skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fiction is not untruth. It is a belief that is not provable, or has not been proven. Most humans accept our current model of the universe as plausible fiction, since they cannot themselves perform the experiments, or do the math, or construct the mental models necessary.

Our civilization idolizes the human expert, like they were possession of some magical unquestionable truth. But to general human interaction, no such truths are available. To the mass of humanity, all they have is their experience of the world, and belief in the foundational institutions of their culture.

One such institution is belief to a better tomorrow, and that it's worthwhile to improve oneself. I think it is a wonderful institution - but image of the self or the child in the future, educated and improved, is whisful fiction until it becomes actualized through years of work - or does not become actualized if tragedy, trauma or change of life's priorities occurs.

We are not creatures of knowledge. We are a creatures of fiction. Some of us can grasp at - perhaps glimpses - of true knowledge in the strict mathematical sense - but that is a rare and wonderful aberration to typical way humans live.
Yes the 1$ salary for ceo's is "evading" taxes this is just a charitable deduction.

The only problem is if the "charity" isn't really a charity in that case the "pastors" of mega churches who have multiple private jets need to be looked at first.
We could call such decentralized discussion platform "Usenet".
I built my computer graphics final project in Haskell so that the TA wouldn't be able to run it and grade it. Then for our presentation, I babbled on and on about the math and went over time so we wouldn't have to give a really crappy demo.
I just entered "5 + 4" into the search box, and it should just work. It doesn't. On the LHS, it shows "5 + 4 (16)" in my recent searches, which is equally confusing. Apparently you have to add solvers to some array to use them? This feels incredibly over-engineered. I'll stick to WolframAlpha because it's a simple search bar and it just works.
Macchiarini seems to have told lies about everything, not just his research. Strikingly, he told one journalist that he would marry her and the Pope himself would officiate (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/celebrity-surgeon-nb...), while he in fact did not know the pope and also was already married.
I use it to send audio from my Windows QEMU VM (running on its dedicated GPU) to the Linux host for playback.
Hacker News and Lobste.rs are my favorite, tech forums. Quite complementary.

For those unfamiliar with Lobste.rs, it's a smaller, slower-moving, mostly-tech-focused forum. It has many low-level hackers and CompSci people, too. So, we have more in-depth submissions on those topics. They also might survive on the front page longer just due to less competition for it like HN has. Occasionally, we also have highly-educational comments from those people that I don't see elsewhere. I always compare comment sections of anything on both HN and Lobsters to spot that. There's also some folks that just don't like really-big, fast-moving sites. They submit exclusively to smaller communities like Lobste.rs.

So, those are the main benefits of the site for anyone interested.
Issue is that charity should come after tax.
SDF Public Access UNIX System - sdf.org

It's a free shell service, with paid addons. It has been around since 1987 and retains a lot of the charm of the BBS world. It does this while offering very modern things like Mastodon federated social media, SQL storage, VOIP, and has amateur radio, minecraft, and a ton of other stuff. There really is something for everyone.

I appreciate all of the stuff listed above, but what I personally LOVE most about SDF is that it runs on NetBSD and offers a ton of packages from all the different open source and free software communities. BSD packages, GNU packages, home grown packages.

It's just a very friendly and fun place. I am 'rmusial' on there too. Feel free to say hello!
Don't (nearly) complete buybacks also mean that company doesn't want to be ruled by the vote of (minority) shareholders?

I think e.g. Dell buyback was of this type.
If I suddenly had billions in stock laying in my lap I would be wishing to donate a bunch of money to help offset that tax bill. I know what I could do with $10,000,000 right this moment. The remaining $490,000,000 from the example in the article? I do not know yet, but eventually I will find something.
I wish the Archive would provide an easier way of getting their Chronicles archive. They offer the show in a seemingly uncompressed MPEG-2 format, roughly 2GB/episode.

Every file IN the archive is available as a Torrent file, which pulls from the Archive's own mirrors as well as other users

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way of bulk-downloading the torrent files for import. If you try to grab the Chronicles as a "collection" using the "IA" downloader, it only offers the MPEG-2 version

I assume the IA downloader was designed for HTML and the like, it seems to be capped at roughly 150KB/s on downloading. Which is fine for old websites. But the Chronicles (after downloading for literally weeks) sits at a hefty 645GB!

If I were to re-encode it to H.265 and put it up as a single unified "collection" torrent, would this be something others may be interested in downloading? It would likely be around 100GB then (or possibly less)
Ya totally. If the NYT was reporting here that the GoPro guy used his DAF to buy a private jet and fly himself around the world, i'd be all for this story. But as it is, they've really uncovered nothing at all, as far as I can tell.
At the median they’re probably not paying for healthcare. Also national well being distribution is a place statistics fail. The median is just slightly more useful than talking about actual income levels and worker benefits. Either society finds a way to house, bathe, feed, and tend the basic healthcare needs of everyone or we really are not better than we were in the 1860s.
I've found my way into a vaguely similar group lately. Fairly even split of writers, artists, readers, and people passionate about typesetting. Some people use it for help in editing, or proof reading, etc. But the most interesting thing the group does is to take stories in an existing digital format (could be something somebody there wrote, or more frequently something that was written elsewhere but shared in this group), make cover and/or chapter art for the book, typeset it, and then crowd-fund a small printrun.

Sometimes whoever deals with the actual logistics of the printing and shipping will throw in something extra. In one case, the story was centered around a musician, and the guy who shipped the books also included an audio CD with his interpretation of the songs the character would have performed. In another case, there have been riddles and puzzles included on the first or last pages.
To be honest, I can't really see the use of this website for any practical work related purposes. Comparing it to WolframAlpha (as the submitter does in the title) is a little pretentious in my opinion.

All it does it solve the simplest equations with some unit annotations and a description. It looks like this is something for a high school physics class at most.
I agree. Disney owns Movies Anywhere and even that little bit of information would be insightful in the context of the article.
Nah, I think I'm considering non-fiduciary extrinsic value. Which is different to market value and different to preference-value.

For example (fictional), I have an old Pentium CPU, it has zero (general) market value as a functioning object; it has some cultural value as an historic artefact; it may be highly valuable to some geek somewhere, eg to run equipment they might otherwise not be able to run; it has sentimental value to me as my first CPU. My preference is unrelated to the intrinsic value of the item.
Have you ever shipped a python? It is best to isolate it and its dependencies otherwise unexpected things happen.
GV operates independently of Google (part of why the name changed officially form “Google Ventures” to GV)
GitLab parters with and supports multiple clouds - e.g. GitLab announced official support for Amazon EKS, and IBM Cloud runs GitLab Core for version control.
You can disable driver signing enforcement if you want to install drivers without having them signed.

Driver signing enforcement enhances the security of the OS by preventing malware from installing kernel mode drivers that would hypothetically have unlimited access to the device without the consent or knowledge of the user.

There really is no downside to this.
tl; dr:

1. States that there is a common modern fear that this is a moment of unprecedented ignorance of reality (i.e. people worry about "post-truth")

2. Counters this premise by reviewing the history of very wide-reaching and fundamental political lies providing examples including Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Israeli.

3. Cites the historical adherence to religion as another counterexample. States that people find value in guiding "myths" even if not fact. Likens Harry Potter to the Bible.

4. Quotes Hitler and Goebbles on how effective propaganda/lies are to get people to believe in a common cause.

5. Extends the point, by likening modern advertising to such lies/myths.

6. Examines whether the inherent value of currency can be seen as such a myth. Though of practical value at first, some grow to see it as an ends in and of itself.

7. Suggests sports is another form of myth.

8. Proposes an inherent conflict between honesty and holding power.

9. Clarifies that despite the history of myth and inevitably of dishonesty, that there is still value in differentiating truth from lie.

10. Proposes that for free news sources, one should be skeptical of the motives of those providing that information.
If you run into problems, I'd love to know specific details - this is an experiment to see what was achievable with Dweb tools like IPFS, WebTorrent, Gun on browsers, with a big site like the Archive. It certainly pushes the edge of browsers - and does use the latest ES6 features without much attempt to support older browsers (unlike the production site at archive.org). We only currently test in the latest Chrome & Firefox, though it seems to work (mostly) on current Safari on iPad and iPhone and I heard its working on Android though I haven't seen it yet.

If you can get on, there is a feedback button, if you can't feel free to go straight to the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7pXiSLrmeLoKvlDi2... or open an issue on https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive/issues .
Discussion here of the rules to this game and the conflict between winning and having fun brings up a constant dilemma when playing board games. Playing with my own family, where we have similar values for what was fun and made up the extra rules ourselves, most games could be easily made better with some rule changes. The downside is when you want to play with someone else. Following the rule book then is the default as "better" has many interpretations.
On that, read "Extracts from the Club Diary", by Charles Stross.[1]

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/coffee.html
The article makes it seem like donor advised funds are only for millionaires but your average Joe can set one up online in a few minutes at Fidelity or Vanguard. Last I checked Fidelity's minimum investment to set up a donor advised fund was only $5,000. If you're going to give even only a few hundred to charity over the next 10 years it might make sense to set up one during a year when your tax bracket is high (like a year you have a windfall) or you already have a lot of deductions.

It's definitely a "tax hack" as it's often done to (hopefully) minimizing taxes, but it's legal and the charitable contributions are 100% real and you can't spend that money any other way other than on charity. It's like claiming people who are contributing to 401ks are "hacking their taxes." It's not nefarious as this author it making it out to be.

I was intending to set one up myself during the years when I was itemizing deductions, because I don't plan on having enough deductions to itemize for the rest of my life and I'd like to give to charity throughout the years. Then the tax reform passed very suddenly, I'm going to claim the standard deduction this year, so I missed my window to save thousands on taxes. Oh well.
One issue mentioned by NYT is using DAFs to "obscure their political activity" since donations don't have to be made public and non-profits don't have to disclose donors.

Another issue is that the tax savings felt by the donors is tied to the original contribution's valuation and not the valuation at the time the money is used. So in the case of GoPro's Nicholas Woodman, he got a tax break based on $500 mil, but the shares have dropped around 93% so if they're used for charity now it's like he only donated a fraction of that amount.

NYT also reports that the fees for some of these DAFs can be significant and so a portion of these donations are going to e.g. Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and similar firms.
Axiom, specially FriCAS (open source) is pretty underrated. It unfortunately hasn’t kept up with the times in terms of interface, which is a sure way to kill 95% of the potential users. But it’s mathematical capabilities in some cases, and certainly it’s mathematical potential, outscales Mathematica.

Mathematica’s barebones symbolic representation doesn’t get you very far when you want to do more than some common algebra over the reals and complexes. Mathematica’s abilities, for instance, in abstract algebra are seriously lacking. (In this instance, GAP (open source) exceeds Mathematica pretty seriously.)
It's at least little bit fishy that you can get a $500 million deduction for giving away stock that is never worth $500 million to anyone (since giving it away tanked the sale price, and selling it would presumably drive it down even farther).

Of course the main reason for that is other parts of the tax code, not DAFs. But I think DAFs get targeted for criticism because they make it a lot easier to exploit these kinds of flaws.
Win win then....let them join each other :) China is going to wait for the right moment, decades or centuries from now, but unless China is split in several countries /weakened I don't see Taiwan lasting. If I were Mongolia I'd be losing sleep too. Siberia too, but at least Russia has thousands of nukes. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-bo...
The downside is having to pay hundreds of dollars for an EV code signing cert just to submit a driver to Microsoft for Microsoft to sign.
To quote the OP:

"I have extensive front end experience with Javascript as well."

"No one is really looking for a PHP developer right now. And all the front end jobs want React/Redux experience or Angular."

So, not learning React doesn't seem like a good call unless he wants to stay in the backend. No matter what he will be learning now, he will not have "real world experience" with it. All he can do between jobs is learn. What's your advice exactly? What does "looking at how Python has progressed" even mean?
Thanks, hadn't come across him. Great player if a bit chilly/controlled from that one example - but then again detractors have said that of Bill Evans. And solo videoing isn't the most natural milieu for music.
So the loss of public companies also includes the loss of companies who were milking the market via shady accounting. There is a persistent narrative that Dodd-Frank was just some kind of punitive punishment of big capital for being too big - the reason was to give average investors better visibility into the companies in the public markets because of widespread abuses.
This feels like a forced marriage. Where one side is willing and the other side is forced.
Erm, isn't it already released?

It is being very very heavily advertised on Amazon and its called Disney Life. It offers what appears to be the entire back-catalogue of Disney - from Frozen right through to Steam Boat Willy and everything in between that we could think of. https://disneylife.com

Its ok - not great, only ok:

- Streaming is touchy. It will buffer or just hang from time to time and you have to seek back 1-second then replay to get it to start again.

- Fast forward and reverse only go up to 5x, and the time on the time-bar does not update, so you have to guess/count-seconds to work out how far you are.

- App will randomly hang or crash taking you back to the home screen.

Apart from that, its good. One thing I really like is that it has the "behind the scenes" extras that are usually on DVDs but are missing from netflix et al. That is a great addition and value-add in my opinion.
Some of the reasons that stopped me:

- He asked me privately during a lunch, without telling the people that do the actual work about it.

- I only knew that he intended to fire these people later when started putting the spec of the project.

- He asked me (someone very junior/intern) instead one of his more confirmed devs, which means he didn't want the company to know yet.

- I had a lot of sympathy and even kind of a friendship with those people.

- I wasn't paid enough for it.
The damage wouldn't necessarily be noticed for what it is. What if such exploit was/is used to get more compromised zombie boxes into botnets for hire (such as the one currently spamming Freenode and other IRC networks for the past week or so) ?
For some areas within algebraic geometry I think other CAS's work better than Mathematica and have functionality that it lacks. For example, in the past I used https://www.singular.uni-kl.de/. It has been too long since I studied such things so I cannot give any specific examples.
I don't think there was ever a "collective acceptance of facts". Previously the type of people that are now believing fake news were not reading or receiving news at all, or in a very narrow form. They were blocked from the debate.
Could you clarify... the "declaration" includes the type right?

So why should behavior not depend on the (static) type of the term?

That's a very standard use of static typing. It seems like you're coming from a dynamic background.

There really isn't any such principle or rule here, only it seems, unfamiliarity with type systems.
Even compared to Lisp, Mathematica code tends to end up being write-only code. Variable scoping semantics is weird, and cajoling Mathematica to do things in the order you want can be cumbersome. Mathematica is also just slow and buggy, especially when you have to use a license server. (Mathematica on macOS frequently beachballs.)
Its all fun and games until you suddenly have chronic kidney failure diagnosed - doubt you'd be singing the same tune then
You make a fair point, but isn't it part of a platform's responsibility to not make footguns quite so easy to grab? Especially given Swift's general (and mostly helpful) attitude of insistence on safe, explicit constructs. For example, it's a warning to ignore a function call result; it's an error to not chain up to a superclass's initializer; it's an error to re-implement a class member without the `override` keyword.

Doesn't this situation deserve similar compiler scrutiny?
Your mileage may vary, but PHP is on its way out and no matter how it "improved", its reputation really hasn't. People starting new projects means nothing if there's no traction for jobs.
First, the scientific method is not relevant or useful in all worthwhile fields of inquiry. Second, the scientific method can definitely be applied in psychology.
If the donor's identity is kept hidden then abuses such as "quid pro quo" donations become possible (See https://www.classy.org/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-quid... )

i.e., the donor could make an arrangement such as, "I'll direct my DAF to donate $X million to you if you then use that money towards buying $4X worth of services from my company."
I’ve always been horrified by the white supremacism, homophobia, sexism, etc. ad nauseam on 4chan. To the extent that I don’t want to poke around it too much.

What are those communities like? What’s the benefit compared to Reddit/wherever else?
AvE is hilarious!
He didn't actually give away money though, he gave stock which has since decreased in value dramatically. So he got a huge tax break because of the original worth, but if the stock continues dropping it might not even be worth anything by the time anybody gets around to considering distributing it. So why should he get that tax break when he really hasn't actually donated to charity and may not get to either?
No there aren't, none relevant to this conversation at least.
Nice.
It's a stretch to call this a Wolfram Alpha alternative but this long list of calculable equations can make it useful for quick, back-of-the-envelope calcs.
The formula linking feature is also a fresh touch for a calculator but the plotting tool could use some improvement since there other free tools out there doing plotting much better (Desmos, Geogebra, etc)
Praecantatio Churchill – Chrome History Retro Editor
Data from temporary logs will be moved (anonymized) to permanent logs. For me this reads as: once it is there, it is not your data anymore, not from Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox and not PII, so we can do ~whatever we wish.

IANAL but it looks like extreme weasel wording (and not even remotely GDPR compliant), there is nothing to violate.
That knife cuts both ways though. If you put $500M in the DAF and then it goes up 10x before you distribute it to charity you don't get to take a $5B deduction.
Some of the DIY car communities/forums are a lot of fun. I spend too much time keeping an old Porsche on the road and the information and comradery available in the community is fantastic
When I was there I was wondering that same thing. Nice little river valley. Pretty surrounding hills. Maybe if you could feel ley lines the experience would be different?
Ask HN: How do you get your maps for print?
What service do you use to get street / data maps ready for print?
Psychology is one of the few sciences that isn't directly traceable back to physics (In fact, I can't think of another one). They use the scientific method, but when dealing with personalities and human behavior there are plenty of "dead ends" that cannot be reduced or described further.
I can argue both sides of this. Most companies have some questionable accounting practices so yes, oversight is necessary. But the cabal of the Big 4 firms is far more dangerous than any individual company's practices. I'm just waiting for the day that the next Enron happens. Been on both sides and I promise everyone, it's a matter of time.
Well, since you already guessed it: yes, it was Plaid.
With this you can cheaply replicate a Sonos style whole home networked music system, by having the recievers be something like some raspberry pi zeros wired up to some amplified speakers.

Ive been wary of stuff like Sonos due to the cost and the proprietary nature of the tech, but this Scream driver seems to be a nice simple alternative.
Its still an experiment to see what was possible with a big site, in today's browsers using some of the emerging tools (IPFS, WebTorrent, GUN). We only test on absolutely current releases of Chrome & Firefox. If you run into problems on the site, there is a feedback button, otherwise you can report directly on https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7pXiSLrmeLoKvlDi2... or open an issue on https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive/issues
You can specify the commit to look back from on the command line for blame. See [1]

> Optionally, start annotating from the given revision.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame
Yea I had that feeling too. I wish they replaced the syntax with a python/ lua / javascript ripoff.
(I'm not claiming that Windows is as undemanding as OS X by the way. The impedance mismatch between WSL environments and the rest of the system, and Windows' relative instability, make it more time consuming to set up and maintain. The order for me is OS X < Windows < Linux, with the Windows-Linux gap the larger of the two)