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This list is very "philosophy academic" and focuses mostly on "analytic philosophy". In a few words, analytic philosophy is a largely Anglo-American tradition that is focused on language, mathematics, logic, and generally just being "precise." It has antecedents in previous centuries but is largely a 20th century phenomenon. However, analytic philosophy still dominates the academy in English-speaking countries.

Analytic philosophy is contrasted with continental philosophy (as in, the European continent), which tends to be more interested in politics, society, the individual, and other less technical topics. An old joke goes like this:

"The analytic philosopher will accuse the continental of being insufficiently clear, while the continental philosopher accuses the analytic of being insufficiently."

Since this is HN, you might be interested in language, logic, and similar topics. If this is the case, you will likely enjoy analytic philosophy, especially Quine, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Popper.

However, if you are coming at philosophy cold, I really don't recommend the academic analytic path. It's too easy to get lost in the weeds and decide that all this stuff is just too obscure and abstruse to be useful.

If that's the case, I suggest a very brief reading list to shake up your default preconceptions of how the world works. The goal here is to make you question your basic assumptions, which is when philosophy is at its best.

- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and On the Shortness of Life by Seneca. Classic Stoic works. Very accessible entry points to classical philosophy and Stoicism.

- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. If you read this and understand it, your entire conception of ethics, values, and how we use labels like "good" or "evil" will be shaken up.

- Republic by Plato. If you live in a Western country, you probably think that democracy is the highest and best form of government. Plato thinks otherwise and it's worth understanding why.

- A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie. This is a fairly recent book but it serves as an excellent introduction to East Asian and Japanese thought via art and aesthetics.

- I Ching. The Chinese classic is super easy to read and is diametrically opposite to the static, eternal universal Platonic model much of Western thought it built upon.

- You should also probably read something from India, the Islamic world, and Russia, but I wanted to keep my list fairly short. Some recommendations here are The Bhagavad Gita, Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, and anything by Dostoyevsky.

For reference: I have a bachelor's in philosophy from a program in the US which is almost exclusively analytic in nature.
Discussed at the time (article is dated Aug 1):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28024649 (90 points/31 days ago/113 comments)
The cone is not profitable at about 25 to 30 Cents US (including local taxes) in international markets - where dairy ingredients, stable electricity and store front rental in a fancy location are expensive. The burgers (about $2.50 USD) on the other hand rake in 100-200 % profits. Regular Coke sells at about $1 USD; again comparable to US market prices.
When traveling in SE Asia maybe 20 years ago, locals would ask me to have their picture taken. The older people would just stand there stiff as a plank and absolutely no expression on their face.

Younger kids would put their index finger & thumb in the shape of a gun and hold that under their chin and they would smile.

When I take pictures of my own kids (toddlers) they also have no idea about smiling, you have to "teach them" but then you end up with super fake expressions.
True, you shouldn't lie, but there is no documentation when you travel within the EU.
"Post-scarcity" economics as a concept is specifically about needs and not wants.
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As a matter of fact, I have been studying the economics of open access publishing. It's important to distinguish the price of open access publishing from the cost of open access publishing. Commercial publishers are hopeless because they are of course trying to make the most profit they can by obfuscating costs, practicing price discrimination, and shifting licensing fees through transitional models. ACM, IEEE, and others use their revenue from publishing to fund various other activities (like lobbying or outreach). There is a very interesting recent article about the _cost_ of publishing here: https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2

Arxiv is useful for making stuff available, but peer review and professional publishing are still necessary for academics to advance and enhance their reputation. The peer review process is what typically establishes the quality of scientific work.

One thing that software people often overlook is the cost and value of human copy editing. Scholarly work often benefits from having a skilled editor correct grammar and formatting. Metadata and citations are incredibly important, and are usually mangled badly by lazy authors. If a journal accepts Microsoft Word (which is very common outside math and CS), then it has to be typeset to produce consistent PDF. All of this human effort costs money; perhaps a few hundred dollars per article.
So would YouTube ban a video on how the NIH has prioritized research on ivermectin as a potential COVID-19 treatment?

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...

Or how about a report on this randomized controlled trial which found that ivermectin was an effective treatment?

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989
First of all, it doesn't follow in any way from my comment that I'm ‘advocating for’ that argument. You just extrapolated somehow onto the stock set of anti-copyright arguments and decided that I'm opposed to one of them.

Actually, I'm sorta happy that such kinds of blatant strawmanning and anti-copyright crowd being generally pretty obnoxious led to me thinking these things over for myself, instead of just accepting everything that gets passed around again and again. So I guess thanks for that.
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I will never understand the hubris that drives YouTube to think that, because some of their corporate antecedents built a wildly successful search and advertising platform, they are qualified to differentiate fact from fiction.
What would be the percentage where you think it starts becoming “unfair”? And how did you arrive at that figure?

Honest question.
Yup I was fully expecting this from the headline.
Is there anybody except Wallmart who will say it's a good thing when the only store in an entire town is Wallmart itself?

Why are we trying to hold Apple to standards that we know are bad, but just happen to exist in the real world anyway?
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Extra power consumption means extra money and/or bulk and/or noise on power delivery and cooling. Then all that heat ends up in my room which is undesirable for ~60% of the year.
I think this is an interesting thing. If you scale the idea of 'country' down to the size of a tribe, then you can call it taxation, whithout any euphemism. They control/own the land, they decide the 'laws' on it. If that is good or bad for development of a region is another question.
I cited numbers reported by the CDC who reviewed VAERS reports and determined that a subset met the CDC’s own criteria.

I accurately transcribed facts from an official CDC document, and even linked the source, nothing more. Do you really think that is fear-mongering?

The CDC is actively investigating many of the reports, dismissing them as not confirmed is a bit disingenuous at the very least.
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I'd like to know what their threat model is too. I've got most of the same apps (plus a few others) set up on my own server. Seems that the biggest risk of this setup is that your data is basically out in the open, on a server with a bunch of other people.
Looks like it doesn't have "compute" machines (only storage, etc)
I don't know if it's pulp, it's just not the original source, and posting a forum thread as a forum thread is too much indirection!
I didn't realize this was a sub 100k flight... wow. What a sad regression. I went to Vandeberg in 2004 to watch the X-prize launch which actually hit 100k. It was anticlimactic as an event... No confident confirmation of the accomplishment at the time, which is pretty great in retrospect, comparing to Branson's bravado at... not even hitting space, but marketing it as hitting space. Get tossed.
Good stuff, at high level it seems security engineering aspects might be missing.

I put together content around threat modeling, infrastructure attacks as well as ML specific attacks with practical examples (like using adversarial robustness toolbox from Linux foundation).

Details here:
https://github.com/wunderwuzzi23/mlattacks
No problem! Also, A Secular Age is a huge tome, so you might want to start with How Not to Be Secular by James K. A. Smith. It's essentially a summary and reading guide to the book.
It has to do with how you do that. Note this site guideline:

"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."
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You can't assume that we see all the comments. There are too many for us to see them all: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We do our level best to be even-handed, but it's way too much to expect perfectly consistent moderation, just like it's too much to expect cops to give tickets to all speeders. Of course it always feels like you're the one getting singled out and pulled over, but that's a cognitive bias we all suffer from: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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It's true that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382933 was in the flamewar style and shouldn't have been. But that comment was in reply to you (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382789), and your comment was in precisely the same style. So if we're going to try to be consistent here, the transitive logic of finger-pointing at previous comments means you end up pointing at your own.

I've scolded both of those comments now.
I can only speak for most international markets. It is a loss-leader (calculate prices v/s similar dairy) and you intentionally let the machine stay broken (if it actually is). Some minimum wage worker takes the heat from the consumer, but that's OK. If you do a 'Money-Ball' type calculation, you will find this situation is beneficial. Just Don't tell me McDonald's corporate does not know of this and somehow choose not to provide a long-term fix to the problem. The YouTube video addresses only one angle of this IMHO.
I don't see why you couldn't keep all versions of a tweet to browse (and allow direct linking to) but just display the most recent with a "This tweet has been modified link" that displays the revisions.
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I think this may apply

https://youtu.be/_5aYyl-PG-w
Spectrum does this as well in the U.S., yet some on HN wonder why the industry is rolling out ECH (formerly eSNI) and encrypted DNS.
I just imagined a AT-AT looking robot with a elephant trunk hose walking around cleaning…

That would be dope.
Hmm, some of the details of this story doesn't seem to agree with most Apple-watchers (as in people who try to figure out what the new features on the new products will be).

For example, the story mentions the addition of blood pressure sensors as a reason for the issues:

> The next Apple Watch will come with new features such as blood pressure measurement, they said, which means production involves fitting a greater number of components into a similar size body.

Mark Gurman of Bloomberg says there is "no chance" [0] that the Apple Watch 7 will have blood pressure sensors. He points to his story with Debby Wu [1] instead:

> The new watches also have screen technology that brings that display closer to the cover glass using a different lamination technique, Bloomberg previously reported. That display layer may be causing some of the production woes, the person said.

It's probably a combination of larger watch sizes, new techniques/technologies, the usual upgrades, COUPLED with covid-related disruptions that are causing the delays!

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0: https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1432798940676730886

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-31/apple-s-n...
You get the 2 year warranty in EU by default for everything you buy as a consumer, the companies cannot give you only 1 year warranty, it’s mandated by the law.
Sort of: laser-glases protect against specific wavelengths.

This is great when you are using a laser yourself as you can just get glasses that block the wavelength of your laser. It's better than nothing for pilots, since you can block against 1 or 2 of the most common wavelengths.

However if a particular wavelength were standard for protective eyewear, then an attacker would just get a different wavelength.
Copyright was invented as a reaction to the invention of the printing press. Whenever technology threatens to commoditize something, there's hand wringing and pushback from those who benefit from that thing not being a commodity. What technology makes abundant, the law makes scarce again. Things should be easy they say, yes, but not so easy as to not involve them and paying for their services. TBH I'm just glad I live in a world where the runaway success of the IP lobby wasn't replicated by e.g. the whale oil industry or the ice block sellers.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382710.
> No, as you would expect with a virus, COVID can and does cause myocarditis

I'm not sure what you mean by "No". Ofc it can cause myocarditus, as all manner of things trigger inflammation in marginal cases.

> at a rate much higher than any vaccine

Can you point to any data as justification for that conclusion?
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How do you use browsers today ?
Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes
What's this custom tiling VM? Do you have it up on GitHub?
mentioning the blood pressure sensors is probably a sign that this isn't the 2021 Apple Watch
Any specific pointers on what books you should read? (Apart from the popular books / manifestos, I’m searching for real alternatives)
> "We potentially screwed up so much that there would be so many people suing us that it would cause legal chaos. So as a result we should be granted full waivers of liability to avoid the lawsuits."

It worked for the banks in 2008, why wouldn't it work for them?
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There's ok commission money on flights (that's why it's a side hustle) - although if people booked hotels with every flight I'd do a LOT better ;)
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of what other commenters may be doing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would argue the opposite, that the limiting factor of progress actually IS capital at the moment - but not capital in a total-floating-around-sense, but rather how much capital the average person has access to.

Literally everyone is talking about the pandemic-induced economic crisis all the time now, about how businesses are going under, minimum wage workers are walking off and looking for better pay, people are losing their homes because they can't make rent/mortgage. The $15/hr argument is still ongoing, the student debt crisis is mentioned often, and most of all the housing affordability crisis, specifically the growing awareness in the media and homeowning public that minimum wage is not enough to pay for a median 1-bedroom rental in almost 100% of counties in the USA.

All of these stories of the current moment have a common theme: the people in question don't have enough capital.

So maybe the author of this article was living in a bubble back in 2018 - many of the things I mentioned were just as true 3 years ago as they are today, but since the mainstream of boomer homeowning voters was doing ok we never heard about the millions of Americans who were working two 8/hr jobs and barely making it. Hopefully the present reality has relieved the author of their delusions.
(Typical that you are being downvoted for voicing a sensible criticism against Apple.)

Let's do the maths with an example:

A service usually charges $10 a month. Add Apple's 30 percent cut and you end up paying $13 per month for the same service. So instead of paying $120 annually, you end up paying $156 with Apple pay.

It's easy to see why both the developers and the users will be outraged by this - as a developer you are losing money after adding value to Apple's ecosystem, and as a user you are literally paying Apple just for the privilege of using an expensive device that you already paid for and thought that you owned!

(Well, the user would be outraged if they actually knew that 30% of their money is going to Apple. By charging developers instead, Apple keeps its users ignorant and is indirectly exploiting their users, as every developer will just pass on the "Apple Tax" to the user. If it was apparent to the user that they have to pay Apple 30% for every app or subscription they purchase, all Apple users would think twice or thrice before purchasing an Apple device.)

(And not being able to end subscription seems a very American problem.)
When they announce that a Mac will be released in a month, that's because it's already in volume production and they know there are no manufacturing problems. If the manufacturing is still being worked on and they can't know when it will be ready then it isn't safe to announce the product.
> Not only did he quit his VP job when he saw these safety problems

Agree, great guy, putting his ethics ahead of his career

> but he went around giving interviews about them

Hmmm, gets a bit murky here. If he wanted to save lives, there's a very clear path to alerting the FAA. But he didn't do that. This sounds a bit more like he was trying to save his career. Which brings in question why he quit in the first place, and how voluntary that was to begin with.
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The article also says that the watch has a complete redesign, which as we know is rumoured to occur this year? So that adds more confusion.
It’s all stored locally on the device, so no Wifi needed.
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> cops can look but not touch which is great.

Is that still the case?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28311722
Yeah I was wondering how does it apply for companies who don't have a EU based entity, should they not dispatch to EU or it is a gentleman agreement that if they do dispatch to EU it is 2 years warranty? Who would EU fine anyway? The Us entity?

But i guess you're right, the entity point above still stands imho outside of US, but on their warranty page there is at the bottom

"THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE OR PROVINCE TO PROVINCE."

Here https://frame.work/warranty
I wish their press release wasn't advocating for a Tarot account that claims to give people psychic healing, though. This sort of thing really undermines their legitimacy in the fight against Covid misinformation.
I dunno, you can quibble with the delivery but they're not wrong per se.
Actually, it makes a lot of sense to talk about this type thing. So many consumers are utterly dependent on the free support of a small number technically adept family and friends. These people do a staggering amount to support tech companies for little to no recompense, and often their only reward is to be called upon more frequently and by more friends and family, and the network of further social circles in turn.

If it's a child asking for help, obviously then just help them, and teach them how to use problem solving techniques if they're old enough.

If they're adults, then you send them to a local IT support shop, or charge them normal rates for your own time. When the cost of ownership begins to exceed the technical literacy of users, the market may start to correct for some of the exploitation of consumer ignorance.

A large number of adults have no business owning anything more complex than a rotary phone.

It's immensely liberating to cut loose the users in your life when they begin to treat you as free tech support. It's also a really cool thing when people start to think for themselves and learn really basic troubleshooting by searching our watching videos.

Even more liberating, though, is to take a principled stand, whether it's over privacy, free software, or whatever aspect of tech you feel strongly about. Sorry, I won't even visit for family dinners if you've got a Facebook portal or Amazon echo in your house. You can opt out of the panopticon, and I'll gladly give my time helping you do that, but other people don't get to opt me in to unaccountable surveillance networks.

This guy's friends and family aren't entitled to his time in service of Microsoft products. Good on him for drawing a line in the sand.

>>Sorry to be blunt, etc...

Never do anything for free, and don't bend your principles or allow yourself to be used, even by family. The world would be a better place by far if fewer people got taken advantage of, and more people held to their values.
Do you know anybody from Bielefeld? Have you ever been to Bielefeld? Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?
It’s also wrong. Bad documentation is worse than no documentation because bad documentation can be intentionally misleading