skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some technologies (e.g. Secure Scuttlebutt) have the ability for subgroups to exist without aggressively recommending content to every user, as an inherent property of their design; I think "should Peertube adopt some aspects of these designs" is a valid question.
> I doubt you'll ever see the copyright-opening version of the NRA

Corrupt influence-peddling charlatans milking the rubes?

Or was there something else intended by this analogy?
Novation Circuit is a great starting point for electronic music. Just released a new version too. Step up from that would maybe be a Digitakt (from before mentioned Elektron), basically Circuit but even more powerful in probably every way. If you have the money to spend, go for a Octatrack.
> * the pronunciation of descendent languages, especially when there are lots of them, or lots of different dialects

It's worth calling this out as being one of the key elements of historical linguistics. Establishing genetic relations between languages requires proposing systematic sound shift laws that can explain why cognates sound the way they do, and this means that cognates in modern languages may not bear much resemblance to each other (English five and Sanscrit pankan are cognate yet share 0 sounds!). For example, there's a rule in the Germanic languages that shifts /k/ to /h/, so words like Latin "centum" instead become English "hundred" or "canis" to "hound" [1].

Now these pronunciation shifts often have caveats in them, such as shifting only before certain kinds of vowels or consonants. These restrictions can give you some clues as to why certain words seem to undergo a change while other words with seemingly similar pronunciations didn't. In Proto-Indo-European, this leads to the notion that there are several consonants (specifically, laryngeals) which are no longer present in any modern Indo-European language but whose existence in the original is responsible for sometimes shifting vowels that otherwise appear somewhat anomalous in descendant languages.

[1] To be clear, Latin is not the initial word and English is not the final word. I'm just using Latin to illustrate a word closer to the original Proto-Indo-European pronunciation and English to illustrate what the Proto-Germanic pronunciation shifts towards.
> * Be humble and be willing to admit what you don't know.

It takes confidence to do this, but it is infinitely better than giving a bad or bullshit answer. No one knows everything, and there's no shame in that.

> * If you feel that you're not being given respect, there is a tendency to finally blurt out words of anger towards someone.

I think the Hacker News guidelines [1] state this well:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sadly this is true other than "no one would care". Many would care, just mostly not in countries with stable fiat.

But the success of BNB which is basically just a corporate database on a blockchain shows there is a big part of the community that doesn't care about decentralization at all.
There's a lot to unpack here...

Defamation is not a criminal offense. Nobody goes to jail for defamation. You can be sued for damages from defamation in civil court.

I never said what I wanted, or gave any opinion. I'm just adding a bit of color to the conversation by stating relevant facts. The accusatory tone is not very conducive to interesting discussion.

More to your question, I highly doubt upvoting a reddit post counts as dissemination / publishing. The comments people wrote could themselves be defamatory, but I also doubt a reddit comment will cause demonstrable damages to a person's reputation. There has to be damages for you be sued, otherwise there is no reason for the suit.

I don't know the article you are referring to, but something to the general effect of "The government did a bad thing" is not defamation either. Again, you have to cause demonstrable damages to an individual for them to win a suit against you. If the article was something closer to "The government did a bad thing, This is the person responsible, This is where he lives, Let's get him fired", or if the reddit comments were of that flavor (as they often are), the case for defamation is a little stronger.
or they just bribe a local official and make profit on what would otherwise be 'desirable' energy.
Yes. In British English, one problem with any sort of spelling reform is that the pronunciations of many words have significant regional variations. For example, in a Southern English accent, words like Bath and Castle are pronounced with a long vowel (almost as if they were spelt 'Barth and 'Carstle') compared with the much shorter Northern English versions ('baf', 'cassl').

To pick a particular pronunciation-based spelling of words would therefore be to prefer one region over another. This would at least trigger a monumental North vs. South argument, assuming that the plans survived the inevitable knee-jerk reactions / incredulity of the usual media suspects.

Probably best if we stick to arguing about daylight saving time, or changes to the format of cricket matches.
I commented this because I find it does relate to your point - in my view, you have identified a false motivation/incorrect user story.

By my understanding, this is exactly what the parent article is identifying as potentially damaging.

Quote from the article: "User stories are time-consuming to write and read and can silo engineers into a mechanical role where they code to the issue requirements instead of thinking about the user experience holistically at the product level."
The activists entrenched in Silicon Valley know better than the peasants or the courts.
>> So you lied when you said ‘no one is asking for this’.
> I have literally never written "no one is asking for this" until now.

Not literally, but it was still a lie:

> No one is mandating first class alternative stores on iOS

>> Their case is proceeding as they planned and oral arguments are to be heard soon.

> So what?

>> Have you considered writing for an authoritarian politburo?

> Have you considered trying to have a conversation without making a personal attack?

I’m sorry you feel attacked. I was genuinely impressed.

The suggestion that Apple should choose to do something if they want to avoid being forced to do it, is impressively authoritarian doublethink. A clever gambit.

> If anything, that previous line of conversation is talking about third party stores that would differentiate on greater security/privacy than the App Store, which would necessitate them having fewer apps.

Right, which means that users would be forced to use a range of stores, so the fact that some security focused stores might exist is moot.

> Which is unlikely to happen, based on previous points already made, which you have repeatedly refused engaged in,

If there was a point I’d refused to engage, you’d be able to provide an example.

> opting instead to debase yourself and your position with personal attacks instead of substantiative points.

I haven’t made any personal attacks. I have commented on what you said, not who you are.

For a moment I considered that you might be being disingenuous, but I don’t think you are. I believe that what you have written reflects your way of thinking.
Can confirm that happened to me.
From TFA:

> I want to be very clear: Any generalized, quantitative take-away from this article would be ill-advised.

I don't think WASM and JS are "just as fast"--the author only did a couple of microbenchmarks. There are almost certainly many cases in which WASM would outperform JS, but they probably aren't going to be tight loops over an array or similar.
"Let the user import legacy data", though, is not a one-sentence description of a feature demo. "Import a transaction list file in version 1.0 of the format and show that it loads all entries," would be more like it.
We refer to such person as "зиц-председатель" which means chairperson-to-be-jailed
I agree with OP - the language seems to re-represent the languages key words in ways that are natural for Spanish speakers to understand.

I think the value this will bring isn't very high. I personally believe that early programming has less to do with reading the code as natural language and more to do with understanding what the individual constructs achieve. This is purely anecdotal, but I taught programming to a few students in French and the presence of English never came up as a blocker.

Fun story : for the hell of it, I once tried to code an entire project with some friends in French exclusively (that is, mainly variable/method/class names etc). As much as I love my mother tongue, its not always very concise. The whole thing became super bloated. We ended up reverting back to English.
It's not less so much as zero. Space junk isn't really a problem to worry about below a certain point.
> User stories are time-consuming to write and read and can silo engineers into a mechanical role where they code to the issue requirements instead of thinking about the user experience holistically at the product level.

A few problems with this:

1. User Stories, as described by Mike Cohn or in some other textbook description, are supposed to be light weight. They are time consuming to write only in so far it takes time to understand what is the 1-2 sentence summary of the thing to be done.

2. User stories are intentionally ambiguous to avoid "siloing engineers into a mechanical role where they code to the issue requirements." A User story says, "When you're done writing code, here's the thing that needs to happen. Tasks are useful when there isn't much ambiguity, but I've certainly worked with developers who take the approach "I wrote the database table task, I did the Java code task, I did the JavaScript front end task, I'm done" without sanity checking if everything works together.

3. A User Story literally says what the User Experience should be like. Even if that were the wrong approach, I fail to understand how telling developers "Here's what the User Experience should be like and why they want to do that thing" prevents them from thinking about the user.

Overall, even if there's some truth here, this is a silly article. Stating "User stories evolved over twenty years ago" isn't helpful, because tasks evolved even longer ago. User stories are supposed to be "short and simple" and "describe the task in plain language." I'm really left wondering if the things they call "tasks" and "user stories" are the same thing that I use for those terms.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19726520
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There's no perfect analogy between the real world and the digital one. This being said you're misconstruing the situation to make the "but terrorists" and "think of the children" argument. I've lived long enough to see people parrot the same claims over and over again, changing only the $enemy_of_the_day. What you have in those servers are the criminals' tools. The FBI went there to remove the tools, not the criminals.

So sure, if the Police sees a criminal in my house about to shoot me, walk right in, please. But I don't want them sneaking in without my explicit consent or a warrant to remove a gun left under my couch by a criminal.

I can easily turn the exact arguments you're using into supporting backdooring encryption. Or pretty much any "proactive" move that will "stop the Chinese". No amount of rationalizing will change the fact that you shouldn't force these "favors" on anyone. Pass a law that mandates something to the same effect to be implemented by the owners themselves, or by the vendor, once informed of the risk, under the threat of penalties if they don't.
Do we want Google to be able to censor hate speech and misinformation? You assume the answer is "yes", but I think it's at least an open question, with me personally leaning toward "no".
> all the C++ software that I replaced with either Java or .NET solutions has kept the customers happy and lowered the TCO of their products.

Were your customers enterprises that made their employees use those products, or were they end user, consumer products?

In my experience, enterprises are happy to push slow, laggy, hard to use corporate tools on their employees as long as it saves them money.
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I got to see this first hand recently. Tesla has a rabid fan base that try to take down any negative information. Somebody posted a video on YouTube criticizing Tesla’s full self driving system and using short clips from other channels that are clearly fair use. Users spammed DMCA takedown requests and YouTube removed the video. Other users published it to Vimeo, Veoh, and a few other sites but those all got taken down as well, basically killing the video’s spread. The only ones still up are PeerTube and a split version, although I’m not sure if it would disappear if that host chooses to remove it.

It just surprised me how effective this method of censorship was and I wonder how often it happens with more important topics.

Context:
https://twitter.com/BS__Exposed/status/1321535914036748288?s...
https://twitter.com/icapulet/status/1375232839415906304?s=20
https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/13752898727562731...
> What about newspaper stands that sold the libelous paper?

What about the case that you shared it after it was shown that the story was made up, and it can be proved that you knew this at the time?

What about the case that we find out the reason that the article was made up was that you fed the writer false information, in order to shield yourself from prosecution?

Bright line distinctions are difficult.
Just gave the new (I guess formerly 1Password X?) extension a try and it does seem to handle saving and updating new accounts much better. Props for that, and maybe something to try for anyone else still using the old native app extension.
>> So the most ethically optimal population is one in which adding new members will cause life to no longer be worth living to at least the same number of other members.

I can't see how that follows. The paradox is comparing possible worlds which have differing average happiness and total populations. It doesn't follow that there exists some way to transform each world so that it matches the other. You aren't killing off the excess population in B to somehow reach A or vice-versa adding population. The paradox exists because you are comparing the happiness of a person which doesn't exist in one possible world with his (realized) happiness in another.

There could be any actual relationship between population size and happiness but the paradox would still exist because you wouldn't be able to order the desirability of some possible worlds.
Annoyingly I still have one old feed that has a few hundred subscribers through it on FeedBurner, from way back before I decided I would always set up a custom domain so I could move off services like FeedBurner after they'd been Google'd.

Not sure how many of them subscribe via email, but I know that was one of the main reasons why some people choose to run their feeds through FeedBurner back when it was actually a thing.
I wonder how much confusion in learning there for English speakers because of the use of English words. I might be a better programmer if I had been forced to learn abstractions in a different way.

In math, if I see an unfamiliar symbol I immediately know I don’t know what it means. If it were English instead I’d automatically try to fill in a meaning. (Of course there is also a problem of overloaded symbols...)
I tried my hand at something similar using a sleep music themed YT channel and website. Couldn't get things to click. And FB ended up blocking my site on the sharing debugger.
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> Regardless - ultimately, what Wolfram is promising when he uses phrases like "a truly fundamental theory of physics", is a Grand Unified Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory).

He's actually searching for an even loftier goal - a Theory of Everything [0] that is also a Grand Unified Theory (that is, a single mechanism underlying gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force and the strong force). Good luck to him, though I see no reason to imagine he will succeed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything
Were you in the space before Coinbase became big? Because I've had crypto exchanges get hacked and run away with my money. There was zero trust (for good reason) in any of the sites that let you buy crypto. Without Coinbase, this likely would still be a sketchy ecosystem that wasn't taken seriously. Coinbase was the first slick, trustworthy exchange based in the US. I personally am not very comfortable buying from foreign exchanges, and when I have to I move them out of those exchanges as fast as possible.

I think Coinbase was absolutely crucial in changing the public opinion of "buying bitcoin is for criminals" and "you just get hacked and lose it all".
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PeerTube isn't a platform, tho. It's software and a corresponding protocol. It's akin to asking Microsoft why their operating system allows people to view csa content.
It is society's fault that it created an environment of distrust in public health among a marginalized group. (It is not society's fault if there is distrust among a dominant group, such as with COVID vaccines and white Republicans.)

Power differences are the single most important fact of society, and too many people assume symmetries exist in situations that are actually asymmetric.
I'm skeptical of proof-of-stake, proof-of-work seems like the main innovation of cryptocurrencies that differentiates them from the standard financial industry?

If you swap out POW for POS (or worse clearing house type trust orgs like Stellar) then aren't you just putting trust into some incentive based system no different than existing financial systems? Just instead a government you're trusting some other entity. You get faster throughput and less energy waste, but you lose the mathematical guarantee that was kind of the entire point?

I think climate change is a serious issue that would lead to change (likely bad), but I'm not sure it's a true e-risk or that cryptocurrency POW changes the tide that much. Feels like an irrelevant (somewhat identity-ish/political) side debate to me? (see Matt Yglesias' comments in this: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/episode-251-the-ca...)

Happy to think about arguments that would change my mind.
Any lingua franca will end up deviating in pronunciation from how it's written. For example, Finnish is said to have very shallow orthographic depth (the technical term for this phenomenon), but you can imagine if people from across the world began speaking and writing Finnish that over 100 years you'd end up with different accents and different variations of the original Finnish. The language would branch and merge and branch in unpredictable ways as it gets incorporated into various cultures and you'd end up with a situation similar to English today.
They retain value. You could buy one used and sell it for more, if not the same price you purchased it at. I think the worst case is you'll essentially be renting it for $100-200 if you really don't like it. This was my experience, anyway.

It's a great device even if your job isn't music production. Easy to use, lots of fun, though I didn't enjoy the form factor.
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I see this more along the lines of preventing nuclear proliferation, chemical and biological warfare.
Always be 100% compatible with OS provided accessibility guidelines before adding additional support. Most disabled users are familiar with native accessibility tools and that should come first.
> Anyway Wolfram gets a lot of hate but honestly I'm glad that some smart dude is using his financially-independent time to go on wild theoretical excursions

I agree! I truly appreciate this man. And he seems kind and well-intentioned when I've watched his videos.

The silly mental imagery that I have of him, which I don't intend in a mean-spirited way: that his ego is such that he goes well beyond naval-gazing, beyond even sniffing his own rear, and then leans so far that he's looking up at the stars and the universe from a very different perspective than most everyone else ;)
Does German have (significantly) more irregular verbs than English?
I won't pretend to be familiar with the academic literature, but here is one paper I found: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002210...

> The field situation consisted of a park-bench discussion of a topical social issue, arranged by a public-opinion interviewer. Prepared experimental variations were introduced by one of the discussion partners, a confederate of the interviewer. In the critical variation, the confederate insulted the subject during discussion. In other variations, he tried to persuade but did not insult, or else simply gave certain arguments without intent to persuade. Attitude-change results supported the hypothesis of negative change in the insult condition.

Eleanor Gordon-Smith spent two years interviewing people who changed their minds, and suggests this:

> The strategy is this: Ask where people’s beliefs come from as well as what they actually believe.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-difficult-secr...
And I think in general people are inherently equipped to handle the idea of getting sick and dying. It happens to everyone eventually; it's unavoidable. Death from something another person's actions can be blamed for is much less tolerable.
It is also going to lead to wildly different implementations developer to developer unless they have a really solid understanding of the project. And given how frequently we turn over, that rarely exists.

I usually don't really know anything about how the code I write will be used in practice.
>I have to buy another cable each time I want to charge and use it.

Wouldn't it be easier to just keep the one cable you bought to charge it? It's not like the cable depletes itself during the charge forcing a new cable to be purchased per charge.
Congrats on Stephen for f[i/ou]nding a substrate that he likes to spend his time in.

In the meantime, can this theory reproduce or derive something as simple a CKM-matrix?
Your initial response was confusing. You should've just said: "Email them your question," or something to that extent.

Regardless, I get what you mean.
Then perhaps the solution isn't for politicians to demand that YouTube be separated from Google/Alphabet, but instead demand that users on YouTube be able to discover videos on other sites.

I see no reason why the search feature within YouTube couldn't return videos that people were hosting on their personal sites or on competitors to YouTube (including Twitch VODs and livestreams). Even subscriptions and recommendations could work across platforms.

YouTube could still run adverts in/on the videos, and the revenue from that would be split with the site where the video was actually published. For a greater share of the ad revenue, YouTube could also offer to stream (a copy of) the video from their own servers.

Even if sites (or Multi-Channel Networks) had to pay a $1000 fee to be included in this system, and YouTube kept its rules about moderation and demonetisation, it would still greatly improve discoverability and hopefully competition generally.