skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up to where P1 says, "Therefore, Korean has an independent origin from Chinese.", that is indeed argument from ignorance.

Where P1 offers some discussion of differences between Korean and Chinese, that's where we start to get into a discussion based on evidence that can be evaluated. If P2 doesn't find it convincing, then we can ask why; this allows P2 to muster evidence which can be evaluated. That's a fine and constructive direction. A finite conversation like that doesn't necessarily end with a solid conclusion and everyone being convinced of the same thing.

What you're pointing out with regards to the perceived strength or weakness of certain assumptions is not what we're talking about with argument from ignorance: argument from ignorance is about the form, not the semantics.
False. I can live reasonably and believe most others would too, but also believe a sizeable enough populace would not - harming the whole populace.
Just because you implement anarchism, you haven't automatically abolished capitalism. Bars would still be privately owned, and the owners would have incentive to keep them open in order to earn money to buy food (and protection etc).

In theory you could institute socialism in an arachic society. But that seems ... ill advised for anything larger than a small community. I can at least imagine socialism working in an exceptionally well organised state, but how would that work in a large-scale arnachy?
This is not about pre-form web. It's about pre-CORS web. Which is pretty recent web. CORS was "widely & properly" supported by "recently released" browsers around 2012-2013. Of course it's only as of very recently that you could safely assume 2010-2013 browser versions were completely out of circulation.
It just indicates that his account has followers.
A couple of friends or some fake accounts and everbody cam have followers.
The pure existence of followers says nothing just like everywhere else.
Gnome Settles Litigation, Extends Patent Coverage to All Open Source Initiative
> This is sort of like the Boltzmann brain idea but even worse because it applies to any set of relations. According to Egan’s argument all possible experiences that can be computed by any sufficiently complex set of relations are in fact computed by them.

This idea seems identical to the Boltzmann brain hypothesis and I don't understand how this paragraph differentiates it at all.
Like DoorDash, but for Goodwill
This lets you impulsively get rid of stuff safely. You summon the driver with the app and pay them a small fee and they haul all your stuff to Goodwill and donate it for you. Someone should build this.
> "Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to"

I certainly used to believe that, but recent years have damaged my faith.
The next step is setting it up to randomly wake you up in the middle of the night with obscure messages.
> and if you look at the home link https://cephalopods.blog/about/ anyone else think that looks like a generated face?

More importantly, it's a new face every time you reload the page.
Bingo - this is not one in ten medical treatments administered, it is one in ten possible medical treatments.
The Nature Behind Human Potential
Thanks for creating the thought experiment. Let’s keep using that as an example. This is not a case where companies decided to create a benefit arbitrarily or to make employment at the company more attractive to workers. This was the world responding to an unexpected disruption to almost every area of life. As part of that, parents had an immediate need that could not wait to be met- caring for their children. This, in my mental model, is closer to someone taking leave to deal with a physical or mental health issue vs. someone taking time off voluntarily. If your colleague were to take time off to deal with a severe physical or mental health issue, would you have the same complaints about not getting an immediate increase in compensation for picking up some extra work or also not being able to take time off? I suspect that over time you might have a conversation with your manager about the increased workload but would not look at your colleague as deriving additional benefit. It can still be argued that it’s not equitable that someone who lost a limb gets to take so much paid time away from the office but I think we can all agree that this isn’t the point of the benefit. I have the same view of this time off extended to parents right now.
Not really, exploits are very quickly patched up by Apple. You would have to get a used phone that is also not on the latest version of iOS, something that might be harder than you would think.
I don't think anyone is systematically screening positive COVID cases for this kind of damage. The 662 is the severely affected ones that end up in the ICU, but how many others have inflammatory damage?
The Zapatista-governed area is at best parasitically technological (it uses imported technology, but neither creates nor maintains much of a technical base).

It certainly might be legitimately viewed as a step up for the most systemically disenfranchised, exploited, impoverished communities, but it's not a demonstration of a way that a technological society can be maintained.
As soon as these metrics lead to job success as soon we get fake followers and stars, like on twitter, instagram, etc.
I think characterizing this as having any effect of “propping up” iMessage is laughable. To call it a “terrible idea” is unfair to the project creators. They’re solving a problem people have, they’re not the cause of it.
Arktos: Designed for large scale cloud compute infrastructure
The development of the C language – by Dennis M. Ritchie
The article really ought to close the loop by tying it back to the final 10% of the book. The big point in the book is that you can craft arbitrary surjections and have an infinite set of justifications for your subjective experience. A physical substrate is just as good as a computational/mathematical substrate. In this sense you can bootstrap your simulated existence into the immortal world of forms.
> Even if you decentralize society and put as much power as possible in the hands of small communities, there will still be plenty of things that need to be coordinated, from running railroads to deciding on directions for medical research. But just because something is complicated does not mean there is no way to do it democratically.

Aha! So, in order to organize in an anarchic society, maybe we should form some kind of democracy where people get to vote on things.

Of course, even if most people are good natured, managing and optimizing trillions of dollars of budget is difficult, so it would be good if we could elect representatives that could work in a small community of anarchists who can devote their attention to understanding these issues, and voting on them. We could perhaps call them "Congress".

WAIT A SECOND. I GET IT NOW. Anarachy IS big government!
I would counter that by saying that:

1) this has nothing to do with computation.

2) my subjective experience is objectively there. No one questions what I am thinking. (That is, no one else looks inside my brain and claims: This is not what your thinking!) My thoughts might be my own personal view and differ from other people's thoughts but their existence is not up for debate.
As others noted, that was FaceTime and the reason for changing directions was because they lost a lawsuit to a patent troll[0], forcing them to switch from P2P to routing calls through their servers.

0: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20236114
This is the kind of thing that you need a significant other to straighten out.

"Hey!"

(smacks on head)

"It's an int that points to a variable."

"Now get off the computer and take out the trash without talking about garbage collection!"

"but it could be an int32_t and sometimes..."

(smack)
Fwiw, USPTO, EPO, WIPO, and probably OAPI and ARIPO (not sure about these two), and whoever else, grant patents for software. Outside USA the rules are stricter; and business methods usually aren't allowed.

The EPC ("European" patents) allows software patents with a 'technical effect'.
You're right, Apple is heating in the same direction by locking down macOS for power users :(
تحميل تطبيق دردشة سناب شات Snapchat رابط مباشر اخر اصدار للاندرويد
Everyone should give Shad a follow. Dude is planning on building a medieval experience park on land he've recently purchased and it's going to be fun to follow his journey.
This has been done in the past, but it's a violation of their ToS and gets shut down fast.
Poor support for larger groups, poor support for use on multiple devices
"Thousands of raiders" don't magically appear, you prevent them by preventing the conditions necessary for thousands of people to unite with the goal of hurting others.
A 23-year-old Windows 3.1 system failure crashed Paris airport (2015)
Because now we associate apps with countries, and china/russia/us/india == bad
> obviously python 3.8 should be backwards compatible with 3.7

I think so too, but HN downvoted me to oblivion the last time I advocated for that. That's part of the problem, I guess, is that the dev community doesn't actually agree with 3.8 being backwards compatible with 3.7.
You may be interested James C. Scott’s “Seeing Like a State”, which is an excellent book that focuses on these issues.
> The compromise is to let people decide for themselves.

That's not a compromise. That's like saying "Some people like blindly shooting into crowds. Some do it to gain an advantage, some do it because they don't fear death, some do it for fun. Most gun wounds aren't even lethal. Sure, some people are opposed and think nobody should blindly shoot into crowds. So let's just compromise and say that everyone does what they want".
I posted this already to a different question, but tell me: according to what you said, isnt the KKK a good example for this? It came from the community, was supported by the community, also they were very outspoken against (falsely accused) sexual harassment.

Playing the devils advocate here, but I really would like to know why this is not an example of anarchy; of course answers like people will behave differently if there is no capitalism I find hard to accept without evidence.
So you are special and other people need to be ruled.
So that's what the weird shaped Lego was for!
I agree with the article that the quantitative metrics(contribution statistics, followers, stars, LOC, etc) are not really good vor evaluating someone. But its still good for checking 1. The type of code one writes and in what languages, maybe documentation and 2. The interactions with other people in form of PRs and issues.

I guess that most recruiters don't have the time to look at that but it definitely could be valuable.
So, people are complaining that distributions they can modify include something that they can remove and replace by another thing like Flatpak...

Interesting...
> My skills would get mostly outdated given how fast the industry evolves

Except ... it doesn't. There's plenty of stories about people who took substantial time off before coming back to software development who say there wasn't much real change.

There's substantial churn, absolutely. How many popular web frameworks have there been? But substantial change that would be catastrophic for a career? No.

As one reference point, the list of topics to study as background before going to a tech interview hasn't really changed much in a long time. That knowledge doesn't disappear after a year or two.

As another reference point, Sweden has 480 days of parental leave where 90 days is exclusively for each of the parents. Many people in software development take over a year off, without it being catastrophic to their career.
Depends on what kind of consumer you are. People with animals to care for and contain are quite likely to have a solar powered electric fence charger. The cheap "yard lights" are ubiquitous where there are yards.
For me it's just on launch. More precisely, the period before the application actually starts to launch. I guess it has something to do with mounting the various file systems and setting up the connections or whatever it is that it does.

I've had to install Chrome to try a thing or too (so not as a daily driver) and I haven't noticed anything weird during use. I've used Jetbrains' PyCharm daily for a few months and no problem there either (although that is a "classic" snap, not sure if it matters).
So there is a trial, but no punishment?
I agree with your post except for this:

> If you don't like the bundled model, then you can carry on using Ubuntu 20.04 without Snaps just fine.

While it's true you technically can, at some point you have to ask yourself why you're going against the grain instead of picking a different distro (or not upgrading to 20.04, at least). Ubuntu wants you to use snaps. You can sidestep this, but you should ask yourself if you shouldn't just switch distros.

I just recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I don't see the reason to upgrade to 20.04 as long as the software I need works and I keep getting security fixes. Once this LTS gets EOL'd, I'll see what the current deal is with Ubuntu and seriously consider switching to another distro.
"Leaders" told everyone to stay home. People, largely, listened for a while. When the money ran out (or never existed to begin with) and no support came to sustain the situation but the messaging remained "stay at home" thats when people got mad and stopped listening.

Since the same leaders also said wear a mask, it went from "health experts trying to save lives" to "politicians trying to leave me destitute and homeless".

The US failed, as it always does, to provide for the needs of its citizens. So as the citizens usually do, they stopped listening. And in practice absolutely nobody gives a real shit - the people don't care and capital is eating future generations by the trillion. Everyones happy in the most perverted definition of happy.
>exploits are very quickly patched up by Apple

Nope. The SOC on the iPhone X has an unpatchable Boot ROM flaw.

There is nothing Apple can do to prevent you from sideloading anything you like. This will work with any future version of the OS.
A majority of young adults in the US live with their parents
> Renaissance, impressionism, pointillism, abstract expressionism, realism, etc, were all micro-steps part of the same bigger effort: representing the reality for what it is.

> So, we needed a radically new thing. A new greenfield and new proofs of concept.

> Introducing cubism.

I think impressionism had the same "radical" property—the colours are not realistic, but they are emotional. Green smoke; pink haystacks. But perhaps there is still a stronger link to reality than for cubism. van Gogh's swirls I would guess are inspired by real things such as vortices in wind or water. In any case, for me the progression to cubism was linear from impressionism, and not radical. But I think the author means that you need abrupt changes to reap social capital, and that I do agree with—but I would maintain it holds for classicism to impressionism too.

> Shoenberg's twelve tonic technique comes with no musical tonality. All 12 pitches of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music without emphasis on any specific note. In other words, all 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key. Consequentially, there can't home base.

> It was a radically new game.

I don't know if I agree with this. The innovation was equal temperament and the creation of the piano. The key was that you have approximate harmonic intervals based on the 12th square root of 2: sqrt(2,12)^7 = 1.498 ~= 1.5 = 3/2.

Using chromatic notes is a logical consequence for later composers. In terms of composition, I would say that modes (think Wicked Game) are rather the innovation that reaped social capital in more modern times; as well as the idea of direct repetition (all pop music) rather than themes with developments on themes.

In any case, I would agree with the author. There is a clear proof of work aspect to social media. Hours spent that would lead to some Instagram picture; hours spent on some HN post...
> It’s selfish of them to be resentful.

Isn't it more selfish to expect preferential treatment, privileges and time off just for having kids?

> Kids are the ones who will be working when these people retire (whether by then they have children of not).

Yes and won't the retired child-free people be paying for the work these kids provide? Or are you saying these kids should work for free to provide for the retired child-free people?

> Society depends on new generations and so I don’t see a problem if parents get a small advantage.

Well then you are free to give most of your paycheck to them. But why insist or force others to sacrifice?
From the article:

> When shares keep rising, managing the hedge entails buying more stock.

I don’t understand. If I sell a call option on a single share, I can hedge this by buying a single share and not doing anything until the contract expires, right?
USB keys will end you and how to protect yourself
MX Linux is good
can this also receive messages?
Pikvm: Open and Cheap DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi
Wait did you say money?

Money doesn't exist in the situation you describe. Who is issuing the money? At best trading for good is the best possible.
The significant observation is that there is a possible pathway from Covid infection to MIS-C...
"=" is still equality. It's not an operator that compares two values. It's an operator that defines the left hand to be equal to the right hand. I feel like "=" for assignment is fine. For boolean comparison something like "=?" seems most clear, like asking a question whether the left and right hand side are equal.
I don't know why but Ubuntu (and Canonical) have always been the black-sheep of the FOSS "community"...

I am 100% agree with you.

Also, people complain on other OS that they can't remove or replace an existing software...
Here, they can. But they prefer to move to another distro just because of this.
I don't understand this world anymore... :(
"Are you alright"? Even if you think you're saying that in good faith, don't do that here.

And I started with that, because keeping the HN community free from personal attacks (even if they disguise themselves as sympathetic concern) is essential to keeping HN the kind of place where we can have factual discussions.

Since you seem to have totally missed my point, let me try again.

The North had tariffs for its dealings with other nations. That's not free, as you correctly state. But internally, the North was a good approximation of a free market - perhaps as good as there was in western civilization at the time. That matters, too.

As you said, tariffs are not the only restrictions on free markets. And yet, you argued with WaltherBright that you can't tariff yourself, when he clearly wasn't talking only about tariffs. He was talking about internal (non-tariff) restrictions that make a market non-free. I tried to explain that. You responded with a long argument, but you weren't actually responding to my point. (I don't think you were responding to WalterBright's point, either.)
And yet there are more compsci than ever, and the field is more diverse.

Why does it matter they haven't installed an OS before? Technology advances and the average use case changes too. At some point CS majors stopped knowing what punchards were for.

No field is for one specific group. All these complaints come off as trying to lament the inevitable.

Compensation and diversity are both up, so however you slice it why not mention that too?
This is the biggest downside for me. I understand why they want to use snaps of huge software applications especially for rolling releases. I just don't like one company being in charge of the method of distribution.
Nice, IMO this (short) FAQ has a lot more useful info than the featured article. His claim at the end that creating intelligent life through evolution is deeply immoral confuses me, though -- by all accounts, we arose through that process, and relatively few people seem bothered by it.
> Anarchic societies managed to maintain armies strong enough to deter state actors.

I don't believe that, any link? City states are not anarchic nor are tribes.
I think I can somewhat grasp what is being explained but maybe not really.

As a thought experiment, if you had a screen of fixed resolution that displayed random color pixels, given an infinite amount of time, you could watch an entire specific movie (along with every other image), perhaps in random order, but from the movie's perspective if it were conscious it would not be aware of whatever order it's playing in, it would just perceive itself to be going forward I guess. The movie itself is like a function that displays an image as a function of time.

So I guess they're saying consciousness in Dust Theory could be like that? What we perceive as a conscious moment is a brief output of random noise for a random timestamp?
You know, it IS possible for "the crowd" to condemn you because you've _actually_ done odious things. Branding everything a witch hunt makes you look, at best, ignorant, and at worst, complicit.
> without proper dependency tracking

Well, there is nothing that says you can't have proper dependency tracking just because something is statically linked. The infrastructure isn't currently there [x], but it definitely is something that languages and language package managers could with each other and provide.

[x] But can be built, now that more and more languages have access to language package managers with proper dependency tracking. One way would be to create a standard for how to query a binary for what it depends on. Then a computer could have a central database of the dependencies of static binaries that is installed.
This 1981 Mel Brooks documentary, "History of the World, Part I" [1], is a good comedic documentary about the portable toilet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OWMB3ewpNM
I assure you that they aren't. (Well some of them probably are, but many are not.) I've noticed that many people have drastically different views of durability with Apple's products–not between products, mind you, but between people. And these are people are are both using their products day in and day out, without doing obvious damage to it, but one will inevitably end up ruining it within a short period and the other one will have something that looks almost new by the end. I have a pet theory that there is some secret subconscious way of handling Apple products that some people learn and some never do, and this feeds the usual "Apple's cables {never, always} fray for me" debates.
I just honestly don't understand this. On Windows and Mac (the OSes that 99% of the planet uses on the desktop), this is exactly how things work. The OS provides a set of APIs. If an application author needs a library that isn't in the OS, they have to ship it themselves. If a vulnerability in that library comes to light, they have to fix it and ship an updated version of your application. If it's a commonly used library, a lot of application authors are going to have to ship updates.

Why couldn't this work for a Linux-based OS? Honest question.