skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is that, since music does not denote, the issues of levels of representation and self-reference really do not arise

I absolutely disagree. Firstly, music may not denote in the same way as math notation or a sentence of natural language, but it does refer to something external: it triggers sensations in the listener, and it does so in some ways that are objective. For instance, some notes drive satisfyingly ("resolve toward") some other notes, whereas in other situations there is a sense of ambiguity. Using harmonic trickery, the composer can predictably lead the listener around in a labyrinth; the book goes into that.

Secondly, if we accept the premise that music doesn't denote anything external, then we have to confront the remaining fact that music references, and therefore denotes, other music, which is potentially itself. Lack of external reference not only does not preclude self-reference, but emphasizes it as the only interesting option.

Music intersects with computer science, obviously; there are people who do computational music. There are hard problems in music. Bach belongs in that book, because we have not produced a convincing Bach robot.

Why is Escher acceptable but not Bach? An Escher drawing like The Waterfall denotes something: it denotes a nicely drawn piece of architecture denoting an artificial waterfall driving a waterwheel. But the denotation isn't the point; it's the impossibility of the object itself, and of the perpetual motion of the waterwheel. The art has numerous details which don't contribute to that at all. For instance, the waterfall structure has numerous bricks, all carefully drawn. Music is the same. It has sensual aspects, like the timbre of instruments and the expressiveness of the performance, or the power of many instruments in unison and so on. We can't be distracted and fooled by that.
Apparently he is not comparing religion and atheism. He also mentioned money, beauty, etc. You seems miss the point of the quote as a whole. Even atheism is not worship. Atheists, as human, still need something to worship on, like everyone else. But again, the focus is really not atheists.

Getting downvoted. Worship here obviously means something other than religious. Worship money, wealth, power, etc. is commonly used in language. It's pointless to fixated on the narrow meaning of the word.
A strikingly small % of China's land area has 4G service. It's focused on the high-population areas, but at best, it appears to be 10% of the land area[0]

900 Million of China's 1.4 Billion citizens have Internet access. That leaves 36%, or, 500,000,000 people, more than the population of North America, as an untapped Internet market.

[0] https://www.nperf.com/en/map/CN/-/14505.China-Unicom/signal/...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/795193/china-share-of-mo...
You don't need religion to learn about morality. Watching Mr. Rodgers or reading Winnie the Poo would do. As you get older you can get into Machiavelli and start really becoming a principled person.
FYI/PSA: treatment-resistant depression can be caused by sleep apnea, metabolic, or endocrine issues that psychiatric meds can only partially mask.
“There just aren’t any great options”

After arbitrarily removing the best options available. Sublime uses a custom UI kit, which while not native Mac leaves nothing to be desired, it’s just great. VSCode runs perfectly fine, has the most awesome feature set. JetBrains also perform well despite the bad Java fame.
I'd be curious to test whether it works better or the same when attempting to concentrate or meditate during the stimulation vs. distracting yourself with conversation.

Who knows... maybe there's some difference?
It's not 100% negative - clever Egyptian governments have managed to charge an extra "price" in diplomatic and geopolitical advantage. e.g. using selective closures as a weapon, selective opening to military traffic as an incentive. You just have to be careful not to take actions that affects everyone, like a massive and "unreasonable" price hike; these invite the kind of great-power consensus against you that is very dangerous.

(Interestingly, both have been practiced towards Israel at different times, as the countries have gone from bitter enemies to cautiously aligned against both Iran and Sunni Islamism of the Brotherhood/Hamas flavor.)
I know religious folks who are the most miserable people ever. Because they get jealous when someone else worship more than them. They will criticize and belittle everyone they can. And I know atheists who are way more chill than so called hippie/spiritual/religious folks claim to be. Just because one is atheist doesn't mean they will be greedy capitalist or sex-addict or something else.
Funny this is the second reference to Gemini I've seen on HN today after only learning about it last week. The notion that Gemini is the best hope for a simpler global scale hypermedia library that individuals can contribute and manage, not to mention actually develop clients for, seems reasonable.

For better or worse, the web is now an application development platform with two relevant implementations and zero hope of a third one arising. While not a perfect platform, its good enough. Maybe its time to accept this is what the web has become and let something like Gemini be the do-over that's focused purely on the role of globally connected hypermedia.
Or a handful that are bought and paid for in an even more key district.
Separate the backend into functional subcomponents and fuzz them as much as possible?

It's what cranelift does.
This is not an attack, just something I have wondered and your comment "Salvation is achieved through Jesus's death on the cross." reminded me of it. Jesus dying essentially allowed God to forgive humanity and allow for salvation. Why worship a God that was willing to destroy humanity and required a blood sacrifice of his own son instead of just saying, you know what, I forgive you. Why is an entity like that worthy of worship for any reason other than fear? Please note, not trying to attack your faith here, just wondering on your opinion.

Edit: Thought about it a little more and I guess fear is a pretty legitimate reason to do so. If one truly believes that if one does not worship then an eternity in hell is on the plate then worshipping does make sense but it cant be anything except a Stockholm syndrome style of worship.
i mostly got tired of being told i going to burn and choke and scream forever and ever, amen, because i like guys and gals. and if i disagreed, the pastor made sure i got punished.

the long term effects wast that this not a healthy thing to tell a young teenager, and it's time for society to move on.
Not to mentioning the costs of mining and transportation in space will put a floor on the price.
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In the meantime in Europe vaccination has largely resumed, both because delaying clearly has a worse outcome and also because the cause and treatment of this problem has been found.

A poor choice.
For frontend deployment nothing has come close to Netlify in my experience. It's a game changer product.
Here's what's actually true and not at all weird: religious people from evangelical religions draw parallels to non-religious people by pretending that every human is born with the need to venerate something. It's how they rationalize their evangelism. They have to, because admitting that other people do not share these imperfections is akin to admitting that some people do not need what they have to share. The fun thing about lying is that if you wrap it up in enough gift wrapping, people will tire out and accept it as truth rather than spending the time to uncover the lie.
Misleading tweet. This looks more like them promoting an update to their own product than them "serving ads".
> Isn't that a little unreasonable? You see a floor, so you assume nothing exists on the other side because it blocks your vision?

You keep taking my statements to strange extremes; I'm going to try to avoid metaphors for clarity.

I use observation and experimentation to determine true things about the world. I extend my belief in these things to other humans in the world who I believe practice observation and experimentation effectively; scientists, mostly.

When we reach the limits of these observation and experimentation based tools, like with the simulation hypothesis, I stop and say "I don't know." By the fact these things and their effects cannot be experimented on or observed, they also cannot affect my life, so why bother making conclusions that I can't verify and won't affect me anyway?

In the case of a god who created the universe, has an interest in my life, has declared certain things to be "right" and certain things to be "wrong," and hypothetically takes action in my life (e.g., the common Christian understanding), this is well within what can be observed and experimented on. As such, I take the null hypothesis like a good scientist: I don't assume there is some god and begin running experiments to determine _which_ one is there, I assume there is _no_ god and begin looking for any evidence that shows there is _any_ god.

In my experience thus far in life, I have not encountered any evidence that makes me suspect there may be any god of any kind, and certainly not the one of the Christian description.

Your original statement was:

> I've got a pretty clear sense that there are regions of truth that our "reliable tools" cannot access. Faith is basically the hope that some of those regions can be accessed in other ways.

The implication I read here is that you believe in things that cannot be demonstrated through observation and experimentation, and that it is reasonable for people to use faith to support these beliefs.

My frustration is with people who make claims about things in those regions without any way of actually demonstrating them, and then making life- and policy-based decisions around those beliefs that affect me and others in the world.

I've tried to convey why this seems unreasonable to me, and you keep taking my points to strange extremes that seem disconnected from our original discussion.

To return to your floor metaphor (which may be a poor choice on my part): I see a floor, and I assume there is no dragon in the basement that I must not aggravate because I've never seen any sign of any dragon, why would I worry about that?
"Kerfuffle," FYI, and only because you asked. :-)
> who of of course has given informed consent that I am not Apple and they have no responsibility for this repair

I think no matter the lengths you go to in explaining it there would in fact still be a lot of consumers that don’t understand what this means. And so Apple might see more customers blame them whenever a less skilled IRP changes some components without it fixing the problem.
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The better remuneration and conditions the workers have, the more expensive they are, and the more there's an incentive to invest into capital replacing labor so that you have more machines and fewer workers.

There are many things that could be automated right now (for example, in the garments industry) but are not because it's currently cheaper to do them in a third world country by poorly paid workers - but the moment those workers would have to be properly paid, the tasks would go away as then it would be cheaper to automate.
You can make cameras that can differentiate objects covered in white snow.

It's just going to be quite expensive, you would need quite good dynamic range and resolution, and I'd guess depth from de focus and parallax helps.

But that's with ~40 bits per pixel of dynamic range (17-18 effective bits per channel), at fairly high resolutions.
> the last question was great

What was the question?
AFAIK they don't pay corporate income taxes... because they don't make corporate income (aka profit). They do pay other forms of taxes, eg. payroll, medicare, unemployment, sales tax.
> This is literally textbook union busting BS.

So any CEO saying that unions aren't wanted is "union busting"? This just seems like watering down the word until it means almost nothing.

There was a time when "union busting" meant literally busting striking member's heads.
They probably will if the vote passes.
If you ran a Zoo and the population of your lions kept collapsing so that you must constantly important new lions from elsewhere in order to stabilize the population, you would not conclude "my zoo is a great place for lions". And when someone pointed out that perhaps your zoo isn't a good place to send lions, you would not reply with "completely false!". Someone who cares about lions and their well-being would try recognize that there is something very unhealthy about that zoo.

That New York's fertility rate is abysmal is not "completely false", it is an objective fact.

Whether you think New York is a "great place to have kids" is completely beside the point. What matters is whether the people in NYC actually have those kids, and at what rate. In New York, not enough of them are born to make the city a viable concern if it were not for massive population infusions from elsewhere. NYC is a population sink.
I’m a little confused by the title? Looking at the document, it seems to me (knowing next to nothing about this field) it includes both Pfizer and Moderna’s protein spike sequence in figures 1 and 2, respectively. Is that correct?

It’s also interesting the way it’s worded: that the sequence was “assembled from $vaccine”. Does that mean whoever published this has backed into these sequences rather than having gathered this information directly from the source(s)?
> I Have Apple Care, if that matters.

That's the hilarious thing about Apple. You overpay on the hardware so that you can get gouged on the software, while overpaying for a subscription to be able to overpay for repairs.
Related: Here's a article from late last year describing and explaining the source code of Pfizer vaccine:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

It's a very interesting read and I hope the author makes another post explaining the differences of the two mrna vaccines.
The patch notes sound good, but there are tons of bugs. Probably the biggest annoyances are just that items are hard or impossible to pickup, and I find the joystick curves very annoying, especially for vehicles.
> Tesla's "big data" is not more effective than a concerted active learning data collection campaign with a moderate-sized fleet.

Provided any concurrent can build a team of people with as much focus and ressourced as tesla. Even if equal, big data from real drivers beats everything else.
They're also not literally threatening the employees' jobs if they don't attend.
Some gas stations show a cash price right on the price board. Doesn't seem to alienate customers since it's just a convenience fee in the end.
while I think this is a sensible stance for most highly educated people, for most this just is something they can not cope very well with. And I think that these "simple" minds are then prone to all the other cults out there (like QAnon - what is it else than replacing things people can't know about with faith.) - and from their teachings these are _much_ worse.
That doesn't even register in terms of the "insane" requirements of this program.

The primary benefit of going to an independent repair store is that they're local and can provide faster turnaround than mailing it off somewhere. But Apple serializes the batteries, so you can't stockpile them. The battery won't work unless it's programmed with the phone's serial, and independent repair shops can't do that.

So the customer has to go to the independent repair shop, have them open up the phone, write down the serial number, order the battery from Apple, wait for it to be shipped, and then call the customer back in a week so that the phone can be opened and actually fixed.

And if the customer at any point says "fuck it" and buys a new phone or sends it direct to Apple, then the repair shop is stuck with an worthless battery that only works for that specific phone.

And on top of that, the batteries are un-competitively priced.

It's a completely worthless program designed to provide them some political cover and nothing else.
Does that mean a cytokine storm is the equivalent of a buffer overflow or a DoS?
That’s the copyright notice.
Scientists built a perfectly self-replicating synthetic cell
This is essentially impossible. Just for starters you’d never be able to pass another car in the opposite lane or pass a pedestrian standing near the curb at any reasonable speed. You’re forced to assume the other guy won’t suddenly do something crazy.
It's not the employers fault if an employee needs a job to survive.

And the 400$ story really needs to be analysed some more. I don't think it means most of those people are broke, just that they don't keep that much cash around for immediate use. It might all go into saving accounts or other investments (including mortgage).

I just googled it, apparently the story is 40% of Americans don't have 400$ in cash for an emergency. On the other hand, the median income in the US is 65000$ - that is 50% of all Americans earn more than 65000$. I don't think any of those are in the situation to not be able to come up with 400$. And below the 50% there won't be such a steep fall of income.

However, it is such a nice story, so none of the leftist media seems to want to question it.
How is it misleading? Can you explain to me what the difference between "promoting an update to their own product" and an ad?

This is an ad, pure and simple. They're pushing a product they know I don't own with a clear call to action, and without a way for me to remove it or disable it.
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It's been floated after the peace treaty too; it's just unlikely to justify the massive cost, now that the strategic consideration of bypassing an Egyptian blockade is past.
They can send a letter, not require attendance in a propaganda seminar.
the only parts available are the entire assemblies, which is a bummer. Instead of replacing a $4 IC that got blown

If it can't be bought, how do you know it costs $4?

More to the point — I don't think Apple is focused on repair shops as competition. I think they're focused on the likes of Samsung and Huawei as competition, and lock up the parts to keep them out of the hands of their real competitors. The indy repair facilities are just collateral damage.
> That's pretty dismissive. Why should an app that doesn't interact with the file system be allowed to write or even read from it? I don't know how this feature can be considered a drawback. Don't like it? Don't use it. I don't see how it detracts objectively from Deno.

Because any app of a medium size and above will require access to all permissions. Also Deno had some obvious security vulnerabilities around symbolic links for example which really detracts from the supposed security goal.

> Why? Building Docker images requires extra software, Linux images, time spent running apt-get or apk, time spent downloading and installing your runtime of choice, and so forth. Having Deno build a binary can give you a bit of a shortcut in that you have one tool for running and bundling code, and you don't need to deal with as many OS-level nuances to do so. Docker and k8s are there for anyone who needs something beyond that.

But you are going to need some kind of operating system image anyway due to other tools that will need to live with your app like log shipping, load balancers, DNS caches, firewalls, daemons, etc.
So in the end you will need to describe this somewhere and why not also describe the dependencies of your apps at the same time.

> If using IIFE for the mere purpose of accessing syntax makes more sense to you than making `await` syntax available, then I really don't know what to tell you.

If using IIFE is so heavy that a new backend platform needs to be built I don't know what to tell you.
In the apps I see, there is exactly one top level IIFE that is needed in the whole application.

> This is exactly why people invent new backends, new libraries, and new languages.

New libraries yes, new languages no. The util.promisify() already makes 90% of the cases work painlessly and some promise wrappers for existing core libraries already exist on top of that. Since core is moving to promises slowly anyways I fail to see how this advantage will carry on being one in the future.

> My only response to your point about Promises is that perhaps one shouldn't be using JavaScript if Promises are that much of a bottleneck.

Yup, that's absolutely true. I would say that there is always an advantage in having leeway in a programming language between the convenient option and the fast option so that when something becomes a bottleneck you have easier options than porting it to another language. But of course this might not be the most common case.
Just because you see the RNA/DNA sequence on Github doesn't mean anything, DNA sequencing has been around since at least the early 70s [0]. Many pharmaceutical drugs already employ such techniques.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing#History
No, not at all there was no argument. Bitcoin isn't fiat. Thats a fact not an argument. You specifically asked why, so I gave you the reason. Words have meanings. We use fiat currency as a term specifically to exclude cryptos and other money-like assets like gold or diamonds. This is not debatable.

If you want to says something else regard some other statements then you need to reply to the correct message so the author can see it. The whole rest of your message makes no sense as a reply to my answer.
I read somewhere that at first Zuckerberg was against remote work but I think he gave in because of peer pressure within Facebook and within tech industry. Facebook will probably embrace hybrid: half physical half remote work.

But I agree with JPMorgan CEO that remote work is problematic and that only some ops can go permanently remote. Maybe in the future everybody can work remotely but I think it is still too early.
Do unions really incentivize automation? UAW blocks American automakers from transitioning to the Toyota production system, so unions would likely block any attempts of automation as well.
"give"??
May I ask what the previous product was?
To play a little bit of defense here, there was definitely a bit of manipulation here by Epstein himself by gathering all these scientists and engineers, many of whom were assured that their colleagues would be there - framing it as a convention instead of what it actually was.

Once you have everybody in the Island, just insert these beautiful women and try to get either entrapment or at the very least a photo or recording that looks compromising.

I don't buy that everybody in Epstein's contact list were ignorant of the true nature of his enterprise but one-off academic guests probably were.
If that's the way it falls, then ban all "information sessions" during work hours altogether. I'm fine either way.
Better wouldn’t necessarily be the right qualifier, but faster, typically more repeatable, and greatly more economical with scale/workload would certainly fit as better from different vantages.

With high novelty? Probably not until machine learning and compilers are deeply entangled.
That assumes people can tell the difference between good and bad arguments. If you look at the divergence between popular beliefs on economics and the spread of field consensus, that case gets really hard to make. The truth is usually a lot harder to communicate than populist soundbites are.
There is still time. In my humble opinion, Amazon has eclipsed Wal-Mart in terms of being evil in regard to their treatment of employees and suppliers.
How can it be a "mandatory session" that people can freely choose not to attend? That's impossible.