skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Games just as often as not have terrible UIs. Take Destiny 2 for example. It's a nightmare of right click (no indication that you'd want to right click). And in particular games are flash for flash sake. I love it for games but I wouldn't want my app I'm trying to be productive with to animate every tiny motion or throw out sparks when I click a button.

Further, much of the database is joypad controlled UIs
Your premise is wrong because there are many people in the voting population who do not work for the government, let alone as members of the same working group. E.g, a bus drivers union can't on their on their own dictate who the mayor is.
> You've never had a problem which was fixed by an update or something which added support for, say, a new model peripheral

For embedded devices? No. I can imagine it happening in general, but I don't think I would ever buy into a proprietary ecosystem so hard that there would be peripherals, and newly released ones at that. Still I would be cautious about doing said updates, lest they ruin the device I already have. Like I've got a newer Marantz receiver that works great and hasn't seen the Internet in several years. Even if they developed some new desirable feature, why would I want to let it reflash itself and possibly break, or even just get slower (software bloat)? I'd rather just continue using it as I bought it.

> there are many other things which legitimately need connectivity and there's no good way to prevent that

I sort things into categories. A TV would be in the category of "wtf would you ever hook that up online" - Internet access can only enable anti-features. A Chromecast is a different category - single purpose disposable device that if it turns into shit you just throw it out. Ads and surveillance are part of its price, and if your goal is to avoid them, you should just setup a Kodi box and call it a day.

Legally I don't really see what you're getting at here. I can see a law for my TV category, but leaving it disconnected or pulling the 5G modem will also solve that. How would you even begin to solve the Chromecast problem with a law? Maybe in the EU you could convince them to mandate unbundling ads from a service, but in the US exploiting consumers by shoving ads at them is one of the most popular business models. I don't see that ever changing via the legal system.
Probably a bit offtopic, but I just sold a land I bought 15 years ago with the intent to build a house with my now ex. Very good ROI.
The best way to learn about philosophy is to take a good introductory course.

Books aren't nearly as good because you won't get to discuss the ideas with other students who are also learning the subject, which is half the fun and half the point of philosophy. You'll also miss out on the insights and explanations of the professor, which will be very valuable, if the professor is any good.

As for books, the Socratic dialogues are probably the best place to start, since the ideas pretty easy to grasp compared to later philosophy, they're written in an engaging way, and give you plenty of food for thought. Also, much of later Western philosophy is a reaction to, comment on, or has been influenced by Socrates and Plato. You'll be much more "in the loop" after getting some familiarity with ancient Greek philosophy than if you just dived straight in to later work.

Something else you'll want to be aware of is that in contemporary philosophy there are two major approaches: Analytic and Continental. Adherents of these approaches generally despise one another, denigrate, or ignore one another's work, though at least more recently the Analytics have been starting to read, re--envision, and appropriate Continental thinkers.

The Analytic approach dominates philosophy in the English-speaking world (and is coming to dominate the rest too), and when you take philosophy courses that's the view you'll most likely be exposed to, and it's Analytic philosophers you're most likely to be recommended when you ask about philosophy, especially on sites like HN, which are more likely to be peopled by fans of logic, rigor, and science, which Analytics themselves are huge fans of.

But your exposure to philosophy would be incomplete and probably really biased if you were mostly exposed to Analytic thought or viewed philosophy primarily through an Analytic lens.
Advertising isn't some zero-sum game that suddenly makes you lose because you happened to see it. Republishing is - the original publisher loses out on the value of his publication because that means either reduced ad revenue or reduced subscription. I'm guilty myself of reading republished articles, but it is a loss for the publisher.
Moderation and censorship are radically different.

Moderation is just to prevent spam and personal attacks and things that have no connection to the conversation.

Censorship is manipulating the conversation by removing ideas that go against the conversation even if they are relevant, well sourced, and respectfully presented.

Be sure not to get the two confused.
The traditional ux pattern for 'enterprise' applications is "dont bother thinking about ux"

Hope that helps
FAANG employees tend to consistently be among the most vocal and outspoken critics of FAANG. Also see the 1,200+ employees who signed a petition unconditionally supporting Gebru while turning a blind eye to her problematic behavior.

There's significant overlap between FAANG employees (and SV tech employees in general) and Woke Twitter.
More Programming Poems
Addition is required by the axioms of probability, not by the interpretation of it. 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.

All in all, to me it's clear that these degrees of belief are a theoretical construct, not an empirical reality. I don't think people assess the truth value of a statement on a continuum from truth to false. This is not how the human psyche works. Personally, no, it's not natural for me to have a degree of belief (in the way that you have defined them) about a statement, and I have no idea how to interpret arithmetic operations involving these "things".
On top of that, I already have a browser installed and each Electron app is a step for turning the Web into ChromeOS.
There's a distinction between moderation and censorship.
Moderation is just removing spam, comments that have no point, or personal attacks.

It crosses into censorship when removing alternate ideas even if the ideas are well sourced and logical and presented in a respectful manner.

Be sure not to confuse the two.

These are clear differences.

4chan let's anything go except, I believe, pedophilia, including personal attacks and comments with no point. Very little moderation.

Hacker News will actively remove posts that are counter to prevailing narrative even if well sourced and presented respectfully. So bordering on Censorship.

So something in between the two would be great.
Still no chromium update. It should just be removed if there is no interest in updating the browser.
That's not the modern Republican platform. Both major parties want stronger central government in some instances, and weaker in others. They just differ in which instances are which.

And they're like that because most people (voters in particular) are like that. Everyone wants stronger government control and regulation over the things they personally dislike, and less control over the things they do like, and they vote for the party that matches those preferences.

Most Republican voters like and dislike the same things, while Democratic voters tend to have much larger variability (outside a core set of things.) It's why the GOP has an easier time hanging on to power than the Democrats do.
There is no need to restart it... Someone mentioned on the github repository that for Arch Linux and other distros the TTS engine I am using (SpeechSynthesis api) is not linked.. If you are running linux depending on your distro that is probably causing the bug
I don't think anything that the press is asserting as their freedom in any way implies that anyone who wants to publish and enjoy those same freedoms shouldn't have them.

You're press, and I'm press too.
I detailed one issue I ran into here on this post:

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/124575/mount-an-...

Looks like some comments were added three years later. The entire mounting system between the Linux command-line/system interface and the Android UI is terrible disconnected and the way to trigger events in one changes in every single release. Having just a knowledge of Linux is not going to help you debug problems with Android.

Android also does a lot of crazy/non-standard SELinux isolation stuff. I do a longer/more complete rant on Android from a few years back here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/android-fragmentation/
What makes someone's opinion particularly valuable when that someone's a woman or not white? They might have different life experiences and perspectives on day to day life compared to a white male, but sex or race has zero relevance to knowledge-based fields.

The opinion of someone anonymous is probably very close to their true opinion. The opinion of non-anonymous users on Twitter is almost certainly censored.
Trying to read the website drove me away.

There's a time and a place for this sort of web design. I
feel strongly that presenting some software to technical minded people is not.
For introductions on broad subjects I always go to textbooks, the kind used in Universities in introductory courses.

On philosophy a good one used in many universities is "The Great Conversation" by Normam Melchert.

Bonus tip: try to find it used online. It will be a lot cheaper.
I started down this rabbit hole some years back and am (still) somewhat there

I knew a little already, so I started with topics in metaphysics/epistomology, made up my mind about them, and moved more into meta-ethics/ethics and more "practical" philosophies. Reason being, if you have a strong stance on something like free will, a lot of your ethics can be derived from there.

If you ever want to talk about it, feel free to shoot me an email evankozliner@gmail.com

I've also got a blog and substack where I write sometimes. You need to write about this stuff to really absorb it imo.

https://thinkoutloudnews.substack.com/
https://medium.com/@evankozliner
They make limited access "textbooks" too.
It's split quite evenly in pro and against camps, at least on privacy.
It is not only denial but glorification on religious grounds. Islam forces its followers to follow without questioning so how they developed the scientific temper is beyond my understanding.

This is propaganda piece.
It may be the keyboard layout which is different.
For an introductory overview, you could do much worse that Sophie's world.
Philosophy has been my main interest for many years now. I believe that I have one of the best active philosophy blogs on the web. Please take a look: https://hegelsbagels.net/
Came across your IH a few months ago.

Those revenues are incredible for a local cookie company with a single kitchen.

Well done!
WizTree – The Fastest Disk Space Analyser
Oh dear. This blog needs to stop being posted here. Two straight days where all he says is "this tech is actually bad I'm not going to use it anymore and neither should you"
Much of what Islamic scholars preserved was also from Greece and Rome I believe. From what I understand, many Greek and Roman texts only exist today because they were transcribed and preserved by Islamic scholars.
Why a land-value tax is inevitable
It's funny how people selling addiction (facebook), moral outrage (twitter), online tracking and ads (google) all think they are better than us who worked in crypto.

Personally, I did not run a company. I can just say I got people what they asked for, without false pretense, while being looked down upon by the likes of you.

> looking down on and mocking people who still have to work for a living

Guess what, actions come with consequences. You created your HN account in 2008. You most certainly knew about crypto in 2009. But you decided not to act - again, and again, and again for 12 years. While we both had to work for a living, I was selling my services for various things like sysadmin of mining rigs, and learning finance on the side to get into the industry.

Maybe you have a part of the blame?

> for not having your dispassionate visionary insight

It's never too late to get in the industry if you really want to, we're still in the early days - like the net in 1995.

However, you may have to change your bad attitude. You do not need passion, but you must at least drop the hatred if you want to work in crypto.
Assuming you're not joking, doesn't its volatility make you nervous? Would you consider spreading out your savings instead, example, a bit of property, a bit of index funds, a bit of pension?
To have a good basic overview of epistemological problems read:
Descartes Mediation, Spinoza's On the Improvement of The Understanding and Ethics, Leibniz's Monadology, Kant's three critiques, Hegel's Phenomenology and Logic, Heidegger's Being and Time.

I would stay away from analytic philosophy, if you are not an US based academic.
Literature is beautiful and deep and fascinating. But it is also dangerous in its power to convey credibility where it may not be due. It is very easy to weave oneself into a net with reason and bind the net fast with literary pomp. How unassailable is my argument once I quote Voltaire!
I've noticed for a while that videos look different in Quicktime, vs VLC, MPV and other players. The colors are less saturated in QT.
Oh my head. The code is everything it shouldn't be. Everything in one big pile mixed together. Ouch!
It's Windows-only, but this tool is genuinely the fastest out there for generating disk space maps of NTFS volumes. It can do in seconds what other tools do in minutes. I'm a big fan.
The solution is to recompile, which you have to do with such ABI changes, since the dawn of time.
Every other platform that doesn't publish racist publications is hiding from you the fact that there are many racists in our society.

Personally, I'd rather know and see what we're up against.
To be fair, most minority and underserved communities back in the 80s and 90s wanted the Dems to take a tough on crime stance, which is why the Dems shifted that way. For example, the crime bill that everyone loves to rag on Biden for voting for was written in cooperation with the input of Black community leaders and activists at the time. It's only in hindsight at the implementation and consequences of those policies that those communities are starting to shift away from that stance.
Although the topic was about smart features so it isn't really OTA or cable we care about. Services like Netflix and Disney+ have embraced those new technologies. I don't think technology like 3D was ever embraced to this extent.

If you compare setups between a new TV with a few year old Roku, AppleTV, or whatever versus a few year old TV with a brand new streaming device, the setup with the new TV is likely going to be the superior option. In fact, Apple hasn't even released a new AppleTV since 2017. I have no idea if this will be a trend that continues, I just don't think "the streaming hardware becomes outdated quicker than the display hardware" is guaranteed to be true like we have assumed it was in the past.
Linux is a kernel, I explicitly wrote GNU/Linux, and if it makes sense to you or not, it doesn't matter.

The reality is that Android/Linux has a windowing system, supports external monitors, keyboards and mice.
I couldn’t help thinking about a lot of the kids I knew at University while reading that. Some of them were enrolled in classes, and some of them were only tangentially associated with the school. Many of them were poor or occasionally homeless or just had very low paying jobs, and substance abuse was not at all uncommon. But the thing is they were all very smart and creative and tough. I would much rather have spent my time with them then the mindless frat boys and the so-called honors students... I think those are the types of privileged people discussed in the post that simply cannot function outside of that bubble. I am not suggesting that anyone should want to be poor or unprivileged but rather that it is a possibility, and this sort of humble approach helps to give a better perspective when things are not going so well.
Any language 50 years old is going to have problems like this. C has done rather well.
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I wish I could set a DNS redirect, however I have a Netgear router and the only option I know would be to install a custom router firmware. That's not something I have already done. Does someone have a good walkthrough and recommendations on the choice of firmware ?
The answer is probably not in building a system, but by individuals putting in the effort to challenge misinformation in the contexts where it is deployed. I feel the phrase “don’t feed the trolls” and XKCD 386 have caused a generation to give up on fighting the good fight, while the trolls have not given up.

I don’t think there is a lot of radical strategy needed here - just a lot of hard work and vigilance.

When you see misinformation, take the effort to call it out, and hope that your civility and reasonableness win over the silent audience.

Easier said than done when dealing with echo-chamber communities, but those communities have to spill out into your own world at some point, and I guess that’s the point to tackle it.
I studied philosophy at the undergraduate level only, so take these opinions with a grain of salt.

Philosophy is a cosmos, the same way that science is: you study particular fields within it based on what you want to get out of them.

The "questions of life" fall into several categories (not exhaustive): biological, phenomenological/experiential, emotional, moral, existential, absurd. Do any of those interest you?

Edit: I also want to say that I strongly encourage people interested in reading and learning philosophy to do it in a class or group setting, at least initially. It's good to be an independent reader and interpreter, but most philosophy makes heavy use of terms of art that can be profoundly misleading or easy to misinterpret on one's own, particularly when getting started.
"Tax is an agreement that we find these things valuable to pay for, as a society."

But we don't agree. A lot of people are affronted that as they see it they're being asked to, in essence, fund a high quality education for wealthier people's kids that their own kids can never have access to.

Whether they're right or wrong (and I've yet to see evidence that they're wrong), that's their view. And there are a lot of them. Which is why Clegg could never sell it to the electorate back in the coalition days.
Ask HN: Is there a consumer-friendly Pi-Hole?
Does a consumer-friendly version of a Pi-Hole, one that would be easy for someone non-technical to set up, exist? If not, is there a reason why?
As paradox as that may sound, in a sense the opposite of open-mindedness is needed. There needs to be more social pressure on people to keep discussions civil and to stay intellectually honest. The problem right now is that people advance argument for rhetorical purposes only, in order to "win" instead of solving problems together. Social pressure to change that requires people to be less tolerant towards intellectually dishonest people.

Of course, I agree with you that open-mindedness is important when dealing with intellectually honest people.
The pain seems to originate from the wish to keep one ABI for an architecture even though the architecture is mutable and constantly changing. The intmax_t type was made to represent the largest signed integer type on an architecture. If you modify the architecture to support a new, larger, integer type, you have now created a new architecture, with a new ABI. If you do this, there is no problem with intmax_t.

But of course, ABI’s are important, since proprietary binary blobs are what is important.
You're welcome. I sorta kinda agree on the safety thing; I wrote a blog post that kind of kicked off a whole discussion about this a while back; https://brson.github.io/fireflowers/ is a really beautiful summary of all of that.
Tobacco products would be ‘illegal’ now had they been invented after we knew the health effects. Will be interesting to see the public health discussion around this in the context of legalizing marijuana. Humans clearly like to make decisions that may harm them quite a bit, let them?
An excellent point. I recommend Siddhartha as an introduction to other paths. Yes it’s a novel and yes it’s written by a white European, but I think that’s what makes it valuable as a bridge.

This conversation between Siddhartha and the Buddha is always relevant. Siddhartha must leave because Buddha himself did not achieve enlightenment by reading and studying the Buddha’s teaching. He found his own path there.

I think about this a lot when, say, a Paul Graham essay makes the rounds. There’s a sense that “to become like X, I must read them and do what it says so I might become them.” But of course they didn’t become who they read, were not The Next Steve Jobs. They were the first of themselves.
Disk Inventory X. Don’t let their outdated website fool you, the app works great, even on Big Sur.
Ah such a lucky one, never crashing DOS code, I guess you never used MS-DOS 4, nor had the experience of porting code across PC-DOS, MS-DOS and DR-DOS.
I kind of dislike this quote because performance matters a great deal and it should be a design goal before code is even written imo which I guess would be as “premature” as possible
Many men of science throughout history have been religious. Isaac Newton was devout adherent to a related religion that also demands blind belief, but clearly that didn't stop him from contributing to science. Matters are never so simple in real life. People are complicated, and their systems of beliefs no less so. These apparent contradictions or paradoxes are easy to find if you go looking for them.
How is Arangodb, been looking at using it myself?
the uk and germany have banned musicians and artists, notably tyler the creator and death in june. media is heavily censored to even be allowed to be sold in these markets. people are arrested for speech within the uk & eurozone on a regular basis for crimes like making a shitpost video with a pug.

this is not free speech under any definition, it is controlled speech with latitude.

>The most essential outlawed speech is speech that directly urges others to violence.

how do you differentiate between urging others to violence and calls for 'direct action', 'bash the fash' etc?

the black panthers and the nation of islam were widely criticized by the establishment for instigating violence and the armament of black people. the fbi thought mlk was a communist instigator. neither the american civil rights movement nor it's predecessors in the abolitionist movement would largely pass the smell test for permissible speech under european restrictions.
likewise, hate speech laws do not have a good track record for preventing the rise of fascism. both weimar germany and tsarist russia had speech restrictions and aggressive censorship regimes. it didn't work.