skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the structure of an argument from ignorance, the unsupported hypothesis is the one that someone is trying to support with negative information, which is to say, with an argument like "We don't know that <hypothesis> isn't true...". It's a form of argument that we should be wary of.

The unsupported hypothesis in argument from ignorance doesn't have to be any particular hypothesis, or a culturally supported hypothesis. Argument from ignorance is a way to frame any hypothesis for which we're not offering positive evidence in a speciously credible way.
FHA mortgages are 3.5% down and really easy to qualify for.
I know many people with a Mac and Android.
The claim wasn't that we should experience inaccessible worlds for MWI to be compatible with our experience of reality. That's obviously absurd.

The claim was that inaccessible worlds are inherently incompatible with our ability to empirically investigate or falsify them (via experience).

MWI has a metaphysical parsimony to it. But to believe it's physics is religious faith not physical science- and that's fine, but it's still not science.

I don't think collapse is real either. I think it's a phenomenological byproduct of consciousness requiring particilarity to model the world it perceives. You've already alluded to that being the case ('we can only experience our worldline').

If you knew the metaphysics behind that particularity well enough, you'd also know that it leaves no ground for and has no need of the existence of a physical material reality to begin with. As such, materialist physics has already made an epistemic leap which inevitably leads to mistaken intuitions about the most reasonable ways to interpret empirical phenomena.
I suspect anyone who tries to stretch themselves past their comfort zone experiences this

But different people have different comfort zones

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Speaking of, I always wished the Android messaging app could just parse those messages and show the little like icon or whatever on the last matching message I sent.
I agree on the topic of mouse pads - What they're supposed to do is stop you from bending your wrist, but like you said, you end up with pressure on the very part you're trying to avoid.

Did you ever get a chance to try a vertical ergonomic mouse? They take a while to get used to, but the idea is that you don't rotate your wrist (i.e your ulna and radius remain parallel) and keep it in a more neutral orientation.
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft pushing Edge so hard?
I just got a new Windows Update that revolved around pushing me to use the new Edge Browser. The update also removed my default setting for browser and when a new URL opens, there's small text under Edge that tries to persuade you to use it over the other choices.

This level of insidious marketing is a pain, but more than that I'm struggling to understand why Microsoft wants me to use their browser so badly.

What's the motivation?
You Shouldn’t Blindly Follow Advice from Bitcoin Gurus – Including Mine
Granted lots of cultures find waiting in line to be a repulsive and/or alien concept.

Italy is a good example..
The system a convention uses of having volunteers watching for bad behavior is actually already similar to anarchist concepts of community self defense.

Under an anarchist society, the folks tasked with handling these sorts of things would be volunteers elected by the community (in a con they're instead volunteers screened by the con committee). There would also be an expectation that, in public spaces, it's everyone's job to step in and stop a problem like, say, sexual harassment (which some cons also expect).

Having seen these principles in action at CHOP, I think it really does provide a better and more equitable outcome. However, anarchist systems do suffer from moving very slowly at times.
I think there is a shifting baseline bias. There were plenty of "normies" who considered the internet just for nerds.

Really the question of the choice is "Do you care about the audience at large or the way you and your small niche want it more?"
What examples of communism are you looking at that "haven't worked?" I really hope you aren't about to suggest the soviet union, that would be silly, considering it had a state, social classes, currency, and no general ownership of the means of production, and therefore wasn't communism.

Might surprise you to learn that communism is working this very day, on communes all across the world. Also, the basic tenants of it have manifested themselves in various civilizations throughout history.
New Rust inspired safety rules in C++ Core Check
I agree MWI is the minimal "version" (don't get hung up on that word) of quantum mechanics. I take it as a given and consider the way we experience/interpret the universe as an insight into how the brain works.
I'll keep an eye out on my next drive to Whistler!
I was looking for this specific title in the suggestions, as I got this recommended myself a few years back. If we have the same little manual in mind, it's by Jasmin Blanchette. I can't say anything about the other 19.
Manjaro is a really great option too, if you want something Arch flavored that’s a bit more user friendly.
Is that incredibly uncommon in your experience? In my country people still buy Mac computers for the cachet, but many Android brands are considered just as fancy/desirable, so there is a not insignificant number of people who do have Mac computers and Android phones.
> You can self-organise to set rules, and show away people who refuse to comply.

Aka "we don't need law enforcement, we can become law enforcement ourselves". And then you have law enforcement. Sounds like a reset more than an alternative.
This isn't a particularly strange situation, lots of folks have Macs and Android phones, especially among the sort of folks who are on HN. Not every product needs to have a total addressable market of billions.
I'll take the bait. I feel bad about maternity leave.

You can choose to have a baby or not, and I don't see why you should get special treatment at work because of that decision.

I understand meritocracy is an illusion at best, but it's an important illusion to maintain. If someone is pulling less weight, they should receive less compensation. They certainly shouldn't be rewarded for taking weeks or months off to work on on side projects, which is essentially what a baby is.

But maybe I'm just being harsh by thinking of children as side projects, and I should be more sensitive. Fine, let's say that having a baby is a medical condition. For any other medical condition, your options are burn all your PTO or go on short-term disability. Why should having a baby be any different?
The issue with your premise is in defining "behaving in a reasonable fashion". This is incredibly subjective. It also speaks to the ignorance that privileged people have in regards to assuming everyone else must also have.

In many cases, "Just close shop for two weeks (or maybe a year? Who knows...), and also you have to wear a mask all the time now" is not a reasonable ask. People have mouths to feed and bills to pay. Telling them to just shut off their income is a non-starter. And no, a $1200 stimulus check doesn't cut it. Banks still want their money.

"Okay fine, but why isn't everyone just wearing a mask? It's simple! insert judgmental angry emoji here"

Well, a lot of places ran out of masks (and toilet paper for some reason...) early on (thank you sensationalism + news) making it impossible to get one. Someone tried refusing me access to a grocery store that I went to to buy a mask because, guess what, I didn't have a mask (after multiple repeated attempts to buy one in my area). Tell me how this is reasonable?

Since then, it's really been a crapshoot for what you think the rules are for wearing one in public. Where I am, if you are outside, you don't need one, and no one is expected to wear one, but you keep your distance physically. If you go inside, you wear a mask - unless you are sitting at a table, then you don't need one, sometimes...? Every news outlet/friend/family member you hear from on the matter has a different take on what is standard procedure now.

A lot of the "reasonable asks" of people surrounding COVID are not actually as reasonable as they sound in a one sentence, "You have to close shop and wear masks now!" mandate from a politician.

It's hard for me to believe that a "fuck it.." mentality wouldn't evolve around the issue.
The purpose of that step is exactly the opposite: to use data that represents (as much as possible) the full generality of the space you seek to model. And on a more practical level, there are datasets that can't be used for commercial purposes but are useful for research (a well known but not the best example would be ImageNet).
There is no such thing as "fundamentals," value is in the eye of society - so pricing is also in the eye of society.

Bitcoin is operating under a great deal of uncertainty about its future prospects/the prospects of blockchain.

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/richard-rorty-and-the-effic...
I'm not a fan of Snap, but I'm surprised something like this font issue passed QA.
Kubernetes: Load-testing and high-load tuning – problems and solutions
The article omitted one of the best "easter eggs" I've seen on a mouse ever: the Apple Mouse's red laser formed the pattern of a cute mouse head when held at about a 45 degree angle about 10 inches from the desk surface. And it wasn't a "oh, I kind of see it" sort of thing - it was clearly designed to have a cartoon look and was incredible attention to detail for anyone who found it.
I debated calling it something else to avoid getting pulled into debates about semantics.

I’ll put it this way: The company tried the “As long as you get work done, it doesn’t matter how many hours you work” approach.

The problematic part of this equation is that “your work” isn’t a fixed quantity. When we allocate tasks and set weekly goals according to how much people can reasonably accomplish in a week, the “your work” variable becomes a proxy for how much that person is willing to work that week.

The loophole is to minimize the number of tasks assigned to yourself while maximizing the perception of how long it took. The honest team members didn’t play this game and naturally ended up around 40 hours, mostly 9-5ish. It was the people gaming the system who played this game the most, obviously, and they tended to claim off hours and weekends as extra time spent working alone, assuming we couldn’t disprove it.
I feel like your comment is another sidestep. Here's an example of what an equitable solution looks like that doesn't specifically favor one group: "Team, we realize how difficult the pandemic has made home life for many people, so we're implementing a new policy until care situations return to somewhat normal. Weekly hours have been reduced to 35 across the board and everyone gets every other Friday off on an A/B schedule."

To the opportunity comment, I thought it was evident, but maybe a thought experiment will be helpful. Let's pretend your company announces a new policy tomorrow - everyone who eats meat at the cafeteria next week gets Friday off. There are cheers around the office at this announcement because hey, Friday off! Except that you're vegan and don't want anything to do with meat for a variety of reasons. Your coworkers look at you and say, "Hey why aren't you happy about this?" You try to explain to them that you're vegan and so you won't get Friday off and this seems like kind of an unfair policy, but your coworkers just brush off your comments and say, "Well look, it's not like you can't eat meat. You've got the same opportunity as everyone else here - eat the meat and get Friday off, so what's the big deal? Just be a team player and support the rest of us."

Just because an opportunity exists that is technically available to everyone doesn't mean it's actually a fair opportunity or that the outcome of it is equal for everyone.
It's just as user-friendly as the most popular messenger we have in the western world: WhatsApp. So it can't be that bad.

Why doesn't it work well between multiple devices?
Well, XML Signatures and XML Encryption are a confluence of bad ideas from many disciplines :)
Snap programs won't let me access /tmp/ which is really annoying ;(
I have a Mac and Android. I dislike iOS because of the locked-down nature, something that (arguably) macOS and Android don't have.
If there is more capacity available, people will use it.

For instance, I happily stream videos and FaceTime over cellular quite a bit now. Even though I was plenty happy without that capability and don’t really mind when the cell service isn’t good enough for it to work.
I think this is just semantics. I could have easily stated the unsupported hypothesis as "Korean has an independent origin from Chinese."
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I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but if the natural kind of division of labour still exists in an anarchist society, some group would eventually be elected to act as those who catch thieves, rapists, murderers, con artists and the kind. Not every person nor group is suited for this dangerous job as a specially elected, trained and paid group of people, so the emergence of 'anarchist' police would be inevitable.
> Monkeypatching anywhere except unittests is a nono for me.

What do you think about adding pprint to builtins so that you don't need to import it each time when debugging? (Or, alternatively, so that you don't need to add it to the top of every single file?) It seems kind of wrong, but the alternatives are bad also. I'm not sure why Python didn't do this themselves when they added breakpoint in 3.7.
Dynamic linking doesn’t work unless you can live inside a distro maintainer’s special bubble for all your software. If you can exist in that bubble, great—I really like Debian for certain use-cases—but if you can't, the benefits of dynamic linking everything are clearly outweighed by the drawbacks.

Good luck patching that security vulnerability in all those static binaries without proper dependency tracking ;). Not that I am on a particular side of the fence, both have their downsides.

To me the problem are package managers from the '90ies that use a single global namespace, only allows UID 0 to install packages, and do not really provide reusable components.

Modern packaging systems like Nix and Guix allow users to install packages. Packages are non-conflicting, since they do not use a global namespace (so, you can have multiple versions or different build options). They provide a language and library that allows third-parties to define their own packages.

Not to say that they are the final say in packaging, but there is clearly a lot of room for innovation.

Snap and Flatpak are copying the packaging model of macOS, iOS, and Android. This is a perfectly legitimate approach (and IMO the execution of Flatpak is far better). But it is not for everyone -- e.g. if you prefer a more traditional Unix environment.
But that once again is only current transactions. It gets exponentially harder to interfere with transactions with each block in the past. And if you just decided to do so with arbitrary hash difficulty to make it faster, it will be very obvious and easy to reject.
How often has that worked out?
Perhaps, rather than speculating on his work, you could read some of it, and refrain from commenting on it until you have done so.
>When users are scapegoated, Silicon Valley is left off the hook

Is this really the dominant narrative? Are there lots of thinkpieces going around about how fair and kind Silicon Valley is, if only it weren't for all those mean people using their services? Maybe it is so obvious that it doesn't need to be said, but when comparing the early internet to the current internet, we cannot let the users off the hook!

The further back you go, the harder it was to get on the internet, both as a user and a publisher. That meant the early internet was full of people who worked at universities, or were so motivated to discuss weird hobbies and interests with others that they struggled through the expense and technical difficulties, maybe even self-hosted, learned weird new languages from scratch. These were interesting, educated, intelligent, thoughtful and passionate people.

It's like air travel. If you were flying in the 1970s you probably had an interesting or important job or story. Getting on a plane meant meeting a bunch of interesting people. Now it doesn't. That is not a bad thing and it's not Southwest's fault. And when people complain about it, even though they might target Southwest (or Facebook), there is really an underlying snobbery about it. I can't believe I have to sit next to all these commoners on my internet!
Wouldn't this be where anarcho communism comes into play? If there's no currency there's not really a need for taxation.
Dude, so much wisdom in this comment. I’m saving it

Yeah, regarding perception, yeah, I have definitely noticed a jump in responsibilities every time I’ve switched teams, and a bigger jump each time I switched companies. But I hadn’t quite realized why that was happening until my previous manager mentioned out the perception bit when I was preparing to leave Google
I came here to make basically this comment.

I install everything via CLI and pretty explicitly always avoid the GUI they have for installing software. It's never been good, ever.

I'm on 20.04 and I think it's a fantastic release, head and shoulders better than 18.04.

The only thing in the author's list that I really take issue with is installing a snap when a user attempted to install from a .deb file. That sort of shit is antithetical to linux, and if it continues to get worse would actually be a reason for me to leave Ubuntu.

But everything else is just a non-issue to me.
His book Designing Hypermedia APIs is also quite good.
If I may dare stereotype, I think that maybe OP is approaching this from the perspective that operating systems such as macOS or Windows have instilled in us.

I use Ubuntu 20.04 just as I have used 18.04 and 16.04, and the presence or absence of snap doesn't alter the experience for me. GNU/Linux based operating systems will always have a sort of idiosyncrasy inherent to it that stems from the fact that it's really isn't built on fads, and fads are always what would detract from it. Hence, Snap should be used by those who like it, and history will tell us whether it were a fad or not.

I think Ubuntu in general tries to appeal to more of the masses and would try to use things to draw people to it. Nothing wrong with that; you could always use Arch.

But please don't regard a feature that really isn't forced on you by GNU/Linux in general as a reason to, eh, be snapped off it. I use Xubuntu 20.04 and have used Snap here and there and for the most part I couldn't be bothered by whether it works well or not. I do think the topic of whether Snap makes sense, whether it's too slow, etc., is a valid topic to discuss, but I don't see how it should be an argument for or against Ubuntu.

In any case, being for or against something, when really it's only your own business whether you use it or not, does always have a sort of political tinge reminiscent of the aforementioned proprietary operating systems.
Just in time for schools going back...

Kids are fine...
Kids toes blister and go blue...
Kids get diarrhea and vomiting...
Kids get multiple organ failure...
Kids get aneurysms...

I don't see the news getting better any time soon, sadly
Here in Germany we have a minimum of 4 weeks (=20 days for full time workers) of paid time off, a livable minimum wage, 6 weeks paid paternity leave (well, paid by the government), up to 14 months (less well) paid paternal leave, etc.

Still, most of what GP said is still true. People negotiate for their salary and benefits, and paid or unpaid time off is a big part of that (6 weeks paid time off is common in IT).

That of course means better negotiators tend to get better deals. If you don't like that there are places with collective labor agreements, with wages set entirely though negotiations between company and union.
Indeed. That the calculator takes longer to start than Firefox should have caused the project to be abandoned.

I see the value of file system and dependency isolation, but it shouldn't result in such significantly degraded performance.
IMHO this was the wrong problem to focus on (from a user perspective) for Canonical. The latest version is a mutant UI; you never know where the "Confirm" button in any window will be, some times is on the top-right, some times on the bottom right, and sometimes somewhere random. And like that for all of the OS UI buttons. Even the toolbar apps I was using broke.

The last (LTS) great UI experience and where I think Ubuntu peaked was 16.04, but of course it's not practical to keep running that forever. I've since moved to using a mac last year and it's been okay. I'd love to go back to Ubuntu, but not to the thing it has become. Maybe I try another Linux distro, but I also want something stable.
> […] carpet-bombing campaign to market the still nascent World Wide Web […] ad blitz […]

I get it, advertising sucks. Still, save the military terminology for things that are related to the fucking military.

I mean, I wonder what a 57-year-old from Cambodia would think when he reads about how much the author suffered under the "carpet-bombing campaign" of AOL and the likes.
To me it seems that you seem to be imagining anarchy only within the context of the current state of reality with the sole difference of anarchy being set to ‘true’. I think a world in which anarchy were dominant would be structured quite differently and involve humans with fundamentally nonviolent dispositions. My belief is that this is possible.
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>There are different viewpoints and pilosophies on what would work out best.

In this case, it mostly seems to be a difference between what Joe Blow says and what actual epidemiologists say. One of these is decidedly more valid than the other. I'm sure the experts disagree on some points, but these are details compared to the difference between the overall message they offer and what some self-centered goob or conspiracy theorist wants.
DVORAK has long been debunked. It was a fraudulent study conducted by the US navy. The transition into dvorak will slow you; the constant need to setup your key layout on new computers will slow you, the inability to use other computers quickly will slow you, the inability for others to use computers you've setup will be a problem...

https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/
Why would you expect to have a git snapshot shipped as the official freedesktop flatpak runtime? Could you not build your own freedesktop flatpak runtime using mesa git head?
Evidence of collective electron behavior forming “quasiparticles” (“anyons”)
I believe the parent comment's point wasn't about conservatives specifically, but rather that you can just change a word or two and insert any ideology you'd like by saying that since $ideology has [insert some words here] and therefore would also form a queue at the bus station.
This whole thing smells like a power game to me. I don't know exactly who or what the real power behind this stuff is, but I sure get the feeling that if you present a threat to their worldview, they'll destroy you by trying to associate you with any bad stuff and painting anything you ever said in the worst possible light. Toe the line, and your every misdeed will be ignored.

I'm not entirely a fan of how far RMS goes on some tech issues, but this all just feels dirty and wrong.
That “almighty revenue” isn’t just a variable in a spreadsheet. That’s the source of your paychecks. It’s the money in the bank that keeps the company afloat during down quarters. It’s the number that needs to go up by a sufficient margin before your team can hire another person to help out.

It would be an interesting experiment to offer half-time positions with half-pay (ignoring fixed costs that make the half-pay/half-time job more expensive). I doubt many people would take that deal.