skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I have as many conversations like that over slack (in text) and during standups/planning (video call) as I had in ${job-1} in the office. Don't miss them really.

Different things work for different people. Always-available group video call works for some for example. Don't expect any universally-right solutions though since they depends on the people. Some won't be interested and that's fine. They would probably skip an in-person conversation too.
I think the only movie that D+ won't touch is Song of the South (for understandable reasons) though yeah, some other changes might be good ideas or not

(though I don't mind so much the "updates" in the Star Wars movies)
I know, but is any social media not run top down?
I don't see the issue with it. They pay for the servers.
Maybe we are expecting too much?
Ogden's Basic English
Paul stamets is also the name of the Astromycologist on Star trek discovery.
In the article there is a link to a follow-up article:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborh...

And in this one, a link to another interesting explanation:

https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/14/ameri...
Or asking a doctor if you need medical treatment... OH WAIT.
GDP can’t be spent. The Pentagon budget is about 750 billion and federal tax revenues are about 3.5 trillion so the pentagon budget is about 20% of tax revenues. The ‘about’s here are fudging billions.
This is a very interesting idea. Even if spammers became aware of it, adding a time delay could further filter.
OR you can say "PART of Capitalism may form a part of a functioning, efficient system, but it is always only a part."

It's nice that capitalism has some really efficient features. But it also has some really horrible ones.

If we're talking about functioning efficient systems, you really have to show that the bad parts of capitalism do not form an obstacle against having a functioning, efficient system.

So far in history we have only seen that the good parts of capitalism can work really well.
Any upvote/downvote concept on online content is flawed because it does not show the historical score of a post over time. Even here on HN I can post something during GMT business hours that gets scored based on the views of HN's readership at that time, but when the US wakes up the score can change dramatically. Essentially, the US west coast can have the 'final say' because of its timezone and probably larger user base. It's really interesting to observe.
Isn't the tolerance to LSD built way too fast for daily (micro)usage over half a year?
Interesting.

Suppose Epic wins its case against Apple and judges force alternative app stores, I wonder if that would mean tmobile, at&t, et al. would all then be allowed to install their app store with adware into iPhones...
Web API is sandboxed with a permission model in the browser.
Every time I read about German atrocities, it baffled me that they only got a slap on the wrist for all the evil they have brought upon the innocent people. Listening to the old tango records is a haunting experience.
The Golden Man
10% can be changed by the counsil. Eg. to tenfold infrastructure spending taxes would double.
honestly, i would say the banning of thedonald is clearly a response to The Paradox of Tolerance rather than not supporting free-speech.

you cannot be tolerant of the intolerant if you want free speech to survive.
Even in Germany. There's the "Berlin bubble" where (as you say) English is common. But go outside that, especially to areas like Bavaria or Saxony on the eastern side, and no-one speaks English at all.

It'll be interesting to see what happens after Brexit. My guess is that English will remain as the common language in Europe. It's too entrenched now. And the Irish still speak it (for now).
Wow.

Please share anymore stories if you have them, this was a fantastic read :)
No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oV42OMQoE

Freedom of speech is not a small issue. It lies at the core of our civilization, and is unambiguously one of the few things that made "the West" prosper. Aaron makes a very cogent and clear argument for free speech, and its enduring importance.

To arbitrate rights based on public opinion is idiotic and dangerous. This is why we have a constitution.

Of course, Reddit has the right to do this, as a private company, but that's not an argument for doing it.
It's a classic straw-man, "Well of course a civil engineer says there are civil engineering problems! It's their job on the line!"
That is not a problem if you got "high cost labor" taxpayers.
The pie slices represent the spend as a percentage of total spend, and the percentages are of GDP. I'd hope government spending is not 100% of spending!
That's kind of the point - philosophers spend most of their time arguing about which sets of axioms and specific axioms are better than others, there are many very different sets of axioms with very different conclusions and properties, and the choice of these axioms is essentially arbitrary, allowing you to get to pretty much any arbitrary conclusions.

You'd be able to say "The axioms are however not arbitrary" when (if!) philosophers have stopped arguing and the field of philosophy can say "for ethical axiom sets A-E, while having lots of earlier philosophical discussion, there's now a strong consensus in our field that they are wrong and flawed because of reasons, for any practical applications please ignore them and use axiom set F as that is the better one that addresses the known flaws in others". Currently, there's lot of philosophical discussion on ethics, but little of solid decisions and conclusions from these discussions; all the discussion is still at the stage of increasing ambiguity and introducing hypotheses instead of increasing our knowledge about reality by eliminating and discarding most of these hypotheses.
What have I just read? A thinly-veiled ad for an MIT Press book? A jumble of rambling thoughts?

The other possibility, of course, is being too dense to comprehend the text. Can't rule it out.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-ma...

“We’re not direct booting an alternate operating system,” says Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.

Apple has already confirmed they have no plans to allow third party software to run on Apple Silicon based notebooks.
Author here. No publishing date has been set yet. At least a half-written Japanese version of the book is available online for free (https://www.sigbus.info/compilerbook), and I'll probably translate this to English and share at least a few chapters for free. But nothing is set in stone yet. There's no mailing list for notifications yet.
Not sure what other people are using, but I've worked up to about 64mcg/day.
You human, are inspiring!
Relevant quote:

> Almost all land ice (∼99.5 %) is locked in theice sheets, with a volume in sea-level equivalent (SLE) termsof 7.4 m for Greenland and 58.3 m for Antarctica. It has beenestimated that approximately 25 % to 30 % of the total landice contribution to sea-level rise over the last decade camefrom the Greenland ice sheet

7.4 m corresponds to 24 feet so their claims are accurate.

Also, 58.3 m.... that's shocking. Predicted sea level rise until the end of this century is well below that but imagine the massive effort needed to deploy 69 m tall walls at our coastlines... scary as hell. Likely we'll just give up a lot of land.
From the aaronsw.com link:
"By laying freedom of speech’s provision on top of our reasonable ability to do so, I suggest that freedom of speech could be taken away if providing it became unreasonable. But I think this is the right choice: if people really, seriously started getting hurt because of freedom of speech, it seems right for people to take the privilege away. But, to be honest, I can’t even imagine how that might be possible."

IMHO, this "safety" argument makes up a large part of the argument made by many proponents of modern authoritarianism. This makes me think that Aaron may have supported many of the modern restrictions on free speech, but I certainly don't speak for him. IMHO, many people (particularly in the West) not only "imagine" that it "might" be possible, but actively believe that it is a reality that is already happening. IMHO it is irrelevant whether people get "seriously hurt" because it is a ridiculous metric to optimise for. People get "really, seriously hurt" on a daily basis by: access to sugar, access to alcohol, access to tobacco, the right to bear arms, vehicles.

Edit: s/speach/speech/
The way it goes is the following:

"I'm going to watch a David Beazley video on generators". Start playing the video. He shows the first slide and explains a few things. I read the code in the slide, then go to a terminal and launch a Python interpreter, and write the code without looking at the screen, to cement the concept more than if I simply had copied it or, God forbid, just watched the video.

Here's the problem: every slide shows some weird behavior or using something I use daily in a way I didn't know it could be used, and I do read the Python language reference for fun. Next thing you know, I spent one hour on the first slide playing with the concept, and writing snippets to show how I could use it to solve problems I had faced before. The presentation is 60+ slides or the talk is 3 hours. More often than not live coding the whole thing.

He's a sorcerer and must be stopped.
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Where is the money coming from to fund the European funds? It is just the sum of members contributions. Funny that you mention France as an example since France is one of the countries that pay more to the EU than it receives.
TIL: "The Paradox of Tolerance"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I'm sorry but this is just hippy nonsense. It's not the lack of mental integration into nature that is stopping us from taking care of the enverionment. And you don't need to trip on mushrooms to see the filth all arround us.

The real issues include: not being able to stop production and consumption for obvious reasons. Energy production and distribution logistics. Understanding natural ecosystems and setting priorities on how to protect them. Sharing the world with neighbours that can outcompete you because they don't pay the high costs of clean industry. And many more real hard problems, not just a state of mind.

tldr: this article is the equivalent of "why can't we all just get along" plan for world peace.
he's now fully quantum
Well, I hope we can agree to disagree.

I strongly and vehemently disagree with your characterization. I think suppression of speech is something that must be pushed back against or it will be tacitly accepted.

Social media is the new public square, and Reddit tried to pretend it is a "platform", while it makes large-scale editorial decisions. /r/chapotraphouse was an extremely far-left, anti-racist subreddit banned in this latest spree. This was not about racism, it was about censorship.

I am a free speech absolutist, just like Aaron (stated as such in the linked article), and just like Noam Chomsky. This absolutism is a liberal viewpoint, and lies at the core of Western democratic civilization.
I've talked with coworkers who visited the Samsung mobile division headquarters. They all reported that it was a horrorshow, top-to-bottom.

Things like: They hired a contractor to modify a website used for thousands of staff to log in, but they had him modify the production system live because they were too cheap to build a dev system. Several days of everyone sitting on their hands in the morning ensued. Several.

Another fun one was that instead of using Access Control Lists and unique accounts for Active Directory security, like rest of the world does it, everyone is an admin, there's no security, but your IP address is logged. You are your network address, it's assigned to you like a user name. If anything 'bad' is logged from it, you are blamed and/or fired. So, it's basically network security through punishment instead of... you know... actual security.
> And also the system that everyone else accepts because they hope that, one day, they'll have the "hugely disproportional wealth" and be able to do twisted unethical things, themselves.

Just wanted to mention that this is such a US cultural idea. It's really not nearly as strong elsewhere (maybe some exceptions, I don't know everywhere in the world).
> Shutting down platforms for discussion is quite literally restricting free speech

In the same way as "anti-maskers" take wearing one as being choked by the neck and are feigning fainting, taking the trash out of your platform, be it T_D or CTH does not make it "restricting free speech"
High density infrastructure like subways and trains is way more expensive than roads and pipes. It is a 100k town in the example not LA.
Well if you're on linux a second-hand one would be great, given you don't have their drivers (and you do have open ones). I have a Graphire3 6x8.
Isn't that backspace?
HN is heavily moderated with strict posting rules, as far as "safe space"... Eh as long as you maintain a level of respectful discourse I never found that you can't comment on social or political issues due to fear of Dang or any other mod (I'm not sure how many are there) interfering in the discussion.

The community itself is another issue but even that isn't as clear cut as it seems if you look at any of the more political topics that are being posted.

In general HN isn't the place you go to discuss politics, social issues or current events some posts are allowed when it's in the public's interest or they are relevant to the wider tech industry but that's about it.
> ask contributors to license additions to a GPL project under the MIT license

I do this, and contributors are fine with it. Commercial licensees don't mind complying with a combined commercial + BSD/MIT license.
>All ethics ultimately stem from what people feel is or isn't right. All ethical considerations are processed in our brains.

This is debatable. Some metaethicists would argue that the ethical realm is much like the mathematical one, and less of a matter of the functioning of the human brain. Further, it seems to me there is a difference between saying "I don't like X" and saying "X is morally wrong" - if there is a difference between those two statements (as a moral cognitivist would claim), then deduction of morals from "what feels right" is suspect. The argument of cognitivism vs non-cognitivism is interesting[0].

>There are some basic ethical concepts on which human societies tend to universally agree on.

The number and reach of those principles is very debatable. Arguments from moral disagreement cast doubt on the extent to which human societies share ethical standards.

>humans living in roughly the same social structures

I don't think that's true at all; post-globalization, there has been a convergence in what social structures look like around the world, but it's very clear that humans have had and in many cases still do have a variety of social structures, and with that, a variety of obligations. The moral obligation to do X in Japan, for instance, may be different by virtue of a different social structure.

Using neuroscience to "deduce" ethics seems like the ultimate briding of the is-ought gap and I'm not aware of any professional philosopher or theory who has successfully argued that this is possible. The attempt in Sam Harris' The Moral Landscape has been shot down from practically every angle imaginable, and I think for good reason.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-cognitivism/
Certain companies have complained because other companies made a profit from selling hosting of their (A)GPL software.

This is totally OK with the (A)GPL which is why certain companies has tried to come up with new licenses, none of which are compatible with OSI Open Source.

(I specify OSI Open Source here since someone took the time to dig out enough references to convince me (and probably others) that the term open source was used more or less for the same idea well before OSI started using it.)
The Paradox of Tolerance refers to the intolerant using violence to physically make it impossible for the tolerant to exist.

Unclear to me how banning a subreddit is remotely related.
Not sure we’re talking about the same thing here. I was replying to your claim that nothing in philosophy (apart from mathematics) can be formalized. The role of logic is not to solve the metaphysical problem of infinite regress.
Thedonald existed on reddit for quite some time and during that period, free speech survived relatively intact. Since the banning of thedonald along with hundreds of other subs, free speech has suffered, not improved, inconsistent with your hypothesis.

Also, "the paradox of tolerance" can be trotted out to justify just about any banning or censoring of someone you don't like
Ok, lets look at the overall outcomes instead: if what you say is true, how is the higher average US income explained? It can’t all be due to comfortably emigrated EU socialists, right?
This is a good suggestion, but it might be limited depending on what level the OP is interested in. I would expect that the OP would be able to be a part of research, but would be unlikely that they would be able to have much say in the direction.
There is clearly no technical reason for Scott's involvement in the first place, as Troy could just have created an account himself using any photo whatsoever. The whole post is structured as a joke about the idea of Scott being gay and having a Grindr account.

Do I think Troy is a raging homophobe? No. But his initial response to my comment was to claim that he chose the photo because it looked like a typical Grindr profile photo (!), rather than to just admit that it was a joke. That doesn't increase my confidence that the photo was chosen with good intentions. You apparently think that there is another explanation for the choice of photo relating to some inside baseball between Troy and Scott (which I frankly don't care about, not knowing either of these guys). If that is the real reason then Troy could just have said so himself.

In general, making in-jokes in public blog posts that anyone can read doesn't always go over so well. I'm not saying "Troy is a class A homophobe and must be deleted from the internet". I'm just registering that I'm one gay dude who is bored of this kind of gay joke.
I find it best to argue in good faith when coming to these kinds of low-data conversations. There are obviously many such factors involved in our integration with the environment. Why couldn't it be psilocybin (or other nootropic compound) that pushes us towards a more sustainable future with fewer mental health/chronic pain issues? This is a classic HN takedown of an otherwise interesting post.
Basic Rules of Reason (1933)
I've been doing independent, non-funded, self-chosen research for years. The only real issue is that most of the papers of interest have been paywalled ($40 for a 4 page paper). I only have a Master's degree.
What an absolute random coincidence! What are the chances? ;)
Link Rot Analysis
Obviously. The ship has an experimental drive based on mushrooms.
Or, if you're not a native English speaker who moves to another country where English is not the main language then adding that language tend to have a lot of practical value.
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No, the utterly ridiculous "paradox of tolerance" is just a bad cope for people who truly do not believe in free speech. "Free speech" which only applies to your predefined set of approved speech is not free speech, but a monstrous parody of it. The purpose of free speech is to enable dissent, not to affirm the status quo.
The_donald at some point was basically squatting the entire front page and making it unusable.
I'm a fan of Google Maps and I'm not an American.
For fun, I will often plunk myself down into an American city in street view and outside of the major metropolitan areas on the coast, there is one very very evident aspect of America - they love asphalt.
It is the most virulently anti-walking society on earth. I could not survive in America because I don't drive.
Huge developments often have no sidewalks at all and if that's not a sign of hating a walking human being I dont know what is.
I realized a long long time ago that America is a giant shithole of planning.
Clarification for readers: Webmentions are a W3C standard for comments/interactions between sites: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

webmention.io is a specific open-source service you can use with your sites to implement receiving them.
This looks so much nicer than filter-branch, which is slow beyond belief.

We've used bfg (which at least performs in reasonable time) to filter out files containing viruses or security tokens/passwords, but there are some definite limitations.
Question is: why restrict the # of providers shown at all?

They could show a semi-random segmented ranking:
- split all companies into X buckets by ranking
- pick the top from each bucket from 1 to X, then the second best from each bucket etc.
The problem we had to get over pretty quickly was the embarrassment of admitting that you didn't know something. We set up a channel with everybody where if you had an issue, or a dumb question you could just put it out there. The more people posting "dumb" questions the less concerned people were about appearing stupid and the more we shared information.

Turns out that we're actually better off now than we were in the office.

It helps we've got a team with few egos, who are genuinely focused on delivery of a decent product.
You get climate denial everywhere, even on HN.

Read the comments in the Wall Street Journal and it’s 100 times as bad.

This should have been a warning to people a decade ago that we weren’t going to do enough to solve the problem.

One group goes to one extreme trying to shame people into not flying, for example. While the other extreme undoes policy that tries to reduce emissions.

When do we start drilling in Alaska?
A manual would be handy, I agree...

For the habitats, you need to hook up power and thermal pipes. As long as you connect the habitats together through the white tubes, they only need one hookup with electric/thermal for the entire site.

It seems to take ~ a month in game time for the increased habitat capacity to show up in the 'Population...' menu.
Not to diminish any of your problems; and I'm aware that this is not (yet) reality in most places, but:

1.) I absolutely agree on the Ubuntu front (though I don't believe for a second that things are better elsewhere. E.g.: Python on Windows is way worse in my experience). But I dislike Ubuntu (and Debian, for that matter) for many related experiences I had in the past.

2.) I'd say, though, that you're missing out on good containerization solutions if you're wrestling with Python installations on a server distribution.

3.) Most importantly: Where things like Docker or LXC don't apply (or don't apply as much; like development/desktop usage), the single best concept I've encountered so far would be the way NixOS and Guix handle installations. I sincerely hope that model will take off in the next couple of years. And I'm pretty sure that if it takes off, it will be on either Linux (most likely) or BSD.
Not sure this is a studied problem, but I feel English-speaking forums/social media/conferences are extremely biased towards the views of US west coast tech. With some issues, the rest of the world has moved on, e.g., by not selling guns / not arming the police.

I find myself reading online articles in languages I don't command well, just to get a break from the one-and-only view.
That's the problem. There isn't an "off the record" any more.
My claim that the trivial C code is 100x faster than the number from the article is a) well substantiated b) all there is c) perfectly clear.