in orbit, in deep space, ...).

Those are all examples of real things that real people get to work on every day.

Operating systems topics don't even scrape the top 20 of stuff I think of when I think of deep expertise.

And even if we limit ourselves to the sort of things you mention, most people who work deeply on languages, tools, and standards view these as manifestations of their deep exploration rather than the focus or subject of the dive.

For example, TensorFlow. The framework very much is the product. But even if some other framework won the day tomorrow, the people who worked on TensorFlow would not have "wasted" their time thinking deeply about how to build the system.

This is why researchers whose original contributions were made in the 70s and 80s none-the-less continue to establish themselves as desired experts in new technology trends (e.g., Leslie Lamport and cloud computing or Martin Abadi and ML frameworks). Because they were focused on ideas and fundamental problems. The problems never disappeared, just changed form. And ideas have a lot more staying power than their manifestation in code.

Most people working deeply on systems today are not "revolving around POSIX in some way". See the proceedings of OSDI. And most deep experts choose other topics, most of which your post doesn't mention: graphics, programming languages (making them and analyzing programs written in them), compilers, security, robotics, user interfaces, NLP, ...

Your definition of "expert" seems to revolve around using things, mostly things based on ideas and techniques that were well-understood already 20 years ago and that are related to building a particular type of software system. Which, if anything, seems to deepen the author's point.

Someone gets to fill the AI research labs, staff the self-driving car companies, work at NASA, build core infra at large tech companies, and build the foundation for the next 20 years of trendy growth areas.

It's possible to get to those places without a degree, of course, but a degree is by far the path of least resistance. And in most of these cases, learning the material from the degree isn't optional; you're probably going to have hard time doing that controls engineering job at a self-driving car company if you never made your way through a calc sequence, some physics, and an algorithms course.

It's also worth noting that very often, building wordpress plugins pays more than doing all of those things I mentioned. I guess it's all about what you want to spend your life doing, which is exactly what the author says at the end of the article.
While I agree that health care shouldn't be tied to your job, employers still have a responsibility for worker safety and should still be responsible for any injuries that happen in their workplace.
In a similar vein, an isolated incident of targeted infiltration of a vaccination campaign doesn't endanger anyone - unless you lend credence terrorist narratives that it does

To quote the link Scientific American article:

The distrust sowed by the sham campaign in Pakistan could conceivably postpone polio eradication for 20 years, leading to 100,000 more cases that might otherwise not have occurred, says Leslie F. Roberts of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. “Forevermore, people would say this disease, this crippled child is because the U.S. was so crazy to get Osama bin Laden,” he argues.

and

As outlined in a letter signed by the deans of a dozen prominent schools of public health that was sent to the White House, President Barack Obama should direct all U.S. military and intelligence agencies to refrain from using a medical or humanitarian cover to achieve their objectives.

So I think your point that there is no danger and it lends credence to terrorist narratives to say it does is difficult argument to make. It's public health officials in the US saying that when they criticized Obama.
I justified it to myself mentally by thinking of the savings of not paying for a smartphone's data plan. I pay about $20 a month for service vs paying around $60 a month for a smartphone with data. Obviously this doesn't change the fact that it's a lot more expensive than other dumbphones, but I was willing to pay more to have a UI that isn't bloated with a bunch of bs apps and junk, and doesn't have dumb colorful bubble icons or the such.
I disagree strongly with your point #1. "This knowledge" specifically is deep full-system understanding, as quoted in the article:

> "They use languages, editors, compilers, and operating systems; but they don't have the first clue about how to create any of these things or even how they really work."

And yes, he is asserting that people should get this from a degree:

> If you want to build doghouses, just pick up some skills with hammer and nails, and then go for it. If you want to be an architect who designs and builds skyscrapers, then go get a degree in architecture first.

The full depth of applied understanding comes from personal interest & experience. Whether or not a person with such interest pursues a CS degree is completely orthogonal.

Plus, these applied low- & mid-level computational practicals have nothing to do with Computer Science; they are programming, architecture, and engineering. People generally do not complete CS degrees with any specific imparting of these 3 facets, unless they use their university time to pursue their own interests & ambitions in the field. And again, such people can and do pursue those outside of university, especially in their pre-university age exploratory years, and on-the-job experience with real systems.
Speaking of 1995, just turn on mouse marquee.
Yep, it was TWC prior to Spectrum -- other reply to my comment states the same thing. Crazy.
In my experience: as the box size gets bigger, the treatment gets rougher. Single CDs in bubble wrap envelopes come through fine, as do small hardwall boxes. CDs in medium boxes (10-20 CDs) often arrive with box damage and maybe some torn internal packaging. I once used a shipping aggregator that put 50 CDs in one box, they were so banged up that I had to buy replacement jewel cases.

If you ship CDs, I have only one request: please please do _not_ put bubble wrap _inside_ the jewel case! Some sellers do this and it just destroys those little plastic retainer teeth.
Thankfully we can still describe such logos using the USPTO's design search code ontology: http://tess2.uspto.gov/tmdb/dscm/index.htm
No, I didn't read the article. But I did read the entire comment section, if that counts :)
I've been to parties where a few friends--the same people each time--would show up 2-3 hours late to a party and their house was only a 10 minute walk away.

When I'd ask why they were late, it was the same reason each time. "Oh, we were watching a movie." A typical movie is 90 minutes long, so they would've been putting it on just around the time the party started.

In general though, everyone was a good 20-30 minutes late, but a few people and myself would show up early to help the host prepare last minute food/drinks.
I agree road and vehicle to vehicle comm is important, but the work being done now by these companies is comparatively much more important. If there is an implementation bug on either side of one of these integrations or if the communication medium is bogged down, then what?

These systems must be able to handle diverse and unpredictable situations without being able to communicate directly with other agents in the environment, and must be able to act safely relying solely on their own percepts.
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SF plastic straw ban has bubble tea shops worried
Thanks! The two biggest uses of Owl right now are Owl itself (see grammar.owl in the root directory) and the "egg" programming language which is included as an example: https://github.com/ianh/owl/tree/master/example/egg-lang. I'm hoping to use it in some future projects as well!
Not super concerned with security of my texts or calls personally. Obviously it would be nice to have those covered, but the whole point of a dumbphone to me is to use it less. I want it to do as little as possible and do it well enough to get by.
My father is a retired truck driver, it'd be great to curse at each other sometime. :)

My understanding is that the industry (and maybe this has changed or was not good anecdata to begin with) is rife with gaming of the regulations, which in my opinion are already grueling. A human being, no matter how accustomed they are to driving, should not be asked to sit and drive down long mundane stretches of road at a high degree of alertness for 11 hours per day, multiple days per week. I understand that the new time tracking systems will reduce the ability to game the system, but I feel the fact that regulators are calling for these devices and driver awareness monitoring devices should be an indication that maybe we can find a solution that doesn't involve a human.