skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site is only using mm/dd/yyyy for the generator input, the standard itself is not. The actual format in the security.txt file looks like:

Expires: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 05:09 -0400

Maybe slow down, read the spec, and proofread your comment for obvious errors before trying to troll for no reason.
This is an industry where a startup launches and a few days later has a $400 million market cap.
> Wouldn’t that imply that no philosophy is true?

I am a strong proponent of distinguishing „truth“ from „certainty“. That is to say, a theory (philosophical or not) might be true in the sense that it corresponds to the things it says something about. But since all human beings are fallible we can never be certain not to have made mistakes. So a philosophy can be true. But we can not be certain about it. EDIT: If OP writes that "there is no way to refute or evaluate philosophy" they might imply that no philosophy is true. Yet I would only agree that no philosophy is certain.

> I think of it as the search for truths that we can’t empirically prove, contrasted to science and math which are purely logical.

What (empirical) scientists usually mean when they call a theory or hypothesis „empirically proven“ is that there is evidence that meets some arbitrary criterion of strength. What mathematicians usually mean when they call a theorem proven is that it can be logically deduced from a set of axioms. So not only is the word "proof" used very differently in (empirical) science and mathematics, the way to obtain such proofs is usually very different as well. To lump these procedures together under the term "purely logical" seems to me to mix up important differences.

> But math and science have their bases in philosophy through universal laws and propositions, which are unprovable but necessary.

Neither the laws and propositions in math nor in the (empirical) sciences are necessary in the sense that practitioners are forced to assume them. Nothing prevents anyone from assuming something else whenever they wish to and important discoveries have been made that way (e.g. non-euclidean geometry, theory of relativity). Maybe you refer to some other kind of necessity though.
Inflation won't be a problem for a long time. There is allot of slack in the labor market. The article states there are about 10 million people in the UK who would like a new job. That is a small fraction of the hundreds of millions in the rest of world who are looking for work. Until a nearly all of them have a good job, wages will stay low. Eventually there will be more jobs than people who want them, in 50 years or so. Our current monetary system won't work in that world, but I will be too old to care.
The comparison is apt because there are hundreds of millions of guns that wouldn’t disappear if you made them illegal.
Agree, no-code is great help to entrepreneurs to test their ideas. Btw, we’re doing exactly this in datrics
Classic. Every philosopher responds with “your argument is philosophy, it’s ironic.”

Sure if you classify all deep thought as philosophy then any argument against philosophy that is deep is in itself philosophy. It’s just meta games with words no point in bringing it up.

Your argument basically says philosophy is an umbrella term for everything in existence. There’s no point for such a term that asks “what do we mean when we talk about x”. In fact such a term already exists without the pretentiousness. It’s called “definition” you can look up the definition of science and religion on Wikipedia. Does that make Wikipedia a philosophy web site?
I wonder if they would have won the lawsuit if they simply brought this up - We're happy to refund you the price of the laptop if Windows was not pre-installed and with all of the other bundled software: Please pay us $50.

It kinda makes sense to just buy the laptop with windows and then flatten and re-install linux.
Under the International Treaty for Outer Space, each signatory nation is responsible for regulating that activity of those operating from within their territory. Switzerland signed the treat in 1967 [1]

So that's all as it should be, and Switzerland agrees that the mechanism of regulation is the operant one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty#Responsibil...
Yeah that definitely seems like a mistake. I tried it and it worked. I'm going to appeal it and see what happens. This must just be one of the algorithms going haywire or something.
you only have to jam it
Science and philosophy are complementary to each other, but it would be a mistake to take science as the ultimate arbiter of what reality is. That is not science business, that is exactly philosophy business. Science is the practice of finding theories which can predict the patterns of blinking lights and ticking sounds of our sensors and instruments. In other words, it describes the behavior of the universe, while being agnostic on its nature. Philosophy on the other hand is concerned with what the universe intimately is.

They are complementary because they inform each other and philosophy must stay coherent with empirical findings, but we also do science driven by certain assumptions which come from philosophy (materialism is a world-view, aka a philosophy).

Science and philosophy have very different validity constraints, for instance, while science should be predictive, philosophy only needs to be internally consistent and parsimonious.

They are the sides of the same coin, the what and the how.

I think it's ludicrous to think that evolved monkeys will "figure out reality". No, the best we can do is to create for ourselves a coherent, empirically verified, integral and parsimonious world-view, and we will call that reality. This will come from philosophy, it will be informed by science sure, but those very scientists will be doing philosophy when interpreting their behavioral findings.
the 800xl looked cool, 64k of memory and basically competed head on with c64 until the rise of the next gen Amiga/Atari ST, only to be obliterated by PCs once SVGA came along
Holy shit, what a great link! This is what keeps me coming back to the comment section…

If I could gift you 100 point of Karma, I would.
China has started building their own satellite broadband constellation (up to 12,992 have been applied for) that is routed to comply with their policies.
> The problem is that without section 230, it becomes impossible for any website to have user hosted content. If websites are responsible for shit their users say, no website that posts user content can exist.

That has nothing to do with section 230. Websites weren't responsible for user-generated content before section 230 and they still wouldn't be if it went away.

What section 230 does is extend the same immunity that content-blind hosts have always had to hosts that modify the content they get from users.

This comment upthread:

> If a user writes some content that stays as a comment somewhere and it is defamatory, then the user is responsible. So far, so good. This is what 230 used to address.

is wrong. Section 230 didn't address that case; the user was always the responsible party. To see section 230 at work, you need a more complicated setup:

1. User A posts defamatory content to a web forum.

2. User B posts defamatory content to the same forum.

3. The forum operators see User B's post, are outraged, and take it down.

This is where section 230 makes a difference. It says that, even though the forum takes control of user-generated content for the purpose of expressing its own views, it still isn't liable for content that it hasn't directly touched. In the absence of section 230, the forum would bear liability for user A's defamatory post as soon as they took down user B's post.

There's no problem hosting user-generated content without section 230. You only have a problem if you editorialize on top of that content.
Sounds more art guild-like than impropriety.

But of course, without any governance or rights.

B20 tokens launched on January 23rd. Beeple has been on Clubhouse and other NFT spaces for months. It is common in the crypto space (and everywhere) to give an influencer an "advisor" share of the project.

Their pie-chart says 11% of the tokens are to collaborators. So really its 13% but Beeple is the influencer that is worth having his own separate piece of the pie, for advertising.

"You know its legit because Beeple is involved", and its working because now I know to bet on winners!

This token is up 2,000% in a month and a half, and I didn't know about it before and have been searching for the right way to get exposure to the NFT space, and these are the winners! They got Christie's involved and the whole world!

I'm absolutely going to try to partner with them as I have more clout in the crypto space.

The real discussion is on whether there could be a more community oriented token distribution schedule, or a similar project without the massive team/advisor share. So there is a market to compete in this regard.
Is this some sort of a reverse psychology scheme to make being an employee uncool?
In an ideal vulture capitalist world everyone is a contractor and is one bad performance report away from being fired instantly without severance.
That itself seems like a straw man. "Anti-statists" is your term -- neither "statist" nor "anti-statist" appears anywhere in the article. And it doesn't say anything at all about a "state-directed economy"; I'm not sure precisely what you mean by that but on the face of it it sounds like a Soviet-style command economy, which scarcely anyone wants (including, I think, Richard Murphy) and certainly isn't the only alternative to the sort of small-government right-libertarianism he seems to be complaining about.

But let's suppose that what Murphy really wants is a "state-directed economy", and that he's concerned that opponents of that are making bad arguments about inflation to oppose it. In that case, why shouldn't he write an article explaining why he disagrees with the key premise of those arguments, namely that there's a real danger of problematically high inflation?

It seems like the principle you're appealing to ("why not just ... and dispense with the charade?") is that if you want X, you should always just argue for X rather than addressing bad arguments against X. I think that principle is very wrong. People are often persuaded by bad arguments, and if someone has been persuaded by a bad argument against X then they will likely not listen willingly when you present your arguments for X. (Because they already know X is bad.) But if you write something about the specific argument they've been convinced by, they might pay attention, and you might convince them.
Skype now supports Active Noise Cancellation and more
Most Israelis are OK with what happened to Jews during WWII, except that it happened to Jews.
I'm surprised blockchains are still being hyped even though they have practically no useful applications for business. Of all buzzwords, blockchain must surely have the worst hype-to-usefulness ratio of all-time. Having said that, even though paying for a digital signature on a blockchain is absolutely ridiculous in my opinion, if people know what they're buying then I don't really care what they choose to waste their money on.
Some twitter $2/hr contract worker for a subcontator (I knew nothing about the slave labor) on the other side of the world having fun.
It doesn't matter if you can or cannot replace it with other words. It's what the industry has decided is an appropriate term to use in the circumstances.

> in addition to being vague and essentially meaningless in most contexts

It's not vague, it has a literal meaning. Efficient. The definition comes from the French word "performant", the meaning of which goes back to the 17th century.

This isn't people going "ohh it's related to performance, let's make up a word that sounds similar", like "supposably" or similar.

It's "Let's take an established word with the same roots that has the same meaning as we want and use it".
> The proposed new modular reactor designs have safety issues that keep them from being a quick fix.

That's interesting, I didn't know that. Where can I read more about this?
> Would you rather be shot or mugged?

Would you prefer to be mugged or a mugger to be shot?
Nobody except for the many people right here in this thread who are demanding prohibition.

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455341
Because sh and bash are horror shows. Maintaining and creating new service init scripts is a real pain and difficult to do with consistency. Bash scripts can do anything, meaning they have to be audited one by one, every single time they are updated. Every single distribution has its own way to run services via scripts. And that can change between upgrades.

In the systemd world, I can audit a unit file via a simple `systemctl cat <name>`, and edit it directly via `systemctl edit <name>`. I can easily see services dependencies, I can easily change the user running the service, the workdir, etc. There is a standard interface to start, stop, restart, enable at startup. All of this from one system that is consistent and the same between Linux systems.

But really the best features IMHO is journald.
Presumably, there was a lower (perceived) probability of achieving the $2.5B than the $450M. The same as deciding to work for a start up than FAANG.
Documenting an event got the journalist suspended from YouTube
Yeah, and what's going to advance humanity as a whole more significantly, I wonder... high-speed Internet access for the entire planet... or professional astronomers not being able to see into space as easily as they did 20 years ago?

or... Or... OR... Launching massive powerful telescopes into space using SpaceX rockets for professional astronomers to use?
Exactly, it's a question of perspective. We had a rationalist essay on exactly this effect on the front page yesterday, in fact! It's a Trapped Prior.

If your prior is "gun rights are super important and any attempt to regulate guns must be resisted", then it leads you inevitably to ridiculous arguments like "AKTUALLY guns reduce crime (for some variant definition of crime that includes non-violent stuff)" or (and you fell right into this one) "[gun regulation] leads inevitably to large scale gun confiscation or prohibition"[1].

At what point will the gun folks come back to rational compromise? You know how you end up with inevitable prohibition? When it's the only option left to the majority.

[1] Which is just clearly false, look at the diversity of gun laws across the globe! CLEARLY it's true that you can regulate them better than the US without "inevitably" confiscating them. Look at Canada, for goodness sake.
Practical use of recursion when scanning Redis keys
What a coincidence! I was just in the middle of implementing LZW compression this weekend[0]. Compression algorithms are very interesting, and underrated.

[0]: https://sr.ht/~zjm/lzw/
Generally (unfortunately) "not really". For a tax return, for example, the preparers information is on it but you still sign it.

Again, generally speaking they carry insurance much like a doctor has malpractice insurance.

The risk for them is causing enough damage (and the resulting insurance payouts) rendering them uninsurable which is generally a career ending state to be in.

Truly egregious stuff can end up with disbarment and other certifying bodies revoking stuff. Again much like a doctor screwing up to the point where they lose their license.

Then, like anyone else, criminal liability is always a possibility if the situation calls for it.
What is your point?

Would you rather be in North Korea or South Korea?
We built lots of what makes Earth habitable. Try removing your clothes, housing, heating, etc. and see how long you survive. If you happen to live in a place where that doesn't kill you in a day, then if it were not for humans there would be probably some tiger trying to kill you.

Now, of course building that stuff on Mars or in space is harder, but certainly not impossible, and if we as a species are to survive indefinitely, necessary.

edit: The point being most of what humans did to Earth makes it more habitable (for humans), not less
Oh, OK, I only saw the first video. It looks like those big squares are the pixels. Now the problem is making the drive electronics flexible.
That would be awesome PR, and not that expensive with starship.

But for low production rate things like telescopes, launch cost is almost negligible even at current launch prices.

A replacement for hubble could be launched with a single falcon 9. Building it would cost more than a billion.

The James Webb Telescope is at 10 billion USD and counting. Launch with very expensive Ariane 5 will cost maybe 200 million USD, so ~2%.
1. If those space-cities aren't self-sufficient, they're a terrible pain to maintain from the surface; and if they are, well - they don't really need us gravity-well people all that much.

2. The universe doesn't need Trillions of people exploring it, thank you very much. (Unless you subscribe to Leto II Atreides' Golden Path, that is.)
I’m a salaried worker and this is my exit strategy. In a year or so, when living situation is secured (mortgage paid off), I’m going contracting.

Played the game to put myself in position to do this, but absolutely weary of it.
One neat trick doubles your productivity!
The link tells me: "This video is not available".
Comparing bitcoin to stamps is silly. A rare stamp is valuable because of novelty and entertainment value basically, as you said. Neither of those things give bitcoin value, rather bitcoin gets it's value from it's properties that give it greater utility than alternatives in many situations, and it's network effects.
Amazon Bans Some Anti-LGBTQ Titles from Its Platform
Someone in the thread suggested a more probable (somewhat substantiated) reasoning: They got banned for "revealing private information". OP is thinking that someone at twitter tried banning publishing some address in Memphis, but somewhat it got tokenized (?) and so Memphis is now blocked.
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13711918852686725...

> What's possible is a Twitter staffer tried to block a street address, but the postal syntax acted as an escape sequence, or the original was multi-line and they only pasted the city.

What postal syntax in the US looks like an escape sequence?
> bundling software

More like malware. I've even seen OEMs shipping firmware that just reinstalls their software even when users reinstall their operating systems. Lack of Linux support becomes a feature in these cases.
If you're going to make a point about the hypocrisy of demanding evidence, your example probably shouldn't include such an obviously incorrect statement as the belief that the Steele Dossier was the only evidence produced regarding Russian's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
I just tried. It works. But why?
GDPR has been in place for years now, why are people still spreading this narrative that it's super complex and dangerous for every company?

Where are the examples of companies following the spirit of it getting punished regardless?
The School of Wirth
I guess I don't understand how nuclear power can run a submarine but can't be harnessed to provide power on land. Nuclear power seems to work pretty well in ships. It seems as if we're not framing the problem correctly.
> Once you have two sides with automated offensive capability, we are one bug away from the kind of mistakes that, during the Cold War, were intercepted by humans in the loop

There is a massive difference between guns on automated fire control and an AI aiming missiles.

One could argue that, by making the fire control guaranteed, the border might stop being challenged and deaths thus go down. (Nobody to taunt, either.)
> One problem with hiring only contractors is they’re in it only for the money.

What do you believe employees are in it for?
I agree that my experience is result of my choices only.

Great point about feeling proud. I think we are we are talking about same thing here here - like from my experience most of the guys working in startups and doing their own projects were concerned about being proud of the work done much more then other guys just doing another set of tasks for someone they`ll never know.

Again, I am talking about the "avg temperature across the hospital". Like there are so many details here but all in all I see more caring people in startups than anywhere else.
Right. It's the same in the US, but if you make over $35,568 your position can be exempt from this. OP is asking if being exempt is a scam.
Ohio is the first state where you can pay taxes with Bitcoin. I suspect Wyoming will become the second.

https://www.coindesk.com/ohio-becomes-first-us-state-to-allo...
Social media companies hate this weird trick!
Whoever has power and the inclination to enforce their will upon others decides everything, period.

This whole fantasy of "rights" that people like to engage in is just that - a fantasy.

The best you can hope for is that the strongest is also a benevolent philosopher king.
How do you avoid meetings with a distributed part time team? Any hints or best practices?

Working, part time, with a remote team and seem to have 3 hours of meetings. How do you do it?
So, Twitter now has a no procrastination feature? :)
>This must just be one of the algorithms going haywire or something.

That or maybe some random test code from development that got pushed into production by a series of accidents like a senior clicking Approve on the pull request of an intern without actually reviewing the code. Just a guess.
Ugh...I have a HN Twitter bot that just tried to post this and it got locked.

https://www.twitter.com/hackernewstop10
More projection from the bbc.

They are known for cooperating with the intelligence community in planting fake news and narratives about the enemies of the UK, just like they accuse their enemies of. There was a recent leak which documented that.

https://greatgameindia.com/bbc-regime-change-russia/
> This site is only using mm/dd/yyyy for the generator input

If this is intended to be some kind of standard, it should follow other standards. I understand that this is "only" in the generator, but why even there?
Warnings over IT security after latest cyber attack
It seems like whenever it's mentioned, the term "intrinsic value" just introduces confusion, since people need to redefine it differently from the common use of the word "intrinsic", as that would be incompatible with subjective value.

What you're suggesting here sounds closer to "practical value", maybe?
That’s how analogies work. There are limits to how far you can take the comparison, or it wouldn’t be an analogy, just a synonym.
The Tramiels were notoriously tight with money, and would often just refuse to pay people when they thought they could get away with it.

We had some Vax 11/780s (for engineering and finance), and DEC's service technicians were instructed to collect a cashier's check at the door or walk away. I got handy with diagnostic software and a soldering iron.

In one incident, we had some Motorola VME/10 68K-based workstations that kept failing and needing things like motherboard replacements (they were not well designed). About a year after we pivoted development to the Atari STs (hey, dogfood...) Sam Tramiel asked me if we were still using the VME/10s.

"Hell no," I said, "They were pieces of junk. They're over there in a corner." I pointed to a corner where a couple of them were stacked up, gathering dust.

"Okay, we won't pay them, then," said Sam. He was grinning. I felt a little sick.

You really did not want Atari to owe you money, especially if you were a "little guy".
Works as intended?

I wonder if this is due to Memphis' association with racism, and it is an artifact of them trying to shut down the conversation about it becoming too overt by accident, instead of sneaky shadowbans, de-trending, and throttling.