skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what is power-knowledge? Any suggested introductions?

After a quick skim of https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/#HistPris I think I can relate the idea of power-knowledge to something with which I am much more familiar: closed loop control theory.

Under that model, it makes sense that one's ability to control would be dependent not only upon how good one's effectors may be ("power"?) but also upon how good one's sensors may be ("knowledge"?). (let alone questions of system identification!)

But that could easily be me using the wrong prism ("observability/controllability") for analysis.
Actually, Yelp doesn't remove legitimate reviews.

Edit: I speak from personal experience as a small business owner, described in more detail below.
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If we're arguing "majority makes right": the clear majority of native English speakers are Americans (about 65%).

But I'm not going to say English people should start calling it soccer so I don't get confused. Let everyone speak their native language; there's nothing wrong with it!
save the planet ? Do you think planet need human to survive ?
This is simply not true. I am speaking as a small business owner on Yelp.
This is getting ridiculous. It's just bubbles upon bubbles upon bubbles.
The thing about Foucault that makes his work meaningful to me is how he hit the nail on the head about how power is changing and continuing to change in society. It has become diffuse and self-perpetuating. It lacks a direct, physical force but still coerces. It is no longer socially acceptable or legal for men to withhold food from their wives, but women suffer from eating disorders in large numbers. Slavery is no longer legal in the US, but a large % of black people are incarcerated and forced to do free labor. The internet has given us access to an enormous amount of information, and yet we are addicted to social media and controlled by algorithms.

I think the same can be said about Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche. A lot of their work does not hold up, but within their work are gems of insight that have stood the test of time. Just because they do not adhere to the methodologies of analytical philosophy does not mean that they haven't produced important thought.
It would be very weird if governments don't end up heavily regulating cryptos to the point of extinction, due to their inability to block, forbid, sanction, track (to some degree), including money laundering, "know your customer", tax, apply financial regulations in general.
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Since it is a fork of aseprite [0], maybe that can give you an approximate idea of what it looks like. I mean some screenshots would be nice, sure, but maybe this helps you.

[0] https://www.aseprite.org/ (also linked from the LibreSprite site)
I'm not sure if FlightTracker completely replaced the need for the internal consistency inside Tao. You can read about that here:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc13/atc13-b...
Reddit appified USENET.
no. there are gradients of autism.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-016-2760-2
At runtime, you can pass primitives to a function that expects a very specific DOM object (say), and it'll just plough on ahead like JavaScript does, until you get an exception that nothing catches because FooFunction doesn't raise any exceptions, and everything breaks.

Oh, and did I mention that virtually every browser API these days is potentially optional, with the undefined primitive replacing bits and pieces of them at seemingly random, depending on browser version and configuration, and the presence or absence of certain extensions…? I like the idea of TypeScript, I really do, but don't even try to use it for FFI (where “foreign” is anything outside your TypeScript module).
How Convertkit got their first 1000 customers?
Investing in China is really a leap of faith.

China does not play by western rules. It's not just another IPO. These investors gambled on an unusual situation beyond their control --- and lost.
Found in a random blog post, top 10 keywords:

- Insurance

- Loans

- Mortgage

- Attorney

- Credit

- Lawyer

- Donate

- Degree

- Hosting

- Claim

Still can't see it. But just to be sure, you're saying that the $100/month website was directly generating most of that $5B?

And not, for example, being just a bridge between users and an army of attorneys?
No, there are other systems that work to solve the same trust issue such as Proof of Stake or Delegated Proof of Stake, as well as other variations on that theme.

The issue will be getting people to use something other than Bitcoin, not solving the technical challenge. Bitcoin mining will always be Proof of Work, and thus energy-intensive.
Bitcoin's lowest price was $5k on the 12th day of march. Not only is that extreme cherry picking. The calculation is still wrong. That's only a gain of 820%. If you bought BTC on a random day in 2020 you're more likely to have paid 8k-10k for it. Suddenly we are back to the usual 300%+ gains.
That's ironic, given how he's used said levers and players and Wall Street to become the richest person in the world.
For someone out of the UIUC construct, does X73 mean various levels of algorithms courses? Could you elaborate on their titles or content?

I am looking to self-study for core CS content that I missed out on in school after being largely self-taught, and courses that change the way one’s brain works sound like the right ones to take.
> The realm of enquiry that science can operate on is by neccesity smaller than that which philosophy can act upon.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're suggesting that philosophy can talk about anything that science can. And of course, it can, in the sense that there will be uni positions for talking about just about anything in philosophy department, but I'd say that for a long time now when science is able to treat a subject, philosophical investigation of it becomes meaningless pursuit of words, disconnected from reality. And just like religion used to answer some questions about how the world works, but over centuries was in perpetual withdrawal up to the point where it's not its domain at all anymore, philosophy in areas of empirical reality is expected to be superseded by science and as such seems to be as worthwhile as ancient talks about arche and medieval religious talks about creation of the world. What understanding did we gain from arguing over whether the world is made of fire, of water, of ether/whatever? Whether it's deterministic or not? None.

It seems it would be a better use of everyone's time if philosophy withdrew from areas of current and future scientific inquiry.
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Sorry, where's the vulnerability in _signal_ here?

The TLS proxy is not sufficient. Marlinspike addressed this in their incredibly childish PR [0]:

>As we said in the blog post, it is nothing more than a simple TLS proxy as an interim solution to help people while we're working on something more scalable and more robust

I'm not so sure they made it clear they were working on another solution in that blog post [1], but it's a known problem that proxies can be fingered. I don't see the value add here and I can't read this as anything other than "boo hoo, we weren't listened to" (which is not surprising, given their behavior)

[0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec...

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/
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Hah, yes. Although, once you have user account tied to a real person, it becomes much easier to analyze the data you generate with the fingerprinter.
For the people reading this: Don't trust iOS apps with anything thing important. They're impossible (or nearly so) to verify and Apple has no visibility into them (they don't even try to do any instrumentation during the "review.")
> He then left a review accusing the firm of being "another scam solicitor", according to court documents.

> The firm took legal action, stating that this was untrue and defamatory.

Seeing as he pulled the old "give me back my money and I'll delete that" it sure sounds like the typical leave a bad review for leverage strategy, his mistake was straight up lying.

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I got in a dispute with an apartment management over my deposit and left a review with dozens upon dozens of well documented missteps they had taken during my tenancy complete with pictures. I didn't lie and I didn't embellish...

20 minutes later I got a call that my deposit was being refunded in full and asking if I could kindly take down my review.

I hadn't lied in it so I never took it down, but I did condense it, removed the pictures and mentioned they had returned my deposit finally.
I'm trying htmx after years of frustration with all other SPAs and build tools and changes.

after reading the site I still feel I need a little more information, is there known projects made with htmx somewhere for me to study?

Thanks for the great work!!
I haven’t read phaedrus in a while, but I think that interpretation is taken a little out of context. It’s better to say reading and writing, alone, would encourage these things.

There’s this theme in Plato that power isn’t the end all be all. By that same logic, reading/writing were a technology that gave you power. Specifically the ability to record/recall things. Plato/Socrates argue that power alone gives you as much ability to achieve bad as it does good. Then they go on to argue that it’s wisdom that allows one to know what is good bad, thus wisdom is critical in all things. So, that’s why it’s says that in phaedrus, probably haha. It’s not that controversial actually, and not the sky is falling kind of thing. Socrates was just really particular about the pursuit of truth being sort of like the singular focus to achieving good, and the rest were important but had to follow from there.

Parenthetically, I’ll add, he also seemed to believe that working out your body was just as important and necessary to being a philosopher.
> It's the century plus old distinction between analytical and continental philosophy

The article's claim is not that this distinction doesn't exist or that it is not a useful distinction, but that "pseudophilosphers" tend to equivocate between "truth as some property of the universe" and "truth as it matters to us". That seems to me to be an interesting position that is worth considering.

(btw. the claim that "The definition of what is true (and thus what is not) is based on power relations" is untrue even in the "what matters to us" sense, if you take it to mean power is the only or main determinant of what is true. That's the problem with Foucault and his followers—the monomaniacal focus on power as the primary determiner of truth and human relations. It just ain't so.)
I use AnySoft for English and used to use Trime for Chinese. I now use SwiftKey (not open source) for Pinyin.

What activists have been saying - and you should speak to them, not me - is that a warning is better than lulling people into a false sense of security.

Again, your phone may not be compromised but your IME could still be malicious.

The fact that Moxie and his team won't even engage with the people who originally brought this up is somewhat vexing.
Meanwhile "Tesla skips 401(k) match for third straight year". For all the future projections Musk claim to push forward, I wish employees empowerment and the betterment of the human condition could be a bit more on his mind.

More related to Tesla than to the story of this thread but I can't help feeling like we focus too much on one side of the equation here, I do believe better techs can mean a better life for all, but it's on us not to forget that second part otherwise it's a waste of innovation.
I just ordered a Starlink kit for delivery next month. Which will provide high speed, low(ish) latency internet to my house. Currently, my only option is Viasat/HughesNet. I’d call this progress. An order of magnitude improvement for me and my family.
> The trouble is that content generation is potentially inversely related to ability to pay

Not all content is valuable though. I'd argue that the core value in Twitter lies in the influential people using it and not some random teenagers posting their thoughts. Those people also happen to have enough disposable money to pay for the service no-questions-asked.

> he willingness to pay makes a person much more attractive to advertisers

However the willingness of people to pay also suggests their time is valuable and their "bullshit tolerance" is lower, thus you might lose them if you annoy them too much with ads or engagement-driving features (and opens a gap for an ad-free competitor to take those users). Furthermore, advertising prices seem to be declining (and online advertising itself feels like a bubble) so an ad-supported platform will over time need to cram more and more ads to sustain its revenue (up to a breaking point where users leave) while a subscription-based based platform doesn't have these problems.
Neither is listening in on Clubhouse. That convo was invite-only, but not private. And to my other point, what about Donald Sterling? He had a one-on-one private phone call leaked by his mistress that resulted in him being banned for life from the NBA for expressing his personal opinions. Consider that the apotheosis of "Cancel Culture". Now ask yourself if, knowing what we know about his true feelings, if we should respect his privacy and not complain about him owning an NBA franchise. Or if he is the true victim here. Or if it's just irrelevant that he's a billionaire and owned a fan-supported sports team.
One is certain after this the Summerfield Browne can close down their business. What are they going to do next? Sue BBC for reporting this story?!
I think the longest version that exists is just over one hour with some narration in between. I've watched it recently on Youtube, but I didn't save the link.
Science used to mean knowledge in general, which is its root. Philosophy was a subset of science, and theology was the top science. Natural philosophy, what we now call science, was a subset of philosophy.
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> Your intent is irrelevant (& fairly assumed) when you use the wrong word.

If my intent is irrelevant, why bring it up?

And this is exactly what we're talking about: Is using the wrong word bad in itself, or does there need to be some intent? Can we determine intent objectively? Fairly? Does intent matter? What is a wrong word? Who decides? What consequences do taboo words have for society?

You can't just claim "Your intent is irrelevant ... when you use the wrong word." when that's the entire question.

Your ex colleague thinks people should grow thicker skin. You think we should police language. I don't see that your idea is very developed and it certainly doesn't work very well right now.
Obligating them would solve the problem without creating a bunch of new problems. Your suggestions would create more problems than they solve.

A given company is typically not Capital-G-Good or Capital-E-Evil. They are probably doing some things well, and doing some things poorly. They respond to incentives. When a company is doing things poorly in a way that is hurting consumers, we should ask what incentives they're responding to.

Google has failed at support. They also do plenty of things well. On my view it's weird to take the position that they don't. I regard Google Search as the crown jewel of modern engineering.
I certainly agree with you there, but I was going off the article, which gave off a strong viewpoint of "Oh, you don't actually make these builders though, are you nuts?"

Any kind of technology like this tends to stick out when pitching software to financial industries, who like technologies that don't have many levels of abstraction (which to them, minimizes where they get to place accountability and the surface area for issues).

Regardless, you have a point and what you say is true. But "truth" and "financially compliant", are not terms to be mixed.
It's simple: democratically elected governments (save regulatory capture skewing policy to self-interests, continuing the status quo of directing policy to benefit certain individuals more than society as a whole) can create a blockchain with failsafes, without the Ponzi/MLM scheme/wealth transfer from later adopters to earlier adopters, and make it mandatory to use.
lol. web components are a waste of time unless someone wants to write a widget with ShadowDOM. Its clear. Svelte has won and is the last thing web can give us. Lets all go home
I think the most impactful aspect of this is normalizing the idea for a company to hold bitcoin on their balance sheet.
Definitely a better acronym than FAANG: one of those companies is nothing like the others. (Hint, it starts with N)
Defamation implies intent.
There's a contradiction in the conclusion. Foucault was an academic philosopher, got a degree in philosophy, was awarded a doctorate, and is respected by many people who also got a lot of education in philosophy. So, how is more philosophy education supposed to have stopped him?
Looks like there is even a website !
https://cs186berkeley.net/
What stops him from issuing something like ERC-721 Tokens for his cars? You'd be able to do cool things, like you'd be able to trade it P2P, or do stuff like unlock it with your MetaMask wallet and the whole infrastructure is already here. For me doing this would be a logical next step at some point.
I have never seen any credible evidence for this accusation. I don't dispute that some unscrupulous Yelp sales rep or another has represented this to be the case to some business owner who then posted about the interaction online. I do dispute whether Yelp actually does remove reviews for paying businesses.
It may be worth pointing out, for the sake of context, that the UK has a fairly expansive definition of libel. In the US, for example, you often have to prove that the defendant either knew that their accusations were false, or was acting with a reckless disregard for the truth. In English law, by contrast, you more-or-less just have to prove that the statement was injurious and untrue, regardless of the defendant's belief or intent.
> The article takes on a subject that has been discussed a lot recently

Mostly by other navel-gazing publications echoing the same fearmongering.

This is how consent is manufactured.
Having been on both sides of the coin, I think consumer review sites (like trustpilot) are an incredibly difficult thing to get right.

On one side as a consumer it's incredibly frustrating when you feel "wronged" - and whilst it's meant to be a 'review' it seems it's mostly used to get attention to fix a problem. So people use it as way to blackmail/last resort the business into sorting something. Which is kind of understandable, but too often the TP review goes up after 24 hours (or even before contacting anyone/actually trying to resolve a problem), even though the CS team doesn't work weekends, or repeatedly messaging on socials/emails keeps dropping the ticket to the back of the queue (and NO ONE EVER explains that to the customer) - so they feel the complaint isn't being seen (which it isn't).

For all you hope people will understand some negatives are inevitable - it genuinely affects sales (in both directions, if you get it right). And as others have pointed out - good luck if you get on the wrong side, because it's very costly and painful to clean it up.

Really, really, really great CS probably helps.
No his point is not about limitless energy or about off-chain transactions.

It is about a proof-of-stake scheme like ETH2 where the blockchain is still immutable, but due to a purely abstracted notion of "mining" which rather than electricity at all relies upon mechanisms where attempts to mutate the blockchain turn into pointless losses of money.

It is fully trustless, and I would argue even more trustless because it is accessible to all users, unlike mining.
Welcome to the Streisand Effect.

That said, UK libel laws are unconscionably stacked against the defendant. There is much to be said for the US' written constitution and bill of rights.
Well, maybe not so much language. What we call 'swear words' are Saxon(?) for ordinary things, but demonized because they are not the sanitized 'correct' Norman words e.g. fuck vs sexual intercourse, shit vs defecate and so on. That's pretty much displacing language? Certainly language got changed permanently.
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In theory the same can be said of glassdoor. In reality it is different
Do you have personal recommendations for books to use for self-study for base algos knowledge?
One possible rational explanation for this (apart from the usual Elon's trolling) is a mostly legal way for Tesla to bribe some Chinese Bitcoin mining controlling interests
Just reported them via ico.org.uk - probably best not to flood them with complaints though, I'm sure they have enough to deal with already.
> Basically, don't try to outwit nature.

How can I discover if some action X is an attempt to outwit nature?
Licenses are for losers. The public domain game is the only game that matters
It's not blind faith, it's tons of people jumping on the bandwagon whenever Musk farts, because he makes the markets shift, because tons of people jump on the bandwagon whenever he farts.
I'm not porcupine, but I feel that we are definitely using relational models. The drive towards objects (and REST as well) tries to project data into a hierarchy. Orders belong to customers, so you nest orders under customers. But you are B2B, so you break into one market and realize that suddenly joint purchases are a thing. Suddenly you have orders with multiple customers.

If you were using a relational model for backing the orders and customers, there is no real issue. An order is just a tuple of data, a customer is just a tuple of data, the "belongingness" is just modeled via foreign key constraints. Maybe you were smart enough to already model it as many to many and you just relax a uniqueness constraint in the join table or you had no such uniqueness constraint already and it was enforced by the application. Otherwise, you move the foreign key out of the order tuple into a joining table and move on to changing the projection queries and the downstreams. If you were storing it as nested data documents... I don't know because I have never done that, but I do know the trouble with trying to invert hierarchical addresses in such cases and it is annoying and inefficient (abstraction inversion).

In a relational model, any hierarchy is a contrivance via foreign key constraints. These same attributes are easy to invert. If you have a business need for a hierarchy, that shows up in the business logic by the precise query used to project the relations along the foreign keys.

In the scope of the comment made. I find it hard to believe that someone doesn't see that we are indeed using relational models of data and I find it sad that the known benefits apparently aren't so widely known. Yes, in a concrete use case you project out the data you need and type that (map it to objects). But if you modeled the data well, as your use cases increase in number or evolve your data model often doesn't need to change as much as your business logic if you did your job well. The job being relational data modelling.

I myself use async programming, and there aren't really good ORMs for that since you don't want every single property of your object to be an async property (which most ORMs do with lazy loading).
> controls a Class C IPv4 block

That explains how they could so easily offer ipv4 addresses with their vps offerings on the sister site.
+1 for Matrix. Signal is a honeypot.
Hasn't the author heard? God is dead.
And from the other side of their potential audience, the cheap VPS setups that are readily available these days will probably have been eating away users too.

Heck, for $5/mo and a setup fee you can sometimes get a small dedicated server (only an Atom CPU, but 500Gb storage and half decent bandwidth) from Kimsufi and their ilk.