skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say I disagree with almost all of: "(1) an elevation of text and language as the fundamental phenomena of existence, (2) the application of literary analysis to all phenomena, (3) a questioning of reality and representation, (4) a critique of metanarratives, (5) an argument against method and evaluation, (6) a focus upon power relations and hegemony, and (7) a general critique of Western institutions and knowledge (Kuznar 2008:78)".

I would say:

(1) That's "flat Earth" silly.

(2) Also very silly and oddly chauvinist.

(3) Not sure how to interpret this. If the claim is that there is metaphysically no objective reality, then all claims are false including the claim that all claims are false. If it's interpreted as an encouragement to question our model of reality, then it's a non-point since that's what all intellectuals and scientists do already.

(4) This has merit but is by no means unique to postmodern thought.

(5) This is silly. How then can you criticize Western culture? Doesn't that take a method and imply some kind of evaluation?

(6) I agree completely, but this is also not unique to postmodern thought. In fact I would argue that challenges to power as a rationale or argument for truth is a central feature of enlightenment thought, which is why virtually all modern progress in social justice was made prior to pomo coming into vogue. The only exception is gay rights, and that was on the inertia of the civil rights movement and using the same narratives and arguments.

(7) What were the enlightenment and the Protestant reformation if not major criticisms of central aspects of Western culture by members of that culture? From what I've seen most intellectuals in most cultures primarily criticize their own culture since that's what they know and is what is most relevant to them. If the point instead is to argue that only Western culture can be criticized, that insane.

There are two possibilities here: either this is as asinine as it appears, or there are good ideas but they are being communicated very poorly to the point that they are incomprehensible. Both are failure modes for any school of thought.

Furthermore I would add that if you follow these sorts of ideas to their logical endpoint you end up a reactionary, not a progressive. The primary argument of the reactionaries is and always has been the futility of human knowledge and reason. It's so obvious that I've even wondered if Derrida et. al. weren't crypto-reactionaries attempting to Trojan horse academia with reactionary metaphysical premises, though this verges dangerously close to oddball conspiracy theory territory. It's more likely that they were either crackpots or were misunderstood by essentially everyone. Maybe something was totally botched in the French-English translation of their ideas and the badly translated version stuck.
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Symfony environment setup without Vagrant or Docker (OS X)
Packaging this was an absolute nightmare due to various distributions shipping incompatible library versions and so on.

Nix, despite issues with everything OpenGL related, was the only thing that actually worked. And Cachix made installation really fast.

PS: if it starts building for some reason during the install process, let us know. We've tested it on various machines but due to some peculiarities specific configurations might require a rebuild even with Cachix. We can add that to the repo so that future installs and updates are faster.
Travelex Paid Hackers Multimillion-Dollar Ransom Before Hitting New Obstacles
I think you're missing the key part of GP:

> These projects might be pointless on a small app, but in a large business might be worth millions to the company.

With enough traffic and revenue, you'll get a positive return on hiring a bunch of engineers to optimize things that wouldn't be worth it for smaller sites. With enough engineers you'll get a positive return on hiring engineers to make engineering more efficient.

It's only natural in that case that as traffic and revenue drops, the ROI calculation changes and it suddenly becomes better to lay those people off.

And that's just engineering. I can imagine that in this downturn the sales department just isn't generating new revenue. What brick and mortar business is going to advertise right now? It only makes sense to lay off as much of the sales teams as possible. You can hire them back later.
Huh? TLS has PSK ciphers. They're popular in low-power IoT devices, because even ecc crypto is rather expensive, compared to e.g. AES.

I'm not sure if any of the PSK modes manage to work with perfect forward secrecy though. Otherwise, leaking the PSK would also allow decrypting any previously-sniffed traffic.
Creating a throw-away account just to prove to someone that China did something right...
A few possible reasons:

1.) The gov has shown they aren't willing to let the market tank.

2.) Many businesses are actually thriving right now via online orders. This means every part of their associated supply chains are thriving as well.

3.) This is a temporary revenue setback but will make it socially acceptable to layoff employees by the thousands...which will trim payrolls without losing an equivalent amount of production.

4.) Non-retired people wouldn't dare touch their 401k before they are 59 1/2, which are primarily comprised of stocks.

5.) The market is predicting a surge of activity once this is all over.

6.) This situation shook out any major bubbles that were forming (e.g. stock buybacks), and made the market more anti-fragile.

7.) People now see the value of having more goods on hand in their homes, which will probably mean increased initial spending when this is over.
That's a great point. I once saw one of those "HFY" threads where someone was speculating that if we became a warrior species in a multiplanetary federation, we'd be feared not just for our tenacity but also our ability to play mind games. Basically, "Never play poker against a human".
Can't say this is really a bad thing, Yelp has had blackmail and predatory business practices a long time and should be shutdown on that alone. It's amazing to me they haven't been sued into oblivion yet.
Hopefully most of their scummy sales department
what about mumble?
The sale was actually blocked by the federal government for a period of time and AOL continued to run the back end servers for icq until just a few years ago.
But conversely, if legislation really succeeds in killing Signal in the entirety of US (and EU won't be far behind!) to the point where they're forced to use geo-IP blocks, the end result is still strictly worse off.
“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China”

It takes some serious mental gymnastics to interpret this in any way other than the obvious one. This isn’t a philosophical discussion about the limitations of empiricism, it’s a tweet that goes out to millions of people from an organization imbued with serious authority.
Hmm, okay, so I can drive over to Canada, make a developer friend there, build an instance of the Signal iOS app using the licenses there, load it onto my phone via TestFlight or USB stick, then drive back to the U.S. and use it assuming TSA doesn't touch my phone?
Has the article buried the lede? Should we make this the title above?
Ockam built a JAMStack site and it's 100% Open Source
Almost certainly, it is the ReMarkable: https://remarkable.com
How to Create a Survey or Poll Online a Step-by-Step
Okay... Thank you for telling me about your experience. I got where the confusing point is.

Maybe you've noticed it yourself now, Playground is only for organizing parts. I think it would be nice to have a Playground for the Memorizing part, but now it doesn't have that one... To make it appear there you have to put the content in the real Organizing part. Anyway, I found out that I need to make that part a little more understandable.
I love the spirit of your response, but I feel the need to disagree a bit and elaborate about your statement:
>Mindfulness meditation is an emotional-based approach as it mostly relates (for laymen like me) to scanning the body

The REAL essence and power of mindfulness is becoming aware of the contents of your attention. For some reason, focusing the attention inwards on bodily somatosensory experiences tends to encourage that, but the two are not the same. Body-scanning is more a technique to help encourage the development of mindfulness rather than the end goal in itself.

The reason this distinction is so important and powerful is that the brain regions which are feeding the contents of your attention are the ones that get reinforced. When you combine mindfulness with practice in redirecting your attention, it becomes an insanely powerful tool to fundamentally reshape your reality by restructuring your brain.
Cow poop could fuel California’s clean energy future. Not everyone’s on board
RedHat shares IBM’s model of “change the terms and product definitions every year and audit folks to death who can’t switch providers”

They are going to irrelevance together.
Here is a better question. Why not do this?

If you got fired, you don't really own the company anything anymore.
Are some parts of the Universe expanding faster than others? Maybe
I saw a mountain lion stalking some deer in Muir woods. He stalked slowly as you might expect, but he didn't get the deer.
Digital typewriters with editing capabilities were widely available from the 1970’s. While I certainly appreciate this as a hobby project, the idea that digital typewriters are new or novel is misinformed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Electronic%20Type...
UK tech startups begging for government help amid coronavirus outbreak
Is there any evidence of this actually happening?
Not paying attention to Congress...until a big player gets taken down by this bill and makes a loud fuss about it.
1) I think that'll be super disorienting, but we might add a quicksnap feature like in HL Alyx to rotate your head quickly.

2) I believe we already have that (via Super-')

3) Good idea. Being able to instantly fullsize and "pin" a window sounds good, maybe even as a toggle.
I imagine this'll be a godsend for visually-impaired people in technical fields especially. Lord knows dictation is woefully insufficient whenever you're talking with less common words...
I think the beard is cooler in summer because you lose so much moisture from exhaling, it would go to waste not evaporating from your beard. In the winter, it solidifies and adds an extra layer of insulation. But if we were pushing that much moisture out everywhere, we'd probably dehydrate much too quickly.
I guess your perspective on these "gotchas or expectations" changes depending on how invested you are in the language. I worked on an Elm project that ended up fairly large. We started at 0.14, and each version upgrade became progressively more difficult because of changes made to the language and to the runtime. Some of the changes were understandable, such as wanting to change the direction of the platform by dropping FRP, while others were not, such as disallowing inline operators, or dropping methods from the standard library just because the BDFL decided he'd prefer for people to do things differently.

What really ended up bugging me was the patronizing "we're doing this for your own good" response given to every reasoned attempt to question these choices. In the end, Elm definitely had lots of excellent ideas, but I'm happy I don't need to deal with it any longer.
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In C# since 2007. Feature is called LINQ expressions.

Not sure fully grokked it, but the difference appears to be, that in Julia the final Julia code is checked by the compiler at compile time?
I think the point is that people still remember the ICQ brand. Whether they did or did not use the actual ICQ client 15 years ago is less important.
> As an example: a retail transaction database. Or a calendar booking system. That should be really simple, right? Just record who ordered what, when they received it, who sold it, etc. Who reserved the room, who to send invites out to, simple?

I am not sure people downvoting me understand what all goes into an EHR/practice management software. Calendar booking? Yep. Billing. Oh hell. Don't get me started on the byzantine mess that medical billing is! Then there's charts with icd-9/10 hell. And then everyone you sell it to wants their own charts a little different. Patient records, insurance, I mean, it goes on. The database had several thousand tables. It was insane.
Correct -- Ginni Rometty was CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board. She remains Chairman, while Arvind Krishna is now CEO and Whitehurst is President.

This is the first time in a while that the IBM President & CEO roles have been divided among two different people.
if i am happy to just quietly run my private patched version, sure. but that's not the point, because the claim is that for a good Open Source (or Free Software) project, it must be possible to go public, and once you do that, if the original developers are unsympathetic then drama is unavoidable.

there have been hostile forks in projects before, even those that eventually had a good ending. egcs for example.

i was part of such a forked project too. it wasn't meant to be hostile, and the drama was limited to the project leaders, but it happened, and feelings got hurt.

not everyone is willing to take that risk.
Or Greece’s reverse invasion of Rome!
Thanks, that was interesting :)
Your input is discounted at least in direct proportion to how little you sacrificed in order to provide it.

One of my college roommates works for a congresscritter. He says, at least for his guy, written letters still have the most impact, followed by telephone calls. He didn't mention faxes.

E-mail and social media are waaaay down on the list because they take the least effort and can be gamed so easily.
Smuggle the phone back using an electric dirt bike crossing the Canada-US border in the middle of the night, that way the TSA won't bother you.
It's not a tradeoff, it's a weakness by design. All features you mention are 100% doable without a phone number
> Why not do this?

Because what do you get out of it? They don't pay you for a tip. Why do free work for a media conglomerate, even if you didn't care about the ethics?
I can't resurrect my old ICQ number? It was short too.
How Bochs Works Under the Hood (2012) [pdf]
I think its a bit different with a language though. Because so much of other people's work is based on it, removing a feature that was being used causes all sorts of downstream chaos. Every time a language release breaks backwards compatibility it tends to really upset people, I think maintainers always need to be cognizent that their choices effect others.
No one should contact that terrorist eugenics organization. They're diabolical.
The premise of 1984 was that the government COULD watch what you were doing at any given time. In certain respects we're already past that and technologies like Signal are trying to move us out of that Orwellian world.
What happens if a customer stops making monthly payments?

Does the financing model work by offloading all risk to the artist?

Are there some protections?
I took that text from "5-3-release-process" I'm not talking about Swift compiling on Windows, I'm talking about the GUI situation, but I'll install it and hopefully be pleasantly surprised with a full featured GUI SDK. But don't get me wrong, a supported compiler and std lib for Windows from Apple is a fantastic start.
How does it get the image of an application inside of SimulaVR? Is it something weird like grabbing a graphics buffer? Or is it launching the applications as a child process so it can access its viewport? Or is it asking the windows manager? I'm not sure how this part works and am curious.
100% agree this is annoying. We're working on a fix.
I remember hearing the variant that ran "The first 20% of the program takes 80% of the time, the remaining 80% takes the other 80%."
This is a pretty common pushback on marketplaces in general, but in my experience working on several, this only happens in specific situations. I doubt it would be much of a problem for Art in Res, namely because:

1. With higher price points, the security and financial services of the platform become more valuable. Installment payments, for instance, would likely be beyond the abilities of many artists to orchestrate. The platform also likely provides some guarantee on the buyer side that all that money won't go missing and that the product will be delivered as expected.

2. The platform will usually have some language in their agreement that makes off-platform contracts with people you discovered in-platform punishable. If you've ever used a hiring platform like Hired or A-List, you'll know that these fees are persuasive.

With cheaper platforms like UpWork, I'm sure this kind of thing is common, but on more expensive market places it isn't as pervasive as one might think.
The way you describe your script literally makes it sound like malicious software.

Do you webpack/rollup the entire thing together, or is fingerprint/jquery included as-is?
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It really depends heavily on the engineering field. I do work in optical/physical engineering (photonics, nonlinear optics, quantum computing) and essentially operations research (optimization theory) and almost everything we use is Python (as a C + CUDA wrapper/HDL-type thing) and Julia (which I'm trying to introduce for code reusability, even if it is only marginally slower than the former).

At least in my university, most people really do use Python + C and Julia for many, many cases and MATLAB and such are used mostly in mechanical and civil engineering, some aero-astro (though a ton of people still use Python and C for embedded controllers), and Geophysics/Geophysical engineering (but, thanks to ML, people are switching over to Python as well).

I think even these fields are slowly switching to open versions of computing languages, I will say :)
Actually, I can't draw the logical conclusion myself. What is it?
No animal can sweat as much as humans do. They overheat.

Pretty much the only animals that can outrun a well-trained human over marathon distances are sled dogs - and only in very cold weather.
If you want to compare county-level data, try the Julia-based tool [1] that allows you to compare states and counties. This tool allows you to plot multiple entities, shows deaths or number of cases, allows linear or logarithmic, and has other options. Note that [1] may take some time to start, since it's using Heroku

[1] https://covid-county-dash3.herokuapp.com/
I feel like as soon as someone uses a "think of the children" argument they immediately invalidate any point they may have had. It's a total cop out argument. I wish more people could see through it.
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Totally with you on this. It's super annoying! We're working on a fix.
Do you know if Lush is still usable? I wonder what's stopping people from developing in it.
The velocity of money, not solely the supply of money, determines inflation.
Thanks for making it, super cool! Btw, if it wasn't clear, my "controversial" comment isn't to be taken seriously
Why does anyone talk to a journalist when they don't get anything out of it or advance their interests? People like to tell their story, especially when aggrieved.
I think my point stands that the criticism on this thread is mostly a surface level reaction and hung up on meaningless slogans like "software 2.0" or "breakthrough".

You use of the word "seems" is very apt here.

Have you considered that Google might have hired Lattner precisely because he is the founder of LLVM and Swift, and they hoped to leverage his organizational skills to jump start next generation tooling? We know google is heavily invested in llvm and C++, but dissatisfied with the direction C++ is heading [0]. They also are designing custom hardware like TPUs that isn't supported well by any current language. To me it seems like they are thinking a generation or two ahead with their tooling while the outside observers can't imagine anything beyond 80s era language design.

[0] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3535795/c-plus-plus-propos...
That's the reputation HN wants to impose. Especially the people who couldn't clear the interviews.
Oh wow!

I can't thank you enough for this - as an artist it's something I personally want and I know many of my friends need - would love it if you'd put the artist application button somewhere more visible, people are gonna look for it.

This makes me jittery, I hope I fell ready to submit an application soon.

Any chance you expand beyond paintings?

Thank you and keep up the great work!
Well, let's see...

> We can climb on negative inclines,

Can you?

> run an ultra-marathon,

Have you ever?

> lift several times our own weight,

Can you?

> deep-dive,

Have you ever?

> heal massive wounds,

Unless we die from them, yup.

> our immune system is without par,

Meaningless claim.

> and we perform all kinds of feats of dexterity

And birds can can't, but they can fly. Elephant's can't but they've got long noses. etc. So?

Human exceptionalism (from a human, I assume)
If you care so much about uncensorable resilient service you probably already use either jailbroken iOS or Android. And if you don't, then do. iOS has a 13% market share anyways.

Hope you got it!
Can we please stop this?

HN sinks to the gutter every time China pops up as a subject and no discussion is possible, as seen from the reaction to my previous comment.
> due to an ability to constantly grow markets with cheap oil energy and new markets. But more importantly the US had a lot of power and regulatory oversight to keep it from happening. All of that is no longer the case

Growth: emerging markets have decades of gangbusters growth ahead of them. More people will exit extreme poverty than ever before in the coming decades. China will transition from middle income to rich in our lifetimes, introducing hundreds of millions of new rich country consumers.

Federal power and responsiveness: The fed expanded its balance sheet in a rather incredible and history-making way. The CARES act is one of the largest subsidies ever.

Cheap oil energy: POTUS is currently begging SA and Russia to increase the price of oil. Meanwhile, alternative energy sources get cheaper every year.

A GD is possible, but not for those reasons.
Whitehurst becoming IBM president is sort of old news, but I cannot find a discussion on HN about it. (only a few posts without discussion).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205335

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22198016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200653

There was discussion about the matter on the post about Arvind Krishna becoming IBM CEO, but it was somewhat buried:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22196489
Is there some context to who designed this and why? That framing doesn't look like anything a carpenter would produce and I'm 99% sure it wouldn't be code compliant in Oregon at least.
Maybe am mistaken but isn't a language that hasn't reached version 1 by its nature supposed to have breaking changes. It is expected that while you can use the language for your projects there is no guarantee that new additions won't break your code so you use it at your own risk unless Elm uses a different versioning system.
I feel like that is the least of their problems
_wow_ those paintings are bland
Bob Dylan Scores First-Ever Billboard Chart No. 1 Song with 'Murder Most Foul'
>>In this pandemic, democratic nations are suffering more than authoritarian regimes purely by choice

This is no evidence of this either. You can't believe what authoritarian regimes publish. They also are willing to shoot on site if they want to positive-COVID people. There are estimates that the deathtoll under CCP for COVID is > 10x what's reported, and will probably go up.