skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct that science proceeds by creativity, and that it's not at all the rigorous process we often imagine it to be. There are plenty of contemporary philosophers of science who will point that out.

Feyerabend's approach is literally called Epistemological Anarchy. Not a lot of people really follow Feyerabend in that, not because it's wrong but because it doesn't feel very helpful. If all Socrates wants is for us to admit that we're not rigorous, all I can say is, "Yeah, sure. Thanks for telling me what I already knew."

I don't know the truth. Fine. I don't have a truthful way of finding out the truth. Also fine. The track record of science at finding things that are useful isn't really evidence of anything. That, too, is fine.

I suppose Socrates might deserve some special credit for being the first to realize that. Here ya go, here's a Socrates Snack. But it really is kinda old hat to me, even if the people practicing "scientism" still haven't realized that.

They are, perhaps, the ones who really would benefit from Socrates' work, but all I ever got from Socrates' dialogues is "No, that's a pretty stupid assertion right on the face of it, do I really need to spend 50,000 words watching this guy realize that it's stupid?"

Socrates sieves out everybody. Nobody can hold any premise. Which just leaves me right back where I started.
Walter White's Chaotic Beauty
What did I ever do to Eugen Muchowski?
>The difficulty with this coronavirus is that it can spread asymptomatically

Can someone point me to the latest information on asymptomatic transmission of covid-19? Last I had seen asymptomatic transmission wasn't likely:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
According to this link 287 out of 568.000 has died from Covid, though that is in the age group 0-17 years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
Most people will invest much more time writing an email, so they tend to be much more valuable later - more information, more critical thought...
There is a Discord plugin for bitlbee, that way you can use an IRC client to chat on Discord.
https://github.com/sm00th/bitlbee-discord
How do you feel about matrix? I've heard it as a counter point to the point you made but never really looked into it.
it is an inaccurate statement.
More market share for Aramco and Rosneft.
For those who were curious:

Article 6:162 Definition of a ‘tortious act’

- 1. A person who commits a tortious act (unlawful act) against another person that can be attributed to him, must repair the damage that this other person has suffered as a result thereof.

- 2. As a tortious act is regarded a violation of someone else’s right (entitlement) and an act or omission in violation of a duty imposed by law or of what according to unwritten law has to be regarded as proper social conduct, always as far as there was no justification for this behaviour.

- 3. A tortious act can be attributed to the tortfeasor [the person committing the tortious act] if it results from his fault or from a cause for which he is accountable by virtue of law or generally accepted principles (common opinion).

[0] http://www.dutchcivillaw.com/civilcodebook066.htm
Agree.

There are some valid points in this article, but I found it difficult to adopt them because there was so much bad faith conflation of causation and ignorance of the state of society before the sexual revolution.
I check my email accounts semi-regularly. If you email me, I'll see it in a day or two. As far as I'm concerned, email is meant to be asynchronous, and I use it that way.
It also allows you to go the other direction, and purchase a $200, nearly ten year old thinkpad, since it meets all your requirements for being productive.
This is outdated. The CDC guidelines about masks explicitly stated that studies in the real world confirm that you are exceedingly unlikely to get or spread covid after vaccination with the mRNA shots. That’s why they said it is not needed for vaccinated people to wear masks.
It’s really unfortunate that Andrew Lee is killing the thing he loves, and that he can’t seem to see it.
With LSP support now coming "out of the box" with neovim and SublimeText 4 I'm hopeful that it can escape the microsoft ecosystem and truly become an open standard. I tried implementing an LSP several months ago without using VSCode as a test bench, and the tooling and documentation weren't there - but with more default implementations out there, hopefully it can change
I was actually kinda hoping for a game where you could fiddle with dials and tune a toy simulation
They could've reached out to channel owners, informed them of the policy (change/reinterpretation) or reminded them of it, and ask that they change the topic. Set a clear expectation, like 48hrs to resolve it, and then act. They could've even used a server wide notice for it. A little courtesy goes a long way and would've helped build up a bit of trust in the new staff.

None of that happened. Whether they believe they were in the right or not doesn't matter at this point. Trust in the new team was already low. Based on what we know, this also wasn't staff action, but just Lee. These actions also further cement the stories ex-staff has told, which only serves to damage trust in the new team further. What little trust there might have been is now gone and it seems to have galvanised those who remained to also leave. Which in itself completely defeats having ownership of the network.
I don’t know much about Alex Karp. What’s the story?
Text like that should work well with block selection/block insert mode.
Not everyone wants deal with / talk about politics at work. I would not be surprised if they had a huge number of applications after this incident.
Does Unreal let you develop any kind of game you want using their engine? Are there any restricted subjects?
Matrix is interesting, but could replace IRC or Discord, not email. It also doesn’t have many users, even with bridging, but pretty much everyone has an email account.
Can you explain the differences between them? I don't have many USB-C devices (Switch and MacBook) but wouldn't you be able to use the most "fully featured" cable for every scenario?
Let's all not be too hasty here. There's a lot of worrying signs, in my view.

The paper itself has a sole author, a post-doc with a single paper on arXiv.org[0]. And the paper is being published in a low-impact rated journal[1]. That doesn't rule it out as a breakthrough, but it means more skepticism is warranted.

> For over 55 years, John Bell has misled the physicists community and made us believe...

The author makes this a personal, nefarious attack that has been played on us. Not a mistake or disagreement, but that John Bell knew he was wrong.

> Einstein said that ... Not many believed him but this was the starting point for me when I came in touch with Bell's theorem.

This feels to me like the author is saying "Well Einstein says I'm right".

Overall, this feels like something we'll not be talking about for long. (But I'd LOVE to be wrong!)

[0]https://arxiv.org/search/physics?searchtype=author&query=Muc...

[1]https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0295-5075
You can do that literary everywhere and with any editor, and even without editor. I created this when I was using vim: https://github.com/majkinetor/vim-omnipresence and this to be used with any OS control: https://github.com/majkinetor/isense-x (here used for AHK intelisense but that is just 1 usecase)

The real benefit of vim vs any editor is modality and there is AFAIK nothing similar in any editor even with emulators. Editing/moving over text is just way faster with vim then any other editor (not just slightly faster, light years faster). I use vscode now because vim requires A LOT of setup and even when automated its pain in the ass. VScode and its plugin sync on the other hand makes it very fast to install anywhere with your config and keys so it compensate for slower editing to me since I need to have my editor EVERYWHERE (literary hundreds of computers).
Tech Support People Are Sharing the Worst Cases They’ve Seen While on the Job
Shell could just shutdown for a week and I bet that court will revoke their decision in no time.

Seriously, such verdicts are completely pointless and achieve absolutely nothing.

The court can’t blame Shell for decisions that are made by politicians, especially in the energy sector.

If an industrial country wants to reduce emissions, it must build nuclear power plants unless it has the potential for large hydro or geothermal installations per capita.

For reference, compare the emissions of France and Germany and you realize the highest potential for decarbonization lies in the energy sector and nuclear is extremely efficient in achieving that - while renewables are not:

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...
The new limits on LinkedIn: don’t panic
> A proper real-world use of transparency would be Augmented Reality - i.e. overlaying contextual UIs on top of the real world the user sees through the glass/hologram.

Ghost In The Shell does this very well, especially the series.
This could not be further from the truth. The vast majority of the time the road in, out and through LAX are not congested at all. The fact that it is in a giant circle with short parking in the center and planes leaving on the outside makes it much easier to get close and pick up or park. The denver airport is much more sprawled and needs trains to get people from some terminals to others.

Also you don't seem to realize that there are airports in burbank, orange county and oxnard. There is even a smaller airport in santa monica. LAX doesn't serve all of southern california but it does have substantial throughput.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628.
The Possibility of a Europa Lander
Yes - work is almost all E-Mail based - on the personal side I lean more toward texting apps....
That depends on the size of your company, but for AA/AAA type games, this is usually a so-called "Vertical slice". It's a demo that shows off a small piece of a game working fully (so demonstrating main systems, UI, etc.) that is then used to pitch full development to publishers.

It's rought equivalent to a pilot for a TV series: https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/77406994278/game-develop...

EDIT: I just remembered the other alternative - Early Access. This allows the developers to sell the game before it's complete and solicit gamer testing/feedback during the development process while iterating. It's a popular approach for smaller studios.
I haven't had dealings with these new USB cables yet. Can anyone enlighten me what is happening here?

In older USB cables you used to have four, five, or nine pins that were directly connected via copper wire to the pins on the other end. With the exception of charging-only cables that didn't connect the data pins.

Is the issue just that the new cables tend to only connect a subset of the 24 USB-C pins?
Matrix is trying to solve this dilemma via https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix... - we started writing the decentralised reputation stuff in earnest last week. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3215 has some more details.
The wanna-be gangster I spoke of was white. I live in one of the whitest regions of the country, but we still have gangsters, ne'er do wells and generally bad people here too. Everywhere does.
Yeah that's the problem. I've had a bent usb c (from a pretty good brand) literally melt into my hands. I'm so glad I was using the phone at the time, I don't know what could've happened if I wasn't there. The dent seemed pretty "small" too, and it was way less damaged than a lot of lightning/micro USB cables I've seen and used in the past.

What I don't understand is how the cable doesn't have a way to detect a short circuit. I'd imagine that a 250 watts capable cable would have more safety features hopefully though.
An Artificial Superintelligence Might Destroy Humanity
I think it not interesting news that "substance X extends the life of rats", or "substance Y might extend the life of yeast."

Humans are exceptionally long-lived animals that live for about 4x as many heartbeats as other mammals. It is one thing for treatments to give animals some of the resilience to aging we have, it's another to extend the frontier of human lifespan.
Select fungal parasites enlist living insects to do their bidding (2020)
Harded-coded URLs represent a larger API surface area. Hypermedia-driven APIs eg: HATEOAS permit the server to view URLs as an implementation detail. Some people and some problems benefit from APIs with large surface area. Some people and problems benefit from APIs with small surface area.

I tend to like APIs with small surface areas because it means I don't have to drag along outdated endpoints across minor versions because the org doesn't want to v2 anything. URLs as an implementation detail makes backwards compatibility much easier. So many times it's been useful to combine or split endpoints as the business needs change without affecting clients.

The worst part about using HATEOAS for me has been clients who are used to constructing URLs continue to do so and create a ticket where the obvious first question is "Are you constructing that URL?"
I found this article through a friend of my wife's who is a skincare expert.

Check your cabinets. I actually found the Neutrogena lotion that we use in the table of affected products!

List of affected products: https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Valisure-Citizen...

List of unaffected products: https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Attachment-A-Tab...
Fossil fuel companies aren't greedy monopoly men burning oil for no reason. Oil companies sell oil to consumers.

Imagine if US gas prices went up overnight to $10/gallon. There would be riots. Jan 6th would look like a warm-up.

But does anybody realistically think that they can carbon-capture 1 gallon of gas's worth of carbon emissions for $7? How much would it realistically cost?

It's willful ignorance to think that we can continue to use the same amount of energy while waiting for technology to improve and become greener. We have the choice between immediate, painful cuts to energy usage ($20/gal gas), or doing irreparable harm to our planet. We are choosing the latter.
I'm not sure if lack of intent would absolve them of committing a war crime... not to mention that it's not clear that they didn't actually intend to cause harm to people by their use of Agent Orange and other chemical weapons like napalm.
Just because someone poses criticism toward something or finds a link to something does not mean in it's a conspiracy just because it doesn't align with your views.

If the scientific method works, guess what? The conspiracy theory will be debunked. But telling people not to be skeptical is no different than the Catholic Church telling Gallileo that he can't say the earth revolves around the sun. You guys a religious zealots on that level right now.
Often it's a vertical slice with gameplay mostly done and assets of medium to high quality.
Since assets are expensive to make this allows you to build a mostly complete product without cutscenes and 50 levels but without too much effort.

You often don't ship this MVP to the public but use it to attract publishers or to demo at game conferences.

[Oped below]

So much of what makes a game good is art and feel based so testing early and often whether you're on the right track is important. Game studios that are smaller have to do this. Larger ones can take the hit if they make a bad call in favor of controlling the marketing/presentation more carefully. I'm not entirely sure how they test. Similar to developers I think most people in the game development industry have good or reasonable instincts about games that would work.
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I think because it is clear that climate change is done by humans. It's also something we can stop by stopping the way we consume energy. This makes us responsible.
Mmmm, not sure if that would be the case / possible with something like "First home for your use, you get tax exemptions, etc. Second house, for you, X amount of taxes. If rented, Y% of the income. Third house rented, insane % of the income (like 50%)". That would discourage people from buying-to-rent massive amounts of properties, as they would simply not be cost-effective, regardless of how much you want to pass on to the renters.

If you think that would raise rents by a huge %, I don't think so, as it would be completely impossible for people to pay.
This is the most possible clickbait title ever. Mods please!
Applications for GPU Based AI and Machine Learning
200+ dpi at arm’s length.
A house is the wrong analogy. We're talking about communities of people here, not a building. (This is another good example of why analogies rarely clarify, and usually just end up in a discussion over how accurate the analogy is.)

A better analogy would be: Let's say you've been going to the same book club for 15 years now, but the cafe you've been meeting at has closed. So the group picks a new cafe and the book club continues. Not much has really changed; it's still the same people, meeting up regularly for the same person.
Caching E-Commerce Data for the Web
Asians are the only racial group who is more likely to be a victim of crime by someone outside their own race (i.e. non asian), predominantly black perpetrators. It's insane.
This looks like the sort of thing you would intuitively solve with visual selection and a regex.

```

Vjj:s/\v'(.*)',/'\1': Enum.\u\1,/

```

This is all just muscle memory. It seems impossible until you get used to it, and then it's the most natural thing in the world.
I imagine not as many people get in car accidents responding to email as they do responding to text messages, but, I could be wrong.
I do the "bad movie night" with family too. I suggest Titanic 2 on Tubi. It's amazing in sheer awfulness.
> How do you handle authentication? And VAT taxes?

As far as I know, Chargebee, Recurly and Chargify does authentication and calculates VAT Taxes all for you with only their APIs.

> One of my point I'm trying to make is that everyone seems to be duct-taping services like this together.

It is Stripe Billing that you have to do all the duct-taping. Most people (in the EU) start on Stripe and end up at Paddle. Even then for (EU and US Stripe customers) the duct-taping still goes on with authentication.

God help you with VAT and Stripe in the EU, it's a nightmare, and not to mention when your customers ask you if you accept Paypal, and you have to implement that too.

Rather go with a subscription engine for a SaaS that is built for this service than rely solely on a payment gateway alone like Stripe.
>Fruit of the Earth - Gel - Aloe Vera Gel - 2.78 2.94* (ppm Benzene)

Aloe Vera Gel? Sounds like straight up terrible quality standards to get benzene in an Aloe Vera gel. Stuff like like this makes me hesitant to use any product
A few notes:

• a quick search for "refuting bell's theorem" will turn up attempts in 2000, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2017, etc, so let's take this with a huge grain of salt

• Europhysics Letters is a reasonably old journal (1986) but an impact factor of ~2 is pretty low; I wouldn't consider this a major journal

• As the Reddit discussion notes: "Just because you call your model locally realistic doesn't mean it's actually locally realistic. Calling it "contextual" doesn't change that. ... That part where the "context" of photon 1 changes the polarization of photon 2? That's not local.": https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/nig8d5/bells_theor...
I do have sympathy with this view (that content creators can do as they like, of course!), but I’m just saying I want to be able to buy films (maybe > 5 years old), for very cheap, legally, in a format I own, that I can watch when I like on any device I choose. I think a lot of people would like this possibility too and would spend lots of money that they wouldn’t have otherwise. It’s difficult to prove either way of course without a spare content library. I’ve no interest in starting to charge for content, all the films I make will always be free. :-D
Power of Service Level Objectives,Indicators and Agreements Is in the Discourse
Yeah, at a certain point, it probably makes sense to have a giant library of universal assets like rocks and grass and trees. There's no reason for each outdoor game to keep reinventing the universe.
I would have used visual block mode to duplicate the 123 column and insert the remaining content for all three lines simultaneously. If the situation is a bit more complex, I sometimes use regex replace applied to a line range.
This isn't a DMCA notice.
I pay for multiple online services but I hate switching UI/UX/etc and remembering which platform has which show this week and where in the show I am. If I could cache files locally (on a server or phone/tablet) and suck all the content into Plex (or some other third-party client) then I'd pay quite a bit for that service.

As it stands today you can build your own version of this but if you want to stay 100% above board you get a crappier experience (don't get me started on the cluster-f around rights). It reminds me of the jokes back when DVDs were still a "thing" and you had to sit through ads and piracy warnings if you bought it legitimately but if you "stole" it you were able to jump right into the movie.
Apple Looking for a Manager with Experience in Cryptocurrency
kinda https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07Y8BPVV4
You'd also have to make sure no new cases were imported (which means closed borders--i.e. troops on the ground not just canceling flights), AND you'd have to eliminate every internal case.

It took Melbourne like 3 months to eliminate all cases. Far more than a "few weeks."

It would take the sort of effort (for the US or EU) only possible with total hindsight. But if Trump tried to seal our borders with force in Jan 2020, there is no way Democrats would have accepted it. They'd call it rationalization for an attack on immigration.
Agreed. I always think I’ll one day build my own UI framework. Drawing to the screen and computing layouts is manageable, but then I think about the details: widget focus, text selection, platform keyboard shortcuts, text rendering (which encompasses things like right-to-left text rendering, ligatures, and a million other hateful complexities), etc and I realize why there are so few toolkits out there.

I do think it would be interesting to define a minimal set of user interface conventions that would forego a lot of features but would allow developers to stand a fighting chance of building a UI toolkit. If it became popular enough, users could come to understand its conventions even if they aren’t platform native (not ideal, but something has to change).
> I have no memory of what a 'contextual model' is! So I can't comment on how interesting the paper is.

The author doesn't define it either. Define your terms.
Interesting policy update from diffing the police page on Arvive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20210513234811/202105230634...

> For abandoned project channels that have moved or are no longer available to the public, you may request the ownership of the channel be transferred to you. Please make said requests in the #freenode IRC channel.
Sure, but the idea of mass collective action is always a bit of a nuclear option, because it takes a huge bit of motivation to actually make _everyone_ do anything. So, could they? Sure. Will they en masse? No.

Everyone could have stolen cable back in the day and caused a decrease in cable prices and increase in customer experience. They didn't.
how's your whitelisting going? that's what killed me: i could never get my keys right and my stuff kept getting filtered. ended up using runbox.
feel free to come into irc.libera.chat #reprap and offer to pay us to go back.

I'll tell you where to put your money.
http://archive.is/9qlpI