skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be okay if there were a Hacker News app that could display all the stories.

I mean, I agree with you that simple web pages are best for simple news and articles. But I don’t think you can immediately generalize that to “apps don’t scale”.
> are they trolling?

Nope. You are just underinformed or confused. There are several names because they are for several things; mind that there is a distinction between language spec and implementation, just like with C, C++ and numerous others.

① https://perl6.org/specification/

6.c and 6.d are version numbers for the language specification, for which exist several implementations. The version numbers are used by computers and humans. Christmas and Diwali are nicknames for the version numbers, used by humans.

② https://rakudo.org/ https://perl6.org/compilers/features

Rakudo is the name of the prime implementation.

③ https://perl6.org/

Raku is an alias blessed by Larry for the language. It was motivated by https://rakudo.party/post/A-Request-to-Larry-Wall-to-Create-...
Is there a _convenient_ way to bill the user for microtransactions and subsriptions, after you have added the page to the home screen?

As far as I know, the web alternatives are miles behind the convenience of ”click the side button twice to confirm this payment” that an app provides.
That depends on what you want to do. Do you want to authenticate the system of the user or the user him/herself?

If its the latter, then how do you protect the link from other uses of this system? Encryption? And how are you encrypting something? Password? If you do it via a keyfile then how do you protect the keyfile? If you do it via a hardware token, how do you prevent other people from stealing and using it?
When higher kinded types come to Java, please ring me up!
so what's wrong with Datomic? why do people insist on using blockchain?
It's where the server has a proxy that can fetch resources from different places. E.g. ServerA (proxy) get a request for /something, but then fetches it from ServerB (web server) and returns it to the client. It proxies the response to the client.

The comparison is a forward proxy, which the client has, and a reverse proxy is where it's on the server side.
Don't apologize to the ornery whingers. URLs are addresses, not content. There's no reputation or credibility issue with URL paths, they are totally arbitrary. Only domain names have credibility.
Currently I'm using Soduto https://soduto.com/ and it's working ok, although only basic functionality is covered.
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Could you clarify what you mean please? I'm arguing against the imagined notion (which is also regarding representation, not pay).
Is there still a space for a platform / app like this?

Genuine question, maybe I'm living in my own bubble where privacy is (at last) becoming more a necessity.
Speaking of balls, please don't be a dick. I totally get it if you want the absolute stable experience (although, if your install of plasma is that unstable, my bet is that it's poorly configured, either by you or by your distribution defaults), but this is only an acceptable expectation for software you pay for - or on which you fix the bugs yourself.

I'm saying such comment is not OK because there's nothing as demotivating for a freesoftware developer than being blame for what they think is their gift to the world. With such comment, you're not only being dismissive of other people hard work, you're killing it for all of us as you may very well demotivate some core developers, or contribute to do so. This is basically negative contribution.

Those guys do an amazing job. Many thanks to them.
There are obviously gender difference between what girls and boys like to play with in general even from a VERY early age. Its extensively documented.

Of course radical feminists reject all this evidence en masse and pretend its all a social construct, which is absolute nonsense.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/slms/slms-news/slms/girls-toys-ve...
I think it's a bug actually.

According to the CSS the font is supposed to be "Helvetica Neue", but the user may not have it installed. For me I get the Firefox default "Times New Roman" instead.
They have a special term for staff that haven't spent their entire career at GS: "lateral hire". A friend joined as a lateral hire, and was only really accepted as an equal when he voluntarily gave up his five days paternity leave for his first born to bail out a project in crisis. Work life balance doesn't exist at GS. If you're happy to give your whole self to GS, work evenings and weekends and socialise with colleagues, you can do very well in terms of career progression and pay. If you want a life outside work, GS may not be for you.
- node (whose main reason for existing is event driven IO) is in the same order of magnitude as nginx (whose main reason for existing is also event driven IO). I think sometimes people think node is ruby/python/php levels of performance. It isn't.

- And as another comment mentions, developer productivity may be better than minor performance difference - you mentioned Caddy, same rationale applies here.

- nginx is also a bit crippled as useful features (like dynamic reconfig) are only in the proprietary nginx plus.

- This has good defaults - having to set up the seperate webserver for ACME is a pain, this is way easier.
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People have gotten used to having employment and lower taxes now and will probably vote Republican.
Because in most fields, preprints count for nothing. Not for priority, and certainly not for tenure decisions and the like. In fields like biology and chemistry an actual journal article is required (at least at present; there are attempts at preprint sites for biology at least but only enthusiasts use them at present). And publishing in a journal costs money one way or another. Either you expect your audience to have a journal subscription (which can cost tens of thousands of dollars per year meaning that only large universities may subscribe), or you have to pay the costs of publishing your article yourself so that it is available for free. Neither are great options, but for most non-physics/math fields, those are the options.
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It is not just that everyone knows how passwords work. It is also that you can always enter a password.

What if I don't have my phone to scan a qr-code? What if I want to use a minimalistic browser that doesn't implement a key pair store and I don't want to or can't set up one external? What if my minimal browser is text only? What if I'm on another device and don't have my stuff on there?

I will pretty much always be able to enter a string of characters. To quote the unix phillosphy:

Text is the universal interface.
An idiot learns a lesson.

>So, no, I personally would not accept an invitation to debate “Resolved, husbands should be allowed to beat their wives,” or

>Obviously, I did not think I was doing anything like that in debating Steve Bannon.

>The formal portion of the debate between Bannon and me was brought to an end by a stroke of the clock. But the strange result ensured that the actual debate continues. Can we reason our way out of the political nightmare into which unreason has led us? That question remains open still.

Attempting to debate these monsters isn't defeating them. They want to win debates of course. Getting an audience and a serious debate around their horrible ideas it's what they are chasing, it legitimizes them.
It's not downvoted.
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This is something I've been coming to miss since turning my back on facebook-the-platform. Upvoting for the idea, but it's a shame it's for iOS only.

Does anyone have recommendations for something open source on Android?
Same in the Czech Republic with my grandparents and basically the whole village where they lived.
Firstly, I think you are implicitly assuming that there's nothing dissuading women from being programmers--that if they join the industry, things go perfectly smoothly for them.
That's far from the case, in my experience.

Secondly, nowadays, men and women both play games at roughly the same rate (with women playing a little more by some metrics), but that doesn't seem to have improved the chances of women entering the programming industry. What is the explanation for that (besides that it's "new", which isn't really the case anymore)? Like many people, I got into programming as a result of video games--but I find it hard to believe that that alone is responsible for the entirety of the observed difference in behavior.

Finally, what is your explanation for the huge increase in the proportion of women in biology?
Recent progress in AI hasn't made a dent in questions related to consciousness and intentionality. And all those things you mentioned such as embodiment, agents, environments, etc. have been explored in psychology, cognitive science and philosophy (also computer science) prior to the last 5 years. They're not new terms.
Don't publishers like plos provide a hardship exemption precisely for folks like you?
Yes, that's my understanding as well.

(Not sure what you mean with "reject 3)" - they basically say it doesn't happen, and it need not happen for free will.)

The thought experiment is always "suppose we could turn back time, and arrive in exactly the same situation as we were before - could I have decided differently?". The traditional notion of free will sort of requires that you could have decided differently. The compatibilist notion of free will implies that, no, you could not have decided differently - but that doesn't mean that you have no free will.

EDIT to add: Sam Harris has a book about his version of compatibilism:

https://samharris.org/books/free-will/
A process which most recruits survive. Not too useful for university admissions, which are generally expected to have a 100% survival rate...
I am not blaming the developers at all, I am blaming management/leadership. Every team needs a strong leader to call the shots, which KDE evidently doesn't have.

I am purposely putting aside the fact that (some of[0]) the developers that work on KDE don't get paid, because I believe saying "this software is bad and that is acceptable and normal because it's open source" is a shitty, defeatist attitude that doesn't bring us anywhere.

[0]I don't really know if any of the KDE developers are being paid. I know they lost most of their funding years ago, but I don't know the current situation. Given the status of the project, I assume there are no full time developers.
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You shouldn't be surprised, "echo chamber" has taken a new meaning ever since social media became influential.
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Yet another JavaScript project reinventing the wheel and badly at that. It seems the NodeJS community suffers from NIH syndrome more than others. This is a sign of lack of seniors and leadership.
I did not suggest the gender paradox does not exist. What I am saying is that I am not 100% convinced it is caused by genders being more different in more gender equal societies. I think it is perfectly possible for women to be more feminine and interested in an engineering degree than a less feminine women.

Secondly correlation is not causation. It is a classical mistake and most of these articles make zero attempt at explaining possible causes of the correlation by say third factors.

One example is about gender equality or welfare states being the blame for Nordic countries having fewer female CEOs than e.g. the US.

But if you actually look more in depth at both societies and the people involved one can see a lot of other possible explanations. Nordic countries have low levels of economic inequality. That manifests itself in many ways: there are few people doing low skilled menial tasks, such as carrying suitcases, doing garden work, nannies etc. It also means Nordic CEOs make considerably less money than American ones.

You notice that female American CEOs tend to have large houses and lots of help they can pay for, such as home deliveries, nannies/babysitters etc. That tends not to be available to Nordic CEOs. Not only are there very few people doing such assistive jobs. It is also frowned upon in the culture. It is expected that parents spend a lot of time with their children.

E.g. pre-schools don't stay up very late.

A final factor which cannot be discounted is that the world is more globalized today. When I grew up in the 80s in Norway, boys and girls were in a lot of ways more similar. But from the early 80s American pop-media poured in. It focused on far more traditional gender roles than what Nordic countries had done: Lots of pink princess stuff for girls and macho militaristic stuff for boys. I've seen how girls have become more feminine under this influence.

The other influence is the end of a more socialist society where one tried to even out gender differences more. As Nordic countries became more capitalist, one could also see stores pushing clothes, toys etc which a stronger gender difference, because they knew that would sell more. I think this helped amplify differences.

Maybe it does not matter, but I am trying to make the point that when it comes to social science, the interactions and influences can be very complex. Separating cause and effect can be very difficult. Doing this study in a multitude of countries do not actually represent separate independent tests IMHO. E.g. Norwegian gender roles cannot be cleanly separated from American concepts of gender roles, due to the out-sized influence of American mass media.

Many of these studies do not consider the fact that you have to consider the whole female population. Often they compare only the working populations, but since most women work in Nordic countries while few do in developing countries, it skews the results. Lots of women in Nordic countries are paid caregivers in pre-schools and retirement homes. These women are not paid to do the same in developing countries and thus don't show up on the labour statistics.
In a nutshell that about sums it up. I do think many compatibilists think that 1->2 is a scale and that there exists a lot of nuance here though.

Interestingly enough, maybe it's not the meaning of the word "free" that is under debate here, but instead that of the word coerced?
HN could be compared to a single subreddit, not the whole reddit site. The comparison is unfair.

However, even if the comparison is unfair, I much prefer lurking in HN. The reason is the same that makes an average guy feel unrewarded: Top comments here are usually insightful, well thought, and sitting on real knowledge. It makes for a vastly better reading experience, at the cost of a poorer "interactive" experience. I don't mind and, in fact, appreciate it.
Depends on how narrow your specialization is.

I remember that there are test patterns built into T1 CSU/DSUs, but not what they are or how to turn them on -- if I need to know, I'll look it up.

I remember that there are three QoS bits in the IPv4 header, but not where they are. Probably pretty early, because of hardware implementations.

I remember that lots of people look down on Perl 5's object system, but not why. I remember the existence and purpose of lots of Perl modules, but not the interfaces.

I edit JSON and YAML every few weeks, but I don't have a conscious recollection of the rules -- they're prompted by looking at what's already there.

I can guesstimate Big-O notation on most chunks of code, but I'll be fooled when there's a function that's hidden in a library because I generally don't have those memorized.

I can tell you the bandwidth of lots of hardware interfaces, and the relative efficiency of speed and efficiency of storage for a handful of RAID configurations -- the ones that I set up, and the ones that I avoid.

I know one firewall configuration tool reasonably well, which means that I look up esoteric bits, and have used so many that I expect to do common things in all of them with a quick examination of the language.

I currently know a fair amount about GDPR and why it doesn't apply to my company (and how we can assist customers with their GDPR requirements) and lots about the Massachusetts and Virginia data privacy law. Very little about PCI compliance, but my point is: if my company wanted to do card transactions, I can figure out what I will need to learn to write a good policy and get it implemented in a way that won't embarass anyone.

In short: when the job is the same thing over and over again, you memorize the details. When it's always something new, you need a broad overview about what can be done and where to find the details.
Me too. Quite disappointed to be honest.

Was hoping for "We put headphones on 7 pandas and analysed their reaction to Linkin Park's best known songs. 5 out of 7 pandas agreed that the 'Living Things' album wasn't very good."
Agreed. Hard to believe someone that does not understand algorithms at all can write with so much confidence on the topic. But let's not forget this is the Guardian echo chamber, I'm sure this piece will be well received by their audience.

While there is indeed a need to examine the motives and doctrine of the new "engineering ruling class", this article's argumentation is thoroughly lacking.
You are right about the quote.

It seems that what Russell considers definite knowledge is ... answer can be found in the laboratory. It depends on what is the best available method for proving, to the extent to which this is possible, a given hypothesis. Whenever an experimental method in the scientific sense is possible, then he considers that kind of knowledge definite. I agree that the fact that it is also provisional is confusing, but I think that it's just a matter of language in this case, maybe definite is not the best word.

I agree that maybe his definition is not fully satisfactory. But this book's audience is lay people like me, it is not as much an academic work as a book of popular philosophy (like popular science). For this reason, he probably preferred to write engaging prose, rather than being totally precise but dry.

I posted this quote because whenever there is an article about philosophy in HN, people invariably enter a debate as to what exactly is philosophy. I find that for the lay man his definition is very clear, simple, memorable and beautifully written. I find it very useful in practice, for people like me it is a powerful definition.
I don't like Microsoft.

I tried this tool.

It was extremely useful.

I read its source code. I didn't find anything compromising.

I added this tool to my toolbox. Excellent work by Microsoft.

You see how I can have a personal opinion yet use a great tool that helps me?
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Only if you think philosophy of mind is the same thing as computer science. I would consider neuroscience and psychology to be more informative for questions about the mind.
I don't think we really disagree here. I am all for asking the question about preferences directly, and respecting the individual preference, whatever it is.
You're right about animal products like milk, eggs, etc, it slipped my mind because I've unfortunately been unable to eat those things for a long time (food intolerances).

I'm skeptical about the B12 in fermented foods - whether it's bioavailable and a usable form.
Well, that specific poem is the actual narration of death by mustard gas... nothing sweet or fitting.
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That was part of the idea of the Constitution; the founding fathers knew that uninhibited democracies were a bad idea (even the Greeks experienced some bad things with mob rule) and specifically tried to create a democratic republic restrained by a written set of rules protecting citizens from arbitrary exercise of power by a majority to avoid some of the worst. They lived through quite a few things we are seeing now, but I think a large part of preventing it depends squarely on culture. Having a culture that fundamentally believes in justice and equality will stave off tyranny and oppression, but it doesn't matter what laws you have in a society that doesn't value those. When I took Chinese philosophy there was a philosopher (can't remember which one) who basically said that it is good men who make the laws, but laws without good men will not be enforced.
One problem of this solution is you can not verify the write in the first place, as the encrypted data is no longer publicly verifiable.
>What do you mean the Noon series is a counterexample to what Watts had in mind?

Basically, Strugatskie's tried to anticipate what would happen if most of horrors that are imaginable by 20th century SciFi authors are taken care of and would not happen at all. Watts tries to extend horrors we are used to to new lengths.

If you look close enough, you'll see that these transhuman intellects are really parasites (trying to be symbiotes) that live on the body of humanity. They can't live outside, at least, it is not shown how they can.

The Noon series talk about individual people at their peak as authors were able to imagine at the sixties-seventies. They can be thrown into radioactive wasteland and live and thrive there: Обитаемый Остров - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_Power. They posses extreme fighting skills: the same Prisoners of Power - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Sikorski was able to avoid being injured when ambushed with twenty soldiers roughly of mid-20th century average power, armed with machine guns and managed to destroy them all; the main hero of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God managed to fight many medieval-level fighters and not kill anyone - basically, all people in the Noon are equipped with "the switch" that father of Siri has and they still can control it consciously.

In Blindsight Watts presented a device that is called "mentoscope" in Noon - see Siri memories about his mother and father fight. In Echopraxia it is revealed that these devices are used to bring whatever is pleasurable to populace: "they know how to make dream come true" or something like that about Echopraxia's pilot's marriage. This is about the same level of usage as in Prisoners of Power when Maxim's memories was recorded in Saraksh.

In Noon's universe, however, the mentoscope is used to speed up learning and to bring the skills that are hard to obtain otherwise (hand combat system "субакс"/"subax" - why punch others to face when you can record what to do?). It is also used to suppress traumatic memories, bringing society member to his full potential again.

In Noon, everyone lives the fullest possible life, even people that are clearly brought to life by possibly hostile supercivilization. They help each other even when they do not agree. In Firefall, the chasm is so big I can't even feel a thing about anyone there (I still think about them, though). Why in hell people still use terror tactics in end of 21st century (Siri is the victim, Echopraxia's pilot's wife is the victim) instead of helping hand tactics?