skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope.

Philosophy is extremely broad, in most areas there hasn't been a dominant successful way to do it. In Natural Philosophy however, one way took over entirely, it's named Science, and Physics is just the name for the use of Science for a particular type of question in Natural Philosophy.

Philosophy in other areas didn't have this. For the question "Why do we die?" there are a bunch of approaches and none of them is especially satisfactory. Different philosophers each take their own approach. But for the questions in Natural Philosophy like "What is the Sun made of?" Science turned out to be very, very good at providing satisfactory answers and other methods largely fell away. Whilst good answers to "Why do we die?" feel nice, answers to questions like "How can I preserve this meat in order to eat it a week from now without getting sick?" had very practical consequences that were hard to argue with. Science took over the whole world.

But it's just a way to answer questions within one (important) corner of philosophy. Science doesn't have any answers for "Why do we die?" or "What is good?" which aren't questions of Natural Philosophy.
Look into cost accounting vs. lean accounting. /The Goal/ is a classic and relatively fun read. /Principles of Product Development Flow/ is also highly regarded, although neither are strictly accounting books.
The article doesn't really source its stance and goes off on speculative tangents that can cause a lot of deaths if people accept it as a common mindset. These days I see people saying that it's "just like the flu" and in general denial about how bad 2% mortality can get - this is much more harmful than urging a state of readiness and preparedness.

A Harvard professor explains[1] that denial is far worse than panic. The latter jolts us into a state of preparedness, while the former will result in many deaths should things turn out differently than expected.

With regards to the author's disagreement on the 2% number, I am not sure they are correct. The author says that there is testing bias, but I'd imagine a good sample of people in Wuhan have been tested by now, and yet China's reported mortality rates are still just over 2%.

And 2% is a big deal, so we should take this seriously - we should panic. 2% means mass graves, and it means ten times the casualties of the Holocaust. Utilizing panics to influence policy to have a well-oiled rapid-response plan in place for pandemics cannot be a bad thing. The CDC's recent missteps are evidence of this. Perhaps we are lucky that COVID-19 might "only" be 2% - we shouldn't assume that the next pandemic will be as kind.

[1]: https://nieman.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/pod-assets/mic...
It'll suck for the SEO team at LightSpeed point of sale company.

FB named a open source project the same name as a company.
Plausibly Deniable Encryption
Just to confirm, the benchmarks are bad. Almost always the read parts of B-tree file are cached.
I'll rewrite the benchmarks and update the results!
> The DSL provider has your real name and street address, Cloudflare does not.

Some readers probably aren’t aware of the fact that even with DNS over TLS to Cloudflare the DSL provider can still collect exact info of which sites one visits. The name of the site is visible in the clear in the TLS communication with the site, independently of DNS.
Afaict, the article basically claims that physics and cognitive science are connected because the fundamental goal is to understand problems in metaphysics (what "is" consiousness, what "is" matter).

I gotta say, i agree with the grandparent. Metaphysics is philosophy. It is not physics. It is not cognitive science. At best the questions posed by metaphysics provide inspiration for physics and cogsci, but they are fundamentally not part of those fields.
> I think Sal Khan was on to something when he hypothesized that we should do homework at school, and the lectures at home. Essentially flipping the model.

I think that works better for at least some people. I'm pretty sure that it works worse for some people, too. What it does is change which group is more successful. That might be nice, in promote-equality kind of way, but it isn't necessarily progress.

Actual progress would be figuring out which people do better in which kind of educational approach, and putting each person in the environment where they do best.
Nice UI and OS integration — that's precisely why native apps exist.
China did not lock down entire cities because of mere "hysteria." This has already killed more people than 9/11 in a few weeks time and community spread has just begun outside China. Take this seriously, everyone.
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This article is factually incorrect on so many levels, I don't think it's worth addressing individually. The world has an unknown pathogen, that has been shown to lay dormant and hide in your body. 20% of cases will result in an ICU visit. 5% will need a respirator for 3-6 weeks. When cured, reinfection rate is ~14%. It attacks your central nervous system and people are dropping dead in the streets. China has SHUT DOWN. No factory production. So even if he's right about the virus, the economy is cratered. Please treat this with the severity and attention it deserves and stop minimizing the risks. This is bad. One in a hundred year event.
I think most developers are technocrats at heart and this is the manifestation of that.
I just realized now that dogs love to investigate thoroughly the two warmer areas of humans and other dogs. Around the mouth, and the other place.
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Ask HN: What did you do with your PhD in Math?
I earned a bachelor's in Math at a well-known Canadian school and after a few years working as a software developer, I'm finding I miss doing math on a daily basis. I'm considering going back for grad school in Math purely out of interest, not for some increase in hireability or earning potential.

On that note, if you got a PhD in Math at some point, I'm curious to hear about what you did afterwards. I hear a career in academia is getting harder and harder these days. If you have a PhD in Math, where do you work today?
Does having 40 contact screen designs seem normal?
You are wrong. Xrender could do half of the effects.
Try to use https://yandex.com/ (Russia) or https://beta.cliqz.com/ (Germany), results are much better than DDG.
The most jaw-droppingly wrong thing is the final claim: during SARS, we had hundreds of suspected cases, but then once we developed proper tests for it, only a few cases were confirmed as real. So the article posits that the same will happen to case counts for COVID-19: once we develop tests, we'll learn that 99% of claimed cases aren't real.

Except we've had tests this entire time. All counts of cases from all countries are based on actual testing, because these tests are the descendants of the ones for SARS. At this point, we can only be undercounting.
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Alright -- I wish you the best of luck, though I'm skeptical that you guys can sell this to businesses. Mostly because as I've gained experience working in the industry, it hasn't been my experience that corporations are willing to pay for something that can only give nebulous promises about increasing employee productivity. Doubly so if it's some kind of developer(or power user)-oriented tool whose benefit might be hard to explain to the average joe.

But I hope I'm wrong, since I would really love this. I use rofi + some custom shell scripts to achieve a similar interface in some ways, but as I imagine you know very well by now, going from something like that, to something that integrates with jira(or whatever) is not just a couple of steps.
Weekly Robotics #80
Nagaoka ferromagnetism observed in a quantum dot plaquette
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> I don't see how Rust can approach a GC language with respect for productivity for anyone

My domain is games, and while this usually prioritizes performance that's not really what I care about (so I could be using Python for instance and it would be 'ok'). My take is this: When it comes to productivity even if writing the same code is easier in Python than Rust, working over time in a Python project (or any dynamic language really) is just a nightmare for me. No matter how many tests I write or how I structure my code when I have to add a new feature that touches large parts of the existing system I just have 0 confidence it is correct. I have to run my code through all the branches to make sure I didn't forget to, idk, add the new parameter to all function calls or something.

Rust on the hand is just reliable. I can start updating my code with a half baked idea, start adding types to things, removing parameters from functions, changing variables names and I KNOW nothing will sneak on me during runtime. This is more of a feature of strong type systems than Rust itself, but still this is what productivity means to me.

(Also, to me lifetimes were the hardest concept to grasp, but I think once you really get what they mean that's when the language clicks and you get the same productivity you would elsewhere)
I know so many people that have read the book multiple times but seem to have somehow missed the fact that Cirdan has a beard.

It’s like they have a blind spot and just can’t see it
Do you realize that you are also being a "fanboy?"
Australia has compulsory voting, so they put more resources into getting people to vote.
They may block analytics, but how many of them are spoofing their User-Agent string?

You can get a lot of analytics just by looking at the web request. If someone came from Google, the Referrer header will show what their search terms were.
If Apple used materials that degraded after a few years, like most consumer appliances, phones would fail due to "old age". Is a phone battery different?

If Apple let the phones crash, as old electronics often do, and told people their phones were "old", would that be better?
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The amount of people who do not wash their hands in any way while in the bathroom is sickening. I hope coronavirus helps raise awareness regarding the basics, so more people get into the habit of regular hand washing.
Better dependency resolution is one highlight - Alex Miller presented on conj on this and some other pieces at the recent conj conference: https://youtu.be/7CM7Ef-dPWQ
I did a post recently on the end of classic Open ID and briefly talk about Persona:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-decline-of-openid/

(Super confusing name since it was also the name of a type of Firefox theme engine)
Did you consider writing this as a CLI tool and using amazing auto-completion to give you discoverability and an advanced UI? I love the idea of having a tool that brings these systems together but would rather keep my focus on the command line since that's where I'm spending the majority of my time.

raycast ticket create "Run database migration in production"
raycast ticket<tab>
create claim set_owner close
raycast ticket set_owner p<tab>

I've written a tool that uses a plugin system to easily add more "commands" to be run. I haven't tackled the tab completion piece yet, but I can imagine that it would significantly benefit the user experience.
iPhone batteries are replaceable.
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Yeah, that does indeed make sense now that you point it out. I obviously misunderstood it on the first pass.
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shocked they aren't also getting sued for lying about having no sugar in diet/zero products
No opinion sections in newspapers would be directly against freedom of the press, and I feel like going after cable is just as bad. All of it would be ripe for abuse by the party in power to suppress tthe other too.
I would agree, if the opposite didn't make the page unusable. Infinite scrolling doesn't really work if you don't unload what's on the screen (at least it didn't the last time I tried it, in 2014).
Anybody knows what's the frame rate of reality?
Here's some docs: https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs
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KaoKore: New Facial Dataset from Japanese Scrolls for ML
> Don't let them lick their fingers to open bags.

How else would you do it? I stopped myself when I was just about lick my fingers to open a plastic bag for fruit the other day, realizing maybe it's not good to do in these times, but I couldn't figure out an alternative and gave in.
My brother could crash Windows 3.1 in Standard Mode just by mashing the keyboard in some particular way that I could never reproduce. Never took more than 10-15s of elbows on keys before we got a BSOD on an otherwise stable machine.
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Earth may have been a 'water world' 3B years ago, scientists find
> According to a 2018 Author’s Guild Study the median income of all published authors for all writing related activity was $6,080 in 2017, down from $10,500 in 2009; while the median income for all published authors based solely on book-related activities went from $3,900 to $3,100, down 21%. Roughly 25% of authors earned $0 in income in 2017.

I feel like the author is smuggling in an ill-defined notion of what makes someone a "writer". I've played the piano since I was three, but don't get paid for it: am I "a pianist who got paid $0"? I also took a one-off front-end engineering contract once: should I be shifting the statistics of what the median front-end engineer makes for every year that I don't work in frontend?

Fundamentally, the author is describing a fulfilling hobby that pays a partial income, and bemoaning the fact that it doesn't guarantee a full career. I'm not unsympathetic to where she's coming from; the reason I'm a longtime supporter of UBI is because I think that things like the ability to engage in arts and hobbies should be supported at a baseline for every citizen. But this article somehow casts writers as uniquely poorly off, ignoring all the people who would love to do any of a number of hobbies full-time but have career paths that are far more limited.
Substituting MAC for IP address is exactly what ZeroTier does. MACs can't be spoofed, though nodes can be designated as bridges and that allows them to impersonate MACs.

There's still the issue of authenticating IPv4 IPs though, which are too small to embed anything useful into. ZeroTier has a certificate system for that but it requires the use of the rules engine to enable it.
Yeah this is a critical point that the others are ignoring, it only sends packets when they're actual traffic. Maintaining 5000 connections is pretty easy when they're not big stateful TCP sockets.
SQLite does it again! I love that they're using it for internal state management of the UI
GPLv3... guess we'll have to pass on it
No Dumping - the same laws that are broken if you toss a TV on the side of the road. That the stuff passes through intermediaries doesn't matter if you know its inevitable destination.

Hustlers that stand on city corners pushing junk flyers onto passers-by, creating a pile of discards 20 feet down the street, are in the same boat.
They might not right now, but they certainly could start doing so literally any day.

Also they can be compelled to legally hand over such data by governments.

Or it could be leaked due to a security vulnerability or rogue employee.
Litestep was fun, especially for those of us that couldn't get away with installing Linux on the family computer.

I also used eFX, which was a free Windowblinds competitor that made it super easy to make skins, and released a ton of garish and ugly ones back in the day.
Someone else said broadcast/multicast, so I'll also add communication with legacy systems that don't speak IP or have other wacky requirements. These do exist in industrial and embedded settings. It's a niche use case but it's very useful there.