skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you are right, it is important to differentiate a pure number (one, five, ten thousand) from a fuzzy category of numbers (a bunch, a pack of wolves, some dozen eggs). But, apparently, some animals have the ability to count exact numbers, such as apes:

* https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewconte...

or bees (OK, only to 5, but still):

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900421...

In these cases I would say -- even if they don't have the ability to tell us that they can reason with exact numbers -- we can observe experimentally that they do. And I don't see any reason to assume that the abstraction that is represented in the animal mind is fundamentally different from our notion of it.

EDIT: That could also be an indication for mathematical Platonism, when I think about it. But alas, as long as we don't observe a species that develops mathematics from the basic forms of countability that would be a stretch too far... Or to put it differently -- if there is a species that could reasons about numbers beyond the basics of counting, given enough time they would also be able to axiomatize mathematics under an equivalent of ZFC Set theory.
Apple will no longer terminate Epic's usage of 'Sign In with Apple'
Just because company creates market where products and services are sold, does not mean that the market is outside competition law.

> If you don’t like it, distribute differently.

Relevant market for networked multiplayer games can't be divided between platforms. People who own iPhones and Android phones play the same game online with their friends. Epic can't stay competitive and stay outside Apple AppStore and sell only for Android pones.
I discovered TOML a couple of years ago when I started playing with Hugo, as it was Hugo's format of choice for configuration files.

I honestly find TOML harder to read and more complicated to use than YAML. I tried to look into it but frankly I still haven't found a use case where it made more sense to use TOML.
> “As smartphones become more and more a part of the fundamental infrastructure of society”

This perspective underpins a lot of the pushback against Apple & Google but I just don’t understand it.

Any cell phone, and especially a smartphone, is not integral to modern society. Random usage by consumers is recreational. Businesses have a million ways to replace things they ask employees to rely on smartphones for. In fact not all uses of smartphones are productivity increasing, and it could easily be argued that we need better ways to just switch them off, whether at work or at home, to get things done.

An iPhone is like a video game console. Whether you use for seemingly “important” things like PagerDuty or day trading or checking your child’s location or hailing a car ride for a home-bound elder or sick person ... the smartphone is purely extra consumer gadgetry to do it and it could be accomplished many other ways.

Given that smartphones are just an optional, convenient luxury item, I don’t see how any argument about them being critical to modern society can possibly be used to claim Apple must be forced to operate its app distribution channel a certain way or cannot set its own monetization policies.
"The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on."

Also when I think I have problems in life, this helps a lot:
"Things could be (much) worse."
(I think it is from Stoicism)
> Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see a good reason why government can't introduce legislation to enforce ...

You are being naive, even in the European Union which has a fairly contained level of corruption the Plastic and Petro-chemical lobby are incredibly strong.

Many countries wanted to introduce a single-use plastic ban, almost immediately a campaign came out saying they were trying to kill people at hospitals where many consumables are single-use plastic (Obviously medical supplies were exempt from the ban). The single-use plastic ban was so watered down that now the only thing that will be baned are things like plastic forks and plastic q-tips.

Another example is return deposits, many European countries have very succesful glass deposit schemes usually reusing the supermarket stores' infrastructure. The natural progression of this is to create large plastic bootle/container deposits. Again this will never happen because it obviously stops the current externalization of costs in the plastic business.

There are two main forces at play against Humanity on the plastic front of our Anthropogenic calamity:

- The consumer product manufacturers (think Unilever, Pepsico, Nestle, Kraft, etc.). Their interest in plastic containers is mostly due to the reduction in production cost and transport costs. They heavily lobby against bans and any cost increase for their production chain.

- The Petro-Chemical industry (Including Big Oil companies), many of these refining business know they are getting squeezed out of the fuel business as electrical vehicle adoption is bound to increase. The Plastic production is the last remaining golden goose in their portfolio. A circular economy where most of the plastic is recycled from previously used plastic would mean that the volumes and profits of these very financially successful business would evaporate.

Both these lobbies and others will continue to resist and undermine any attempt to curb our planetary and Humane destruction until they are stopped either by public pressure or insolvency.
Don't a number of universities belong to that category? I've certainly heard it about Durham:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge_reject
It's not mindless it's just he's lying about what he values
My friend grew up as an "army brat" and said the same thing. They moved every few years, and I asked if it was difficult to keep losing friends. I was pretty much told that, "You just stop making long term friends." They mentioned the same thing about the "timer" concept you mentioned too. Every few years they would get restless and want to move one, because it's what happened always before.
A common mistake of modern humans is to presuppose that people from earlier times were somehow less capable of thinking than we are today. No evidence suggests that this was the case. They could be just as rational, they just knew less upon which to base their notions of reason. Even in a 16th century context, it was not hard to see that a lot of supposedly real witch burning was repressive control politics masquerading behind imposed superstitious strictures of morality around women, just taken to murderous degrees.

More basically: if your morality means decisions to justify or reject the torture and killing of another person, then you'd better set some damn high criteria for whether your information is complete enough.

Even medieval humans understood a surprising amount of this. A Book I highly recommend that demonstrates as much: "The Faithful executioner: Life and death, Honor and Shame in the turbulent 16th century" by Joel F. Harrington. It records a lifetime of personal observations through diary entries from a public executioner in the Germanic city of Bamburg during these times. and gives wonderful insights into how well even those charged with the job of killing could reason about the dirty ambiguity of what they were doing.
What really helps me is to compose a complete song first and worry about the sound later. Just use whatever patch kind of gets the job done at first. Once the full song structure is in place, including all melody and transitions start tweaking the actual sounds.
Key employee not coming on could jeopardize the sale. A good bargaining chip.
Rigorous application of Sturgeon's law to all my information sources gave me a lot of peace of mind. Before that, I was always anxious about missing something important and my reading and learning list just kept piling up. After trimming things down, I am able to organize better and with proper prioritization, I can get more things done.
I had a similar path as yours, but maybe 2 years earlier I started stocking up on vinyl, as you could get entire lots of donated records from goodwill.com for pennies on the dollar. Classic Jazz, Soul, Funk and Fusion re-ignited my passion for records and now I have a few IKEA BESTAs full of 'wax'.

Couple notes -
- re-release vinyl is not as good these days, especially when clear or multi colored.
- 180 gram vinyl is maybe a little better than yer average release from today, but the cheap pressings of the 60s and 70s (when well preserved) are much better than newer pressings.
- That said, Im glad they are re-pressing stuff today as some original prints or early prints are hard to come by/expensive...
> App stores and restrictive operation systems are a real threat

What we need is a true champion against this stuff. Someone who is willing to sacrifice normalcy and convenience to be fully committed to software that is free as in freedom, not free as in beer.

Imagine a "free software movement". It could center around the GNU toolchain and spiral out from there.

Now, where is our hero? We've put up the signal but I do not see him. I hope nothing bad has happened...
>Chinese law requires companies to hand over root access and data, and also effectively forbids E2E encryption. This is IP transfer. [2]

By that standard the US also requires IP transfer. Have you already forgotten about PRISM?

>The US has several tech companies with market caps more than double Tik Tok.

Sure, but if China continues in this trajectory then it won't be for long

>Depends if you trust your data with the same government who regularly disappears journalists, I guess.

Depends if you trust your data with the same government who regularly fabricates evidence as an excuse to go and kill a million or so people every once in a while. Or the one that regularly assassinates or threatens to assassinate activists, I guess. The chance of your own government killing you is at least four or five orders of magnitude higher than that of China killing you, same for most other metrics of harm. Can't say the same if you're a foreigner with the US government, though! That being said, US control of the press is much more sophisticated, so there is really no need to kill any American journalists except in exceptional cases. But don't delude yourself, if it ever came to that there would be no hesitation - look at what the USG did to Fred Hampton of Gary Webb, or what they tried to do with Martin Luther King.

>There's evidence Tik Tok has been promoting CCP propaganda. [3]

There's a difference between people on TikTok defending China and TikTok conspiring to push Chinese propaganda. There is evidence for the first one, and absolutely no evidence of the latter. There's people who defend China and push propaganda on Facebook and Instagram too, if you go looking for them. And there's also American propaganda on TikTok.
IT Related : "Morty relax, it's just a bunch of ones and zeros out there, you're gonna be fiiiiiine"- Rick Sanchez in Dota 2
If you can endure, endure. Stop complaining.
- Marcus Aurelius
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>* Collaboration (including real-time collaboration)

Abiword did that

>* Ease (or more like lack of it) installation process

You need an ISP. And an Internet connection.

>* Always up to date

It can be worse for your specs.
1. Love is the only truth, everything else is illusion

2. Ubi vera amicitia est, ibi idem velle, et idem nolle. Which roughly would be: A genuine friendship is found in same likes and same dislikes.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952 on how to write ipv6 addresses.
In Italy we had Videotel which was (IIRC) a localised version of Minitel built for the Italian market. I remember a pub in my neighbourhood had Videotel terminals, I thought it was exciting that you would be able to communicate with someone you didn’t know in a chat room.
Debian doesn't pay for hosting for most services, all the ones run by the Debian sysadmin team use donated hosting environments at universities and companies. For a while we also had a partnership with HPE that gave us gratis x86 hardware, but these days we do have to spend money on x86 hardware unfortunately. The non-x86 ports usually run on donated hardware but we only run build servers on those machines so far. Google already donates quite a bit to Debian through conference sponsorship and also a one-time 300K donation last year or the year before.
*crickets*
The performance critical parts of emacs actually are written in C, such as the low-level primitive functions.
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There is an old observation that as comedians get older and more famous, they all start to tell jokes almost exclusively about airlines and travel.
> Why aren't

Because lisp and smalltalk lost the language wars. Interaction with dead text files won. No one misses what they never experienced.
Crazy idea: if you want a free as in speech App Store then why isn’t the request for a free as in speech mobile OS?

The claim is there isn’t a company backing it - presumably from lack of market demand for it. There have been attempts but they’ve not gained steam. Even Google is now moving away from Linux as the core of android.

I generally agree that we need some countervailing pressure against the monopolies of today. But I can’t help to suspect there’s an argument to be made that turns the argument on its head: in a free market it is valid to tell someone asking for a product to produce their own desired good. If it’s a popular idea the implementation has a chance at being popular.

The counter to this would probably include lack of hardware to really target. Apples not letting anyone side load an entirely different OS on its phones, for instance.

Maybe that’s an angle to counter these monopolies without needing to go so far as to dissect them into smaller companies? Simply pass a law saying hardware and software should always be self contained goods - you can bundle them but have to offer them separately too.

Ninja edit- I think in that universe with self contained goods that hardware companies would have to make source code for drivers OSS (why should they care where it’s ran?) or enough information to make writing drivers possible.
The Windows/Epic situation really is the "best case scenario". You can download and install software from anywhere. Plus, there's an "app store" from the OS vendor, plus a few specality competing ones for things like games, where both consumers and developers have the choice of where they download/publish.

Epic competing with Steam has been a great success for everyone I think. Developers get secure funding for games that they otherwise wouldnt be able to make. Consumers get more games, plus they get hefty discounts or even just free games. Ideally we would then see Valve/Steam trying to compete in response.

It's win/win/win.
But, he cannot feasibly do that, which is exactly why Epic has sued Apple.
Maybe we're getting a good deal with Spotify, Netflix etc with a 10$/month all-you-can-eat entertainment and it's worth more than that, but IFTTT Pro certainly doesn't feel like a 10$/month service. I registered for the 2$/month service for now, but I just did to give me some time to look for a selfhosted alternative.
HFT leeches can all DIAF.
Very good question. I also read about another city (can’t remember which) that could have used the sirens, but didn’t, because the test happens already on other dates.

I really expected much more from this test. Feels like we are living in an underdeveloped country.
If you are trying to play piano than yes. However pipe organs have never had 88 keys. Weight on pipe organ keys varied (some of the old organs with pure mechanical actions were much heavier than a piano, while modern - for 1920 - keyboards are unweighted). Key size was often smaller than a piano keyboard as well.
What I don't fully understand is why we use ASCII for domain names rather than UTF-8.

So many people in every continent can't write their name or last name with just ascii.
yep, that's a well known quote from Mark Twain if I'm not mistaken /s
It got edited and is now fixed. You don't see if something got edited if you don't manually add "Edit" to the post.
You can leverage existing alternatives, which they already do to some extent. Epic has invested massively in Blender, for example.

It's interesting that they've gone the 'pick a fight' route, when 8 years ago when Valve had similar concerns about Windows 8 they did as GP suggested and rolled their own Linux distro and made a bid for the living room space. That particular offensive failed, but Valve's continued investment in the Linux space now means that now, 8 years later, most AAA games without Anti-cheat or some kinds of DRM can be played on Linux seamlessly.

If Epic wanted to do likewise, they could invest in Librem 5 or Pinephone and make alternatives more viable.
> I imagine that a knighted professor at Imperial can comfortably access a mortgage in London

You don't get paid for being knighted. And these universities have a mostly fixed pay scale it's not like Google where you can just demand whatever you want if you're good enough.
And this is what you get <your company>@<one of my domains> which gets spam filtered as soon as promotional email comes in.
Inscribed on the inside of my wedding band: Ηθος Ανθρωπος Δαιμων (ethos anthropos daimon) which means "Character is destiny", to remind myself that my character (and the values I choose to live by) will drive my destiny.
This is why I use my quotes and note collection as a set of reminders and stories. The result is that my collected notes have each become longer over time; early quotes are one or two sentences, now I rarely save anything less than half a paragraph. The quotes are mostly useless to anyone else, unless our interests intersect. They are for my enjoyment and understanding.
Sure Epic can. They can distribute their game as a fully in-browser web app, including building out all the infrastructure required to make this work (like Apple did). Or Epic can create standalone hardware devices that connect to their game network, do market research and user testing on what makes a good device, develop optimized supply chain and production systems to make the device realizable, and spend on marketing to convince consumers to buy and love the device, also like Apple did.

I play chess against people on any devices, through chess.com in a browser, even on my mobile devices.

“Epic can’t stay competitive” in that scenario is 100% Epic’s problem, they are not owed a slot in an app store distribution mechanism that they also don’t have to obey the policies of.
> french telecom did not continue to improve the system.

Had they improved it, it would still have made it paying by the minute because they had no interest in any other business model.
What about it? You, personally, making that choice shouldn't force everyone else to pay 30% eternally to Apple.
The same can be said about creating graphics / games engines such as Unreal and Unity.

As game engines become more and more a part of the fundamental infrastructure of games, and remain relatively expensive and slow to replace, it's not crazy to say that Unreal developers are a market in itself and that market should be protected from monopoly.
Exactly, people are having a hissy fit over exclusive content that has no further price than downloading a free store app. It's like whingeing about driving to another store to get the brand of ice cream that you like. I have no problem with that as long as the device manufacturer doesn't limit me to a single store. Preferably I'd like to be able to choose any store or independent content. More choices, more freedom, more competition.
The review process what makes iOS so useful. People can install random software in a way you can’t safely do on Windows. Sure power users might not notice the difference, but people feel safe hand their phones/tablets to little kids and let them install random games.

Scaling that review process across every update either means everyone pays a percentage which hurts large business or everyone pays a significant fee which hurts independent developers and discourages bug fixes.
I don agree, for example in case of android, you do have the option of alternative app store like f-droid and amazon, and is easy enouth for any user to install them.

And while of apple you don't have this, when you buy a Iphone your trading this liberty for stability and security.

For example, my mother loves to install little games from the store, but she agree with any terms and conditions that pops in the screen. So I feel more secure giving her an Iphone that I know the apps pass for more scrutiny before entering the store.

So I don't see as a monopoly, since you do get option of changing platforms and alternative stores.

I think in this case epic is in the wrong. They start this on purpose to involve the government in the history, just so they can take a bigger share of gullible people who spends to much on skins in fortinite.
Apple has every right to decide about their platform. What everyone else needs to do, including Sweeney, is stop developing for that platform and choose open/free platforms. Please go have a chat with rms.
I strongly suspect that if Apple win this case against Epic and get an official court-sanctioned nod that their monopoly on iOS software sales is acceptable we'll see developer fees double or triple within a couple of years and the 30% IAP fee get ratcheted up to 40 or 50% over the next decade (unless you're big enough to negotiate).

Developers would make a bit less (although still more than they make on Android) and Apple would make a lot more.
He's talking about iOS, not macOS
PSL maintainer here: please don’t use the PSL!

Yes, it’s weird to have a maintainer asking people not to use their project, but the PSL was a very specific (and unfortunate) hack for a very specific (and unfortunate, and browser-created) problem. It is something we live with, not something we like. While the ideal world is “don’t use any list at all, use the protocols as God, the IETF, and IANA intended”, if you are going to use a list, using the IANA list, updated daily, is much better than the PSL.

Do not use the PSL for anything that is not “cookies abusing the Host header”

https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems
You've reinvented TCP using paper packets.
Is it possible to use something like SweetFX with Windows Store apps? Last I checked you didn't even have access to the where program's files are stored. It's designed to limit user freedoms just like the App Store is. Something like PCGamingWiki would be useless in a world where software was all distributed that way.
> They're paid less than developers

Are we sure about that? I thought one of the most common compensation structures is they got a commission of approximately 10% of the first year's salary for each hired candidate, payable after the candidate has completed 3 months at the new job.

I hope the average recruiter places more than 10 developers per year.

The smart ones develop relationships with frequent job-hoppers. It turns almost into an agent-talent relationship.
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The switch was somewhere in the 70s. For every two English words I hear on TV now there was one in French and one in my language (Italian). Anyway the exposition to foreign languages was much lower because there was no Internet. English got an advantage that French never had in the 20th century. And Hollywood, UK/USA music, etc. All of them larger than their French counterparts.
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I am not saying that pills are bad.

Rather then, pill are not going to solve the root cause.

If your apendix is infected taking painkillers will mask the fact its going to bust and probably kill you.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't take painkillers while waiting for a surgeon to operate on you.

Maybe I should have been more precise in my original post.