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I’m not asking you to spread false positivity, I’m asking you to not read quotes of a rereading of a paper by an author who is not the person we’re discussing and then using it to complain that a researcher is useless and that her entire field is useless.

A comment that started off with “it seems like Timnit Gebru mat have overestimated the impact…” is not false positivity.
How did you learn? I do index funds, but I'd like to trade a bit for fun
Thanks, the video helped explain some things, along with this post from the R-devel list:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2020-December/080173....

The reason for announcing the new lambda syntax at the same time seems to be to enable certain workflows that the magrittr pipe supports. The %>% operator, by default, pipes to the first argument of a function. If you want to pipe to a different argument, you can do:

a %>% func(x, arg2 = .)

It seems like the native pipe doesn't support a placement argument, but you can use the new, more concise lambda operator:

a |> \(d) func(x, arg2 = d)

A little more verbose, but it's not a very common use case, it's more general, and I'd happily trade a little more verbosity for the rest of the improvements. (That said, I haven't played around with the magrittr 2.0 improvements yet, so maybe the difference is going to end up being less than the presentation suggests.)
The title of this is "How Sea Turtles Find Their Way"

It's an interesting read, spoiler:

"Precisely where these now-endangered reptiles go, what route they take to get there, and how they navigate, is a mystery."
That's the whole point. If you want to sit on an acre of land in a dense area, you should be taxed at the highest and best value of that land.

You make a valid point about services that can be measured, but the point of a Georgist land value tax is that land is the thing that is least distortionary to tax.

I'm not fully bought in and think a transition would be very difficult, but this is one of the reasons I don't like California's Prop 13 (even if I think all the proposed reforms would leave us in a worse state).
You most certainly should be paying the equivalent of 10 households. You deny 9 others the ability to use the land.

If you have real use for the land, paying the lvt won’t be an issue. If you can’t use it efficiently, an lvt will incentivise you to sell what you don’t use.
> It is a tale that should dismantle our Eurocentric view of mathematics, shine a spotlight on the Islamic world’s scientific achievements

Well, the word 'algebra' would suggest credit is being given to the Arab world.

Let's not also forget that the Chinese had been reading and writing for centuries before anyone else.
Yeah a physical button to turn it on-off would be amazing. Maybe I can sacrifice a remote and see if I can just add a switch to the sensor. Not my worst idea.
If you find yourself struggling to parse traditional philosophy, which honestly is likely if you aren't planning on taking a philosophy course I'd suggest reading philosophical novels. Camus's the stranger and Sartre's no exit are great works that are foremost page turners while also demanding considerable thought. I like thus spoke zarathrustra a lot but it will be difficult with no background. If you want to get serious read the greeks. Beyond that it really depends on which area you're interested in. The Stanford encyclopedia is a great resource. I'd stay away from Hegel and Kant at first, although they are incredibly influential. They'll probably turn you away because it's so hard to parse.
The article does not ignore that fact ...

> In his early 20s, Fibonacci traveled to the Middle East, captivated by ideas that had come west from India through Persia. When he returned to Italy, Fibonacci published Liber Abbaci, one of the first Western works to describe the Hindu-Arabic numeric system.
No, The Donald moved off of reddit and there were 0 posts for months. Reddit banned them anyway, clearly politically motivated.
This is not correct.

You can install your own app on your own iOS device without using the store, but you cannot distribute to end users.

That’s why we say Android supports side loading but iOS does not.

The two things are not one and the same.
I have built a couple Electron apps, one of which will be available as a commercial product soon.

The main advantages (over executing your app in-browser) to my knowledge:

1. You can execute native code outside normal browser sandbox

2. You get your own application window
For C++, you don’t need that fancy struct. You can just use inline namespaces, which were specifically designed as a portable form of symbol versioning.

But making the standard library work with a changed ABI is the easy part. The hard part is every other library. Users expect to be able to compile libraries (both static and dynamic) and then keep using the binary artifacts even after upgrading their operating system. Admittedly, most libraries won’t use intmax_t in their public API, but if one does, changing the definition of intmax_t will cause the same types of ABI breaks as with the standard library. And unlike the standard library developers, those users probably won’t know how to fix them, nor appreciate being made to.
Sure, but that is very different from "religious tolerance"
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This is really nice. I enjoyed reading your article. I am curious how do you monetize beebs? Do you get paid from publisher and TV shows or any other source? I couldn't find article on Indie Hackers about it.
Oh but there is :) As a library author I really don't want to dictate users what compiler to use, they should at least be free to choose between the "big 3": gcc, clang and MSVC. Having those 3 compilers agree on more language features would be very helpful (this doesn't even need to happen through the standard, it would be enough if gcc, clang and MSVC would agree on a handful of important non-standard extensions).
I'm really into this package that lets you manipulate tabular data using dozens of different systems with the exact same code

Yeah, you've probably never heard of it
1. UBI

2. LVT

3. Environmental externality taxes

That's all we need to fix the 21st century. Simple as hell so basically immune to regulatory capture, and will usher in a rate of progress we haven't seen in 100 years, if ever.
Nice, looks like I will be using this.
>When we talk about "absolute freedom of speech," we mostly mean the free expression of any opinion, not the freedom to say literally anything.

That's not what "absolute" means.
I would much rather read an article about land value tax from a site that doesn't also have an article suggesting COVID-19 is a hoax.
Devices that don't use the DNS servers specified by the DHCP server I have configured on my network most certainly are broken. I'm not talking some kind of principle here, I mean they literally will not resolve addresses correctly as I have configured a split horizon DNS environment for DNS names that I control. I have no interest in exposing many of the names on my network to the public so that 8.8.8.8 can resolve them.

Saying that a device is not violating any standards as they "aren't required to accept DNS servers offered by DHCP" is like saying a device is not broken and not violating any standards because "they aren't required to accept IP addresses offered by DHCP." It's a silly to say devices are not required to accept the parameters sent by my DHCP server as such a statement is only correct in the most abstract sense that there is no law that requires a device to adhere to the relevant RFCs for DHCP. On the other hand there are laws, federally and in many states, that only allow you to connect to and use other people's network with their permission and only use their networks within the bounds that they allow.

I don't care about the device manufacturer's opinion of DNS server quality. I own the device and I own the network that the device is connected to and I pay for the uplink between that network and the rest of the internet. There is only one person who can correctly make an assessment as to the correct DNS server for my network and that is me. If a device manufacturer chooses to hard code a different DNS server they are wrong and it is broken and they should tell me so I don't waste my time buying their product and returning it.

Additionally they should advertise this behavior because it is a security vulnerability for my network for their shitty device to be sending my internal names to outside servers to resolve. The names of the devices on my network that I choose not to expose to the internet are no business of anyone else.

E: And I didn't even get into the mess that it would be to try and expose the DNS zones for the RFC 1918 address spaces that everyone is using.
I think it’s more important to accept who you are. Just pretending isn’t going to change anything, maybe deep mental health therapy can change you in some ways, but just pretending is exhausting and people will be able to tell.
It's both project and language specific. A trivial example is C++ classes with private methods. Some people do a hack that when compiling for testing converts all private methods/attributes to public. This way it's easy to test private methods individually. Please don't do this.

Unit testing C++ is not as easy as in some other languages. The language is fairly rigid. Some people make heavy use of friend classes to assist with testing, but this can be overdone (indeed, many C++ developers are against any use of friend).
I tried it when I first heard of it about a year ago.

It's a user-friendly IOT ecosystem. It uses a pi so you can use ZigBee etc adapters.

They also have their own open protocol. It is WiFi based, I wrote/made a simple webthing, I quite liked the experience.

At that time, it was not reliable enough. I evaluated it for a business critical timer (turn on 8am, turn off 5pm), really simple. Unfortunately, it frequently failed to turn on/off at the scheduled time. Cron and curl would have been more reliable.

I imagine it has improved by now. I should give it another whirl.
A charming bakery in a now expensive part of town is in fact an economic inefficiency. You can argue against it on non-economic grounds, but living in a luxury apartment is a good that people consume, just like madeleines.
> If I own a large field capable of supporting 10 homes right in the middle of the suburbs, I shouldn't be paying the equivalent taxes that 10 households should be paying.

Yes you should, that's literally the entire point of an LVT. If you can generate enough productive economic activity on the land to equal/surpass that of ten households, then the tax is no problem, otherwise you should sell it so the houses can use it better.
I don't know how D handles it, but I got an extraordinary "all is right with the world" years ago when I saw ada with common definitions for bit order, max integers and digits.
There are communities which explicitly state their intentions.

A bit related - I've seen forums etc. where the community pumps stocks, crypto currencies, and what not.

Everyone knows what happening, and they're all in on it.

One typical way is that some "stock guru" is selling spots for private chats / rooms, where they'll regularly announce "signals" - i.e hyping up some penny stock. The group members will obviously start purchasing shares / pumping the stock, and exit as soon as outside buyers enter the cycle.

Sometimes they just flat-out announce public pumping schemes on forums / user groups.
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Even 15% is still outrageous. 2-3% would be reasonsble or a small fixed amount

Imagine credit card company taking 15 or 30%...
It's not too different to what's happening now in low density neighborhoods because single-family houses are not an efficient use of million-dollar lots. In the current system, an empty lot is taxed less than a house, which is taxed less than say a small apartment building. IMO this is completely backwards: the tax code should reward productive usage of limited resources.
> I suppose shouldn't have assumed that you would know that the New Deal involved raising revenue. Concise data from the 1930s isn't super easy to come by, you are going to have to look at broader economic trends and make your own conclusions.

I don't really need concise data, just some rough numbers. How much did they project the revenue act would raise, how much did it actually raise. How much did it impact investments, spending, choices etc.

Without so much as numbers its really hard to argue its impact. You could say going off the gold standard was much more impactful.

>Regardless of whether FTT would work or not, it's a single tactic (small picture), when we already successfully tax wealth in various ways (estate, property taxes).

Man... it isn't regardless. If an FTT doesn't work we're taking one step forward and several steps back.

>The big picture is breaking the power of concentrated financial power, and taxation is an obvious method.

Yea... and sometimes obvious things are not the best things.

>Nit picking specific policies seems to be a favorite bad-faith tactic to avoid acknowledging that the issue is an issue, which would then require the nitpickers to suggest ideas themselves, instead of just criticizing.

Then why would you bring up the Revenue Act? That is literally a "specific policy".
Do you want me to show dozens of examples of FTTs failing? Do you simply need more?

I'm "nit picking" this because 1) I have knowledge on it as I've researched it. 2) It would personally impact me. 3) It is a ridiculous policy because it has been tried so many times and never in its history has it raised as much money as it has projected to raise. They are constantly repealed shortly after they are enacted because people realized they messed up.

Its hardly nit picking when its pretty much one of the major policies of politicians wanting to "redistribute wealth" or "fix inequality" - Bernie Sanders has talked about it at great length. Andrew Yang proposed it as one of his policies. There's nothing to nit pick. Every single time it has been tried it has been repealed after terrible results.

I'm saying I see a very high chance of the wealth tax doing the same exact thing.
I’m struggling to envision how this would impact homeowners differently than the current property tax paradigm. If I have a house and the value of the property goes up, my property taxes increase. If I were to sell a house at market rate, theoretically it would be reflective of what rate it was being taxed at.

How would this same situation play out with a land-value tax?
I have the masquerade and other rules setup on a ubiquiti edgerouter that eats anything trying to go out on port 53 and sends it to pihole. My experience has been one of annoyance when the DNS server breaks randomly or after a power outage it can be a pain of resetting VMs occasionally. But 99% of the time it works well and I'm glad I did it. However DNS over HTTPS is going to kill this method.
There's a series of comic books called Action Philosophers that I very much enjoyed. Each issue is about a different philosopher (Spinoza, Plato, Aristotle, Kant etc.) and for light reading it's really nice for getting a baseline introduction to different ideas.

Note that it is in no way comprehensive. I majored in philosophy in college and had already read the primary texts for all of the philosophers featured in the comics before I discovered this series. That being said, I found the interpretations to be reasonably faithful and that's why I've recommended the series to friends that are curious and want to browse without tackling large, dense tomes.
"If Sartre can't get it right, can a random newcomer understand it the way Heidegger intended?"

They're not going to understand Hegel either, and probably not Kant, or a bunch of other philosophers on that list.

But Heidegger and Nietzsche were undeniably hugely influential on philosophy, so they belong on that list as much or more than many of the other people listed, who were of minor significance, at best.

Ecce Homo was written shortly before Nietzsche went insane, with chapter titles like "Why I am So Wise", "Why I am So Clever", and "Why I Write Such Excellent Books". I wouldn't take what he wrote there at face value.. and much of what he writes in other places should be taken with a grain of salt also, as he often wrote with tongue firmly in cheek, and it's often difficult to nail down exactly what Nietzsche thought or intended.

This is one of the reasons he's been so influential on modern Continental philosophy, some of which took on wholeheartedly his spirit of play and irony, which most of philosophy before Nietzsche was missing.

That's not to say that Nietzsche can't be serious.. much of his work is serious, but it's written in an aphoristic rather than a systematic way, which makes understanding what he's saying a lot more difficult than, say, many Analytic thinkers, who prize being clear and straightforward.

So, yeah, Nietzsche's not great for beginners either, and he's famous for being misinterpreted anyway, even by professional philosophers. But he's still highly significant, and for my money far more profound than all the Analytics put together.
Check this: https://scholar.harvard.edu/sandel/justice

I saw this years ago and I am still so impressed by how engaging these lectures are. Michael Sandel is great.

Of course this is not holistic review of philosophy, but I guarantee you, you'll watch it as if it was the best netflix drama.
I haven't had a problem. In my experience, I can actually get content up more quickly than a traditional CMS-type system.

Gatsby does some intelligent bundling so each page is pretty much self-bundled.

* Root HTML file

* Core, common JS (cached after first load)

* Page specific JS (also cached on subsequent loads)

For me, this is 257 kB uncompressed - with most of that being the Root HTML file (I realized I don't have minification or Gzip on - which takes that down substantially). Not a tiny payload, but the content is all static so the response comes back extremely quickly.

Even at slow 3G speeds, I barely get a flash. The actual page loads just about as quickly as HN.

With modern internet, the load time is nearly instant AND is literally instant on subsequent page loads (since most of the payload is locally cached).
Not to endorse a particular point of view, but I believe land value taxes are based on assessed land value. If you're saying that your hypothetical land shouldn't pay the tax the neighboring 10 homes are paying, I think the economist would say something like that clearly isn't the most productive use of the land and you should build on it, I guess. Again, not an endorsement, just my view of the argument.

Also I think "occupancy taxes" as referred to by policy people means a tax on unoccupied land/homes (e.g. pied a terre laws). But I could be mistaken.
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What a good idea! Thanks for this, added to my aliases.
Medical condition is a very different thing from a mental illness though. I'm quite sure there aren't mental _illnesses_ which last 1-2 days like Stockholm syndrome does.

>Suggesting everyone using C++ isn't capable of properly evaluating it (which the comment author can clearly tell from the outside, for every use case) is "not derogatory"?

I see it more as "I wonder if they have given other languages a chance?". There's definitely a lot of C++ devs who aren't giving for example Rust a try, and don't see the negatives of C++ because they haven't experienced anything else lately.

If anything, it was derogatory towards C++, not the devs.
"Nearly 70% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles were found to contain hardcoded DNS settings - allowing them to simply ignore your local network's DNS server entirely. "

To be fair, Pi-Hole hardcodes "default" (suggested) DNS settings, too. While the user can change defaults, it is well-known that in most cases, the majority of users do not change them.

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/master/automated%20install/basic-install.sh |grep -C3 8\.8\.[48]\.[48]

IMO, the best DNS-based solution for controlling the HTTP requests that applications can successfully make, e.g., to ad servers/trackers, is not to point them (directly or indirectly) at third party DNS caches.

Sending the user's DNS queries to an online ad services company (Google) is a interesting default for a project whose raison d'etre is the existence online ads. Perhaps if the online ads industry began to fade, so too would the need for Pi-Hole.

After decades of running own root and other authoritative servers on localhost, I would still do it even if online ads were not a problem. I like the speed, reliability and control.
Land-value tax doesn't have huge inefficiencies like some other taxes. But the hard part is assessing "value". How should land value be decided? The book "Radical Markets" has some good insights on how to find the value of every plot of land by using markets.
I think an LVT only works if property tax is removed. And getting every state to have less taxes will be rough.

http://savingcommunities.org/issues/taxes/landvalue/
Because it came from the region ruled by the Islamic state at the time. We're talking about the 13th century.

Persian and Arabic are not accurate depictions of what is mean. The correct word is indeed Islamic, as in Islamic civilization and Islamic system. It was very much something at the time, beyond just religion.

When trying to be more specific, they do use words such as Persian.

Also, a lot of the mathematics was indeed indigenous to the Islamic world.
> I shouldn't be paying the equivalent taxes that 10 households should be paying

Why not?
You may not be making use of the services because of your inefficient use of land, but you do benefit from those services being available in the form of higher land value.
I started a SaaS service [1], in Aug 2019, to extract tables from images and scanned PDFs. Launched with a post on hacker news. I added couple of contractors who share the development on-demand. Last month, for the first time, we hit 10K users, no paid advertising, hitting 170K requests per month. Not expecting to cash out any profits now, investing them in the development. Now, I'm dealing B2B contracts and taking customizations for the businesses. The goal is to hit at least 3K in profit by next year end. Also, releasing a light weight version of the current published version as a new SaaS [2] at low cost.

[1]: https://extracttable.com

[2]: https://imagetoexcel.com
Charming bakery with five stories of apartments above it > charming bakery by itself
What makes it dishonest? Do you not believe that she stipulated that she'd resign under certain conditions? Do you not believe those conditions then came to exist? Do you not believe that her managers accepted her resignation?

I don't have a strong opinion in the matter (and have no connection to Google), but if she in fact unambiguously offered her resignation conditioned on her paper not being approved to publish and Google accepted her offer, I don't see how she can turn around and claim she was fired.
There is a large random component, and also a large popularity component.
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