skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it has also brought out the worst in people

I had liked his other article, the one he linked there about the spying app. Showed an ethical baseline of concern for the users that every developer should have, in my opinion.

But this, this is not a result of any sort of concern for any user. This article was written clearly out of a self-righteous desire of the author to declare his own morality, and the result is that he ends up looking like he would be okay with controlling the users of whatever he builds.

So, as usual for people who make that claim I quoted, he fails to see how his own approach has clearly made him an example of his own words.

> [Unrestricted speech in the internet is worse than] criminal activities, terrorism and child pornography

Not a good start if the first implication is "online agitators" belonging to the fringe and extremes are somehow worse than actual crimes.

They aren't.

> All these extreme ideas have divided societies and increased social tensions. And they’re responsible for a number of acts of terrorism which caused the death of too many people.

This is pretty damning, in that those extreme believes he listed before this are far from the only ideas increasing tensions and leading to terrorism.

The more one reads, the more obvious it becomes—as seemingly always happens with defenses of censorship—that his problem is not so much with "unfiltered speech in the internet", but unfiltered speech in the internet that he disagrees with.

> It won’t be because of my help.

And here I feel lies the root of the problem, at least in its modern form, and what often causes good intentions to pave the road to hell nowadays: Some people are no longer content with merely having "opinions"; they need to have "stances" now.
Interesting, thanks. I actually looked into $1 payments for an adjacent project and the costs are still prohibitive even today. Stripe fees cost something like 30-40% for a $1 payment, and PayPal is only slightly better :/
Funny enough I'm listening to a Dr. Dre Alan Watts mashup right now.

Works surprisingly well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6VTQZNULlA
Why Ethereum? Why not Bitcoin?
> you shall not block and you shall not go too long until yielding

Arn't those effectively the same?

I think the only contract is "you shall not go too long until yielding". Or if you're designing for performance, not for responsiveness, it might be: "you shall not hold unto CPU and IO resources that you're not using".
a lot of things would benefit UI wise if paired with game UI devs
It's really the same as eminent domain. Wal-Mart wants your property for a store? They just need to offer to pay enough that the LVT is unaffordable to you. You'll have no choice but to sell, even if you don't want the money and would rather keep the property.
Use this instead https://gnuworldorder.info
Dumb TV's had ports forever. How else would people have connected their video sources?
Sorry, when I say Eurocentric, I include the UK. Europe for most people still includes the British Isles, regardless of the preferences of certain conservatives.

Also, wow that's an ignorant quote. Let me rephrase it: "We have no internal problems. All of our external problems during a 60 year period have come from our neighboring countries, and all the solutions are the ones we and our allies came up with." Genius. (sorry for the snark). Is your argument that the analytic-continental divide is just Thatcherite Anglocentrism? Because I really don't think it is.
> in my opinion it has the reverse effect. That money will go to the government which is quite corrupt in these countries and will stronghold more authoritarian regimes.

This is not the only option, and this defeatist attitude is dangerous. There are many charities operating in third-world countries that are incredibly efficient and are delivering real impact right now. Here’s a few: https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities

Now, obviously scaling it up will be difficult, but all these charities are currently cash constrained, so there’s still some room to grow, and after that point, I’m sure it’s not an intractable problem to figure out a working model.

The “corrupt government” excuse is common one to justify inaction, but given the existence of so many organizations doing good work, I don’t it’s applicable anymore.
Absolutely agree.

And sticking with western philosophy, if you are suggesting Hegel and Nietzsche. I would also bring you into the (late) twentieth century with Deleuze & Guattari. But I also wouldn't recommend them to a beginner.

I also think as a start, knowing these figures, perhaps even tasting their work, lets you read around them. You see the way their ideas spread out into the world. I sometimes think there are more different takes on Nietzsche's work than ideas in them!

You can also read back and trace a line of thought through various philosophers from say, Deleuze back through Bergson, Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, Liebniz, all the way back to the Stoics. To understand Dennett, you need see the impact Descartes has on modern thought, and you can trace that kind of thinking back through to the Socratics. You start to see that these philosophical threads actually shape people's entire view of the world around them, and in some way the world itself.
The majority of the homelessness budget goes towards subsidized housing and small, but still significant fraction is spent on temporary shelters. According to this source, only 7% of SF's budget is spent on street outreach, which is what most people think about.

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21027974/san-francisco-home...
Yep, definitely. I'm very fortunate that I didn't discover coding until my late twenties. I worked odd jobs in several industries, and right up until I started in tech, I was working two jobs in order to make $30K per year. I feel unbelievably lucky to be in this industry and I try not to take it for granted.
Interesting. For a long time I did indeed feel like I was dying when I started running. Now I feel edgy and anxious if I don’t get to run for a few days. We are built to run.

Incidentally running 30 minutes twice a week has been the best thing I ever did for my health. I feel better now than I did in my 20s and that was over 20 years ago!
Cool. I don't think I've ever used the unlink command. Also interesting that `ls` is > `cd`
How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Reactive Management by Get_Lighthouse
A lot of helpful tips you can try out to gain control over your time. This is such a short yet powerful idea: "Your time is valuable. Your calendar determines how you invest it." Also, create habits and systems you'll actually use, otherwise your brain won't really let go: "The more you trust your systems, the more they’ll work for you and you can jump into the right things only at the right time instead of having to react to forgotten items or deal with issues when you didn’t plan to."
I’m largely guessing here, but I think at least one aspect of the hardware contributing to this is the M1 shares the same RAM for the CPU & GPU. Normally that’s not the case, so a display change requires recalculating the display buffer for the entire screen and then copying that to the GPU. The M1 can skip that copy phase, it just tells the GPU where the buffers already are in RAM. That definitely can’t account for multiple seconds, but it’s probably part of the story.

We also know that Apple spent time optimizing very specific operations in their CPU - optimizing retain/release operations on objects is the one that’s gotten mentioned a lot. Maybe they spent similar time optimizing things in the GPU for changing modes/outputs?
As Steve Jobs would say, “real artists ship”.
(Except now, they’re shipping at a much larger scale...)
12 vs 115 million, according to the second paragraph of the article:

> In its letter, Slack warned Microsoft that “Slack is here to stay,” adding, “We’re just getting started.” But the 4 million users it had at the time would increase to just 12 million four years later, while Microsoft — which added Teams to its 365 bundle without increasing the price — took Teams from zero to 115 million users.
Why, yes, free speech does help spread all ideas, including those which lead to death.

The only truly safe environment is a very strict prison where inmates are not allowed to do basically anything, because anything can be risky and ultimately lead to death. Ideally, thinking should also be restricted for the same reason.

Danger cannot be removed from trying new things and learning unknown things. Danger, suffering, and death are inseparable from any progress.

So it goes. Don't try to make an environment too safe, because it's inevitably stifling.
Ah thanks for reminding me about the Bob Iger memoir! Caught an interview with him on Bloomberg last night and he was remarkably cool and confident given the current uncertainty about the future of theme parks ;)
The Cloudflare stock I grabbed to test out US stock trades on my pension app is up 300% so that wasn't a bad shout
If I recall correctly she started her speech with ' I've probably never been though what you have'.

I make sure to never repeat this crap to other people.

In hindsight the eviction did get me out of a very bad home life, still was a solid year of hell
Ethiopian names seem to generally not follow the western first name/surname pattern, instead using the Semitic system where you list the male lineage (cf. https://ethnomed.org/culture/ethiopian/). I remember this information receiving some unusually mainstream exposure thanks to the moments in the limelight that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom enjoyed this year.

(Now, I don't actually have enough of a sense of Ethiopian ethnicities to be confident as to whether this holds true for all of them and whether Timnit Gebru belongs to one for which it does, but the case of @DrTedros certainly left me with a general heuristic saying that referring to her as Gebru may be an ignorant foreigner move whereas using the "first" name (as US academics generally refer to each other anyway) is almost certainly safe.)
Dgraph doesn't really fit into those descriptions of "RDF graph DB" or "property graph". It's quite a different design. You can read about it here [1].

I think you're talking about facets: [2]. They can be attached to edges, and Dgraph supports retrieving them and filtering on them.

[1]: https://dgraph.io/paper
[2]: https://dgraph.io/docs/mutations/json-mutation-format/#facet...
I believe that Sicily, during the 1100s, was the place where translations from both Arabic and Greek to Latin occurred. In that century, it was ruled by the Normans who had conquered the Arabs. (Yes, the Normans, that same ex-Viking, Normandy-based group who were also busy conquering England, at that time!) There were separate law courts for each of the three language groups and translators who could speak all three languages.

I couldn't find a definitive reference. There is this short scholarly article from 1920, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1834924?seq=13#metadata_info_ta.... And this series of articles about Sicily's history, http://www.bestofsicily.com/history.htm

One key figure seems to have been Adelard of Bath. "He is known both for his original works and for translating many important Arabic and Greek scientific works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin from Arabic versions, which were then introduced to Western Europe." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelard_of_Bath
Value is whatever someone will pay. If Wal-Mart offers $1MM for your land, that is what it is worth, even if the next-best offer is $500K.
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The Tragic Tale of DEC, the Computing Giant That Died Too Soon
I can never tell if people on HN are joking or being serious.
All we need is a similar tool from Google :)
I've also been enjoying the view from the UK (weather permitting). I don't have a telescope on hand, but realised this autumn that my camera -- nothing special, just a Panasonic bridge camera -- could clearly pick out the four main moons of Jupiter, so we could watch how they moved around the planet from night to night.
There were many computers before the Xerox Alto.

Xerox never made the Macintosh because they missed key innovations such as regions, the Finder, consistent UI guidelines, the ability to put a usable GUI OS in an affordable package.
This 'person' comes across as a left wing global commie and anti white
By the way that app was https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer
Start with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The Great Courses has some good materials for the adult learner. You can branch out from there.
> The lambda syntax (\(x) -> x + 1) is similar to Haskell's (\x -> x + 1).

Personally I think it would be a good idea if you could e.g. configure your keyboard so that AltGr+L produces λ, which you can then use in place of \

But alas, the Haskell community has decided against this:

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/1102
Device Invented by Six Female Undergrads Translates Text to Braille in Real Time
"There are many flat out wrong interpretations of him, and someone like a professor or a secondary source can definitely help avoid common misunderstandings and pitfalls when trying to read him."

That really depends on who you read. If you read only a secondary source instead of the primary source, and that secondary source happens to have misinterpreted the primary, you're going to be misled.

If you read the primary source you're at least going to have the chance to make up your own mind, even if it's difficult to do so... and even if you can't, you might at least see that what the primary source actually says might not be as straightforward and obvious as the secondary source maintains.

But please don't think I'm against secondary sources altogether. They can be a useful adjunct to reading the primary sources. Ideally, though, you'd have multiple secondary sources (ones that disagree with one another), so you don't fall in to some one person's reality tunnel.

This is especially important in philosophy. I can't count the number of times I've read secondary sources which I consider to have completely misunderstood the primary sources they were commenting on, and how frequently secondary sources disagree with one another (especially on the more "difficult" philosophers).
By adding "absolute" to "truth," you seem to be alluding to (but not stating) a non-deflationary account of truth that OP almost certainly does not believe.

Second, what does Christianity have to do with anything? Was Aristotle influenced by Christianity?
Why is CSS so weird? [video]
When you talk about framing, you see it from a currently popular viewpoint on free speech/moderation. However this can be a bit too narrow and circumstantial.

The number one question is : is civil debate possible? And, and second, is the platform suitable for civil debate?

My own viewpoint is from my experience that mass moderation is not possible, or at the very least unlikely to yield results that are favorable to either the platform (say Facebook) or the user. And probably even damaging, as in your banned words example.

In terms of debate, one thing sticks out if you’ve done a lot of philosophical debates, that people are bad at it. That is to say, you need to learn how to debate. I would think moderating can suffer from the same lack of experience. However this entirely depends on the circumstances. I am not quite sure which platform you are thinking of in the first complaint you state.
She didn't offer to resign immediately. Her manager explicitly rejected her actual offer and imposed new terms as punishment for her email to the group.
Sure it's not poker. I believe the researcher was looking for an employment lawyer, and the pressure is increasing. The email was discussed in public and subsequently "published" by the company's people. Again, not privy to more details.
If the best person is a left wing commie + anti white

That should be extremly worrying
The easiest way to solve homelessness is to build a home. The legal minimum is 72 sq.ft per person. Dorms and shared kitchens and bathrooms can also be a solution.

There should be no room for thought processes that pretend that we can solve homelessness by any other means than just give people a home.

Just build high density villages with basic facilities so a place exists for people to take stock before figuring out their lives. Maybe they can be there till they finish education. Maybe till they recuperate from illness or use it as rehab. Or live there till they get a better job. Short lease, minimal rent. A breathing space.
I don’t know, my wife spends literal hours a day arguing with people on Facebook about COVID-19, citing CDC statistics, sometimes arguing with 20 people at a time.

The problem is the flow of all this goes something like.

1) A friend of hers posts something factually incorrect about COVID or lockdowns.

2) My wife posts a carefully worded and cited response.

3) Four or five people react with laugh or angry emojis.

4) someone weighs in and tells my wife how stupid and dumb she is, and how she is completely wrong. They often say this in a very nasty way.

5) She responds in a firm but not rude way that she believes they are wrong. She cites sources.

6) This person never responds again, and drops off.

7) A new person weighs in, generally rudely, making ad hominem attacks about her weight or whatever else they can.

8) She argues with them as well, never personally attacking them. She focuses on facts and statistics.

9) Over the course of hours she starts to accumulate likes and a significant number of people thumbs up her responses despite not saying anything.

I don’t know how she manages it, honestly. I can’t argue like this at all, it’s completely draining. She likes to think that because the threads are so active that hundreds of people are watching and she’s helping to change minds to think more rationally. But it’s hard to know for sure, and I don’t think most people have the psychological wherewithal that she has to deal with how abrasive and rude all these people are to her.
That's a good point re PRs.

One possible way of interacting would be to explore the API, and develop a proof of concept UI element with a bit of functionality, that plays off it. Perhaps in a context like this: https://github.com/jlpereira/tw_api_test.

We do have use various semantics throughout the project, randomly documented. Contributions to how best to organize and get beyond this are also welcome, along the lines of this issue: https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks/issues/85.
Actually, this is the right page:

https://dgraph.io/slash-terms
Again, this would kill many loop optimizations.
The last time this happened, Ghengis Khan was still alive.
Horcrux Encrypted Messaging: secret messages even your government can’t read
I use a UP2718Q every day (used to use two of them).

Did you just compare that mediocre POS to an XDR?
Steve Jobs at first D Conf (2003)
Wait, you can execute say c++ using electron?
First - my Prof. and colleague was the Adjutant to the Chief of Staff of the UN mission (General Dallaire) during the Rwandan Genocide. I'm well informed.

Second - that the 'government' was in control of some of the radio has nothing to do with the argument - that's an example of 'political speech', particularly lacking institutional controls of the press.

The genocide was not arbitrary, of course there were leaders and those pushing for it. There were political forces moving millions of machetes into the country to be used in 'the uprising'. But when it happened, it was almost universal, like a Zombie film.

President Trump, using 'direct channels' (Twitter/FB) to spout lies about election rigging, is able to do this completely without any fact checking. He can say almost anything he wants, and a certain % will believe him. He has made veiled hints at violence.

5-10 Million people believe that the election has been rigged, and the constitution has been usurped. Those are Revolutionary terms, and they have guns.

This story reads like an election in a crappy African Republic where there is zero institutional credibility.

A 'decentralized web' mostly lacks any ability to decipher fact from truth - it's expensive, it requires integrity, transparency, oversight - which is why we have many institutions to do that right now, and it becomes a real problem when they start to bend.
context:

2000: SoundJam -> iTunes
2001: OS X, iPod, 1st retail store, …
2002: iPhoto, Logic acquisition, Garage Band dev starts
2003: iTunes Store
2005/6: Intel transition
2007: Apple Inc, iPhone
I've read criticisms that Botton is too opinionated, misrepresenting philosophers in order to comport with his worldview.

I personally think that there isn't a better primer than Wikipedia, but I'm hardly a philosopher.
I think the most significant factor in developer productivity usually isn't the specific language or framework used but the developer's experience with those. So yeah, use React if you're experienced in React.
Asteroid capsule located in Australian desert
MedSocks – Modern socks for healthcare personnel
It's a really interesting idea! I'm also surprised there hasn't been much traction here. I've started a Rust library for this: https://github.com/sharksforarms/deku

It's a declarative bit-level symmetrical reader writer generator library.
writing to each parent directory would cause enormous write amplification and terrible io performance.
I don't know who "you guys are"; I'm a liberal Democrat and Rayiner is not. I'm just saying that in the retail health care setting we always seem to be talking about, the cost-sharing expectations of Europe are quite comparable to those of insured people in the US. This is a problem for people whose argument about the failings of US health care condenses to "insurance isn't enough".

The US health care system has deep, systemic problems! It's just probably not the copay problem.
I wonder how many games have dedicated UI developers. GUIs beside the game itself are often clunky, complicated and at best playful.
It happens outside of your bubble. It's not about being dumb. It's about having a certain way of life that values frugality and simple living. But you need land to live on.
Go tell the Amish to sell their land and move into a condo because it makes more financial sense.
Android users have boost for mobile, which is another alternative
Looks cool, but the p2p protocol seems over engineered. The problem is not so much how to share the code, you can still use email or some other centralized federated service to communicate with peers. Hell, you can even use S3 to store your backups and EC2 to run CI. The main issue is owning the platform that hosts your code, issues, and other artifacts. A hybrid system that allows you to host code with peers while integrating with existing infrastructure services would be more robust and an easier sell.
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I dont know much about macs, but googling this looks like it should work for you. https://pawelurbanek.com/pihole-local-computer, though I'd try to use the official compose instead of his version on github. https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole
This was me. Tons of issues as soon as I got into running, leading to a multi-year hiatus before I would end up repeating the process.

I decided to break the habit. I did yoga daily for the last year 20-30 min to stretch and strengthen muscles that were weak, using primarily Yoga with Adrienne or Sara Beth Yoga on YouTube. Then I started running slowly - as in following the MAF180 protocol and going real slow while keeping my heart rate in the aerobic zone.

Result? I am now doing 40-50km per week with no pain, and I’ve done three half marathons and working to a marathon in the spring.

I am convinced most people have issues because they have muscle imbalances (yoga helps) and they go out at too fast of a pace.
Yes, I HATE that. My other big annoyance is when i have a movie paused and set down a drink on the table next to the remote and the remote wakes up due to the vibration and unpauses the movie..