skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article.

He mentions the book "How to Read a Book". I've read Mortimer Adler's version several times. It really changed how I read and learn from books. It's well worth the investment. I haven't read the Mortimer & Van Doren version.

I've found that doing the inspectional reading really helps. I've described it to friends as "giving me something to hang my hat on" while reading. Having the high level overview acts as a conceptual glue while reading a book through for the first time.

I think it was Naval Ravikant on an episode of Tim Ferriss' podcast that described reading as the "meta skill". If you can read you can learn just about anything.

Back to "How to Read a Book": Adler makes a distinction between able to read, e.g., "See Jack run", and learning from reading. I believe he describes 4 levels. The first, the ability to read, leading to the last, reading from multiple sources to learn. It's unfortunate that our ( U.S. ) educational system doesn't emphasize this much, or at all.
> 99.9999%

Then the justice system would implode. Judicial policy is "software" too, and nobody holds the judiciary or police to that absurd level of excellence, even if we're talking about the death penalty.
Check how Lisbon has changed in the last 7 years.

Have a nice day.
Yes I do, my UNIX experience goes all the way back to Xenix and I have used most of the UNIX commercial clones, and also did porting across multiple platforms.

Whatever the UNIX shell provides, can be more comfortably over an interactive graphical REPL, which even allows for proper graphical debugging tools when pipelines don't work as they are supposed to be.

Secondly, since UI/UX has always been one of my focus, I have seen too many throw away CLI tools that don't respect the users of the tool, because "hey they are developers as well, they can fix it, deal with its issues".
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Communism, like fascism is an undemocratic form of governance. The latter is much worse for most people, but that doesn't mean communism isn't misanthropic as well. It is based on childish axioms that creates fault lines where none should be under an illusion of empowerment. Formerly economic, now we see this disaster around race and sex which certainly doesn't result in more understanding for anyone. There was certainly a red scare which was borderline idiotic, but communism/late marxism should be abolished just like fascism or restricted to idealistic teenagers in favor of democracy.
That prosecuting journalists for reporting that a company is fraudulent should, at a minimum, be reserved for after it has been established that the company is not fraudulent.
> These kinds of arguments are prima facie disgusting and deserve no quarter in civilized discourse.

Declaring "no quarter" in actual war is saying that if the enemy decides to surrender to you, and lays down his arms, and hoists the white flag, sticks his hands in the air, then you will shoot and kill him.

Declaring "no quarter" in actual war is therefore a violation of the Hague convention. It is "especially forbidden," in the same paragraph as poisoned weapons.

You are defending your actions with a metaphor that celebrates war crimes.

Hands up don't shoot, sir.
I have worked on algorithmic trading where you basically stare at instructions and try to ensure the CPU does not stall on branches, that memory is accessed in a strided pattern recognizable to the CPU and that there are no more concurrent patterns that CPU can coordinate, that memory written does not by accident belong to another core, etc.

What is "mystery" in the article is actually bread and butter of anybody who tasked to seriously optimize a piece of non-trivial code.
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Well to be honest, I own a model 3, you just have to be a member of the subreddit if not any of the Tesla related sites to know that more than a few people have a nightmarish time with new car delivery. It isn't like these cars loaded with features, I have yet to read anyone having issues with the display and tech as it is always panel alignment and overall fit and finish.

Now if you also read the same you will find the Chinese side of Tesla apparently has an entirely different outcome. Their quality is superb with workers across the plant invested to the point no one wants to embarrass another. So what to do US side? Having had friends and family in the industry where they worked the line you get the same issues you have in any business. There are those who are just there to punch a clock and it is always some other person's job. Please don't try the tired retort of pay, myself and I am sure others here can attest to having worked with people who pay isn't going to fix them.

Well if Tesla cannot insure the people at all stations on the line think otherwise they need to invest heavily on the end of the line and make sure that their delivery centers have no reason to ever have to work on a customer's car. Those employees must be able to fail a car without question. The only acceptable issues at that point would be damage during transit.

I know my next EV will not be a Tesla, they have nothing in their pipeline I want; well let me be honest nothing I should buy but that truck is obnoxious enough to just have; and another fear is they are not concentrating on quality.
I am really unsure if it's something "Germans" need to learn. It is probably something that could happen everywhere...
My 16 does run the fan when connected to external displays but I wouldn’t call it loud. You wouldn’t notice it over any environmental background noise. Even in a completely quiet room, it’s easily tuned out.

When the machine is idling, with no display connected, it is inaudible. I think people are freaking out On forums because no noise to a quiet noise is a more noticeable difference than some noise already to a bit more noise as is the case with many other machines.

That said, the 16” does have the capacity to run the fans very loud. I tried running a game (I’m no “big” gamer but was curious to test the discrete graphics card). Graphics were smooth and the FPS was relatively high. The machine sounded like it was really working hard though!

I guess if other 16s are running that loud all the time, I can understand why they are peeved. That just isn’t the case with my workload though.
GIMP is a general image editing software while Krita focuses quite specifically on digital painting and art, so it is not surprising that you find it more ergonomic for drawing.
A UNIX pipeline is more like a set of operations on the same object passing through the pipeline, and typically that object is a text file. REST APIs represent an ability to interact with a repository of information with a really specific protocol, yet the response is not in that same format as the input. You couldn't pass the response of a REST API into another REST API without managing it externally.

Consider

cat myData | toolStripsWhitespace > myData

Versus

var myData = RestApi->read(myDataRecordID)
var mutatedData = someMutation(myData)
RestApi->update(myDataRecordID, mutatedData)

You could of course write your ORM in a pipeline-like manner, many do. But that's got nothing to do with REST itself.

var myData = new SomeObject(RestApi->read(myDataRecordID))
->someMutation('params')
->someOtherMutation('params')

RestApi->update(myDataRecordID, myData->toJSON())
> Said that, when playing two octaves together vs other intervals it's easy for a layman to notice how in tune and how consonant they are, because of beating.

I think the point was that this beating depends on the timbre of the instruments (e.g., the fact that overtones are integer multiples of the fundamental). For many percussion instruments this is not the case. You can actually shape a collection of bells so that octaves sound very dissonant (lots of beating) while a slightly different interval sounds consonant.
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>>And yet the 'liberty minded' person in this case is the one imposing a government restriction upon what individuals and businesses might otherwise choose to do.

Where do you draw this conclusion from? What government restrictions do you believe liberty minded people are calling for?

>>Since virtually nobody agrees that no form of speech or other expression should ever be a fireable offence the debate actually comes down to discussion of which types of speech should and should have protections.

I am not sure what this is even referencing. I have read this line a few times and I am not sure what you are trying to convey

It sounds like this is a restatement of the grandparent ,you are talking about what a company should or should not do, vs what a government should or should not prohibit with the force of law.

A company choosing to fire someone for X speech is vastly different than a government protecting an employee from being fired, or forcing a company to fire someone for said speech

Government action is authoritarian by its very nature. I do not believe people should be fired from their jobs for their speech but at the same time I do not support government intervention in the free association of those businesses, that would have far worse consequences

>And of course who should be given stronger-than-average protections is also a matter of some debate

It should not be a debate at all, Equality under the law should be universal. This is one of the core problems today is we keep trying to fix past injustice with more injustice under the law

The only way to break the cycle is to make every individual the exact same under the law.

> Some people believe in restricting employers

Yes and those people are called Authoritarians
If movies were software, The Saragossa Manuscript would be a Go application and The Pharaoh — a Java application. I would add to them a JavaScript move: Innocent Sorcerers (1960; https://easterneuropeanmovies.com/melodrama/innocent-sorcere...), a paragon of intimate New Wave cinema demonstrating how to build erotic tension without any sex scenes.
Honeyland is a masterpiece!
The amount of people without a "Microsoft/Apple/Google smartphone" (ie. not running iOS, Android, or Windows Phone [sic]) is very low in absolute and relative numbers. You might run say Sailfish OS, they have an Android emulator. Backwards compatibility is extremely important in the software ecosystem.
We've switched from zoom to https://team.video and have been loving it.

They have a "low bandwidth" mode you can toggle on, that just turns off your outgoing and incoming video streams. I think it still tries to send around screen shares though, for better or worse.

It has made a huge difference for some team members with very challenged Internet connectivity where they can just put themselves in low bandwidth mode and the call carries on.
This uses WebAuthn (https://webauthn.guide - https://webauthn.io). The video has a great description starting at 1:40.

Here, the iPhone functions as a platform authenticator, like a U2F usb/nfc key would. Why would they need to open source their hardware for this?
What do you think the down- and upvote buttons are for if not signalling that you think that a comment is good or not.
So walls and fences have nothing to do with security?
Interesting. I will even say, world-shattering news.
Man responsible for ‘White Lives Matter’ banner and his gf both fired from jobs
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Link please ? :)

Granted I’m a huge user of fountain pens and note books already :)
Couldn't find the original written answer from them but here are some details (in Norwegian):

https://www.stortinget.no/nn/Saker-og-publikasjonar/publikas...
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#%22Fascist%22_as_a_pej...

> it's explicitly totalitarian and doesn't tolerate dissent or different opinions; everybody needs to be loyal to the leader, or is considered an enemy of the people.

Right, which is most echo-chambres. Under a psychological definition, we're all fascists. An echo-chambre is totalizing (ie., everything is subsumed under the ideology), it has unimpeachable leadership, and no dissent is considered. Try r/feminism or r/conservatism.

Fascism isn't an ideology in the modern "world view" or psychological sense... that's the impact of psychoanalysts being, somehow, the main people humanities students turned towards for explanations of the 20th C.

The right people to turn to are political scientists, wherein fascism is an ideology in the sense of "state apparatuses, doctrines, institutions, practices, economic conditions", etc.

In which case Stalinism wasn't fascism, nor was Nazism. Nor were many things. Fascism quickly became a term of abuse in tabloids of the 40s, esp. in america. And here we are today with everybody being fascists.

There is no deep connection between the "psychological fascism" that is of rhetorical interest to the left, and the state apparatuses of fascist italy. This connection is a pseudo-scientific one from the psychoanalysis of the 50s and 60s; and it is a duplicitous and alarmist one from the left today.
I'm an Electron-hater in general, but are you forgetting the fact Skype for Linux didn't support group video calls until the Electron version?
Forgive my ignorance: isn't this solved by fallbacks, at least on the iPhone/MacBook itself (don't know about webauthn)?

If my finger is rejected multiple times, I am asked for the password instead.
I have just reread the first few pages of his memo. I had forgotten, it has been a few years. It is naive, pompous, and offensive to people who have been fighting against the currents of prejudice and bigotry for generations.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586-Googles-Ideo...

Perhaps he should not have been fired, but what a prick!
Krita feels just better than GIMP + MyPaint. Also works better on HiDPI.
Wirecard, Dieselgate, BER Airport, German gov wireing the whole country with copper instead of fiber because the ministry of infrastructure had connections to the copper business leaving the country's internet behind Ukraine, all Gov IT projects going to SAP or T-Systems with no accountability, etc.

Nobody went to jail for any of those and in some cases it was never investigated. If you're on the DAX, you're untouchable in Germany.
I'm no expert, but if it is a memory alignment issue, isn't this undefined behavior?

If the string is unused, isn't the compiler free to allocate or not allocate it (unless it has some 'volatile' directive or something)? This means that doing things like turning off/on optimization could yield inconsistent results across machines, across compilers and even across versions of the same compiler.

Is this used for security so that side channel timing attacks can be used to glean information about private data? Is the speed differential noticeable such that someone has created an issue for it? Is exact consistency in speed across different compilers, architectures, etc. a priority of the project?

If the answer is no to all of those, then I find it difficult to justify 'fixing' the issue.

From what I understand, isn't this what GUIX is trying to do? Create consistent byte-for-byte compiled programs? There has to be a trade off between consistency an speed. I also don't know how usable GUIX is or how valuable it is for your use case.
Comparing to Sweden is a bit extreme. Portugal's comparable GDP is 24k. It's still a factor of 3x but a lot of the costs in a welfare state scale with the wealth of the economy as they are just directly cost of labor. Having a reasonable welfare state, that's not world-class but isn't the US either, should be possible.
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Do you have a blog or a youtube channel where we could follow your endeavor?
The kneejerk insulted reactions to the original FT articles by BaFin and the German business press really haven't been up to par. They need to do a lot better.
thanks, I've seen those but wasn't sure if that meant this is the complete list of backers or just those drafting it.

considering the current climate surrounding the protests my guess is it sadly has good momentum for a pass.
> I don't need a journalist to play Chinese whispers with me.[2] I'm an adult and I can interpret the information for myself.

I up-voted your comment due to your succinct comment about how newspapers 'hide' their sources. It seems totally unnecessary to me and not how the internet is supposed to work. If every news article linked to the original press release then we would see what a sham it is - a 'Chinese Whispers Game'.

After voting your comment up I then remembered the time I got called out for using the phrase 'Chinese Whispers'. A guy on my team who was ethnic Chinese but with a fully developed sense of British humour had called me out. He wasn't entirely serious but he did ask me why I used the phrase, by which time the penny dropped that he was Chinese and that I was in a spot of bother!

In America they have 'The Telephone Game' which means the same as 'Chinese Whispers'. This is all well and good, a drop-in replacement phrase, however most British people have no idea what the Telephone Game is. Chinese Whispers is a phrase that a British child can understand even if they have never met a Chinese person or played the game before.

There is nothing on your linked Wikipedia page about how the phrase 'Chinese Whispers' might be considered harmful. However, after the one time I was confronted partially in jest about the phrase, I would recommend using the phrase sensitively.
You can play with an online synthesizer to create timbres whose octaves are dissonant:

https://raw.githack.com/CindyJS/ScaleLab/master/index.html

There's the book by Dave Benson [0] (available online), mostly about the mathematical modeling of instruments, that has a nice ethnomusicological compendium of instruments with weird timbres.

And then there's the infamous book by Sethares [1] that is all about the dependency of harmony on timbre.

[0] https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/html/maths-mus...

[1] https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/ttss.html
Doesn't work (yes, on iOS 14).
Well, if you are genuinely worried about terminology you can call that what it is, the "white slave trade". It's ancient, extensive, and completely, 100 percent, not taught in schools. So there's a lesson there too.
tl;dr it isn't truly google, aggregators force news organizations into competition and the lack of willingness of people to pay

you cannot solve google unless you want to outlaw any site aggregating results from across the web. that is what is really clobbering the news industry. they now have to compete with each other when before at most they competed across one city and at most one country for people's attention and money.

I do find it bizarre that on this site that people complain about Google and ads when most brag about blocking them and still complaining about how intrusive some advertising solutions are. Then throw in the crowd that is always complaining about how much something cost or how some services should be free or reduced and then you might be getting close to the other half of the problem.

People are fucking cheap. If they don't have to pay they will more than likely go that route and quite a few will accept a sub standard experience. Part of that acceptance is from truly desiring to save money but some if from "sticking it to them" in reference to the company they perceive they are short changing.
I don’t think it’s trivial if we are to the point where we are censoring completely benign words.
Wikipedia has a list of Liszts (it redirects to Liszt (surname)) but it's not on the list of list of lists.
Purpose-built hardware makes sense for battery performance, and battery performance makes sense for 2020.

x86 is a trainwreck.
Do you have a source for the copper claim? That is entirely new to me.
I wasn't talkind about engineerss. I was talking about no-code and the type of people who use such tools. That is, typically, no training, no understanding. They don't understand "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

I'm not knocking Honeycode and similar. I think they're great. But they are simply tools. They are at their best when they are paired with a user with some understanding and sufficient knowledge.
You forgot about Deutsche Bank. David Enrich has written a lot about criminal activities going on in there. It is a bank for the "unbanked elites", that is for people that will no longer be accepted by any other financial institution.

That being said - we will certainly see a lot of fraud in other countries too. The fraud cycle follows the business cycle.
Yup, Perl7 + Carton looks like a good combo for stable programs that don't have to be distributed publicly. I just wish cpanm and Carton were Core :D
Deleting an account is giving up control over that. Keep the account just never log in. Better yet, add a few GBs of noise.
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I hope at the very least this Beissreflex that every shortseller is evil and should be investigated gets curbed. Wirecard since 2008 was having the support of Bafin of going against journalists and shortsellers who were calling out the company for market manipulation.

In Germany shortselling has an incredibly bad reputation. I think this is a problem.
Anyone know if Transferwise Global debit cards are impacted by this?
Google would never politically bias their service /s
My horse in this race is that I know somebody who was raised on western music and has the same problem. I don't know if it's amusia per se or some related pathology, but I definitely think it's not just acculturation.

We spent several hours arguing whether music theory was a valid field of study or complete bunk until we noticed he didn't perceive melodic harmony at all. It was fun, if exhausting. That person also nailed an amusia test, which makes me suspect there's a separate condition.
> What other non-Hollywood countries make superhero movies

I can think of a smattering of Japanese ones like Ogon Bat, there's the Western European Uderzo/Goscinny "heroes" of Asterix and Lucky Luke, and Hong Kong's martial-arts based superheroes steeped in Wuxia tradition.

(And of course Bollywood and Mainland China have shamelessly ripped off Marvel/DC heroes and plots.)
I doubt it will. Wirecard powers too many transactions. It’s going to go into administration and someone is going to pick it up.
And had the resources to act on that. I've had the impression a bunch of my teachers did care when kids were struggling, but didn't have a lot of options to help really.
I care about NEWS, factual reporting on current event

We no longer have a news industry, we have a propaganda industry filled with political commenters and activists not journalists (that is both left and right)
Comparatively, that's unlikely to be true.

€1.9bn is pocket money compared to Wall St's and the City's more creative frauds.

The UK is currently dealing with a government minister who was involved in questionable planning oversight for a single development scheme worth £1bn - and that's barely even a footnote in the news here.
Scandals are everywhere, as is corruption. In comparison, Germany is #13 on the Democracy Index [1]. It is right below The Netherlands and Switzerland, the top countries being the Scandinavian ones, plus Anglo-Saxon countries (New Zealand, Canada, Australia).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index