skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very true but I also think of one important aspect: the parts of the research space we choose to look in. And like a novel is not discovered in the absurdly large research space of sequences of random characters, nor even discovered in the absurdly large set of sequences of grammatically correct sentences, theorems are made were "we", concrete social creatures, look for them. But there is a distinction in that one activity lies in a formal logic world, the other is more free (neither formal and can even have small inconsistencies)

So maybe we just need yet another word? Discovented?
Intuitively I think you’re right. But I also think the side effect of overreaction is that those who disagree can very easily point at it to dismiss the cause’s legitimacy. “Can’t take them seriously at all. They want to cancel everyone and defund everything.”
TODO: man page search engine with semantic term substitution (e.g. Bert). Possibly trained on stackoverfow.
It’s not. But OP’s comment was about how the employee was somehow worse than their manager
My personal take on it is that between the anime avatar, the constant verbiage, the hero complex and the relectance to properly document things, it feels more like kids playing at finance than actual professional.
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Looks like it's aimed at Japanese people learning English rather than the opposite way around. I wonder why their is no Japanese homepage.
"Kind of" like that?

Every other week I read about someone's entirely-too-roundabout way of doing X via an IoT device (requiring packets to probably circumnavigate the globe). Meanwhile I'm sitting here opening my garage door with a physically wired switch like a pleb.
Having 100% bulletproof site is huge (e.g. you can host static site on s3+cloudfront) vs worrying to be not-hacked, not-overloaded etc
Not a single software ever written comes with guarantees. And the way he was phrasing sounded like PinePhone is a hot potato while everybody else is chill, while in reality everybody's the same in that regard.
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Lfs is frustrating. The clean/smudge model means files could be in the state of pointer or actual data. Lost count of how many times I didn't have everything smudged, or accidentally commited a 500mb model, or gotten into some wacked-out state where I couldn't clean, smudge, push, or pull without errors and had to nuke and start fresh from remote.

Data Version Control (dvc.org) is a far better model.
I don't mean to be hostile but I think you are clueless. A lot of what shows up on tiktok and gets promoted can have a massive influence on what it's users begin to deem ok. And as kids grow they are far more likely to form opinions based on their peers than parents.

Dances may have been tiktoks start but the shift to shortform videos on a specific topic in rapid succession meets the criteria of propaganda. Particularly if they are humorous or provide a dopamine response.

China much like twitter and facebook and youtube has complete control over what their supposedly "unbias" algorithms direct users to. It is trivial to push propaganda between dances and jokes. Swaying public opinion has never been easier than in the social media age.
Is anyone going to fly on them at this time is another question.
If there were millions of civilizations in the Milky Way, we would already know it.
Sure. News orgs do it, too. Why should Spotify have fewer rights than MSNBC or Fox News?
> Consider modeling the game of tic tac toe. You can prove that certain strategies always win

Tic tac toe doesn't have a forced win though ...
We aren’t talking about malware. We are literally talking about software that can cause your phone to explode. Would you trust Apple to do more safety testing or random open source contributors? The article says that safety measures at the firmware chip level are disabled.
It’s a common journalist thing to find pictures that depict your subject in the light you want to. Left leaning sites writing about Trump will show not-so-appealing photos while right leaning sites writing about Pelosi will also show not-so-appealing photos. But flip the script and you get more appealing photos.

It’s not always intentional, but it’s pretty obvious sometimes.
That's usually the case in the battery packs. Looks like I'll be ripping apart my battery when I get around to taking out the Pinephone.
Even if the civilisation put something at a lagrange point between earth and the moon, even the slightest momentum would eventually shift the objects out eventually
All of galaxy tunes in with their new gravitational wave receivers that their scientists just built, and got a bunch of spam messages on rocket booster enlargement, and how you can contact a prince in Alpha Centauri to claim some money... I've seen a short story based on this plot...
Can you recommend any plugins in particular or a place you'd trust for plugin recommendations?

> Lots of plugins are complicated because they want to enable ordinary users to customize their behavior, which you don't need if you have even basic php skills

Yes, I've realised this too. Generally you pay for the features + customisability you don't use as well.

E.g. if you want to add social sharing icons yourself, just inline a few SVG icons with links to like 3 social networks into your theme and you're done. A social sharing plugin though will offer to connect to 100+ social network, with live share counts, icon choices, colour choices, page placement choices etc.

On top of this, most plugins aren't optimised and they'll load JS and CSS you're not even using (including on pages you're not using the plugins at all).

Similarly, I've seen contact form plugins that for a simple three field contact form will load underscore JS, backbone JS, fontawesome, jQuery and a pile of CSS.

I think part of the problem is WordPress plugins compete with each on features and need even more features on top to charge for the premium version, so page speed and robustness via simplicity get lost in the noise.
The article makes it sound as if 2020 SO will be. cast back into space and not fall to earth. Is that the expected outcome?

Will this be visible to the naked eye similar to the International Space Station?
No, because you’d get no interest on your deposits. Private banks would simply have to offer something of value. obviously this conflicts with ZIRP, but that’s of dubious wisdom from the start.
In my experience, it is not generally a matter of putting some quick and dirty script in the solve a problem and it goes on solving the problem without modification indefinitely. It is more often:

1. Put a quick and dirty script in to quickly solve some immediate problem

2. When that quick and dirty script stops working, instead of putting a proper solution in place you either add another quick and dirty script in to plug the issue or you modify the original quick and dirty script in some ad-hoc way

3. Repeat over and over again

And then you end up with some impossibly complex Rube Goldberg machine.
> The power of cryptocurrency should always remain with the individual - that's why cryptocurrency exists in the first place.

I bet at least 95% of cryptocurrency owners think the purpose is trading and not what you think it is.

The tiny minority of top crypto bloggers and Reddit posters like to claim otherwise but they've been detached from reality for half a decade now.
Express, I wanted to make the onboarding process as easy as possible given that my users are not necessarily particularly technical or familiar with Stripe
This is something that hit me when I found out how to translate between decimal and binary. If an A on a screen can be a grid of numbers, and those numbers can be reduced to a series of 1s and 0s and stored in a bunch of fancy wires, then who knows what else it could be translated to or from. Look back far enough and the A is a series of photons clashing with orbiting subatomic particles at certain frequencies.

We use math based on the status of a sea of transistors to store it in other atoms with forces we're slowly discovering how to communicate about. It's all layers of finding new ways to describe something that was already there, spinning and bumping photons long before any of us had photon detectors in our heads or a chemical machine capable of deciding to call one pattern A and all the ways to translate it into sound waves.

One pattern is called "solid state drive," and we seem to have some say in what that pattern does from our frame of reference. Maybe it was always a solid state drive and we're the language the universe uses to describe its smaller parts.

I promise I'm not high, and probably not a Boltzmann brain. Though I'm not sure about the latter.
Ace is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript
Category Theory might be a good fit for this. There’s even a category of morphisms (relationships). Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your comment.
my favourite (less than insightful) answer is that we live in a (hard) magic world and math then is the language of magic in a literary sense, which can then be used to formulate spells in like physic, chemistry, or psychology (we too are magic and can interact with the magic source in our own special way)
I don't know dude, I've had new grads recently wholesale switch to Emacs just after watching me work for five minutes. "Holy crap, why are you editing these programs so much faster than me?"

Completely agree that out-of-the-box Emacs experience is NOT where it's at. I have twenty years invested in tweaking it to minimize keystrokes and operate faster for my use cases. Just remember that Emacs is not actually an editor, it's a Lisp Machine OS you can use to build an editor out of parts

Also keep in mind that alternate distros like Spacemacs are the way Emacs has to evolve, because making drastic structural changes to defaults would break so many user scripts and packages -- the things that provide most of the long-term value proposition of using Emacs in the first place.
How are electromagnetic waves not physical?

Also if air was such an issue then the dynamics of a song being played live would be of series inconsistent patterns leading to error in rate based on environmental factors. Rate would be whatever air density allows but whether you received that rate is different.

Song recorded vs song played vs song heard when recorded vs song heard when played over speakers.

The waveform of both should be highly similar in a way that wouldn’t be considered error besides amplitude or echoes from acoustics.

So it’s a distributed message sensing problem?

In my perspective I just saw the waveform of a techno song == the rate of data being communicated.

120 bpm is 120 bpm. Loss over distance is it’s own factor based on ability to ack.
Nice check-spelling action for GitHub
Think of it this way: the best picture we have of andromeda (the galaxy closest to us) has 1.5 billion pixels. Compare that to the fact that the andromeda galaxy contains on the order of one trillion stars.

So we can't really see individual stars, except in the sense that some may be bright enough that they dominate the signal in their pixel.
Perhaps oligopoly for monetary policy?
> That's great and all, but people who are learning emacs for the first time don't know or care that it's one of the most successful text editors or that it's been around for 40 years. They care about being able to write code effectively.

I started using Emacs ~2008 and it's longevity has been a major factor in my decision, as I thought it would likely be usable for the next 30 years as well and help me to avoid changing environments every few years with each new hype.

Later I found a talk which expresses the same sentiment in it's title: "The Editor of a Lifetime" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADudzQGvU8&t=1823s
This comment section seems to have been brigaded in a way that I've almost never seen on HN. Something about platforms removing white supremacist views really fires these "free speech" people up, yet I never see them raging about Trump's censorship of the CDC (not being allowed to mention climate change, for example).
This may sound cynical, but it is not intended so.

The baffling confusion spoken of is most likely tied to alienating nationalism, which is really just a mixture of politics and ethnocentricity.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism

Those are bad for discourse, but what's more troubling is that nationalism seems to be a common political trend of the moment. Other examples of nation level political administrations promoting nationalism are India, Russia, Turkey, Israel, China.

The most unfortunate part of that is not that allies are alienated or that relationships are soured, but that its corrosive economically often doing more harm where it intends benefit.
They didn't even mention the most appalling non-modern aspect of Emacs: scrolling the page moves the cursor. This never happens on modern editors but it drives me crazy about Emacs and it's non-fixable.
I remember that news. Good news! But have they built one, yet? And how long did that take?
> Drupal also has this complexity issue which makes developing sites harder than it needs to be, and is why we didn’t consider that platform either. I’ve talked to other agencies who have decided to drop Drupal due to its complexity.

I am sure I’m biased as I’ve spent a lot of time in Drupal. There are certainly some oddities wrt Drupal’s frontend but dismissing it entirely on that seems silly. Especially when it does a decent job of ticking some of their other boxes (e.g accessibility, open source, headless tooling).
Absolutely, isalnum et al are probably never going to be a bottleneck. I was curious whether it even made a difference at all, after all, the naive implementation doesn't really do a lot.

And I fully agree with you that this glibc code is awful. As evidenced by the Plan 9 implementation, table lookups can be done simple as well, and probably perform just the same.
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I would love to run GUI Emacs using this, so this is great news for me.

At the same time, does anyone both love WSL, but is also scared about Microsoft's strategy here?

I'm at the point where I have a main desktop computer that I use for general purpose and gaming, and WSL has been great for me to also be able to do few-compromises coding work on it (previously had an arch linux partition but was tired of having to reboot to access it).
I treat 'enlightment' as a technical term reserved only to be used by zen masters to confirm that your state of mind is identical with their state of mind, in a tradition of confirming it one person to another. They just agreed to do it so and been doing it for circa 2500 years. If a zen master says you're enlighted, you are enlighted (in this narrow, technical sense). If you are not confirmed by a zen master, save yourself a hassle of talking about 'enlightment'.

All other uses of the term are mambo-jumbo, wanna-be, i-feel-blessed, i-think-i-know, world-is-a-whole utterances with myriads of ways of understanding it. One upside is that it makes us think about being... nicer?

That's my view.

Nice article, nice list of pretty difficult problems to solve, swooshing around my brain since childhood, but being enlighted just goes orthogonal to every single issue mentioned.
BUT, oops!, here I come... talking about enlightment. I will stop here if it is not too late.
I was flying all the time for 5 years because our partners, investors, clients etc demanded it. I had many weeks in those years where someone mailed on sunday that I was expected tuesday morning in HK and thursday in melbourne and then could be gone sunday. I live in EU so that's a nice haul for 1 week of business; quite painful with some kind of permanent jetlag.

Then COVID arrived and now suddenly everything is easy over zoom, email & chat. Even now that travel is allowed again in a lot of places I was supposed to jump to inside EU, no-one asks for it anymore. Saves everyone bucketloads of money (I wasn't sitting in economy), much better for the environment, and, for most purposes that the travel was thought to be vital for, it's actually more efficient this way. People are well rested and progress is made faster as people are less likely to fall into the bullshit of lengthy business lunches/dinners and late night drinks (basically getting hammered which in some circles was mandatory otherwise they wouldn't play) etc. Most of the people I work with (and have worked with for years) don't assume they or I will have to fly, when it's allowed again, more than once a year. And I don't miss it; it was really tiring.
But who's getting canceled under cancel culture? The people "in power"[1], or rank and file employees? From a unscientific sampling of cancellations[2], it doesn't seem many people in power are being canceled. The only one I can think of is Brendan Eich, but even then I doubt he has powerful connections. If this is the case, it doesn't seem like cancel culture is achieving its objective of punishing people who previously couldn't be punished.

[1] The parent comment mentioned "being protected by their powerful friends and expensive lawyers", so I wouldn't consider someone to be "in power" just because they're high on the totem pole within a small organization.

[2] https://twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/1282404647160942598
And how does that work for you?
A more likely stab in the dark is that they were financially in some trouble after the MAX issues, have been put in further trouble by many of their customers becoming borderline bankrupt, and this is just a stereotypical cost cutting move.
Great, maybe some of the online communities I've lost access to since they moved to Facebook will come back out into the open.
I've been using TikTok on and off for the past six months, at first because I was interested in seeing what you can find on the site.

It's mostly teenager dancing stuff, yes. If you start liking political content you'll get political content too. I've found there's a lot of pro-China, both soft-power "look how pretty the countryside is" stuff and straight up Uyghur denial. There's also a decent amount of anti-China activism on there as well, though.
Windows can still be customized a lot.
I run GUI emacs under WSL with an X server running on Windows.
The mercator projection is a projection...a mathematically consistent way of displaying the surface of a sphere as a two dimensional image.

This map is something else entirely. Not even sure what to call it, but it isn't a projection. The korean peninsula is bigger than India. It's a fantasy at best.
I recall seeing ~300TB was requested to move off the Free plan. (it was a heavy image site)

Your bandwidth doesn't look like a normal scenario which they expect (unless you are imgur).

I'm curious how their Enterprise pricing works though.

2.5PB is ~300 years streaming of 720p video.

Example: In Vimeo Premium for $75/month you have "unlimited streaming", but when "unlimited" is reached it's $40/TB.
Think of it as "rivalry", perhaps. Think of a mass-market car company that outsells a luxury brands 5x or 10x but whose designers still swipe ideas from them.
True but you generally get to this point where all other lesser options have failed. People are lazy and won't put the effort into mob justice if they see an easier approach. There have been decades of previous issues that simply were swept under the rug.

I also don't think public opinion matters when it comes to mob justice. It's background noise. The conversation is between the mob and those in power. If the mob frightens them enough then changes will be made. What those outside the mob think is irrelevant unless they care enough to form their own mob.
Math is the series of statements that can be made about things that are true.

Math can't tell you that there are three of [anything that you encounter with your sensory organs], but it can tell you that if there are three of those, you can also say...

In that way, it tells you about the real world while having no connection to any real world. The problem is that as soon as a math-predicted observation fails, we can blame the mistake on our sensory organs - either formatively (when we assigned a particular observation to a particular mathematical entity (like "three"), or conclusively (when we assigned a mathematical result to a sensation.) If a mathematical result consistently fails to apply to any sensation, it ceases to be math - not by disappearing, but by failing to be consistent; if you can't apply a mathematical process to a sensation in a way that enables you to predict a subsequent sensation, there's no way to determine whether the math makes any consistent statement.

Math has to be empirical because it's completely vetted by sensational observations. If a hypothetical god changed some aspect of the underlying physical reality (inclusive of changing some aspect of human sensory organs), the math would change along with it, and things that were math would cease to be math. If you included that god within your mathematics, math becomes the set of all possible maths, which is just the universal set. There's no meaning to a math that says everything about everything.

I guess you can say Platonism is true too, since math is a statement about an underlying reality (because it is discarded when it is not), but it's not a meaningful thing to say. Math that turned out to be correct (and continues to turn out to be correct) is Platonic. Math that was incorrect (or in the future becomes incorrect) is not Platonic. The only way you can determine which math is Platonic and which math is not is through empirical observation, and the degree to which you can be sure that particular math continues to be Platonic is through how well your past observations predict your future observations.

To answer the tweet, people study math because because being able to predict things gives you an advantage in your work.
Love the idea and think this could be a huge market. Just wondering if you guys help with theft, damage, or insurance too? What are the best practices for this?
phone number on signup? nope
Looks impressive.

According to one of the comments, it seems it is running Wayland in WSL and connect to it through RDP. Do anyone know why not just run Wayland in Windows? Is there any technical limitation? I am not familiar with Wayland.
These CNN people are a leftist busybody version of that "one day this war is going to end" guy from Apocalypse Now.

Yes, one day this pandemic is going to end and it may happen before central planners manage to enslave everyone, introduce UBI, state e-currencies and social credit. SFYL.
But the Fermi Paradox is reason for cautious pessimism about technological life.
The only version of Emacs I ever used regularly was (Lucid|X)emacs. According to folks on the Lucid side working with RMS was difficult[1] to say the least. In the end, Xemacs lost traction (and development) and I moved on from Emacs, it just didn't suit how I wanted to work well.

Emacs has the developers to correct the problems but they need to let go over a 40 year old vision and evolve a bit.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html - Of course, this is biased towards to Lucid side of the story. But I remember following this.
Thanks was wondering that also. Can it be replicated vi a shopify or wix with a 'rental' module if such a a thing exists? Just curious.
Am I reading this right, there is this much news for firing 7 people?

Are they just extremely valued? Clearly not to boeing execs, I guess.
It's never that simple, really. Is the extra person just "an extra pair of hand" or are they filling a spot that nobody is currently successful at?

I'm in a 4 person team currently, give me an additional project manager and productivity will soar as devs can focus on technical aspects, rather than being inefficient at PMing for a mediocre output (at least that's my expectation, you never know in advance I suppose)
No, I would not trust Apple. That was my point, but seems you missed.
>Is it my imagination or bias, or did the NYT perhaps choose creepy-looking photos for Wenig and Wymer?

Seems like it's your imagination. Those look like pretty normal photos to me.