skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware, but my point is that you're not making a synthetic claim - you're not proving the (axiological) meaningfulness of a concept. You're just saying "I use this word 'utility' to describe the satisfaction of wants".

It doesn't really answer any of the questions that were posed, about how you can measure and compare the 'want-satisfying-ness' of different things. How do you measure the degree of want? How do you measure the degree to which a want is satisfied? How do you compare those across human beings?

If by 'trivial' in your original comment you meant 'trivial' in the technical sense[0], then I'd agree with that. "I define 'utility' as 'satisfaction of wants'" is a statement that neither predicates nor proves anything of the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triviality_(mathematics)
A study of ~25,000 persons found stronger statistical correlations between the belief in having been infected and long COVID symptoms, than between serology tests of prior infections and long COVID symptoms. Except for the persistent loss-of-taste symptom, which does not correlate with belief in prior infection and only correlates with serology test results. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34747982/

The layman interpretation of this is that long COVID is possibly a mental health issue associated with the belief in having had a prior infection, except for the loss-of-taste symptom which is very specific to COVID (vs, say, persistent fatigue). Not to say "it's not real", but maybe "it's not always viral in origin".
except with guitars you can have both!
Scab jobs are a negotiating tactic; they’re very temporary and that should be known. This strike will eventually be over and they’ll fire the scabs immediately (and the scabs will be blacklisted). Taking one of those jobs does nothing to advance a person’s position and in fact will probably leave them worse off.
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Its usually 6 months. But there may be an alternative 'limited' lock up triggered earlier if the stock price is above a certain level continuously for a certain period of time.
The fact that something can be done doesn't mean it should.

At one point, society deemed it acceptable to amputate various parts of a body as a form of punishment. Imagine you have a time machine and get to go watch a public torture and execution ca. 1200AD. Would you consider literally frying someone slowly into charcoal something you can "make a case" for? Why not? The social contract of there and then says it's fine?

There are places today where the social contract is still pretty much the same it was throughout human history: "we'll murder our way to any resources we need, and if you try to stop us you're dead (and if not, we might even share a bit)". Would you say this contract is good and just? Would you support it? And if not, why should we support yours, if it's precisely how your own "social contract" looks like to anyone that is not you?

Which part of the Afghan society voted you and your friends in? Why is your social contract important and just, yet theirs doesn't mean anything to you? Moreover, you went there specifically to break their contract: there's no way a full-scale invasion doesn't break at least the guarantee of single jurisdiction. So, your social contract - good; their - bad. Because terrorists?

On a related note: "society does and it has deemed" sounds to me like "and God said it was good". It's not an argument, it's an observation at best, but most often utterly empty. If you want to tell us that killing civilians with an attack helicopter should be kept under wraps, you should really give us the reasons why you personally think so. You really cannot speak for the "society", now can you? Or are you Borg?
Democratic-party affiliated journalists. Even left-of-center journalists. But the Clinton emails were an exposure of attacks against Sanders.

It's so bizarre that Glenn Beck's view of the world, making Wall Street Iraq Warriors who ended welfare as we knew it and who put more black people in prison than anyone while deregulating everything into basically Lenin, ate up even the libertarian right.
Good pair of handmade American boots. Bought a pair of Chippewa for about $500 several years ago. Aside from the occasional resole, the leather only looks better with age -- and all you need is a good polish and brush to get them ready. You can also dress them up or down, depending on the occasion.

In my opinion, shoes are some of the few things you should splurge on -- but do look at build quality, and not just a brand name. For example, some of the higher end Timberlands will run you about $250-$350. Despite the high-price they are cheaply mass-produced in China, and the build quality reflects that.
Not even perl5 was that bad.

They also destroyed itself from inside out, but cpan and packaging still works, much better and much more reliable than with python.
Isn’t this just Rawls’s theory of justice? That the inequalities that exist in a society should be arranged to benefit the people who have it worst?
Perhaps you shouldn't form your opinion of the world based on 'news'. I live in Portland and don't feel in danger, and our homicide rate is one of the lowest for a big city in the country.
I think unions should change the way they work and focus on helping people find other jobs. Trying to get a company to meet your demands about increased wages and benefits seems futile in a world where competition is local and global.

For example, if a tech union offered networking opportunities, resume-building help, internships, and access to companies looking for employees, I would join.
>...3G has another 12 years ahead of it

"Assembly Research founder Matthew Howett told BBC News the change would probably come sooner than the government's 2033 deadline."

12 years is the deadline by which it must be done, not how long it will be around. 3G will be shut off in as as little as a year in some cases:

"BT revealed plans to phase out 3G by 2023, and 2G later in the decade."
I have a Stanley 4 1/2 which I've dated to c. the 1890s and several wooden planes which are even older! I cherish them (and my other hand tools).

In a similar vein, no rasp or file will outlast its user just by its nature; nevertheless, Auriou rasps are some of the finest tools I've had the pleasure of owning and run circles around mass-manufactured ones.
You'll find the shopping / transit mix in San Francisco (Westfield San Francisco Centre and neighbouring shopping via Muni Metro), New York (5th avenue generally via the subway), and Chicago (Miracle Mile via the El). Few other US cities can claim downtowns with high rates of transit service, though a few exist and even those with poor transit tend to have the best options near city-centres, along with shopping.
When people's self-interest is on the line--a wager, an investment, etc.--often facts do matter. All that stubborn ideological pretense drops away. People's overconfident pronouncements on the economy, or whatever, would diminish into cautious qualified speculation if they had to put money where there mouth is.

At least some of the times.

(:
Like I said, I don't know if it was a Motorola thing and Samsung is different. Seems like that is the case since Samsung is considered the high-end option for android.
What things there sound like steps backwards?

IIUC there are three "problems" raised here:

* With PEP 517 you can only get the files as a wheel or a tarball (I assume the latter refers to the sdist). The author dislikes having the compression done just to decompress again immediately. Fair enough, but this sounds pretty minor to me. Would there really be much time spent in this compress/decompress? Especially relative to everything else a gentoo update entails? Isn't this just a feature that can be added later, bringing a minor speed-up?

* PEP 517 doesn't support data_files. This is a surprising problem for a distribution maintainer to raise. I thought the whole objection to data_files was that it allows python package installations to stick files in arbitrary places, i.e. do stuff that should be the sole preserve of the system package manager. Why does the author want it to be allowed?

* distutils and "setup.py install" deprecation. I don't see the alternative here. Yes, it requires downstream changes, but proliferation of mechanisms without standardisation is the big problem with python packaging. Either it continues to be supported or it gets deprecated and removed. My vote would certainly be for the latter.

Nothing in the article even claims the changes aren't progress. The objections are about particular hassles that progress is generating for the author as a distro maintainer. And maybe they are valid but as far as I can see they are either quite minor or unavoidable if the state of the world is to improve.

I've been using python for ~20 years and it finally seems to be on a path towards some sort of sanity as far as packaging is concerned. Not there yet, by a long, long way, but heading in the right direction at least.

Edit: Oh, and one other problem: The lack of a standard library toml module when PEP 517 mandates the use of TOML. That is indeed mad. I don't understand how the PEP was approved without such a module being added.
I provided a clear example of him not being "unbiased" or "independent" and you just moved right past it. When a report was released that negated his narrative, he ignored it and moved on to the next narrative. There are plenty more examples from which to choose, like how he completely accepted Tucker Carlson's claims of NSA spying without any of the evidence he constantly demands from his opponents (media, DNC, NSA, FBI).

==He himself says he is on the left.==

Which is my entire point. North Korea calls itself a democratic republic, fortunately we can look at their actions and conclude they are neither democratic nor a republic. Creating a persona of "being on the left" is different than actually being on the left.

That said, I agree with Greenwald on a many of his points (the US has an awful human rights record and props up multiple violent dictators). My problem is his constant whataboutism and deflecting everything back to Assange and Snowden. He has a clear bias and it's ok to accept that for what it is.

Anyways, my original claim was about the dubious classification of Project Veritas as journalism, not Greenwald.
Advent of PBT – Day 10
"Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" by Andrew Steele (2021)

For a very no frills account of the current state of anti-aging research.
How much do they cost ?
Maybe the archaeologists of the future would weave scholarly narratives as to how these ferrous-based lifeforms lived, what their diet was and how they came to perish.

Film-makers would use stop-motion techniques to depict battles between Fordusprefectops and Chevroletcamaro-Rex whilst their own early ancestors look on, clad in loincloths and bras made from footwell mats.
People have mentioned things to you [0], you ignore them and repeat this phrase.

So despite what you say, you will not be “all over it”. You have no interest in changing your mind or in engaging in genuine discussion.

You won’t even update “14yrs” which is just a clear factual error.

[0]: getting wealth out of a corrupt country for one
Map Design Guide – Best practices ensuring accessibility/usability [pdf]
Great work, guys!

As an aside, do you have any (broad) insights into who installs the browser extensions? I don't mean the individual people -- I mean is it media, law firms, students...?
(Generally) Lets state: 'Real illnesses that people are suffering from can be psychosomatic or affected by mental status.'-all the people saying 'True!', "even plagued by a broken leg may be something like...'handicapping' everyday life"

But another take at the same stand, framed as question: "Is the subtext of your comment that a 'real illness" is independent from mental state?"-now everyone... um '...that sounds interesting!'

(-;

Maybe related (cos Weekend ^^) Comic 'Without Big Will' (in German):

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These things are built to last indeed. It’s the no 1 item I pack when I go camping
I've battled with Python's packaging systems and other tooling and performance problems for more than a decade. Every couple of years some new thing comes along promising to fix package management, but it always fails spectacularly on some important, mainstream package or use case. I suspect a lot of this complexity comes down to the significant degree in which the Python ecosystem depends on C: not only do we need to package Python programs but C programs as well, and some people think we should ship C source code and build on the target machine and others think we should ship pre-built C binaries and dynamically link against them on the target machine thus Python supports both mechanisms; however, both are perilous in the general case.

And interestingly, Python depends so hard on C because CPython is very slow, and CPython is very slow because the C-extension API is virtually the whole of the CPython interpreter (many interesting optimizations to the interpreter would break compatibility in the ecosystem). So it certainly feels like all of Python's major problems come down to this decision to lean hard on C and specifically to make so much of the interpreter available for the C-extensions.

The way out as far as I can tell is to define some narrower API surface (e.g., https://hpyproject.org), get the ecosystem to consolidate around that, deprecate the old API surface, and then make the requisite breaking optimizations such that the ecosystem can feasibly do more in native Python. This requires leadership; however, and the hard truth is this has not historically seemed to be Python's strong suit--the Python maintainers seem unable to drive out big, necessary changes like this (which is certainly not to say that leadership is easy or that I could do better, particularly when Python is so established in many respects).

Personally, I've come to use Go for 99% of my Python use cases and it's been great. There are dramatically fewer C bindings (<1% of the ecosystem by my crude estimation), so the build/packaging tooling and performance are orders of magnitude better than in Python. Static typing works well out of the box, real static binaries are not only feasible but trivial (as opposed to Python where you try to build a zip file with your dependencies and the result is hundreds of megabytes and it's still missing the runtime, std libs, and various .so files). Further still, builds, tests, and every kind of tooling are far faster than with Python, and far simpler to install and manage. Unless you're doing data science, I don't think you'll regret the transition.

EDIT: On the subject of Python to Go, looks like this case study hit the front page shortly after posting this comment: https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/-/blob/master/GoNotes.ado...
yeah, that's actually the reason i've got one

as a constant reminder that startups fail
Host them where ever you like, but hopefully something resilient to a hug of death.

I hear tweet threads are really appreciated /s
Your choice of straw man here is interesting.

Of the options I mentioned, you seem to have picked only self-purchased hardware with no redundancy and no backups (your addition) to compare with, and also throw in manual deployment (why?).

Most businesses are somewhere between a forgotten old dell server in the closet and fully hosted multi-region auto-scaling fully bought in to AWS, and that's OK!
The buried and overgrown remains of any modern junkyard, port, railway depot or rubbish dump would be a decent shallow ore for many metals. During the industrial revolution we have consumed almost all of the shallow fuels, but we haven't consumed any metals, they're right here on the surface and more accessible than before - it's just that they're currently tied up in some products or structures we use.
Try providing arguments instead of silently downvoting, maybe we can all learn something.
More likely you’re being downvoted for the casual non-solution to a common and real problem people are wrestling with. If people were all talking about how they try to avoid over-eating, saying “oh I just don’t over-eat. That’s my solution” contributes little to the conversation.
Shocking as it was, the Collateral Murder video was nothing exceptional. It didn’t reveal any secret truth or grand conspiracy. The unfortunate fact is that this is just what war is like.

War means high-stakes decision-making using low-quality information by agents who are human and therefore fallible. War means chaos and brutality and unjust death on a grand scale. When you vote for war, this is what you get, no matter how good your intentions. It happens every day in every war. The only difference here is that it was caught on camera and released.

So what did Assange achieve by releasing this video? We already knew war is bad. The existence of the video just evidences that the US military is good at record-keeping, which if anything points to an institution that cares about the actions of its soldiers and is capable, in principle, of holding them to account, rather than just unleashing men with guns to do random unsupervised violence, which is what war looks like in many corners of the world.

The people to get angry with are the politicians and media pundits who who rush other peoples’ kids to war for trumped up jingoistic reasons, not the kids who inevitably fuck up the operation on the ground.
I think two mirrors at an angle would provide an opportunity to get much better precision in estimating the location on the screen being touched. Wondering if you have tried that.
I have just started getting into wood working and want to build whirlygigs which I believe would go a lot faster with a laser cutter. I am thinking the way to go for now might just be a scroll saw for cutting and diode laser for pattern transfer but eventually I'll probably get a CO2 unit.

Would You mind telling us what brand You are running? I have heard good things about the Epilogs.
Experience told me to be very conservative when picking frameworks. For small projects and personal, sure, just pick whatever you want and have fun! But for serious projects, you should stick with old and stable software.

I made the mistake of picking Flask for a really big project when these microframeworks were a fad and everyone was dismissing the big ones like Django and RoR. That was a very costly mistake. I learned the hard way provides way so many things out-of-box that I always took for granted but I had to manually implement in Flask.

Take tests for example, Django automatically makes sure that any DB operation is cleaned by the end of the test. That's sometimes that I never gave a thought until our Flask tests started leaking everywhere. The way that Django handles that problem is very clever and we had to manually do it Flask.
How Spotify, Tile and Match brought an antitrust fight to Apple
Because they are sabotaging labor’s ability to negotiate fairly. Turnabout is fair game.
There are no spoilers of any kind. It is essentially completely disconnected from any of the actual films other than featuring avatars for two of the lead characters and revealing agent behavior that was made clear before the middle of the first Matrix film.
Can We Trust What’s Happening to Money?
I've been thinking about this a lot, and am glad that the authors bring up a definitional argument. The problem of "misinformation" is so poorly defined that it's hard to even begin addressing. The label includes things like...

* False and misleading facts

* Political propaganda

* Politically skewed reporting (e.g., some would argue the NYT's ad campaign where it specifically labels its work as 'truth seeking' as a form of misinformation)

* Content moderation

These are all separate problems/challenges.

Furthermore, most people read the news for entertainment purposes[1]; they don't want to be corrected.

So distinguishing between entertainment and actual news consumption and then splitting the problems up in a way that can actually enable you to start addressing them concretely is a sorely missing strategy in this space.

**

[1] I interviewed a few dozen people about their news habits and applied the "jobs to be done" framework to their habits: https://10millionsteps.com/lessons-for-news-startups
I would say that the purpose of the calendar is tracking time/days in general. Astronomical events are just used as a tool to do that. Earlier calendars were lunar-based instead of solar-based, as keeping synchronized with moon is easier.
or maybe it was just a fairly common thing, then?

the math used in the device is not complex, nor is its construction. it is only impressive to us because of what we assume about cultures of that time: that they are dumber than we are, less intelligent.

they were just as smart as us, but they were far fewer in number, and had many more limitations than we have when it comes to the library of technologies and skills they can call on to accomplish their goals.
Lyn Alden probably has some of the best commentary on the current state of the US economy. Would highly recommend checking out her blog if you're looking to learn more: https://www.lynalden.com/
Intent matters, and the intent is clearly to deny services.
It sounds that it was hard to learn and use for him, that's why he preferred Go and Python. It's a frequent complaint and the step from Python to Go is indeed easier than from Python to Rust. He also had some philosophical concerns about the crate system.
Maybe they first start a 5 year project to create an apropriate vcs infrastructre...
Monks work for their living. They make soaps, candles, bread, icons, prayer ropes, translations of holy books, etc. There are cooks, and they rebuild/repair the buildings. Their work is generally more "local", but one of the ways the monasteries survive is by selling their goods to the outer world.

The main reason for being a monk is to crucify one's ego each day in obedience to one's spiritual father and more importantly, to God. "I want to monk my own way" completely undermines the whole way of life of a monk.
Zeems awfully convenient to label anything that embarrases the government as 'secret national security matter'. The government can literally get away with murder
I think this could be generalized to say that bolt-on necks are more robust than set necks in terms of maintenance over time.

I do tend to agree with that, because over time the tension from the strings will pull up on a neck and make the guitar sound and play poorly. To fix that you have to take the neck off and adjust the angle of it back to the optimal position, which is a big task if the neck is glued on. With a bolt-on unscrewing a few bolts and adding a shim is trivial, using a capo you don't even need to take of the strings.

It's a main reason why I like Taylor acoustic guitars too. The bolt-on shimmed neck makes neck resets a breeze and will keep the guitar playing well for a very long time.
You could say the same thing about the whole spectrum of ethically questionable jobs. I think we can all agree that there is at least some point on that spectrum where "Well, I needed a job" is an unacceptable excuse.

We're currently living in one of those rare times where there are a lot of non-questionable jobs going unfilled, and employers are a little uncomfortable with the number of job vacancies. So, if you have to take a job, there are currently plenty out there that keep your hands clean of strike-busting.
It is not just Slash. Even Jimmy Page wore it almost by his ankles. Pretty sure it improves feedback.
supported by a couple searches eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilocarpine
I'll then go with C . For a language designed more than 50 years ago, it has withstood the test of time pretty impressively.

It's a breath of fresh air to write software in C to do some low level device development
for someone who spends his life in high level web frameworks.
Do you have more sources about this? I find it quite interesting