skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly constitutes a 'major technological advance'? If we're counting Turing Awards by university affiliation, then I believe 90% is probably a good estimate for the US share (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turing_Award_laureates...). If we're counting Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine, it suddenly becomes less clear why this should be true (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_uni...), and if we're counting the number of Fields Medals (the most relevant award given the subject of the post), the numbers seem to suggest that the US contribution to pure mathematics is not as dominant as you might imagine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fields_Medal_winners_b...

In any event, I think this is all getting rather silly. I was simply making the point that historically science in the US has benefited tremendously from having a large number of capable people that were trained within a different system. Where they were born is absolutely irrelevant. A certain W. von Braun was indeed an American, as were his 'major technological advances' that many in the US are rightly proud of, but he was very much a product of German science (I hope you don't find this point controversial).
I guess it comes down meaning of “sound”. Let me be more specific.

An argument can correctly use the rules of logic and have an incorrect conclusion. This can happen if some of the premises are false. For example:

All men are immortal.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore Socrates is immortal.

The rules of logic have been correctly followed but the conclusion is false.
Bro but what is his COD KDR
Thanks for the tips! And yes, planning to seed with posts more and more as this goes on
This is because an analogy is in fact a form of fallacious thinking.

Except in the case where your analogy is effectively an argument to generalisation, attacked via a specialised example (but arguing only over the generalisable properties).

Any other type of analogy immediately falls flat as soon as someone calls out specialised property x that does not hold for oroginal argument y.
Those proposed fixes don't make any sense for macOS. Nearly no one runs antivirus software on a Mac, and downgrading to prior OS version is basically impossible for most people.
I find it curious when people give these institutions the benefit of the doubt. It flies in the face of the history of the industry and also what we know about basic human nature.

I've moved around these types of social circles to know that any levers that can be pulled will be pulled.

We also know that for large financial institutions, breaking the law is usually just a cost of doing business. Tangential, but GS was happy to facilitate 1MDB, and HSBC empower money launderers...

In any case it is speculation so my opinion carries no real weight over yours, but it does make me wonder what has coloured my world view to be so cynical/nihilistic
> Having that ability as a permission you could grant to any app is an immense security risk

A risk to whom? There is no permission that is a "security risk" so long as it's the device owner granting that permission.
I see your point on the sandbox, and I agree that Windows is in many ways even worse as a consumer platform. I wasn't aware that things had gotten so bad there.

My complaint with MacOS is less about the existence of SIP (though I can't say I enjoy it) and more about things like bash, python and even SSH being regularly broken. (These are all actual problems that I've spent hours solving, not theoretical issues.) I don't understand why technical users voluntarily put up with this.
My understanding is bitlocker is using your login credentials as the auth to get the TPM to unlock the disk - otherwise how is it blocking anyone else with physical access getting at data by just turning the power on if there's no auth?
Adtech is full of BS and perhaps the challenge of our times. Let’s look at what Facebook VP Carolyn Everson, said in 2018:

“So we believe very strongly that the business model that we have been operating under is not only good for people because it gives them more relevant advertising, but it also is good for businesses because obviously it drives their growth.”

If you agree it’s not going to be easy to overcome such BS, then here’s an important case of Brandolini’s law. But why is it so difficult? Zuboff makes the case for the AI genius of surveillance capitalists. Doctorow and others argue it’s about digital monopolists.

They would likely all agree that it’s difficult because the mainstream and laggards need to wake up. If people are asked “Do you prefer ads that are more relevant?” then the mainstream are going to say something like; yeah OK, that sounds better than ads that are irrelevant to me.

But how about if people are asked “Do you wants ads that are more relevant and are based on data that we collect about you and you’re lookalikes?”. They might then say “Well, no not really, but do I have a choice?”
Yes, it is valid. But there is a difference between valid and consistent/backward-compatible. Microsoft goes out of their way to be backward-compatible (but doesn't always succeed, of course) and Linus (some guy who wrote some hobby OS, that won't be "big or professional like gnu") is very adamant not to break user space if not strictly necessary and unavoidable.

To me, it looks like Apple played fast and loose here, changing the expected behavior of something as fundamental as "open", without even mentioning it anywhere (and if they didn't even notice their changes would affect this behavior, that's another problem).

A change like this does not just break PostgreSQL, dotnet (and thereby anything running on dotnet), VirtualBox, and whatever else was mentioned by name, it will break almost everything in subtle ways, because almost nobody ever implemented correct EINTR behavior in the context of these APIs.
If low frequency trading interests you, here's a project some people might want to check out: https://github.com/brndnmtthws/thetagang

It's designed to sell option premium on major indices (like the S&P500 or NASDAQ-100) to generate mostly passive income, with a fairly reasonable risk-adjusted return. It uses a combination of strategies that involve selling naked puts and covered calls, which both have the same risk profile, but naked puts tend to have higher premiums.
Pascal is under-appreciated. TurboPascal was my first programming language/platform on PC (used 286 in 1994) and the only problem I had was lack of documentation on actual video and sound hardware, not with the language itself.
I was surprised to learn that many DOS-era games I loved were written in pascal actually, some of them were pretty performant (Tyrian, for example).

Almost on the topic: in Russia there were popular school computers UKNC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNC, pdp-11 clones with deep changes, with an RT-11 compatible OS. They were everywhere, well into late 199x, when they were deeply obsolete, because schools didn't have funding to upgrade classrooms. It was my first computing platform when I was a kid, but the only language accessible was BASIC, with a line editor (pretty strange concept nowadays), line numbers, no named subroutines, etc.
In 1997 I was suprised to find in a new school I've transfered to the same old computer but with Pascal compiler on it. With an actual editor, a very fast compilation time, and all still crammed into 64kb of memory. I was really impressed.
> software now is much more complex than it used to be

I'd say software now is much more complex than it needs to be. It's made to ease the life of the developer, usually an inexperienced one, at the expense of the user.

> IMO, for security reasons alone, it's no longer realistic to expect software without at least occasional updates.

If people would stop rewriting things that already work fine, we'll run out of vulnerabilities at some point. Or, if you must rewrite them and have a good reason to do so, at least use a memory-safe language. Even C++ is much better than C and raw pointers. Anything is better than C and raw pointers. Yet all major OS kernels and most userspace components are written in C and use raw pointers and vulnerabilities in those are being found all too often.
> Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz.

I think that was their plan for most open source software, but xquartz is more critical than most.
FYI the equity derivative might solve the money pit problem in theory but not if the instruments are in separate net margin accounts — then you may still get margin calls from one counter-party even when the other is showing you a gain.
I'll have to bookmark this for my next internet argument.
Get ready for more GameStops as hedge funds no longer the only bullies
You mean valid. Not sound. By definition if an argument is sound, it is also valid (but not the reverse). And by definition if an argument is sound, then its conclusions are true.

I think you're just mixing up the terminology a bit.
>It's still peak in my brain :)

that's neat that someone else does that.

i'm like that with the voodoo2, for some unknown reason.

don't get me wrong, the voodoo2 was great, but i'm not sure why it stuck in my head for that long.
Was not the case on my last dual boot laptop (XPS 15), battery life was better under Linux on that.
Last but one job boss offered me an iMac Pro, I asked if I could just have the equivalent money for hardware and he said sure.

Which is how I ended up with an absolute monster of a work machine, these days I WFH and while work issued me a Macbook Pro it sits on the shelf behind me.

Fedora on a (still fast) Ryzen/2080 and 2x4K 27" screens vs a Macbook Pro is a hilarious no brainer for me.

Upgrading soon but can't decide whether I need the 5950X or merely want it - realistically except for gaming I'm nowhere near tapping out this machine (and it's still awesome for that an VR which is why the step-son is about to get a in his words "sick" PC).
AudioGridder – A VST2/VST3/AU DSP Server – Updated to v1.1
But this one is important, no? This is like banning Firefox because it can connect to illegal content.
i run linux and i prefer running all these kind of services (postgres, redis, rabbitmq and the likes) on docker containers. it's much easier to manage, easier to add/remove/clean and it doesn't pollute my local system with random stuff.
It's incredible that they still host web browsers and email clients with these kinds of policies in place.
The Prostate Protocol Review, Legit or a Scam?
I would like to receive Amber Alerts without the obnoxious noise. If there was just a middle-ground option of just having the pop-up and no noise, then I would leave it enabled.
It was surprising in summer of 2020. By now no longer.
European countries are not (just) states, they're sovereign nations. And that's the big issue of the EU. The whole system is organised in such a way that each nation can retain most of its power, which is almost always greater than that of the EU institutions.
> It even warns you if Windows reverts a setting you changed - which happens all the time.

New dark pattern from Microsoft. One of the reasons to get off the platform forever. If settings change themselves they shouldn’t call themselves settings
I'm on the same boat. From my experience, too often people use these lists as cheap shots against someone's position without actually engaging with those views in good faith. A far more productive way to use knowledge of fallacies is to improve your own reasoning and positioning, not attack others'.
> how about we set up some sort of proactive ‘evidence based truths’ thing to potentially preempt future BS.

It's basically how you'd run a project, right? If there was some point of contention, you would document that point, attaching the various conflicting opinions, perhaps with pros and cons of each, whatever else was important, and then that argument is done. If a genuinely new future disagreement arises, amend it. Over time, more distinct points would arise, and you'd do the same thing, gradually building out a model of The System: what it is composed of, how it works, where things are decided, where things are not, where do we still have unknowns and more work to do, etc. A reasonably decent model of what our reality is composed of.

In the world of democracy and public affairs though, we seem to have instead chosen to take an approach with no organization or persistence of decisions. So, an event occurs, a couple hundred internet arguments break out, composed in part of thousands of mini-arguments involving past unresolved disagreements, and plenty of insults and ill will. And then tomorrow when the next event occurs (or a new wrinkle in yesterday's), we start from scratch doing the same thing all over again.

Round and round we go, like we're on a treadmill to nowhere.
Why humans beat computers at knowing when to leap into the unknown
Thank you so much :-)
An interesting approach would be try to code something with only the official documentation and source code of the libraries your are using. No internet except for the git clone.

I like doing that as an exercise. It trains you well for a very common situation for professional developers. You have to work on a project, poorly documented, the original developers left long ago and no one really knows how it works, except maybe for one guy who don't have time to answer your questions. Of course it is internal stuff, so the internet is no help. It is a valuable skill, literally, companies are ready to pay good money to people who can do that.
So be it. It's okay for technology to require education. Stop infantilizing users.
He thing about web development I found is that how most new users try todo something is inevitably insecure, inefficient, or whatever. It’s too complex to memorize all the steps and there’s invariably a module for what you need. Most people have a time crunch so don’t have cycles to write from scratch. If somebody has done what you’re trying to do, and that’s usually the norm, then google will get you to a solution faster. It’s never feels like you do any of your own work at the end of the day as you’re opting and pasting mostly.
Hi there, if you're a small business impacted by this please comment how below, i can raise the issue with congressional representatives via the national small business association. I've seen a couple posts about this already.

From my perspective, decentralized, free and open source software enables and supports a range of small businesses. The replacements for tools like Element are big-tech tools ranging from Whatsapp (Facebook) to Slack (Salesforce).
See also:

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com

I don't think it tries to list every one, but mostly the most common ones.
But as of right now Telegram and Signal is still up, isn't it? Though they're already being slandered in the media, so you might have a point here.

To support my explanation, see for example this:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/25/21532883/paypal-cuts-tie...

PayPal terminated Epik's account, because they refused to kick out Gab. I believe there were a couple more cases where the money people pressured companies to do things like that. My memory is getting blurry with this though, so I can't point you to the articles.

And that leads me to something even more important. Gab was not only kicked out off their domain registrar, but the owner's family was blacklisted by Visa. So the social media is actually the least of my concerns right now, the most urgent thing at the moment is regulating the banks, so they can't terminate your account for no reason. Because they will come after your money at some point. And good luck paying in cash in a middle of pandemic.
I take your meaning, but pedantically I think the idea of black swan is that you couldn't ever see it coming, so the only way to prepare for it is some sort of general robustness (which to be fair Matrix does have).
Yeah, unfortunately when I try to package the MacPorts bundle for distribution as a .pkg file, the webview has a bunch of certificate errors. Haven't been able to figure this out yet!
Yeah, good point. In the end it is just nice what-ifs. It turned out the way it did.
Circle/square pov illusion 3D print
quartz composer is completely different.

xquartz does the X11 protocol and displays it on apple display.

quartz composer is a sort of graphical composition tool.

They just happen to have quartz 2d graphics api in common.
Can we get Elon to tweet?
A Newly Discovered Circuit Helps Fish to Prioritize
Agreed, we have changed our slogan to 'the internet on your terms', because we recognize that Nyxt is firstly about control. You get to be in control of how you use the browser.
I just ssh into my Linux boxes from macOS. Problem solved (for me, at least).
Being suspended for user generated content has been a rite of passage for third party reddit clients. It's crazy how this happens again, again and again.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/96l0at/sync_for_re...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6dwv1f/boost_for_r...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/5fqrr8/now_for_red...
India Plans to Introduce Legislation to Ban Cryptocurrencies
:-D you crack me up!
Yeah, if you are running Postgres natively on OSX instead of in Docker you are behind the times. I’m sure this will be downvoted, but it needs to be said.
thank you for the confidence in us :-)
> I think you might underestimate how deeply and inexplicably confused people can get.

> ...

> It's extremely hard to anticipate all the ways someone might become confused and adding additional material to resolve a potential confusion risks introducing other new and novel confusion.

I actually support this argument. I also concede that it’s easy to point out the information in hindsight. But I will still argue that a vital part of building a company of RH’s size and branding is about taking the time to think deeply about the customer experience. To be the experts. To distill that expertise carefully when designing each service and each app screen.

Just based on how RH potentially “sold shares out from under people”, and how the accounts are automatically margin accounts as apparently stated on some part of the user agreement; RH was specifically aware of how this would violate user expectation and they chose not to address it. It’s very difficult, I feel, for someone to argue on the basis of “well yes, of course they were margin accounts, it’s obvious to anyone who knows about how stock accounts work because <blank>” because RH was specifically designing their platform around people who don’t know how stock accounts work.
If you could put one IN the table, maybe you could vibrate your players and have them run up the middle... touchdown!
Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland
However it does munge content and break sites by serving captchas instead of images or css so I don't link to it by default. It is generally faster though.

That's the beauty of IPFS. You can use whichever gateway you want, even your own.
The main point that beagle3 makes is that the Pfizer study actually shows ~89% efficacy starting 12 days after the first dose, which improves to ~90% immediately after the 2nd dose (day 21) and ~95% 7 days later (day 28).

The Maccabi study was designed with this comparison in mind: they look at efficacy in days 1-12 and 13-24 after the first dose. They are mainly interested in comparing the Pfizer results for days 13-21 (89% efficacy) with real-world data.
They show that the real world data is actually showing only ~50% protection in days 13-21, compared to 89% in the Pfizer data for the same period. This is somewhat disheartening.

HOWEVER, the Maccabi paper is not measuring the same thing as the Pfizer study. The Pfizer study only looked at symptomatic infections (Covid19 symptoms + positive PCR for SARS-CoV-2), while the Maccabi paper is also including asymptomatic infections.

Neither study includes sufficient data to accurately compare with the other one - the Pfizer study did not do PCR tests on anyone who didn't show symptoms, so we don't know how many asymptomatic infections they had exra; and the Maccabi study didn't record symptom information, so we don't know what percentage of those infected were symptomatic.

All of these numbers and facts are explicitly mentioned in the Maccabi study, it's not me reading into the data on my own.
Dendrite is okay for personal use (a few users), matrix-native, using the better-tested clients. IIRC some bridges work with it, but it doesn't implement the whole appservice API, which blocks you from using some of the better bridges.

I do not recommend synapse if you don't have a lot of memory. I put an extra 8 GB stick in my server for it, bringing it to 14 GB.

It routinely likes to take more than 4GB to itself, though it has become a lot leaner lately.
That's a really good question, thank you for asking. The reason we why we've so far opted to not include documentation online (we used to have it online) was because it would drift from different versions people were using. Lots of times people would see a feature or something in the manual, and wonder why it didn't work on their own installation!

If you have any suggestions as to how to remedy this, or if you think the trade-off is not worth it, we are all ears!
"Synthetic cannabidiol, better known as CBD, has been shown for the first time to kill the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease."

CBD != Synthetic cannabidiol
I recommend an (old) book by Thouless called "Straight and Crooked Thinking" if you can get your hands on a copy.

It goes through a list of "dishonest" debate techniques (not necessarily relying on fallacies) and possible techniques to disarm them.
I would posit that Google has a vested interest in blurring the lines between apps and the protocols that drive them
I use a keyboard called “programmer Dvorak” that makes those characters first-class citizens. You need shift for numbers. I can do the numbers fine but it took a while.

Not sure I’d recommend it though, need to learn normal Dvorak for use on other computers where you can’t install a keyboard.

I can’t look at the keyboard. If I do I’m instantly confused. And I can’t use a Dvorak view on mobile - just looks too different. Maybe I should try again...
You can see orangutans spear fishing. I'd be surprised if pre-humans weren't using spears. Rocks are better for driving animals than they are as a weapon.
that's correct, it is only one small part of the recipe!
Could someone explain the mechanics of how this insight would be turned into a therapeutic?
She is a product of the CDU - which promotes based on internal networks, not quality results. I would say she's not one of the worst politicians - everyone with that length in public life has a few scandals. I haven't forgiven her for her censorship laws, but the other 'scandals' seem rather be a matter of hubris (often confused with 'vision'). In other countries that's a normal expectation - new policies such as on childcare will have some birthing problems - but in germany politicians usually have waited for a solid plan before they announce big measures.
If you mean Jolla, that's still a thing - I (and many of my friends) run official supported Sailfish OS on Xperia hardware:

https://jolla.com/sailfishx/

And there are community maintained builds for the PinePhone and many other devices.
Welcome to 2021, I'm wondering if he was 1 of the 2 kids shown in the beginning of the video, but yeah kid's probably 17 years old and playing with neural networks...

Nothing wrong with that, I'm just old and bitter.