skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a lot of people assume that the physical book artifact is some big proportion of the actual cost. Among other reasons (including that it's easy to make copies and distribute them in torrents), this means that people think a digital product that costs almost as much as a physical one is ripping them off.
So? Should the millions of students who rely on loans have their opportunity for an education taken away because of that?
My general recommendation would be to read a really high-quality book by a philosopher on an issue you care about. Here are some I would recommend:

* ‘superintelligence’ by Nick Bostrom

* ‘Down Girl: the logic of misogyny’ by Kate Manne

* ‘dialogues on ethical vegetarianism’ or ‘The Problem of Political Authority’ by Michael Huemer.

These are admittedly not going to cover the so-called big questions of philosophy, or survey the history of epistemology. But, like Michael Huemer, I think that most works of philosophy are not worth reading, so that you might as well start with something really good and work backwards (e.g. pick one of these books and then read any of the references that sound interesting).

Peter Singer is someone whose books you could pick up and read straight through as well.
> I know the situation in Germany will be quite different to that in the US, but the reason we have a shortage of nurses is that the pay is not decided on supply and demand in order to have enough of them, but rather as a political decision.

Totally and this is the danger of state-controlled markets. Capitalists have a point here. I tend to argue that at least in democratic societies people have some control over it, whereas in a free labor market they don't. But in practice, like so many things democracy is supposed to fix, people largely aren't concerned with it.

> Of course it is. Teaching an employee on your systems/way of working costs money and is an element in the decision of whether or not to hire an employee. This decision affects demand and therefore price/wages.

Definitely, stickiness works both ways. We've all probably encountered situations where someone's made themselves virtually unfireable because no one can do the things they can. I think generally people characterize that as some kind of selfishness or at least a labor antipattern, but I tend to view it as a rational response to a lack of financial stability: if your employer can completely destabilize you financially, it's pretty rational to take drastic steps to guard against that.

Suffice to say it's complicated; far more complicated than the supply/demand curves charts you get in econ 101.

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I'll add that my prescription generally is:

- Enshrine the right to organize

- Require equal profit sharing across all employees

- Require significant worker representation on corporate boards

- Heavily tax relatively high salaries, e.g. if everyone makes $1m then 0 tax. If one person makes $100k and 99 others make $1, insane super tax them down to $100 (include tricky stuff like bonuses or whatever)

- Heavily tax nationally high salaries with a progressive income tax

- Heavily punish tax dodging

- Set the minimum wage to a living wage and pin it to the CPI

- Abolish "right to work"
Are we talking about different things?

ASN.1 does more or less what I was hoping Kaitai can do. Where's the breakthrough?

I just want to be able to describe network protocols in some "language" and generate code that can serialize/deserialize it.
Tech projects should be easy to manage buy it fails due to,
1. Because of time sheet. It's either not tracked or questioned or sometimes it's questioned too much.

2. PM is not technical and believes the story being told.

3. PM calls for a meeting and asks for status but doesn't go to each people to collect information who is delaying or is he waiting for someone else's input. Flow is cut somewhere.

4. With sprints, too many managers but all sprints are handled by few Dev's, DBAs and testers.

5. Project changed its course into a discovery journey and everybody is too focused on the side track.

All this I have dealt.
If you change the size or padding in a struct of course a dynamic library is gonna break every program using it, I'm not sure why intmax_t was singled out here.
Having good `command help` is super important. Agree with the assertion that in-built help is the first and most important.

There have been so many tries to make something better than man pages, and all of them tend to fall down because the solution is usually super complex. Usually, you are dealing with html or some archeo-crontastic typesetting format (which honestly, gets you man + hyperlinks and some better formatting). I guess the dream of GNU info is still alive.
I bought a new TV for the first time in fourty years and never considered the “smart” TV aspects - I was just focused on image quality and number of inputs. In the end I picked out an LG tv which had a great picture - but it’s app support really sucks if you want something more then Netflix and Hulu.

I ended up getting a Fire stick and an Apple TV to go with it so I can access content. If I did it all again I wouldn’t even bother setting up the networking for the TV - it’s just one more vector for advertising - and just plan on having the other devices day one. They are updated much more frequently and get the streaming apps that nobody bothers to develop for the TV itself.

Downloading firmware updates for the TV takes hours. I’m pretty sure the server is under somebody’s desk and every LG tv in the world hits it at once so the throughput is bytes per second - they should use an S3 bucket or something instead.
I think the author is objecting to the idea that his content is hosted in the same system and on exactly the same terms as content he finds abhorrent . So he chose to move his stuff elsewhere so he's no longer associated with them. But that's not a good argument why there shouldn't be a space for those voices in the first place.

If he s advocating for the latter, that's a totalitarian idea.
My personal engineering notebook IS my public issues now, for all of my open source projects (which is almost all of my projects).
Even if one wanted to donate right now, aren't we supposed to be limiting our exposure to other people as COVID surges?

I'm probably too cautious of a person but I tend to not trust other people to exercise appropriate caution themselves. Intimate proximity to a nurse taking blood, seems like a bad idea right now.
It's really difficult to separate out mental and physical addiction. There are many misconceptions, including that mental addiction is somehow "less bad" than physical addiction. Trust me, physical addiction sucks, but the mental is the real battle.

Cigs create an MAOI that is synergistic with nicotine. That is why, IMO, I needed much higher nicotine from a vape to quit smoking.

This is clearly a stupid idea. Cure alcoholism by drinking nonalcoholic beer? It shows a complete lack of understanding of how addiction works.
GitHub's primary value add to the world isn't that it's a web interface to git. It's also a social network, an issue tracker, a workflow management system, a code review tool, a wiki-builder, a frontend for your CI, and plenty more.

If github disappears tomorrow, all the code will be safe and decentralized already, yes, but most of the workflow of the software world would be significantly stunted for a good while, because everyone would need to migrate to something else (like GitLab) and then take the time to rebuild all of the data and flow that is on Github but isn't captured within the actual git repository.
Classic Mac OS and HyperCard Running on ReMarkable
Should she have been fired for her email to the group? It's hard to discuss if people don't agree she was fired.

Should we believe her or her managers? Her managers pretending they just accepted her resignation is dishonest.
I think we've seen that doesn't work. It's incredibly difficult to counter misinformation because there's SO MUCH OF IT. Plus you can't assume the general populace has the time or energy to do it. If I'm working 10 hour retail shift, help tuck the kids in, and then check FB.

Why do you think I have the time to check my friend's post for disinformation? Yes I can be skeptical of it but sometimes it's hard to decipher that especially when it may confirm to your own biases.
> It's a lack of vision and leadership from pharma labs.

That's probably true, but I don't think Pfizer could have beat DeepMind, even if they had really tried. DeepMind is in a unique position to recruit lots of young deep learning researchers.
Se aside some money for taxes :-)
As you imply, something this specific I've never seen. I have seen emails go out to large mailing lists calling out the integrity of the company with respect to their dealing with a foreign country and saying that the leadership was condoning if not contributing to genocide. This was a white male making this statement and nothing was done (at least not publicly, and they weren't fired).

I posted something earlier about another company and internal emails to a broad mailing list relating to sexual harassment from people in the company. Again, nothing was done there against the people who wrote the email (at least not publicly). And in this case, similar to Timnit, it made national news. Although in that case it was a white female.
Interesting read but IMHO fairly irrelevant for language users. I've been coding in C and C++ for more than 25 years and never encountered intmax_t or any problems related to it.

It's better to accept that C (and C++) are only portable in theory, in reality it's nearly impossible to write non-trivial code which compiles without warnings in a different compiler or runs out of the box on a different hardware architecture (still the language does a pretty good job at it everything considered). IMHO the standard committees should focus on the (handful) platforms that exist today, and not care too much about legacy or future platforms. The C standard shouldn't be some "pure ideal", just harmonize the differences between compilers and platforms, and only so far as it makes sense for real-world code.

Personally I'd rather see extensions from gcc and clang moved into the standard which are already battle proven instead of wasting time fixing 30 year old problems.
This pdf source is missing the first chapter, "Marxism and Existentialism".

Here's another source in html: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/crit...
I’m sorry did I claim that they thrived because they were Muslim?

I like it because many people in my culture see Muslims as a single homogeneous race of evil, destructive people, and a lot of the discourse reflects that. That kind of categorization and generalization is obviously BS, and I think stories like this help demonstrate that.
I've seen 'white' Roman Catholics from southern Italy that are far more swarthy than many Muslims from Iran or Lebanon. And I'd be hard pressed to visually distinguish an orthodox Greek from a muslim Turk... So yes, it's very much a socially constructed matter. Incidentally I believe Arabs, Persians, Turks, etc are often classified as caucasian (particularly on the US census I believe?) So these cultural definitions aren't even consistent within specific societal context. I've even seen some racists online say that Italians aren't white, because they aren't nordic.
I’m not a fan of Islam myself but if I had to find reasons in its favor I would say it’s extremely unifying, offers contentment through absolute submission and fosters a martial sense in its adherents I find missing in a lot of religions. Additionally I feel like it is the religion that would be the most accepting of a scientific interpretation of the world if it can get past the modern Wahhabism that’s being spewed.

The western world has also historically demonized people all over the world through various implicative means so it’s not surprising people are on guard when all you’re probably trying to do is be direct and straightforward. The key here is “probably”, I genuinely don’t know your motivations.
Actually it can be anything. My mother owns a HP Spectre X2 convertible with an Intel WiFi card. Only the driver bundled with the Windows works. Any newer version via Windows Update or Intel breaks the card after a standby-wake cycle. Both updated drivers support the card on paper but, either the driver has a problem or the way the hardware designed on that particular computer messes some stuff up. BIOS upgrade didn't fix anything too.

> Are you talking about that "little" issue where the i915 module was randomly causing a panic?

No, I started to see some lines in the display like a faulty GPU draws. Sometimes a line, sometimes small corruptions were visible but, it was always fixed itself after a minute or two. The laptop in question is extremely low power so, nothing gets hot.

Newer kernel updates fixed these issues too.

Intel's mid-range and higher-end NICs have proper offloading and processors so, they neither tax the system much or fail to reach their advertised speeds. They're real cards for real loads, so they're more reliable AFAICS. A Realtek card works reasonably well for most of the light loads but, load it up with sustained high load, it cannot saturate the interface as it should.
For getting chromium you have a couple of options:

* You can use chromium flatpak version from Flathub

* You can add the Linux Mint repos, and install the chromium package from there (untested)

* You can install the chromium snap (not recommended due to slow launch times)
Liquid Tensor Experiment – Challenge
> Note that philosophy is distinct from the history of philosophy. If you care about what is true, and not the historical development of ideas, there's not much point in reading things written before, say, 1900, or even 1950. So no Hume or Hegel or whatever. In general these texts are poorly written and unclear compared to modern ones. And of course, they can't treat the developments that have taken place in the intervening years. Consider an analogy: you would not read Newton's original manuscripts to learn calculus.

This type of view is extremely common amongst students of analytic philosophy. The "problem" approach to philosophy.

IMO Reading Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Heidegger, etc. and other thinkers deemed outdated and unworthy is absolutely a good use of time for anyone interested in Philosophy. This post is actually the first time I've ever heard anybody suggest not reading Hume.
That sounds like an amazing experience! I didn't know about it, but now it's on my list.
I support the right for you to have your own opinion. You should support my right to have my own, too. In this circumstance though it feels like a knee-jerk reaction without citation or factual evidence supporting your strong opposition.

The reality is the reason why people commit crimes, including violent ones such as murder, is a deeply complex subject that has the full time focus of many highly educated people. A simple one-liner attributing extremism to a specific site you find distasteful isn't constructive IMO.

Here's a quick primer on the history of crime and criminal psychology walking through the various phases of understanding why people commit criminal or violent acts. https://law.jrank.org/pages/12004/Causes-Crime.html

Favorite execrpt from link above:

> Children who are neglected or abused commit substantially more crimes later in life than others. (© Roy Morsch/Corbis)

I have an absolutism posture on free speech. Everyone should say whatever they want without fear or retribution. This includes offensive speech. If this incites violence, so be it. Why not invest in mental health care instead of suppression of speech? The history of mental health care in the USA is abysmal.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.11.3....

My personal opinion is that positions such as your own can also be characterized as radical.
What? An ideology is definitely not a race.

Racism is bad because you are judging people based on intrinsic characteristics they cannot change.

Being Muslim is... definitely not that.
some of them end here in thrift shops in Tunisia. they get extended life. and no they don't hurt local industry. in fact we have an important clothing industry and it's mostly targeted towards export. so the clothes get exported new and come back as used. it's not unusual to find clothes made in Tunisia in thrift shops. the funny thing is the clothes are sold in thrift shops the same price (converted to dollars) they were sold new when exported. i find this distortion illustrates accurately the injustice in the world
You might try:
https://www.openculture.com/philosophy_free_courses

Introduction to Logic

Ancient Philosophy

For quick reference:
https://iep.utm.edu/

For the first few months at least, I'd suggest staying away from more modern philosophers like Kant, Nietzsche, etc. For the most part, classical education up until the last century studied the history and classics first, because they made more sense and endured that time for a reason.

Don't caught up in what can't be known, natural of reality, or getting stuck in a belief system which may feel grand, but is myopic or stunting. Don't force it- it can be like hard math. Some philosophy and (anti-)theology can even f- you up. If you feel like you're falling into a hole or learning the secrets of the universe in a way that is starting to make you feel like you don't belong, switch to something else or drop it completely. If you have nightmares or lose yourself, maybe try (self-)EMDR or get a hypnotist to help you forget it, like Peter Gibbons.

It sounds like you're interested in ethics, but I'd suggest not starting with that. Although I personally believe in having ethical and moral behavior, for me it developed from experience more than my studies; you don't need to be like Chidi from The Good Place, unless that's what you dig. If you get too pedantic, try Metaphysics or just take a break.

If you're looking for practical life guidance, and you can take a little stoicism, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is good gateway into that (Penguin Classics, or Munro's audiobook).
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This is really more history of philosophy, but the "Secret history of Western Esotericism Podcast" at https://www.shwep.net is really something. If nothing else, it'll make you want to go read Plato's works to see what your high school philosophy class didn't go into.
I think this quote is much better if we modify it by s/optimization/micro-optimization/
"SJWs are the puritans of the 21st century." What's vague about that? The fact that you are trying to police me show that it doesn't take much to have such a good sample of the statement.
Your home router is emitting 0.1 Watt of 2.4 GHz radiation, your microwave uses the same frequency at 1000W.

Overheating your brain with 10000W nanosecond pulses could have very strange health effects...
Setting the Python Path in VS Code is not as easy as PyCharm via project structure
The data-driven approach: GiveWell
I'm curious what platforms you're on that don't censor things where you haven't seen some bullshit stuff. I haven't sought out any free speech platforms.

I also don't think that line of though implies that everyone is a racist. The previous comment just implies that racists will seek out these platforms because it is the only platform that will accept them. Not that everyone who seeks these out are racists. Just enough racist and shitty people who got kicked out of the larger platforms will slowly fill up these free speech platform
meanwhile: https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/French-Laun...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed also dined at French Laundry

[..]Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't the only one who couldn't turn down an invitation to a birthday party at the French Laundry amid a global pandemic.

The San Francisco Chronicle broke the story Tuesday that Mayor London Breed attended a similar affair at the much-lauded restaurant in California's Napa Valley the night after the governor.

Eight people, including the mayor, dined together at a small birthday party for a friend on Nov. 7, Andy Lynch, press director for the Office of the Mayor, told SFGATE.

The friend was socialite Gorretti Lo Lui, who was celebrating her 60th birthday, The Chronicle reported.[..]

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/London-Breed-French-Laun...

[..]"As I said yesterday, it doesn't matter if I was technically, if I wasn't technically violating local health orders, because I know that as mayor, I should hold myself to a higher standard — I understand that," Breed said. "My job just isn't to lead by the letter of the law, but to lead in the spirit of it. I understand that and I'm committed to doing better."

"This pandemic has been hard on all of us," Breed added. "There's no playbook for this. I know that none of us thought that in 2020, we'd be in the midst of a global pandemic. Who would have thought that this would have ever existed in our lifetimes? The impacts we've all experienced on our mental and emotional health have been tremendous, and that includes me. Every day, I do this job. I think about the people whose lives I'm responsible for, that the decisions I make impact people's jobs and their families. And I'm doing my very best for this city. No one is perfect, and certainly not me.

"As I've said, the criticism I've received is fair and I understand my responsibility, and I've learned from this moment," Breed continued. "I want everyone to recognize that people all around you are trying. They are trying to follow the orders. They are trying to hold it together. We are all trying, and it is hard, people are losing it. But we can't lose it on each other. We can't turn on each other. This isn't about me, I can take the criticism. I wouldn't be in this job if I couldn't.[..]

It takes ‘let them eat cake’ to a whole different level
> I ask to stop with the whataboutism and you respond with more of it.

Whataboutism is not what you think it is

If you ask, you might not like the answer.

Get over it.

> The cognitive dissonance is so strong you simply refuse to acknowledge this point every time I mentioned, and you prefer to distill more diatribes against the US.

Only because they did wrong, repeatedly.

Would you hire a pedophile as a kid educator?

> What I want to understand is what do you propose besides measures only seen in totalitarian dystopias.

Isn't the US government using the same measures only seen in totalitarian dystopias?

Assange, Mannings, Snowden and the poor Aaron Swartz are victims of which government?

For the simple fact that they exposed what the US government did.

Aaron Swartz only released public material to the public...

You can argue about solutions once you address the problem.

But what would you do to address the problem?

Keep bombing other countries?

Or ban people for saying out loud what's evident?

Freedom of speech

But not on HN

Because freedom of speech is valued only when they agree with you?

What's the difference between silencing what you don't like and totalitarian dystopias?
The History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell, is a great starting point. It reviews probably 30 prominent philosophers from the Western world, starting with the ancient Greeks and coming to modern day.

It's not comprehensive, and Russell isn't focused on staying completely objective on each subject. But it's a great overview, and in my opinion the subjectivity from Russell adds a bit of personality that makes it easier to read.
You're assuming the shit storm happens on the taxidermy forum. But most of the taxidermists aren't there to talk about that stuff, or maybe some of them are but they're not the sort to be uncivil or try to cancel the heretics, so it isn't a problem there.

But then those people bring the heresy into the rest of their lives and get thumped by the mob for crimethink when they bring it up. And then once they're declared an enemy by their own tribe they seek refuge in the opposition.