skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, sorry for the very short comment, and "moving on" was the wrong word. So, first, Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery is actually from 1934 (!), not the 60s.

As an introduction, Alan F. Chalmers' What Is This Thing Called Science? is good. It covers Popper in chapters 5 to 7 (Introduction & Naive Falsificationism, Sophisticated Falsificationism, Limitations). Then it moves on (as it were) to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Imre Lakatos' Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (great short read, btw, applying those ideas to maths: Lakatos' Proofs and Refutations), and Feyerabend's Against Method. Chalmers then covers Bayesianism, new experimentalism, the nature of scientific laws, and scientific realism.

They've all pointed out problems with Popper's demarcation criterion. Not sure there's really a good catchy replacement, though. It seems to amount to "it's complicated".

One of the problems with Popper's account is the following: an observation is never about only one hypothesis, but about it and a whole set of auxiliary hypotheses. So, if your observation does not line up with the prediction, do you throw out the theory, or some auxiliary hypothesis? (Eg, Uranus didn't move as predicted, so Newton's physics was wrong. But wait, it was not a problem with Newton's physics, but there was another planet, Neptune.) Quine's notion of a "web of belief" captures that quite nicely - you don't just take one hypothesis, test it, and drop it if falsified, but you adjust the whole edifice such that it becomes coherent again. See [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem–Quine_thesis
Try as I might, I can't find details about the field of vision split. Like how perfectly vertical and straight is the division? What is the microscopic structure like: how crisp is the line at the cellular level? Is there some messiness at the boundary with regard to which hemisphere the cones and rods are routed to? Does the division run precisely through the middle of the fovea?
I think of it as a time-decay function. There are only so many attentive, focused hours one can give during a day, and a memory only lasts so long before it decays from disuse. Some amount of area under this curve represents what a person can functionally retain. It isn't a fixed amount, as more connections between subjects tends to reinforce both, but there is a limit.
> each of whom spent countless hours improving their knowledge to better humanity

Wouldn't you say that all of those improvements have partially led to the predicament we're in today? An unsustainable drain on the planet's resources and unchecked climate change?

Sure we got better at making iPhones but that meant we had to get better at strip mining, shipping things around the world on freighters, and driving to the mall, too.
I don't think Python and Perl existed back then. You do have a point with batch files. Well, maybe some sort of compatibility mode should exist for them too.
I also have Ankylosing Spondylitis.

Have you tried all biologics? It took me a long time. But Cimizia has been working wonders for me.

If you live in the Bay Area I would highly recommend visiting the AS Clinic at UCSF.
HN comments are looking more and more like Reddit comments every day. Is your only statement in a response "Jesus fucking Christ"? Great insight...
>Hatred of advertising at a larger scale, nice

The problem is that the perception of the advertising industry at a larger scale is that it's a blood sucking industry with no thought for anything other than taking the attention of everyone away from what they were looking for and towards what the industry has been paid to help sell.

It's ironic, I think, that the advertising industry is perceived so badly.

How could the advertising industry market itself? "Our knowledge of psychologically attacking the human mind is second-only to the CIA, but we're catching up!"
Trust is fairly worthless as well. Malware devs buy trusted software to turn in to malware so something that was good and trusted for years is now bad with no warning.
cmd is pretty crap anyway. Good excuse to phase it out together with the 'everywhere' devices, and replace it with a better command shell.
Sure. Find any device crypto vulnerability, and check to see if the device was FIPS 140-2 certified. For instance, Infineon with their batshit RNG (the ROCA vulnerability).
How does this differ from something like eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/
1. What are you interested in?
2. Seek out popular books on indicated interest.
3. Choose book and read.

Seriously though, I jumped back into reading by picking a genre I loved, but was very behind on. In my case it was science fiction and started with the rather famous Dune. There have been some books I started and did not like so I stopped. When I find a stack of books for free I try to seek out if anything looks interesting (and check for quality) and grab 1 or 2. Worst case scenario you can just returneth the book from whence it came.

There's always Gnod[0].

Finally getting into reading will be like picking up any other activity. You need to fully commit for a while before it becomes something that you really need to do (rather something you only want to do).

[0] http://www.gnod.com/
How does this interact with the Gmail "Snooze" feature? Are snoozed items actually sent back to the inbox? Or are they muted in some way?
On highways?! I've never seen that in Amsterdam. Tourists straying onto bike paths are sadly way too common, though.
If you just want to check all the boxes when a card is completed, you could use something like Butler to automate it (https://butlerfortrello.com). It won't help with showing the checkboxes on the cards though.

For example, I use this to ensure checkboxes are checked before a card can be moved into another column. Or to mark the due date as complete when all checkboxes are checked.
The lower-level library is used in Odoo ERP for example. Possibly others, as there are a few implementations[1] (mostly Java). This is lots of work because you need to create the XML yourself. I tried to make mappings between simple keywords and the XPaths of different XML standards (there are a bunch)[2]

So in theory you could just give a few keywords and get the full XML. Currently this is on hold, but if someone has a use case and wants to contribute, I'd be happy to continue working on it. I also provide this other library[3] that extracts some essential data from PDFs. The plan is to use them together to automatically build the XML from just the PDF.

1: https://www.invoice-x.org/related/

2: https://www.invoice-x.org/standards/

3: https://github.com/invoice-x/invoice2data
missed your reply a couple of weeks ago but really appreciate this.
AMZN is not a conglomerate. And even then BRK is extremely rare in its near total hands off policy.
If you are a core cal customer there is a bridge cal to link your subscriptions to the EA. They do not want you to carry office as perpetual software and will encourage you to negotiate away your ability to terminate O365 and get your licenses back, if you had that right.

The push now that I hear about is subscription windows, pstn dialing/O365 E5 and azure commit.
The vast majority of our lives will be boring and unexceptional. That is not a bad thing.
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Google's hostile takeover of the web continues unabated.
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I guess they couldn't get Garbagetown, Kansas to defund their public school system enough for Jeff Bezos's liking.
I would definitely recommend setting something up with https://www.notion.so/
Mostly the other way round. There are 2 use cases I know of:

1. You generate invoices in your ERP and have all the info. To make your client's life easier, you embed the info as XML, so he doesn't need to type it from the PDF.

2. You get invoices without XML and use e.g. invoice2data[1] to extract key fields and then add them as XML for later.

1: https://github.com/invoice-x/invoice2data
> except Seattle has enough sway over the rest of Washington to keep it from going hard right.

Which, honestly, it should be - I get the /notion/ of a lot of US electoral history in trying to allow diversity and representation, but it's people who get to vote, not acreage. Punishing people for living in a city by making their vote worth proportionally less is wrong, and ironically, by acreage/population density is a rough analog of what many were trying to escape "more votes with more land holdings".

Given that the Puget Sound region has 65% of the states population...
Anyone getting this to work? white overlay on black. webvr...
>I realized self help books and audio books are a waste of time and money

You may think that about the books you read, but that's not true about a genre in general. It's useful to discriminate sources and figure out whether the author has particular credibility in what she is talking about.

>This self help obsession especially among urban professionals is pretty amusing

I think it's pretty telling that you think it's funny that people are spending time thinking about how to make their lives better. What would be a better use of time? Americans in particular used to habitually think about how to change their habits for the better when they went to church every week. Now that people don't do that anymore, something else fills that need. If you're reading material written by someone who actually knows what they are talking about (e.g. a doctor or respected psychologist) that is arguably analogous to and better than attending church weekly.
Is it only for biological women? Can someone who identifies as a woman use this platform? I don't see any information on the site. Does this platform foster inclusiveness or exclusiveness?
Washington state schools get plenty of money.
Can confirm - after many years of study I’m finally at the point where my spoken Mandarin is passable, but dear lord the written language is tough...
It depends on the Ivy. Somewhere like Harvard I've heard the minimum is about $1M.
Insurance rates for one or if it is sufficient enough not doing so being malpractice.
Touche - yes, I agree that Java is probably never going to attempt to introduce that!
I'm not Christian, but I grew up in The Bible Belt. I tend to swear a lot. My adult sons joke that I use the F word like others use very. So I'm certainly no prude.

The expression in question is offensive to sincere Christians not for the cussing per se, but for taking the lord's name in vain. It's a big form of disrespect of their religious beliefs. You could think of it as verbally pissing on their icons.

Out of respect for others, I try to keep my internet comments pg-13-ish and edit out the worst of the swearing if I'm writing while tired or distracted and my bad habits are showing more than usual. Yet I am generally disinclined to use expressions like Jesus Fucking Christ because I'm aware of how very, very offensive it is to sincere Christians. (I'm not saying I never do it. But I don't think I do it on HN, which is a shared public space. It doesn't sit well with me.)

We don't use, for example, "the N word." People can get fired over such racial slurs. I don't see any reason why we should casually dismiss the idea of basic respect for a major religion and its tenets.

Is there any real reason why the exclamation needs to target the Christian religion in order to adequately express exasperation?
> The goal may not be profitability, but influence.

Or money laundering?
I used to walk into the library on my way home and just look at covers and spines until I had 5 or so books that literally looked interesting. I gave each book a chapter of reading before deciding to finish it or not.

Don't judge a book by a cover, but do have some curiosity.
Adding a separate ISP on top of effectively a net neutral ISP creates very different incentives. IMO, in such a case you really have net neutrality by default as the wire providers would not block or prioritize content.

The pseudo ISP's might prioritize traffic, but would be facing very different economic incentives.
Well UK advertising and publishing have relied on being able to recruit cheaply the best Oxbridge firsts for decades.

Of course now the industry is digital there are a lot of people out of water and don't really get the internet an di am talking about people decades younger than me.
Ah. "With the exception of finitely many" [1] was the definition given to me in University. The generalization makes sense, however.

[1] I don't think I'm doing a good job translating the original German definition I was given, which sounds much better: "Mit Ausnahme endlich vieler".
The article assumes that mining Bitcoins and fighting poverty are incompatible.

They have an excess of cheap electricity, and they don't know what to do with it. (And a bad electric grid.)

A good trick is to build a aluminum smelter because it use a lot of electricity. [In Argentina we have Aluar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluar They essentially have their own hydroelectric dam.] But for an aluminum smelter you need a lot of inversion, it uses some toxic material, and you need good fluvial communication (they probably have this part). It's not easy to build an aluminum smelter.

Another possibility is to mine Bitcoins. It needs a lower amount of inversion, and it has less logistic problems because you don't need a giant port to receive the bauxite and send the refined aluminum.

What is the difference between Aluminum and Bitcoins? You don't care is someone is willing to pay for it! (If you are a cryptoskeptic (like me), you can think that the Aluminium will be valuable for a longer time than the Bitcoins. But it is not important if you sell the production now.)

The solution for the poverty is to raise the prize of he electricity and use the additional money to diversify the industry in case Bitcoins implodes. (I doubt that the government plans are the best way to invest the money, anyway.) You can add some tax to the mined bitcoins, but it's almost imposible to check. So everyone will just not pay the tax. It's easier to raise the price of the electricity and perhaps add a discount for family houses small industries or whatever you like.
Light is detected at each retina separately, and undegoes some processing in the retina. The optic nerve transmits that information to the thalamus (lateral geniculate nucleus). The lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus (LGN) is organized by visual field; the left thalamus receives information from both eyes about the right half of the visual field. Some cats died at the hands of Hubel and Wiesel to give you this information; AFAIK it was not studied by the national socialists in their grusome human experiments.

On the original question, neglect dyslexia can be caused by disturbance in one cortical hemisphere.
Not OP, but for me the biggest boon to my reading has been the kindle for a variety of reasons:

1. If I'm not into a book, I wont force it, I can just jump to a new one.

2. 1-click downloads, if something sounds good I can just send a sample to the kindle. If it really sounds good I'll just buy it.

3. Portability, it's always in my bag and the charge lasts weeks.

I get book recommendations from Hacker News reading lists, podcasts, and friends. Then just download the sample.
Companies and customers are just people wearing different hats, not distinct groups.

Most of us spend our day fleecing and then go home to be on the receiving end. If thats the terminology you want to use for the production/consumption cycle.

There's nothing that says one has to be wearing their consumer hat when using hacker news. In fact given the context of both the forum and article, it makes far more sense to me that people would be commenting as fellow fleecers not the fleeced.

Hacker news in general has more content relevant to fleecing rather than being fleeced. This article being a prime example.

As a consumer its of zero interest to me. What do I care of iPhones growth or lack of it? Reading about Apples market position and growth options only appeals to me as a producer.
In mining parlance a resource is a function of economic demand as well as geology. Elements with limited demand may have "resource" levels far lower than those in regular industrial use, even if ore bodies of comparable grades actually exist for both.

Uranium was produced at a level of only hundreds of tonnes per year before the development of nuclear weapons and reactors. Now it is produced in quantities of tens of thousands of tonnes per year. Obviously the terrestrial geology of uranium did not change quickly; industrial demand is what changed. Uranium's crustal abundance is comparable to that of beryllium.

Despite cumulative production of more than 2.2 million tonnes uranium through 2003, additions to resource totals have kept pace with production so that overall resource levels have remained level or have increased over time. The ratio between Known Conventional Resources and reactor-related uranium requirements in 2003 was 52 compared to an average of 47 since 1985.

...

Uranium production in 1945 is estimated to have totaled 507 tonnes uranium. By 1965, when the first Red Book was published, production totaled 31,564 tonnes. Production peaked in 1980 at 69,692 tonnes from 22 countries. In 2003, uranium production was reported by 19 countries with output totaling 35,492 tonnes. Cumulative worldwide uranium production between 1945 and 2003 totaled 2,204,732 tonnes...

"Forty Years of Uranium Resources, Production and Demand in Perspective: The Red Book Retrospective"

https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2006/6096-40-years-uranium...

It's a fair point that beryllium exploration and extraction would have to increase tremendously for routine construction of these reactors. But putting 100,000 tonnes of beryllium in ARC reactors would not mean that the Earth has then run out of beryllium.
It's not just healthcare. I often get into discussions about our ridiculous gun situation. Often, I am told by advocates for the status quo that if I don't like it, I should leave. Maybe I will take that advice. What happens to a community when all of the people who want to improve it who have the means to emigrate give up and leave?
Americans live with the awareness of two issues. First, we are one crisis away from poverty unless we can build up our own safety net in the form of wealth. Second, the most successful people tend to have grown up in households where they could count on a family safety net. The mere presence of wealth is beneficial to our children by letting them take more risks.

This drives people who are not independently wealthy, to try and build that wealth in excess of what they might actually need for survival, and even for a happy life.

Is it good for productivity? I measure my productivity in terms of what I produce for my family.
I don't think there's anything comparable in terms of activity/traffic. Lobste.rs is the closest but it just has way less active users and daily content.
Agree I have 2 busses an hour in a commuter village near London no busses after 6:35 PM and a whole 3 busses on Sunday.
this can easily be fixed by having some sort of mandatory waiting period (eg. 7 days) after issuance before a certificate can be considered valid. ct can be used to ensure no backdating occurs
the USA there is a reason FANG companies like London
Ask HN: How does outline.com work?
I'm pretty amazed that I can get around a paywall just by using https://outline.com/www.[my url] . I'm sure there's nothing too crazy going on under the hood, but does anyone exactly how it works?
"This is basically the problem with VCs. If a company is making enough money to cover it's expenses, it's successful."

If a company is making enough money to cover expenses, they don't need follow-on funding and aren't going to succumb to this failure mode. It's the ones that are trying to raise that suffer from broken syndicates. And if you can't continue to exist without raising funds, you don't actually have a successful business, even if you're technically cash-flow positive.

But more importantly, while there can absolutely be perverse incentives in the VC world, this isn't one of them. If you're just barely making a company trundle along, you're wasting your one-and-only life. It's a mercy to have someone take you aside and tell you that it's time to give up. From personal experience, it isn't noble, glamorous or fun to have a startup that is just lurching sideways. It sucks, and you feel trapped. You are stuck in eternal grind-mode. Having investors who will tell you to stop doing this is not evil, but a sign of good, professional investors.

Investors get many shots at the goal each year. You get a few shots in your lifetime. Don't waste them on bad opportunities.
The parent link at the top of the page is to the proof. I'm pointing to the HN page in the hopes of discussion.

Here's the direct link to the proof:
https://www.am-nat.org/site/law-of-information-non-growth/
I wonder how many apple households locked in are actually locked in.

We have 2 apple computers, and apple tv, 4 android tablets and three windows computers, 1 iphone, 2 android phones.

I dont think any of my friends are apple-only, even those who love apple.

Is an apple-only household really that common?
A lot of developers especially high profile ones are on Twitter. It’s a decent platform for catching up on news as well as promote your company or get its name out there.
Heads will roll . . . vodka restrictions will be put in place . . .
The point of that statement is usually doing the efficient thing instead of just working hard because the end results are what really matter. Why use a brush for broad areas when a paint roller can get the job done quicker?
If you are a young person in America, it is. Unless you were born into the top 10th percentile of wealthy households, you are pretty much guaranteed to grow up to be poorer than your parents, and you know it. This is something new for America, and the sense of desperation it creates is the young is, for once, entirely legitimate.
Part of the appeal of good boot camps is the career connection department. Most of the time that’s what people are paying for and why a lot of boot camps only charge you after you get a job.
Optimal strategy is probably a curve: start compliant, follow the rules, be conservative, then take bigger and bigger risks until you can go “all in” on a series of risky bets, and if you aren’t obliterated dial back your risks to favor longevity.

If you are obliterated, well, you served the population.

This is probably more psychologically palettable for men than women. Although some women can do it for sure. Just... well at the population level it doesn’t make nearly as much sense evolutionarily for folks with wombs to take these kinds of risks as folks producing sperm.
Always consult your lawyer first. There are many reasons for doing the above. However, it's whatever is in your best interest and also field others for advice. You want a quorum.