skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the most general sense it seems like people are complaining that outrageous views have a chance to get heard. In their next breath they say the views are unpopular and held by no one.

No one minds wearing masks so why do we hear from people who don't want to wear masks?

I think there are two things going on here. The first is that there's a feeling that allowing someone to make a point is tantamount to expressing agreement with it. If you really disagree with it you make sure that the statement isn't even made.

The second thing is that while the author isn't taken in by the argument there's a belief that other people are less rigorous in their thinking and will be convinced by a poorly made case.

I think the root problem is that we're all in a room full of strangers and there's a loaded gun on the floor. I don't want to shoot anyone but just the same I'm going to make sure I'm the one to pick it up. I'll also wave off anyone who's coming near me. I'd like to have some brilliant idea to get rid of the gun entirely but I don't see that happening.
Probability really doesn't help in a group context. In most cases you are pulling a number out of your ass, people don't have intuitive understanding of probability* , and it implies a level of certainty in the likelihood of an outcome that doesn't exist (which leads to bad decisions because you are building on a faulty basis).

*look at how many people consider Trump's election impossible when the odds clearly indicated he had a non-negligible chance of success.
Btw, TiddlyWiki is very, very simplistic and limited. I've used it for years for throwaway note-taking yet have a hard time equating it to the other "full" wikis.

It just became an append-only log for me with very limited organizational power. Though I do like it for anything just long enough where a single .txt file doesn't cut it. Tiddly is great for that case because it encapsulates the common task of jumping between the same sections over and over -- the real downside of a large file. But you aren't alone in finding it's not so great on a larger scale.

So if you did like the idea of a wiki but weren't diddly with the Tiddly, might be worthwhile to check out something like DokuWiki or MediaWiki.
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This is definitely a limitation of AGPL: you cannot interact with it (VST) unless your interactions are also public and free.

A program (DAW) that is built on integrating with third party code but limits what code you can integrate with is rather contradictory.
The harder story to tell that this piece is avoiding because of the difficulty is the institutional dynamics. It's hinted at in the article more or less directly, but the entire mindset at many places is so far from what's conveyed in this New Yorker piece that it sort of misses the ball completely.

At the time the story in this article begins, administrators at many places were completely unfamiliar with the general idea behind open content distribution. In such places, online systems for course content were seen as a way of locking down the intellectual property that courses represent, not to distribute it. Where I was at, faculty were explicitly admonished not to distribute any online course material because it was seen as leaking university IP. Course management systems were seen as a way to deliver materials online securely so as to ensure that they weren't widely distributed. Even if someone wanted to put the effort into something that might now be called a MOOC, it was doubly frowned upon because you were putting effort into teaching rather than research (especially if you were untenured), and triply so because you were putting effort into distributing courses online, which was a fringe activity.

By the time MOOCs came about and got a lot of press, and many of us were sort of shaking our heads at what seemed inevitable, it was a little too little too late. In online space, where social factors like reputation become amplified 100-fold, it's difficult to compete or add to the reputational weight of places like MIT or Harvard. Adding to this was the constant monetizing mindset, of trying to lock down materials, not recognizing the advertising/popularizing role that open content distribution enables. Then too was a sort of "so what" feeling, because in the absence of something like a pandemic, who really cares, from the perspective of the administration -- students come to campus and that's where the dollars come from; MOOCs and online course distribution of whatever form were seen as experimental, the realm of the extension service which is valued but only to a point.

There's lots of issues the piece doesn't get into, or only gets into in a half-hearted way, which is how these types of online teaching dynamics really mess with the traditional structures. So instead of having an interesting conversation about how unfamiliar it is for universities to be dealing with Course A at Institution 1 competing with Course B at Institution 2, it recapitulates the discussion in terms of Malan, which misses the bigger picture entirely. These issues are not about one instructor of one course at one university.

Maybe I'm just getting jaded, but I feel like this piece does a disservice to the behemoth of problems at universities represented by the online instructional debacle we've witnessed. Like lots of things, the pandemic is exposing widespread systemic problems, not creating them.
A few years ago a young woman jogging on the beach near Lisbon was struck and killed by lightning.

I wouldn't bet my life against those natural shortest path algorithms ...
For me, the problem after 10+ years is how disjointed all of the data becomes and how much data you generate across the web. I have stuff that means something to me scattered across every service and every account.

When you start to plan how to move all of your stuff under one umbrella, the solution starts to sound a lot more like a wiki on paper, I think. Even if you move all this stuff to your filesystem, I think you still need a layer over it to manager it all -- or at least I did.

Of course, it's not the only answer. And I admit I have been contributing to wikis like Wikipedia and UESP for a decade now and the jump to a personal wiki was a no brainer.

But I wonder, what solution would you consider for this "disjointed data" problem? Do you just not see it as a problem? One of the first things I did when I stood up a personal wiki was to log into ancient google accounts to exfiltrate ancient google docs that I'm glad I found again.
No. Tech debt, like money debt, can be taken on in purpose to be able to take advantage of a short term business opportunity.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to sound aggressive against you, even if you were of a different opinion. I am a bit tired of all the disinformation on this topic, I highly value the European project -- it is not perfect but my life would be so much poorer without it -- so I can get a bit emotional.

I have also been an anglophile since I can remember, so I am quite disappointed with the UK. I think I'm not alone in this.

Regarding the budget round: my impression is that the struggle comes from the situation caused by covid more than anything else. Brexit became a niche interest in the EU, most people are not paying attention or really care about it anymore.

Notice that the contribution of the UK after rebates amounted to 9 billion euros, in comparison to a yearly EU budget of about 165 billion euros, which is in itself 1% of the EU's GDP. While I am sure that the EU misses that contribution, I find it hard to believe that it is a huge problem.
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Meh. Back in the 1980s feminist Andrea Dworkin went on an anti-porn crusade with the moral majority. The more things change the more they stay the same.

"Left" and "right" is best left as an economic axis: do you want economic power to be more or less concentrated? It is largely accidental which issues get bundled together.

The mathematics of social choice practically force political parties to put together a set of issues. Back in the 1970 things were in ferment: Jesse Jackson was talking to Republicans because the Democrats had been the "Southern White Party" for 100 years. The national democratic party was dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing about civil rights and Nixon realized that was an opportunity for the Republicans. People forget that Jimmy Carter was our first evangelical president because the "right" managed to collapse all of the issues around faith and morality to a single issue that he was on the "wrong" side of.

Much like the 1960-1980 time saw a major political realignment, we are in the middle of a realignment now.
From the article:

“ This question assumes the answer. A website is speech. It is not a bomb. There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.”
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I really liked 6.001 but I already have a fair bit of programming experience although I don't do it professionally and am not a CS major--so I got a lot out of it. MIT has a doubtless deserved reputation as being a bit of a firehose but even so, I can't imagine showing up on campus (during normal times) and learning the basics of programming including even the basics of using a command line on the side while taking not only 6.001 but an otherwise full course load.

Charles Severance's Intro course from U Michigan is a nice Intro to Python MOOC course that's geared to genuine beginners.
Im a simple man, I see The Guardian, and I skip reading anything it says.
I am merely stating that less restrictions = more freedom (ie more choices of what you can do) to the initial user. I'm also pointing out that this freedom of choices does not translate to downstream users since the previous user is free to choose to restrict it. GPL has less freedom (by virtue of adding restrictions on what can be done), but it does this to make sure all users have equal freedom. Some people value the higher freedom more, other people value the equality more.

Separately, I was pointing out that contributing back upstream is a beneficial and nice thing to do, but is orthogonal to freedom. If anything, forcing it means there is less since the person loses the freedom to choose whether they wish to or not. I'm not judging which is better either, just pointing out the differences. Sometimes less freedom for the individual is better for the whole (to ensure equal freedom for all, or so changes are contributed back), we see it in society too: we give up personal freedom for the benefit of society as a whole.
Good point - the 'fly to Spain' example wasn't the best. Running through multiple things in my head.. it seems the most powerful thing is to have a good initial question so the inversion actually helps.
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> I was referring to the 2015 and 2016 elections

But your claim isn't true for 2015 either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_el...

36.8 + 12.6 = 49.4%

And there wasn't any election in 2016. Do you mean the referendum? You cannot 'split the vote' in a yes/no referendum, can you?

Your claim is also not true for 2017, before you try that one as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_el...

42.3 + 1.8 = 44.1%
Seeking problems is another way to write it.
But that isn't really an inversion, more a double negative.

The example given is "how do I keep my pilots alive?" with the inversion "what could kill my pilots?". Your result would be "how do I avoid not keeping my pilots alive?", which is just the original question.
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Like, why go through the effort to hack domestic companies when you can just subpoena them?
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But still can't skip commenting on it, apparently.
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> That might be harder to fix, although on my 6yo machine I can see similar numbers when writing inside Notes as well, maybe they fixed it in Catalina or Big Sur. I can't really see any difference in smoothness, are you using an external high refresh rate display perhaps?

Sorry for the delayed response, yes it is a 100hz external display.
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The author raised an interesting point with respect to syntax highlighting for types. I find the convention that literals be typed (ints, strings, etc...) to be inappropriate. That is very low-level and these should always be inferred.

Where typing should exist is at the level the author suggests, such as

* Iterators
* List-like structures
* Functions that return option types

and other more abstract structures.
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The author of this post knows what "strong opinions, weakly held" means. They explain it in their own words, and take effort to explain the difference between the catchphrase understanding and application of it versus the genuine application of its principles. The author also presents arguments as to why even the genuine application fall short, which I don't believe you responded to.

(If it seems I'm picking on you: yours is the top post in the comments, and I don't feel like you're engaging with the post beyond a surface level.)
> the actual implementation in the `MethodFinder` class. I don't know enough Smalltalk to decipher it :(

For reference, here is the relevant class: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/blob/9ad3324bf8aff11e...

A core snippet is:

foundPermutationSends := (receiver class
allSelectorsToTestInMethodFinderWithArity: inputCollection size - 1)
collect:
[ :method | MethodFinderSend receiver: receiver deepCopy selector: method withArguments: args deepCopy ].

This means, roughly:

- ask the receiver class (in the example above, the class of 2, which is something like SmallInteger) for "all the selectors (= method names) to test" with the given number of arguments.

- for each of these methods, build a MethodFinderSend object, which is at this point is just a container holding a copy of the receiver object, the method to call on it, and a copy of the arguments to test with

Then, given this collection of MethodFinderSend objects:

^ (self possibleSolutionsForInput: inputCollection) select: [ :send | send resultIn: expectedResult ].

This means:

- execute the "resultIn:" method on each of the MethodFinderSend and return a collection of those where this returns true

The implementation of this "resultIn:" method is in https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/blob/c896913a00fa6e2b...:

[ [ ^ expectedResult = (receiver perform: selector withArguments: arguments) ]
onErrorDo: [ :anError | ^ false ] ]
on: Deprecation
do: [ :depr | ^ false ]

This is, roughly:

- try to perform the call

- return false if there is an exception

- otherwise, return true or false depending on whether the result equals the expected result

So yes, it's an exhaustive search over the methods that the receiver's class promises are OK to test. If you write a method that tries to format the hard drive, and your class exports this method in its "selectors to test", then searching for a method on this class will attempt to format your hard drive.
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One may need to use an angle grinder correctly in a video to convince me. The demo where they plunge the angle grinder straight into the material is no different than the effect on hardened steel. Typically you would start at an edge to minimize the contact area of the cut. That's why lock shackles are rounded.
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One more reason: There are so many sites writing on so many subjects but most of them are skewed for the Google algorithm.

Finding meaningful content that adds value is very rare. There is no guarantee you will get the same page next time you search, unless you can recollect a significant unique string from the page.

Hence, a knowledge base.
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I think those guys fly in much better weather conditions than the returning fairings.

If those guys miss by 50 meters, no biggie, they just walk and pick the rocket up.

If SpaceX misses by 5 meters, the fairings could end up in the salt water.

Landing on a moving ship is much harder.
> It's a guarantee that the project will remain open source

What are you talking about? They can change the license to a closed one from a certain version in the future.
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They mean you can't buy without a computer.
This is exactly what I have been planning to do for monitoring my two Raspberry pis. I am still debating on the metrics collector though. My workplace uses monitord for AINT and telegraf for wavefront. I have no idea how well does collectord works.
Besides branding, are these the changes? https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings

Can’t tell if that’s all of it.
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I use Dasung's e-ink monitor (Paperlike Pro) daily. A mouse cursor is fully usable. You can even watch videos on that thing. Of course, the refresh rate is far from perfect, but its performance is acceptable. I code on it, mainly.
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That's sounds like quite the adventure, what car was what in, a Lada? I don't recognize it at all but looks very Soviet/Russian like.

Any chance you got more to put in an album?
Alphabet has a board of directors with 11 people [0]. They would have to collectively decide to stop making billions of dollars. I don't think this would ever happen. I don't think any publicly traded company that was profitable has ever done this.

Pretend we are assuming something happened and the board agreed to dissolve the corporation. They would need to sell assets, pay debts, layoff everyone and pay stockholders. People that hold stock would probably make a lot of money. Smaller/other services that exist now would swoop in for the market share. It would be a feeding frenzy. Sure your Bing search results wouldn't be the same as Google's but you bet Microsoft would amp up marketing and let the tech catch up later.

One actual possibility is anti-trust laws kick in for something and Alphabet is required to split up. Then you have a bunch of smaller Alphabets running around and I bet the unprofitable things might get shut down as part of that.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000130817916...
I agree with this. Even if you as an engineer aren't 100% sure, sign-offs from other groups or extra opinions are something for a project manager or product manager to fish around for. There are some optics to consider there too -- e.g. the implication that the PM things you're a fool -- but having them fish around for buy-in and alternatives sells better than you doing it -- it makes you look weak or unprepared.

Context matters here too, if you know Alice and Bob on Team [X] are just great at crypto or DB work or whatever, then getting their feedback before implementing a feature might make sense / be a standard due-diligence thing.
I highly recommend the website https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ and in particular their excellent newsletter. Surely, it would be an oversimplification to reduce everything to one cause but how much the setup of the original gold standard of the bank of England in the late 1770s spurred on the industrial revolution and how the centralization of gold and the final abolishing of the gold standard and ensuing financial tinkering led to malinvestments and threw wrenches into the engine of capitalism, wealth generation and ever increasing living standards has IMHO not yet sufficiently been investigated (Prof. Saifedean Ammous work here being one laudable exception).
In an interview from 2019 Peter Thiel mentions that Paypal would have never succeeded had the Patriot Act existed at the time. Banking regulations would have never allowed Paypal off the ground. Just a few years between Paypal and that monstrocity: We would not have Tesla. We wouldnt have SpaceX. There wouldn't be any Boring company or any Neuralink. The opportunity cost of all of that is unfathomable.
Really, REALLY tried to love InfluxDB. But its systems requirements, performance, and features are poor compared to things like TimescaleDB.
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I've seen thieves cut street signs and sturdy bike racks to take a bike. I don't really see this material working for relatively thin bars like a regular U-lock. The base material is aluminum which is relatively soft. Thieves would just switch to shearing action tools to cut through it and if the bar isn't very thick they'd probably only encounter 1 or 2 of the ceramic beads and push them away through the soft metal. They might even use a portable torch to soften it up before cutting.

Conceivably you could have a thick Proteus core with a thick hardened steel casing but it makes the lock either unwieldy or terribly expensive. Maybe they will be able to embed the ceramic beads directly in hardened steel, making it lighter and more resistant to cutting.
You only have to make the source code available if you run a modified version of an AGPL app. And you have to make the source code available to the user of the app, not give a medium with the source code to any user that communicate with the modified software each time they do.
They use the exact year of the oil crisis on their title. There was nothing financial about that one, it's entirely on the real part of the economy.

Yes, something happened on the early 70's. But that article is a biased gathering of disconnected evidence surrounded by a story that was set independently of any of that evidence and doesn't even make sense. It is still useful to point people to the problem, but it would be incredibly more useful if there were an actually good source we could use.
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That's outrageously ahistorical. The former slaves weren't suddenly "free" and unexploited in the US after the civil war. In many aspects they were still enslaved through various direct and indirect means.

If you're interested in not just regurgitating propaganda you can read this book:
"Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II".

Furthermore your entire premise is false, even if we accept what you suggest is true, which is highly controversial, the result is not what we're talking about, but the incentive structure and what outcomes that will produce. Of course people searching to accumulate capital will endorse and proliferate low labour costs if it's possible and currently acceptable.

You do realize that both slavery and wage slavery have a cost of manufacturing right? Both needed to compete with that on the world market. What's the reason to exclude that even a slave-owning South wouldn't have switched to a more profitable produce?
Why? Bike locks are surely the most common thing people have experience of being cut that they don't want to be cut.
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