skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very clever. A whole article (book?) could no doubt be devoted to that logical trick; how a seemingly reasonable argument can lead to such absurd conclusions.

Maybe it was covered in the article, which I didn't read yet (either?). I might have to though, because it touches on a subject which interests me more and more; that of language, perception and meaning vs reality. For example, in the case of "nothing" I would propose that it has a meaning in everyday language that doesn't make it into the dictionaries or thesauri: that it partly means (or can mean) that which has not been discovered yet.

This type of definition differs from a strict logical definition (in which nothing would mean absolutely nothing, void, emptiness, non-existence). Much confusion can be had from mixing the logic of language (terms that are logical/mathematical in nature if you will), with meaning, which is has to be the essence of language.
That's not a genuine example.

Most academic texts I've read will use something like

s = d/t

And sometimes not even explain what the components mean, because obviously 't' stands for time. That's what all their lecturers used, so why bother explain it.

Some will even make up their own notation:

s = d(t)

And somewhere will say "f(x) in this article describes an inverse multiplicative relation", without explaining that it's actually simple division, so other academics won't find them too obvious or boorish.

Some even take it a step further and use random greek letters (without exhausting the English alphabet first ofc.), where small gamma and big gamma mean completely different and unrelated things.
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Sure, it doesn't change the fact that Intel borked it and is yet to provide a better alternative.
"QAnon" is the community of people who subscribe to the idea that "Q" is leading them to some hidden truth. I got these ideas by seeing thousands of people identifying as QAnon followers express every one of the ideas I listed above. You just have to look at any one of those famous people's tweets to see QAnon replies baselessly accusing them of horrible things. The codeword used for the supposed Clinton video in QAnon is "frazzledrip".

The nature of "Q", or at least the current person publishing under that guise (likely Jim and/or Ron Watkins), is that they rarely make any kind of concrete claims or predictions, but they've certainly made allusions to Moloch, Satan, cannibalism, etc. when referring to political figures. It's the responsibility of "bakers" in the community to take "Q"'s "crumbs" and come to conclusions. Certainly these conclusions have been widespread in the community for years and have not been spoken against by "Q".
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No doubt, but it's easier to move if that happens.
>as it slips into total authoritarianism(like CCP).

https://scroll.in/latest/950716/india-slips-10-spots-to-51st...
And aside from the mechanics of how the game is played, there have been massive changes in the popularity of chess (first massively upwards, recently possibly down slightly), as well as how analyses are done.

It would be very difficult to account for these factors in a way that keeps comparisons across 30-year+ time spans meaningful.
Thanks, that was ambiguous and the way you read it wasn't what I intended. I meant it was unusual for an author to use a new symbolic notation at all, without saying anything about whether they define it in those cases where they do use something new. I've edited "introduced" to "used".
> Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly.

This idea of writing as a proxy for thinking is the essence of many misconceptions.

I know many 1st-class thinkers who have such hard time in writing.

What separates most people from good writing has very little to do with style, grammar, local sentences structure, word selection, or even content per se.

Most people can't write well because they don't know how to control the logical sequence in which they present their ideas.

And that is the single most important act necessary to clear writing.

I shared more on what that means here in a recent essay [0].

[0] https://pulseasync.com/operators/share-written-ideas/
US report accuses China of 'digital authoritarianism'
> the year is 2289. Gazprom fully occupies Venus. Walmart controls most parts of Mars. Cosco has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system. Volkswagen is still not aligned on budgeting and long term planning.
Yes, I agree that the US Postal Service should be directly funded by the US government, not through postage.
Even if you are well-versed in how to do it, it can still be a time sink you may not be able to afford.
I have no particular interest in SSC or this controversy around it, so I have no search history around him. I just tried this and the search suggestion drop-down totally had his full name listed. That sucks.
Style Check in IA.Writer
REAPER runs really very well on Linux, it has to be stated, and is one of the easier DAW's to learn thanks to things like "The REAPER Blog" and "RAPER MANIA" channels on Youtube that really make REAPER great. It is one of the best values for money in the DAW world as well. VERY, very powerful software, great price.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/user/audiogeekzine

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq297H7Ca98HlB5mVFHGSsQ
The format is really [major version][train][audience]?[build number][mastering version]?, where major version is numbers, train is a capital letter, audience is a digit, build number is numbers, and mastering version is a lowercase letter (and things with question marks are optional, and of course Apple does its own thing from time to time). So the current beta for Big Sur, which is 20A4300b, has

20: Major version (happens to match the XNU kernel version)

A: Train (First “point” release, although that is not how marketing does it)

4: Audience (Developer seed)

300: Build number (300 builds since the train started)

b: Mastering version (forked from mainline two builds ago for polishing)
>>> Nazism is the easy target. The precedence is removal of something legal by a moral/social decision by a corporate entity. This is dangerous.

Do we want companies to do just what's legal or what's moral? in the end even laws are supposed to be trailing morality and disagreements are expected on what's moral and what's not.

This is again the same old debate of whether is some sort of fundamental right to be served by Cloudflare or have your content hosted by Twitter. I do not like all forms of censorship but I also don't want private companies to be forced to host just about any content people want to publish.
The most valuable gem of advise in this article is at the end:

> Update: As pointed out in the comments section, Medium has an import tool which allows you to add a canonical link from your Medium post to your original blog post.

> This process ensures that Google does not think of your blog post as a duplicate. Thanks to Nicolas and Matthias for this correction.

This is an excellent way to do things. Publish on your blog first, and then mirror the same post(s) on Medium.
So the standard you are advocating for is that every single philosopher in the entire world has to agree with your take? No philosopher can think long and hard about the meaning of proof, and come to a conclusion other than the one you've drawn?
Unfortunately screen reader support isn't great at the moment, but using HTML instead of canvas is definitely going to make it easier for you to improve. I'd encourage you to download the free NVDA screen reader (https://www.nvaccess.org/download/) and compare DataGridXL with Excel, or Google Sheets with screen reader support enabled (Tools > Accessibility settings). Announcing the column, row and cell content as you navigate the sheet with the keyboard would be a great start. Google Sheets does this by updating the content of a visually hidden ARIA live region (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...) as you navigate.
> the cancel culture in the West

Is it really in the West, or just in the United States? Perhaps I'm just not paying attention, but I don't recall anything similar happening in my country. At least it definitely doesn't seem to have the same importance.
This administration is anti-science in every way possible way - from the climate to covid to education and more. $75M is literally a rounding error when it comes to the federal budget. This is pure election year nonsense - basically it's a $75 million marketing ploy (using tax dollars) to beef up the administration's pitiful record on science.

I am looking forward to the outrageous lies about this soon. Trump will have "saved the tech industry" or "invented quantum computing" and we'll hear stories about how amazed all the researchers are at how well he understands it since she's such a genius. I'll put money on it.
Throw everything else away.

There are two possibilities -

1. There is something, and it has always existed.
2. There is something, and it once did not exist.

Either one is weird.

The author doesn't address this, and I feel, despite their sparkling credentials, that they should have.
Wait so your startup has to continue to grow in order for you to be able to claim profits from the pool? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
> The answer to "who created God" is usually "shut up, kid".

No, that's rather a popular atheist misrepresentation of the theist position. The question itself has a hidden, but false premise, namely that God is created. The position of abrahamic religions is that God, by definition, is an uncreated being and thus a created God is commonly referred to as an idol, a false God.
We've had good feedback about the degree of modularity from schools; it's about making it extremely easy to replace parts that often wear in a heavy use environment, where the thickness is also a net positive.
Thanks! It would have been a great FIT for your project. Much appreciated Vandermark! ;-)
Yep, you're right, something must turn the markdown into an html. In my case, I let the browser do that and by doing so, I avoid the hassle around builds, cis which is what I didn't want to deal with. For something so brutally simple anyway.
But those exceptions wheren't because we did too much western culture, but because we did too little. E.g the evil of slavery wasn't because we respected the value of individual rights too much, but because we respected them too little.
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> somehow it's problematic for to have other functions for other users

I think it's a fair question to raise when the other function seems out of place or almost inappropriate for what the tool is trying to achieve. I feel like a professional platform should be trying to maintain a higher standard instead of decaying into yet another Instagram-like cesspool.

> What middle finger?

The ~2 years of analytic data showing that I have zero interest in the "features" they're trying to force me to use despite hundreds of attempts? I also find it unlikely to believe that I am literally the only one in this situation, thus why I am raising the issue.

> Nobody's out there 'trying' expending extra energy to engage you specifically.

Not specifically, but surely the platform should be built in such a way to respect the user's decisions? The various nags can have a use to engage new users (that might indeed not be aware of some of the features), but after a certain point it seems counter-productive and annoying. Imagine if every SaaS tool out there would always give you the "new user" onboarding experience with help popups all over the place and call-outs for "new" features, would you enjoy it?

> Disclaimer: Former LinkedIn employee baffled at how personal you seem to think all this is.

I don't think it's personal because I very much doubt I am the only one annoyed by this. The platform has been designed with zero respect for their users and looks like it's intentionally trying to be as annoying as possible. Even Facebook is more subtle in their shenanigans.
This makes me think of an article I read about prostate cancer detection. Apparently, it is possible to detect the possibility of prostate cancer many, many years before it is going to develop with a more sensitive, modern test. Once the detection is made both patient and doctor are not in a position to ignore it. At the same time treatment may well be premature or not recommended. But the doctor is left with a dilemma because it may appear they did not take action on something they knew.

That at least was the general topic of the article. The question it raises is interesting: is it sometimes too early to know.
Ben later cited two articles written by people who are arguably closer in geographical proximity to Jio:

- https://hind.substack.com/p/reliance-origins/

- https://hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-jio

The articles say that the Ambani family was very close to the Gandhis too. It's very hard to find a complete picture of how Reliance works - I guess they keep a very tight inner circle. Most accusations of impropriety are very vague. I don't think anyone disagrees that Reliance has tremendous political influence, but it's hard to argue that influence is greater than other Indian oligarchs (Mittals, Tatas, Birlas etc.). It's especially hard to curry favor at the expense of the other.

I think the biggest reason for Reliance's relative success in cornering the telecom market is that their oil exports cashflow allows them to borrow money at much lower rates than their competitors, without worrying about hedging costs. The recent spate of investments have almost certainly been accelerated due to the drop in oil prices which has hurt their long-term debt settlement prospects tremendously. The investments gave a much needed sigh of relief for the Reliance group of companies and their bondholders.
I'm working with a team that provides booking systems for COVID-19 testing. The software is legit, works with some of the nation's best labs, and has even been used by the government.

Seems like the kind of software that Apple/Google might be inclined to fast-track given the current state of affairs?

Wrong.

Neither Apple nor Google approved the apps, so the team spent 8 weeks going back and forth with them about what seemed (to me at least) like totally ineffectual, CYA security theatre.

Instead we ported the code to a web-app on a domain we owned and could start helping people with symptoms immediately.

Own your platform.
Personally, I prefer a good ol' CMS. I manage my website by visiting a URL. I edit the content in a WYSIWYG editor, and it goes live when I press "Save". I don't need to install anything on my machine to write new content.

With a properly set up cache, your website will be serving static files anyway.
I feel that a significant majority people don't weigh up the value of courses for both undergraduate and graduate. Having a read through your contribution seems like you made the same conclusion, albiet slightly late for your own benefit.
This looks amazing. First test went incredibly well, easy to set up. Enjoying the VM approach vs. extension.

Will monitor this to see how our tests perform over time.
At this point, the UK is very much in the same state as the US.
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Can you elaborate what exactly you mean by 'finish'
So you are trying to strawman me?

Do you even know what a "question" is? Formally speaking.

I might have an idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_language

Do you even know what 'agreement' is? Formally speaking.

I might have another idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science)

You are free to disagree, of course. And I am free to not care.
I like the idea. Is it possible to search for one specific tag (e.g. #python)? Have you implemented the CMS yourself?
BTW, I got "Server Error (500)" after github authentication.
I've been thinking recently on the idea of writing for the sake of sharing (be it a short story, some thoughts, or any tutorial), but I like anonymity.
For this, I'd like to not host my content, but maybe have some fake profile on social media, and share my writings, which could be hosted on Telegram's telegra.ph.
Is there a better platform for my use case, or a reason not to use telegra.ph?
MCDP 1 always reminded me of Clausewitz in powerpoint form, but TIL Musashi had covered much of the material earlier.

Consider:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLfnWwP0g0&t=280 (4:40 to 7:00)

IIUC (and with apologies to Grothendieck), Ishida succeeded at 3-dan with a fire spirit, overpowering his opponents. At 8-dan, however, the examiners are looking for the void spirit.

A fire spirit cracks a nut by using a hammer and chisel, striking as needed until the shell cracks.

A void spirit gets the meat by immersing the nut in a softening agent until hand pressure suffices to decorticate, like a perfectly ripened avocado.
Cancer is difficult to detect early. We must care more about ourselves.
I've been running a Linux DAW in my studio for decades, based around Ubuntu Studio and all the tools that are bundled in that distribution. It is easily one of the most fun DAW's to use in the setup - I have MacOS systems based around UAD (Luna) and Pro Tools as well, as this is a pro studio and we get a lot of musicians in it, who have their own ideas about things - so we accommodate them. The Ubuntu Studio DAW recently got a LOT more use while we got the Mac's upgraded to Catalina and through that painful upgrade/obsolete process - something that just does not happen in Ubuntu.

But whenever someone new comes along who doesn't care what they use to track vocals or backing tracks of whatever, I put them in front of the Ubuntu Studio DAW, leave them alone for a few hours to get their tracking done, and always find its very productive. It holds its own against the other DAW's that are in production as well (MacBooks with REAPER).

The thing that has to be understood is that Ubuntu Studio is designed for 'out of the box' production - you have everything installed that is needed to get started, and if you have good audio hardware (for this system we standardised on PRESONUS, as it is very well supported under Linux) - you can compete with Pro Tools systems, easily. The latency is among the best of the DAW's in the studio, and while its fair to say that the software packages available are not as polished as the commercial offerings, its still an amazing system full of tools to explore and use - thousands of plugins, soft synths and instruments, tons of unique apps that, once you get involved, will give you great capabilities, e.g., seq24, hydrogen, zynaddsubfx = instant jam party, once you get it configured with aconnectgui/Carla, of course..)

Its really worth taking a weekend, installing Ubuntu Studio somewhere, and going through the packages that have been included. They are deep, powerful, and most of all - free and open source. I can't tell you how great it was to have a reverb plugin open and in use, get asked a simple "how does reverb code work?", then bust out the sources and have a look for ourselves .. can't do that with any other DAW, and yet Ubuntu Studio is packed with apps that really work. Having the sources for everything is just astonishing in terms of what it offers the competent producer or engineer in understanding what's going on.
Wow! I just did this few months back.

I started collecting my writings, all in Markdown and some HTML. Just a bunch of folders as topics, and then write markdown files inside them.

Then, a week or so ago, I threw in Jekyll and now they are published as the cheapest form of Digital Garden for me and hopefully, my family - https://oinam.fyi

The crappy code is at https://github.com/oinam/oinam.fyi and is not even worth being a template.
It's actually just 1., because 2. just rerolls the question, what caused that something to begin existing?
A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence Krauss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9urEFoaI1iY
Wish i could install linux.
You can’t just say that the bad bits aren’t part of a culture. Surely those abused or disadvantaged minorities were part of western culture? One culture can have a set of values that are contradictory.
That perplexed me too.

There are other possibilities though

Completely different standards that can compete with 5G, improbable but there have been alternate projects that have been worked on in the past that never made it to the standards.

SDR except the MINO antennas. Jio isn't entirely new as a pioneer in teleco, and their pockets are big enough to bring in talent or buy companies. I am hoping for the best.

When you want your IP to be part of the standard that you want to push to the entire world, there must be some limitations on your IP. Limited period, open licensing terms and reasonable price. Otherwise, there is nothing stopping a government from declaring the patent invalid or bring in anti-competitive laws.
> This is a great trapdoor function because if you know where the starting point (A) is and how many hops are required to get to the ending point (E), it is very easy to find the ending point. On the other hand, if all you know is where the starting point and ending point are, it is nearly impossible to find how many hops it took to get there.

> Public Key: Starting Point A, Ending Point E

> Private Key: Number of hops from A to E

So basically the number of hops is the secret. Couldn't I simply "brute force" the hop count? Does this mean that a higher hop count is equal to a better private key?
Everyone says they'd do that, but I find really hard to believe.

I create rare, valuable information that saves people money and headaches. On a good month, 2% of my revenue will come from donations. Usually, it's 0%. At best, it pays for a meal and a beer. This website has 135k page views per month.

If that's how much I get from teaching people how to navigate German bureaucracy, I doubt you'll make anything from your opinions alone.
What I appreciate about Jexcel is their numerous input methods (like dropdowns and checkboxes). DGXL does not offer these features at this moment.

Both Jexcel and Handsontable are quite excellent when it comes to the amount of features, but they do have the same downsides: their enthusiastic creators implement any feature that they can dream off, ingoring the effects on performance and a growing code base that gets more complex every time.

If you're looking to create a spreadsheet app to compete with Excel or G. Sheets, don't look at DataGridXL. If you're looking for the fastest and most reliable editor for 2D or JSON data sets, choose DGXL :-)
I recommend reading the article, it is correct and the reasons why – for compatibility with legacy software – are interesting and well thought out.
so close to admitting trump has done something decent!
From the Timaeus
“To earth, then, let us assign the cubical form ; for earth is the most immoveable of the four and the most plastic of all bodies, and that which has the most stable bases must of necessity be of such a nature. Now, of the triangles which we assumed at first, that which has two equal sides is by nature more firmly based than that which has unequal sides ; and of the compound figures which are formed out of either, the plane equilateral quadrangle has necessarily, a more stable basis than the equilateral triangle, both in the whole and in the parts. Wherefore, in assigning this figure to earth, we adhere to probability"
Is the hardware linux compatible?