skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that popped into my head the other day, is that I think we missed a trick going straight from text based UIs with their uniform simplicity to rich, pixel-perfect GUIs.

Would be interesting to see a design system that somehow sits in-between these two extremes. I've got no idea what that looks like.
By definition philosophy has come to refer to the study of things that cannot be resolved by empirical inquiry. So, every time human advancements have ACTUALLY allowed us to answer a question, it ceases to be the realm of philosophy.

For instance, Plato and other Ancient Greek philosophers theorized about the basic building blocks of matter—what their shapes and natures were. That question has become one of physics.

That’s why philosophy is referred to as the Mother of the Sciences.

This hardly makes philosophy worthy of your description as lacking “tangible results.”
Not gonna lie, I got by on Dreamweaver as an amateur web dev in the early 2000s. Made me some money while I was in college studying to be something else other than being a programmer.
Understand your concern that's why we offer as much insight as possible to push value based investing rather than simply following the hype.
The maintenance of consensus in blockchains is expensive, both in terms of resources used in proof of work (though other less wasteful consensus rules are possible), and in terms of technical complexity. It also has certain tradeoffs in terms of immutability which aren't always desirable. For example, what happens if ownership of the diamond token on the blockchain and ownership of the physical diamond get seperated somehow? From the looks of things (again, technical details are extremely sparse on the website so I'm forced to speculate), this is a new technical development not leaning on any particular existing piece of code, so by choosing blockchain they have chosen to take on extra work to implement it (and blockchain consensus is not easy to implement). If they were to e.g. implement it on top of etherium somehow then I could buy they are riding on something 'built-in' (though they would then be paying the cost of etherium 'gas'). This is why I am distrusting of systems which aim to use blockchain when they don't need to (and certainly the existence of systems which work but they could work just as well or better independent of blockchain doesn't point to blockchain being a useful technology).

> Just because they are not telling you exactly how they do it, doesn't mean they don't make a good job at it

It also doesn't mean they are doing a good job. Absent visible results (I have this for 5G), a technical explaination (with 5G I can read far more detail on this than I ever would want to know just from public documents even without all the internal details), or even a description of how this is intended to be used or exactly what guarantees it provides, how am I supposed to take this as evidence it works (let alone is a natural solution to the problem)? It's basically "just trust us, bro", ironic for a technology which is supposed to work in a trustless manner.

>The only reason to dismiss it as the tool of choice is a personal belief

I do think blockchains have potential, but it is a technology which is only sensible in a very narrow set of circumstances, because it is a solution with a lot of extremes owing to it attempting to solve an extreme problem (global trustless consensus).
This seems like a very accurate description, especially the observation about temporal continuity, which we take for granted, but on occasions it can feel like a fragile illusion.
I was wondering about that. yes, by "this" I meant the tweet, not the person Im replying to
It is a completely valid way of initializing a variable in modern C++. Modern compilers will not create a copy assignment, if that is what you are afraid of.
>Time are certainly filled with more strife and struggle than the Great Depression, Dust Bowl, polio epidemics and two World Wars.

I really don't see how you could possibly come to that conclusion. I think your outlook may be affected by Mean World Syndrome:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome
What part of the world are you from? Hostile immigration policies seem to be alive and well in most of North America and Europe and have been for a while now.
When it comes to compulsive gambling, the monetary risk is an integral part. People who suffer from it get their fix not by winning but by putting things on the line. This is why gambling is almost universally regulated, and yahtzee is not. It's mind poison for some people.

Saying that "time" is a currency sounds good on paper, but in this case it doesn't work. Those whales that spend tens of thousands of dollars on loot boxes would not have spent an equal amount of time otherwise.

It's predatory, and it's bad.
I think you are missing the purpose of the services they provide.

Why would it be necessary for them to prove their customers beat the S&P but not necessary for Schwab or TDA or Robinhood?
Well googling Mark Solms Searle returns at least one paper by him that directly explores Searle's views so I'd say you're just sensitive.

Ironically, you're opining on the scientist of opining on consciousness without having read philosophy, without having read the scientist.
There isn't even a checkbox on the new reddit UI as far as I can find; you have to do the search, then tell it you only want results from that subreddit.
Object Storage as a Service with Kubernetes and MinIO
They're not. They're simply not seling it. Now, I will concede that as the biggest book store globally it is reasonable to suggest that this is essentially the same thing. None the less, there is nothing stopping other stores from selling it, or from the author(s) from self publishing.
Progression of mathematics and Platonic ontologies are closely intertwined.
> Galling can go both ways. Why is it that philosophists have gone hundreds or thousands of years thinking on a problem and produced no tangible results and yet Science put a man on the moon? Reproducibility.

Someone should probably let you know that science is a subset of philosophy (or "philosophism" as you seem to think it's called).
You could quite easily test that, by comparing bit-flipped domains to keyboard-neighbour domains.

Or alternatively, just by looking at the distribution of hits to bit-flipped domains (which should be broadly uniform; typos will be non-uniform).
You have i.reddit, m.reddit, old.reddit and regular reddit.com, that's 4 different UI's that they are maintaining, as well as iOS/Android applications.

I really wish they'd go to hackernews, CTRL+U and look at the beauty of the code that awaits them.

Works without JS flawlessly, fast, speedy, no cruft, no bullshit, just a simple fast loading page.

I actually enjoy HN a lot more than reddit these days, the cruft is so discouraging.
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I'm always surprised in these discussions that the ideas of Tesla, Planck and others don't come up. Someone once tried to convince me that consciousness arose from the brain by saying that if he removed a part, then consciousness would change and diminish. I answered along the lines of Tesla that perhaps the brain is a like a radio receiver and if you remove parts from the receiver it is not going to work.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists
― Nikola Tesla

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together.
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter
― Max Planck
We derive data from ISS to show the transparency and impact policies companies have in place. We break this down into three categories: impact on our 1) environment 2) workplace and 3) society. Currently, we are launching with 50 popular stocks.
Brackets is released under the MIT license
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I completely understand that I happen to have it good because I'm in the tech industry and have been unaffected financially due to the pandemic. However, I'd hardly call myself "wealthy" and it's hardly the year long tea party from my perspective either...
Radar images capture new Antarctic mega-iceberg
You can easily access SF jobs, but South Bay jobs are harder to get to. But it is no different than living in Oakland or Berkeley when it comes to commute
With a globalized economy, does it make sense for every country to have a manufacturing base for every industry? Especially for a country with small/moderately sized population like Canada?

I agree though, the government has been short sighted and procurement of ships, planes has been a debacle for years. It seems that either way a lot of money is going to be burnt, either by propping up a non-competitive industry locally, or burnt buying something insanely expensive like F-35s from an ally.
...and immediately got porn spam
Only iOS right now! Android will be coming up in the near future (:
My local broadband provider admitted to me that they could offer symmetric 1 gig service, but are choosing not to. The current max a residential customer can purchase is 1 gig down, 25Mbs up. The monthly non-discount rate is $180, with $110/month possible with certain promotions. It is an extra 10$/month to go from 20Mbs up to 25Mbs. Starlink is doing well here.
If you push back, nothing happens to you.

If the cashier pushes back, they may be punished (up to and including getting fired — there's more competition for cashier-level jobs than you think).
I’d cut them some slack, they seem like they’re just following the YC advice. Move fast, launch early. No reason to be a stickler about the rules.

Besides, tons of apps and services launch via testflight, gated betas/waitlist-then-interview. Superhuman, dispo, and clubhouse all did that strategy.
Have they muddied the waters, or have they shown that the problem is far more difficult than you want it to be?
> If the cost of mining is higher than the price, then people won't mine, and the cost will go down.

Absolutely, the price of BTC drives the viability of mining,
BUT the cost of mining doesn't have the reverse effect, it doesn't affect market price.

And yes, I agree, the whole thing is a clusterfuck :)
Is the hypothesis that, even though we've had ubiquitous async voice service communication ("voicemail") for decades, that it'd be better if we had yet another way to do it? I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing.
The Web is a shitty cross-platform UI toolkit For building apps. It’s fairly popular.
The US is still growing its population, via immigration rather than births.
This is a super-anthropocentric perspective. If we could talk to the non-human inhabitants of the planet, they'd have much to say about the encroachment of humanity into every corner of their world and its unremittingly negative impact upon them.
I don't understand the downvotes you're getting or the negativity in the comments. I've never heard of Alinea - the restaurant before - and it's really strange that people are being anal about someone else using the name for a completely different industry - it won't be confusing to anyone.
Why do you feel we're living in deflationary times?
Please name this first commercial succesful DBMS you are thinking about then.

For me, only Oracle comes to mind.
It feels like Reddit is going the same direction Digg did years ago. Sadly for users (but good for Reddit) there isn't a moderately large rival that might have the momentum to capture jaded users.
The retiree example is intended to demonstrate that a wealth tax is inherently perverse, regardless of who is targeted. Savings are just deferred expenditure and debt is just expedited expenditure. When you tax wealth, you expedite consumption.

Another way of thinking about this: A wealth tax is like inflation, except assets are also devalued alongside your savings. Which means the wisest strategy is to consume now, save nothing, invest nothing.
What a wonderful “problem” to have. That means less UBI, more advances in automation and more impulse to productivity.

No one wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole (aka India).

This should be lauded!
Show HN: Tag users and their posts on HN
I don't know, I don't tend to use graphs for documentation or communication. I just wanted to highlight the tool that is probably your main competitor given the parent was talking about open source comparisons. Presumably you have a pitch for why gleek is superior to graphviz or other alternatives to justify the pricing?

FWIW I do like the real time preview; manipulating symbols in the dark is the worst thing about textual languages.
Unlikely that this is just random.

These credit facilities all have covenants and reporting requirements. When these things get frozen or wound down, almost assuredly some sort of risk covenant or similar was breached, which gives the fund manager the option of freezing or winding down the facility.

So how does an investor manage the risk? They vet the company (Greensill), and trust that its risk department / capital markets team can manage their credit facilities. In this case, it turns out that bet might've been off, but thats what happens in fintech investment sometimes.
They are in... completely different industries?
Expanding low cost or free daycare is probably the best way that the state can incentivize people having children. I've also read that it serves as an effective anti-poverty measure as well.
Three!? I got the.. ahem... boys taken care of immediately after the second. haha
Spotify is pretty much bottom of the barrel if you're a music album fan, I think.

I find it's only good at playing random songs on giant playlists, or playing the radio. Managing a library of albums is a huge pain and I still don't understand how it's supposed to work.

Then there is the problem of questionable digital masters. There's 0 transparency into the mastering process and what Spotify uses. As you've observed, some things just sound really awful on Spotify.

If you really want the best, I suggest Roon + Tidal subscription for playback. Then use Qobuz/Bandcamp/etc. to purchase lossless FLACs to import into Roon, or rip CDs yourself. This will give you the best quality, and you can be certain the source quality is good. You can use Tidal lossless for streaming things you don't buy (but the selection is much more limited). The Roon UX is way, way better than Spotify for managing a large collection of albums.
Those news reports are full of shit

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-SF-Ba...
That's not even remotely true.

The vast majority of humans had very very stable futures. Like tens of thousands of years stable.

Civilization as we know it is very very recent and unstable.
The British, European, and American atrocities were the only ones you consider "recent"? We only hold those to account who are open to being held accountable? Or only those who keep good records?

Sorry, but that's not a very convincing argument to excuse the extremely selective outrage and demands for reparations and accountability. Personally, I think the biases that drive this selective outrage are rather obvious. But draw your own conclusions.
I have a friend at uni melb who until recently spent more than half each year in Antarctica cleaning up old sites (diesel plumes and the like). There is a lot to do.

I agree on an absolute scale it’s utterly empty but the parts of interest to humans are not.
And for maximum weirdness: consciousness contains itself!
I continually go back to the story of Socrates and the Oracle of Delphi. 2500 years later and it’s still relevant today.

The Oracle of Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest of Greeks; and Socrates took this as approval of his agnosticism which was the starting point of his philosophy: ‘One thing only I know’, he said, ‘and that is that I know nothing’. Philosophy begins when one begins to doubt — when one begins to question the accepted wisdom of tradition. Particularly the one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas and one’s axioms.

Puzzled by the priestess of Delphi’s statement, Socrates felt obliged to seek the meaning of her remark. By questioning others who had a reputation for wisdom, he came to see that he was wiser than they, because unlike them he did not claim to know what he did not know.
Google Docs makes it easy to add annotations to parts of a text, which you can see used here by the author to add sidenotes, as a comment section and by readers to suggest improvements to the translation.

I'm not aware of it being some general trend, though; I've only seen Jeff Ding use it like that. Could you point to some other writers using Google Docs as a generic publishing method?
What Is a Pixel
Welcome to philosophy!
Definitely, we derive data from ISS (https://www.issgovernance.com/) to show the policies and goals in place for environmental impact.
Lotus notes UI issues were extraordinary. Nothing comparable to the native iOS vs Flutter app difference
We raise and kill multiples of human population of animals a year, and already
produce enough food for our entire population without raising livestock.

This means people care more about their tastebuds than ethics.
Same here. I tried pomodoro for a while but that was just not sustainable. I have no spark or enthusiasm for work.
What would your stack and first steps look like at a fresh startup today?
No

https://vgafib.org/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/photo...

He is in the top right of the image.
I don’t think your point is more relevant than theirs.

It’s expensive to run brain scanning studies, so studies have smaller populations or lower resolution data collection in response. Yes, brain scanning studies are new, but we’ve been doing fMRI studies for nearly 3 decades and it’s still expensive. Had that cost been scaled back, we’d have more and/or better data because grants are (very) finite.
A lot of low-code solutions aimed at collecting and reporting on data are based on streamlined versions of the workflows from old-world DBs like this (and, later, Access): Define your data, define how it is joined for reports, drag-and-drop form/table designers of varying complexity for data entry. So the UI is likely to feel similar unless/until someone comes up with a genuinely new paradigm for this sort of thing. Some are a bit more spreadsheet+transformation based, but that is the "define data & connections" part and once you add custom forms for easier data entry you are essentially back to the same place just maybe hiding the table structure less.
One explanation is rising amounts of space per person, the apartments are just getting bigger.
> it sounded like a teenager on a rant

It is quite typical to dismiss anti-capitalist critique as being youthful and immature
Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence
I just got an infinite loop down to 8.6 seconds! And I'm not done yet!
Yes, our community definitely wants to know how their investments impact the environment
Only a salty bitch would downvote this comment.
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Brackets was the first text editor I used. I remember being in grade 11 computer science class and wowing my friends with the live-reloading feature for HTML sites. Good times
It seems like a fallacy to go backward from "Things are this way in 2021, therefore it could never have been any other way in the 1980s-early 2000s".

Go to Barnes and Noble (or online) and pick up the magazine 2600, which still gives off a very amateur, hacking-positive pre-social-media vibe of the internet, telecom, and computing.

Also, the book "Steal This Computer Book" while outdated was a fun glance-through when I was younger, though it didn't talk philosophy.

You had things like the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace[1] and other essays and myriad discussions about the potential of the World Wide Web.

The Web was smaller, less corporate, and the nerds ran the show. It shouldn't be blamed on them/us that the net is "corporate".
sure, thanks for highlighting the tool.
i thought you were a heavy-user of graphviz so you would have the insights ;-)
There's enough that's not similar to make them an apple to oranges comparison.
But SoftBank hasn’t owned it for 20 years.
I entirely forgot about R:BASE. Thanks for the memories. I worked in it only briefly, as a teenager. My uncle, an early PC adopter, introduced me to it.
Referer being spelled wrong - I KNEW something was wrong about it every time I saw it but it never actually clicked.
because historicaly wealth was correlated with levels of education, but in this case people are more educated so they nope out of it.
I have had "Don't show thumbnails next to links" set in my preferences since forever. But some years back (prior to new reddit IIRC), it kept getting re-enabled somehow, without any preference changes on my part.

I think Hanlon's razor [1] probably applies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
There's also a blog post about it: https://blog.brackets.io/brackets-eol-notice/
Wipro to buy London’s tech consultancy firm Capco for $1.45B
Some things I have done:

- During a career slump I joined the Project Management Institute and was about to get a certification before I got so busy I had no time for it. The PMI certifications are a good balance between affordable and meaningful.

- I did all the Python problems on HackerRank; this was a journey, like climbing a mountain, I learned a lot, had fun all the way, got practice for interview problems, etc. (I've seen other courses in other languages at that site and some others, but that one is in a class by itself -- I printed only my HackerRank Python certificate to hang on the wall because I am proud of it.)

- I challenged myself to print something every day to keep my inkjet printer from clogging up, but now I go to auctions and buy the cash registers from failing stores just to get the receipt printers, which I break the way a rock star breaks guitars. My son feels like he has to outdo me, so now he is making big anime art prints by putting together 8x8 inch squares.

- My image technology obsession has gotten me into arduino so I can build devices that paint images from a 1-d strip from a moving platform like an automobile. That's gotten me to rethink programming from the ground up.

If the imaging side projects go the way they are going there could be a day that somebody sees something I did that was different from anything they'd ever seen before and then work finds me. That was how I got "too busy" to get the PMI cert.
Data cleaning is domain specific. Hire someone to do it and accumulate wisdom over time.
Deviation, up or down, from the mean will cause inefficiencies and extra costs to our society. Still, 300k less births, however, is less than 10% of total number, and is not significant enough to be of big concern. 10% is going from 1:16 teacher to student ratio to 1:14.
Borland acquired Paradox from Ansa. They later acquired Ashton Tate which gave them dBASE.

For those who have used both, many consider Paradox the superior product (technically and also in terms of ease of use, hence the name “paradox”). It had innovations like QBE and a modern Turbo Vision interface. The Paradox Application Language (PAL) was a joy to write in. dBASE had name recognition but was unwieldy in many ways.

Having two flagship database products unfortunately led to a confused strategy and neither product thrived after the acquisition.
> All of these payment providers that are being built on top of Bitcoin are going to have the same regulations, restrictions, and problems as the payment providers that exist today.

It creates a separation of concerns: If the layer 2 service providers you are using today become abusive/untrustworthy, it would be easy to switch to different ones.
Most times I've seen this question asked, I see a reference to "Spaceship You". So here's the obligatory link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck