skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also suggest Wittgenstein's
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a seminal work of the logical positivist movement. Influenced by Frege's predicate calculus, the aim of the Tractatus was to determine an isomorphic relationship between language, thought, and external states of affairs. An axiomatic attempt to reveal a potentially ideal logical language, that is not interested in meaning per se, but merely an accurate reflection of the world. A closed system that essentially excludes non-falsifiable metaphysical question. Famously concluding with the instruction: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Part of Wittgenstein's project, even in its early aggressively logical form, was philosophy as a therapeutic. That is, the metaphysical questions concerning god, being, essence, and forms that had inspired thousands of years worth of fevered conversation, could be finally be quieted. That's not to say they couldn't be meditated on, but were not in the domain of his logical language, and so silence. Again, I think early Wittgenstein sometimes gets misinterpreted, "...therefore one cannot speak" does not, to me, mean that it can't be considered or one must forgo spirituality, just that it couldn't be spoken of within the project of the Tractatus.

Logical empiricism was ultimately a dead end as the criteria for even verifying empirical truth has long been contentious philosophically, and was further critiqued by contemporaries such as Quine who attacked the premise of the analytic/synthetic distinction (think Hume's fork, which Kant tried to solve) and Popper who cited the problem of induction to critique the fundamental premises of the positivists verificationism.

Wittgenstein is an interesting case, as the Tractatus is considered an early work of his, profoundly influential to analytic philosphy at the time, yet his later work, Philosophical Investigations is sometimes seen to retract the dogmatism found in the Tractatus. I tend to take the view that it's a continuation of his thought, rather than a retraction of his earlier work. Crudely, whereas his former thought represented a narrowly axiomatic definition of language and its truth value, PI investigates, among many other ideas, language as an activity, or game, that has meaning dependent on the context of its use, languages as families. Granted, Wittgenstein is a complex thinker and these are simply my interpretations.

It's also curious to note that as positivism was beginning to fall out of favor around the time of the second world war, a continental thinker such as Heidegger, whose thought luxuriated in the kind of metaphysical questions the positivists necessarily eschewed, rose to prominence and was infamously sanctioned by the NSDAP to philosophize about their presumed "destiny". Bit of a tangent, but I think the historical context is relevant, as often philosophical movements are birthed from pre- and post-war attitudes.
Opera is also a Chrome fork now. Firefox and Safari are the only two major browsers not based on Google code.
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Sure, but if you buy a chocolate in Kenya, part of the money goes to the US.
His point is less about what customers want but more about the value of the data being collected. By providing a payment service you are harvesting a large amount of data "for free" that can be directly turned into money.
Xilinx already has a number of devices with ARM hard cores, though (like the Zynq series). There's no compelling reason for them to switch away from that.
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Hi HN:

First of all, yes, I obviously know a wiki could serve this purpose, but I'm a fan of static sites due to performance, scale, and security.

I am looking at building a site that is essentially a wiki: it will accepts crowd sourced edits and page updates. However, I'd also like to manage content change requests via git and deploy via Netlify.

Ideally, the architecture I'd prefer is:

Content version controlled via GitHub

Deployment via Netlify or Github pages

External users could login to edit pages Google/Facebook/GitHub Oauth?

Edits are wiki-like: Public edit requests are possible via a wiki-like interface, but require approval

Edits appear behind the scenes as pull requests - it's possible to view change history via github

Is there anything out there like this? I've been checking out Gollum and netlify-cms, but I'm not entirely certain either of these really match what I would ideally like. Any suggestions?
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I would argue this happened in spite of their efforts. The music industry was dragged kicking and screaming into the streaming world for a variety of reasons, among them the fact that with centralized platforms, artists have no reason to use labels for "discovery" purposes any longer.

Its long been known that the way to defeat piracy is to offer a better service. Its what Steam did, its what Netflix did.

Ironically, the fragmentation of those ecosystems is bringing it back. Piracy is the ultimate invisible hand on the entertainment distribution industry.
What I take from the scholarship (e.g. Chris Wickham's _The Inheritance of Rome_) is less "the fall of Rome wasn't that bad" as "various things changed in various places, but there wasn't a single event where everything changed" and "the `barbarians' who supposedly took over Rome were virtually indistinguishable from the `Romans` who preceded them".

And there were surprising details, such as that after the Arabic conquest of many areas, the conquerors pretty much kept relying on Roman era tax rolls and local organization.
I have to say, this is both scary and fascinating. I'm surprised to see how many people donated to trump in Seattle where I live. At the same time outing people is not cool.
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The takedown didn't backfire at all just because some people decided to publish on Twitter a tarball that still happens to be hosted in many other places so there is absolutely no risk of it getting lost.

The problem is that the project may not survive this.

Major distributions for example will no longer carry the project and likely refuse to touch it even with a ten-foot pole (think media codecs situation). It will be relegated to 3rd party repos. They will lose users, they will lose contributors. And how long until YT's (and/or the other supported websites) HTML changes more rapidly until the remaining manpower can't keep up?
How about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

It's a tough problem. Leaving aside the question of "do we trust the government with it?" That kind of thing is a genie that you can't put back in the bottle. Edward Snowden did not walk away from the NSA with a set of back door keys, but if they existed, somebody like him could.

In 2020 any such tool is on the side of chaos and not order. Today we're having to shut down hospitals because hackers hit the computer. The risk that some people are going to abuse encryption sometime is hypothetical, the risk that people are going to exploit anything that is possible to exploit is urgent.
What does Apache Kafka with GitOps look like?
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On the flipside, cable companies are legally required to allow you to buy your own modem if you so choose, so if you're willing to drop $50-$200 on a good modem it'll pay for itself within a year and you can minimize the amount of data snooping your ISP can do.

That said, only techies seem to bother with that even though it's generally worth it for the power efficiency alone, let alone the equipment rental costs
This is very easy to verify, go under any big tweet and you can see that the replies are not chronological. It is indeed trying to use some sort of popularity metric. Having many followers that see and like your tweets would definitely help you get positions higher than random bots.
What is DX? New jargon?
Requires an account. I'll pass.
A better way of saying this is that srcset gracefully degrades for IE11. They will miss out on the benefits, but they still get to use a regular <img /> tag.
there is ~10 cases of confirmed reinfection in the world, and one death among them. Over what? Hundreds of millions of cases? So the only thing you can deduce is: some people might get reinfected by covid, the reinfection seems to be worse (at least in confirmed reinfection cases, but this is skewed because the only time we get reinfection cases is when people are put in a hospital, so...)

Also antibody-based immunity should not fade that quick (less than a month for the elderly that died) so those are fringe cases and nothing else, and trying to make some sort of rule for reinfection less than a year before the patient 0 was even infected for the first time is a bad idea.
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I think this is where a change in copyright law would be helpful. There are likely very few games that are more than ~20 years old that earn significant revenue based on the sales of the game. Those same games 10 years later will probably earn even less. If their copyright expired at that time (or earlier) then it wouldn't matter much whether these cloud providers will go down or not.
I'm old enough to remember "CASE tools" from the 80s and 90s. In the 2000s, we were told that architects would design a system in UML, and thr machine would generate the code for it from the UML.

It fails every time with much wasted effort and gnashing of teeth. The reason is because once you've specified your requirements in enough detail for a machine to understand and reasonably act on, your spec -- or diagram, flowchart, whatever -- is isomorphic to constructs in some programming language. So you haven't made code go away, only transformed it -- into something that is, all things considered, vastly more cumbersome than text to work with.
I should have perhaps phrased that differently as: If I desire end-to-end encryption but I do not want to be a conduit for nefarious activities then what are the options? Surely there is a spectrum between facebook messenger and a total secure, end-to-end encrypted chat client.
Plus if you're buying the equipment that means no rental fees
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So to be more precise, maybe one should say, “I wish someone would fork this project, include additional languages, and pay for better Google ranking and then pay some media company to spam HN, Medium, et al for a few months.”
> I imposed the largest financial penalty in our company’s history on the instigator

$0 in zero-valued stock options? I guess technically that is likely the truthfully largest penalty ever because it's unlikely that they have ever imposed any financial penalty on any employee. Or, they do have a policy of imposing financial penalties on employees ... I don't know which is worse.

That said, the zero tolerance being advocated here is not helpful. Based on the story alone, it's not as if the women involved were directly being harassed/assaulted. This is more a case of locker room banter. It's actually lucky this happened in the way it did (ie, with evidence) so that it could be nipped in the bud before possibly escalating.

OTOH, Verkada could have and should have done much better than what they did. It doesn't even amount to a slap on the wrist. Does anyone even believe that the discipline amounted to more than "don't get caught next time"? Laughable. An event like this, for a company like, isn't simply an internal matter. There are predictable public-facing repercussions. They have a lot more space between "nothing" (their response) and firing.

Well, the CEO has essentially no proper experience in real companies; only the ones he founded. But, he seems like a smart guy and should know better than this.
It is a travesty that this guy is a department head somewhere, with serious responsibilities for, at least, students, and pushing this BS.

Might EM fields and waves have a role in brain operations? Sure. Does that have anything at all to do with us perceiving our own cognition? Absolutely no way!

Cars have (1) spark plugs that emit radio pulses, and (2) a radio in the dash panel. Therefore, spark plug E-M pulses control traffic flow? No.

The biggest mystery about consciousness is that anybody thinks there is anything at all mysterious about it.
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This feels so overdue. With the consolidation that is likely a consequence of Nvidia and ARM combining, we could use more competition. Just not sure how effective it will be with Intel years behind in graphics and process technology.
> brutal mandatory crunch

It was my understanding that they asked people to work an extra 8 hours per week (the maximum under Polish law, for no more than 150 hours per year) and paid extra for it (again, as required by law). While this is definitely not ideal and crunch is, IMHO, due to project mismanagement, especially after promising they wouldn't, but I wouldn't exactly call this "brutal", especially considering that covid has messed up many people's plans.

Now, if non-polish contractors got a worse deal, I don't know...
here we have "Clear"

https://www.clearme.com
>Many payment processors don't want to deal with adult/sex content not because they're puritans, but because it's associated with high rates of fraud.

They always claim that, and yet they make billions from it, also by extorting huge premiums (something like 1K upfront + 30%-40% of the revenue as fees and a minimum of fees you have to pay regardless even if your revenue is below that).

But I wasn't even talking about people selling adult content. I was talking about people appearing in adult content, aka "porn stars". Even if you're solely a contract porn star working for studios instead of selling your own content directly, you'll be hard pressed to find personal banking once you're discovered to have a job like this (in the US).
Unfortunately and with COVID-19 in particular, many aspects seem to have become a matter of all-or-nothing propositions:

"The pandemic will only ever be over once the disease has been eliminated and there are no COVID19-related deaths or long-term effects anymore."

"Either the vaccine works in 100 per cent of cases or it doesn't work at all."

"It's either complete immunity for life or no immunity at all."
That’s incredibly creepy! I get the need for advertising but the sliminess has gone too far. I know it’s silly but I feel like there’s space right now for an ad company with morals that they can prove :)

Also see @davismwfl answer on this thread.
> If we want FB to fight CA and Clearview they must fight here as well.

Or they could partner with NYU, offer technical insight to maintain integrity and privacy (me stifles laughter) and do everything to support researchers who potentially could help build trust in their platform.

Going after this group just isn't a good look if you're Facebook. If there are valid concerns then don't start with a Cease and Desist.
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> it's clear from many of the comments that there is an all to common bias that only human's are conscious

Few people today think that animals are incapable of suffering.
That is the weirdest sampling tool I've seen NASA build.

I disagree that it was an analog system. They were measuring force as a proxy for contact, with no depth-finding system in place. The arm just sank in and never hit the force threshold for the automated system to react.
Sorry, scratch that last question in the edit - it makes an incorrect assumption. I hadn't fully assimilated what you said.
Are you aware of other services that require government-issued ID in order to maintain an account? That seems special to me.
Someone has to build the no-code tools. Even then, knowing how to code helps you no-code, especially when something goes wrong.
I guess the biggest complaint after it was released was the lack of a packet manager. Not sure if that situation changed. However there was quite some buzz around it, here as well.
No matter how much you dislike Trump, this is a really bad thing.

You may think that Trump is horribly evil, and that people who support him need to be exposed (with the chance of being threatened or even attacked). But do you think it's always going to be the side that you think is right that is going to be doing the exposing, threatening, and attacking? Or do you think that the side that is evil might use such tactics? Might even be more likely to do so?

You even might look at this as grounds for questioning which side is evil - or at least for deciding that the good side has some evil people on it.
I think that no-code enables non-programmer to produce more workable prototypes without any help from programmer. This speeds up the iteration. If a prototype is proven to be useful, then it can be given to professional programmers to hash out the details and build a robust version.

Actually -- programmers' opinions on no-code solutions are irrelevant. The non-programmers' ones are more important.
I’ve been in similar situations. Unpleasant reality below.

It will not better, your boss has told you as much. The reality is that they either value the abuser more than you, or they don’t believe that you’ll leave.

I would not bother going to HR unless there is an physical abuse, sexual harassment or things of that nature. Unless, and sometimes even when, things rise to that level HR will almost always side against the one “rocking the boat” (you).

Don’t voluntarily leave this job until you have another, but I’d slow way down on work, look at taking mental health leave if it’s paid, etc. If they’re a big enough company make them go through the Performance Plan steps and maybe offer you a severance up front.
Not surprised everyone on HN is hating on this. While there is merit to the argument that working on a high abstraction level is limiting and fragile there are two main points nerds ignore. 1) This is a great enabling tool for non tech folks who 99% of the time need a basic CRUD app. A whole new world is opened to them and they and the world is better for it. 2) The people who can get the most out of these tools, sadly, are the people on this thread. Its the folks who understand the low level well who can be super effective at the high level. If you understand CSS you can be a beast on Webflow and 10X your speed of development. But sadly this is unlikely to happen because these people sit on a high horse and look down on these tools and I suspect are a little insecure about how it can impact their value prop. So they never will take the leap and not realize the gains in productivity.
It's hard to search for, but it appears to mean "Developer Experience" — https://medium.com/@koba04/performance-and-dx-in-frontend-48...
I know in this community the overloaded value for vanilla in this context means just javascript without other people's javascript. But "vanilla web" should really mean HTML and CSS.
The RIAA has been wildly successful, they exist as a body to take all the bad press for consumer hostile moves like this instead of companies like Sony, Universal, Disney and Warner, who are the companies who actually operate the RIAA.

Nobody at the RIAA cares you are angry about their moves, in fact they are likely glad that you are, and not the actual responsible parties.
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>With each step, you get closer in time to when you will stop. You don't know, at any step, how far you are from a solution, until after the last one.

Still think the logic is wrong or at least farfetched, but not going to argue it more.

>You may laugh, but more code is written this way than not.

I know that quite well, having been a dev for many years and a manager for some, so seen things from both "sides".

In fact I can say I've seen it from a third and maybe even a fourth side (perspective, really), ha ha, since I've been an independent consultant and trainer for a while now.
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Where does your book assume its audience is?
I have a habit of creating cli tools, which potentially do dangerous things, to default to dry-run mode. For example, instead of the typical `--dry-run` or `-n` option, my scripts instead had a cheesy `--do-it` to be non-dry-run. It is annoying as hell to my colleagues, but saved the day many times.
I assume you're referring to what Next describes as a "Custom Server", e.g. taking over the server-side control flow.

Personally, I keep Next stock for the frontend, and just write an entirely separate backend/API server. I would want to do that in any event, just to achieve separation of concerns and avoid lock-in.
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That's a very strong statement, do you have anything to back that up?
> The desktop client chat _still_ doesn't have a "reply to message" feature

FYI for those who like to reply, you can put a > and a quote box will appear, you can copy and paste the message you wish to quote.

To exit the quote box, type "Alt-Enter" twice
Nope. Look at autoconf. Last release came in 2012. Next is due now.
If I understand it correctly, the primary purpose of the whole Oberon ecosystem is as an educational tool. And in that, I can see value. Having a holistic consistent system in one language/paradigm that you can build or analyze from the ground up has definite pedagogical value.
The C in ECMP stands for “cost”, which is usually calculated as the number of hops or intermediate nodes to the destination. If you were to use link speed as the “cost”, links of unequal speed wouldn’t be equal cost anymore. You can certainly use ECMP over links of different speeds, but as you said bandwidth doesn’t scale for a single connection, so any TCP connections that end up on the slower link perform at the speed of the slower link and it’s difficult to figure out why.

This is intentional: TCP treats packets received out-of-order as representative of an overloaded network. There’s generally a guarantee that packets sent in-order over a single link will be received in that order, but no such guarantee exists for packets sent through two completely independent links/networks. You need something on the receiving end (either at the destination or at the point where the separate paths converge) that will coalesce and re-order packets, such as an MPTCP or PPP implementation.
> GPUs are 20x faster than FPGAs

The original comment by brandmeyer said "ASIC", not "GPU".

Take the same RTL. Synthesize it for ASIC and for FPGA. Observe a 20x difference after normalizing for power, area, and clock speed.
Not a lot. Actel was acquired by MicroSemi in 2010, and MicroSemi was in turn acquired by Microchip in 2018.

There's a couple of upstarts in China like Gowin and Anlogic, but they haven't made much of an impact in the larger market yet.
not really. you can configure your paid account to record all history permanently.

this isn't a case of props at all. just a case of tier-locked features.
s/NYU app/Google Chrome/g and somehow FB is ok with it, so it isn't security model, it is the people and the goals of their actions what ire FB.
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