skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same can be said of your understanding of philosophy and the ranking of your comments is telling.

There is no category error. You are just simulacring one to put science on a higher pedestal because it is evident you have vested interest. If you'd actually analyze why you consider science superior to philosophy, you would be hard pressed not to notice that they are both endeavor of the human intellect that simply happen to use different axioms and validity constraints. It is just as "random", and as you mention in your very last comment, ultimately non falsifiable. How can there be a category error when they share such fundamental characteristics? The only thing that leaks out of your arguments is that you just "don't like" philosophy.
Not all countries have capital gains.
I think you should try this:

- set up a ubuntu system

- see what traffic it generates

- get it to stop

You will get pretty proficient at how apt and systemd work, especially after a couple release cycles and things get re-activated, re-enabled or re-installed.
Or they could just exile all people into the occupied territories in Syria and Jordan.

If you don't have defense you go on offense.
Price discovery is a volatile thing
Tar (as opposed to gzip) is almost entirely I/O bound, it's just reading from the filesystem, adding some headers and then outputting it again. Whatever speed your I/O runs at, you will basically tar at that speed as well.
I remember some version of BASIC from the early 80's. You could create real multi-denominational arrays including sparse ones with any starting index(s) you wanted.

Matrix operations were first class.
In a post-S230 world there are no platforms.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Worthwhile interpretations of that quote:

- "Learning a wide range of skills is useful and can let you combine them in ways others cannot."

- "You should not let your current path in life unduly limit your curiosity."

- "Sometimes life throws a curveball at you and a wide range of skills can unexpectedly be very handy."

- "There is a small subset of this list which, as an adult, you really should know how to do."

Unhealthy interpretations of that quote:

- "You are as unworthy as an insect if you specialise."

- "Time spent on one thing does not come at the cost of time spent on other things. You can manufacture time."

- "Developing a deeper understanding of a craft you're deeply curious about is not worth the time you give up learning other things."

- "A person who knows how to do all of this list of things competently has ever existed in human history."

(I assert that any person who has competently planned an invasion and died gallantly in the age where they had access to program a computer would be listed on wikipedia.)

(Also, if people didn't sometimes need specialised knowledge to make competent decisions, then central economic planning would have a hope of working.)
Says the guy with broadband availability.
Banks aren't charities. It costs a good bit of money to keep deposits, on top of the interest expense. (deposit insurance, overhead, staff, etc...)

I think it's highly unlikely that these overseas banks that the rich use are doing nothing but sitting on their money and this practice accounts for all the purported "hoarding".
You are conflating "app store" with "content filter".

You can have one without the other, or you can use both. Also you could have a choice in which app store or which content filter you use.

Apple happily lets you believe those concepts are one and the same thing, though. And users buy into it.
Let's see..

1. Did a human die? Yes.

2. Was it caused by another human, directly or indirectly? Yes.

3. Did the perpetrator intend for a human to die? Yes.

Yeah, I'd call that murder.
Sure you can.

We're not talking about ivory here, which has an incredibly elaborate and difficult-to-hide supply chain (and even at that, is still sometimes smuggled).

We're talking about permissionless network traffic. Blocks can be broadcast via shortwave if necessary (of course this will be slow, but not too slow for the 'store of value' use case).

Have we lost all sense of the difficulty of censoring the internet?
Oh! When I first read the headline, I thought of Windows 98 (codename: Memphis), and got excited this is gonna be something retro about an elite UX design.
Python — no threads, or built in types

Julia — odd language

R — not a general purpose programming language

Most of the data scientist and ml engineers I work with want a new language. So yeah it’s not a bad idea
>Many things that happened under Cromwell's command were standard practice in siege warfare at the time.

I've seen other people argue this, but that statement is mostly the result of a single (self-proclaimed) amateur historian named Tom Reilly.

What he is saying is that it was the norm at the time to behead surrendered troops and put their heads on pikes around the area.

There's one real problem, though. That wasn't the norm at the time. It's never been the standard practice in siege warfare, especially in an attempted conquest, because it is stupid to do and discourages surrender later.

In fact, in other instances Cromwell himself accepted surrenders. So it wasn't standard at all.

In the end, though, whether or not Cromwell personally massacred thousands of civilians, he set up a government in Ireland and empowered the people that ended up causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
Because sharing a single attribute does not make multiple groups aligned with each other. There may be multiple factions that fear the government, but not for the same reasons, nor do they necessarily have the same ideas in mind for when/if it’s disposed of.
> those of us who have adopted a BTC standard will have separated in prosperity levels from our fiat based peers within a generation or two

What you’re describing is true of any asset that appreciates in value. The wealth confers power. That it is a currency is irrelevant.

If the U.S. switched its legal tender to Bitcoin tomorrow, it would change how we borrow and spend. But it would be no more of a shock to the system than a balanced budget amendment on the Treasury and the Fed. (Less, in fact, since the U.S. on Bitcoin could still deficit spend.)
no. target richer people like the rest of us do.
I don't mind so much when the renames make sense or are more comprehensible… master to primary for DBs, master to main for git. Indeed whitelist/blacklist is just ridiculous overreach, what can you do.

But Github went way too far by aggressively pushing devs to rename their own local master branches to main. This caught me by surprise and I almost accidentally renamed the branch of one of my previous clients.

https://twitter.com/Adys/status/1354468440753508355

Really gross.
That big block of ice -- don't lick it or your tongue will stick to it ...
Yeah, I don't know about these lists. Cargill valued at 40bn when wikipedia says they own 60bn in assets and profiting...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill
Yes, this is such a silly Git problem

In Mercurial it is always "default", and in SVN one used to use "trunk"
Randomly pick a new word each day, anybody who says it gets locked for a day.

Didn't Pee Wee Herman do something like that?
>This money is finding its way into everything except ironically the items that are tracked by CPI.

You do know that the sole goal of the fed's monetary expansion is to raise CPI inflation? So by that measure the Fed is an absolute failure. It never created inflation.
Looks like Mycle Schneider, the lead author, is a founding member of WISE-Paris, which is the French branch of the anti-nuclear group WISE, which he directed from 1983 to 2003. [wikipedia]
> It's unbelievable that "flight proven buster" turned out to be really what it says on the tin, and not just a piece of marketing speak.

That's a thing to love about SpaceX. When they first started using this phrase, it was tongue-in-cheek in a pretty obvious way. Three years later, it was no longer a joke.
Make it clear where to send checks on your donation page - and encourage people to use their bank’s bill pay. Usually free to them and to you.
Henry Ford got this. He was once pitched by some art dealers, who gave him a big book of prints of artworks they had for sale. He then asked, now that I have this book, why would I want the original?
I would have no problem with building one outside our city. And frankly compared the land clearing one would need for solar/thermal or the blight of enormous windmills, I’d prefer it. What you may be really asking is whether people are comfortable with the risk of turning into the next Chernobyl. I feel that risk is quite low, especially for new builds.
At the end of the day someone has to pay the interchange fees.
Classically, philosophy is not about establishing truth. It is about better living.
> It is of limited use to practice shooting with guns that don't shoot real bullets. The student doesn't learn safety properly and picks up bad habits b/c he thinks the guns are safe. That learning transfers over to real life and how you practice is how you will react under stress.

I agree. A course like that would have to have a module where the students would have to fire real guns, but I'd say you could still use dummy guns to teach the basics (and fail anyone who's blase with those) before they advance.
> Language vs. meta-language.

I do not understand what this is supposed to mean or demonstrate.

> because concepts expressed in natural language are so massively overloaded, it's very hard to make precise statements.

That's why philosophers clarify meanings and ask for clarification for terms when they think are vague. That something is "overloaded" (amphiboly) doesn't mean you can't determine which meaning is used or, right? When you read something, you're not grading papers. You're interpreting things in a sensible way.

> When disciplines acquire their own method and formal language, they tend to splinter off philosophy. Think about mathematics, physics, biology, economics...

Formalization isn't magic. To formalize something, you have to get to a place where you have a clear enough and correct enough understanding so that you can express it in that language. And in any case, philosophers do employ formalization when they think it useful. It isn't always. Frankly, even mathematicians, practitioners of the most formal of sciences, don't use formal methods to express their _reasoning_ in most cases.
Philosophy is a PROCESS of enquiry (hopefully "skilled"). It is difficult to compress a long-running & haphazard process into precise definition. You can label the process, talk about various aspects of the process, share examples and so on, but it is perhaps not sensible to define it too precisely. Theories you get at the end of any process of enquiry, whether they are workable or not, are PRODUCTS. Products by their very nature will be well-defined or precise.
I read that tweet as OL's social media team having heard of the problem and poking fun at Twitter. Nothing in that tweet suggests that there is a causal relationship with that specific person.
How do you remove tokens minted by people other than the artist? Who removes it, and what stops that person or those people from removing legitimate tokens?
Hm, I had a look at the 5000 days token and it's indeed an IPFS URI: ipfs://ipfs/QmPAg1mjxcEQPPtqsLoEcauVedaeMH81WXDPvPx3VC5zUz

(enter 40913 at https://etherscan.io/token/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a... in tokenURI)

With that said, I went through some random NFTs the other day and I saw a lot of tokenURIs pointing to a plain metadata.json on a regular server that I could access in my browser.
wow, thank you so much.
Another option is to use something like lrzip as the compressor - not sure if it would have helped in this instance but it incorporates a step which looks for long-range redundancy which can make a huge difference in these sorts of scenarios.
Heh. Ya, that's better. Like saying universities (collections of scholars) produce scholarship. I love the idea of philosophers producing philosophy.
The earth is not at all like a spaceship. For something to be a shapeship requires that it have a propulsion system and freedom of movement. Earth is forever locked in its orbit
I took the lifetime option and couldn't even be arsed signing up.
Win for me as I can still Memphis.
Seems better to have some separate higher level metacompression tool which does the heuristic searching across many possible compression formats and parameters.
If they sent more than infinitesimal amounts, it’s unsustainable; if they don’t, it’s easily filtered — and that’s assuming that they didn’t just direct you to send the amount to some dump address if you wanted to disavow it. Simply telling a few large exchanges to do that automatically would take care of the majority of users.
If you email them, they will usually give you a rate of around 2.7% for VC/MC and 3.9% for Amex
Twitter allows you to mute users, keywords, and I believe specific threads. Killfiles weren't more advanced than that.
This claim requires testing.
Several members of the extended family in different parts of the country had unambiguous symptomatic COVID cases. Every last one was 1) never tested and 2) even the people with severe cases were turned away by the government hospitals, not even a cursory exam. You can get into the hospitals and get tested with a sufficiently large bribe, but the market clearing price for that bribe was unusually high so few people can afford it. The practical reality is that the government hospitals couldn't do anything even if you paid it, so why would you? People with enough money to pay that bribe would be using the foreign hospitals anyway.

Initially they did do severe lockdowns but the virus escaped into the population not long after and it was a lost cause. Realize that even though the lockdowns were severe, just about every such mandate is optional if you have money, both in theory and practice.

The above reporting isn't particularly credible. Having worked for the UN and been involved in the sausage-making at international NGOs, it would be a mistake to treat their outputs as a scientific fact-finding mission. Outputs are virtually always in service of narrow political or economic objectives that may be unrelated to the topic of the report, they aren't written for the purpose of conveying information per se. It is a formal writing style that makes heavy use of selective omissions.

Some countries were successful at containing COVID. In the specific case of Viet Nam, it would take a relatively naive review of the evidence to come to that conclusion. It may be authoritarian but it is much more corrupt and disorganized than many of the other "hard lockdown" countries.
This isn't an oddity or issue with Python zip creation, it's expected behaviour as per ISO/IEC WD 21320-1[1].

> The compression method shall be either 0 (“stored”) or 8(“deflated”).

The format does not prescribe a compression algorithm (many could be available for use). It's merely a container.

[1] ISO/IEC WD 21320-1, Document Container File - Part 1: Core - https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.39...
>Unless you can refute modern economic theory, we still have PV=MQ, and the only thing saving us from inflation at the moment is the low velocity of money: in lockdown or with most high velocity businesses closed or operating at a fraction of what they did before (ex: bar, restaurants), the velocity will remain low.

Actually this is an argument in favor of inflation and yet it failed to materialize. Stagflation is what happens when the central bank keeps creating more money and businesses are unable to meed the demand by expanding production. If such a supply shock fails to create inflation then almost nothing will.
Covid-19: your life insurance
Koch Industries is worth well in excess of $100 billion.
Right...I've been in a salaried position at various jobs for 15+ years and have never once worked more than 45 hours/week or so. Meanwhile coworkers who are getting paid exactly the same as me work 60+ hours/week for some reason. I have to assume anyone working 60+ hours a week either is avoiding their home life(or inner life), or is so unsure about their position in the company that they think they need to work 1.5x just to not get fired.
Esprit 1.0 (ClojureScript on the ESP32 using Espruino)
It's still not too late to rename their city Thebes - last time I checked the one in Greece burned down and they haven't had time to rebuild it, yet.
Be aware that some search engines do respect your privacy.
I use these (and others)...
Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org/
Qwant https://www.qwant.com/
Start Page https://www.startpage.com/
This Wikipedia page may help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine#External_links
I actually build a sort of L**o simulation that uses the LDraw library for pieces in combination with the HTC Vive.
You can check it out here:

https://essometer.itch.io/virtual-blox
Ask HN: Thoughts on SaaS that helps companies get more feedback/reviews?
What are you thoughts on a single platform that businesses can send customers to which auto-pushes their reviews to multiple platforms simultaneously (E.g. Yelp/Google Places/Facebook) and then rewards the reviewer with points they may use to enter to win free discounts and coupons at businesses within the network?
There are valid reasons to believe that gun prohibition will not significantly decrease the use of guns in crimes in the U.S. Believing that gun prohibition won’t work because drug prohibition hasn’t worked is as invalid as the argument that gun prohibition will work because slavery prohibition worked. There are examples of countries that suddenly implemented strict gun control laws successfully whilst unsuccessfully prohibiting illicit drugs. Therefore it is not valid to reason that gun laws won’t work because they haven’t worked with drugs.
I'm amazed at how many people don't get this. Like the sec would kill for this level of control.
As someone who can use almost an entire bottle of Heinz 57 on an order of French fries, this made me laugh. Whenever I ask for ketchup at a restaurant and they bring me “only” 4 packets, I do my best not to roll my eyes in disappointment because I know how ridiculous I am.
It's "booster", not "buster".
I'm more excited about the sustainable capability to put so much stuff in orbit than for Starlink itself! This feels like a step towards a mega-scale space industry.
> Like, if you were younger than 13 at some point, and you didn’t prove yourself that you’re no longer 13, it can’t be ruled out that you potentially haven’t aged since, by Twitter logic.

No, that’s due to the fact that they don’t want to store any data about yourself from when you were under 13 years old. I had this happen to me when I changed my account age and it said it had to delete all tweets (amongst other info) from when I was <13 and my profile was wiped (bio, profile pic, website link), likely because they don’t timestamp profile changes in their DB (some audit log probably has it though).

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/account-re...
Yes! And it's the opposite of oobleck. Meaning, it is shear-thinning (mayo is similar)

There's also a 3rd category, the thixotropic fluids, they do become thinner with stresses but they take a while to solidify again
I started a new job during the pandemic, and the experience has been much worse than I expected. There’s no opportunity to ask simple questions without always worrying that I’m interrupting. Whereas in an office it’s easy to see who’s on the phone or focusing on something and simply ask someone else (or wait).

There’s also no opportunity for the kind of work-related conversations that might happen over lunch where I’d learn more about the team, the org, the project, and the history of it all. In the past I’ve gotten a lot out of being present for casual conversations among more experienced teammates and asking the occasional question.
More proof that Elvis lives.
>but particular country gets to decide who is safe and who gets a free conversion to democracy.

There are quite a few countries that have nukes now, and not just half a dozen little ones. For example, India has SSBNs.
Hard to say, its a big mega project, but then so is what we do today to keep getting more oil and gas. Same story goes for energy storage to make solar/wind workable at large scales. Very hard problem! So is sucking the last dregs of oil out of the ocean, or creating earthquakes to suck it out of the ground.
Through buyback programs and legal penalties for possession, the amount of weapons in meaningful circulation would likely decrease substantially over a period of years.

As that process occurred, the value of the weapons would spike as scarcity took hold, and tactically-useful firearms (e.g. semi-auto) would become expensive on the black market. This would mean that criminals would need to be far more judicious with how they carried and used them.

It is very plausible that this scarcity effect would lead to a meaningful reduction in the possession and use of firearms by low-level street criminals, which would also by extension lead to a reduction in levels of firearms-related homicide, assault, and intimidation.

A low-level narcotics broker is less likely to carry around a Glock that costs $10,000 (which they have to dump off of a bridge or in a storm drain every time it's used in a homicide), than they are to carry around a black-market stolen Glock that cost $600.
It's a bit more complicated than that, because code can be thread-safe but not side-effect-free, but basically you're just restating what I said. C++ makes it hard to be sure code is really safe to use across threads, which means in practice developers should be more reluctant to do so.
Pet peeve: the primer includes Robotech/Harmony Gold (ip squatters) rather than Macross/Studio Nue (actual pioneers). The Macross Design Works series are much better artbooks, and actually contains production notes because they _actually produced Macross_.
This is the wrong mindset. If inflation is low the central bank is failing at its core competence.
Precisely. They would be able to look into any transactions or series of transactions trivially. However in most cases won't care.
Look, many people use Bitcoin as a speculative investment. Most people want to keep away from criminal activity, except if it is the only way to get access to something (like drugs). If Bitcoin were banned, most people would invest in other things and hence Bitcoin price would drop.
GitHub no longer supports this web browser
The point GP is making is that tars are "solid" archives, so compression can span files, which means putting files with lots of redundancy between them next to one another will yield much better compression ratios than orderings which are essentially random.

That is somewhat unintuitive to people used to zip archives, because zip contents are compressed independently, so the ordering really doesn't matter (at least to the compression ratio).
This is also true for gold, silver and any other currency.

The value only exists because someone else is willing to exchange it for goods or services.
:) fair play to you. At least the real estate prices will be good.

I won't go for low risk when it comes to nuclear and not let my family grow up next to it. Only no risk would be acceptable to me when it comes to nuclear, quite some tail risk in this case.
"government simply increases it"

print more money, cause pain for everyone who isn't privileged to work for the government.

"inflation linked annuity"

socialize the risk for big businesses/municipal debt (inflation linked annuities are often bundles of investments that can produce a yield that matches inflations, you can't magically create these things)
Are you referring to /r9k/ ?

There are only 10 pages visible on 4chan, did that rule only apply to visible content or all past content aswell?