skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit of a weird one! I think the most famous example of the term comes from Richard Feynman, in his essay "Cargo Cult Science" (http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm):

> In the South Seas there is a Cargo Cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work. No airplanes land.

It's about copying others to achieve a goal — but because you aren't copying the motives, only the visible methods, you don't succeed. In this case, it's about copying the engineering practices of big organisations without being a big organisation yourself, in the hope that you become one. Hope this helps.
Fantastic answer.
What prevents you from anonymously exchanging bitcoins for privacy coins?
Is anyone aware of efforts to build a a “strict mode”-type of setting, or a SQLite competitor? I’d love to use a single file as db with stricter type enforcement.
It seems to be a faster replacement of `http`.
If it does these things through external integrations, it’s not really something Nomad does.
I guess it's a testing environment for Google Tensors.
People do try to teach computers the basics - they just don't get very far. My optimism is kind of based on what people have been successful with eg. spatial stuff with self driving cars, language with GTP3, face recognition, games like go etc. They seem to be gradually working though human abilities. Obvs there's stuff they are not so good at yet also.
It is. They even consider it a feature.

You don't actually need to specify column types at all. You can just leave them out. Or make up entirely new types.

Foreign key constraints are also not enforced by default but there is at least an option to turn that on.
Thanks! We are definitely looking into ways how to help with discovery (for Clubhouse atm social media also tend to work better than the hallway) including federation.

Thank you for bringing up federation.
It was fun to be a geek back then. Now geeks are "cool" and rich and only really care about money.
Your argument has gone from “this is impossible with capabilities” to “this doesn’t scale” to “nobody uses design patterns”.

You are confusing DI frameworks (often terrible) with the general concept of dependency injection, which is in fact extremely widely used.
That definitely helps - I understand the reference perfectly now - thanks :)
> sudo init 3` to shutdown everything pertaining to the graphical shell

The modern systemd equivalent is:

systemctl isolate multi-user

> sudo init 7 […] which brings me back to my graphical shell.

systemctl isolate graphical

or

systemctl isolate default
Psychiatrists shouldn't go on political rants with their patients, but the idea that psychiatrists must completely conceal their political leanings from their patients is an idea that Scott has just made up. The NYT isn't gullible enough to fall for that one.

> Justice doesn't demand that you treat everyone the same, only that *for any difference in treatment there is a valid justification*

There are plenty of cases where there's no injustice in treating people differently without a specific reason. Take gifts as an example. It's inconsistent if I give one friend a big gift and another friend a small gift, but it's not unjust, as I'm under no obligation to give any of them gifts at all – and consistency in itself isn't an ethical constraint on behavior. I'm certainly not required to have a specific reason for spending $15 on Bob's gift and $100 on Mary's gift.
In the UK there is an organisation called Which? They publish a magazine and have a paywalled site with reviews of most household products.

Their reviews are more trustable than from a regular affiliate site but a lot of products score quite well despite being mediocre at best.
Funny thing is Apple internally use Anker cables as they're much more resistent than their own.

It's well known that Apple prioritizes thinness, aesthetics and industrial design over function and reliability which is ironic given how stupid the magic mouse looks when it's charging.[1] How Jonny Ive green-lit that is beyond me.

[1]https://i.stack.imgur.com/WxNgu.jpg
I still can’t believe I was lucky enough to not only grow up with the Internet, but also GNU and Linux and BSD existing as two very independent and thriving projects as OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

Many sub-projects forks and derivations have come and gone over the years. Long may they continue.

It actually brings into highlight though that despite the fecundity of OSs, we only have one Internet (unless you count v6 as separate?).

In another timeline, just as GNU and BSD coexisted, perhaps there was also an Internet and alongside it a parallel and equally thriving online network... Transcom? Worldmesh? Digizone?
Given Apple make both the computer and MacOS it's not quite the same thing. Chromebooks from 3rd party manufacturers, sure.
Why Windows? Ubuntu is my insurance. Windows takes way longer to install and supports far less hardware.
Yeah. "All went well" should be a totally acceptable base line, with room above and below. (especially since the "above range" can be quite subjective and/or down to luck)
> In the same spirit of Kanban

Perhaps re-read the statement. ;-)
Hi HN - here is a tool I built to provide modelling around an individuals journey to financial freedom, a journey which fascinates me and one I believe is worth optimising.

One of the biggest challenges I faced in my own journey was knowing exactly how to balance living well today with my goal of reaching freedom as early as possible. This is why I built Opul - to provide the modelling that enables better financial decisions by quantifying these kind of tradeoffs.

A key use of the tool I find helpful is when I'm deciding between spending today and the amount of future freedom that translates to. Eg What budget allows me to enjoy life now whilst reaching financial freedom when I want? What is the impact on future freedom of a $5 a day lunch habit? How about a $200 a month gym membership?

I hope Opul can help you make more optimal and precise decisions too. Feedback welcome.
I've been using Yandex Translate for months now. The quality of translations isn't as good, but the mobile app UI is far more usable, and I'm tired of sending all the data I translate to Google. Unfortunately, the language I translate most often isn't supported in a lot of other alternatives.
It's not a single HTML file though. On line 1211 jQuery is pulled, and on lines 57 and 64 an external font file is referenced.

I am not sure having everything in a single HTML file is any feat though. You can of course compress all your JS deps and CSS to a single HTML file, but it's not very cache efficient if your content is dynamic on the HTTP level.

Targeting raw DOM without jQuery might be actually possible these days though, but they're not doing it.
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You just put me off Sqlite for life. I can't believe someone thought this to be a good idea.
In case somebody is looking for something that's integrated with GitHub's Issue API (without any third-party service scamming you off for it): I built a GitHub Scrumboard Chromium Extension that is offline-ready and doesn't need any third-party server. [1]

As I'm often developing on my laptop while being on 2G slow, this extension is offline-ready and automatically synchronizes the issues once visiting the /issues URL of an online repository again.

I posted it a while ago but I thought nobody was interested in something like this? [2]

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/github-scrumboard

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25240087
I wanted to use a different ssh-agent on OSx which is a very simple "I want to set a global environment variable." That's literally impossible in OSX. So, I had to open a shell and every app that I wanted to use my ssh-agent had to be launched from that shell.
> but these still aren’t machines made for deep learning.

Betteridge's law of headlines again.
Plans, yes. Still thinking about the best way to do it without inventing too many wheels. Timeline depends on inspiration and free time. Although lately with the pandemic free time hasn't been a problem.
'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice is working on WebAssembly port
Was it a publicly available online presentation? If, please share title or link if you can.
Yeah, what parent is describing isn't muntzing, but the simple act of being dense in a setting where nobody can say it:

> He kept insisting on completely bizarre design changes, and ridiculous cost cutting on design like using 2 cheaper through hole diodes in parallel instead of one a cent more expensive (did not believe my ears, the guy failed EE101 right here,) dispensing with NTC inrush limiters, removing safety caps (he did not know what they are for) and asked us to redo the mold 6! times in order to save some grams of plastic per run.

I've seen this happening plenty of times, too. The higher-ups in many consumer (and even non-consumer!) companies are 100% clueless about these things, but they "know" that Chinese OEMs try to "rip you off" on designs, so they will demand their staff to squeeze them (and will promptly fire or replace anyone who dares tell them that a design is actually okay).

So every once in a while one of these smart guys will show up and make completely stupid demands. And explaining someone who doesn't understand basic electrical engineering concepts just why these demands are stupid is completely unproductive -- they don't just lack an understanding of the jargon, they lack an understanding of the most basic concepts. It's akin to trying to explain someone who doesn't know what a for loop is why you're using a hash table in a place where "a simple array would suffice".
We need to store weights in kg with three decimal places. If we sum to get a total, the total should be correct according to those three digits.

I'm sure we could get it to work in SQLite, but it sounds like we would have to have some layer of manual fudging that we couldn't forget about.

In our current database we just use "numeric(16, 3)" and no worries.
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> Wait? Your can for example put an unicode string into integer or number columns?

Yes

https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=sqlite_3.27&fiddle=4634e3821676ed...
The commodification argument. People have been saying the iPhone is good enough for a decade so far (in fact from before it even came out) and there's no sign of their losing their grip on the high end of the market. In fact this has been said generally about Apple computers since the 80s at least. Hence Apple's unofficial corporate slogan, "Proudly going out of business since 1976".

The fact is nobody even tries to do the level of integration between software and hardware that Apple does. It's hard to compete with an opponent when you don't understand what they are doing, or why they are doing it, or why it works and it's very clear their competitors don't understand any of those things.

As long as the competition sit on their hands following the 'theoretically' ideal business 101 commodification strategy, which hasn't worked for 40 years now, it will continue to not work. But here we are, generations of business managers at Apple's competitors have come and gone and the wait them out strategy keeps losing.
We can conveniently nitpick whether or not we treat Apple products as an integrated hardware-software product, the reality is thousands of these units have shipped and from those screenshots, many have already racked up 2-4 years wear in a matter of weeks, for a component that cannot be replaced without replacing the entire motherboard.

The product configuration as shipped inflicts permanent damage on itself, it's very difficult to see this as anything but a manufacturing defect.
In the UK we have John Lewis which is a department store with a decent reputation. OK, they are far from perfect, but their product range is curated to the point that when you search for, say, a toaster, you're not overloaded with 1000's of options and their own customer reviews seem to be quite genuine.

Anything over £100, I tend to default to John Lewis rather than amazon.
>Your brain isn't "you" in some special way that the rest of your body isn't.

Well, in some way it is, in that they can cut your hands and feet, and you'll still be you.

And perhaps if they could just put your head/brain in a jar, and you were still coscious, you'd still consider yourself you...
It's not just healthcare, there's holiday, maternity leave, tuition, public spaces, tax incentives... all sorts of benefits. Socialism is not just free healthcare, it's a mentality. You may lose your high paying job next year, but the right to being treated medically will stay forever. Did you know that American women mostly give birth at home because they can't afford to go to a hospital? How sad is that and the most ironic thing is that Americans pay the same or more taxes than we do. Just thought to share a different view, as not everyone who works in tech will chase money.
but most linux distributions also don't start a lot of network services.

While that is mostly true today, it certainly didn't used to be. Back when OpenBSD was really earning its security reputation, a default install of Red Hat would be rooted almost as soon as you connected it to the internet.
You underestimate how those ideas are born. More often than not, there is an underlying material pretext. Christianity actually has a lot to say about resources for that very reason. Also, wars are fought over resources and then justified with religion by the select few that start them, primarily.
There are lots of ways we already use "needless" competition to establish a consensus (or any natural system, really). Perhaps Bitcoin is just a trading platform for that competition.

If that's the case then I would be interested to see how the success of more efficient proof-of-stake systems like Ethereum 2.0 might increase the overall energy efficiency of our species.
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Do you "wonder", or were you just mechanistically made to write this sentence, due to a deterministic chain of events?

>Maybe philosophical free will is a solution in search of a non-theological problem.

Well, it's also a solution for the empirical experience we all share, that we're not just automata, but that we e.g. weight decisions, and so on.
That's how all of physics is constructed. Even things you may think are obvious, like Newton's 3 laws of motion, are only accepted because they agree with our measurements. How else should we determine their validity?

> There are literally infinite ways to create equations that satisfy measurements.

There really aren't. You seem to be thinking of something like in the movie The Number 23. But we're talking about equations, not numbers. Take Newton's Second Law (f = m • a). What equation can you write that expresses that relationship that can't be simplified to f = m • a?
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Yep, he wrote it all in his book he wrote from his yacht. /s
I do something similar with a similar toolset – except that I use mutt for email, don’t use it for music and I’ve been experimenting with other browsers such as w3m and (e)links. I do this mostly for the distraction-free experience.

My workstation defaults to booting into the equivalent of run-level 3 (no display manager) and when I get tired of being in text mode, I just run
`startx` for the graphical interface.
You mean how you would expect a Linux person to look. Others have a more nuanced and open-minded worldview.
Please explain the difference.
Thank you. Yes. However they work great on the iPhone. Sound and mic quality are both totally fine. The problem only happens on the Mac.

So this is why I was wondering if using Sonobus + iPhone might work around this issue?
My problem is there is no way to get started with those things without knowing all of them.
There is a big difference in power and being helpful.

Scammers are always helpful, and PIMPs tend to give gift to their subject.

BC like being the PIMP, but won't accept somebody else having the power to be self-sufficient.
I just thought of something. One way customers can battle fake reviews is by always attaching a picture of the product with the review. So when you see 5* reviews for a shower enclosure and you scroll down through the comment section and see pictures of tennis balls you know something isn't right and you likely won't buy the product since the comments appear to be for something else.
DMA were based in Dundee and there's lemming sculptures in the town:

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186518-d126...
Are you really "of the opinion", or you were just made to write that as an automaton, due to a deterministic causual chain of events?

In which case, you don't really have an opinion, any more than the way a dead frog jerks his legs when we apply electricity.
But a cable is such a simple item to find out if it's broken, it takes 5 seconds, plus I can just buy two and be 99% sure I have one that works.

Akerlöf doesn't seem to apply here, there's no hidden information that comes out later. With a car there's all sorts of dimensions to it that might annoy you.

Perhaps the idea is that all cables will go to crap eventually, but my detection cost is also fairly low on that. Additionally, and this is probably not a great dynamic, I can go to the website of a box-store, which will carry some of the same brands, presumeably vetted more than the junk shop.
Since SanDisk is such a notorious candidate for fakes om amazon, why do they even tolerate it?

Surely, for the sake of brand protection, they should make it clear that you can't buy their products on amazon?
> My concern is that when you're issued a ticket by one of these you're never truly given a chance to examine the evidence.

This is my issue with alcohol breath-analyzers as well. I have no knowledge about how they work, whether they truly measure the amount of alcohol one has ingested, or they infer it from some other measure. I have read accounts from people saying even eating a lot of carbs can trigger the detectors. But since I am no expert, challenging the issue at a traffic stop is very difficult.

I am very particular about never driving after having a drink, I even go so far as not driving the same day if I've had even a single beer. But every time a policeman stops me and asks me to blow into the device, I'm scared that it will go off. And my point is that I shouldn't be scared, given that I am not breaking the rule.
It is. They even consider it a feature.

You don't actually need to specify column types at all. You can just leave them out. Or make up entirely new types like `BLIB` or whatever.

Foreign key constraints are also not enforced by default but there is at least an option to turn that on.

I'm keeping a close eye on DuckDB which looks like a modern saner version of SQLite.
Ah. Well if that's how people are using the term, what I said wouldn't apply to that. The term asymptomatic is clearly defined as "no symptoms at all and never develops any". Presymptomatic means "no symptoms at all but eventually develops some". I don't think there's a technical term for bit of sniffles/light cough beyond mild symptoms.
I have never encountered this issue in Django. Perhaps your post lacks some context. Is `friends` a custom method/property? Asking because I'm used to seeing attributes like `friends_set`.

The only scenario I see where your example would need `prefetch_related` is if your snippet looked something like this:

{% for user in all_users %}
<ul>
{% for friend in user.friends.all %}
<li>{{ friend.name }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endfor %}

To avoid the classic N+1 query problem, all_users must be loaded like so:

User.objects.all().prefetch_related("friends")

If you're writing verbose expressions such as this in Django:

User.objects.filter(pk=<pk>).prefetch_related("friends").first()

You must be doing something wrong.
That is... interesting...
Which accessibility settings do the Dutch use on their phone?
Or how about this:

1. Add a way to report solicitations for fake reviews. Ban companies that pay for fake reviews for a year and all their reviews above 3 stars are removed. Customers who report requests for fake reviews are given a small bonus; maybe a $5 credit or something.

2. Amazon themselves pretend to be sellers and solicit fake reviews from customers. If a customer reports the request for a fake review, they're given the same bonus but told that they were part of a sting operation. If the customer gives the fake review, they're banned from Amazon for a year, and all their reviews are removed.

Obviously some details need to be worked out: need to make sure the system can't be abused, need to make sure the fake review solicitation doesn't make real sellers look bad. But if done properly, ti should make the whole fake-review solicitation completely impractical.
To me it seems like we should separate the notion of being conscious with the notion of having free will. Everyone is conscious and knows this; it is trivially easy to prove (at least for one self. I don't know if all you guys reading this are [1]).

However, how do we know if we have free will? Assuming we can even land on a common definition of free will, how do we prove it? I think the "intuitive" notion people seem to have of free will is that they themselves have agency on their own actions. Important here is the distinction most people seem to draw between themselves as decision-makers and themselves as action-takers. They do not see this as the same. Action-taking happens in meatspace, but decision-making is thought to be more nebulous and ethereal. If the suggestion is made that decision-making might be solely a result of a multitude of factors in meatspace (genetics, upbringing, mood, etc...), then that suggestion is emphatically rejected by many (if not most).

However, decision-making cannot be free from meatspace, because then it cannot be anything more than based on chance. I wrote about this in length a while ago here [2], but the basic concept is that if there is no causation, then the alternative can only be randomness. Which is deeply unsatisfying to everyone. Einstein's dice quote comes to mind (even if it was on a completely different topic).

Libet's flawed experiment is not really relevant to the conversation. Whether free will exists or not, it is more an experiment on the nature of consciousness than free will, and thus cannot really offer any meaningful answers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

[2] https://www.hugomontenegro.com/blog/the-absurdity-of-free-wi...