skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science cannot be abstracted from language. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert all operated under the idea that you might one day and you really can't.

The movie Arrival (2016) explores a truly inter cultural exchange and they convincingly envisioned it being very experiential, very tactile and detailed, concrete and lived. A truly intercultural dialogue would be very personal and particular

Abstractions are very useful, but mostly as a shorthand or a design framework for ourselves. That's why we speak English here instead of Esperanto

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_program
How would they document it? In North America no tribe had writing until after encounters with Europeans. They only had oral tradition, which is helpful for preserving myth and little else.
Emacs' built in help is pretty good, I think. If you teach someone C-h f for function help, C-h k for keybind help, etc. I think they can get pretty far. The which-key package is great for discoverability as well. You can start pressings keys and then see a map of which next key presses do which action.
I used vim for years, but always used a search engine to figure stuff out. I think Emacs got it right here.
There's also the graphical menu system in Emacs, but I've always hidden it and avoided it.
> They had a hold queue disk jokey that would interact with people on hold. It was a nice touch.

That sounds pretty cool. Can you tell us more? How did the DJ interact? Could you choose your music style and get different music like some phone systems offer these days? Was there a live DJ like you’d find in a club for the whole time they were taking calls?
To put it in less words:

Revolutions are not won by the side who is morally right. They are won by the side who are most effective at fighting, and who are the most ruthless. And almost no revolutions have ever had just two sides.

This is the main argument for incrementalism in my view. I see a lot of people arguing for radical change, and no matter how much I might agree with their values and how pure their intentions are, I cannot help but note that I do not think they would end up as the winners of any revolution.
I like these post-mortems of a bug sort of write-ups.

I feel like there is so much more to gdb than what I've yet had a need to use.
Startups are a game of privilege (Twitter)
It's also not difficult to figure out scenarios in which he would never use red lights on public roads, but might use them at private events, like shows.

Given the lack of evidence that OP is an idiot, I'm going with the assumption that he's not going to run forward running red lights in public. I'm going to assume the only reason the color is changeable is to show off for fun.

BTW, your paraphrasing of my comment on random commentators is a mischaracterization. I'm not talking about all random commentors. Just the ones who can't see past their noses far enough to know their criticism is not universal.
My problem with downvotes isn't the downvotes themselves, it's that a downvote is devoid of context because it is a single button press. Even if a comment is toxic, abusive, or just off-topic, I think there is value in being able to attach a _reason_ to a downvote. Rather than downvotes, I would like to see 'vote-comments', where you can leave a +1 or -1 comment, so it acts like an upvote or downvote, but there has to be some text there as well, which would serve to contextualise the upvote/downvote.
Wow, Australia has an astoundingly low ECI. Is there any way this could be confounded? I know we're no USA in this respect, but it still comes as a surprise.
You won't get it automatically foolproof, but you'll have at least a good chunk of the information you could expose, and have extension places for developers to easily inform a HTML version. I'm not familiar with the accessibility APIs on mobile, but I presume some of this would also be useful for them.
Does YouTube-Dl Get Removed from GitHub Arctic Code Vault?
I've used goto a handful of times over my 20 year professional history with c and c++. A few were used for simplifying cleanup code (actually this is quite common in c, less so in c++); a few were used in weird state machines and were accompanied by a page of documentation.
Anybody else get flashbacks to the days of Adobe Flash with regards to Flutter Web? About the only positive difference I see is that it uses the browser sandbox vs the Flash player and is thus arguably more secure, but otherwise it feels it has most of the same drawbacks.
I wish I could learn how to interrupt people. Often it feels like interruption is the only way I'll ever get a single word in but I feel awful doing it.

Usually I like to wait for a brief pause in the conversation, but with some groups of people such pauses either never come or are so brief I can hardly react fast enough to catch it.
Reddit is great for subject matter. Not perfect but actually gets better and better every year.
Super important article, but I think he missed out on one of the most important points. Google pushes Flutter for web because Flutter is an experience you as a consumer can't control. As a company that makes most of it's money from ads - that's amazing. No more ad-blocking.

Developers, resist. One the Web is built with Flutter it'll not be the Web anymore. It's be like TV.
While in most cases, it is a drawback, it is an advantage when you are making carbon copies.

There are forms that require you to use a ballpoint pen for that reason.
Oh my goodness. I tried opening that sample app on mobile and it was like interacting with a touchscreen ticket machine from 2005. I don't know if it was just broken on my browser (firefox android), or expects me to have the latest flagship to actually use it.

Regarding the semantic HTML stuff, I don't think that's an issue inherent to the design, since flutter widgets tend to be highly semantic in nature. In fact, I think a platform like this could good for accessibility if it handles it properly instead of leaving it up to fallible developers.
I thought DPI was for analyzing and blocking traffic. How are they able to decrypt, modify and re-encrypt the payload? Unless they are MITM and have access to a root signing cert and are creating valid false certificates in real-time. Or they get the end user to add a malicious root cert to their store.

Ads can be changed with plain HTTP requests, or DPI can be used to gain info about the HTTPS request and possibly block subsequent requests. The I in DPI is for inspection, AFAIK modification would be very difficult.
Tech Startups Say New Pay Rules for H-1B Visas Are Unaffordable
I wish people would emphasize this more. Bitcoin isn't anonymous, and with the legal requirements for reporting transactions, much of what happens on there can be corellated to real-world identities. Far as privacy goes, it's probably a step backwards even from bank accounts and credit cards since there's no warrant needed to access it.
A uninformative rant about a software beta. Personally I am tired of these sort of posts that scream about how everything new is terrible because it doesn't have X feature that is super important for "accessibility".

No not every application framework needs to be the same so that your vim extension can work properly.
GitHub Game Off 2020 theme announcement
I think you're talking about win8, win10 was a return to saner defaults on desktop (ui-wise, let's not talk about privacy): start menu, by example.
Ha ha want to see the look on the teachers face when this answer is handed in!
>Yet Another Quitting Twitter Story

Not much more content in the actual piece. Seems to be very fashionable these days to either quit social media or traditional journalism for substack but honestly I feel like it resembles self-advertisement combined with mediocre pieces more than anything of value.

The argumentation like in this piece is usually that there is some bad incentive that these independent platforms avoid, like virality in this case, or being beholden to someone else, but I don't see how this isn't true for independent publishing.

If you run your own platform you potentially still want it to go viral if you want to monetize it (which I assume why people post it to sites such as HN or reddit, read social media), and you're beholden to your readers in a sort of patronage like relationship.
The UN isn’t the arbiter of what constitutes a human right.
The format and discoverability are the biggest problem. Any conversation is hidden away in accounts tweets. If you don't know the specific account then you won't know what's being talked about. There's also no community unless your already famous. It's essentially anonymous.

Reddit I think has the potential for the best discussion platform. The people are the biggest problem, and upvotes are a good idea, but doesn't seem to work in practice
Cyberdyne's Home Rental Program of Exoskeletons in Japan
This isn't a solution to your exact problem, but I find that muting specific keywords helps
My dad used to tell me about these. He commonly would use them when his parents took him to the shoe store in the early 50s, Northern California.

He occasionally has related this fact to podiatrists pals, who generally are shocked to discover such a thing ever existed.
This isn't a sophism. Just because the difference isn't material for this particular case does not have mean that they have much in common beyond their end goal, which is of course the only commonality I've seen raised.

I agree that the bourgeois supported fascism because they judged that it was better for them to continue owning their factories in a fascists society, no matter how many genocides that meant. That makes them fascists. In the situation there were in, the solution was either a radical reconception of the economic system, or fascism. If you think that fascism is the best option, that makes you a fascist.
> Which then begs the question: why are you upset that we're criticizing ourselves?

I'm not, I'm annoyed with yet another half-Woke 'net commentariat pretending that pointing out the American/Colonialist positionality of discourse in an American fluff piece is insight, when it's just half baked rhetorical whining about someone writing from their own lived experience and positionality. The author of the article, in short, is being mocked for using the language of his culture because the prevailing ideology of the moment proclaims American perspectives to be unilaterally oppressive.

The implied argument is that the Colonial positionality is the most oppressive discourse and therefore the least valid, so using language like "discovers" is argued to continue to marginalize Native cultures, but it's a criticism that is only applied to mainstream American positionalities in order to rewrite American history in a way that justifies "decolonization" and as such I find it a shallow and dangerous criticism worth mocking.

Quick, someone tell me what "Land Back" means, but describe it without violence or ethnic removal. And if you don't know why that phrase is relevant to this screed it's time to pay attention to the memes in the graffiti and the chants of protestors in the US and in Canada.
Well, that was a stupid typo of mine, of course it is V, not P. Too late to edit that post.
Full screen and dev tools respectively for web developers.
Slashdot has a basic solution to this: moderation votes with a category. You can vote up or down, in a specific category: Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Irrelevant, Flamebait, Funny, etc. If your comment has a -2, you usually know why.

I've suggested it about 50 times here. Not the same categories, but some form of metadata associated with the vote. As soon as you click the arrow, it can prompt a list of tags to click. You could very quickly express yourself along with your vote and move along.

My suggestions for categories would be emotional (angry, happy, funny, confused, indifferent, stupid, crazy, awesome) and non-emotional (citation needed, seems right, false, morality, ethics, expert, novice, etc). This way you get a good picture of why somebody voted: what their emotional state was, and what their (perceived) intellectual position was.

Perhaps one reason it doesn't happen is it would fundamentally change the dynamics of the ingroups here. You'll notice that on some posts, it seems like everyone is parroting the same opinion as if it's an established fact. Or they upvote someone's comment because they have a high reputation. If you had to add a qualifier to your vote, it may quickly become transparent why these people are voting, and then the algorithm would have to change so as not to expose these defects in group social dynamics. Or the algorithm would stay the same, and people could see that the structure of the forum is based on a lot of crappy human heuristics and not strictly adhering to "the rules".
Quantum-computing pioneer Peter Shor warns of complacency over Internet security
That is a bit of a narrow view.

Twitter has escaped Twitter. It is now everywhere, intertwined with other 'social' media, with other Internet forums, with traditional media.

You (we) cannot escape Twitter's nefarious effects any more, it doesn't matter who you follow directly on Twitter, it doesn't even matter whether you are on Twitter or not. Your 'timeline' may be clean and interesting, but you're still exposed to Twitter's virality.
Do you want to convince people of your vision? Because that seems like your goal.

I'm trying to point out that if you follow your current path - including the name calling - then you won't get very far, and I've pointed out some of how people will perceive you if your pieces continue in this vein.

Say "Oops, yes, I somewhat underestimated the time and was thinking of a different New Deal project. Thanks for pointing it out!"

I am dead serious that I believe the poor infrastructure of our existing water, power, and mass transit systems, and horridly unequal internet service, are far more important than shaving a few hours off a transcontinental passenger service.

I am also annoyed with using the huge number of small public works projects of the WPA (the largest being the TVA, which is quite large but much smaller than the Eisenhower interstate system), which was explicitly made to hire unemployed people, to justify a single large public work; and one which excludes the WPA support for artists, musicians, libraries, education programs and many others who are not construction workers or support staff.

Would it really affect your views or your ability to persuade were you to posit a 5 hour estimate instead of 4?

Airplane travel times have decreased over the decades because it's more fuel efficient and therefore cheaper. You can't simply predict that the future is going to faster than current estimates.
The HP3000 had "SPL" - Systems Programming Language -- as its way of doing what C does. It had a specific syntax for checking the error codes: if <> then <whatever> so whatever previous arithmetic did, you could check the machine's flags directly. Can't do that in C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Programming_Language
I wanted an app that makes nice Spotify covers.I couldn't find it,so I built it
This would be a whole lot more appealing if there were a cellular modem included, similarly isolated as the wifi chip is.
The gel pens are my favorite, but I did enjoy using fountain pens in grade school - I just liked the way the result looked.
I love how you assume that he's a Washington Post fan or something like that, if the mere idea of "take in account who's the owner of a media outlet" makes you seethe like this maybe you should rethink what content you're consuming.
Except you have to be careful, because if they do personalization of search results, Google is so ad skewed these days you don't know 100% what results they'll get.

That is why it's best to just give a domain name AND describe a suitably qualified query.
Persons who used Cyberdyne's exoskeletons for rehab can rent them for home use. The inventor was also featured in NHK's Top Inventions. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2072035/
They even dare to tell you to turn off ad blocking to get through the Cloudflare captcha. So much for "making the internet faster"...
If it's some offensive post / off-topic then yes. If you simply disagree, it's called click trolling and it's a cowardly behavior when some downvote and run away without expressing what they don't agree with because they can't stand their ground in an argument.

Using downvotes for disagreement is simply a bad practice. They should be used for off-topic or inappropriate posts.

Ironic, how some actually downvote this post but don't comment :) This demonstrates the point.
I use Mate and I think it's misleading to characterize it as a reheated Gnome 2. That's how it started, but the project has come a long way since then. Mate now uses GTK3 instead of GTK2. It supports GPU-accelerated compositing and Hi-DPI displays. Mate is a well-maintained modern desktop environment, not a historical curiosity.
How anyone can enjoy writing with fountain pens is completely beyond me. They were the bane of my childhood.
The fear is the trend, not the numbers so far. Belgium's healthcare system is at breaking point, and the death rate is doubling maybe every 10 days:

https://chrisbillington.net/COVID/Belgium.svg
What little we've seen of x86 micro ops (the great work reverse engineering the k10 microcode), shows that the micro ops look very much like x86 instructions. Still predominantly two address, RMW instructions for instance. Very similar to the original 8086's microcode structure rather than some reaction to the RISC movement, despite the common trope to state the contrary.

Can't wait to see more information about the goldmont microcode work to see if that holds for intel as well as it does for AMD.
At least in their papers and mailing list discussion, the limit for simple fusion is not on the number of source operands, but on the number of destination operands. A classic example is a PC-relative long jump:

auipc lr, zero, .LONG_TARGET20
jalr lr, lr, .LONG_TARGET12

Only one register (the link register) is clobbered, so the pair can be fused into a single wide jump-and-link.

So in parent's example, sov might fuse with the following bnez, but it likely wouldn't fuse with the preceding addition.
It’s percent of revenue over whatever period of time you care to measure it.
Thanks! How did you get the url? I presume you have to have access first?
For me it looked like that, too. I.e. flutter will never work friction less with the current web, at least for screen
readers etc.

But I think what google will try to do in one or two years is to add extensions to the web to make flutter work well again (from their POV).
Wireshark doesn't natively decrypt TLS traffic, though. And SSLKEYLOGFILE is not supported by many network apps.
Meh, depends on what you define as usable. KDE 3 ran fluently on my 2010 HP EliteBook 8540w but KDE 4 runs like a dog and you get nothing extra for it.
How though? All of the UI is rendered in a canvas element. This would break most existing screen readers and accessibility tools which rely on properly marked up and parseable HTML. I would suppose that the Flutter devs could provide some sort of bridge that would allow this to work (although I'm not sure how, unless the webkit team also steps in), but seems like an incredible amount of work and IMO with Google's history more likely to be abandoned than actually implemented.
I'm the opposite. I have a bad habit of interrupting others, and find it hard not to.
I wish reveal codes would be implemented in other word processing systems. Since docx is zipped xml it would seem like it could be done by someone.
Yeah, sadly the clients I care about never seem to support that.
This was a long time ago (at least ~10 years), but i met a great bunch of people who shared common tech interests, many of which are still good friends even today.

Today, nothing really. I don't get any interesting interactions, most htags are spammed as soon as they start picking momentum, and the entire platform feels "tired"
I'd bite that bullet - cigarettes should be banned.

In Australia the tax on them is continuously ramped up every year and fewer and fewer people take up the habit. It's obviously an elimination strategy there as with COVID.
If you want a linked network of documents, HTML / semantic web is great. Problem is, sometimes you want interactive elements in your document (like navigation menus), and sometimes you want a layout that is precise but is also responsive to the browser width, and sometimes you really want a native application that works on all platforms that people don't have to download (and update) something special. HTML and semantic web get less and less useful as you go down that list. Flutter is trying to solve the cross-platform application problem. If your problem is well-addressed by a document, then you don't have the same problem that Flutter is solving, so yeah, you probably won't like it.
What do you think of the SpaceX UI?
Reposting comment from thread about youtube-dl's RIAA issue, of 8 days ago.
It started with:

"As a technical aside (to the main topic of this HN thread), I had written a blog post some years ago, describing some uses of youtube-dl, and some commentary giving an overview of what its source does:"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876617
It's not at all about vim extensions.

It's about people with visual or motoric impairments using the web.
But if you look at the contributor history for the repo, he's at #54, just after JetBrains' actual CEO. I don't think you could make the claim that Google contribute significantly to the language itself based off that.

I develop https://cursive-ide.com.
I mention size because it tends to correlate with institutional experience and availability of relevant expertise in the org chart.
I find the uniball gel pen substantially easier to write with, so conversely I find all other ball point pens harder to write with. I know in college there were certain pens that hurt to use all day and I quickly got rid of those.

Most of my favorite pens at the moment are uniball, or take the same refill size and I’ve converted them. Somewhere I have a collapsing fountain pen but I had to be careful of the type of paper and I let it dry up at some point, got it working again, and forgot about it because I found another collapsing pen I could shoehorn the uniball gel into (by swapping the spring)
Can someone please explain to me how subscriptions work on Substack?

I just spent 5 minutes clicking around and still can't figure it out. How much is it? Where does my money go?

Reading a piece on Substack then clicking "Subscribe" only to have them demand my email address with no additional info is really off-putting.
This is essentially a summary of my behavior as well.

Well-crafted and/or sourced argument, regardless of whether I agree or disagree = upvote

Reddit-level discourse, knee-jerk commenting, trolling / flaming = downvote

I'll also upvote or downvote based on context of comment. Is a comment taking a thread off-topic, when the parent was fairly clear?

And finally, karma fairness. Is someone getting downvoted for no apparent reason, without anyone commenting in response? Upvote.
Why is it the job of the person who was interrupted to correct the behavior?

Why not the interrupter? Why not somebody else?
Interestingly it seems rust only does full overflow checking in debug builds:
https://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about...
But can Google index what's in a Flutter app?
Allow me to demonstrate.