skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donald Hoffman, theorizes we're in a simulation and has math backing it, but that's not the point I'm trying to make...

He mentions a mathematical concept that the more theorems you solve, the more there are. As in - you never really grasp the end of math.

In his sim theory, we're perceiving life in a VR, there's the ego, the many receptors like visual that detect colors, etc and understanding everything we take in, each of those is a "unit"...

the gist of what I'm getting at, the physics we perceive are natural ONLY to our sim, or our VR headset, outside it could be totally different, but MATH is constant in all the universe, something that doesn't change, but that we're also always going to have new discoveries for.

Consciousness could be the same, once we discover how to take the VR headset off (without death), we then discover a new reality, with new physics, etc... and a new VR headset to take off, maybe ad infinitum...

It's like how there's the big bang, many think that there was nothing now there's something, when in reality there was always something just a much more compact something... miles across, a few light years? who knows how big, but it began expanding super fast for unknown reasons...

It wasn't just nothingness, or one particle that exploded into everything else...

I think the closest we'll ever get is finding ways to create consciousness inside simulations of our own, unfortunately that itself will prove (99%) that we're likely not base reality.
It's fairly funny to say that as a joke in isolation. It's not funny IMO to put the word in the hype line of the project and then to later define that as a joke in the FAQ.
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> I’m not surprised that manufacturing thousands of extremely expensive phones in the US is possible. I would be a lot more surprised if they had managed to manufacture millions of reasonably priced phones in the US.

I'm pretty naive on the subject, but in this case why would cost of local labor affect which product is manufactured at any given plant?

Lets say employees A and B are payed $50 and $20 respectively for each product they manufacture. If employee A manufactures product X, which is sold for $100, and employee B manufactures product Y, which is sold for $50, the company makes a net profit of $80 ($150 revenue - $70 manufacturing costs). If employee A makes product Y instead and employee B makes product X, the net profit is still $80. Is there something I'm failing to take into account here?
Ah, that probably explains the Discord outage, then!
When I think about it. I still consider 2B to be a lot... And those social media startups just being just a mess...
This pattern of comment includes accusing someone of “being bias” (instead of “biased”) and implies that noticing bias is somehow a debate winning move.

Bias is a thing, having bias means you are biased towards one position or away from another. You should be biased in many ways - e.g. preferring human survival to human extinction would be a reasonable bias. Preferring the word of your friend to the word of a stranger, another.
It really is full-circle with excel. You can start there, then wind up using it again once you realize its still an excellent data interchange mechanism.
Did Thomas More and John Donne Advocate Assisted Suicide?
And round and round we go

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Saving-a-Core-Image
I own a coffee roasting company and I 100% agree with you. This is pretty trivial to test (even a blind test would determine whether it was subjectively better or worse for an individual) but there is no interest in doing it, everyone comes up with their own dumb "method" and then in a year or two everyone switches to something else.
A really good sign of this is to look at the various barista competitions from a couple of years ago and see how many of their amazing techniques are still being used.
1w ago: FOSSHOST renounces its ties to freenode: https://fosshost.org/news/libera-chat ( https://archive.is/eOwnR )

3d ago: FOSSHOST continues to announce financial dire straits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329890

Today: FOSSHOST announces partnership with freenode Ltd, taking "no strings" donations in return for shouldering freenode's hosting costs. https://fosshost.org/news/freenode ( https://archive.is/AON8V )

After a disasterous attempt to buy his way into free software by strongarming freenode's former staff out of the picture, Andrew Lee is carrying out an incredibly blatant attempt to launder his public image, and engage in shell games with his money to pretend that freenode continues to prosper under "honest" community support.

Andrew has approached a financially vulnerable organisation with an as-yet untarnished reputation, and has redirected his funding of freenode through a recently incorporated holding company, "donating" to them, and then FOSSHOST paying the money directly back out to maintain freenode's infrastructure.

I could almost believe this was an honest attempt, other than for the kickbacks: FOSSHOST staff are considering[1] skimming the donations for their own gain, and have also received staff privileges on the IRC network, something never before offered to any hardware sponsor in return for their support.

freenode truly is dead, seizing 700 channels from foss projects thinking about or exercising their right to move their community elsewhere. However you frame it, a hostile removal of channels with zero notice is not supportive of the foss projects Andrew claims to love. These are the true colours: that free software projects should suffer that Andrew's investment, freenode, might not bleed users quite so fast, by disrupting their self governance.

The abuse of a company about to go bust, offering them a way out if they only allow themselves to be a puppet org to spend his money how he would like, without his name being attached, and them make them complicit with the option to skim the donations and receive on-IRC benefits is disgusting.

[1]: https://fosshost.org/news/freenode-faq ( https://archive.is/QPkRJ )
looks like fosshost is freenode v2 - management selling out a community that volunteers under them built without consulting them. f in the internet relay chat
I must admit, I'm curious about the idea but I don't yet "get" it.

Reproducible builds sound like a great idea at first, but this has the same problem as Docker containers: you inadvertently become a package/distro maintainer. How does one update the system regularly with security updates? Are we locking by semver somehow (like node, etc.)? And who decides which version ranges to lock to, etc. etc.?

Honestly, I'd probably much rather just take an existing Debian/Redhat/etc. LTS distro and do a custom install script, which isn't that hard in the first place.

And, in case of cloud server environments, you can just take a snapshot of your VM with a simple click of a button. You can't get much more reproducible than an actual snapshot of your entire system.
Popular in Poland as well.
Well that is pretty neat. Thanks for the mention of nixos-shell. I've been a NixOS daily-driver for the past 6 months or so, but I am still picking up new ideas on a daily basis. :)
Someone literally did that already, but with BI rather than NYT! That’s why we’re talking about this! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading this overall thread.
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That’s definitely not true. I’m getting contacted by recruiters (and occasionally directly by companies, including for my current job) because of my Stack Overflow profile.

That said, my profile is very clearly linked to a real person, I don’t see how resale would even work (not that I’d consider it).
One question: who makes the decision of how many to hire?

You are a manager. You need five people on your team.

You hire eight, because you are expected to lose three in the next two years.

If three of them leave, fine. If three of them are incompetent, great! (You get your URA and you have evidence your Bar Raiser is an idiot.)

If the interview loop worked perfectly, all eight are great. But you still have to boot three of them.
Doesn't really, I feel like s/he's just paying extra attention to some details s/he feels are important for them. Anyone doing this could also consider Turkish coffee. I personally don't like the soot of either so I'll do a Chemex-style instead (yes, filters..).
You already have your Internet-points, what more do you want?

As really, SO really was all about gamification, at least I think I remember them talking about it...
For me, SO has been an outstanding resource; I probably use it 2-3 times a day during the working week, and often on weekends for experimenting/self-learning/crunch time.

It's amazing how many people have asked the exact question I am asking, and the responses and comments are usually high quality.

W3schools has also been helpful. I hear dismissive comments about it; maybe it's weak and dated for "advanced" full-stack types, but when I need to remember something about style sheets, javascript, HTML, etc., it's just very quick and easy, especially with the "try it" interactive widget.

Back in the day, usenet comp.lang.* and comp.os.* were like this -- terse, to the point, contributed by seasoned professionals. It's like a crowd-sourced interactive user manual. I just hope this acquisition doesn't mess it up :)
The best interpretation of this post is in its warnings against digital submersion, but when it veers into cultural critique it itself is being very middlebrow and dismissive ("just listen to classical music! Modern music sucks!")

There is a good post in here about how externalizing negative emotion to the internet is indeed addictive behavior, an emotional crutch. Unfortunately this one ain't it. Not to mention it's hardly breaking new ground with this thesis- pre-cancellation Louis C.K. arrived at the same conclusion much more concisely nearly a decade ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c
Since they are working with SpiderMonkey (Firefox JS engine), I wonder if that opens the door to a Gecko based browser on iOS with decent enough performance. That would be a game changer!
If it had been one of the more Magritte Magrittes the thieves could have easily pulled it off just by putting up a sign that read "This is not a heist".

[edit: insert missing 'been']
Deep Work's first maybe 3 chapters are all you need. Cal Newport is a master of writing some good blog posts on a topic, and then with padding them with 250 pages of boring drivel, and selling it as a book.
I'm lucky to live at altitude, so the boiling point is already ~200F making coffee made with boiling water taste great.

I have to give it a minute when I visit the folks though.
If 2) were true, these top companies wouldn't have regular, public failures, mediocre products outside of their core competencies, and they wouldn't progress primarily through acquisitions (many of which also fail).
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t 15.3 based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 and supported until December 2022? (I may be mis-understanding SUSE releases..).

One of the things I liked about CentOS was not having to upgrade every x months/years.
Nationalists always like each other, it's not like China is asking SA to marry a chinese girl for each yuan invested...
It should probably be named "Making JavaScript to startup fast on WebAssembly", since the runtime speed is not really improved by their approach.

Besides that, I think Wizer [1] is both an elegant and a simple solution to speed up startup times with Wasm. So good work on that!

[1] - https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wizer
Have you ever played Hearts? That game plays much differently when you know who has the Queen of Spades vs if you don't vs if it's already been played. If somebody has a capability that deters you, it can be more effective in making you play cautious if you don't know who has it.
Two thoughts:

1. The public doesn't know, but the same may not be true of US intelligence services. There are various ways to drop hints. Have a colonel pretend to get drunk at a bar and ramble something about drones. Feed a known mole some hints about an operation underway. Maybe a unit stationed on that base recently was involved in some operation the foreign adversary didn't like, and they have a diplomat cryptically say something about reprisals. But most importantly you do it in a way that it isn't definitive proof, or publicly accusing them would require revealing important sources/methods. That way the US can't publicly respond or escalate.

2. Perhaps the goal isn't necessarily deterrence, it's misdirection. Reveal the vulnerability of civil and military infrastructure to attack in a public and embarrassing way, and the US government will be required to take actions to prevent this from happening again. And it's way more expensive to secure infrastructure than it is to attack it. You could get the US to spend billions on securing this infrastructure, which is dollars that aren't being spent on something that could be used offensively.
Golioth: IoT cloud platform built for hardware
Be real. They have no qualms about stealing other countries industrial secrets. They are very effective at it too. Their latest fighter jet (j-20) looks like a photocopy of the F-35.
> shut down it's unclear power plants.

Now that is a typo if I ever saw one.
They wants to run JS faster, on platforms where they can run Swift/native with zero overhead. As of why? Go figure.
+1 to this point.

I also find it easier to read certain philosophers than others because they themselves seem to be empathetic in the way they write their thinking. Almost as if they know that they could be wrong about the conclusions they're coming to, and that the truths they uncover aren't necessarily absolutes but instead, at least to a certain degree, subjective and personal.

Reading phenomenology for instance doesn't get me feeling like the author is self-indulgent. I find it easier to empathize with the philosopher because the philosopher is trying to empathize with me.
My bad, meant C-SPC.

> What does your sequence of commands mean in English?

This time I tested it to make sure that I say the right bindings:

1. Go to the beginning of the line (C-a)
2. Find the n'th column (n * C-s |)
3. Activate the mark (C-SPC)
4. Go to the next column (C-s |)
5. Kill the region (C-w)
6. Go to the column you want (m * C-s/C-r |)
7. Insert the region (C-y)

> How natural is it to express?

To me it is instinctive.

> How much scripting and packaging does it require?

None, these are all basic commands.

> How much extra memorizing does it require?

All you need to know is how to record a macro.

> Yes, I am talking about interfaces, not software. I was talking about the interface that Emacs offers by default.

But then you are comparing different apples to oranges? But even if we are comparing vim/kak the interface to Emacs' default interface, I still don't think the difference is that big. The main difference is that vim/kak are parts of the terminal workflow, while Emacs is a shell onto itself.

> Multiple cursors give instant feedback, this is a big advantage over blindly shooting macros at your text.

You have instant feedback while recording a macro too? You can even make it interactive, and insert a query into your macros to make it easier for you to distinguish between false-positives and the actual places you want to apply macros.
> Your requirement that a system should reflect "arbitrary relationships" is non-sense, sorry to be blunt.

I said "more-or-less arbitrary relationships", and that was a deliberate choice of words.

In HTML it's still impossible, or nearly impossible to express an element's size or position in terms of its siblings, or a parent's size and position in terms of its children.

> Also you're simply wrong about being constrained. Declare your elements fixed (or absolute at root), and you can do whatever you want with them.

Indeed. Only when you literally take the object out of the flow (or emulate that by having absolute at root), can you do some limited things to the object.

> You claim you want to exit the regular HTML flow, and rendering semantics, and when you do, you complain that you've exited the regular HTML flow, and rendering semantics. That's just circular reasoning

It's not. HTML and CSS are extremely high-level. Canvas is extremely low-level. And there's literally nothing in between.

What if I want to take over the rendering of a single table cell? Or, better still, over just items in a select?

> It has never been as powerful

Powerful? At which point is it at all powerful?

> State your specific issues, and I'll state a specific solution.

How about:

- constraint-based layouts

- 60fps animations on actual HTML elements. And by animations I don't mean "only use animations that don't trigger reflows, or you're screwed". Things like "animate a list item being removed from a list" (and you're not allowed to say things like "we know the height of the item beforehand")

- customisation of built-in components like selects

- almost literally anything from Sencha's/ExtJS' kitchen sink: https://examples.sencha.com/extjs/7.4.0/examples/kitchensink... Modular, componentised, customisable. There's a reason every single "css or ui framework" on the web reimplements the same few components over and over (tabs, alerts, maybe selects) and rarely has the manpower to do anything more complex (virtual lists and tables, complex grids, treeviews, etc. Hell, even a calendar is often too big of an undertaking.)

Oh yes, some of them can be made at great expense of time and manpower. And some of them have become easier to do (some layouts like grids).

But powerful? That's a nice joke.
What patents? This looks a lot like LAPIS http://groups.csail.mit.edu/graphics/lapis/
Boeing's military division is discrete from commercial with the exception of the P-8 and KC-46. Not just geographically but also in terms of inherited knowledge and philosophy.
> It's not a question of demand. A negligible number of customers care where their product is manufactured. They care only about price, which is why manufacturing moved overseas in the first place.

Your first paragraph contradicts itself. Not enough customers demanding their product be made in USA is the very definition of a demand problem.
You could say the exact same thing about nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and yet they have seen massive and widespread use.

Dangerous things need to be contained really well, regardless of whether this virus leaked or not.

Natural dangerous respiratory virus outbreaks do occur from time to time so it's better to be ready against them which also steels us against lab leaks.
You posted religious flamewar in one thread and racial flamewar in a second thread, all on the same day. That's not at all what this site is for and we ban accounts that abuse it like this. We have to, because otherwise flamewars will burn it to a crisp, and scorched earth is not interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. That means no more flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments. You've posted a few substantive ones, but many more unsubstantive ones. If you'd please stick to the former and drop the latter, we'd appreciate it.
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That will break with

> Uncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object

because `myObjectArr.at` doesn't bind `this` to `myObjectArr`. When the internals of `map` call the `at` function, `this` is just `undefined` instead of the original array and it'll throw.

Luckily Array.prototype.map takes a second argument just for this purpose

indices.map(myObjectArr.at, myObjectArr)
You don't need to filter out the viruses, you need to filter the aerosol the viruses are sitting in. That is a major plus of Covid, verification (repeatedly) and acceptance of that fact.
This comment is pretty reactionary and maybe doesn't deserve a reply but I've seen variations on this criticism before and as someone that's worked in this space it doesn't make any sense:

> There is also widespread "thrift hauls" on Depop where 20 something rich people ransack thrift stores which are staples in low-income communities

This complaint seems to be based on a profound delusion, which is that the social mission of thrift stores is to provide cheap clothing for people who don't have much money.

The charity aspect of thrift stores, at least historically, has been the money that you give them when you buy stuff there.

So in fact the whole point of the enterprise is to have people who have stuff they don't need donate it to a worthy cause, who sell it to people with money who want it, and then they take the money that they make this way and give it to people who need money or use it to provide needed services etc.

Nobody is "ransacking" a charity by doing the exact thing the charity is hoping people will do, which is giving the charity money that can be used to further charitable activities.
I don't expect any monetary recuperation, you're right in that the deal was clear to begin with. Just like I don't expect a cut of ad-revenue from a forum or what-have-you.

I just don't feel it's correct to say that the contributions actually had no monetary value, they definitely did, it's just that we handed it to Stack Overflow for free in exchange for participating in the platform.

I don't think it's unreasonable to feel a little bit jaded about it either. I'm not, I didn't contribute nearly enough to feel entitled to squat. But I get it.
As a counterpoint, I experienced the exact opposite. I got tired of deb-based distros leaving me in package limbo if something went wrong. I'm sure there's an easy fix, or maybe the entire problem is fixed now, but I've been a very happy user of opensuse (and just suse before that) for a long time - well over 15 years now. I love their huge range of optional software repos. I can have a nice stable base system with only certain software bleeding edge.
Hegel was quantum before quantum was cool.
Not necessarily. WebAssembly can also be run standalone on the server-side (without JS).

There are multiple runtimes that allow running Wasm without requiring a whole JS engine (Wasmer, WAVM, wasm3, ...)
As a former Pluralsight employee, I feel sorry for all the folks at A Cloud Guru who will now have to take Vista's IQ/personality test (as is required for all their portfolio companies) to maintain their employment.

Here is a list of companies owned by Vista. If you're actively looking for jobs and would rather not have your pay and career growth held hostage by your ability to do well on a meaningless test, these are ones to avoid:

https://www.vistaequitypartners.com/companies/portfolio/
Or like me have the actual game cartridges but want to play the game on other devices.
‘The business of anti-vaxx’ – Center for Countering Digital Hate [pdf]
Playing with a site that displays a bunch of stats about your (my) team's dev 'health' based on GitHub (eventually others?) PRs. Fun little web app so far and I like to see the things I think are good indicators. Next wave of work I'm thinking about after the base stats is to automate everything and proactively warn me to look at things that seem to need attention (PRs that are 'stuck', certain reviewers over/underloaded, certain authors not getting reviews at the same rate as everyone else, etc etc etc). I like it but I have far more ideas than time to implement them at the moment.
Have you read Kant? I've had a lot of trouble with Hegel as well, and everyone tells me it's because he's responding to or building on arguments that Kant makes that seem to be pulled from whole cloth without that context (Kantext?).

We're certainly not the only ones though, a lot of famous philosophers think Hegel is bullshit. I don't know how much respect the Hegelian lineage has outside of continental philosophy circles these days. I suppose Fukuyama is pretty Hegelian.