skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start with G. K. Chesterton's _Orthodoxy_ - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16769 It is not an overview of philosophy, but it is one person's account of how he found one and it touches on a lot of questions you may want to ask yourself.
Proud to have compromised an 11/780 as an 18yo intern, by writing a trojan that perfectly emulated the VMS login service, leaving it running on an admin terminal after inventing some excuse to be in their office and to log in on a terminal there. Somewhere I still have the printout of sys$uaf with my account having "Change mode to kernel privilege".
If we all took the point of view that any government spending that doesn't directly and immediately benefit us personally should be cancelled, no government spending would be likely to happen at all. It's an inherently right-wing/individualist position.

I think this is an issue of right-wing media spin, rather than beliefs that working-class families innately hold. (Also since my experience of working-class families' views is generally the opposite of your claim.)

There is a lot more egregious government spending distribution problems than this one, which get ignored. In general, government spending benefits the middle classes (and upper classes) far more than it does the working class, and that's true in other areas more than it is in education.

From https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/does-uk-government-sp... e.g. "The wealthy also drive three times as many miles as the poor. This makes them big beneficiaries of spending on roads, worth £8 billion a year. Poor people make up ground elsewhere: they use buses twice as much. But bus subsidies are smaller."
So this is basically considering the opposite scenario -- not one in which there is pent up demand but one in which there are many existing abandoned buildings. Moreover, it's a scenario in which the introduction of LVT was not revenue neutral -- you're including in the measurement the economic benefits of a tax cut. It means you're essentially here:

> It seems obvious that this only works if the amount of the land tax isn't large enough to cause these behavioral changes.
To put some hard numbers:

The modern Greek alphabet (in shape) essentially dates back to ~5th century BC, with the alphabet itself largely originating about 9th century BC, although some letters were added, removed, or changed in the meantime.

Classical Latin fully developed its alphabet about 1st century BC--we use this alphabet still today, although letters J and V were not added until the Renaissance. Its origins are perhaps about 7th century BC (with most of the letterforms being stable from its inception, although the inventory definitely changed a few times in the meantime).

Modern Chinese script dates from around 2nd century AD, although the distinction between Simplified (1950s) and Traditional Chinese is greater than the distinction I've made between modern and original scripts for Greek and Latin.

The history of modern Chinese script is a bit harder to trace than Western alphabets. Oracle bone script is dated to about 13th century BC, and the earliest scripts that are generally recognizable date to about 3rd century BC, and the intervening history is well outside my area of knowledge. By contrast, we know that Latin derives from Ancient Greek script, which itself derives from Phoenician, which is dated to ~11th century BC. Phoenician itself derives from Egyptian, itself dated to perhaps the 4th millennium BC, well before the Chinese region developed writing.

Comparing to other regions, Mesoamerica appears to develop writing somewhere in the early 1st millennium BC, although the relationship between various Preclassic civilizations is very much in dispute. Andean civilizations develop quipu at least as early as the Wari civilization (late 1st millennium AD), although there is an artifact from Norte Chico (3rd millennium BC) that is arguably a quipu. Whether or not quipu is some kind of writing system is of course hotly debated. Indus Valley script develops in the 3rd millennium BC, but here again it's debated if this is actually a fully developed script. And of course, Sumerian cuneiform develops in the late 4th millennium BC, the oldest known true writing system.

So, in short, Chinese script postdates Greek and Latin scripts by almost any metric you choose.
Thats cool, but nothing on that list strikes me as revolutionary kind of development. To me revolutionary is invention of the GPS, or a transistor, or the combustion engine, or a lightbulb - those inventions changed the world.

With everything on that list, thru made a better version of something that already existed, especially with display - it's not like they were the ones developing and manufacturing the displays.
Even the ARM architecture and instruction set is not created by them.

I think it's important not to get carried away.
Perhaps, but Tor books are DRM-free in general. Nevertheless, it appears to be impossible to give Tor money and get an ebook in exchange.
I’m definitely a car guy, and I would love to one day own an Aston Martin. I really couldn’t see ever wanting an EV one though. I also own a Tesla so I’m not anti-EV or anything. EVs are just good transportation, they’re not that interesting.

I think it’s like with watch people. Everyone wants a mechanical one but they’re objectively worse for telling time than quartz.
> if a parent is a musical prodigy, it’s akin to having a fantastic coach at an early age.

...not really. Take it from a musician: performance ability and teaching ability are not as interconnected as you're implying.

And on top of that, even a fantastic coach can't really do much if the one being "coached" has no interest in learning something, or in practicing what one learned.

> As long we live in a free-market society

We don't, and arguably never have. A free market is pretty difficult to achieve when you have existing players motivated to hold onto that wealth and prevent competitors from unseating it.

> social mobility in and out of the upper class is extremely difficult there.

You think it's significantly easier here? Especially with wages tanking relative to cost of living for all but the upper class, I don't see this fixing itself any time soon without one heck of a course correction. We ain't that far off from a European-style regulated society (and indeed, political discourse in the US seems to be pushing for it).
I disagree with the Skyscrapercity recommendation. I stopped posting there because there were too many very young, very inexperienced people promoting themselves as experts and jumping ugly with anyone who disagreed with them.

You could post something completely factual with references and contemporary media accounts to back it up and if it didn't fit the hive mindset, you'd be ridiculed.

Maybe it's changed. But when I was there, it was a bubble of groupthink.
Even on their own hardware (Surface Pro) I've ran into really annoying issues with DPI scaling, especially when docking/undocking from a secondary monitor.
Right, but my focus is more about making the date tolerable if you don't click right away. There's nothing worse than being on a long date with someone when you know within the first 5 minutes that you aren't interested. And again, you showed enough to get the person to meet you in the first place and that was likely through the exchange of remote messages. Maybe I miss out by not giving the date more time to work, but there's an abundance of options. There will always be more dates as long as you are putting in the right effort. That first date is like a quick interview which screens people for a more extensive meeting.
Interesting they’re not having a go at the estimates for a truck BEV. And that they think a 13,000kg battery is ok.

The trucks at work weight about 7000 so without engine but with a massive 450hp motor we’d come out even but a 13,000kg battery would eat half the cargo weight and nullify any savings in diesel.
I'd say they are roughly the same from a user's perspective, though the file systems are very different of course.
Its only a proposal in JS. For long function chains i like to use intermediate variables as they make the code easier to understand.
The line from the film is about the Quarter Pounder - not the big mac - being named the Royale with Cheese because of the metric system.
There is no particular negative interactions with the hash functions and quantum cryptography.

Bitcoin is designed so that different asymmetric crypto governing controlling coins can be compatibility introduced-- as has been done a couple times in the past (to introduce revisions to the script system). PQ crypto could be introduced in that way.

Unfortunately existing PQ signature schemes don't have a great mix of maturity and performance that make them especially attractive absent a clear and present need.

For years I maintained a private patch set to introduce hash based signatures on short notice if needed. I haven't for a number of years now in part because there are now enough contributors I'm confident that if it were needed it could be done quickly without any special preparatory effort.

Users can change the rules governing their coins just by moving them.
At the same time these primary works are the main examples of philosophy actually being done.

Any summary material can only speak to the results of philosophy, while the primary sources when closely analyzed (like source code!) yield the process. Which will be more helpful if one wants to develop a "personal philosophy"? Working out the chains of reasoning or picking-and-choosing from a menu?
They are. But 1440 on a 12" laptop (like the Sony Vaio) competed well.

You can also get a 4K UHD Dell at 13".

> In fact, the only comparable laptop display in existence today would probably be the Dell XPS 17" UHD+

> But it’s not just the resolution

It was, above. Now it's the resolution and the ecosystem. "Apple did it first". "No they didn't." "Well, they were the first to do it right" ( for varying definitions of "right").

I have no particular horse in the game. In fact, my entire home ecosystem from Mac Pro to MBP to iPad, iPhone, Watch would more lean me in one particular direction, but ...
> The boom/bust cycle is caused by what we declare to be the solution: active management and printing of the money supply as desired to achieve short-term economic or political goals.

That seems like quite an extraordinary claim without much evidence.
Indeed, ACLU has long done so - this is why I said "even ACLU". But this particular article is misleading - they certainly did change their take on free speech after post-Charlottesville criticism from the left. It kinda dodges the issue by saying, "well, there are conflicts between rights sometimes, so we just issued a guidance on how to resolve them" - but the point is that the guidance is different from ACLU's past consistent stance.
They had roughly 6 employees and 20 beefy servers when they sold to Facebook. They were solidly profitable. Sort of wish they went the Craigslist route rather than taking Facebook billions.
InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place
There's no purer expression of a certain class of cloistered Apple-thought than this - the competitors "focus on one feature, photos at night" (come on, really?), in comparison to the focus Apple shows on a __six thousand dollar display__, which is being lauded for...checks notes...using a display-specific ICC profile, which is _tablestakes_ by every modern operating system and premium hardware manufacturer for setting colorspaces and tuning per-display at the factory, and the color profile for the display uses an artificially low white point. A banal, baseline features of displays and OS 1/6th the cost is laundered into a declaration of supremacy, and we all lose all the cool information about the underlying tech and color science we could have been discussing.
It lived on in a much larger way than that by becoming, in a certain sense, the AMD Opteron. There's been a travelling team of hotshot CPU architects who move around the industry together and they gave us the later (i.e. the ones that were actually good) DEC Alpha, the AMD K8 "Opteron", the Apple A-series CPUs that we're all fawning over right now, and the AMD Zen series.
Having read plenty of python numerical code, I'm not sure "easy to parse and understand" is what exactly comes to mind.
The most basic reason for wanting a Lisp-1 would be to make code more context-free. "foo" refers to "foo", and you don't have to be aware of whatever special underlying context is there.

The closest parallel I can think of is Scala implicits. You give me a fragment of Scala code using implicits it might be hard to know _what_ is going to happen. Similarly, having a bunch of namespaces (or, perhaps more importantly, leaning into them and having many name overlaps) just means that it's harder to read a single code fragment and know what it's going to do.

Though I'm pretty partial to the argument that, like..... yeah you're going to call a function so the name refers to a function. But without extra symbols around this concept to help the reader, in this age it seems like a concept that is hard to take advantage of.
I've been using floccus (https://floccus.org) for quite some time. It's a browser extension available for Chrome and FF that syncs bookmarks to a WebDAV server. I had the occasional sync conflict where I needed to re-initialise the sync, but it mostly just worked fine.

I've recently switched to using Safari more and to sync that, you'll sadly need a macOS running e.g. Synkmark (http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/).

Edit: I think the iCloud tools for Windows also can sync bookmarks between Safari and e.g. Firefox or Chrome.
The previous post made me want to go digging and ended up finding this gem[0].

Looks like you're both kind of right- Stanford wrote the code for their first routers to run off on top of DEC/TOPS machines, and then the code was lifted from Stanford by Cisco.

[0]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2309917/lan-wan-router-...
OP talks about somewhere else, but Poland have public registry of domain names that every ISP must block/redirect to Ministry of Finance website in their DNS resolver: https://hazard.mf.gov.pl/ (gambling sites running without proper license) (this is only about ISP resolver, no intercepting going on)
Scientists fear that ‘covidization’ is distorting research
This is super common on HN. Just look at threads on Tesla. Fortunately betting against someone with a closed mind is super profitable, because they'll always mis-price the risk/reward.
Cashew fruit (not the nut, which grows on the outside of the fruit), is quite tasty and oddly filling. Try it if you ever have the opportunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew#/media/File:Cashew_appl...
How'd that work out for fox when they bought myspace?
Still skeptical. MRIs aren't that precise and we've seen similar epidemics before that turned out to be fake and driven by mass hysteria. Someone reports an unusual effect or illness and suddenly everyone attributes any weird feelings/illnesses with the same thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/1999/jul/06/healtha...
deergomoo is correct, Apple’s “Retina” displays work by displaying all screen elements using images/icons/text rendered at 2x the liner number of pixels as their non-retina counterparts. Since it’s a fixed 2x scaling, the only way to have anything other than the native panel resolution (with elements that are 2x their non-retina number of linear pixels) is to render at a frame buffer size larger than the actual screen. Then this frame buffer is scaled (by the GPU) to fit the actual screen size. Because it’s usually scaling down and not up this theoretically results in only very minor blurring that most people don’t notice.

It used to be this non-native scaling was only an option and by default the MacBooks ran at the exact native panel resolution. But at some point that changed so the default is one “notch” on the “more space” slider. I presume most people preferred it that way as you don’t get a lot of text on the screen at the native “Retina” resolution. But the sharpness is worse than when running unscaled.
In my opinion, philosophy as a means of understanding ourselves and our world beyond what science can tell us is essentially futile. In Plato's day, there was no delineation between science, philosophy and mathematics. The word "philosophy" meant "love of wisdom" in Greek. A philosopher was just someone who wanted to discover knowledge of any kind. Over time, philosophers systematized certain areas of knowledge, giving us math, logic, and science. The areas of knowledge that we were able to systematize are no longer considered to be philosophy. Philosophy today, almost by definition, is the study of problems that have resisted all attempts at systematic understanding for two thousand years. It has no wisdom for us. If you want wisdom, look to math and science.

Psychology, sociology, biology, physics, astronomy, and mathematics offer knowledge that can help you understand the world and your place in it. Philosophy simply does not offer that kind of knowledge, as much as it does try.
Short answer, no.

HN is good because there are a lot of people and content is always refreshed. HN people are linked more than anything by spending A LOT of time on the computer but not much else.

The second you branch out there simply are not enough people.

There are tons of sites that have tried it but they are somslow that the die pretty quickly.

Ask metafilter.is similar but more general but people there are A LOT dumber.

What makes HN great I'd there are a lot of non-idiots. It's gonna be hard finding a lot of people who aren't idiots and use the computer a lot.
June 2018.

You may be thinking of the (Chinese) mission to return some moon rocks that's still ongoing.
No we don't. I will never participate in a scheme where we rob someone at gunpoint to "help" another person. The end doesn't justify the means.
The important innovation of Bitcoin (and the like) was that it democratised the ability to scam. A band of techno-utopians created a technology (ideology?) that made it much easier and cheaper to empty the pockets of the gullible.
Is the philosophy that Chesterton found something other than conservative Christianity, and is Orthodoxy anything other than apologetics for the same?
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Use the dryer to kill bedbugs, lice, ticks, etc. In this case bedbugs are probably of greatest concern.
Why would someone pay a 4x multiple on a site that probably wont be making anything 4 years from now? (4x being a rough estimate of the buying price).

That's 40 grand that could be used on traffic to the new site
> Even a low percent gain over the long term is very, very difficult.

In the words of those Screen Rants pitch meeting skits: "It'll be easy, barely an inconvenience!"

The easiest and most surefire form of investment out there is in land. There's a finite amount of it, so while on local scales values will fluctuate, on an aggregate scale the value of one's total land holdings will increase indefinitely as demand increases (which it will, both from a growing global population and a growing global economy). Land ain't especially liquid, but on long-term scales that ain't really a problem.

Until we as a society pull some moves out of the Georgist playbook and tax land value, the rich will always be motivated to consolidate that wealth into land control, and will be able to hold onto that wealth at the expense of everyone else.
> including the devs who work on their core product (Firefox/Browser Engine)

Ummm, no, in general those were the devs who weren’t laid off.
(I am a Mozilla employee)
I looked at that, and it does not appear to result in brighter-than-white output on my iPhone 12 mini.
Yeah I was also confused. I wrote a bidirectional parser/writer layer for yaml in a haskell program I had at work. The yaml structure mappings were all declarative in the code and even allowed documentation for the structures to be printed out. It's not that hard once you define the primitive bidirectional (higher-order) mapping function to go from a `Configurable a` to a `Configurable b`, the rest kind of unfolds from there.
> Does paper cash printed by government make more sense?

Than energy wasting cash computed by chinese miners and (in the early days) a select group of early adopters? Yes, it makes more sense.
This is what I mean: USA Divert masks of other countries: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/mask-wars-coro...
That's quite a ridiculous statement in this context. Even highly-trained, extremely smart developers are proven to not be able to use C without introducing gaping security holes. That's not "it can hurt you". That's "it hurts you and everyone that is exposed to your RCE machine".
In my opinion, AI has to be better than the average professional driver. Who is in turn significantly better than the average texting, sleepy, angry, drunken idiot. My uncle had a plaque for a million miles driving his bus without an accident.
The follow suggestions are all novels or non-fiction written as narratives

* English rural veterinarian novels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot

* Corporate security - The ISC2 CISSP course book https://www.amazon.com/Official-ISC-Guide-CISSP-CBK/dp/11194...

* Military - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22

* Internal investigations - Airframe by Michael Chriton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airframe_(novel)
This is incredible. When will a Windows client be a available?
‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ At 20: How the Soundtrack Reinforced a Music Myth
> Hmm... so things started going downhill in 1990.

DEC did some things right, like having a good WAN product line called DECnet, that enabled corporate global networks before the Internet.

But they had some serious weaknesses, like a difficult transition from VMS to Ultrix. Also, their Mass. HQ location wasn't in SV, and Mass. has restrictive employee rights that Calif. doesn't have.

Fun fact: if you took the DEC VMS administration classes back in the 80's, you had to register with TLA agencies.
Yes, cheap X86s were clearly running for all the workstation vendors, but most people in that world couldn’t really believe it in their gut. Since the article mentions Christiansen, I’ll say that those workstation vendors, most significantly Sun, faced the classic Innovator’s Dilemma-described failure: doing their best shortly before they died.

While search engines do exhibit the benefit of highly parallel divide and conquer, Google was really the first to take it to the limit. That was sequoia’s motivation for investing. I know because I also had a divide-and-conquer startup around then and Sequioa was quite interested in the approach.
ETA: when I say ‘you’, it’s not personal. Sometimes I type as stream of consciousness and it’s more a figure of speech. I am trying to fix this habit while commenting. This seemed to be a good time to clarify. Not sure I want to edit the entire comment and sentence structure.

If you want clean streets, ban vagrancy and street living.

You can’t save everyone. Savior complex is self serving. At some point, you have to cut damaging/damaged people lose.

The sanctimonious savior complex is frankly nauseating ..especially when it achieves nothing but create noise that is pleasing only to the one practicing the virtue-signaling sounds.

I attended al-anon meetings for three months to support a friend and continued going to them because I found it helpful to understand the effect addiction(of all kinds) has on the normal people around them. We have to be kind. Yes. But we are not our ‘brothers’ keepers’, as it were.. we need social boundaries when it comes to taking over the burden of those over whom/whose actions we have no control.
It looks like the sample collection finished and Hayabusa2 started its journey back to earth in mid November 2019.

https://www.space.com/hayabusa2-spacecraft-leaves-asteroid-r...

Edit: I think the differing answers reflect different events. Hayabusa2 arrived at the asteroid in June 2018 and departed in November 2019.