skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is always interesting how raw data can be interpreted to fit a narrative.

When I see the data showing lower commute times, I think that is because they can either afford to live closer or can afford to work closer.

When I see that the majority have post secondary education, I think they probably had a support system and family wealth that enabled them to go to school.

I will say I like the animated transitions between the different charts and graphs and it was a good read regardless of my different point of view.
When you sell, you lose the upper hand. You can't make any promises or any guarantees. All the negotiations in the world won't make a difference.
For years, it's felt like Apple has decreased its investment in Mac to support mobile efforts.

The M1 may signal a change. We'll see.
The goal of the OP was stated at the bottom of the post as developing a personal philosophy. You can take it up with them, but I interpreted it as coming up with a reasoned worldview for oneself through contemplating existing philosophies.

I actually agree that philosophical works are not mathematical proofs. But thought processes do not close over logic, they close over natural language. The point of reading primary texts is to interpret the text, to reverse out the thought process of what is being said through close reading and exposing hidden assumptions (i.e. hermeneutics). This isn't a strictly logical process, but it's common to all natural-language argumentation, including philosophy and law.

With that in mind, if Kant, Aristotle, Seneca and Rawls count as primary works – then what you're saying is false. They didn't state things in a vacuum; they all developed their views in a context, some of it from some base observations, much of it responding to interpretations of other points of view.

You have a point in that primary sources are not sufficient on their own, and scholars use their experience and erudition to understand these observations and fill in the context, particularly when the writing is otherwise more sparse. But neither would introductory texts be sufficient since they hide a lot of the tacit knowledge that could allow one to reason the way the author of a text reasoned when they produced their philosophical viewpoint.
All addresses are derived from public/private keypairs
A technique from human archaeology could help restore sea otter populations
They already have both Azure Devops and GitHub converging on Confluence and Jira (and BitBucket) from different directions. Azure Devops also has Teams integrations.
This is actually what I came here to say! It is great book that I have given to many people. I also recommend Anathem, by Neal Stephenson which is a romp of a novel shot through with philosophy.
Right, the groups you mentioned increasingly want to censor speech from the groups I mentioned.

The original question boiled down to "can we reduce the incidents of censor-worthy speech via education?" to which I say yes, but via financial security rather than education.
FWIW, my first lisp was one called PLT Scheme. Most people know it as Racket nowadays.

There's been a couple decades' worth of divergent evolution since then, so that it's not actually compatible with any Scheme standard anymore. At least not by default -- there's still "#lang r5rs". In any case, one could be forgiven for thinking Racket is still just another flavor of Scheme.
I love walking. To me walking is like sleeping in that, it allows my mind to wonder while I walk. I churn to all sorts of problems I might have faced and will be facing in the coming week(s).

I used to run in my 20's but I busted my knees. Now, every Sunday I walk ~15km. It takes me about 3 hours. I live in Sydney so it's hilly and the weather is nice (most of the time).
Coober Pedy ("White man's holes") is a fascinating place though, among other things it's where they filmed Mad Max 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy
Microsoft is not monopoly by any means now.
> As soon as you get behind censorship, you are preventing things like critique of your government

This doesn't seem true to me. We currently censor child porn, but that doesn't mean we censor critiques of the government. You can censor one thing without censoring everything (despite that seeming contrary to most people's opinions in this thread).
We still don't know how much if any rocks it contains though. Fingers crossed!
Singapore investor confirms acquisition of Stripe, Pinterest bldgs $572M
I don't want to profit from the ignorance over here. What for? I have enough. I'm done. I just find it sad so many bright people are still led to take the wrong decisions.

Someone else said, if god had wanted to help the geeks, it couldn't have been done better - anyone could mine, at the cost of $0 on a CPU back then.

I was bitten by the HN naysayers and didn't. Fortunately, I quickly realized my mistake and just worked in the field.

It's sad so many people want to double down and triple down on their past errors. As long as they can live with the consequences of their actions, I guess it's their problem, not mine. That doesn't make it any less sad.
> The primary works often just blatantly "state" things as if they were opinions.

> Historical philosophy books aren't mathematical proofs. They don't necessary demonstrate process at all, it's not philosophy being "done" but just stated.

This is such a strange take. I have always found the absolute opposite to be true. Recently, I’ve read Spinoza Ethics (literal attempts at geometric proofs), Kant’s Critique (arguments meticulously crafted line by line, from the regressive methodology to the transcendental proofs it reads like program in degree of detail) and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (basically a modern day academic thesis in style and substance).

Im not denying that some philosophers simply state things without arguments, but then that’s something a critic would point out with textual references and attack. Bad business to do if philosophy’s your trade...
I spent many years using PDP-11s. I remember DECs attempt at a microcomputer, the LSI-11. It was twice the price of a PC, half as fast, and the size of a dishwasher. If you've never heard of it, it's no wonder.
Nope, Brown generously gives you five years before you have to apply again. You just have to remember to go back...

https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/degree/policies/leav...
Why does Brown University care?
(I am author of the article that was shared.) I hope I am not whining too much about Lightning in my article. It is annoying, but in the end, it just means I need to have a cable dedicated to the Apple phone in my bedroom, car, and in my battery backup charger. I can manage. But it would still be nice if I could just stock a single type of cable.

The iPhone 12 is compatible with USB PD, which is nice. My Lightning cable plugged into my USB C brick means fast charging. But why be USB PD compatible and not just go all the way?
We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
Pandas does have the .pipe() method [0], which allows you to put an arbitrary callable in a method chain, but it is a bit more cumbersome than in R.

[0] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...
The safest thing for everyone is to sit inside and watch Netflix box all day. Even without covid. I hope that after covid they outlaw biking, driving, eating meals over 700 calories in one sitting, and getting too much sunlight. Sunlight CAUSES CANCER! How can we burden society with all of these illnesses and accidents? You are positively evil if you drive a car - what if you kill a family as you jiggle the knobs in your dashboard? The world is simply unsafe and we can no longer allow anything but lockdown.
(I am author of the article that was shared.) The annoyance is the linear list. On my Pixel 4 XL, I have 153 apps installed. Finding them in a 5-across grid is just 31 rows, which is far easier to discover apps in iOS's silly 153 rows.

I last tried the Nova Launcher when I last had a Samsung phone, more than two years ago. At the time, it seemed inelegant. Sounds like it's improved?
Meanwhile in Australia... https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-02-13/why-is-the-grou...
The thing is...if the vulnerable 20% of the population can't stay in quarantine... but 80% of the population is low risk...this is not societies problem anymore.. this is that 20%'s problem.
Of course not.

The point of the 6k Pro HDR wasn't to compete with the one or two $40k monitors used to master million dollar motion pictures.

It was to replace the five to ten other $40k monitors used in other parts of the production pipeline, by being accurate/wide/bright enough for that purpose, and to provide good-enough accuracy to a whole swath of jobs where it was dearly needed but far too expensive.
Its also therapeutic. One of the things I look forward to most is getting a tonne of good soil delivered. I have to shovel it and wheelbarrow it to the back yard. Takes an entire day. I will drink 4L+ of water and sweat the whole time. A good way to balance out a busy week plugged into tech 12hrs a day.
> it is clear that the web creates an environment in which extremism thrives.

No, it's not clear. Please elaborate.

The strongest weapon against extremist ideas is other views on the issues that created the extremism in the first place. Most extremists don't want their people to communicate freely, for a reason.
It's going to take the people not getting distracted by red herrings. So much outrage has been channeled into destructive memes like denying that Covid is a problem and rebelling against simple measures to stop the spread.

The real problem is the unsustainable structure of the economy. I don't think this woman is being driven to tears because she really wants to be running her restaurant right now, but rather because she's going to lose it completely when she falls off the debt treadmill. Instead of small businesses and individuals getting recurring stimulus and suspended rent/mortgages/taxes, we got peanuts. Meanwhile trillions of dollars were given to Wall St to make sure the magic Line keeps going up. That was a massive theft from the public to the plutocrats. But until the outrage stops getting divided and derailed by distractions, I'm afraid it will only continue.
(I am author of the article that was shared.) Had the same problem. I used Apple's page at https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/ to dis-associate iMessage from my phone number. Problem solved.
Probably the main difference between Clojure and all the rest, from a purely lispy perspective, is that it's not list-oriented. Maps are its preferred data structure. I'm not even sure it has cons cells - at the very least, I've never seen them being used.

Probably the main thing that distinguishes Racket is that it's meant to be a playground for experimenting with programming language design.
Ask HN: An AI HN article submitter
Dear HN,

I'm thinking about building an AI HN article submitter that makes use of Machine Learning or Deep Learning.

The robot will crawl HN front page from time to time to "learn" about the taste of the HNers, and then it will select and post the articles-- from an ever expanding article pool curated from various news sources/blogs-- that it thinks will be popular here.

If AI can beat human in chess, do you think it can also become a top karma HNer? It should be fun to find out.

Any such known robots out there? Anyone has already worked on this?
That talks a lot about bad modeling, not outdoor eating?
The best(?) part of the article is this:

> In the award ceramony [sic], the Bell Labs researcher presenting the award explicitly said he doesn't understand how InstaHide is secure, but, and I quote, “it works nonetheless”. No! It does not.

Bell Labs used to have a wonderful reputation. Not so much anymore, I suppose.
That a library implementation of pattern-matching would be unsatisfactory exposes a weakness in the core language. Usually, it is better to strengthen the language to the point where a library component can do the job. Sometimes, though, that is too hard, and you give up and do it directly in the core language. It should always be noted as a failing.

Something similar happened with coroutines, although what we did get has hooks that a library should be able to patch into, to achieve wonders not yet seen.
(I am the author of the shared article.) You're right. I have a CS background, so I do understand your point.

I was loose with terminology, preferring to reflect what people commonly say, rather than strict precision. I have added an explanation near the top.
The reality is that not all transistors are the same size. They vary in size depending it's exact purpose and how many other transistors it's driving. To the point where they can be up to macro size visible with the human eye in audio switching equipment for example.
Try living in Minneapolis, where outdoor seating is only practical for 6 months of the year - if that. I do feel sorry for restaurants everywhere though, and all the other myriad businesses wiped out by COVID.
> those 100 farms should not be paying an equal amount of money to the town finances as the 1000 households.

If those 100 farms take up the same land area as 1000 households, then yes they absolutely should. Hell, they'll even have an easier time doing so, since they're (ostensibly) using that land productively (and if not, they absolutely should be) and thus be more able to internalize that opportunity cost they've imposed on others.

And if they can't produce enough to internalize that opportunity cost, then all the more reason for someone else to be given the opportunity to do so.
just wait for Google to revive And re-launch Wave
I lived 15 minutes from the tree for most of my life. Really bizarre to see this in the front page of HN! Tourists have been allowed inside the tree for a while now. You can drink cashew juice, there’s a very neat observation platform and a charming wooden pathway. I recommend looking up “maior cajueiro do mundo” for pictures. The Wikipedia article doesn’t do it justice :)
As a counter point I was a hyperactive unstimulated student that went onto Concerta and haven't looked back. When I'm off my meds I'm angry and mean and constantly frustrated by how slowly everything moves. I enjoy being able to relax and take things easier due to this stimulant. But I think that's a big problem with over prescription of stimulants, a lot of folks that get put on them don't need them and don't respond to them in the intended manner - but healthcare is such that no one ever takes them off of them and tries other approaches.
I think I agree with a idea that something that is fundamentally technically unsound probably shouldn't get an award.
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network will shutdown its centralized bugtracker
9+ yrs in FinTech and crypto here. Yes, MongoDB was super popular back around 2011. Please just use PostgreSQL if you’re a FinTech founder.
If you enjoy reading Carlini tear into papers, also check out the following:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08347.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.02322.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03286.pdf

He definitely doesn't mince words, but it's hard to be mad when he always makes very valid points. And I say that as a secondary author on one the criticized methods (not InstaHide).
“It is sincerely gross of SFGate to run this story without a single comment from a public health or policy expert explaining the rationale for the lockdown.”

Remember this the next time you read anything of the flavor “look how wrong this is”. There are always two sides to every story in practically everything. You just happen to be on the wrong side of the rant this time, and you know enough to know the other side of things in this case.

How many times did you accept one-sided characterizations on other topics without question?

Like, say, a Federal bailout is the solution to all the problems?
When compiling to C++ does nim use a GC?
Given the official statements describe the process as

"Today (12/6) at 03:07 JST, as a result of the beacon direction search, the capsule landing point has been estimated. Now, we will search by helicopter."

and

"Today (12/6) at 04:47 JST, as a result of the helicopter search, we found a capsule in the planned landing area!"

I don't think the beacon "transmitted location" and the headline seems accurate.
Well I don’t know, Google is in the business of filtering track titles it doesn’t like on Frank Zappa albums so I guess people are still out there writing filters
"Back in my day" we just set up card skimmers in the places that tended to attract the most law enforcement attention. Nobody blinks twice when "campus PD carded into X at 1:44AM" shows up in the logs. We also exploited the dining hall unlimited meals (if you pay a stupid amount, supposedly limited to only the individual who paid) program to the benefit of several dozen people (and there was at least one frat doing the same in parallel). We were smart but not geniuses. I'm sure that there's thousands of college students out there exploiting the various ineptitude of colleges. Colleges have a very adversarial relationship with their undergrads so it's no surprise.
What Eggcorns Are (2015)
Thanks, it is going well. Even made the front page here on Hacker News a while back so was good to know that I am in the right direction
No, I didn't refer to 'VW' as having integrity - rather the University, i.e. the institution the students were 'backed by' - that's clear enough in what I wrote. (Edit - maybe it's not so clear, but if you look at what I wrote overall, it should be clear enough I'm talking about the students, not VW.)

It takes 'rigour' to counteract one's own impulses which usually amount to things like 'I disagree with the war, it was wrong, ergo, any leaking regarding it must be whistleblowing' - or - 'I agree with the war, therefore any leakage is treason'.

Manning 'cable leaks' exposed no US crimes, not even any wrongdoing on the part of the US and the questionable nature of 'whistle blowing' is compounded by the fact that he didn't even know what he was leaking in the first place.

Manning's 'exposure' didn't result in anyone being prosecuted except for himself, which was done by law (under a 'Democrat' political regime FYI).

Just the opposite, it demonstrated a US diplomatic corps trying to do a their very difficult and grinding jobs in a very complex and totally corrupt Middle East political situation.

What was the result of the leaks?

Mass protests against America?

No - it was the Arab Spring - Arabs on Main Street protesting, and in some cases overthrowing their own governments - because they were informed by the cable leaks.

So Manning, upset with his own government, leaks 'private information' - which materially has the opposite of the intended reaction: highlighting US diplomatic corps doing their jobs - and the entirety of the ME in deep corruption - highlighting the very underlying cause of external intervention in the first place.

The populist narrative of Manning being an absolute whisteblower is clearly wrong, mostly promoted by those who simply hate the fact the US was involved in a military capacity.

If Manning is a hero, it's to Tunisian and Egyptians, not to Americans.

Edit: for an example of material 'whistleblowing' relating to the war in Iraq, refer to Joe Darby [1], i.e. Abu Gharib.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Darby
Microsoft didn’t buy Slack. Salesforce did.
Oral Drug Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Transmission According to GSU Researchers
I think that it is best to approach the practice of philosophy and the output of that practice as really meaningful, but not that important. I believe that there is an inverse relationship between the tangible life benefits of studying philosophy and the weight of meaning that you require from that study. And, I hereby do attest to the real good that the study of philosophy can render in one's everyday life! But, it seems to me that this benefit is greater during times where I am comfortable treating it as a great way to train the mind and spirit for the real world. Rather than mistake the training for the actual fight of living. To maintain a good life contending with all the whorling complexity and dizzying vastness of the universe is where the work done on the sparing grounds pays its dividends. Or, as it were, doesn't
They’ve got an alternative. Its called Chat. It’s not the same though. More focused on threaded conversations.
Note that a judge recently blocked LA County from banning outdoor dining without evidence: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-02/covid-19...

I can’t help but think that a lot of people have been whipped up into an irrational level of panic, and they’re unable to navigate the risk benefit tradeoffs calmly. Add to that the politicization of this issue, and people have become very set in their stance of being pro lockdown versus against lockdown. This has led to them expecting authoritarian mandates from politicians to help them not feel so panicked.

The politicians themselves feel they have to issue the mandates this cohort expects even though they don’t believe in those mandates themselves. This is why so many politicians have been caught violating their own rules (https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/03/rules-for-thee-but-not-...) - it’s not that they think they’re above the rules (although it plays a part) as much as the fact that they don’t believe in them.

The reality is that life comes with risks. We will never face zero risks. We still need to go about with our lives and retain the freedom to make our own choices and evaluations of which risks we are willing to accept. Arbitrary actions like banning outdoor dining are a step too far.
As is constantly brought up in these threads, there is often no dumb TV option available with higher end panels, and all of the TV vendors are incentivized to be equally evil.
The article resonates with me a lot, and reminded of the couple of years of personal experience of applied machine learning in another field of science; because the points made are exactly what I encountered then and made me quit my job.

There is a lot of machine learning snake oil out there, even in the most prestigious journals. The issue is that most people wouldn't know about it until they actually try to reproduce those results (if they can at all in the first place).

It is a huge issue now that machine learning has made its way into every field of research, while almost nobody has adequate training to even gauge what is and isn't questionable. Even the grad students who end up doing all the "hard work" usually don't have much of an idea of what exactly they hacked together and how to access its validity.

The crazy thing is that, despite all of this, you can still get ahead if you have know just slightly more buzzwords than others and have a paper or two (don't have to be first author) to show for. At the end of the day, I suppose all of this is nothing new (machine learning practitioners are the new SEO consultants?), and I'm just venting my frustration for not being able to accept this is how things work.
Soul of a New Machine is a great book about DG. Was required reading in my EE degree.
lol, proof amanfrommars was AI 10 years ahead of it's time.

https://forums.theregister.com/post/search/?q=amanfrommars