skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the first 100 pages or so of Philisophical Investigations before giving up since I had lost track of the lines of reasoning. Here's what I got out of what I did read though:

Language is far more important in philosophy and life than we think. The biggest takeaway I got from the part of this book I read is a way of looking at problems with the limitations of language in mind. Ask yourself: to what extent is thinking speaking? What is thinking without language? Is it even possible, or is that something else?

There's this interesting idea that has stuck with me, which is that when we say words, "pictures" are "brought before" our mind. Is language (speaking, reading/writing) simply a way for us to conjure up these mental images in other people's minds? If so, how can we be sure that what they see is what we intended for them to see? I think it's clear from experience that the images are mostly right, most of the time. But when they're not, we have misunderstandings. Another interesting statement made in the book (iirc) is that we only need more language when we feel there is a misunderstanding. The word "more" is important in the previous sentence. The idea here is that when we speak, we have some desired outcome from the outset. Once we feel that our speaking has led to the outcome we wanted, we are satisfied to stop speaking. It is only when the person we're speaking to isn't doing what we want, or seems to be getting the wrong mental picture that we need to continue speaking (this is what I meant by "more language": to continue speaking).

There's another interesting area Wittgenstein explores (which I can't admit to following very well), but I'll try to conjure a mental image in your head of it ;). Basically, so far his argument (if I understood correctly) is that "the truth" is the mental images we see and the actions we take, and language is just a means to those ends. He then argues (again, if I understood him correctly) that we usually run into trouble when we take language as the starting point of knowledge. That's not very clear, so what do I mean by that? It's sort of like, words work well when we're using them to achieve some outcome. But they start to confuse us when we use them without a desired outcome from the outset: when we use them to gain knowledge. Words are not facts that we can logically make deductions from to discover new knowledge.
> Those of us in the computer industry can well remember when "640K should be enough for anyone."

I can remember the urban legend, but there seems to be no solid evidence that it was ever actually said, let alone believed by anyone. The saying is normally attributed to Bill Gates, but he denies ever saying it, and tells how he was pushing computer makers to include even more RAM.
Sign up for Upwork and Fiverr. Look at what people are charging on those platforms and then undercut them on price because you're new. Once you start getting some reviews rolling in, then slowly start to raise your prices.
The WHO would prefer you not to take the vaccine if you are at low risk. While not a personal medical argument it's still in good faith. I am being cheeky by extending their booster logic to the whole vaccine - the WHO are probably thinking it but too ashamed to say it out loud.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/21/who-repeats-warning-against-...

There are multiple vaccines too! The Australian regulator recommends against some vaccines for the young and up until recently they were the only ones available.

https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-...

I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons - God forbid you might even have a religious objection to vaccines.
> Apple is an unregulated privately-owned quasi-government entity

JFC

Apple allows 3rd-party shit on Macs. The App Store is a store, just like Google Play and Steam etc. And iPhones and iPads are a platform, just like the PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo Switch etc.

Show us one instance where someone violated the T&C of any other store or platform and were still allowed to continue to do business there.
One needs a charger and a cable to charge a phone, so even if you can use the bricks, you'd still wouldn't be able to use existing cables.
What are you trying to argue here? That Apple should just be fine with it?
> I expect the hammer will come down.

So, what are they going to do? Fine Apple for a couple of million euros? Give another reason for Apple to increase the prices of their products even more?
Or to put it another way, there is no such thing as a fraction of a human life.
That's an argument for getting rid of clocks altogether, as clock time is a social fiction. Our modern notion of global time wasn't invented until railroads and long-distance communications made it necessary.

Before that people relied on local solar time, where noon is whenever the sun is highest at the town hall. That's also socially constructed, just for a smaller social unit.

The only natural order of things for individuals is daylight where one is. In which case, one doesn't really need a clock at all, just the various natural markers like twilight, sunrise, and noon.

Of course, the whole notion of individualism is a relatively recent modern invention. Naturally humans are eusocial primates who live in close groups. So if you're after truly natural, "morning" is when your troop leaders get up and "evening" is when they start to bed down, and it's a thumping for you if you're noisy at the wrong time.

Alternatively, we could admit that modern society exists and isn't going away and work together come up with some useful global definition of social time that works reasonably well for all concerned.
If a plane crashes at the pole, what date and time of death will they record for the survivors?
As the CDC points out in the clarification, the PCR test only detects SARS-CoV-2, not influenza:

"The CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel does not confuse influenza with SARS-CoV-2."

Suggesting that labs use testing methods that can differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses does not equate to PCR tests not being able to differentiate between the two.
What the hell are you talking about? There's nothing unique about that to the US. I would argue slavery in the US was far less brutal than that of the ancient Arab world and Rome
> what makes Facebook special in this chain

Responsibility should be proportional to profit. I am not even sure Facebook is the most profitable link in this chain, but it probably is.

> Is it just a matter of practicality because Facebook is the single point of failure in that chain that can not be bypassed

And they have the best capability for that reason.
That's just a lack of imagination.

Apple's app store grip prevents whole industries from taking shape.
The same factors that would make it a good honeypot would also make it good marketing.
I played with next/next-auth and what was appealing was how cheaply you could run an app.

one thing that i didn’t have time to look into is the latency profile when you manage sessions on your own with all the application logic on edge lambda functions and the database in one data center like us-east-1.

then i started experimenting with edge redis clusters that sit closer to the lambda functions, but that was a huge pain and still not as cheap as i wanted because the redis provider was charging per redis command.

i excited to play with aurora serverless v2 for postgres
I echo this. I had youtube-dl running on my previous iPhone in pythonista.

I had a shortcut that would download list of YouTube videos from a file for offline viewing using that
Oh, absolutely! The problem was that different parameters were added at different times (by different developers), and they weren't careful enough to realize they were doing it incorrectly.

Thanks for reading!
Is the car computer in these things monolithic? Does the computer that controls all that touch screen shit also handle core vehicle control? If so, that is completely and utterly insane and should probably be prohibited by design codes.

If there is no mechanical override, whatever computer is controlling core functions had better fucking be isolated and running code that has been through "industrial grade" review processes and such. If everything else dies, that computer should still work. It should even have its own little local backup power of some kind, or be able to pull power from something other than the main vehicle power system. I'd add that it also should not permit OTA software upgrades at all, and its connection to the higher level systems should be least-privilege.

There really should be a manual override, but in the absence of one that is the only acceptable design for a fly by wire system.

I just opted for a 2022 Nissan Leaf over a Tesla Model 3. Cost was a major factor (and I'm not a frequent road tripper so the faster Tesla recharge was less critical), but so was this kind of stuff. The Tesla is far sexier with a better design and has a lot of desirable features, but I am glad that I did.

As near as I can tell the Leaf is designed like a normal car. It seems electronically controlled (I have not looked for mechanical overrides but I might), but I get the strong sense that the computer and electronics controlling that are not the same as what's running the infotainment system or even the lane keeping (it has level 2 self-drive). They are probably discrete systems. It also has a 12V lead-acid battery that can power all the electronics if the main power system totally eats itself, which is not an impossible scenario given that an EV's main power system is some hard-core high voltage electronics. Nissan can also align panels.

I really really really want to like Tesla, but this is beyond insane.

I sincerely hope that SpaceX avionics are not designed this way. They probably are not because NASA would not let its astronauts fly in it otherwise... different market with much more informed customers.
Because the usb-c spec had too much wiggle room. The bad apples will be fleshed out just like they were when usb 1.0 came out. I credit the MacBook and androids for going all usb-c to jumpstart that initiative
The EU executive body is the Commission itself.

When it comes to technical details, what happens depends on the actual legislation. There are plenty of technical committees in Bruxelles (in fact, some would say there are too many of those...), but for situations where some trickery in application or enforcement is expected, directives stay light on details and national governments will then get a good degree of freedom in adapting the rules. If a government implements a directive badly, it will eventually be challenged in the European Court of Justice, that will decide if the national rules follow the spirit of the directive.
Alphabet Inc. Class C stock has no voting rights and has never paid a dividend. On average buyers of this stock still made money, because the stock price kept going up. The last person to hold it owns a valuable asset that is generating a lot of cash, so they are also doing well and probably won't have any trouble selling it for a profit.

Btw there are cryptocurrencies who pay out staking rewards.
The U.S. SEC Is Hiring a Quantitative Research Analyst(Financial Engineer)
I really don’t understand what you are saying. Nature makes forests naturally that are great to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession
Interesting, I wonder if up/downvoting the ads in the way you describe influences the frequency they are displayed.

I would guess this is not the case, but then apparently they still are just videos subject to youtube's algorithm.
Those early cell phones were more like radios on boats and required an operator to complete a call. It wasn't at all clear in the mid-70's that cell phones would take over landlines because of the spectrum requirements of those early radios.

My point, though, is that bold people surely did make such predictions and there were naysayers as well. Just like the lab grown meat discussion.
This also depends on the day, since "noon to noon" is no longer 24 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds. So these tables aren't just "much bigger", they are also changing daily. We would have to either 1. redefine what a "day" is, or 2. redefine what a "second" is — and that's on a daily basis.

Suggesting the whole population starts doing these calculations every time they need to figure out things like "can I take the noon train and still be there on time for my meeting at 3:15 pm" or "my boss asked me to call him at 9am his time, what local time should I place the call?" is completely pointless.
Agreed, it would be nice if our linter supported a rule for this sort of thing (maybe something like this exists already)? Right now it's just a judgement call and people make mistakes :)
> In all seriousness I think Apple holding apps accountable for all content anyone on earth posts is just ludicrous

It’s radical views like this which taint the technical community’s ability to project on policy. If your principles are so hardline that they’re on the side of ads for slavery, maybe double check your priors?
Lawsuits, Indictments Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story
My experience is not very different from yours but I do that using multiple vendors, without being tied to a single one.
Since it's randomly generated and not planted by hatred, it doesn't really matter.
What does a laptop with a bunch of random data on its disk and a lot of evidence of use (grime, worn keys, etc.) let you deny that the same laptop with a generic Linux boot partition followed by random data does not let you deny?
There is a memorial that you can visit if you're passing the Louisiana / Mississippi border area along I-55. I believe the crash site is on private land and the owner made space for a memorial. The only reason I know this because I had a relative in need of a rest while driving and stopped there randomly on his road trip.
Small sacrifice I say. The people there deserve it.
Delphi does support Linux: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Linux_Ap...

It was initially aimed at server-side apps. Despite what the doc there says, you can also create UI apps through FMXLinux, an addon made available along with Delphi when you buy it.
You are right, it cannot be copied, and the URI lives on the blockchain. But the resource pointed by that URI does not. So the server doing the redirection via that JSON can redirect to whatever else, because even in the JSON we only have the asset URI, and a blockchain navigator can only check whether the JSON is according to the schema. So yes, nobody can steal your NFT, but your NFT might tomorrow be instead of a Beeple, a picture of my cat. Rickrolling on a whole new level.
Not people. Not users. Just the greedy companies and developers who wish that they could prey upon a billion users and fleece them with impunity without Apple getting in the way.

And they will do their darnedest to conceal their true motives. “BUT WE CARE!” they will howl, while salivating with fork and knife in grubby hands.
> iPhones and iPads are a platform, just like the PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo Switch etc.

Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point. : Folks are thinking of Apple like it's just a video game console, when the more apt comparison is Comcast or AT&T.
I used nyxt but the lack of extensions really stopped my use of it dead in its tracks

I need a password manager for instance, and its nice to have it integrated.

Having bookmarks sync'd too is a requirement.

Firefox containers would also be nice too since I want more control over privacy.
yup it works.

Here's a post: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=158322.msg701...

Direct link: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=12202
I don’t think so. Do you have trouble accessing it? The whole thing is cached with CloudFlare.
Meep! is extremely racist/sexist (or so it will be determined).

People figured out how to abuse the very simple chat emojis that Nintendo offered, or that came with Hearthstone.
Why not wireless charging?

I don't mind the connector (lightning works well), better would be mandatory quality of the cables (the iPhone cables are regularly breaking).
I've played since 2006 and while I don't find much time these days, I return to it every few years to scratch an itch. I played a lot of ADOM in the old days, and naturally jumped onto DF when it appeared. With tilesets, things became easier, and then with Dwarf Therapist, easier too. Then we got packs like the "Lazy Newb" pack, and with Steam coming too, it'll become even more accessible to folks.

The depth of what can be achieved is what amazes me as an engineer. I can build cisterns to hold water, underground reservoirs, a series of mechanisms to refill the water, and to move it to consumption points, through the use of labelled levers, but be sure to smooth the stone, lest you get dusty water. Have some drain away to create mist in a common area, everyone loves mist. And another floodgate to create a defensive section, should invaders breach the entrance.

This is but one such area that can be brought about through the mechanics of the game, not to mention swimming practise in 1/2 depth water (7 is fully deep) and more.

A truly wonderful game, and I'm honoured to have a crayon drawing from them, to have been like yourself a part of its history. Strike the earth!
Yeah, I was a little surprised too - I think because there were two constructors the compiler couldn't be certain whether an instance of the class did or didn't have the field initialized?
Is somebody aware about technical impacts of this kind of change ? I mean, it must break tons of softwares that need to be updated no ? Or I'm just too pessimistic
As someone who has their own SaaS bootstrap template and has been looking around the market. I can say, this is not the ultimate.

If you look at either:

* https://www.getparthenon.com

* https://www.saaspegasus.com

I think you'll see lots of features you should incorporate into yours.
It matters for deniability and for reliability. If you have LUKS, you really don't want to corrupt the header.
From the article:

The ban on plastic packaging will apply to fruit and vegetable products weighing less than one and a half kilograms.

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So it not for bigger packages. Wonder what the package size mix is? If most packages are more than one and a half kilograms?
I'm also a happy AMD/Linux user. I have the same GPU as OP, but with 5900x, 64Gb of RAM and the x570 motherboard. Except for Bluetooth, everything worked without any headaches. There was some screen/display issues at first (related to the card, but I got it 2 weeks after launch and AMD hadn't shipped official drivers back then) but now it has incredible performance to run multiple screens without any lag.

One suggestion: Get an NVME with a heatsink. The difference in write/read speed is simply ridiculous. You can get 5-7Gb/sec speeds and it makes your environment ridiculously lightweight.
> What the hell happened in the last 20 years?

This is a well known target for data collection, going back well beyond 20 years. It has been proposed before that municipal sewage systems be monitored for byproducts of explosive and chemical weapons manufacturing, as well as surveying illicit substance use. Ambassadors have long been careful about where they take their dumps, and porta-shitters occasionally pop up on embassy grounds during periods of high tension - despite having a functional sewage line.
> Apple doesn't forbid me from doing a private business exchange with Epic on my device

I don't think Apple can do that. What Apple can do, is to not allow Epic to use their distribution service, known as AppStore.

What you install on your iDevice is your own business and Apple cannot do anything about it. That's why jailbreaking your device is completely legal, you own your device you paid for and you can do whatever you like with it.

Epic can develop a jailbreak or use a jailbreak distribution service to distribute their Apps. You can hack your phone and if Epic's licensing allows that, you can install Epic games yourself. You can hack your phone, install a special distribution of Android to you iPhone and install it from there.

Apple can't do anything about it. Not easy as tapping a button you say? Well Apple is not obligated to make any of this easy. They make it very clear that they support app installation through Apple AppStore and and no point they promise to help you out to install apps through any other means. If you want to do that, you will have to do it without the help of Apple.

Or you know, don't buy Apple devices if the arrangement doesn't work for you.
Right, but that's not small enough to make a difference. To go to the extreme, if your population size was 100, and some guy died of the flu, that's a 1% death rate! That doesn't actually mean the death rate of the flu is actually 1%, because you don't know whether that guy just happened to die because your group was unlucky, or that the death rate is 1%. As your population size gets bigger this becomes less of a problem. For instance, if your population was 1,000,000 and 10,000 died of the flu you can be fairly certain the death rate is actually 1%. With that in mind, you can intuit that the difference between between 1.6bn and 2bn (1920) and 7 billion (today) is negligible, although feel free to quantify this with actual calculations.
Data Privacy and the Importance of Technological Protection
I use a datatraveler 2000 to store my kernel+initrd, only inconvenience is having to unlock and insert it whenever I boot my laptop.

If I use the keyfile feature, the dt2000 boot will automatically unlock my FDE, making the inconvenience a bit of a wash with arguably improved overall security. It's also nice that I can unlock the dt2000 in private or otherwise independently from the laptop, since it has a battery. Think bathroom break to unlock, insert to boot on return kind of thing. It also supports a read-only mode, requiring switching to writable whenever updating the kernel/initrd.
If your principles are so black and white that simply others' beliefs happen to benefit the bad guy one time, maybe double check YOURS. That's like saying, "Oh, we need to outlaw encryption. Oh? You disagree? Why are you siding with the child pornographers?"
They are $2 short but own one bitcoin that might be worth $50,000 to someone else.

If I buy a car for $20,000 I'm $20,000 short but I also own a car.
Very interesting (or disturbing) in this regard is the UK after Brexit, where one by one the mobile operators are all reintroducing roaming charges now that the relevant EU law no longer applies.
That's strange because I have separate roaming data in my contract and it's way less than my local one.
Refrigeration is to blame as much as anything.

Raising a cow is only a part of the problem, and it isn't that much harder to raise 10 cows than 1 cow, if you have the acreage. O(log) at the worst.

Butchering and preserving the meat was the O(n) operation, and usually required O(n) resources to salt or smoke, which could be expensive resources depending on your time and place in history.

Refrigeration changed the game, to where we could preserve the meat as fast as we could butcher it. Now instead of spending days or weeks salting, canning, smoking or curing your meat, you can fill a freezer in an afternoon.
If that were the case, getting to the interview phase wouldn't provide you much benefit anyway.
I'dont have a roadmap. I'would like the template to stay generic. I'guess I'll add features when i meet the need.
Do you have a specific feature in mind ?
Well, they are standardized - it's just that the standard (sadly) accepts a substantial number of different plug designs... Some countries did have to adapt when the standard was defined or if they joined after the standard was set. Compared to what we had before, it was a substantial simplification of the landscape, even if it doesn't go all the way to mandate a single plug design.