skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides it is:
- fully programmable and extensible with Python scripts
- has out of the box alerting
- support for capture files
- highly customizable regarding transporting events to output sinks
The use of "." as an argument is actually probably one of my most common wtf's with pipes in general.

I tend to use it a lot if I'm just piping a vector to base functions (gsub/grep have x as their third argument.

This syntax looks like it makes that a little harder, but the new error messages are going to make everything so much better that I'm totally fine with it.
Introduction to List Comprehensions in Python
You can determine if the article is internally self-consistent and externally consistent with your priors.
Every other iPhone alternative has thousands of features as well, they're all very competitive with an iPhone yet don't have such a locked down system. Smartphones that no longer exist also had thousands of features, that didn't stop consumers from abandoning them.

There's only so many ways you can tell me you care so little about walled gardens that it ranks below about a thousand features that you actually base your purchasing decision on. Let me explain it very, very simply: I and many others actually give a shit about walled gardens, we actually make purchasing decisions based on that by not buying Apple. I personally refuse to buy Apple devices for myself that are incredibly locked down and limited and so intentionally incompatible with every other device on the market; Oh, that describes every single Apple device including the very first iPhones since before Apple became a trillion dollar company by selling a billion iPhones. You and millions of others could have made a similar decision but you didn't, you found about a thousand other things more important.

Over countless choices of countless combinations of thousands of features from companies all vying for more money and attention, consumers have consistently demonstrated that walled gardens are not just a very distant concern that they won't bother paying for, it's often a desirable choice and a top priority amongst many consumers who openly desire features & limitations that are only possible in Apple's locked down walled garden.

I don't think it's helpful to continue this conversation any further. I find your depiction of consumers to be hopelessly out of touch and I think it's kind of pathetic to claim that walled gardens are important yet find a thousand other reasons to ignore it. Every purchasing decision is a trade-off, not everyone gets literally every last thing their heart desires, nor should they because that's a waste of resources. Consumers get what they really want, the market has done well to ensure that, and evidently you've fulfilled your top thousand most desired features in a phone with Apple too.

Calling for the government to step in and override the choices of millions of consumers is the last thing I want, even if it runs contrary to my own consumer choices.
land value tax. Yes, If you decide to buy a plot in downtown San Fransisco you are taxed the same as the neighboring plot with the Salesforce tower.

This is exactly the point he is making: One should put the land to good use. Move the bungalows where land is cheap and tax is low.
> whereas she repeatedly encouraged her supporters to attack LeCun, and avoided his points.

This is historical revisionism, colored by your misremembering of the events. If you go back and look, you'll be unable to find Gebru encouraging anyone to attack LeCun.

Nor will you find LeCun making an effort to engage with Gebrus research. He never so much as acknowledges the existence of her publications when asked to read or comment on them.

E: as an amusing example of the importance of this kind of research, my phone decided that when I typed "Gebru", I meant "Henry".
Very cool demo. Rough around the edges but I was able to play around with some shapes and textures before long. Looking forward to seeing where you take this. I can imagine a great use case for a project I'm working on if there is a way to manipulate the shapes programmatically in response to user events.
Language Servers Are the New Frameworks
Show HN: A new type of website archiving software
(Note: I enjoy the discussion but I won't be offended if I get no reply! You're free to consider probability just a construct and not accept its applicability to real-world reasoning.)

Ok, what can you say then regarding your degrees of belief about the statements "X=0: there are no heads", "X=1: there is one", "X=2: there are two" and “X={0,2}: there are none or two”?

Of course, if you don't think you have degrees of belief to start with there is no way you can make sense of assigning numbers to them. But I thought we had progressed to the point where you could accept that they existed and that they could be ordered.

> I don't think people assess the truth value of a statement on a continuum from truth to false.

So they cannot be ordered? Or there are no extremes?

> When interpreting probability as a degree of belief this property is not only not useful, but is particularly troublesome, because adding and subtracting degrees of beliefs doesn't appear to make a lot of sense.

Are the rules I proposed problematic in some specific way? They make a lot of sense as far as I can tell.
The business model is probably a bit of a hydra. They make a little money from the hardware, a little money from services, a little money from ads.
I'm not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. I have read a lot of Nassim Taleb and completely agree with your comment.

He is a modern philosopher with really valuable insights about how to navigate the world given all of our biases and inability to accept the role of uncertainty in just about everything we do.
I have no sympathy for obese people
"non peer-reviewed study conducted by online gambling company Royal Panda"

I'm guessing their PR team just wrote down what they expect to produce the most clicks.
They do - if there could be 5000 more households on the land occupied by the farmers, and paying that much more tax revenue to the town, that could be viewed as a financial strain.
Crowdsource “Covid Moonshot” Is Prepping Antivirals for Human Trials
What resources did you use to learn how to do this?
Which Apple Trees Should I Choose?
Par for the course. I would expect their PR teams to do this. They do it for CEOs and other executives too. If you can/need to pay for a PR team it will happen.
If unemployment suicides maintain the normal relationship to unemployment rates, it’s likely that more people will die from suicides than from having covid as a primary morbidity.
Those two things are necessary, but not sufficient, to prove something is credible. The best propaganda will meet those two requirements.
Multiple reasons, depending on your level of cynicism. Least cynical is that there were competing priorities in the general and the current President was (is) an overall distraction from any policy discussions. Most cynical is that Dems don't actually like winning because it gives them somebody to blame. Both are corporatist parties that don't generally work for the majority of people. But, like I said, that's the cynical take!
Homeowners whose physical home makes up a lot of the value of their property would probably see a decrease, and those whose home makes up a small amount of the value of their property would probably see an increase. The broad idea is to incentivize actually using land instead of sitting on empty lots waiting to flip them.
This makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims. Like the bond market is saturated that seems the opposite of true. This also claims theres been a high inflation but that doesn't seem to be true either based on any metric.

I think the one thing is clear and I agree with is taxes increases capital outflow. But my biggest issue is with the central premise that is taken at face value. That the government needs more money. I don't think it does. The US government especially has far to much money and waste most of it.

So I'd say instead of trying to find sneaky ways of taking more of the citizen money maybe incentive it to be use to create more opportunities. Instead of taking from some to give to other incentive opportunities so those who have will willingly give opportunities to those who don't
There was a convincing op-ed in WSJ a few years ago about how in all the states that are facing public sector defaults, the ultimate payer of these debts will be homeowners. Since basically the only place left for most governments to go is property value (unless they have huge businesses they can tax).

And it is worse in the poorer states, because they don't have high home values to cushion the blow to the individual taxpayer.
That report is obvious bullshit and you should be able to discern that immediately. It ranks countries on “ healthcare, education, technology access, working conditions, and social protection” and then calls that “social mobility”. Zero actual analysis of intra- or inter-generational wealth variance.
Well signed overflow being undefined is something that needs to be fixed.
Just FYI that was typo, “stinks” was meant to be “stimulus.”

And again the fact that an ignorant self-interested business owner’s complaint is presented without an opposing view is disgusting. Even if SFDPH’s action is found to be unlawful it is ridiculous to call it “criminal” and irresponsible to print it without context.

San Francisco is correct to look at local conditions and make a more stringent judgement than the state as a whole. I do not understand what is so difficult to understand about this (except overwhelming bad faith and indifference to human life).
In one jurisdiction, temporarily.
Hayabusa2 Asteroid Mission
Which of these would result in “less money for innovation”?

Carbon tax can be made revenue neutral and will net benefit innovative companies and/or customers buying their products.

LVT is literally taxing non-productive, limited, legally hereditary but actually “common heritage” capital. No damage there.

I’m quite opposed to UBI myself but I think there’s plenty of other ways to improve the social safety net with less opportunity of abuse, the net benefit being that people are less concerned with staying alive (low Maslow need) and free to be creative (high Maslow need).
"That isn’t really possible, though: CDNs mean that blocking by IP just doesn’t work. The most effective method I’ve found is transparently redirecting all traffic on port 53 to a DNS server I control. DoH means that I might as well setup a transparent HTTPS proxy."

This is a very good point and I am dealing with this myself on my home networks.

Like any household/family we have some number of dubious/untrusted devices that still need Internet access.

By establishing my own recursive resolver I can act as a chokepoint (and monitoring point) for their behavior online. It's a very elegant solution, actually, and I have created a nice integration between my datacenter-hosted resolver and nextdns.io as the adblocking upstream DNS.

DoH breaks all of this.

I have no interest in diving down the "MITM my own network by inserting custom certs into embedded devices that may or may not use them".

Since we're talking about it, though, it occurs to me that you could quickly do a DoH lookup to every single new IP connected to, outbound, from your network - and then block all IPs that answer your DoH query. You're basically pre-testing all new SSL connections to see if they are to a DoH resolver that you (presumably) don't want to talk to ...

This solves the CDN problem ... does it solve the problem entirely ? I have only just thought of this moments ago ...
The author of Existential Comics offers some advice:

https://existentialcomics.com/blog/1/How_to_study_philosophy...

I like courses or philosophical works, which focus on a common themes, common threads. That allows one to see more connections across different thinkers.

One instance of this is John Vervaeke's Awaking from the meaning crisis (which isn't only philosophy, but also cognitive science).

Other courses like that are those from John Searle (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind).

Hubert Dreyfus has a course on existentialism in literature and film.

Thinking of it, there is also a channel called Like Stories Of Old. The maker publishes video-essays, which are often philosophical in tone and reference existential thinkers like Kierkegaard.

My own journey into philosophy started with Wittgenstein (apart from an introduction in Greek Philosophy in high school).
Add MMT to the list.

LVT is good for state governments that don't have their own currency.
icc is arguably bigger than msvc (which is not even a modern C compiler)
Yeah this seems a bit silly. We are not ignorant buffoons because we can’t read latin. Sure, I could certainly read more things if I could read latin, but the same could be said for speaking french or knowing set theory. The author’s defence of different numbering systems as a means to gain insight is valid, but the extrapolation is silly.
I agree with your sentiment that this can be a slippery slope, but I also think that you (and TFA) are glossing over an important point: there's a huge difference between distribution infrastructure and discovery infrastructure.

The internet was full of conspiracy theories, crackpots, and silliness, well before the facebooks, youtubes, and so forth. The key difference is that these were hard to find. Early on, the most effective discovery infrastructure was based on hand-curated indexes (e.g., [1,2]). These moved slowly and were hard to game. Now, those same indexes are generated by algorithms, the gaming of which has spawned an entire cottage industry.

The parent's viewpoint and TFA are not incompatible, as long as we don't assume that content distribution and content discovery have to come from the same service. The open internet survived for over 2 decades without bringing down democracy. At the same time, it would be a good idea to see a bit more editorial responsibility from services driving discovery. Better still, if hosting and discovery are decoupled, there's no network effects or content archive creating a captive audience if editorial power is abused.

Tying things back to TFA, and perhaps the point that you're trying to make here, amadeuspagel: IPFS seems mostly aimed at providing hosting infrastructure rather than discovery. I'll emphasize the point again: censorship-free hosting has been largely unproblematic for the past two decades. What's been getting us into trouble now is discovery without editorial review (and forcibly tying discovery to hosting).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!#Founding
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User%27s_Guide_...
Most societies already levy property taxes on real estate, including on unimproved land. I don't know how they assess the value of that land, but they must have a working method for it.
>they seem worthy of protection?

Maybe mainlanders don't deem HK worthy of protection. Mainlanders cared about pollution, they protested, government responded. They lost their shit at poor safety due to rapid development (aviation, high speed rail, food, medicine), the government responded. They were disgruntled over pork prices. The government responded. Chinese society skews old, conservative and anti LGBT. Government unfortunately responded. Unprecedented MeToo trials happening right now. Government responding. Sufficiently significant issues that elicit widespread attention gets addressed, Chinese people advocate for themselves all the time.

> fed propaganda

Fact is pork prices is literally a bigger problem to mainlanders than plight of privileged HKers with historic acrimonious relationship. This is a well understood dynamic, suggesting HKers would have ever got mainstream mainland support because of propaganda and not bad blood is exactly the kind of anglosphere illiteracy on China I'm talking about. ProHK / pro liberal reform voices exist but not much. Why? HK protestors from mainland perspective: young, nativist, disillusioned but privileged individuals who spread shit about mainlanders on social media for years... Yeah, I just described alt-right. Is it any surprise they got minimal support. Lots of mainland diaspora in the west with access to both side of the story, did meaningful numbers come out to support HK? No, they had access to both sides of the story, they just knew better.

>integration

Of course the goal is integration, CCP is not spending tremendous resources to be cruel for shits and giggles. If Han knew how much was going into XJ they'd protest, due to costs not human rights. Like people everywhere, the public would rather the minorities rot than take disproportionate resources. But unlike democracies, CCP can actually ignore public sentiment. Some in this generation will be a shell, their descendants will be integrated. It's ugly, but things move fast in Chinese 5 year plans. None of this long arc of justice nonsense. It's not right, but history will judge relative wrongness compared to locking up 1/4 of black Americans or trapping indigenous peoples in backwater reserves forever.
That's one commonly presented half of the app problem, the other commonly presented half is the blocking of alternative means of payment from the device. The latter half isn't talked about as much on the app side because once you can load an app outside of the official app store the presumption is there won't be any problems with the app using non-apple payment. It's still a problem whether or not you can buy something externally and then import it as Apple has restrictions as to what the app can tell you about this (e.g. you're not allowed to say "go to website.com and buy it for 30% less than on your iPhone" in the app) and it's artificially increasing the barrier to this option.

Whether or not you think those points on their own is enough to warrant specific action is up to you. The problem is people talk in these threads as if arguments they don't agree with don't exist which leads to a lot of the same discussions every time a thread about this comes up.

My personal take is the official store should be able to set whatever percentages as long as the option to use 3rd party distribution and 3rd party payment is there. I.e. let people decide if alternatives are better not try to force Apple to set certain cuts. I can see a lot of why others don't think that though but for me it really comes down to full vertical lock in being as damaging to competition as full horizontal lock in IMO.
And that can happen after just a recompile.
FWIW, I've also been noticing this in IRL/person situations:

> I think I witness the pandemic's toll on people's capacity for empathy

There's so many widely varying ways that effects of the pandemic can hit someone pretty bad (financially, mentally, of course physically, etc), and I think that part of the problem is that it's hard to see how real those problems are if you happened to not have suffered those particular hardships.

Personally I found this with isolation through lockdown. People who live with family, a partner or even just housemates seem to not quite understand what happens when the isolation creeps up on you (it creeps). Between the waves, when I could see people again, I could easily tell ones that did know, you could see it in their eyes if they talked about the lockdown period.
Kind of jarring to read this kind of misinformation here on HN. This is not true. Even as a non-lawyer, I know that you can literally just ignore it and go to the contempt hearing (where the judge will most likely side with the news outlet).
There are big huge businesses we aren't adequately taxing: Big tech.

When your sector makes up like three of the five most valuable companies on the planet, we probably should be taxing it more.

And Jeff Bezos does not need more money.
I would imagine each apartment dweller would have 1/40th (ish) of the tax burden.
StyleGan was trained on Flickr faces hq. So those are most likely publicly visible Flickr photos.
Are people who have more than one child (or 2.1, if you’d like for monogamous couples) selfish too?
The people who invented algebra and, indeed, science, were absolutely not Arabic. They were Persians and Egyptians working as Islamic scholars in an explicitly Islamic tradition. That Islamic scholarship has fallen so far since their time is a great tragedy.
The only thing inevitable will be that eventually Land-Value taxes will not be enough (if implemented) and then what? There is no end or limit to the amount of money a Government can squander.
I recommend "Sophie's World". It's a philosophy textbook disguised as a young adult book. I read it when I was 29.
> This sounds regressive.

We can't make that determination without knowing how much profit a rented bungalow can receive versus the apartment building. A bungalow in midtown Manhattan might very well house one of the world's richest families.

Fundamentally, LVT is a wealth tax. If you hold a large amount of wealth (land) but have no income then the tax would seem regressive from an income-based perspective. But from a wealth-based perspective, its a perfectly reasonable thing to expect those that own to pay taxes not just those who labor.
Enter Mercury-Prolog: https://mercurylang.org/about.html

- "Modes" are dataflow directions (use them for polymorphic dispatch!)

- "Purity" is an effect system

- "Unique" is linear types

- has backends for C, C#, Java, Erlang
And generate more carbon and traffic by forcing suburban lifestyles?
Asteroids are a very fascinating target. Spacefaring will get a lot easier if we use materials that are already there. And asteroids have the easiest to exploit materials in many senses.
And really only an expert in the things that FAANG companies do. Granted for a place like Amazon that's potentially a very broad space, but it's still a small slice of skills compared to the world where software is ubiquitous. Among other things, zero preparation for safety-critical software. An attitude like "move fast and break things" would end up being "move fast and kill people", and that's kind of a drag on your career. (Insert long discussion about trolly problem and how self-driving car researchers are justifying their crappy algorithms)
Actually, I found watching The Good Place to be really enjoyable in part because of how well it acted as an introduction to philosophy and ethics.

There's some great scenes explicitly addressing concepts like utilitarianism and it's ups and downs, moral desserts, classic examples like the Trolley Problem, and relativism that, at least for me, made those concepts much more accessible when I was doing more reading later on because I already had some sort of concrete idea of how those concepts addressed certain (fantastical) situations.

It's also just a wonderful show, and I think it's worth recommending on its own merits, but there's definitely some actual value there as an accessible intro to several different aspects of philosophy.