skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you are a true renaissance human who has made outstanding individual contributions in all of the spaces you list (astronomy, economics, medicine, political science, etc.), your faith in "objective fact" is probably derived in a large part from trust in authoritative instutions and experts. This trust is a prior that not everyone shares.

If you believe in the medical industry and related authoritative sources, it may seem crazy to you that someone wouldn't look at their published data and determine that covid is real and dangerous. However, if you have watched esteemed medical professionals drive your community to opiod/herion addiction, or watched hospitals close during the pandemic in your already underserved minority neighborhood, you might have a lower level of trust. You may even find the people who trust doctors crazy. You are not going to convince someone who has lost faith in these institutions by linking to medrxiv. That this source is valuable at all is a subjective assumption.

It's easy to dimiss alternate viewpoints as cognitive dissonance, but I'd be wary of assigning that exclusively to any specific segment of people. It is very popular. Rememember, it was once scientifically-supported objective fact that smoking was perfectly safe.
If you want to learn about philosophy, I highly recommend Russel's History of Western Philosophy. It's usually frowned upon and recommended to avoid for Philosophy students exactly for the same reasons I think it's one of the best books ever written:

It doesn't shy away of critique and dispute, as it was written by a practicing philosopher (who still values objectivity and holds to high standards of reasoning). The language is wonderful and historical bits to set the context are great.

I also recommend Anthony Gottlieb's "The Dream Of Reason" and "The Dream of Enlightenment", as the second and third book (if you liked the first one). They are more recent and sometimes expand on some things Russel deemed of lesser importance. Again, exceptionally well written.
Is there room to do burpees? It is the most effective all-around exercise I know to do in a small space.

https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-do-a-burpee
It's not a "Smart TV" it's a dumb computer that spies on you.
> something that beats Confluence and Jira

Which is a pretty low bar, if you ask me. The fact that Sharepoint doesn't clear that bar says a lot about how bad it is.
Doesn't matter what PARC's limitations were, what matters was the Macintosh was a huge innovation that created what the Xerox Alto and Star were missing.
Besides CFFI there's also cl-autowrap and claw. I haven't used claw myself, but I know cl-autowrap makes wrapping C libraries really easy. It took me about 4 hours and <200 lines of code to have a complete, usable binding for GDAL, and most of that was in convenience functions.

I'm curious to see what happens with the C++ support in claw. They're working on it, but I'm skeptical. I haven't had much luck using arbitrary C++ libraries from any language other than C++.

And I don't know what the author means by "somewhat rarer" in this context, but I personally use C libraries from CL all the time. Almost every CL project I work on, now that I think about it.
It is even more complicated than that. Suppose you take the $3T. How do you convert that wealth into money? You essentially can't, and if you try to do it so at once you'll end up with much less than $3T.
If you can contribute, check out their Requested Topics:
http://hackerpublicradio.org/requested_topics.php

I already have notes together for one of these as it's a topic near and dear to me. I just need to have some time and energy to record it.
The computer books market is different compared to your typical fiction books market. Looks like you are referring to the latter.
If the text Jeff Dean wrote below is overwhelmingly true, I'd agree that she resigned rather than was fired. I suspect that it is overwhelmingly true as I'm fairly sure that Google legal would have reviewed it and ensured they didn't say anything falsifiable and likely that this paragraph is entirely true.

> Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken to and consulted as part of the review of the paper and the exact feedback. Timnit wrote that if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. We accept and respect her decision to resign from Google.
I'm pretty worried about designing new datasets specifically around observing things we've already seen in real data. Sure, we can observe spatial priors and double descent with this dataset by design, but when we see a new interesting property, what's the chance that it carries over to real-world data?
Yes, large is on its way.

https://github.com/johnwcowan/r7rs-work
It costs more to undo damage than it does to create it, so if they grow at the same rate you still fall behind.
"Snapshots from Hell" by Peter Robinson is a great description of an MBA, with some good descriptions about finance and consulting.
Yup. This is one of the reasons that I don’t like android. Unfortunately now that apple is becoming a service provider also (Apple TV+, News+, etc) with apps that rely on engagement metrics I’m worried that I’ll start having this problem as well. The shortcuts app already doesn’t have a notifications setting but still can do notifications that buzz and make a sound.
I don't know where you are, but in the US we have a nationwide shortage of mental health resources. Sometimes the programs to help people just don't exist. I've been fortunate enough never to find myself in that situation, but I realize that is mostly circumstances that I had no control over. I grew up in a stable home, fell into a career that suited me and paid well, and didn't develop any health issues that made it impossible for me to work. Consider yourself lucky it hasn't happened to you either.
Pandas/python is amazingly prevalent at trading firms. And everyday, we bitch about the performance, we bitch about the stupid API, we bitch about the GIL, the lack of expressiveness. The list goes on and on. But for some braindead reason, we never switch to Julia. It's masochistic.
Is there any tutorial type doc on how businesses use the years old data? I understand the use or hot data, need for reports, queries, etc.

Looking to beef up my knowledge.
Is there a usage statistic for how often man pages are read? I violently agreed with the article here. There are zero times I wouldn’t rather switch to a browser. Even if I had to dig up my phone from my pocket and search for help there, I’d much rather do that.

Also, more and more tools are cross platform and man pages aren’t a thing on windows (are they?).
I love Scheme, but it _badly_ needs call/cc replaced with delimited continuations.
Assuming sibling comment is right and it was baobab, mouse over any part of the circular layout and a tooltip will tell you that directory and how much it uses, and other markers will point at and label the child directories that use the most space.

The center circle is the directory you've chosen to analyze, the next ring out is the immediate subdirectories of it, the ring after that is the next level of subdirectories, etc.

Baobab also has a toggle below the sunburst that switches to a nested-rectangle view that might be a lot more intuitive for you. It's definitely more useful for me when trying to see relative usage across the whole drive, but I like the sunburst when looking for the largest sibling subdirectories.
Lambda in Excel
Is that kind of information really for sale on an individualized level, by mobile providers? Surely they have brands to protect, and don't like being sued.
I use OpenWRT, (not pfSense as in TFA) struggle with both its UI and `iptables`, but I figured it out eventually... In case it's of use to anyone else:

pihole_addr='YOUR.IP.GOES.HERE'
for p in tcp udp; do

iptables -t nat -A prerouting_lan_rule -p "$p" ! --source "$pihole_addr" ! --destination "$pihole_addr" --dport 53 -j DNAT --to "$pihole_addr"

done

in http://openwrt.lan/cgi-bin/luci/admin/network/firewall/custo..., or whatever file it saves to, /etc/firewall/something I think.
Interesting example, but it's funny how parts of the abstract read like an intro probability class:

> The framework estimates the climate change risks in economic terms by modeling the main activities that a mining company performs, in a probabilistic model, using Bayes’ theorem. The model permits incorporating inherent uncertainty via fuzzy logic and is implemented in two versatile ways: as a discrete Bayesian network or as a conditional linear Gaussian network. This innovative quantitative methodology produces probabilistic outcomes in monetary values estimated either as percentage of annual loss revenue or net loss/gains value.
I found out at age 68 that I was on the spectrum.

Awesome to have an explanation for the associated super powers and deficiencies.

My main super power is a love of programming from age 17 until now still going strong - learned Selenium in the last few weeks and it rocks.

Very encouraging to find out about the unexpected number of spectrum folks who made historic contributions to human progress. Ambition of course is a spectrum trait.
> And in the end, CLIs are for humans first.

I don't think that CLIs are more suited to either humans or computers. CLIs are flexible enough to be effectively used by both.

> Usage in practice would be split between -flag and --flag. So what?

Well, you're breaking everybody's expectations and many years of conventions by doing it. Saving one dash with every flag and losing the ability to combine short options is just not a good trade off.
I'd like to point out that regulations against dumping toxic waste into rivers (or enforcement thereof) is exactly the sort of government service that is most often targeted by the folks who are pushing for deregulation.

Anyway, feel free to advocate for greater efficiency in government, by whatever means, including public-private partnerships or full-on privatization. More discussion of what services are needed by society and how best to provide them is generally a good thing.
I paid a fortune for flash storage from 2009 to 2016 and it was totally worth it.

There are some technological improvements that are so transformative (wifi, flash storage, high-resolution/"retina" display, LTE data, all-day battery life) that once you try them you never want to go back.

Then there are the changes that make you go "hmm..." (butterfly keyboard, touchbar without a hardware escape key, giant trackpad with broken palm rejection...)
sudo find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -m | sort -un

Disk usage visualization tool in 56 characters. :-)
While I can't speak for those running a full-on sales-and-services business, simple HODL speculation has worked out well for me. I aim to trade rarely and discuss trading even less, so I have simply picked out new issues that have a remotely credible whitepaper, placed a bet, and waited. The ones that pan out become the seed for the next round a few years later. My biggest worry is simply in losing the wallets or fatfingering a trade.

The industry as a whole doesn't have to be showing profits or cashflow so long as capital keeps coming in -- and it does, because it's sufficiently disruptive to finance that everyone looks for an angle, and because it's very easy to create new tokens, the money is being made, in some sense, simply by putting out the hat and asking: "is this idea good?"
Unless I were at Brown on a fully paid scholarship, I'd transfer out. Plenty other fine schools that won't be a nanny.
Putting on my tinfoil hat, I'll note that mobile providers depends on Brown University for antenna space on at least three tall campus buildings.
> Need to start by not 1) serving as the worlds policeman 2) building double the aircraft carrier tonnage of the rest of the world combined. 3) spending a trillion dollars on newest latest fighters not ready for service when we aren't at war, 4) staging US troops and ships in the Middle East or Europe when both are immensely wealthy and able to defend themselves. 5) pouring $40B into a launch system design based on obsolete technologies and an overweight deep space capsule that needs a year to replace a single bad power unit. 6) Not subsidizing professional sports leagues paying millions a year per employee. etc, etc.

Have you looked at the federal budget? The expenditures you mention are insignificant. Social security and medical assistance programs make up 48% [1] of the federal budget. Defense only makes up 16%, and of that, only 27% goes to the navy. Another 8% is various assistance programs. 8% is interest on debt. 0.5% is all of NASA.

You can't really reduce the government's expenditure levels by cutting a few high-profile programs that some consider wasteful. The majority of the budget goes to supporting the most vulnerable in society. Cutting these programs is politically impossible.

> thousand page earmarked pork funding bills and focus their responsibilities on legitimate national interests.

Earmarks are dead already. But they shouldn't be: earmarks let lawmakers swap favors in a way that promotes the smooth operation of government and compromise in lawmaking. Yes, there's some corruption, but that corruption was a small price to pay for decreasing the overall level of hostility in the legislature and promoting compromise.

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-w...
> What she described was actually very vague, so I don't know what you are envisioning?

Exactly what I quoted above:

> (Not too much skin showing, no cleavage on display, don't let your bra straps show, etc.)
Ask HN: Large Memory Space Workloads
I am looking to learn what the current landscape is in terms of very large memory space workloads. For instance, I am aware of some SAP HANA workloads of a few TB's completely being processed in-memory. Are there other workloads that are at a similar scale? I would love to know how these workloads are currently deployed, what issues one might face during deployment or maintenance. Do these sort of memory intensive workloads stay on-premise or do the public clouds offer enough advantages to serve these workloads? Would appreciate pointers to learn and read more.
> I love this. I run (a little), but have never enjoyed it. I've never once experienced a "runner's high"--even when I ran 5-6x per week for years. I still do it a couple times a week because it's a quick way to get my heart beating, and I do feel better afterwards.

I think that "feeling better afterwards" _is_ runner's high.
Oddly enough a number of good Windows features showed up first in Vista. I think people just weren't ready for the barrage of security permission dialogs and having their printer drivers broken. ;-)
Fiduciary duty isn't that big of a deal compared to the general incentive to make money. When CEOs are hired they are screened to be the sort of people who want to make money. If I had a controlling share of a company and the CEO didn't want to make profitable decisions there isn't any special legal construct needed - he'd be gone and somebody new would be hired. Most shareholders are the same.

> ... regardless if they might feel that the community would be better served by using the land for something which would, incidentally, make less money for them personally ...

The community obviously disagrees with our landholder in this scenario, or the community can stump up the cash to pay the land taxes or hold the land publically.

It is just 1 more expense. It isn't like running a soup kitchen was ever free, someone is paying for the soup. Giving a donation of space is the same as giving a donation of time and materials.

There are incentives, but there isn't anything especially new here. It isn't going to be radically different from a mortgage in the short term, and in the long term the change is competent people will own land instead of old families.
i should prob write my "why i left finance" up in a more permanent place but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847266
If you are interested in Western Catholic philosophy (considering its dominance from 500-1500 and ongoing influence in our world), I'd recommend reading from the Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas. Even if you are not Catholic, it will give you a much better understanding of the origins of modern Western thought.

From Wikipedia:
"Throughout the Summa, Aquinas cites Christian, Muslim, Hebrew, and Pagan sources, including, but not limited to: Christian Sacred Scripture, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Boethius, John of Damascus, Paul the Apostle, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides, Anselm of Canterbury, Plato, Cicero, and John Scotus Eriugena."
Yes, at least in the recent past.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunte...

They promised to stop, but I’m not sure I believe them.
Can you please point out to me the original source where said ‘God-given rights’ are proffered?
Teams got autoinstalled onto my 8 year old Windows 8 desktop.
This is basically high-school level "philosophical" musing and has about as much application in real life, which is none.
Or just use Fossil. It's already a distributed alternative to github. Every fossil install includes a built in web server with bug tracking and a wiki.
Parents pass down their genes. They benefit.
Russell's History of Western Philosophy is a terrific book. It's quite long, but for good reason.

While I do second the recommendation, I wouldn't make that your first introduction to the subject, unless you already know you are interested and committed. Most people really enjoy some aspect and finding that aspect at a high level is important IMHO. If you dive too deep on non-interesting topics, you may get bored of the whole thing.

If you're interested in my advice for getting started, I detailed it here a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936240
I discovered Tony Horton's P90X Yoga during the lockdown. My wife prefers Sean T's Insanity workouts. The Yoga was low impact to the joints ; insanity was too much for my ankles. Whatever you do, do it slowly and deliberately and make sure you dont pull or sprain something.
Sonic attacks on US diplomats likely microwave energy, government study says
Amazingly written!
Intermittent fasting with a total calorie intake that is breakeven is probably the safest way to boost hgh, some weightlifters do this already. Others use ibutemoren which is a sectagogue for ghrelin to indirectly boost hgh
Ok. Have a great rest of the weekend.
I see pihole recommended constantly as a way to block ads.

> I understand DNS a lot better than pihole

Unless the mods did a survey this doesn't justify the title change. It's just as likely that more people are familiar with pihole than DNS, and if the mods don't know (which they don't) then they should leave the title as the author wrote it.
An essay on property rights as the foundation of all law
I'm curious if the paper posits any solutions to the risks highlighted? There was mention of references to work on making model training more energy efficient but that was it.
Write Pandoc filters in .NET using PandocFilters
I don’t understand why this is needed when GitHub/Gist/Gitlab include built-in renderers.

But if you started letting me render markdown in my OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox I’d be interested in that!
This. And the ability to universally manage data protection across the entire platform. Critical for highly regulated industries.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/business/data-...
Yes, in fact government agencies like the Secret Service [1], CBP [2], IRS [3], and others frequently purchase it to circumvent warrant requirements.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/secret-service-o...

[2]: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-warre...

[3]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7agpa/irs-location-data-ven...
> came in 2017, when a video of the 1984 city pop song "Plastic Love" by Mariya Takeuchi became mind-bogglingly popular. Once a Japanese bargain-bin staple, people started buying it for $60 a pop in the United States.

The popularity of the song went as far as Warning Music reissuing an anniversary edition of the album in Japan and recording a music video for the song, both in 2019 [1] yet for some reason, they refuse to stream the song outside of Youtube.

I don't get it. Youtube pays the least for streams, and there is an obvious and known to Warner Music interest abroad ... so why not release it world wide on apple and spotify?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmUXamntPI
I don't understand peer to peer. Is every fork on everyone's computer? Who holds the latest source of truth? How does a client know if they are up to date if everyone else around the client is behind?

Is there a good resource for learning p2p and how the protocol works around establishing who owns the most up to date data?
Which OSS?
> How much does fascism come up wrt operating systems?

It's not strictly related to operating systems but it's been coming up in many online forums around all sort of topics.

Look at some discussion groups around well-known software projects and you'll find people dropping far-right dog whistles, arguments around someone's pronouns and the occasional flamewar.
Defence is 12% of federal spending -- or around ~2.5% of GDP, or a whopping 0.5% more than the NATO threshold.
Try no-equipment exercises. Pushups and Hindu squats are excellent cardio-core strength combination which I use when I travel. But take care of your knees when you do these.

For the long term, consult a doctor and a trainer when you adopt a regimen.
Are you sure other schools are not doing the same, or won't in the very near future?
I don’t understand why they were worried about students lingering on campus?
I feel like the question has not been fully answered. After taking the trace, how do you make enough information-copies to tell all your friends about it?
Same reason the NBA had their bubble.
Seems to be either standard property taxes listed (with a bit of variation) or minor deployments as experiments?

That's the gist of why I was comparing it to communist economics - it works great in small communities, but when either the scale is large, and/or the stakes are high, it will be subject to inefficiency and corruption.

LVT experiments on the small scale have people highly invested in making it work. On the large scale, this will just be a matter of everyday bureaucracy and any competence will revert to the mean.

On the large scale, it will be subject to the exact same corruption seen elsewhere. Certain industries will carve out exceptions to the tax, certain people with influence will get their historical properties excluded, etc.

By and large I've heard of LVT being a replacement for Sales/VAT style taxes. Whilst those are often regressive, at least they are relatively simple, 20% VAT is 20% VAT.
And also, that you were at home (or the office or wherever the ip addr is) at that particular time.

So, also, location and daily habits, where you go and so.

(The tracking company probably has you associated with a bunch of ip addresses and with a bit fingerprinting they'll know it's you at the ip at that time)
> Sorry, when I say Eurocentric, I include the UK.

That's my whole disagreement. The analytic-continental divide is a split within the western world. But you present it as if the non-eurocentric world is more conducive to the continental tradition, when even the concept of eurocentrism not only comes from europe, but it comes from the continental tradition through hegel's philosophy of history and his predecessors.