skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are naturally far better at identifying what's plausible instead of sorting out what is likely, and we're better at giving kudos and recognition for the former than the latter even though it's easier. That makes some people hyperdevelop "theorizing" without working on "validation."

We are dangerously good at making up stories to explain data. Talk to anyone about a spurious correlation[0] and they can provide you a just-so story that explains it as a real correlation in under a minute.

Provide anyone with two competing theories that each account for some but not all of the available data, then ask them to rank the two based on likelihood. You'll make people visibly upset. (Our ability to invent new theories to fit any circumstance might partly explain why, for a while, explorers forgot how to cure scurvy.[1])

And it's easier to "look smart" the first way. No one can immediately determine whether you're good at the second unless you make a long series of predictions evaluated over time while constantly gathering more data. Everyone can see if you've connected a few dots in a clever and unexpected way. Talking heads are regarded as experts for going on shows and making vague predictions based on a few recent events, but are never called back to scrutinize their predictive track record.[2]

Conspiracy theorists are generally just arguing something is plausible, and ignoring the messy step about what's more likely, with the implication you should just leap from plausible immediately to unwavering conviction.

Some of this is just, well, one of these things is hard and the other is easy. But I'm confident both can be learned to some extent, based on personal experience of getting a better sense for these over time.

So to the extent this is "fixable" at all,[3] maybe greater education about meta-cognition (esp. cognitive biases), the history of analytic philosophy, a humility about what one knows, and/or Bayesian reasoning earlier in education might help.

Sidenote, this itself is arguably just another just-so theory too. Maybe I'm wrong about it all. :)

[0] e.g., http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

[1] https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

[2] This is Phillip Tetlock's whole area of research.

[3] To be fair, maybe we've already "fixed" this pretty well, we tend to attribute far fewer things to witchcraft than a few hundred years ago, maybe normal everyday education and expansion of literacy is enough and there will always be a handful of outliers and trolls. See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
You always keep client state on the server in the sense that the DB keeps track of sessions and the server keeps track of caching.

Never trust the state of the client... Never trust client's input...

No idea what JSF is. Sorry it didn't give you access to the data you needed when you rendered files.
I guess the question could hinge on if yellowcake is truly wmd or not, but regardless the administration openly claimed it was, and that's what they based their argument on, and iirc that yellowcake was found.
I signed up and I really like the concept and the ideals behind satellite, kudos for that!

But here some of my opinions to improve the experience:

The sign-up should say the minimum amount of ETH required to create an account, I wanted to test the process of getting it from the platform so I used the "Need ETH? We got you covered" button and it worked without a problem.

There are some tiny problem with the UI, for example the font color for some parts of the UI blends in with the background and makes it really difficult to read it, for example: usernames on comments, the network activity (navbar, left of "Media"), titles and icons on the left menu bar on profiles ("Public Earth ID" and "Satellite Data"), bio on profiles, etc...

The landing page looks beautiful, but sometimes it freezes my browser for a second, since it is heavy js, but that might be my fault because of my 200+ tabs open.

I am really curious on how Satellite will expand and scale with more users, especially the constellation page, and once again congrats, you are building the future of web!
> "In the EU it’s illegal for a merchant to charge a different price based on payment method"

I really don't think that's true; there are plenty of merchants who do still charge different prices based on payment method. But there are also many who voluntarily don't, because the actual cost is negligible and better than the alternatives. Regular bank transfers of various kinds between consumers, including iDeal internet payments, as far as I can tell, have no fees at all. Cash withdrawals across different currencies may incur fees, but I've never seen fees in regular Euro cash withdrawals.

Nobody here is charging 2-3% except when credit cards are involved.
Apple spent a lot of money selling the idea the Mac was totally different to the PC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo
I believe Apple just don't see any reason to be nice. And probably that's what many companies would do if they were in that position.

We know that we can't stay dominant forever,

We know someone will force us to reduce Apple-tax later,

So we have to get as much as we can, for as long as we can.
Well it might be easy to switch but it is a good example

Why is it that Google is thinking the older page is more relevant? Does PageRank outrank content (and Google is oblivious to similar pages that have different versions?)
You could say that WSL is not a GNU/Linux. But since WSL comes with its own kernel, part of it is definitely a Microsoft-extended flavor of the Linux kernel.

Even if this driver went upstream, it wouldn't be any less tied to the WSL virtualization platform.
I assume it was flagged because unless you're already a true believer, "look! this falling building is falling according to the laws of physics" is not a very strong argument.
Not sure why this reply is being downvoted. Could have been phrased differently but it seems like street construction projects are low risk opportunities for corruption on a recurrent basis.
Apple wants to own iPhone consumers so that anyone who wants access to that demographic must pay the toll and follow their rules. It's far too much power for one corporation. Nice to see authorities are starting to take the matter seriously.
This is the expected outcome from introspection (Corona period).
Because ripping people off by rent seeking is common it’s okay? It’s not okay to steal other people’s work when them building things for it means you sell more iPhones. Apple have this stuff completely backwards, stop there from being an App Store at all and see how many iPhones are sold.
I agree, that would be a better way. This is more like fighting fire with fire.
The navigation reminds me of ranger terminal file browser, which navigates dirs and files in the same way except it uses Vim keys.
As it should not. Need to move the laptop into another room? Better not close the lid!

Just disable it and actively sleep when you do want to sleep. This is the most sensible way even if you never have any external monitors attached.
How to reclaim disk space used by Docker volumes, but keep a few important on
You may be surprised to learn that retail stores pay the manufacturers for their products (at "wholesale" prices), and are free to sell them at whatever markup they wish.

Thus, retailer margin can vary anywhere from negative (doorbusters) to 1000% (i.e., alcoholic beverages).
> That’s why the WMD fiasco is so instructional. It failed immediately

Maybe we have a different understanding of "failed" or "immediately", but it worked well enough to get the media on board to build a case for war and carry it for long enough until the actual war started. It was solid enough that even all the doubt coming from NATO partners (and the flat out refusal to be part of it with Chirac's utterance that "France is not a pacifist country" and it's not about war itself but that war and those reasons in particular that they wouldn't be a part of it) did not stop the war. So, to me at least, it didn't fail at all, it succeeded.
How Can Double-Spending Be Prevented?
Many. Here's another famous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe#JailbreakMe_2.0_(i...
Documentation doesn't change in real time.
> Writing real multithreaded code without a GIL is hard.

I'm starting to think this is going to be a major dividing line in developer skill going forward -- those who can write threadsafe code and those who can't. There's an awful lot of Java, C# and Golang out there and if a programmer can't reliably think through thread safety issues (which is not that difficult in simple cases), they aren't capable in that realm.

One of the most frustrating things about my brief excursion into the land of Ruby was that the community was full of modules written by people who had no reason whatsoever to think about thread safety because they were programming for Rails, not Ruby in general.
Even those types of authority systems can be gamed as well, unless you're also building your own recaptcha pattern analyzer too.

The problem with decentralization is that it creates a power vaccuum that is filled by the most interested actors. Even bitcoin, with it's decentralization-by-design is actually centralized to a handful of miners in China.'

If the goal is to rebuild something that is anything else other than profit based, you need to make sure the organization running it is strictly non-profit.
This is the core of the problem. In the US, credit card companies have an effective monopoly on the payment infrastructure, and there's not cooperation among banks, and not enough political will, to propose a better system.

In the EU, there's been a lot of regulation over the past couple of decades to improve payment infrastructure. Before that, international payment within the EU used to be awful, and even transferring money from one bank to another within a single country could in some circumstances be bafflingly complex.
Hugo is great. It's feature packed static website generator. There is plenty of templates you can use and modify.

https://gohugo.io/
Yo this is dope.
What's preventing the development of an open model/data format for parametric modelling?
You might do a web search for Dr. David Hanscom and read some of his stuff to see if you could apply any of that to your situation. I've never been to him, but I've listened to him and read some of his stuff.
I don’t get why either case 30% or 50% is right? It’s actually having the best app ecosystem that sells more phones, imagine for a second there was no App Store, how many iPhones would be sold.
In case of apocalypsis, debris of our civilization will provide huge supplies of metals. Much cheaper to process than raw ore.

Coal is a different thing. That said, I think that it's not necessary to have very cheap coal and oil energy to have technological advances.
Yeah that was me. If I can get enough people to use them I will get enough spirit energy to be able to buy a magic sword off a ghost. Then with the sword I can fight the magic photocopier to get the pendant to open the door....
While most useres don't want to "tinker" themselves, limiting the ability to do so can limit the experience of all users. Because a too strict app review does limit the range of apps available for a system, and that has the potential to affect all users.
But from their point of view, were you totally serious, or was it obvious that you were just taking an absurd stance for the sake of an extreme counter-example, tongue in cheek?
Netgear router hotfix seems too little, too late
It never went away, those of us old fashioned devs on Java and .NET stacks, it has been our bread and butter for the last 20 years regarding Web stacks, SSR with some JavaScript on top.

I guess what it happening is the newer generations re-discovering that actually it makes sense to generate static content once, instead of redoing it in every client device across the globe.
IMAP exposes a pretty comprehensive server-side query system. If your email is being synced locally then you aren't dealing with an IMAP limitation, as it isn't even using IMAP. If it is searching remotely, wither the email isn't being indexed for those searches or the client is doing some ridiculously poor search strategy. Like, if you actually look at the mechanism IMPA exposes for this, it is pretty powerful. (The only real limitation is that the original SEARCH mechanism is per-"mailbox", but this was fixed a long time ago with the SEARCHM extension. But arguably the correct way to map Gmail to IMAP is to put all your email in one "mailbox" and use IMAP "flags" as labels anyway.)
"Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds, about magical transformations, quick cures, simple problems, and final solutions. Yet the world we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem." - Wendell Johnson (Semanticist)

Good example of ppl who make up new words to "simplify" things as their world gets more and more complex every year are Lawyers and Accountants. But even so sometimes you end up requiring buildings full of them to decipher what one sentence they came up with last year actually means this year.

The problem is not the Lawyer or the Accountant but Human Language itself.
It all depends how much you dilute them in water i guess :p
The only thing I know about IMAP are from JMAP, so I cannot say what is lacking in IMAP per se.

As far as I know a couple things that are pain points for me when using thunderbird/other IMAP clients (weird search limitations, strict folder hierarchy organization) are due to how IMAP was designed, but these are mostly minor issues that I imagine would not require a new protocol.

What I hope the advantage of JMAP will be is that it will provide a more flexible foundation for gmail-like interfaces on an open protocol.

At least all IMAP clients I have used have always felt... clunky and counter intuitive (I started using email with gmail, so maybe I just never learned the skills) even if IMAP already had all the good things JMAP claim, I think that the different focus on message and less historical baggage have a good change of producing designs that will feel more natural to me.
Only your manager likes the office
So it's ok to post stuff like "For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business" when there are literally black mobs looting on the streets, and it's not an inflamatory thing, but it's not ok to say how it looks from the other side? Please just block my account already.
I can barely read that webpage. Needs more contrast.
Also consider that you need a community with weapons to defend your "years worth of food" from those who did not have that. You can see that even in peaceful times when nothing really happened, government collapsed and left their citizens to defend themselves from bandits. Imagine a global disaster.

IMO that's the main issue with those hoarders. You can hoard as much as you can, but local gang will expropriate everything.

So may be it's better to stock guns and bullets...
The OP explicitly invited questions about conflict of interest, which I took to mean beyond his employer (which he already established). I also didn't accuse him nor do I believe he is a "shill". I disagree with this characterization based upon the parent comment but I'll stop as asked.
The problem is, the App Store conflates security review with "curating". The question, whether "Hey" offers in-app purchases or not is not a security question, the app was rejected because Apple requires in-app purchases (from which they take 30%).
What the hell. It’s one thing to say you prefer nothing to happen on lid close. That’s cool. I don’t want that. This is like saying, “I would like a mocha” and having the barista say “Wrong, you want an iced coffee.” No, I do want my laptop to sleep on lid close, just not when it’s docked. This is clearly not much to ask for considering Linux and macOS do it just fine by default and I can still disable sleep on lid close if I want to.

Why is it better for Windows to do this wrong? It is clearly a side effect of the fact that the Power Policy system only differentiates between AC and DC and no other conditions.

What happens when I move rooms? Well, I only have one docking setup. But also, it is not a problem if my laptop spuriously goes to sleep. (My solution does not automatically sleep the laptop when it is undocked, either, so this is also still not an issue.)
It uses SqueakJS so in theory it supports whatever SqueakJS supports: https://squeak.js.org/.

> SqueakJS executes Squeak in a web page without a plugin. It is a fully capable virtual machine implemented in pure JavaScript running unmodified Squeak images. Squeak is a modern implementation of Smalltalk, the original dynamic object-oriented programming environment. It runs bit-identically on virtually any platform, and now in the web browser, too.
How can we physically move to the Cloud?
I often hear people like Geo Hotz saying that he physically wants to move to the Cloud. I was wondering about the mechanics of such a notion, and even if it might sound crazy, what are some practical applications of it? In a nutshell - what do you think he really means by that? I posted a clip where he is briefly talking about that as he was a guest to the Lex Fridman podcast.
Generally only gaming companies can afford to pay or money losing vc companies. Let me just state generally again, most other companies just don’t sell via IAP as it’s too expensive. I’ve been saying this here for months and Google is guilty too 100%. These two control discoverability (search and ads), hosting (all data to copy your app), and monetization (charge tax on any profit you make). Why? Because they can and are evil. Doesn’t leave room for new consumer startups anymore and increases prices for consumers.
The developer gets less than 50% of the retail cost of a game.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-game-companies-make-from-e...
These guys. Not only they make money from their fonts, but they make money from marketing it, too.
It'd be nice if the docs were available without signing up. I don't want to sign up to something before reading these first.
Horrendous experience on mobile. The lag due to scroll hijacking is terrible.
I had to sound serious. I argued the whole night that New York is not a real city, and is a fictional place created by Marvel, like Gotham is created by DC.

Nothing would convince me otherwise. Satellite images? Fake! Maps? Obviously fictional, like maps of middle earth. Videos? All filmed in Toronto!
back when i was working on this (for a large org) they regarded anything in AWS as fundamentally lower trust than their own on-premises corporate networks, so there was a security requirement to do encryption in transit for all TCP connections -- this was for an application within the VPC with no public traffic
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Using such information is so hard that almost impossible. I could spend a year tailoring battery performance for a messenger and still get random guy who have some exotic phone with some strange behaviour.

There are really almost no need to run app in the background or at least constantly send data without a reason (mostly just tracking).

UPD: When deciding how to build something i have one small trick: first ask question about who can make better decision about something?

For example? Who is more capable to make decision about battery usage, about tweaking core performance, etc? It is obviously kernel or silicone itself. App will never have required information to build perfect performant app for every device. This just means that you have to build a kernel by yourself and even more: common kernel for every phone.
> so my personal assumption is that telegram is the only messenger where five eyes has at least no protocol level access and have to exploit the OS it is hosted on.

This is a very strange assumption, you mean that the "Pentagons guideline for secure military conversations" is actually not a guideline for secure conversations, but exploitable conversations?

Why would the Pentagon tell their own people to use exploitable communications? There's no way of knowing if you are the only one with the capability.

In my eyes this information (which I haven't verified and don't have time to dig into) would rather indicate that the Pentagon believes Threema, WhatsApp and Signal to be secure while they are doubtful about Telegram -- maybe because they know something we don't, or simply because it's harder to audit.
#mafiatax
The blog post is comparing collective action of recent generations unfavorably to prior generations.

Your complaint is that people are effectively being paid the same as those prior generations.
That looks pretty cool.
$100 a year is nothing considering just the time it takes to review an app.
Brave Browser hits the 15M monthly active users – Browse and get paid
Let's create a live chat with Socket/Angular/Node
Personal Computer VR/AR Gaming
I don't think there needs to be a new Google or a requirement to be distributed.

Simply having half a dozen or more search engines per country/language, with their own indexes and algorithms should help see the web more fully.

ATM in English, Bing and Google have the largest indexes and Mojeek has its own index though smaller. DDG, Ecosia and others are just the Bing index re-ordered.

I enjoyed the OP, though. And I think niche directories/blogrolls would be progress. The current centralised web is a result of everyone dancing to the tune/rules of the large platforms.
No one uses the third party App Store. Even mentioning it is silly
I think ceasing to use your ISP provider's unencrypted DNS services will already bring quite some boost in privacy for the average internet user. That's why I recently switched to using DNSCrypt (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy) with one of the public providers listed here: https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers (pick one run by some university or internet activism organization).
Unrest continues for a seventh day in former British colony
If you could choose between a fee decrease to 15% or the ability to sideload apps bypassing the store, which is more important? To me, the only reason I avoid iOS is specifically because I cannot install my own apps without using the store.
Apple may be robbers, but they're not trolling a public highway, they're demanding fees if you want to drive on the highway that they built. Build a better ecosystem around better devices, better software, better marketing, and better services, and you can also charge whatever you want, or make it free. That is competition. Wanting to drive on someone else's walled highway (which leads directly to eyeballs and open wallets) and also refusing to pay their fee is not competition.
If the US Government wants to place limits on certain fees, they should pass a law limiting such fees.

Meanwhile, it's a bit hypocritical for the US Government to accuse private corporations of ‘highway robbery’ when they themselves are committing (or failing to outlaw) literal highway robbery in the form of civil forfeiture.
Would you be okay if Apple charged more for developer fees? A per app fee? A per app update fee?

Can I pay a one time fee to get a product stocked at any retailer?