skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no requirement to "know a truth" to address the issue of free will.

The starting point would be: Come up with a definition that does not devolve into infinite regression ("god did it", which just moves the question "up one plane" and so does not provide a solution) or smoke and mirrors (and illusion over determinism).

If someone were to be able to form a cohesive definition that does not fall down one of those two holes, it'd be possible to at least try to determine whether or not the definition has holes.

But without even such an attempt at a definition, any argument in favour of free will falls on its face from the start.
You raise an interesting question. Why not ignore people?

Let me start by pointing out that this applies in both directions. When I post on twitter saying, for example, that "@FSF, you should fire Richard Stallman because he is a bad man", I am simply exercising my ability to speak.

The FSF can choose to ignore me. Why doesn't the FSF just move on and ignore the tweet? Before we move on I really want you to consider that question. I'm curious what yours is. Here's mine:

The people speaking out have power. The FSF is influential because people trust it to act ethically. If people no longer trust the FSF to act ethically around women, can they it to act ethically around software freedom? What about when software freedom intersects with the issues of marginalized peoples (think, for example, ML ethics or signal's value to marginalized groups). If people stop listening to the FSF it loses its influence, which (from the FSF's perspective) is a bad thing for its mission. But from the perspective of me, a person tweeting, I'm not necessarily looking to "punish" Stallman, but to hold people to high ethical standard.

To be clear, I'm not saying that there's never a punitive aspect to cancellation. What I am saying is that it's wrong to believe that there must be.

So I hold other individuals accountable to my values (or actually in some cases their own values). I "vote with my feet" and part ways with organizations that don't uphold the values I feel are important. When enough people do that, collectively, the force behind it becomes powerful enough that even relatively entrenched organizations have to pay some attention. In other words, decentralized collective action has power and ignoring it carries some risk for organizations.

This represents a shift in power and influence in a few ways. Some random individual is able to start a movement that picks up lots of steam very quickly. There's danger to this (think Reddit and the Boston Bomber), but there's always been a danger from what power can do (think Donald Trump taking out a full page NYT advertisement to enforce the death penalty against the Central Park Five).

Similarly, "blacklists" and "old boys clubs" have existed since forever and are harmful to people. My claim is that those will never go away. So empowering the previously unempowered is probably a good thing.

There's questions about harm in individual cases, but those need to be balanced against harms prevented and existing systems, which also systematically fail certain peoples. The question shouldn't be "is cancel culture perfect", but "does it cause less harm than existing structures for handling criticism and accountability".
Interview programmers like you would a carpenter:

1) Describe some projects you've worked on, and your role in them

2) Describe some of your favourite projects, or accomplishments

3) What are your favourite tools?

4) How do you think you can help?

3) Provide resume, references and a cover letter

As someone mentioned already, look for people who get stuff done.
You mean like Trump saying he could shoot someone and not lose voters in 2016? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTACH1eVIaA
> "Imagine a text editor where all your text documents are gone after you cleared the browser data"

One way to address that issue is the native file system access APIs[0] coming soon, available today in Chrome Canary and Edge Canary. There, you'd be able to save your documents to the user's file system, just like a native app would. Those files will be exempt from any browser data clearing.

> all infos about which exercises you did and when is gone for good of course.

Might be good to store that data on the server. I realize not all PWAs have a proper backend server, but that sounds like a good candidate.

[0]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=853326
But you uttered the word, it is the Norm. And most people only feel comfortable in the Norm. I guess time is better spent attacking the Norm than taking a grudge against all of its followers.
Rackspace's last quarterly statement (I believe) showed a Net Profit of $35.8M [1].

Compare this to their most recently quarterly numbers in the S-1:

> For the three months ended March 31, 2020, we had revenue of $652.7 million, a net loss of $48.2 million

Yeah, they grew revenue by around 20% over 5 years, but there was an $84M swing into the red!

You'd have to have a hole in your head to trust these crooks. Unfortunately, most of us have no choice, the 401k market is rigged.

1: https://www.investing.com/equities/rackspace-hosting-income-...
"If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from approximately 550 million hectares today to about 770 million hectares by 2050 (1.36 billion acres to 1.9 billion acres), Drawdown estimated carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced over those 30 years by up to 42 gigatons — more than enough to offset all of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans globally in 2015, according to NOAA — and could return $206 billion to $273 billion on investment."
Eh, it still comes down to how you interpret the sentence, which is non-obvious.

In your mind, "2FA" means "2FA authentication session", but in most people's mind, "2FA" means a "2FA code". And it is true that you don't need a new 2FA code. So depending on the interpretation you take, it's either 0% true or 100% true.
> Could you provide an example of what you mean?

The CEO of Goya foods called Donald Trump a "great leader" and there's an active boycott of the brand as a result.
Also along these lines is the Bootstrap curriculum: https://www.bootstrapworld.org/
Artifacts alter timeline for Native Americans in California (2019)
Yep, I think you're right. Apple needs to put permissions on things like the clipboard for all apps. I certainly don't support the CCP, but extending that distrust to TikTok is somewhat illogical when there is no good evidence of TikTok doing anything that other apps don't do.
Yea. Coming from a banking and financial services background I'm incredulous than any company would allow any social media on a device.

This was all much easier in the blackberry days for them to control
Evidence always goes back to that adrian zenz fraud. I don't believe it.
PWAs are designed with the web/cloud in mind. The permanent data should be hosted in the cloud.

One of the issues is that storage in a PWA is done via localStorage or IndexedDB... both of which aren't really available outside of the browser.

Also, part of the benefit of a PWA is being able to be in mobile devices and 'storage' there is different than on the desktop.
My mother has had dental problems her whole life because of the 1950s fad of putting little kids on meth to lose weight.
To be fair that's what backup codes are for.
China wasn't always an economic competitor though, just that their economy has grown at a large rate for a long time to become almost as large as the US.
Approximately 30GB footprint for WIN10 vs approximately 1GB for Linux.

That some can 'ignore' this fact (which has other similarly astonishing dimensions) does not make it irrelevant -- the impact/implications are real.
At the risk of starting a fire here, I'd say a much better approach to that was unity's HUD. You could simply fuzzy-search through all the menu items. It made using GIMP delightful. :)
I just tried it with a text heavy screenshot, a common scenario where the JPEG encoding produces a poor result with lots of speckle around each letter.

The result is very good. The speckling is effectively eliminated without smearing the letters.

JPEG Encoded, 25% quality: http://jubei.ceyah.org/overcompressed/crop-jpg.png

JPEG2PNG: http://jubei.ceyah.org/overcompressed/crop-converted.png
It was the whole read write access that was a massive violation of apple and googles store policy.

It can upload and download whatever to your phone.

No other app is even close to allowed that.
> Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech.

Yes, it does, actually. That is, in fact, the definition of freedom of speech.
The authors main point is bunk if his only defense of that point is that humans are smart.

The "learning" problem is solved. We've developed numerous algorithms to take a neural network and have it learn a task. We've solved specific problems, including image recognition, and text synthesis. Companies have figured out how to make sensory equipment including cameras, microphones, touch sensors...

Just because no one has managed to put together all the pieces doesn't mean it will never happen. People for thousands of years did not think it was possible to build a flying machine, until someone did.
And here's DH just a couple years ago,

> If you ask me in principle if it’s possible for a computing hardware to do something like thinking, I would say absolutely it’s possible. Computing hardware can do anything that a brain could do, but I don’t think at this point we’re doing what brains do. We’re simulating the surface level of it, and many people are falling for the illusion. Sometimes the performance of these machines are spectacular.
Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus (2018)
Makes a lot of sense considering AWS deals with sensitive government data.
The counter-point to this: Brains.

Brains are computational devices that are embodied.
Game of Thrones was irritating me in every other scene with the complete lack of headgear. It stuck out so badly in that setting.
The answer sits on the 4th page:

We have increased the percentage of our revenue from segments which we believe benefit from attractive growth dynamics. In 2019, over 85% of our revenues came from our Multicloud Services and Apps & Cross Platform segments, which we refer to as our “Core Segments”. In contrast, in the twelve months ended September 30, 2016, less than 10% of our revenue came from our Cloud Office and Managed Cloud Services service offerings.

Basically Rackspace went from being a hosting company with "fanatical support" to someone who manages your AWS account and your cloud apps. They still offer their traditional bare metal servers, and they have their cloud, but that's not where the growth is.
Isn't that what backup codes are for? Does no one use backup codes anymore?
Ideally policies should be based on facts and reason, not just speech.
User behavior... We have a mobile PWA and literally all our users are like "I went to the Android app store and you don't have a mobile app so you suck" ... but the app already works in the browser.

Discoverability is an issue too. If your users search for your app keyword there then you're more easily found
Cancel culture is not about removing individual messages on a web forum, though. Someone who has lost their living, their home or their friends can start taking about being “cancelled”. Having ONE of your messages made harder to read is not “being cancelled”.
There are plenty of problems. In the Mac, for example, menus are discoverable because you can go to "help->seach" and type what you're looking for. This cannot be easily done with the ribbon. Moreover, once you have a clue that you're looking for an "insert" option, you still need to search around in the ribbon, since there is no logic for where the option might be hiding. A menu you can read from top to bottom, but a ribbon you need to scan from left to right and top to bottom, making it much harder to use.
While this may be cryptographically sound(I haven't looked into it), it's not a viable solution since it won't be trusted or understood by the majority of their target demographic.
If a user, in clear and sober mind, disables 2FA, he accepts the risk of his account being compromised.
aren't those different domains
Check out the "Why" header and several paragraphs. I talk about reasons why I published my own PWA in app stores: some technical, but the big one being that's where the users are.
I have been taking a high grade CoQ10 supplement.

CoQ10 is the primary antioxidant the human cell provides to protect and support mitochondria. It helps generate ATP within the mitochondria, the main energy driver we have.

CoQ10 is ubiquitous and produce within the body, however after the age of 20 levels start to drop, so it makes sense to consider supplements to top levels up if you're north of 30.

I love the stuff myself. I went from a tired feeling 45 year old with brain fog, to having a lot more energy and a mind keen to engage all day with whatever I have going on at work

https://examine.com/supplements/coenzyme-q10/#effect-matrix
Find the round part of the head, and put a hat around it. ;-)

For me, I already had an "outdoors" vibe for the clothes that I wear, and it's still possible to find hats in that market space. Check out REI, LLBean, Campmor, Sierra Trading Post, are ones that come to mind just because I remember getting their catalogs at sometime or other. One of my sun hats came from Target too.
With voting, you don't actually have to convince a plurality. You only have to convince a small percentage of the population (often <5%) to sway an election.
The truth is, 1st-party apps are well-supported but 3rd-party SDKs provided by these companies, especially the ones don't generate revenues (Facebook SDK, and many others) are simply not well-supported within the organization. They are not dogfooded, they don't develop with the latest and greatest tools available for 1st-party apps, some of them have very spotty CI, and often their release schedule is not as rigorous (many 1st party apps adopted weekly release schedule).
You're right and I absolutely agree it's unlikely to work. YouTube is so much more than just a technical solution too, it's success is strongly tied to it's community dominance.

The aggregators don't own or host the content in the system I am thinking of, they just consume and redistribute their sources. So if catvids.com goes away the creator's source is still online. It's also probably syndicated to a bunch of other cat video sites simultaneously from that one source. Thinking through it more, it's pretty much an RSS feed but for videos. In fact I would probably just use the RSS protocol if I were ever to try and get something like this off the ground. Have an open source aggregator template so it's easy to start one, and then monetize it by starting the first video source hosting as a service company.

I don't think it could ever take off though, the "Next YouTube" will be another massive corporate, closed platform with deep pockets or venture capital.
I mean 'doxxing', 'mob', 'harm', 'cheerful indifference'. None of this has happened. All of it is based on the framing Alexander has given it - which is neither corroborated nor is he a disinterested party. It very much smacks of grandiosity and sense of grievance.
To be fair, you don't have to do it that way. (Library loading is done by dyld, FWIW.)
Isn't a TCP socket fastpathed on loopback ranges anyway?
> That presumes the victimized communities have done anything to warrant violence.

No, it doesn't at all. It says that there is animosity, but not why it's there or whether it's valid or not. You might hate your neighbor because he's more successful than you, makes you feel inadequate with his good deeds, because he's literally Hitler or because he just so happens to look like somebody that wronged you. The fact that you hate him says nothing about whether that's justified. But your hate makes you susceptible to all kinds of suggestions for terrible actions against your neighbor. All it takes is for somebody to suggest burning down his house, or telling your that he has attacked another victim (or posted the wrong thing on Twitter to stay on topic!)

> In the case of anti-jewish pogroms to inciting factor is speech by newspapers and officials.

Doubtful. We'd have to look at the very first pogroms. If you're looking at the last 150 years, you're closing your eyes to the fact that pogroms against Jews were recurring events and anti-semitism was always around.

That's a problem, because you'll be surprised how these peaceful neighbors can turn into violent murderers practically over night. When you consider that they weren't peaceful neighbors right up until they became murderers, but that there was just a light cover over the hate for a while, there are much fewer unexplainable actions.

The rumors are the spark that I mentioned. The long-existing anti-semitism is the wood pile that is ready to be set ablaze.
I think AD is probably the best (if not the single) reason to use MS boxes. It's quite a beast and you have to know its little tricks but hey, the same goes for any other solution of similar scale.
If you think it only makes sense to hold conservative values if you are rich, it only means you don't know what you are talking about.
>I imagine the amount of money the US government already spends on MS Office could fund development of something as good or better than Office

No, it can't. Microsoft lives and breaths Office 365 because that is a core part of their business. There is zero chance that a government will care as much about this as Microsoft does, or the 10,000 other companies that are trying to supplant incumbents. Add to that the fact that funding will be uneven, because if the tool achieves a 'good enough' status, why keep funding it when you have all those other interest groups vying for money. The project will be susceptible to lobby and interest groups. Maybe a Senator will see it as a job-works program and move development to Alaska to provide Alaskan programmers jobs.

Time and time again these massive government-run software project collapse on their face.

In the commercial space, government just cannot compete with private industry ... at all. And this is not a libertarian disparagement of government. Government has a proper function, and competing in software with commercial offerings is not one of them.

>while giving it away free to the rest of society improving productivity

Says who? In fact, this is guaranteed to not be the case, because who is to say that funding a word processor is a productive application of capital when you're not responding to market forces.
Topology Without Tears
> The idea being that if any part of nature is unpredictable, then that could be a mechanism for where free-will might come from.

Trying to use QM to introduce free will is just another manifestation of the same "mistaking the model for the reality" problem.

We have no reason to believe that quantum probability is the end of the road just because we can't see what causes the probabilistic results. For all anyone knows, Einstein was still correct and there is still no god playing dice, just the same old predictable billiard balls at a plane that we can't readily observe.
We already have a widespread incomplete test of basic income. It’s called “a state pension”.
Uber Is the New Amazon?
First, it is Karl Popper's "paradox of tolerance".

The conclusion his argument leads to is: In a tolerant society, attacking people because of their beliefs is not permitted (requisite intolerance).

You don't fight against speech, you speak against its ideas.
Yeah, not to defend Tik-Tok, China, or spyware in general, but it's ironic that nobody has a problem with Google, Facebook, and other American companies tracking everything people do, but when a Chinese company starts doing it, it's suddenly a big problem.

But then again, TikTok probably doesn't answer their subpoenas...
Is that your requirements doc? “As a customer, I want a bookmarking tool written in Go that uses yaml files”?
I'm curious, are these

1. Devices owned by Amazon, for work

2. Personal devices with the amazon email added directly

3. Personal devices with amazon email added on Work profile

Could not find this info in the articles or tweet.
They don't have to ban it on "Chinese Spyware" terms, they could just ban it on normal "spyware" terms. The fact that tiktok is Chinese is incidental, and not necessarily an indictment on all Chinese apps.
If your job requires it, you will get it. It's been like that for a while now
Some sort of democracy means the various types of democracy deployed in the world. Switzerland to US, whatever.

When did it take away citizens right to vote? You're talking about felons not being able to vote? Yeah I agree with getting rid of that, getting rid of gerrymandering etc. You can be a critic of implementations the system and yet still support the underlying mechanism.

You're supposed to feel like you have a say and not BE in control. Yes minority groups will have less power, that is fine.

"There's nothing making this system better..."
"I grant you there are clearly far more freedoms in the western..."

The US will basically spread democracy and capitalism. True capitalism is bad for the entrenched CCP, Russia oligarchs, etc because the US multinationals will inject their capital in the system and take control of everything. Of course they want to keep power. I think there should be some guarantees of the country keeping some ownership over their production.

CCP and Russia are trying to lock down their systems and increase their competitive output, so that when they clash with the West they can compete on value/innovation.

I'm not saying the system is perfect, it's obviously coopted by different groups. But it is as close to perfect as exists in the world today.
Does the government have to go through judicial approval to get apps banned from its devices?
Hong Kong to suspend all schools due to spike in coronavirus cases
Ed Hirsh Jr has these guides What Your ___ grader needs to know. I know I have seen it up to 6th grade, but I am not sure if there is a version for 7th and 8th.

My daughter uses ixl.com at school and it covers all the way up to 12th grade. Its is essentially adaptive learning. So this is good for doing practice problems. All the topics listed there are ones kids are expected to know for the respective grade level. So you could use this as a map.

I have also been supplementing her education with workbooks. I have a few other ideas to make some practical learning lessons with electronics and chemistry. We already do Scratch programming.
They're just doing what they've been told is best for them by Bolsonaro, the same way the largely-impoverished American South votes for Trump. (I assume it's a similar voting block in the UK for Johnson but I haven't looked it up)
90% of what programming I do is in C/Rust/sh, so I shouldn't run into that. Thanks for the heads up though, I'll keep it in mind when I do use python, which makes up a good chunk of that last 10%.
The person I replied to argued 50% of a person income would go to tax:

> and then pay 50% of everything that you make in taxes for this wonderful protection

For non-salary labour costs to make up a large amount relative to salary is a very, very different argument.
It's been a while since I've seen employers offer work phones. What I've seen for the last few years is an offer to pay or subsidize a data plan.

If Amazon doesn't provide me a work phone, they can eff right off in attempting to dictate what I put on my phone.
It doesn't seem to be required that an animal have sensory information. [1] I'm not convinced by the argument that a computer can't think just because it doesn't experience the world. If anything, experiments like (1) show that we may be able to better understand how brains work if we get rid of all the "noise" from external stimulation so we can better understand the signals.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/random-search-wired-into-anim...