skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This comment started out good but then stumbled in to some odd critique of philosophy as being incapable of dealing with unknowable things when indeed that seems to be perfectly within the purview of philosophy.

What does it mean to "deal with" unknowable things in this case? If philosophy is claiming this as their purview, what are they going to do with it? I'd posit philosophers have two options:

1. Say, "I don't know." This is the better option, in my opinion, because it's honest, but scientists already said that, so why do we need philosophers to say the same thing? You can speculate beyond this and posit it from the beginning as "if this thing we don't know is true is true, then it would have this effect". But in other fields this would generally be a very low-value sort of discussion--respectable institutions would not, for example, give a lot of funding to scientific experiments which presuppose unstudied phenomena. You'd study the unstudied phenomenon first and come to conclusions there before moving on to further experiments which presuppose it. Philosophy isn't hurting anything by taking this approach, but it's not adding anything to what science has already done.

2. The second option is, you do what philosophers do all-too-often: simply present your speculation as fact, perhaps hiding a "I don't actually know" in a footnote somewhere so you can point to it when criticized. A common variant of this is teaching ridiculous ideas as equally valid, and then saying you're just teaching history of philosophy when criticized. This is how, for example, you get the categorical imperative taught in schools: it's trivial to come up with counterexamples where everyone behaving a certain way would be horrible, but if you point this out, philosophers will often simply say that they're just teaching Kant because he's historically important. Yet Kantian ethics are taught right next to much more realistic ethical ideas, and students often can't differentiate which ones make any sense and which ones don't. This would be like teaching flat earth-ism in science class, and then saying "it's history of science" when criticized. It's a motte and bailey argument[1] and it's dishonest and harmful to rational thought.

It seems to me that science has taken us as far as it's useful to go with regard to determinism, and philosophy has nothing of value to add on the subject.

Hume's Problem of Induction isn't comparable here. In that case, Hume is asking a question which science hasn't/can't ask, which is somewhat useful. I don't think, however, that Hume really answers the question, and I don't think it would be useful to pretend that we know the answer. In the case of Hume's Problem of Induction, philosophy adds the question but not the answer: with superdeterminism, science has already asked the question, and philosophy can't answer it any better, so philosophy has nothing to contribute.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
They would, but the Pi Zero is a much better UX for people who don't deal with microprocessors on a regular basis. It has SSH, I can get in and look at logs from my desktop, wifi is standard. It all adds up - and for something like this, the power draw is not an issue, and the cost is minimal.
So adjust the encryption level as time goes on. Don't make the policy the number of bits, rather set the amount of computation needed.
Looks like Fiat/Chrysler banked on a merger, they just recently tried and failed a merger with Renault, which has a successful electric car programme with the Zoe. They look significantly behind the times.
I'm sure that within the scope of meetings and trailing incompetent upper-management, that many tech companies don't look like they should make as much money as they do from the inside, yet somehow they remain among the most profitable companies worldwide.

It's all about context. Find a stealth fighter that can best an F-22, until then, it's the top of the top.
Hey! One of co-authors here. Thanks for the editing work, I will definitely take it into consideration, minus the loss of boxing references :)
I was thinking to myself “why did these guys talk about inventing another Java, like it was a new thing?” then it hit me that the article was written in 1997. I mean Java existed back then but HotSpot JIT didn’t.
I don't think ISIS is the stated threat here, more likely state actors (Russia, for example) targeting satellites.
It supports rotating layers in 3D space, so you can draw things like this:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/350311600?background=1#t=0s

It has a very fine-grained transition editor, allowing you to precisely control the animation of individual attributes of individual layers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLxEW8Fzn3xvw3eZX7oH8RcMz...

It can be used to create timeline-based animations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyOvkWLQ7qw

It has Drivers, allowing you to define how some layers should change when attributes of other layers change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDszsz-CG00

And finally, it has built-in version control system with real-time access to entire document history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4h-v6vaOE
U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs from Canada
And it still does not work for all the expense. The money does not reach the poor and special needs or the service prices are way too high.

Either problem is a policy problem which poor cannot solve.
I think you are confusing the F-22 with the F-35 (JSF). The F-22 actually works as far as I know.
Yeah, highlights issue of being so damn good, you get complacent
Exa is my favorite! I have this in all of my .bashrc's:

alias l='exa -alFT -L 1'
Agreed. Which means I'd be extremely likely to just take the $100 right now in order to be forever done thinking about the topic.
Schroedinger’s wavefunction isn't sufficient in a relativistic context
I trust that the picture really shows live data because all trains are listed as running late.
Currently the US scans and saves an image of the front and back of every single piece of postal mail.
Surprisingly not mentioned until the bottom of the page is that this is by an established boutique Mac software company, PixelCut (makers of PaintCode). This is not an overburdened Electron app dependent on a SaaS subscription, but an actual, honest-to-goodness Mac application for prototyping interactions.
Most probably don't want to have a say in the protocol specifications, they just want to use the protocol and spectrum.
I enjoyed this article too, but it amuses me that people want to find a connection between this and programming, perhaps to unite their two tribes.

Not everything has to do with programming, nor would you want it to. Even if the article is on hacker news. Sometimes just enjoy the thing-in-itself, without drawing a connection to technology.

These connections exist, like they do between anything else in life. But that may not be the most interesting thing about the piece.
Ohh, I think I know the right APIs to make the Boston MBTA version of this. Will post it up if I do it.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying the mistake is understandable, and that you can correct someone in a polite way. Probably everyone has used terminology the wrong way, and I don't think overreacting helps your case in any way.

(I don't understand your remarks about ethnicity. As far as I know 'douchebag' is not a racial slur.)
Yep, when my wife tree planted she'd carry bags of those on her hips. One member of her team planted a tree every seven seconds, while they were working in BC.
They're really cool! The original Solari
board modules are mega expensive though. I looked at getting some to make a clock, and it probably would have cost me in the thousands.

As an indirect result I now have a project in the works to make them. The concept is simple, but building them to be inexpensive is a challenge. Every extra bracket or fastener gets multiplied by _n_ modules.
The VR Linux desktop is on its way
Presumably draws were counted as both surviving? The author suggested two different ways to count a draw ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"We need to ensure that our law enforcement and security and intelligence agencies are able to gain lawful and exceptional access to the information they need"

This entitlement is obscene.

If backdoor access is granted then a new set of heads will emerge from the hydra.
Yes, but American's produce more than the average person on the planet.
Tf-Explain, Interpretability for TensorFlow 2.0
Here is the link to the lib: https://github.com/sicara/tf-explain/. The author (disclaimer: I work with him) also wrote an Introduction article here: https://blog.sicara.com/tf-explain-interpretability-tensorflow-2-9438b5846e35
Yes. Fear drives a lot, if not all, negative human behavior. What makes matters worse is it's difficult to self-identity that we are acting out of fear.
In the article "Clearly, performing at air shows doesn't require any stealth at all. In fact, the jets wear bolt-on radar-reflecting lenses so that their radar cross-section appears large on air traffic control radars. "
There is a lot of abstraction in your statements culminating in an attempt to paint me as unethical. I wish we could just talk like friends who happen to disagree on policy.

I don't believe a functional health care market where providers must compete on price and quality is as static as the system we have now. The "rationing" you describe that we have today is because we don't have a functional market or insurance system.

> As far as I know, no presidential candidate is proposing to stop people from buying private medical insurance, so your worries seem entirely unfounded in fact.

Rewatch the debates and listen to the policy statements and their implications, I don't think you're correct.
It works in Chrome, but most viewers will fix minor corruption in PDFs. qpdf/poppler will tell you if they detect any issues, and they both say it's fine.

So I suspect the issue is either your viewer, or the file somehow got corrupted on the path from the website to your viewer.
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Here's a new one.
MongoDB at war with Debian and other distros over SSPLv1 license
Ask HN: Leave a good startup because of bad management
Hello,
I am a software engineer in a startup company and I have 3 years' experience. Recently a UX designer and a developer who has over 10 years of experience quit the job. I know managers have reasons or my colleagues. I love the company but I am not sure if the direction or decision they are making is good. I am confused so I am looking for advice, comments. Thanks
My economics background hits through. Secure income now compared to insecure income at x might be preferable. Especially if investment opportunities of these 100 curreny units look favourable for the year to come
No, because the buried wood would decompose. Decomposing wood releases its stored carbon as carbon dioxide, which will slowly evaporate through the covering dirt.

One scheme that actually would work is to convert the wood to coal, then burying it. That could be done without adding any energy by using old-fashioned methods for charcoal burning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal_burner

Because charcoal is chemically inert, the buried charcoal should stay put for up to a few hundred years,rather than a couple of decades for the decomposing wood.
I have a deep respect for him overcoming what looks like unovercomable circumstances to achieve what he dreamed about.

Judging only the article however - what always lacks in my opinion in those kind of motivational articles is an approach to achieving minor, everyday goals. Not all of us have a desire to "threaten themselves with a gun" to achieve a goal - sometimes we just want to do something but nor think about it every second of our lives.
It would be interesting to see how coppicing / pollaring impact the amount of carbon potentially sequestered.
That only tells you what functions got called on that run, for that run's sequence of inputs.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...

Taster:

> In the menu at the start, cursor-down works, but cursor-up doesn’t (he never hit cursor-up in menus during the test run). The small enemies at the start can hit you, but he didn’t get hit by any enemy shots, so in the released version of .kkrieger enemy shots deal no damage.
Reality is not absolute. It's more of a consensus.
Creative Europe Publishes Its Monitoring Report 2018
I don't think it's that -- the amount shown to Google isn't enough to provide any kind of meaningful SEO. My guess is WSJ has something worked out with Google.
Create ReadWriteMany PersistentVolumeClaims on Your Kubernetes Cluster
The scale goes from 0 to 80. It's not horribly misleading, but just saying
Graph database reinvented: Dgraph gets $11.5M to pursue unique, opinionated path
Ask HN: Advice for a Solopreneur
I am starting a eCommerce site for selling motorcycle accessories. There will be 4 to 5 items only.
I have no connection where I can promote the site.
How to promote and run the business as a as solopreneur?
Murder in the Moroccan Mountains
This is apparently for improving the performance of Wine emulator on Linux mainly, not native Linux games like the headline suggests.
Where I'm at, the next time I do a job search, I want to charge for my time. I've got enough public work on Github (or, expect to soon, as this art project progresses!) that you can review that. If you want something just for you, pay me. That way I know you value it, as well, because otherwise it's nearly free for you.

A few interesting things happened this interview cycle:
1) I actually did get feedback, at least from the companies I had an in-person with. I think I managed that by enthusiasm and friendliness during the interviews. But, a bunch more didn't give me any feedback and barely told me that they weren't progressing, which sucks. AngelList itself was actually one of them. Penultimate communication was "we really liked your takehome", next communication was nothing, but when prompted they said "actually no" and nothing more. :/

2) I was asked to write a lockable node tree as part of a remote screen-share tech screen. I wasn't too excited about the job, so I felt like taking a risk and pulled out a line I'd wanted to pull out for awhile: "If this is the kind of work I'd be doing, I don't want this job. How about we switch to something more like what I'd actually be doing?". Still wrote the code, and did get a call-back, but by then I'd found something.

3) During an in-person tech screen, they asked me to implement something I'd already done as part of a different tech-screen, so I just pulled that up and we went from there. It was fantastic. That one ended interestingly; I get "we really like you and would want to hire you for a position we don't currently have but we don't have that position yet" rather more frequently than seems reasonable.
A simple noob question: in this context where I want to access a private remote machine, what are the advantages of a VPN (let's say over TCP, I don't know if it matters?) vs. a simple ssh tunnel?
A vague statement. For the expense of staying in a private room and eating out for 2 days in Amsterdam, you can spend a week in Croatia.

This, and the popular news heading you see about Americans not having enough savings are all meaningless. I find the Big Mac index to quite useful. I'm working on a new web site that we try to list a similar a metric (affordability of traveling to each country, factored by the traveler return rate, etc). Comparing EU with countries like Sweden, the Netherlands, France, etc vs Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, is orange vs apples.
There are other arguments, such as if you have a family in Europe (even semi-distant) getting residency in that country is much easier, even if the job you have landed is possible to do by a citizen. They presume you want to return permanently.

But if you have nobody around here... Well...
The End of Straight
>I wish we could just talk like friends who happen to disagree on policy.

I think it's a terrible mistake to treat this as a wonky policy issue rather than an urgent ethical issue. That conception of things is part of the reason that it's been so hard to reform the system.

> I don't believe a functional health care market where providers must compete on price and quality is as static as the system we have now. The "rationing" you describe that we have today is because we don't have a functional market or insurance system.

I've read through this a couple of times but can't really make any sense of it. As long as people have to pay for their own treatment, people with more money will be able to get better treatment. That's a form of rationing, and it wouldn't go away if the "market" were to get more "efficient".

>Rewatch the debates and listen to the policy statements and their implications, I don't think you're correct.

If one of the candidates is proposing to ban private health insurance, it should be easy for you to reference a statement to this effect.
I needed to take a math refresher when I entered college. This was the textbook we used, highly recommended:

https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/college-algebra...
On one hand you ask for exact names of people who have gone through unfortunate health or medical bills related moments but on the other hand you compare esoteric "identical jobs" with no consistency or transparency. One in London which barely pays for an apartment in a tenement building, public transport, and nothing else. The other is in "rural US", pays double, you can afford a house, 2 cars, and to support your whole family by yourself, and a whole list of other benefits (some unusual for the US).

Are they really the same job? Are the 2 salaries/conditions representative of the job or you just got lucky? Are they actually identical (what happens if you're sick for 6 months?)? Are the salaries that you could find published on the internet representative for London? What's "rural" US? Are you working from home for a big company or do you have to be on site? If you have to work in your town/suburb what other career opportunities are available for you and your family there compared to London? You may be happy with your salary now but if there's no room to grow, or you have no choice if you lose you job/company goes bust, then it's not quite ideal.

I understand you may not want to provide details about your personal life but as it stands you have anecdotal evidence that may or may not be based on flawed data (cherry picked examples or low quality information), while everyone else supported their claims with actual links.

Just in case: I'm not British, nor do I live there.
nationalforests.org does reforesting of recently burned forests which are probably burning more frequently due to climate change. I don't think replacing forests that were alive when you were born should count as offsetting your personal CO2 emissions, if the idea is to have an actual effect it has to be new trees in new forests.
Amazing, a path opening for a west coast city to develop additional housing! We need more of this. I bet there are NIMBY heads exploding in San Diego, probably on Nextdoor.
Situational awareness, jamming and reaction/ping times spring to mind immediately as being areas where having meat in the seat will remain advantageous for a while to come.
Am I interpreting the graph on their page all wrong? It looks like the older version of Proton provides better performance? Unless they're graphing function call return time? The graph and the text around it doesn't do a good job of explaining that.
On the other hand, it is also overkill to learn how to program and deal with an ESP32 if you already know some light linux sysadmining and some high level programming language to set this up.
This is the hardware equivalent of bloated webpages HN tends to dislike :P
Sounds like what we've been used to from the military industrial complex. Over promised, over budget, under delivered with huge maintenance contracts and terrible shelf life.

It used to be the defense industry produced equipment worth having, just wastefully. Now we can't even produce properly designed planes.
Since I understand very little about painting, am I correct in understanding that you are saying that she is very technically adept, but not good at creating art per se. I guess an analogy would possibly be that someone can be a great pianist and play all the notes exactly correct but doesn't understand how to play the inflection of the notes correctly?
Stop Underestimating Willpower
> "The whale never actually closed its jaws around the sea lion, so it shouldn't have been harmed. Very scared, I'm sure, but not harmed."

According to the photographer the sea lion most likely just swam away as the whale didn't even close its mouth, which makes this an annoyingly click-baity title ("swallows").
There are certainly executives that should be punished, but what about the engineers?

Every single P.E. involved should lose their license.
All About Elon Musk, Founder of Tesla and Spacex
On the federal level it's almost half. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
> Amazon is so new

Amazon is 25 years old.

I saw a comment on Medium the other day that summed up my feelings on Amazon:

Third, his “business” isn’t even a business. Amazon, for 99% of its history, lost more money than it earned. The reason it even still exists today is because it was propped up by truly gigantic loans in the form of stock shares and VC capital. Propping up a non-profitable company until it grows big enough to crush any and all competition is literally the Communist Chinese model of “capitalism.”

Fourth, all of Bezos’s “wealth” is built on the backs of overworked, underpaid, and horrifically mistreated employees who aren’t even allowed enough time to use the bathroom, a sizeable percentage of which are elderly folks who, in a more just society, would be enjoying their retirement.

https://medium.com/@lifeinromania/jeff-bezos-is-a-fraud-458f...

Another note from another site The Street:

Using this estimate, the overall business, without AWS and Prime, lost about $2 billion last quarter. Although advertising is included here, too, this loss is almost all from the retail side of the business.

https://www.thestreet.com/opinion/amazon-is-losing-money-fro...
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I don't doubt that Bezos is wicked smahhht but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you borrow so much money that you can run a business at a loss for decades and undercut everyone that you'll be successful. Except he clearly isn't even able to do that.
I already have.

There is no standard that says "how a browser ought to display identity of a site", at least none that I know of, but that doesn't mean that there is no standard that is relevant to how a browser should display URIs.

There is also no standard that says "how an email client should display email addresses". Now, suppose that some email client decided to always replace the TLD in any email addresses it displayed with ".com". Is that conforming to standards because there is no standard that says "how an email client should display email addresses"? No, obviously, it's not, because the address "foo@example.com" is not guaranteed by any standard to be equivalent to "foo@example.org", say, so this transformation causes an email address to be displayed that, according to the relevant standards, is not guaranteed to be semantically equivalent (mind you: that does not mean that they can never be equivalent--there is just no guarantee that they are/there is no responsibility for the owner of those addresses to make sure that they deliver to the same mailbox). Which is in contrast to, say, displaying "foo@ExaMple.org" as "foo@example.org"--those are guaranteed to be equivalent, so substituting one for the other is acceptable.

The exact same thing applies here for URIs. The URI and HTTP(S) standards specify which URIs are equivalent, and if your software displays one URI as a different URI that is not guaranteed to be equivalent, then that is in conflict with that standard.