skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for taking the time to explain! I find this sentence particularly illuminating:

> But the thing that reductionism typically misses out on is that reality is made of material _and relationships_ and when you take the material apart into the smaller parts, you break said relationships and much of the picture.

I fully agree with this position. This is actually what I attempted to explain (but not very well) with my "reductionism understood right" take above.
The art of asking nicely
> some totally independent interaction caused it to fail afterward
Europe’s startup funding set for record year
The product velocity is probably because it's only two people, not despite their team size.
It also assumes that the human body is a machine with singular inputs and singular outputs, as though it’s a pure function.

But it’s more complicated than that. Especially when you bring homeostasis into it, where the body will adjust calorific expenditure downwards in response to sustained reduced calorific intake, as just a single example.

But there’s lots of things going on that influence the calories coming in, the calories stored and the calories expended. It’s unfair to reduce it down so far.

It leads to fat shaming by people whom have never struggled with their weight who justify their cruelty by parroting “calories in calories out”.

Even worse, some of those will do silly experiments where they put on weight really really fast and then lose it just as fast, totally ignoring the fact that their body has been in the original state for a long time.
Apple sells 7 million iPhones a year in the UK, Google tells me. Even at just 100 profit a unit, should be way more than 50 million in profit. Ignoring income from other things like accessories, the store etc.
> What was the justification for the raid?

They had a warrant to seize assets used for developing the spyware installed on Apple's property. If the feds don't have jurisdiction to investigate potential infringement of other' rights, what do they do about peeping toms? How do they know the extent of this spyware they've deployed?

To even get that warrant, they need a decent argument in front of a judge. None of this is infringing on any rights

> home raid which found no grounds for prosecution

They knocked, presented the warrant, and the agents were cordial and honest. The purpose of these sorts of warrants are for investigative purposes, which is in the warrant. You don't need to promise a prosecution to serve one

He made it super-small (and it's not in the FOIA doc, that I could find) but, here's the warrant he was served by the agents at the door:
https://kylemcdonald.net/psac/large/warrant.png

They gave him all the reasons they were there, they let him know what would expand the scope of the warrant (drugs or weapons) and discussed, in-detail, what they were there for
Got you. Thanks for the heads up.
Google doesn’t sell data, and Google’s primary purpose is Search and organizing information, ads is just the way it’s funded.

If the primary purpose was ada, then it would stop all of the wasteful spending on engineering projects with no relation to, and no hope of, making ad money.
Well as you say it's "leave the market for mobile phones", ie., it'll be iPhone which goes -- rather than Apple as such.

If the fee is 20x on their profits from iphones, personally, I'd leave -- for a few years at least. The opportunity cost is very high: leave for 2+ years and prompt the UK gov to act. Then return.

Also, my issue is exactly with "validity" conditions. Regardless of what they are, my view is we need a change in the law to make cases of this kind non-starters.

My initial stab is this: patents have to held by companies operating in the relevant market to be valid. The ensures licensing fees go towards companies capable of innovation, and limits patent trolling.

I'd prefer, even, to add: those companies are using those patents; or otherwise, have +10 years from their last use in a product (etc.).

However, one step at a time.
It's not just your data though. They probably have your photos, and they share those with people like the NSA, who show your nude photos around the office.

That's way worse IMO, but doesn't seem to illicit the same response as this guy's art.
It looks like your comment spawned a lot of discussion!

I chose the "delete 5 lines" example because it was simple; the person I replied to said they weren't familiar with vim, and I didn't know how familiar they were with editors and code in general.

I think that perhaps you jumped to the incorrect conclusion about that part of my comment. I didn't impugn or insult visual studio code, nor try to insinuate that vim is better. In fact, I use vscode every work day for my devops day job, alongside Emacs for my org-mode documents, and vim for remote editing.

For counting lines, in vim I generally don't do that. If I have, say, a couple hundred lines to delete then I use something like 50dd a couple of times. Once I'm close to the end of what I wanted to delete, I just use dd followed by . to repeat that dd.

There's more than enough space in the world for multiple text editors! It doesn't really have to be a competition.
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It is. I've had a co-worker once call it "a full stop of hate", and it clicked with me immediately, and then every person to which I mentioned this phrase immediately know what I meant. I believe it did grow organically.

So, in the version I know and that seems to be Internet universal, it applies to IM messaging only. You don't start sentences in uppercase, and a full stop at the end of a message is interpreted as strong, negative emphasis.

Similarly, ending an IM message with ellipsis is expressing disappointment. It can be productively used if it's obvious that the disappointment is not with your interlocutor (e.g. "these politicians..."). I personally know a (non-tech-savvy, so not a nerd bias) person who walked up to her coworker and very sternly asked she stops sending her messages ending with ellipsis, because it reads as if she constantly had some grudge.
Well he seems to be doing the opposite.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/politics/biden-trump-drug-pri...
It seems like this is the part that most offends Apple:

“* In 2020, the UK Supreme Court ruled a UK court can set the rate for patent payments worldwide, despite the court only being able to consider the infringement of UK patents.*”

If every country took that approach that the UK Court seems to be taking, international trade would suffer greatly.
Leadership - because it is something that AI cannot do. It requires Human intelligence and heart. :)
Why do you bother in the first place? Books are the easiest to pirate. Email the author to open a Patreon or sth, and pay them directly.
Username checks out ;)

(Kidding.)
This. Absolutely this.

A good friend used to lament about the data they were entering was of very poor quality.

However the skews were somehow magically understood by the consumers of the data or maybe overall the day averaged out over time.

Data cleansing is a thing no?
I just found this: https://workingcopyapp.com/
Purescript is almost Haskell anyway. I love writing it, but it probably makes more sense to just learn the mother language first, since so many more educational resources are available.
That's assuming you couldn't selectively patch the calls, but yes, sounds as though it would be harder.
In some way, you're right, but I think there's more to it. Let's ignore for a moment whether it's true. I've seen it said in the sense that if you eat too many "good" calories (from salads or other healthy foods) and spend the same, you'll get just as fat as from bad calories. So the money analogy in a way works - if you get $100 cash, you'll be just as rich/poor as if you get them via a bank transfer.

All of that glosses over a million details, like how full you'll be feeling after 1000 cal from salad vs 1000 cal from Coke, but that's a whole another can of worms.
Crypto is special because minging crypto makes mining crypto worse. Almost everything else gets more efficient with scale. It's a positive-reinforcing death spiral.
>The reason I like it is because of the cross platform capabilities.

Anal sex is "cross platform" too. It doesn't make it the superior choice in a large majority of cases.
Nationalism is followed by fascism quite easily, it o accident that many consider excessive nationalism to just be a kind of secular religion, with an easily route to toxicity, dogma, and racism.

Look no further than the fact that nationalist movements have right wing ethno-state ambitions attached to them everywhere, usually with a return to “Greater X” where X is an older empire they use to have, usually when their faction was more ethnically dominant.
As a kid in the 80s video phones were promised as coming soon.

I was hugely disappointed for a long time.
I use Dropbox via DropSync and it's been working great for months. I'm told by folks in the Discord that Dropbox mobile app itself probably works, I just personally preferred the (free) DropSync app for syncing with my Dropbox account.
Ugh, no. SQL is a special-purpose database language. I've tried to look at Prolog from a databases point of view and it makes no sense that way. Even datalog (a decidable subset of Prolog without functions and negation) doesn't make that much sense from a databases point of view and it was specifically designed as a database language from the start, far as I can tell.

In practical terms, SQL is like one third of Prolog. Prolog programs are stored in a database as sets of Horn clauses that can be conditionally true (definite clauses or "rules"), unconditionally true (unit clauses or "facts") or unconditionally false (Horn goals, or "queries"). A Prolog program is executed by trying to refute a Horn goal by proving it false in the context of the program with an automated theorem prover and binding the variables in the goal in the process. Unit clauses correspond to database rows in SQL, so a SQL database is basically a set of "facts", seen from the Prolog point of view. But there are no "rules" and "queries" in the database - instead the program is written in an altogether different language that sits on top of the "facts" in the database. So from the point of view of Prolog, SQL is two languages only one of which bears some resemblance with Prolog.

From the point of view of SQL also, Prolog is proabably quite alien - you can write recursive loops with your database rows O.o They're just two very different languages anyway you look at them.
And the issue with that is that they're using PSNR and SSIM as quality metrics, which are useful for images, but haven't been designed for video, so they cannot take into account temporal factors and how motion masks distortion, etc.

I think for AV1 they're using VMAF too, which is an actual video quality metric (https://github.com/Netflix/vmaf).
The obesity epidemic, as the author describes it, isn't a good thing, and for us to have BMI tendencies similar to those of late 19th century Americans would probably be better (excepting of course their other major health problems from that time) but in relative terms, I'd consider today's obesity problems in most of the population much better than the near starvation that most of humanity lived in during the vast majority of history, even up to the early 20th century.

For all but our most very recent ancestors, periods of chronic hunger was just a missed crop or bad harvesting season away and mass starvation was only slightly more distant. Famines were common in most of the world and often killed many millions per year, almost every year during millennia, of all ages, including children and infants. Obesity-caused deaths are still deaths but at least they tend far more towards killing later in life and are much more in the hands of any given individual to avoid, as opposed to starving because your whole region no longer has enough food to keep you living regardless of your dietary choices.

Generations of people prior to all but the last century or so of history would be amazed, and possibly even envious at how abuntantly and cheaply most of the population can feed itself today, even to the point of chronic obesity.
Wht do we need to make it "survive"? It can be preserved without wasting or energy.
For what its worth these guys are just launching a personal knowledge management App using Neo maybe you can touch base and see how it went for them.

https://rea.ch

Good luck with what you are up to !
Your argument doesn't make the other argument more ore less valid.

You should always consider how much energy something consumed and how relevant it is for our society.

Bitcoin has no future and is not replacing or solving a real problem. Right now it only increaes droughts and crazy weather.

Mining gold is totally different than bitcoin. Not sure why you would even argue in this direction.

Gold can be recycled which reduces the co2 footprint / makes it more and more useful. Gold also creates emotions and supports our society structure as a symbol on rings.

It's critical for scientific discoveries and for computers.

And still we need to make sure we mine gold as co2 efficient as possible with as little impact to nature than possible. Equal to bitcoin just that bitcoin doesn't do any of what gold does.

My ring is a token to my love to mi wife and will be recycled in 80 years. Bitcoin is producing co2 when mined and whenever transfered and the base system needs to run 24/7 even if none is doing anything on the network.

Die Bitcoin die
People will simply import iPhones from elsewhere, or buy Samsungs instead.
What are you saying was the cause though? And either way, people still got healthcare and negotiated payments thinking they were close to their deathbeds prior to that era of increase.

Also 1986 was the emergency room mandate, which used Medicare payments as leverage. And of course the obesity epidemic and the low-fat diet (blaming fat for heart disease) started around then. The ACA started in 2010 but phased in over four years.
For what it is worth, the incredibly irresponsible and unethical Artist's actions seemed a lot closer to high class cybercrime..which the secret service actually handled at the time. The only reason he wasn't charged is because the secret service didn't see him as a national threat. If the FBI had been the one running the operation he would have been Aaron Swartzed.
That still doesn't tell you if whoever pirated the game would have bought the game, which is the point OP was making. Sure, you can know if 60% of the players are using a pirated copy, but if that pirate copy didn't exist, what percentage of the pirates would have bought the game? That's the interesting question that's hard to get an answer for.
> The "everything is going to hell" theory. And, as often happens, without any proof or care to explain.

How about an algorithmically-driven, heavily addicted, Brave-New-World-resembling globalized society?

Why has the concept of 'proof' been lifted so many thousand kilometers off its place as a useful tool in scientific conduct, and placed over common sense?
Computer science is essentially a management science, and vice versa.
---- Lin Pengcheng
Creator of Computer Science Management School
Creator of Management Science Computer School

Software and hardware are factories that manufacture data, so they have the same "warehouse/workshop model" and management methods as the manufacturing industry.

With more and more CPU&GPU&other cores, the communication, coordination, scheduling, and management of the cores have become more and more important, becoming a key factor in performance. This is the best field of management science, and "warehouse/workshop model" is the best practice.

Success stories: Apple M1 chip + MacOS

come soon: Qualcomm, MS, Intel, AMD, Samsung, etc.

Reference:

The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Principle-based Warehouse/Workshop Model

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
> There used to be a rough equilibrium that it was difficult to move large amounts of money around, especially internationally

Apparently not that difficult with the active support of banks (the B in CBDC), https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-fil...

> A huge trove of secret government documents reveals for the first time how the giants of Western banking move trillions of dollars in suspicious transactions, enriching themselves and their shareholders while facilitating the work of terrorists, kleptocrats, and drug kingpins. And the US government, despite its vast powers, fails to stop it.

Even criminal convictions have little effect beyond fines, https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/09/3-count-felon-jpmorga...

> Every American should be horrified by this latest report from the ICIJ; every American should be outraged that the U.S. is now second only to the Cayman Islands for hiding dirty money for criminals.

It's unclear how surveillance of mom & pop CBDC payments could help when trillions of dollars of suspicious Bank activity can continue unabated.
Others disagree: https://cryptohayes.medium.com/stablecoin-triptych-7a062e745...
> OneNote has been free for the last few years.

Only if you store your notes in OneDrive.
The fact that the same reasoning can be done for other things does not remove the justification of this reasoning.

This is why there is advocacy for a lot of eco-friendly behaviors, including those you mention.

But the problem of cryptomining is on the heavy side of the harmful behaviors -- and potentially extremely harmful if the frenzy is not curbed, as hinted by this kind of news.
Survey: Over half of Dutch scientists admit to “sloppy science” (2021)
Finally a free version, people have ripped of others with previous paying services for years (I say ripped off because they particularly used open source projects without attribution)
Are you even aware of climate change?

Have you seen the drought USA has right now?

Do you really believe that a rich society as ours need to create tons of co2 to keep a landmark preserved?

You need to be an American with that mindset. In Germany we do this without bitcoins.

Ran energy burned through bitcoin is energy not available for real usage and therefore consumes co2.
> [...] which may be beneficial for the population, [...]

Do keep in mind that evolution mostly works on the level of genes, and perhaps individuals. It doesn't really work on the level of the population.

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection
It's crazy that the people doing some of the most complex and demanding research on the planet are the ones who teach under graduates too, trying to get tons of papers published, etc, etc. Obviously the educational quality suffers when davulty have to do so many complex and different things at the same.
No. It wasn't the Secret Service's business. That's why he wasn't charged. If it were the FBI he could have been charged for unlawful use and a litany of other things.
Funny Wild speculation time: In ancient times, when the times got rough, there was always a pre-crisis-phase, aka you witnessed something traumatic, but were not yet impacted by it yourself.

Stressing yourself out and triggering that "horror"-phase (movies/ evening news) makes your body go into the "binge" for reserves during crisis mode.

Testable Hypothesis:
End of the World screaming makes you fat, Continuous bored calm and mental safety feelings make you thin.
You can just upload them on Library Genesis, though seeding a torrent is also not that hard. Buy a VPS with crypto, and seed the torrent there. Besides, I doubt they would come after you anyway; The PR will hurt them more than stopping you.
What makes you think there was inherited luck involved?

People make their own 'luck'.
at one job, when we hired a new sysadmin my then boss told him: if things are working well enough that you have nothing to do all day then you are doing a good job.

i don't know if he ever reached that point.
> If the fee is 20x on their profits from iphones, personally, I'd leave -- for a few years at least. The opportunity cost is very high: leave for 2+ years and prompt the UK gov to act. Then return

And loose the customers base who would otherwise be locked into iOS/Apple ecosystem? It’s not just profits from iPhones they would be loosing.
It's a can of worms. The trouble starts when the problem is solvable and/or doesn't pass to the next generation, and yet some parents insist their children not to be treated, or even to be inflicted with the problem, in order to keep them within the community of other people dealing with that problem.
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The Satiety Index is for measuring how satisfied you are with various food.
Enter the humble potato.
https://scottabelfitness.com/potato-and-the-satiety-index/

I did a sweet potato diet for a month a couple of years ago for medical reasons.

I was never hungry.
It might even trigger adaptive behaviours.
Things are going crazy in the whole IT field now and as I business owner I am looking more and more at things like https://doit.software/services/staff-augmentation . Wish to get back to just straight-forward programming tasks but when you are in charge, God, things are getting way too complicated.
> Something very important to note here is that the comment was made in regard to a case arguing whether or not Apple agree to be legal bound by another case next year to decide the patent license fee. Apple are arguing that they'll leave the market if the fee is too high. The reality is actually that if they agree to a binding agreement in the current case, and then decide the fee is too high after the case next year and refuse to pay it, they'll be banned from selling iPhones in the UK. Their exit from the market won't be their choice.

I'm having trouble seeing why this sequence:

Court: pay $X fee or stop selling iPhones.

Apple: OK, we'll stop selling iPhones.

doesn't represent Apple choosing to stop selling iPhones.
Obsidian is really nice, and quite powerful, especially thanks to plugins. It's also moving fast, the developers are very active. I used it for a while to move on from org-mode, but kinda lost interesst because of certain excentrics it has.

One specific problem that killed it for me temporary is the lack of support for multiple vaults, to the point that there is not even a truely centralized global configuation. Everything is saved in the vault itself, including plugins. Vault is the name of the data-directory, basically your workspace. For someone using multiple vaults (work, and private stuff) on multiple systems, this really kills any motivation to use it. Did this change in the meanwhile? I losly follow the changelog and haven't seen anything yet regarding this things, but maybe I just missed it.

Other than thoise specific problems, it's awesome how activate and vibrant the community itself is. There is a very active forum and discord-server, and many awesome plugins coming from the community are available. Obsidian has really the potential to leave org-mode behind and become a serious alternative for the rest of the world.
> I like it when the code I specify is the code that's generated

But you aren't specifying it!

You're asking me to follow extra constraints that you haven't written down and we haven't agreed. Don't you think it's unreasonable when you say it out loud like that?

If you want extra constraints on top of what is already agreed in the spec then we can do that, but you have to ask for it and you have to bring me a workable spec. You want me to 'intuit' but really you want me to read your mind and follow a lot of unwritten rules!
Any org-roam users here? I started with Roam Research (one of the believers, even), but then moved to org-roam to keep the files under my control.

Is Obsidian worth trying if one's already using org-roam and is reasonably familiar with Emacs?
Wheat has been pretty successful in domesticating humans, so far.
Not explanatory. White rice has a high GI and brown rice still has a moderately high GI.