skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about this: let's retire "begging the question" entirely.

It's an awkward phrase, which doesn't make a lot of sense with respect to either of its intended meanings. The original meaning is rooted in mistranslation of Greek to Latin to English, so it can hardly be upheld as correct in any sense.

The "raises the question" meaning is more plausibly connected to the plain syntax of the phrase, in fact. That misuse exists precisely because that's how native English speakers hear it, when they are not familiar with the clumsy idiom from the realm of formal reasoning.

To say that "beg the question" cannot mean "raise the question" is a bit like saying that one cannot say "kick the bucket" to describe the action of kicking a bucket, because someone has already decided that it's an idiom meaning "to die". Except that "to kick the bucket" is perfectly grammatical, whereas "to beg the question" isn't, because the direct object of "to beg" has to be an agent which can grant a wish or supply something. The correct syntax would be "to beg for the question (to be asked)". "The point you have raised practically begs for the question to be raised that ... blah blah".

Thus, it may be time to lay "begging the question" to rest. A good way to do that may be to declare it archaic.
The Arizona lawsuit tracks the many ways that Google manufactures "consent", from deliberately confusing UIs, to pushing software updates that automatically change settings without informing the user. It even documents cases of Google engineers who thought they had opted out, but were not.

And this is ignoring the tons of non-consensual tracking, such as purchasing credit card history, the DoubleClick/GTags/Analytics that infest the web, etc.

Maybe you can get an Android phone and thoroughly deGooglefy it by flashing LineageOS or whatever. I'll give you that, you can't do that with an iPhone. If that's your bar, then so be it. iPhones are not for you.

But the vast vast majority of users will have their privacy better protected by Apple's location services, which don't track you, than Google's pushy and deceptive tracking.
Nice project. Would be great to have this available as a linter in my text editor.
I use AirPlay to Sonos from my DS219 running Plex. Should work just fine with HomePods
Sorry but this is wrong. Food scenes require diverse cultures. Small town USA doesn't have 50+ ethnic groups making restaurants downtown
I did something similar to this. I wanted "Lazy loaded" SVG images. Generating an average color over an area would render horrific results - an area with equal red green and blue would be gray for example.

My solution was to convert a target pixel area into a histogram in HSL color space, select the most populated color area and take an average of that populated area. You could then do smart things like render edges along where the change reached a threshold so you got clean edges. Once you blurred the SVG it was a fraction the size of a down scaled raster image (using imagemagick).

There's all kinds of very interesting pitfalls when dealing with color. RGB is great for transmitting data but horrible when applying operations. For example, your eye converts RGB in a way so that yellow essentially becomes a primary. Another is the eye perceives photons in a logarithmic fashion adding two colors and halving them doesn't make an average. This article has some great info in it: https://blog.asmartbear.com/color-wheels.html
That’s true, but anecdotally it’s also the reason salaries are going down in the first place.

As companies expand to remote-first, nationwide hiring they’re realizing that they don’t necessarily need to pay SV premiums to hire good talent. There are plenty of talented hires around the country that are underpaid relative to SV but were previously geographically locked out of these companies.

In other words: You’re no longer competing against other SV people for these jobs. You’re competing against people across the country who would still be getting a significant raise if they worked for 2/3 of past SV comp.
Google should be able to set proper boundaries by now, either with a number, through data transfer rates or both. They have every technical option to set limits wherever they need them. Don't blame users for a flawed system.
This has been my experience that in the long run everything else is a distant second to vocab acquisition. I think even within vocab the long tail you have to worry about is overwhelmingly nouns. Verbs are also numerous but can often be inferred from context, replaced by simpler verbs etc. 95% of the time when I’m watching tv news and can’t follow its because they use some finance, politics, medical terms etc that cannot be guessed. There are simply far more ideas/things in the world than anything else. Unfortunately the truth that language learning is a long slow grind to learn nouns doesn’t fit well with those who want to make it a more intellectual exercise or other pedagogical goals of academic settings.
THANK you for doing this (I said, having never so much as logged in to a usenet thingie)!

I do have one question. Those tapes...how old were they? Were they contemporary to the postings? (bonus question: if so wow, but under what justification?. tapes were expensive right and nobody valued archiving at the time (except maybe this guy)?) this individual you got the tapes from meticulously copy onto new media and all the overhead that entails?

Today I make personal backups of things I want to keep, whether local files or web snippets and burn 'em to a DVD , blu-ray, or optical disk of some kind with the justification of 'can't ransomware WORM media'.

However, I don't do the internet archiving guru stuff of '3 copies, 2 mediums, 1 routine' (or something like that) so in a sense my backups are cruising for a bruising in the case that optical disks could go bad, hard drives could die (these I do migrate to new media when I get around to it, CDs I just read and burn to a fresh one), house could burn down, etc.

Partially looking to see if I can get justification for my backup slovenliness ;)
This used to irk me, but it's a lost battle

The pains of speaking a living language I guess..
What exactly is the lifestyle advantage of having to walk everywhere?
but all the VPNed resources would be under private IPs anyways? In that case you only need your VPN to route traffic to your company's subnet.
>The bottom line is that unfortunately Russia is perceived to be like a bully against its neighbouring countries in its West and North-West because of its words and actions. If it stopped doing the needless bullying, maybe those neighbouring countries wouldn't be so fast to point the finger at Russia.

Sure, that's really the reason. As with everything above it, you may want to hone your skills in differentiating propaganda from (corroborated) facts.

As for the cases you mentioned, there certainly are doubts about (deep) involvement of Russia. For starters because most of the purported evidence really does raise questions about its reliability and in some cases has been shown to not add up. Mind you, I'm not saying this means Russia is innocent. Just that the evidence is inconclusive and in some cases highly questionable (at best).

You of course can frame any such doubts as if all "evidence" is just categorically going to be rejected or denied, but that will on you. I don't know how long you have been around and whether you've moved around a lot, but after decades of rather "hands on" experience with how NATO member (often on USA command) have done all kind of (increasingly) questionable things to further their agenda. If you can say with a straight face that this organization to not lie or produces falsified evidence, than you've clearly have little actual experience with being on the receiving end of their efforts.

Please do take into account that it is you who is talking like there is an already established fact, that Russia is as bad as you claim, while in reality all of that is derived from rather questionable assertions and in more than a few cases obvious propaganda.

I don't claim that Russia is good or bad. That's a complicated discussion and a whole different story, which sadly can hardly be had with most Americans anyways, because the majority is already too presumptuous and indoctrinated to even have a level and honest discussion about it.

What this is about is if there is credible evidence that Russia is (to a high degree of likelihood) guilty of the things you claim(ed) about them. To the best of my knowledge, the answer to that is a clear no. In fact, all I have seen regarding that for the last two decades or so, has been (pretty much without exception) propaganda, framed, falsified or otherwise not passing the bar of credibility.

But feel free to believe otherwise. I'm pretty sure that time will teach you. Especially since the apparatus that has been pushing all this garbage, is slow but surely creeping towards its inevitable demise. There will be a lot of skeletons falling from closets, you better believe it. In fact, you'd be lucky when those who have suffered from these "games" (and many innocent citizens certainly have) will be forgiving when the full extend of this shit show really comes to light. It will pale both Wikileaks and Snowden in comparison.
I’ll bet $20 that GP knows that.
Fatty fish like salmon or canned sardines are a relatively expensive but easy to obtain source.
If you just want to make "electronic devices" I'd suggest a low-end Arduino device.

For $20 you get something that can turn a relay or program an addressable LED light strip or communicate with the computer in your car. There is an IDE to program it that is not too different from what you use on a regular computer.

There are FPGA devices that can take the place of an Arduino or Raspberry Pi that cost from $50 to $500 that have custom programmable logic instead of a microprocessor.

In the 1970s, Steve Wozinak designed a Pong game programmed in about 40 logic gates that would change the color of the pixel as the beam scanned across the TV.

Today you could connect that $50 FPGA to an HDMI port and make a video game out of logic gates the way Woz did, the tools are specialized compared to normal programming but better than what Woz had to work with.

With a more expensive FPGA you could make something like a Nintendo GameBoy Color by cutting and pasting an open source and/or commercial microprocessor design into the FPGA together with your dream logic.

---

Me the hardware I get into is "printing" in that I make some kind of art print every day.

That could be sending shutterfly photos to family, using a receipt printer to print anime art, printing 4x6 cards with information graphics, etc.

I fell into it by chance but understand now that it's a bridge between the world of digital images that I work in and often play in and the world of physical objects, things I can touch and share with people.
Big Tech is moving into Manhattan
Google Workspace Business Plus looks fine price for below 5TB.
I think "CrimeOps" is somewhat tongue-in-cheek here and is making fun of the trend you're referring to. But, yes, it's started becoming a meme and marketing term since "DevOps".
> a bung of nfc cards

A what?
Go to Tennessee and ask that. Be prepared to listen for a long time.
I thought that too, but as a bilingual person who studied Latin for several years... either I'm linguistically handicapped, or the grammar was legitimately tough to wrap your head around. Or both. Some of it was that I really did struggle with the grammar. Some of it was that sometimes we really were reading syntactically complex writing.
Pardon my ignorance: what centralized platform? As far as I can tell, the proposal requires direct two-way communication between the vehicle and end user.
Yes, but the reason I publish libraries as open source is to allow other people to use and learn from them, not to make money.
Thanks for watching! I am glad you find them helpful. And your written summary looks nice!
Source? It's the first time I hear that carriers are able to override the network technology/protocol logo. As far as I know the whole "carrier profile" thing (which is what allows carriers to do this, among other things like arbitrarily restrict tethering, etc) is Apple-specific.
> And how do other languages get away with it?

They either bring similar mechanisms, bring a selection of their own allocators that covers enough space or just don't allow influencing it much and get away with it because many applications/users do not care.
Does anyone look out the window and smile at the minivan in their driveway? I don't think a minivan is something people enjoy owning, it's a means to an end - so optimising like this makes a lot of sense. The author's found an approach that works better than owning a minivan all the time, and frankly with five kids I'd definitely want to start teaching them to travel independently as early as possible (bicycles and buses, as in the article) rather than always depending on lifts from their parents.
I'm not fully aware but I think possibly the site's owner (univ admin?) can look your files. I'll encrypt files if I use such storage.
Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro camera upgrades sharpen focus on serious photographers
It was pretty similiar for me as well. In NRW, Germany.
I was at <4 µg/l (not measureable). Welp.
Took 20k/Week for 8 weeks as well. Felt a lot better, don't know my after result though.

The problem for me was. A few months later I was down to ~7ish again. Looks like I need a daily supplement then.

How did you feel before/after?
I agree that wifi would be great, but given the target market is schools, and that schools run enterprise wifi, it would be a lot of trouble (for both the teacher, and the IT team) to get it working, and probably lead to disillusionment with the device, so I respect the decision to keep wifi off.

There is an ESP32-based microbit 'clone' called the BPi:bit (BPi = BananaPi) you can get off AliExpress that includes wifi (plus RGB LEDs), which might be worth a look
> That's nice, but it seems the whole Zoom and Teams hype has done a quick end-run around those.

It has. And somebody's going to get the book thrown at them for a breach at some point. At which point businesses will shut down Zoom and Teams post haste.

Corporate security is solely driven by perceived legal liability.
You don't have to have ads on your youtube site. This is what happens when people go with the path of least resistance and don't host things themselves or at least utilize someone elses video player while they host the video.

I don't have sympathy here because these people are playing on Googles platform. Google is trying to navigate these waters with as much automation as it can. Unfortunately it can't do a good job of it just because there is an absurd amount of content given to them every second.

If you're livelihood is based around someone who does the corralling, you can't get upset they weren't perfect. You should've been aware of this from the get go seeing as you are not the one in control.
I'm in the Midwest. Didn't know geothermal was a thing in most places.
One of the things it eventually became was the world's largest, fastest and most reliable media-pirating service, paid for and hosted by your ISP. Eventually the binary groups got dropped by ISPs, but you could pay to use someone else's servers and pull a couple hundred gigabytes of content at fiber speeds. This all while people were struggling for weeks to get a single torrent to finish. Of course, FXP servers and IRC D/C were the OG pirating method, but usenet binaries were accessible to pretty much anybody and in no way illegal ("I'm just downloading the news!"). Though it also seemed like nobody even noticed anything illegal was going on, because most people were stuck on P2P alternatives even though they sucked in comparison. I'm pretty sure Napster succeeded because normal people couldn't comprehend Usenet.
You are a commodity, not a human. You will get paid the least amount possible to keep you alive and uh not desperate.
I think the system allocator on most platforms is a lot better now than it was then, and if it's not, you can swap in jemalloc easily. I'd recommend this over implementing your own buddy allocator.
Larry Wall also wrote cnews, which basically ran all of USENET in the early 1990s.
On Being the Right Size
> Anecdotally for me, learning Chinese first with simplified characters was totally fine, and without formal study, I can read traditional characters fine 90% of the time and guess a remaining ~8% of characters I don't immediately recognize for a total ~98% comprehension, kind of like figuring out how to read medieval gothic font.

AIUI that's not a recommended approach; my friend is learning Chinese and his teacher was insistent that he should learn the traditional characters first because it's much easier to pick up the simplified characters from the traditional ones than the other way around.
> It’s a double edged escape hatch. In practice the vast majority of voters know little to nothing about what’s being decided.

Neither does the legislature, in many cases. On balance I'd rather have direct democracy for the majority of things. It has worked quite well in Oregon, which has an initiative system.
> If you mention health insurance for the taxes, that's actually taxed to employers in BC, not employees, so it's not part of the taxes I pay.

There may be a tax on employers specifically labelled as some kind of health tax, but your health insurance coverage is being paid for out of general provincial government revenues and some (actually: a lot) of your taxes are absolutely going towards paying for health care.

Fees like the one you're talking about are just a way to shift some of the tax burden off of individuals.

Editing to add some specifics:

- when implemented it was estimated the health tax would replace the $2.6bn from fees previously collected with $1.9bn of tax revenue: https://tricitieschamber.com/backgrounder-employer-health-ta...

- BC health care spending $21.5bn in 2020/2021: https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/b-c-budget-2019-healt...
So none of the uuencoded porn?
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to dismiss criminal charges
We need labour organization to protest being paid only slightly less insane salaries? Honestly people are acting as if they are making minimum wage or something, everyone at these big companies makes over 100k, and most of them probably make well over 200k. That's more than enough.
The wallet bit is shielded so the magnet won't affect them.
PCI seems to be the posterchild of checklist based security, second only to FIPS in terms of worthlessness. I guess it is soemwhat useful for convincing people to outsource the checkout path, so they can avoid PCI compliance nonsense.
training on language and visual cue at the time is indeed the next important milestone to achieve.
I don't know if that degree of paranoia necessary, but using a pseudo-anonymous screen name is still the way to go imo. This has the obvious benefit of protecting you against professional retaliation, but it also stops you from approaching every discussion with a careerist, clout-building mindset.

I think the transactional approach to discourse is the root of a lot of psychopathic behavior on social media. Desperate people saying the most absurd shit possible, under their real names, to put themselves on the map in a zero-sum attention game. And then actually being rewarded for it with media appearances, Patreon paypigs, whatever.

Anonymity keeps you humble.
I find part-time work on upwork. I also email blockchain companies asking for part-time and ability to accept bitcoin.
depends on your priorities. I would rather have nice restaurants than a nice apartment or house. I've lived in a culturally devoid suburb, where the options are fast food, or chain restaurants, and it affected my quality of life substantially.
More like Reddit's database + Bittorrent. It was up to your Usenet client software to provide an interface on top of that, and there were several independently developed but fully developed clients to choose from.

That meant that unlike with Reddit, an idiotic interface redesign only ruined it for users of one client, and only until they got time to switch to another client.
Curious why part time?

If you have a reason such as health or child/elder care I would think explaining that to any hiring manager shouldn’t rule you out from a position just because you are up front about your situation. Is this more a lifestyle choice to have as much fee time as you can to travel etc and make just enough money to get by? Why not a full time job and take vacations? Some companies give unlimited vacation...ok they say they do but really if you work on a project and get it complete and need to decompress for n weeks and let your manager know and work it out ahead of time that should be entirely possible! So I’d say barring any reasons above or others not mentioned where part time work is a necessity, I would say go for the full time work.
No. Compensation is always tied to local economy.

That would imply that for identical work a person in SF would be paid the same as a person in let’s say India.

That is great for the person in India if they get as much as the person in SF. But, what about the reverse, would a person in SF be OK getting the same compensation as the person in India?

What about how much they can spend? Are the corresponding wages sufficient to live? You have to consider both cases, not just assume that everyone gets SF wages regardless of where they live.

And the impact on local economies when these high earners go to low cost of living wages places and buy all the real estate? Will the locals be driven out?

And so on.....
How to Use Quasi-Experiments and Counterfactuals to Build Great Produc
Do the past and future exist? [video]
Location: Europe/Poland (GMT+1/+2)
Remote: Yes (preferred)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C#, Rust, .NET, Javascript, AWS, DevOps, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://mflak.eu/assets/resume-mf.pdf
Email: michal@mflak.eu
Website: https://mflak.eu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mflak/

4 years of experience in software development, last 1.5 mostly doing DevOps. Experienced in remote work. Experience leading small teams. Used to being the generalist in a small startup.

Looking for a (mostly) development role, maybe with some infra / DevOps sprinkled in. Happy to try out things outside my expertise.

Check out my CV and let me know if I'm a good fit. Thanks!
Isn't that kind of the same thing? By crossing the river, he's now - irrevocably - throwing the "civil war" die. After that point, one of two things will happen: he either wins the civil war, or loses and dies/is exiled. Basically, "the gamble is in motion", starting then. There's no turning back.

I may be misunderstanding your point, though.
Google culture is toxic. Google contributors spread the toxic Google culture to everything they touch.
Author here, and yes, that is correct.
Why are you assuming a dynamic site is slow?

Everything after the first request is cached by a CDN anyway so the only difference is when that original page is generated. It only takes a few milliseconds to generate the page from a database vs reading a file from disk.

The bigger advantage to static sites is portability (even though you can have a webapp that reads markdown files just as easily as database rows).
Taleb has anecdotes and insults.

Tetlock has data piled on data.
checkout Upvotocracy.
When Usenet originated, you needed to have an Internet-connected computer. In the late 80s, this was largely limited to university campuses, which meant that the process of educating new members on the social norms already in place largely only needed to happen for a few weeks in September. In September 1993, AOL offered Usenet access to any AOL subscriber. This gave rise to the term Eternal September.
We may end up with machines that are not technology.