skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point on the definitional nuance, but why don't we have a fallacy for people who assume that something won't happen? Or is this also an instance of the slippery slope fallacy - asserting that A necessarily leads to NOT(B) instead of B?

Also I believe my other point stands with respect to how this fallacy is abused in common discourse to score debate points, at least according to my experience. In practice, not many commit this fallacy, since everyone except the most dishonest will admit there's a tiny probability that their causal chain won't play out.
Obviously I'm speaking in the vernacular and as I stated I used the terms as they meant to me.

Besides logically sound and sound argument aren't the same thing in my mind. One refers to soundness of logic and the other to soundness of the argument. And that was the essence of my point. There's a difference in talking about an argument and talking about the logic used. Logical fallacies are only useful in determining if the reasoning was flawed.

I didn't disagree with anything you wrote and even clarified my meaning so as to be clear. There is also the fact that, linguistically speaking, every person has a unique language. The meaning of words can vary slightly between people who nominally speak the same language. That's why I mentioned to me in my previous post.

Clearly I was not writing in a mathematically precise way. I took mathematical logic in graduate school many years ago but am not qualified to use all of the terminology in a mathematically precise way. But this is an internet forum and not a course in mathematical logic. The standards of rigor are not so strict. Hence my phrase to me ought to have sufficed as far as clarification.
> He was going crazy over a file being shown as 600Mb on Windows and 629Mb on mac. When he compared the bytes values, they were the same (around 629,145,600 bytes) and that settled it.

To be fair: It make sense to measure RAM in MiB, because it is addressed by binary address lines so you always end up with a power of two.

Files are, however, as big as somebody decided to write into them (modulo some rounding to the next sector, depending on file system implementation details). It does not make much sense to measure them in MiB. Quite often it just more confusing to calculate file sizes in MiB instead of MB. I dont even know why Microsoft stated that MiB business.

Similar with hard disks by the way. They contain as many sectors as the manufacturer was able to put on them. There is no power of two involved.
Can't believe how ripe for abuse this is...

Get rich quick scheme: do what this guy did, scurry away some doses (e.g. if you have no shows), and bring in the millionaires who are willing to pay a lot of money to get their doses.

If you have less of a soul, just inject the normal patients with placebos, and keep more of the vaccines for your paying clients.
> On top of that security, it'd also be interesting to monitor what someone (based on their IP and browser fingerprint) was looking up on SO, you could probably figure out what they were working on that way.

When the security incident happened last year on SO, SO team monitored what information the attacker searched in SO. So I guess some people want some privacy in searching information in SO.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/25/a-deeper-dive-into-our...
Yeah, that's the kind of answer that you don't get anymore on SO, mostly because that kind of question isn't allowed anymore.

Nowadays questions must be much more specific, what has the consequence that the answers are much less generally useful.
Regarding your first paragraph: exactly.

Regarding your second: you’re making essentially the same mistake. There’s no objective argument here, no deliberations on abstract truth that could be easily countered by pointing out a logical fallacy. Just because it’s a shared belief doesn’t mean it’s not beholden to valid yet purely subjective arguments such as “I don’t have any BTC” or “I don’t have the technical ability to use BTC.” In reality, nobody is going to use your product or service because you can make a fallacy-free argument for it. On the other hand, popularity is a very real and useful indicator of utility. You may hate jQuery, for instance, but it’s going to have a plethora of documentation, blog posts, and StackOverflow answers.

Basically - the real world is tolerant and even encouraging of logical fallacies.
No, I'm not "conceding" anything. Your goalpost moving straw man arguments from a position of total ignorance of the subject aren't worth addressing anymore.

Good day.
The 2nd dose data maccabi sent out is pure PR; It's basically "We finished vaccinating yesterday, and almost no one got sick yet!" which, while true, is the most fudgible statistic ever. I'm ignoring it and waiting for the 2nd paper from Maccabi and the 2nd release from the K(alkstein) Institute - whom I trust more than even the Maccabi medarxiv paper (and I do trust them, about a billion times more than government press releases and the incredibly compliant mass media).
1 BTC is about the same price as 1 Tesla car. I'm not sure how I should feel about that.
Is there something like Dash/Kiwix for Windows?
This EINTR is returned here for attempts at file accesses trapped by an antivirus/security layer, which can indeed take an undetermined amount of time, without the OS knowing how long that is...

Probably was a hard choice to make for Apple too. Should a thread be frozen for an undetermined amount of time while an antivirus does the check?
> Genuine question.

I know a handful of faculty at top universities (MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc). At least one did a year at a FAANG company prior to starting so it isn't like they don't know better. They are paid well enough and don't need 400k salaries. They love their research topic and love the freedom to work on the topics they care most about. They love mentoring students specifically. They don't care about software engineering as a discipline and would rather spend time learning other things. They (most of them) like teaching. They like being part of a research community.
Funny enough, the inception of stack overflow was because another Q&A site called "Experts exchange" suddenly put up a paywall.
Of course we know for a fact the root cause is Apple

It’s never EVER happened that the initial bug report overlooked possible side effects due to other software or customization the user is running

Developers should never be inconvenienced by security

Every commenter on the internet has surely done due diligence

I find it hard to believe this hasn’t popped up sooner with Big Sur having been released months ago.
People will trade off convinience and representativeness. A lot of psychology studies are famously done on students, because it's just so cheap and easy. I think it's very likely they will just say "screw those backwards hillbillies, I bet they are all racist unpersons anyway"
It’s largely based on who has more lawyers. Google would never suspend Twitter because they would be instantly sued... like within 24 hours... and by a top tier law firm.
If they WFH, then nothing will prevent them from 'copying' any material they want, even if by cellphone photo of the computer screen, no?
I think kernel virtualization support is better on Linux than Windows, so you may be better served running Windows guests on Linux. I think people are even gaming like this for a minimal penalty with hardware pass-through.

I absolutely can't fathom how anyone could make Windows their daily driver. Having to unbloat, unspy, unfuck a brand new system, I mean...
Some StackOverflow answers are so bad they are the worst resource on a topic.
While SO is geared for developers. If someone takes this on, ideally it would work like StackExchange sites where one can exist for each topic.

- https://math.stackexchange.com/

- https://stats.stackexchange.com/

- https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/

- https://ai.stackexchange.com/

- https://apple.stackexchange.com/

- https://serverfault.com/

- https://superuser.com/

- https://drupal.stackexchange.com

There’s a ton more of these.
This is only true if 1 unit is treated the same as 100k units, and it is not.
One must also take into account the fact that when the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were tested, the South African, U.K., and Brazilian variants didn’t exist. In the J&J trial they were dominant. As a result they are not comparable. The J&J vaccine had 0 cases of severe disease in the treatment arm and that really is the statistic one is looking for.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1355352505987854340
In any case the 8-bit-micro maze games are all handily predated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_War , which unlike all of them (AFAIK) is also a head-to-head multiplayer shooter with netplay, a much more direct precedent for the ID and post-ID FPSes.

The thing that's underpraised about 3D Monster Maze is the quality of the writing and art. It's an (AFAICT) pretty unusual early highpoint of comic storytelling in computer games, which in some ways makes it as much the forerunner of Portal as anything else.
I wonder if the reason documentation is so crappy is because stack overflow exists?
Preferably a knowlage DB accessable through whois(1) protocol.
How to select best UPS and Solar to be off-grid 24 hour for 2kw
Hi,
I need to be off-grid for 24 hours, I will be powering a device that consume 2kw.

I live in Africa, so Sun is not a problem here.
Thanks,
jongi
Pessimism and apathy are the primary things holding decent Americans in thrall to the racist war state called USA. If our votes meant something, that state could change though it has been around for 231 years. Since they don't, it must instead be replaced. In the meantime, let's be less totalitarian, not more.
This seems roughly 2 month early: Would make a funny read on April 1st.
They wont allow competition. Just look at parler and gab full blown disinfo campaigns designed to ruin any competition face-twit may have. Big tech are corporate authoritarians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Jet_Database_Engine
Thank you, I had a hard time parsing the article itself. This really helped.
> Certainly no encounters with a "weird security system"

You didn't use mac during the notarization system outage?
I coulndn't even use my keyboard and mouse (the one on macbook, NOT bluetooth one) for 2-5 minutes after lid was opened.

Never had such issue with Linux, yeah, bluetooth ones might stop working but wired keyboard (or laptop open) works always.

Yesterday out of the blue my wifes AirPods Pro stopped working with macbook AND iPhone at the same time - they rejected connection (or actually on mac it looked like they are connected but the sound was coming out of speakers not the pods) and the same situation with iPhone. I had to reset AirPods to make it work.

And don't get me started on the completly stupid difference between ctrl+c and cmd+c. One (the standard for everything except macos) is used in terminal and the other in every other app.

For me macbook would be great for one thing: installing Linux on it, if it only had the ctrl key in the correct place (that is at the left corner of the keyboard not next to Fn).
That depends on your environment.

When programming in Haskell or Rust, going into SO is basically a waste of time, and the documentation or some specific search engine (yeah, hoogle) are the place to go.

When programming in C#, SO is basically irreplaceable, the knowledge there is extremely important and you just won't find it anywhere else.

When programming in Python or Javascript, it completely depends on what libraries and frameworks you are using.
So all you need is Safari support. Should be easy right. Jeeve Stobbb$
>>> The US intelligence community actually keeps a clone of Stack Overflow

I feel this is a prudent idea. Not necessarily for a full blown start-up, but a community-funded resource. If you stripped out all the extras. And just cloned the questions and top 2 answers. The text based data set itself is very managable. Several gigabytes in scale. Not to mention its applicability for ML/NLP/codegen research ;)
How do we get Google Chrome pulled for abusive content?
Don’t worry. Google will kill it’s own chat apps. Sad but true.
Packaging of Lomiri Operating Environment for Debian (Part 04)
Portrait of a Very Serious Investor (ET)
I wonder if they meant CBG instead of CBD, as there were similar articles in 2020 for antibacterial properties, possibly work against mrsa

Unless they meant full spectrum cbd which includes cbg, CBN, minor THC, and other properties besides just cbd itself
You can add new answers to existing questions if the answer’s changed over time
Put your system to sleep and wake it back up. (I use `rtcwake -m mem -s 10`). Power-cycling the drive like this resets whatever security lock the motherboard firmware enables on the drive during the boot process, allowing the drive to accept admin commands like NVMe format and ATA secure erase that would otherwise be rejected. Works on both the WD Black SN700 and SN750 models, doesn't seem to be necessary on the very first (Marvell-based) WD Black or the latest SN850.
My experiences with Stack Overflow until recently:

- Using it as a useful resource for small issues

- Seeing memes about how programmers essentially just copy/paste code from Stack Overflow all day long

- Reading comments about how Stack Overflow is severely outdated and any question will be shut down immediately

And then I had an issue with library A which was using library B but had a small inconsistency in how it used it that made my use case very difficult. So I posted a question. The developer of library B appeared, agreeing that it's a problem. Followed by the developer of library A, who agreed as well and said the fix would be in the next release. 2-3 days later, my bug was fixed by updating library A.

With a sample of one, that doesn't really say anything, my view of that website is a bit biased now.
Just checked, it's down nearly 40% today. It's a meme pump and dump.
How long are you interviews? How long are you watching the developer before you prod them to Google search?

I like to think about a problem at least a little bit before giving up and asking for help. I have to at least be able to understand the problem before I can effectively find a solution.

And hell, these days it's only a 50/50 shot whether searching will actually help with my problems or I'll just end up in a rabbit hole of SEO spam.
They had had a paywall for a while. They just had a bunch of bad answers and no way to judge whether the given answers were actually useful or not.
I like seeing DOGE doing well. It has never been advertised as anything other than a meme so it's pretty funny watching it get memed into a huge pump. Compared to 99% of other crypto projects it makes no daft claims and doesn't advertise a new "partnership" every week.
This is interesting - I feel like the site should separate dark patterns that add information from ones that lie or obfuscate. In my experience, consumers feel differently about these categories.

I've sat in on a few dozen user research sessions for ecommerce. This was qualitative research that included their general shopping habits, and additionally testing new features. The most interesting thing that I learned is that consumers (a) are generally pretty aware of when they're being pressured, and (b) are fine if it's transparent and accurate.

A classic example of this were low-stock notifications. The shoppers were generally okay with being told that something was low stock if that was really true. Many people could name specific items they lost because they were sold out. Some could also name instances of when they had bought something "1 item remaining" and seen it on sale the next day. They preferred having the information because it helped them make an informed decision. It turns out that lots of people browse the same items for a while, and use sales or almost-out-of-stock as a "now or never" moment.

The most interesting user session I ever sat in on was for a countdown timer for a sale ending. The designer refused to design it at first, and then was like, "fine, I'm going to design the hell out of this and then show you in user research that nobody wants this." And then she showed it to 5 people in user research, who were generally okay with it on the condition that it counted down to the actual sale ending. Some said they actually liked knowing, because when they're just looking on their phones they might not be in a good position to buy it, and want to know how much time they have later to get it. They said that they'll often refresh the page to see if the timer resets, because if it starts ticking from the same time, they feel like the site is just scammy and they'll leave.

Anyways, I'm not trying to defend lots of these patterns. Most of them are clearly wrong, and the ones that I mentioned above can also be used to lie and deceive. But I wouldn't put them all together - in my experience, consumers generally want accurate information even if they're aware that the company is doing it to pressure them.
Why should we hire anyone based off the color of their skin/gender, versus for their level of competency?

If a company start optimizing on diversity metrics instead of on ability, then they’ll be crushed by market forces from companies who optimize on ability.

Further, isn’t it a bit patronizing hiring people because they fit in a URM group, instead of hard work to sufficiently pass an interview/test/etc?
> a fricking musician had named their song to include the delimiter used in one of those

Paul McCartney’s “Pipes of Peace”?
Most definitely agree. I was only referring to the fact that for Israel it was sufficient to throw more money at the problem to get enough doses; For the entire EU, it is required, but not sufficient condition.
A man (or a woman) can be very calculating and manipulative, sly as a fox and fast as a rabbit, but at the same time a greedy fool who stubmles and fumbles and never gets what he wants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iznogoud

Or, most of the time, gets exactly what he bargains for. In the case of Johnson, that's being Prime Minister in the middle of Brexit and just before an unforeseen pandemic that kills dozens of thousands of his citizens.

He must be thaking god very hard for AstraZeneca right now.
You're referencing a study, perhaps find it to back up your point.

Because 8 vs 10 bit colour in sky photography is quite obvious
It would be nice if those blog posts were as easily aggregated as stack. I know many have tried to solve the problem, but it always feels like great luck when I find a good blog post
Well, in office there was very strict no smart phone policy. Privacy laws were big issue when WFH started in march. This company also does phone support for other clients, and handles credit cards. There are huge fines. I am not sure how they made it compliant for FB. Propably sensitive stuff is still handled from office.

But if you have privacy expectation on fb...
SOPHIE has died
There's also a saying in Romanian which roughly translated (by me) goes something like this: "A fool throws a stone in the lake which then ten wise men people struggle to get out".
Sound and valid are terms of art in deductive logic. They have clearly defined meanings.

Validity means the form of an argument is such that it's impossible for its premises to be true while the conclusion is false i.e. if the premises are true then the conclulsion must be true. Validity is a formal property of arguments and the relationships between premises. An argument can be valid even if its premises are false.

Soundness means that an argument is valid and that the premises are true (and therefore the conclusion must be true).

These are standard terms that have been used for over a century. You're going to generate a lot of confusion if you choose to use them differently to everyone who has ever studied elementary logic.
Maybe you can use their dataset,
https://www.kaggle.com/stackoverflow/stackoverflow

Source is here, https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
> Given the price of an average Mac being higher than a Windows machine, it would also be fair to suggest that Mac users, on average, tend to have more disposable income as well.

I don't think it means much to talk about averages when the Windows market is so much larger. There are plenty of Windows gamers who spend thousands on their machines. There are also plenty of highly paid developers and white collar workers who primarily use Windows. So I don't think there's a shortage of Windows users who could buy indie software, but for some reason they don't.

So I don't think it's a financial reason. Maybe it's cultural? Maybe Mac users enjoy their computers more than Windows users and aren't afraid to pay a little bit more to make it even better. Mac users picked the minority platform whereas Windows is the default and people who don't care about computers end up on the default platform.
Considering their political stance I would not be surprised if they would blocklist some repositories.

https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html
> We don't have any evidence that there was any safety concern here; the FAA has not said that.

That this particular violation didn't lead to any incident doesn't invalidate the need for licenses and the obligation to respect them.

"This particular instance of me driving 200 mph on a public road didn't result in any accident so no big deal right, speed limits are useless"
Whom does it not so arm?
This is indeed an example of a valid but unsound argument (unsound because the first premise is false), and your use of 'sound' is correct here.

Your first post, however, uses 'sound' in a manner that is inconsistent with both this example and correct usage. In particular, where you wrote "An argument can be logically sound but with a false conclusion" you presumably meant 'valid' instead of 'logically sound', as, by definition, sound arguments have true conclusions.
IRC is the first place I go if I can’t find an answer in the documentation or a search engine. If that doesn’t work, I’ll turn to a mailing list.

Personally, I find both of these options have less friction than starting a new question on SO.
F-Droid bans apps for “hate speech” too[1].

Any mastodon app that refused to blacklist Gab got banned from F-Droid or something like that.

It is the perfect example of why I don’t even bother with federated projects. It’s just “wouldn’t it be great if _I_ were in charge?”

If that’s the situation, I’d rather Big Tech be in charge because at least they have some name recognition and hierarchy for decision making. Nobody cares if pizza-witches wrongfully broke terms. With Twitter at least peoples’ ears perk up.

In other words, there’s no rules in the alley. But there are rules in the town square.

[1]: https://reclaimthenet.org/f-droid-bans-gab-app/
There are only two fallacies: anticipation and procrastination.
If you're discussing something and it isn't directed towards an immediate course of action, stop already it's not worth wasting your attention.
Even if underrepresented minorities are hired, those hired will be the upperclass representatives of those minorities, and a lot has been written on these divisions. It turns out races are not some unified organs. And neither are genders for that matter. There is no solution whereby the owning class can continue exacerbating inequality in a morally righteous manner.
https://unity8.io/

https://ubports.com/
For the time benig the dispute is between the EU and AstraZeneca. The UK has not said at any point that they will stop vaccine doeses from being exported from UK manufacturing sites to the EU.
Getting out of the way is what is leading to success.

Now not dropping a huge exploding rocket on a major city is also a good argument.
If you mean, is the above an excerpt from my autobiography, then no. :-)