skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate this comment but I have some questions/comments:

> I may find this article emotionally somewhat appealing but still don't think it's a useful view about philosophy. The first and foremost thing about philosophy laymen should realize is that the vast majority of philosophers do not consider philosophy a science.

I don't think the article was making a claim about philosophy being a science. On the contrary, it seemed make a pretty clear distinction between them and highlighted some perils of falsely mixing the two.

"Often implicit empiricist assumptions in epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of language are relied upon as if they were self-evident, and without awareness of the threat that those very assumptions pose to the author’s own reasoning. We can call this phenomenon scientistic pseudophilosophy."

"While pseudoscience can perhaps be counteracted by science education, the cure for pseudophilosophy is not science education but philosophical education."

> If you don't like a particular philosopher's work, you generally don't read and support it, and that's it. Calling the work pseudophilosophy will only enrage people who disagree and not help with anything.

The article wasn't about disagreeing with opposing philosophers' work, it as a critique of those non-philosophers who "fail to grasp the content of many of the philosophical claims and arguments that they criticize"

"There are two kinds of pseudophilosophy, one mostly harmless and the other insidious. The first variety is usually found in popular scientific contexts. This is where writers, typically with a background in the natural sciences, walk self-confidently into philosophical territory without realising it, and without conscientious attention to relevant philosophical distinctions and arguments.

The insidious kind of pseudophilosophy, which I will focus on here, is an academic enterprise, pursued primarily within the humanities and social sciences." (e.g. phenomenon obscurantist pseudophilosophy)
Not everyone who does light image editing as part of their professional setting needs professional tools straight away. The mental overhead of having to manage software installation, licensing, etc. is just not worth it, even if you're willing to spend the extra $300 per year for it.

And as mentioned, Affinity/Adobe software is not available on Linux, which immediately disqualifies it for me personally, even though I'd like to upgrade past GIMP and I'm very much used to Photoshop after years of using it.
Rust Foundation Formed by Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, etc.
Hey, you are the universe to those kids that you are sacrificing for by getting up at 4 am. Call a friend or family member if you need. You are not insignificant.
http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/09/02/11...

You can allege anything. Whether the allegations are true is another question. You only have to read the various lawsuits that have passed on this issue to see how flimsy these business owners' cases are.

It would be so easy to demonstrate that you could pay Yelp to remove reviews, if the capability exists. Someone would have done so by now.
Niiiice. It's hard to imagine a better 401k plan than what y'all have. Enjoy it. And I assume, based on everything else, that you have a reasonable low-fee provider like Vanguard or Fidelity with good low-fee fund options.
What you said. I was starting to read the like 100 comments about how people clicked yes and so be it, but the entire time I was thinking, wait, no, that's not what happened. It's what you just said. Amazing how a little time leads to revisionist history for these people defending facebook.
Phoenix startup YellowBird receives $25K grant
If you told Facebook to give someone access to your personal information and they took it and handed it off to a third party, what is Facebook supposed to do about that? What can Facebook do about that? What could any website do about that?

I despise Facebook, but I really don't understand this whole Cambridge Analytica thing. There doesn't appear to be an endgame for those criticizing Facebook over the ordeal. Of all the despicable things Facebook has done, why is this the one that everyone clings to?
In my experience the difficulty of using BEAM is directly related to how well your problem fits into the actor+deep copy model of the environment. For certain problems BEAM will be a terrible solution because you're going to spend a lot of time working around this. I also think this is what makes it easily the best choice for other problems that fit this model well.

In the middle you will probably have a large number of problems that it's ok-ish at. But not really sure on what the distribution is here.
Tell that to the company I used to work for that build custom business systems where all business logic and all the crud was written as stored procedures in SQL Server.

In particular CRUD maps very nicely to SQL, and there’s no reason to map it to objects.
Just slightly scale up the window you're capturing in OBS and move the top menu out of frame.
The idea of looking at the profit of individual departments makes zero sense. Vertical integration is all about avoiding to pay for profit margins of the the things you are integrating. Every single middle man wants x% margins. If anything, you want to drive margins on internal spending to zero and that means lots of "unprofitable" departments.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has nothing to do with Facebook's business model and Facebook did not gain anything from this.

To the best of my knowledge CA abused a free feature (API access) designed for legitimate usage to collect user data for nefarious purposes. Facebook was acting as a neutral carrier here and respected the user's intention of sharing their data with CA.
This has to be a prank somehow.

The list of North American universities makes no sense. Some co-op technical college I never heard of listed along Stanford/MIT.
Blog cannot handle the traffic and he thought redirecting to a „good cause“ would be better?
Baseline questions:

Did Tesla ever match 401k contributions?

How rare is it for large companies to not do so?
Unless this is a book the author wrote solely to enjoy themselves, let's not pretend that feedback from potential buyers is something that shouldn't be allowed.
Those people are sharing their screen using the features provided by Zoom etc, rather than sending screen data through a virtual webcam. The data is likely being treated differently by the videoconferencing system.
The judgment[0] addresses this point directly:

>First, the defence of honest opinion. The Claimant submits that the defence of honest opinion cannot succeed in circumstances were the words used convey an allegation of fraud. Mr Bradshaw referred me to the case of Wasserman v Freilich [2016] EWHC 312 (QB), an unreported decision of Sir David Eady sitting as a High Court judge. At paragraph 16 of his judgment Sir David said:

> > "The common sting in the various natural and ordinary meanings, pleaded in paragraph 27 of the particulars of claim, is that the Claimant was dishonest. That has generally been regarded as a factual allegation. It has long been recognised that "the state of a man's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion": Edgington v Fitzmaurice (1885) 29 Ch D 459. Juries are deciding on every day of the week, as a matter of fact, whether a particular Defendant was, or was not, dishonest. Accordingly, it is an allegation which in the context of libel is readily understood as being susceptible to a plea of truth under s.2 of the 2013 Act (as was the case with justification). It is not thought to be a matter of opinion: nor can one convert an allegation of dishonesty (or, for that matter, of murder or rape) into a matter of opinion by merely inserting in front of it a formula such as "I believe ..." or "she thinks ...": see e.g. Hamilton v Clifford [2004] EWHC 1542"

>And at paragraph 22 of his judgment he said:

> > "An allegation of dishonesty, fraud or attempted fraud will usually fall fairly and squarely on the side of fact rather than opinion. The same is true also, as I have already mentioned, where the allegation is of "reasonable grounds to suspect". Accordingly, I cannot allow a pleading to go forward in the form of paragraph 19A. It must be struck out."

>Here Mr Bradshaw submits that the allegation of dishonesty made that the Defendant is that it is "a scam solicitor", has the plain meaning that the Claimant is dishonest and fraudulent. The Defendant seeks to present this as an opinion. Mr Bradshaw argues this is impermissible, the Defendant is putting forward the Claimant's dishonesty as a matter of fact and cannot simply say by way of defence "this is my opinion". In the circumstances I accept the law is as stated in Wasserman v Freilich and am satisfied Mr Bradshaw's submission is correct, with the result the defence of honest opinion should be struck out.

[0] https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2021/85.html at paragraphs 15 and 16
Wait, you think Flutter is safer than Go?
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> But students and staff in most universities call nearly all faculty "Professor X", whether they are assistant, associate, full, emeritus, adjunct, term, or whatnot.

Students, yes; staff, no; at least this has not been my experience, and outside of some students referring to any teaching faculty as "Prof. X", I have not seen it used professionally. In a professional setting, an associate prof. would be introduced simply as "Dr. X", rather than "Associate Prof. X". I have never heard anybody short of a full professor be called "Prof. X" in a professional setting. The students I understand as them misunderstanding the nomenclature.
But now you’ve basically doubled or tripled the length of the whole sentence.

The primary usage I see of this is to replace some second or third person pronoun with the actual name of the person, which is much simpler than appending a short biography of the person and trivially easy to verify.
Yes, this is roughly what I was getting at.

Relations are sets of sets, and the relationships are products of the query method, not a static property of the storage of the data. This insight by Date and Codd was a huge discovery in data management.

Unfortunately SQL tended to paper over some of this beauty with its talk about "tables" with "columns", which are just one way of representing relation and tuples. I can't count the number of times I've heard someone say "but my data doesn't fit into a table", completely not getting it.

That combined with the rapid rise in object-oriented programming through the 90s and early 2000s, as well as a bunch of other things I won't get into, led to many people mistreating and/or rejecting the relational database.

We were taught, or taught ourselves to model our applications in an object-oriented way, and then became frustrated because we treated the database as a "datastore" rather than an information modeling and retrieval tool like it was meant.

Without an understanding of relational fundamentals people repeated the same mistakes that Date and Codd were originally trying to rectify with their pioneering work on the relational database. The relational model was a response to the problems with hierarchical and network databases; to try and formalize a more flexible model, with a mathematical and logical basis.

"Graph databases" and "document databases" and "object databases" _look_ more flexible from the front, but fundamentally are the opposite. They confine the kinds of relationships data can take, in advance.

The object oriented model is good for representing some aspects of our world; especially, perhaps, graphical interfaces, or simulation systems. In my opinion it is inferior for the modeling of data/information itself.

We need a relational renaissance.
>by using the word ‘truth’ in an impressionistic fashion, the distinction between belief and truth is smudged over, allowing Foucault to make seemingly profound statements such as:

>>[T]ruth isn’t outside power, or lacking in power: contrary to a myth whose history and functions would repay further study, truth isn’t the reward of free spirits, the child of protracted solitude, nor the privilege of those who have succeeded in liberating themselves. Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint.

>I leave it as an exercise to the reader to disambiguate this statement and see what remains.

Foucault wrote in French. Translation of any work between language is hard, and always a creative effort. Philosophy, I think, suffers from this to the highest degree ... to the end that a lot of philosophy in translation comes across as nearly indecipherable nonsense which is perhaps not the fault of the author, the topic, or the translator, but only the fact that translation is difficult.
Philosophy literally can not be pseudo.
> The irony.

Similarly:

> There are many kinds of pseudosciences: astrology, homeopathy, flat-Earthism, anti-vaxx. These ‘fields’ traffic in bizarre claims with scientific pretensions. On a surface level, these claims seem to be scientific and usually appear to comment on the same kind of things that science does. However, upon closer inspection, pseudoscience is revealed to be bullshit: it is indifferent to the truth.

...combined with:

> A problem is that most of us are lacking in epistemic conscientiousness, at least sometimes and to some extent. In order for something to count as pseudoscience, some minimal degree of unconscientiousness is therefore required. A good rule of thumb for being conscientious is to keep an eye out for classical fallacies such as ad hominem, straw man, false dilemma and cherry-picking. Such fallacies occur in all kinds of contexts, but in pseudoscience they occur more systematically.

They "surely" occur more systematically in "pseudoscience", but it's funnier when they occur in an article that is literally criticizing others for this kind of thinking.
The OAuth consent screen is like 3 lines of text, maybe 100 pixels in length and width. There is no EULA, so not sure what you are talking about.
That's a fair point and I agree with you. Something I've been wondering as of lately, what can we (as a society) do to move off the edge of high emotions? I feel as if it's a common theme anywhere I look.
> shortage of engineers

They mean qualified engineers. There are a lot of completely clueless applicants for every programming job out there. The lack of formal certification sure doesn't help with that.
I noticed a cycle with headphones on Reddit:

- A headphone is released which is not flawless, but offers great value.
- The headphone is recommended on Reddit.
- Demand for the headphone goes up.
- The price of the headphone increases.
- The headphone is no longer a good value, but is still recommended.
- This continues until either a well-reputed user points out the poor value or a new headphone with great value is released.
That's the point - zoom prioritizes shared screen content over video (rightly so). Since this uses a camera for capture, it'd be best to trick zoom into thinking it is a screen.
How Quickly We Need to Ramp Up Vaccinations to Get to Herd Immunity
MOST. I'm from Ontario and we get 58.3% of our electricity from clean, safe CANDU reactors. Why did you assert I'm ignoring nuclear power? It has nothing to do with Dams being LESS polluting than MOST of the alternatives.
Most of the modern atheists are clueless when it comes to the theism discussion.
Plasma and Remdesivir combination may accelerate SARS-CoV-2 mutations
Ah, makes sense. I wondered if it had anything to do with the internet's recent rediscovery of carcinization.
>You make the false assumption that you can't pay well your employees if you push them hard, as if it was an either/or. You can pay well your employees or not. You can push your employees and ask them to do more than average or not.

That wasn't an assumption, that was a suggestion that both of these could exist in different permutations. The fact that they there is tension between these two methods doesn't mean they're a binary and mutually exclusive, and that's not how I read GPs comment.

You didn't actually address the point either, which was the notion of doubling down and investing in yourselves as a company instead of hedging with a 401k. It is interesting how you interpret this idea for your own company.

>I do find that doing this while also investing gigantic sums on something that has nothing to do with your core business is a bit unsavory.

I see this as not very relevant to the previous points so I address it separately.

Effectively once your company's revenue and value moves beyond 7 digits, I would argue that financial paradigms have everything to do with your business regardless of what it is.
Before the Cambridge Analytica thing, everyone was saying that Facebook was evil because they were a walled garden. So they created an API, and now everyone is saying they're evil because they created an API. Go figure.

There's even a Gaping Void cartoon memorializing the sentiment: http://vhirsch.com/blog/2011/10/06/walled-gardens/
Fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal (2018); not a new leak (which would be major news).
>The tone is not more important than the facts. It never is

I think this framing is wrong. Tone and facts are both important (often equally so) and must both be addressed in parallel tracks.

If someone rudely raises concerns about the security of your product, it's fine to ban them as long as you also address their claims of insecurity. You can kill a community by not addressing claims of technical flaws and you can kill a community by not enforcing standards of conduct within it.
Kenya’s government wants caning re-introduced in schools
What logging tools are you using? We have a couple of Elixir stack and their logging functionality leaves much to be desired at the moment, compared to the Python standard logging library. I'd like to improve it but haven't found much guidance so far.
It takes ~2.5 seconds to launch gimp on my janky old core i7 box.
"strict-by-default" isn't really the proposal here.

Only "some things' laziness is more a footgun than a feature, maybe we should consider fixing those".

The foldl/sum/product example in part one is maybe clearer about that.
Thanks for teaching these men to fish. I thought I was going to need to do all the explaining.
Looking at the source of a Wikipedia page it has my username appearing 6 times so I guess it must reduce caching a bit. Though I guess they could cache the user info bits and the rest of the page and just splice them together.
It's not that my friend gave my info to someone else. My friend allowed the app to ask Facebook information about me.

In the end, it's still Facebook who handed over my data. That my friend decided that was OK doesn't change much.
I would prefer to have photoshop but cost, however if the only alternative was gimp i'd throw all the money at them for my sanity. I use pixelmator pro instead and am quite happy with it.
Yeah, PRs are missing commits for us too.

We might have to start alerting people when GitHub is up, at this rate.
It definitely looks like standards from the inside :)
How old are you?

Tesla's PE as of right now is 1,324. Which, unless they take over the entire automotive market puts them heavily into the "overvalued" category.

Its hard to imagine that tesla will still have the same valuation in the 10, 20, 30 years it might take a line worker who doesn't have tens of thousands of shares/options.

Also, most people I know in the "tech" environment now expect RSU's instead of options, because a huge percentage of the people i've talked to have stories about their options which expired underwater after a decade.

Putting all your eggs in a single basket is just a recipe to be like the huge percentage of enron/etc workers who overnight went from employed with a solid stock/401k/etc retirement to standing in food lines as they both lost their job as well as their retirement.
OS/400 and AS/400 are some of most underrated and unknown machines.

AS/400 (I only used it back in those days, I don't know enough about newer series). Would run for years with no attention given to them. I saw people stuff it in a closet and forgotten about it.

Some did have the smarts to rotate backup tapes then they knew where it was.

If the machine needed help it would "call" IBM and report it, and there would be a technician there to help it before the customer knew there was a problem.

As with many things, I wish IBM would make it GPL, but the changes of that happening is very low. Also the programming languages is not familiar to many
> This is the downside of geoengineering, or chasing any engineering trend: it's possible to build amazing things, but we always forget that maintenance in perpetuity is much much harder.

I remember seeing an old video depicting the development of the Florida Everglades, probably from the 40's or 50's, forget where I saw it. The narration was the most infuriating example of mans hubris as the narration was set over footage of bulldozers plowing down trees and brush. I can not recall the narration in detail but it went something like "Man has learned to conquer the land and bend nature to his will..."

Many of the dams we're talking about here were built with this insane hubris. A time when building technology was advanced and we could seemingly defeat the laws of nature with sky scrapers that reach into the heavens and dams that hold back the mightiest of rivers. As if the only goal was the defeat of nature and make a crap load of money in the process...
Do Finnish words have "tense"?
You can also use `go generate` to generate the code that translates constants into strings.
This submitter bmcn2020 spams this site with just enough bad articles to cover up all the other links to his own website. I don't understand why they allow that here.
Feeling vs. Knowing
Anything designed to "increase user engagement" is actually effectively spiking emotions as much as possible. It's a much bigger problem than anyone currently realizes.
I'd just continually sue them for literally anything and everything, even if they didn't break the law. Fuck that zuckerburg cuck. Their apps are literal burning addiction dumpster fire garbage. I hope their offices get struck by a meteorite.