skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GK Chesterton makes the good point that rigorous rationalism is only valid if you start from true premises.

Rationalism permits us to examine even our premises, so your conclusion doesn't follow.

> Hence when rational physicalists try to take their viewpoint to its logical conclusion they must make the incoherent claim, as Daniel Dennett does, that consciousness is an "illusion."

Oh boy.

> If consciousness is an illusion, then what is having the illusion? The self contradiction is because illusion itself presupposes a consciousness that be deceived.

No, the "self-contradiction" is that you seem to think an illusion requires a subject. "What" is having the illusion is the system that mistakenly concludes that its perceptions entail consciousness.

Here's a subject-free definition of "illusion" so you don't fall into this trap again: an illusion is a perception that entails an obvious/immediate, but false, conclusion.
>infantilizing to women

I respectfully disagree. Even people with above-average ability to stand up for themselves occasionally find themselves bullied, and having a discreet way to get help escaping a bad situation can be a very handy thing.
Navy Looking to Arm Subs with Tiny Torpedoes That Intercept Incoming Torpedoes
The handle is one
I especially want something like this for nhl.tv (hockey games streamed) they literally play a sole commercial about 20 to 30 times a game. The same commercial gets used for about 5 games too. It’s borderline torture. I’ve gotten very good at muting.
Ancient Laptop Is the Only Key to Most Valuable Supercars on the Planet(2016)
It would. I'm 30yo male with nearly perfect health making well above 400k. Starting a family and jumping into a mortgage would allow that lucky woman to file for a divorce, get my house and a 250k tax free income. A woman would need to be saint to not choose this option. In fact I've seen this scenario in real life: those men come up with really interesting schemes to legally hide most of their income for retirement.
The Times new "Privacy Project" is nothing more than a thin veil for their agenda against Facebook. Read their article on "How The Times Thinks About Privacy"[0] and notice they don't actually take responsibility for the abundance of information they collect on their readers every single day and try and normalize it by saying "Everyone else does it, too!" They conveniently decline to disclose any information on how they use reader data, but make no mistake they're selling it off just like the very companies they're repeatedly targeting with their reporting.

Their mission for the "Privacy Project" sounds great:

"Over the coming months, The Privacy Project will feature reporters investigating how digital privacy is being compromised, Op-Ed editors bringing in outside voices to help foster debate and contextualize trade-offs, and Opinion writers calling for solutions."

But then you realize that the best "pro" technology viewpoints they've managed to foster thus far are pieces like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/iphone-privacy.ht...

I get that HN doesn't like FB, but there is no "debate", and I wish the users of this site would be more critical of NYT pushing their agenda under the guise of "protecting privacy."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...
Why does every piece of advice need a counter pitch of a better idea? If I tell you “don’t stick your arm in a wood chipper, even if it’s not running”, I’m hoping you’re not going to be like “well then what should I stick my arm into?!” Presumably he didn’t give prescriptive advice because configuration isn’t one size fits all.
World's largest plane makes first flight over California
The Pi Hole is blocking at the DNS level, which comes with pros and cons compared to a browser based ad blocker. You should absolutely run both. The Pi Hole can catch ads in apps and other places your browser based ad blocker wouldn't, and the browser blocker will catch any ads that don't have their own DNS lookup. Also the Pi Hole acts as a local DNS cache, which will speed things up slightly in some cases.
Facebook cannot continue playing dumb/innocent
"Pressure does affect chemical equilibria".
Hmmmm, so would two water splitting electrolysis cells require the same electrical inputs, one at atmosphere and one at challenger deep depth, both to split the exact same amount of water ?
> As soon as we start talking about premiums we adopt business language and metrics and abandon medical language and metrics.

To provide healthcare you need doctors, who need money to pay rent and student loans. You need an office to put the doctors in. You need drugs and medical devices, and researchers to come up with them. You need lawyers to keep the doctors from conducting the Tuskegee Experiment. And nurses and lab techs and janitors etc.

That is all business stuff. Paying employees and managing offices etc. If you don't pay the employees enough then they get another job and quality of care suffers. If you pay them too much then costs get out of hand.

The way you determine how much is the right amount is by letting people choose how much to pay for it. If you have a runny nose and the doctor wants ten million dollars to see you for five minutes, you blow them off as unreasonable and get a different doctor. If you demand to see them for $10 and that isn't enough to cover their costs, they blow you off as unreasonable and get a different patient. Somewhere in the middle there is a price above what it costs and below what it's worth where you neither die of a sinus infection nor sell your first born to have it cured.

There are a lot of reasons this works poorly in the US. Low deductible employer-provided health plans making consumers price insensitive, lack of price transparency, an excessively burdensome FDA approval process that impairs competition between pharma companies, etc. But those are specific failings that could be addressed.

Switching to central planning just adds a new problem without solving the existing ones. If consumers pay nothing, not even actual cost, there is even less incentive to forego unnecessary procedures. Setting prices by committee is a sure way to either overpay (and waste money) or underpay (and get supply shortages). If drug companies still set prices then costs remain high, but if they can't charge the prices they do and still have to go through the same very expensive approval process, you stop getting new drugs. And then you add another trillion tax dollars to the budget which every campaign donor in the country will have a chance to divert a chunk of away from actual medicine and into their own pockets.

> All that money is pocketed by businesses run for profit.

The significant majority of that money typically goes to employees, not shareholders. The costs are too high, but it's not because the average medical practice is turning a huge profit, it's because the existing regulatory environment causes providing medicine to be unnecessarily labor intensive (i.e. inefficient).
Those are nulls. Nonces are random numbers for one-time-only use
I dunno, the competing theory that there are lots of shitbags out there is pretty compelling.
Hacking Attempts on Ecuadorians Not Ecuador
Are there any countries that do this and don't have really scary censorship and speech policies? I'd definitely want to live somewhere like that. It wouldn't be hard to end up financially independent in a place like that on a SWE salary.
From what I understand individuals and groups are, in support of Assange, disrupting the lives of average people. The above link shows not the downed server of a some political organization but that of a high school (and a military high school at that). Please stop this behavior of hacking attempts that affect people's lives and education.
Not as uncommon as you are suggesting I would think. These particular tools and languages are often learned as a group, because they support each other.

(R is perhaps the exception, but it does actually work really well here, because it's the best tool for certain kinds of table mashing and chart creation.)

Little command line tools, sqlite and short, focused programs all tied together with a makefile is a really nice way to arrange a data processing project.

You end up with lots of intermediate output tables to look at, each of which is produced with a small step. This makes for easy testing and debugging.
I highly recommend taking a look at the AWS CDK. It's a relatively new project, still in beta and hasn't gotten a lot of attention yet. It allows you to use real programming languages to generate Cloudformation templates. In my eyes this is the best of both worlds.
That's the reason I posted this, since this is kind of using, without the drawbacks (of not having comments etc)

I wonder if folks had had experience using it for kubernetes configs like https://jsonnet.org/articles/kubernetes.html
1) What I mean by "it doesn't matter" is that at small scale, neither one easier than the other.

2) JSON does need to be parsed and does add a dependency. Javascript is not the only language out there.

3) HTML not being config files is not the point. The document/tag structure is identical. If you can edit large complex HTML files (regardless of how they are generated) then you can edit large complex XML files. And it's rather easy to do so, against the claims that XML is so hard to work with.

4) There are plenty of XML configs out there, backing just about every piece of software you use. If you only focus on web/js projects then JSON "won out" because it is a simple dump of the in-memory representation rather than a more formal serialization like XML. The missing features like JsonPath and Json Schema are now being added back to turn it into a proper serialization format. When storing configs, these schema features are rather important.
I quit Facebook many years ago, but one of the reasons I stopped engaging with it was after they started creepily sharing interactions made on the site. Seeing "Pam liked this photo" or "Dave commented on this post" in my feed - almost certainly without them knowing I was seeing it - made me very hesitant to interact with the site at all. I'm sure they have a ton of metrics proving it increases engagement for the majority of users, but it was enough to turn me off the site completely.
You can ad your own adlists by editing /etc/pihole/adlists.list. There are a lot of curated lists with domains circulating the internet for example https://v.firebog.net/hosts/.

I found that with the default lists it runs very smoothly but if you start adding a lot of domains it might break some sites. If you break a site you can always whitelist it or disable blocking for a while through the web interface.
The big problem with MythTV commercial detection is that transitions that fool the algorithm into cutting off some of the desired content will almost always fool you too. It's fairly rare, but you might not even realize that it happened, only that the plot seems disjointed or incomplete.

I suspect that other commercial skipping systems would have the same problem.
I use git a lot and I find it quite repetitive, but I know if I spent a bit of time I could compose commands into scripts and all that.

Apart from that, no not really. I guess that’s the perk of working at a small company. One day I’m DevOps, the next I’m Front End, the next DBA etc.
Exactly. He's a car salesman. I work in CV and automotive and the stuff he's saying will be around the corner isn't solved in research with a $100k set of sensors and progress has plateaued. These are "two ton death machines", a direct quote for Elon in the interview, and overstating what these systems can do to customers who don't understand the state of computer vision is morally bankrupt.
Yeah, is clear him and thousands of others like him around the internet have a very clear agenda posting about how they believe the US health care system is great, that going bankrupt for healthcare services (or dying because they couldn't afford meds[0]) is just an acceptable and normal part of American society.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alex-smith-died-couldnt-af...
Who cares? Musk is so full of shit.
We live in the world of NATs that effectively prevents any p2p networks.
Advertising is fueling that extinction; why else would we consume so much, in such a wasteful way?
MUDs were like that, too. I knew when my friends were on, and we'd hang out, smash a few monsters and do a few quests, and talk about our days. Met quite a few people in real life from there. Most of the MUDs I frequented (LPs, primarily) are dead, or a shadow of their former selves.
Wilson-Lee: "It’s a discovery of immense importance, not only because it contains so much information about how people read 500 years ago, but also, because it contains summaries of books that no longer exist, lost in every other form than these summarie"

It's exciting that we should soon get a window into the very first books that appeared after the explosion of printed matter that followed the invention of the Gutenberg press.
I agree. I've tried using FBPurity to hide things that aren't my friends creating text or pictures themselves, or more simply, setting "friends feed" to be the default. That used to help, but not so much anymore. The problem is most of them have stopped, or greatly cut back posting.

I remember when I first decided to create a Facebook account. I had previously avoided social media. I wasn't motivated enough for Livejournal, and Myspace seemed like a useless vanity page. After watching over some friends' shoulders as they used Facebook, I saw that it was a genuinely useful communication tool.

The share button was the worst thing to happen to Facebook from this user's perspective. It actually did exist before I started using Facebook, but most people didn't press it often. Facebook is not a very good place for news stories compared to Google News. Facebook is not a very good place for cat pictures compared to reddit. By trying to be the place people go for things like that, Facebook has ceased to be good at the thing it was good at: keeping up to date with an extended group of friends and family.
I agree, it is more fun to share in person. I do this with most trip pictures and family.
.NET Core uses .csproj project files which are XML.

Do you have difficulty in reading a large HTML document? That's as verbose and repetitive as XML but also usually filled with junk comments and malformed tags. If you don't find it hard, then why is XML different?
I'm not seeing that case for:

1. spying apps
2. the saudi arabian woman-tracking/permission app
3. chinese social credit app

In the end, it makes them a pile of money, allows them to function in that country and access to that market, and nobody with power cares.
Worth exploring DNSCryptProxy as an alternative, too.

In addition to acting like pi hole and blocking certain hostnames, it allows you to encrypt your DNS lookups for anything forwarded to DoH or DNS Crypt supported services.
Might be wrong, Co-Bots start at $35k and Kukas are custom-built, often get over 6 figures.
Hi! At the beginning of this section you state 'Let’s add some functions to the lib/my_app/auth/auth.ex file to verify a user’s password', but lib/my_app/auth/auth.ex was never created in the previous sections of the tutorial. Please indicate if it needs to be created, or if it's creation is done somewhere else. Thanks!
One of my biggest disappointments traveling around Asia is that Western pop music is totally ubiquitous here and contemporary Asian pop music sounds just like it. There’s something profoundly depressing about hearing Maroon 5 playing in a little bar in Cambodia.
China treats it like an investment. In fact it's probably typical Chinese speculation (that is the creation of fantastic bubbles) driving the construction of these large buildings.
I think it's possible to skip the .md to JSON step?

Example is below where an application could either extract values at startup, or is extracted when code is built and deployed?

# My App

## Intro about My App

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

## Prod Server Settings

| Host | Port |Operating System| Type |
| -------------------------|:-------------:|:--------------:|--------|
| webserver1@myapp.com | 80 | Debian |Web |
| webserver2@myapp.com | 80 | Debian |Web |
| db@cloud.com | 1433 | aws |Database|
| webservice.com/api | 80 | aws |Database|
---------------------------------------------------------------------

## Support Information

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

## Application Roles

|Name | Active Directory Group |Description |
|-----------------------|------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
|System Administrator | MyApp.SysAdmins | Details who should be assigned the role.|
|Finance Administrator | MyApp.FinAdmin | " " |
|Finance Delegate | MyApp.FinDelegate | " " |
|Finance Analyst | MyApp.FinAnalyst | " " |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
The result of Chinese population control is a significantly higher number of men than women. I'd personally rather pay more rent than live somewhere like that.
See the Note from Harman section.

Hence, as the check wasn't working, I never ran into the check. Dat file signatures may very well be in the header or stored somewhere else.
LOL. On second thought, that... might actually work.
The troubles associated with declining citizen working population lies not with pseudo-extinction. There are two big concerns with countries facing this.

One is the fact that there is going to be greater immigrant representation, and immigrants will have/need to have a separate voice. If a society is not well-equipped to handle this, it can face problems from that.

The other is that typically, the ratio of dependents to workers tend to get further skewed, with more dependents being supported by a single worker. This makes for hardship for the population, if not adequately addressed.
I don't think the critics are right to link kant definition of enlightenment directly to modern times (bureaucracy and technocracy). These are mostly factors of innate social structures that makes people organize to seek comfort rather than curiosity and mystery. At least for a while.
in Blender, you can choose your color picker type... https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/controls...
Shouldn’t that be exported to underfed populations?
Coordinated agents could probably do well at this.

You and your neighbor may not be seeing the same ads[0]. The cable companies and advertising companies can show each subscriber something different on the same channel. But they only do that during ad time- when more customized content is a way to make money. During the show, they're currently incentivized to show you both the same content. Even if this type of thing isn't going on, it's been obvious for 20 years that some ad time is given to local ads vs national ads.

All we need then is a system where each member shares some small hash of what they're seeing on this channel every second or so. When the group sees their hashes diverge, it's ad-time. Turn on your relaxing music.

So long as this doesn't become too common, the cable networks would have a hard time changing their behavior to try to fight this. They make too much additional money with the customized advertising.

[0]When I was a Google intern almost a decade ago, another intern explained to me that her division of Google had bought out 100% of the ad time on a cable network and resold the ad time with targeted customer demographics, making a profit doing so. I can only imagine how crazy the targeting systems are now.
Not enough jobs for science graduates challenges STEM hype
There is a lot more to modern infrastructure than VMs and Docker containers. These are all of the resources you can create with CloudFormatiom:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
It seems to be on the very cheap end if it would qualify as an "industrial robotic arm" (I don't know if it does). I found this paper from 2012 [1] with a list of "Low price industrial robotic arms" (Table 2) and the cheapest one there is $17k.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241632269_A_brief_s...
Google's move has done so much more harm than good overall. I still sympathize with it. But objectively it's bad for everyone except the Party. In China we're drifting into an internet without search engine now. It's probably not easy for people who take searching for granted to imagine. But more international companies operating in China means we can somewhat maintain a level of contentedness. Censorship is bad, but when you have to choose that and North Korea, well...
Cobots are a multiple of that, and even a lot simpler arms easily go for 10k or more.
I agree that most languages are bad for this. I think Java is also too verbose to be a good config language. My experience has been with a Python dsl but I'm open to other options too.
I've had an idea rolling around in my head for a while now - a mix of wikipedia, spotify, and blinkist. The idea would be book summaries, in written and audio form, for both entire books and chapter-by-chapter. They could be submitted by anyone, and ranked/upvoted in terms of accuracy and quality. Ad/subscription revenue would be shared with content creators.
Your average person certainly had less wealth in the past, but it seems to me that they had more independence which is what, at least for me, a home represents.

It seems to me that the social contract implicit in the industrial revolution was that average people gave up some independence (e.g. by being managed in factories rather than being artisans or farmers) in exchange for material prosperity. Now that the material prosperity side of that bargain is breaking down, it's understandable that people are upset.

I don't think the fact that peasants supported themselves through farming is directly relevant since we are talking about where people live not how they work. That is, the fact that they also used their land for their livelihood does not change the fact that they also lived there.
> I also don't know what you mean by local git dep.

Presumably, the `git` URL for dependencies, in `Cargo.toml`, can point to a local git repository.
That should let you refer to a branch / commit of that repository, other than the one currently checked out (which is what using a `path` dependency would give you).
right, I'm saying that turning off Google timeline doesn't stop Google from tracking your location.
If Frank Sidebottom is an unfamiliar name, I recommend the short audiobook Frank by Jon Ronson as an entertaining story. Jon played keyboards in his band and is an entertaining writer.
Weaving motivational tales though seems to be entirely undecidable, a process without end or means of resolving disagreement. Much like the sloppier end of evolutionary 'just so' stories.

The strand of the Enlightenment with the better defense against this type of critique isn't the Cartesian (philosophy), but the Encyclopedist (science). Abrams is interesting on this - instead of focusing on biases introduced by science's historicity, he addresses the lacunae central to the very project of severing symbolic cognition from its embodied origins.
Hacking McDonalds Kiosk For Free Food (now patched)