skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just an American misconception - because they don't really have the feel of continental philosophy, and what they do took and practice of it, they imported, understood, and used badly (even since the 70s).

If anything, the places where continental philosophy flourished have less of this "turning the western world upside down" than the excesses in US academia (when they don't criticize them) - and some excesses of it they do share, they import them (due to US pop/social/etc culture pressure), not export them.
My personal interest is filtering on ingress. I can feel the pressure when I breathe in, the air is going through the mask for sure.

On egress, just a quick look at the valve, it's going to stop the velocity and either block or drop particles - however ineffective that might be on egress there is NO WAY it is worse then what I see others wearing (surgical / thin cloth etc), mask off the nose, mask off while they eat etc.

Finally - folks historically have a natural "self interest" motivation. Ie, if you let folks act in a self interested way - personal protection, personal comfort - you are likely going to be better off policy wise.
I don't buy into editions, for me I hardly see them any different from language version switches available across programming languages.

Mainly, because:

1 - They require the whole code, including all third party dependencies to be available to the compiler;

2 - There is the issue about possible inconsistencies across Rust compilers, when they start to be more widespread;

3 - They are relatively constrained the scope, e.g. semantic differences across versions and how that can be handled across crates public API

Let's see how editions take care about the many items that are yet to stabilise.

Naturally Rust being 30 years younger (approximately), it will always get less cruft.

Maybe by 2045 it can manage to do the same play C++ did on C, and there will be a LLVM replacement in Rust, while at the same time, there will be domains that regardless how much cruft C++ has gained, they will continue to use, just like it almost impossible to take C out of UNIX clones and embedded, no matter how much C++ has tried.
There was Sketch before Figma, and it was great... if you were running macOS. Then Figma ate its lunch because they were able to support viewing and editing on every platform, and didn't require downloading and installing an application just to review and comment on designs.

Those advantages are only possible by either a) having a massive engineering team that can build applications for every device and a lightweight web app or b) building for the web.
Thank you for your detailed perspective, I just read this. It's a fascinating idea to make the most of everyday activities, as it enriches life.
The main thing I think is lacking is representing data in helpful and actionable ways.

A theoretical climate change example might be:

Car A emits 10% less CO2 than car B.

Driving is 30% of your annual emissions (i.e. it's significant and one of the low hanging fruit).

That 30% of your annual emissions if multiplied by 7 billion people is likely to cause X.

If everyone drives car B instead of car A, Y will happen instead.

Y is better than X, because we end up with a more verdant Earth, cheaper food, better weather, less war (insert reason here).

Therefore, our overall quality of life is higher if we switch to car A.

Without the whole information chain, you just have isolated statistics that don't really mean anything.

Convincing argumentation is not only about mathematics, it's about appealing to the things that matter to people.
Lost civilizations, as such, are entirely plausible. Anything older than the Pharaohs might be knowable today only from stone and ceramic work, and there is no inherent need for a civilization to devote much effort to those. Anyway if they did, a later one might be able claim credit for the remains. (Cf. the copious pre-dynastic stone dishware.)

We now know Amazonians were domesticating trees at least 10kya, known today only from their major earthworks and from genetic traces in plant genomes.

Professionals can discuss any of that only in the context of evidence found and revealed, which might not be forthcoming for any number of reasons, past and present.
My very rural town has a rail line pass through, and it was once the main means of moving people and goods to neighboring towns. But those services were discontinued decades ago, and now the line only hauls lumber and similar bulk industrial goods.

I would love to see passenger and freight service available here again, and I feel that this could be something capable of providing that kind of service. Assuming the existing line owner would allow it. I doubt that happens without a truly epic business plan, which I’m not seeing here.

I want to be enthusiastic about this idea, but this will be an uphill battle on multiple fronts (as other commenters here have opined more pointedly).

It’s hard to hope for something that seems impossible. I think it a safer bet to expect horses genetically modified with narwhal DNA that produces a tusk on their foreheads.
Mike Rowe might be available...
It seems they had a GPL version, however they recently discontinued it; a fork of this IIUC seems to be now maintained by a community at: https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXTalk-Community-DPE
> Microsoft’s identity became murky. Was it the Windows company? Office? Xbox? Developer tools?

Tea became murky. Was it water? Tannins? Milk? Sugar?
“The bureaucracy” is doing a lot of work there

THIS is what I want to hear more about. How was all this coordination done? Solving collective action problems is what government is supposed to do… was this a command economy, central planning, or some sort of intiative like we have now with the new “security best practices imperatives” that will use the infrastructure bill and standardize what small vendors will deliver?
Gender has nothing to do with it.
> they treat employees like crap

The local Seattle area is full of Amazon employee millionaires.
It can’t be.
And if they had tested the keyboards with any multilingual users they'd have found the new ones are broken. They overloaded the Fn key as the "switch language input" key so trying to do any Fn features like Fn+Right for End or Fn+Down for PgDn now has a 50% chance of changing languages.
So share the argument against if you are so compelled to reject it.

Please also reject all other scientific advanced that have made it possible for you to live a longer life no matter how small those advancements seem to be. For if you choose to reject the scientific community and their solutions than you should then refuse the rest right down to the safety of the roads you drive on now. Making this argument is a luxury of people who are privileged beyond their abilities.
Thanks for the report, will resubmit.
I agree with the other commenters that Operation Warp Speed was a pretty spectacular success. I just happened to focus on something specific - I really didn't mean for this comment to be some kind of anti-thesis to Operation Warp Speed. I very naively thought people were just upvoting something historically interesting. Seriously, does everything have to be political? :(

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The painting at the top of the article (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/0...) shows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner jabbing a child with a vaccine.

Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was a British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first ever vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('smallpox of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. [...]

In the West, Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human".

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner#Invention_of_the... is a really interesting read.)
Personally I don't think any kind of mask works on people who don't want to wear them. I hypothesize the reason general population shows little or no benefit with masks is because wearing masks effectively is significantly more tedious than just having one on most of the time where people require them.

People who don't want masks aren't getting fitted properly for n95's, they aren't shaving, they aren't behaving consciously in the many ways you can behave that render masking ineffective.
That should be defined in the legislation. Maybe something where the employee can for example file a complaint of unfair practises and then the issue is investigated. This is pretty much the same case when humans are accused of unfair or discriminatory decions.

I think the GDPR legislation already takes small steps to this direction.
The next wave is 3D. Not just games, but in enterprise, shopping, communication. Satya and team realize this, and the Activision-Blizzard buyout was just setting the stage for what's to come. That's why Microsoft's next acquisition MUST be Epic Games, due to their market leadership in everything real-time 3D.

This purchase would cement Microsoft firmly in the upcoming metaverse race, and provide a real set of legs to stand on to face off against Meta and Apple. Microsoft could also go after Unity, but this would make less sense as the acquisition price would be about the same as Epic, and with Unreal Engine they get a software suite that's getting scarily close to photorealism with Nanite, Lumen, and Metahuman.
> If you have premium there are no ads to block. Why bother blocking ads on YouTube? :p

> Premium is a huge benefit to creators. It pays us way more. - LS

Now I'm starting to wonder how much they make from premium viewers
Edit to add: I found out what happens when you present a video testimonial strongly calling into question vaccine clinical trials - it gets downvoted.

So what happens when you present a video testimonial like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GKPYzL_JQ - and people just dismiss it, people not understanding that with clinical trials you're meant to keep track of and report all outcomes, and not only that - by limiting the scope via an app that has limited options, and no free form input, you're crafting a very narrow scope of outcome, literally doctoring the outcome by minimizing the potential range and severity of adverse events? (If the people even watch the video or understand the implications of what Maddie's mother has shared; and if not, then you're not able to educate or inform them further - probably because it's a counter-mainstream narrative point, arguably the mainstream and government captured, regulatory capture from industrial complexes, etc)

Does the video described build or harm trust of our institutions? Does that this happened with this clinical trial, does that not automatically extrapolate that all of the other clinical trials were ignored, not given proper oversight, nor having integrity to them?
The first thing I would suggest is see if using Lisp would satisfy some need that your current solutions are not. Sometimes it is hard to even know if that will be the case, because later generations of programmers may not even know what makes Lisp different from Python/C/C++/Java/etc. I would suggest reading "On Lisp" [1] by Paul Graham to get an idea of what Lisp can do. There are many other good books, but I find "On Lisp" to get to the point of what makes the language special, as opposed to other books that focus more on computer science fundamentals or topics like symbolic AI.

You will often encounter people making bullet points of why Lisp is or is not better than <insert language> here. This was me! I was a self taught programmer who grew up in the 80s using assembly language and Basic and then C and C++. The type of hardware that could run Lisp was not available to me and my career trajectory took me towards C++/Pascal/Objective-C. My first serious encounter with Lisp was using a Symbolics workstation that was sitting in a conference room at Apple. It blew my mind! I wanted to have an environment similar to that combined with what I was working on with OS X. It never happened.

Current hardware is amazingly powerful and many of the gripes people raised about Lisp are no longer pressing issues. I don't experience memory pressure or GC lags or any of the issues that used to be show stoppers thirty years ago.

You may find that Lisp is for you and it is scratching some particular itch you may not realize you even had!

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
It's not terribly surprising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

Oracle is rich for shrewd business arrangements. I'm not sure its considered a good company technically?
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Replit is an online IDE, it'll fit well with Github/VSCode/Azure devops/NPM/Typescript. Something big and integrated is coming I think.
We are not at risk of an abundance of empty housing with nobody to live in it.

You lower prices by reducing competition from landlords, then more people who rent will buy. There's a long way to go before you get to the point of people who don't want to buy a house feeling forced to do so because they can't find a rental.

I don't know the name of the logical fallacy, but the argument you're making is imaging a far away extreme situation being undesirable and using that to justify not making moderate changes.
Not sure which cursive is taught in the US, but to me (having learned cursive writing in Southern Europe in the 90s) that looks surprisingly legible, if not for the quality of the picture in your link. Here's a high-res version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/United_S...

Except for the "double s" that looks like an "f" (that ligature was common also in fonts for bookprinting at the times, so it's not hard to figure it out if you know that), the rest looks like a better version of the calligraphy I used to have when I was 9/10 years old (and that I wish I still had, now it's a much "simplified" - in shapes, not ease of reading - version of that).

Update: also the single "s" is a bit peculiar, since it's completely different at the beginning VS at the end of a word
because people don't need to be scientifically literate to express their desires in the form of a vote, which is mainly concerned with tasking representatives with what people want, not how they're going to get it.

It's perfectly coherent to think that voting is a good mechanism to express preferences while at the same time thinking that your average person can't really validate scientific claims.
Interesting article on Microsoft. But: in what world are they forgotten??
Unit tests help developers, integration tests help logic.

This can annoy folks, but the straight forward truth is that integration tests cover the unit as well as the whole, so if time is limited, they should 100% be the priority as they bring more value.

That said, I love making sure that my code is well unit tested and I build TDD where I can to make that happen. Im not dismissing the value of unit tests, but when you have to make a choice, for me, Integration tests win.
> Actionscript 1 was a horrible thing you could only enter by selecting keywords from a dropdown menu

my memory of those times is a bit fuzzy, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#Timeline_by_Actio...

what you describe was 'actions' prior to flash 5, which introduced actionscript1 which was a normal text-based scripting language.

edit: i just had to check (thanks -- i now got to enjoy flash 5 on my windows 2000 install). the 'object actions' editor in flash 5 has a 'normal/expert mode' toggle, where 'normal' (the default) is the menu-based interface as you describe and 'expert' is the normal text editor.
i really don't understand this logic, taking the option of no security at all vs possibly flawed. it's like not locking your front door because a thief could just break in through a window.
That makes it cheaper if you can use it: a railway track has 20 times the capacity of a freeway lane.

(This is just the result of a basic Google search. It also says maintenance costs are "much less" for the railway.)

There are probably economy-of-scale issue too (we build a lot more roads), and different expectations of road vs. rail safety (a rail accident with a few injuries has national media coverage for days, upgrades costing millions may be rolled out to prevent a repeat; every day several people die on roads, the infrastructure is rarely improved).
I run a (non-tech) business and have automated out some of the day-to-day work to a set of Python scripts I wrote.

As weird as this probably sounds, I gave many of the scripts silly names and a couple of them pretend "personalities" (ie error messages/prompts will be phrased as if there's an imaginary character inside the machine).

To call software a scapegoat or "not their boss" seems a bit disingenuous. Each algorithm or script has its own goals, its own quirks and its own strengths and weaknesses, just like a human manager. Sometimes these quirks or misaligned goals lead to good people getting fired, just like with a human manager. These algorithms also replaceable and retrainable by the top-level brass, again just like a human manager.

To me, what seems wrong is not that machines are making decisions, but that there is no appeals process for the people who've had their lives ruined by such a decision.
What state actors? They are compromised by a small, private company.
I'm stuck on Notion since my much older CTO thinks Notion is 'hip'. I think it's more fair to say Notion is just the counter culture solution to the same problem O365 and G-Suite try to solve. I suppose Notion kind of made sense back when were tiny, but these days Notion is just clunky and has one of the worst search functions I have ever had the displeasure of using.

At least it apparently isn't doing well in our security audit and the security team is telling us G-Suite is in our future.
Anyway it was a massive gift to archaeologists.
Oh, thanks for the context! I never owned a Windows phone, I just played with ones other people had, same for Android. And from a total beginner perspective, Windows phone seemed a lot easier and more intuitive, but I can believe that with more use its annoyances would become more clear.

That's interesting about Microsoft really trying for mobile. My recollection is that they didn't put much effort into it, but clearly I was just unaware of it. Which is, perhaps, a sign? For all its investment, perhaps it didn't have the right marketing, as I was never aware of Microsoft's efforts for Windows Phone the same way that I am for Android and iPhone.
Let people draw their own conclusions and don’t censor or otherwise penalize them for questioning one interpretation of data vs another. Encourage people to do their own research and investigate who is funding the sources used for that research. There is no need for conspiracy theories when financial incentives exist.
The example I had in my mind was "to numpad, or not to numpad."

Apple has an, issue, with keyboard layouts.

Keyboard layouts in general are very variable because of that "numpad" issue, as well as the rarely used keys like the "right click" key to the right of the spacebar (which I absolutely adore).

Many physical keys on your keyboard only make sense if you learn to use them, hence the entire "function keys" debacle of the Macbook Pro. Jetbrains and other software for example just demands extra function keys.

I can totally understand the hardware part. Apple is good at that part, except with their butterfly switches afaik. And I'd love some more polished aluminum at my desk.
Agreed. I laugh because folks have masks on their necks, off their noses etc, when eating, when drinking etc. I don't blame them, a lot of masks fog up glasses etc if they actually are restrictive and don't have an exhalation valve.

I shave (this comes from scuba diving where shaving provides similar benefits). I have my own reasons not to want to get covid. So I like doing some things that I'm confident reduce my risk meaningfully. But I don't lecture others, I solve my own problem here.
This feels like a gross over exaggeration.
Trust wasn't lost first. Talking heads swooped in for money or power, and they sell whatever they have to in order to achieve those goals. There isn't any sort of fact they are arguing for in good faith.

You can add any number of layers of scientific rigor and it won't convince someone who has a favorite talking head.
Patreon IS VERY MUCH subcontracting hosting, and quite nefariously at that.

If Patreon is charging users for access to content, Patreon is obligated to serve it to those users, which in turn means Patreon is obligated to provide the hosting. Content creators on Patreon aren't users, they are content creators. The end user is the user. The end user is the one paying the money here.

If Patreon wants to, in turn, bill content creators for that hosting that's between them and the content creators, but the end user has absolutely ZERO reason to care whether Joe Schmo YouTube influencer paid his video hosting bill.

If I am a user and I've paid for content on Patreon which disappears, my legal recourse is with Patreon, not the content creator. I didn't pay the content creator, Patreon took my money and if the videos aren't there, Patreon has failed to provide the service for which the money was paid. Whether or not the content creator has a claim against Vimeo or Patreon is immaterial to this.

This isn't rocket science, I don't know why you are struggling to figure it out. Replace "Patreon" with "Netflix". Imagine Netflix's customers paying for access to their movies and TV shows, but Netflix decides that movie producers have to pay for the hosting because they don't like the size of their AWS bills. When the movies disappear because the movie producers don't like the size of the AWS bill either, do you think Netflix would get away with keeping the money but telling their own end user "oh sorry the movie producer was supposed to pay the AWS bill for their film's downloads, but they didn't pay the hosting bill so it disappeared, not my problem."

Or if you prefer, replace "Patreon" with "Cambridge University Press." Imagine you bought a book from said book publisher's website, and it never arrives in the mail. When you inquire about where your book is, Cambridge University Press says "oh yeah we have rights to print and distribute that book, but printing presses cost a lot so we told the book author to just print them himself. If he didn't pay for the printing and send it to you, that's not our problem, piss off."

Obviously these are ridiculous scenarios, and would land Netflix and/or Cambridge University Press in their attorneys' offices to take a look at the claims filed against them bright and early tomorrow morning if they tried to do such things.
This is just a link to a substack; did you mean to link to an article?
Having written a heck of a lot of raw HTML, Markdown, LaTeX, [gnt]roff, Docbook, and probably a few other markup formats:

- Markdown is quite close to plain-ASCII writing. (AsciiDoc or reStructured Text might be even better).

- Markdown + pandoc gives a tool for producing numerous output formats or endpoints, including PDF, ePub, and others.

- Markdown avoids fiddly bits like balancing open/close tag pairs.

- Markdown supports features such as footnotes and tables of contents which HTML does not have simple and easy equivalents for.

Yes, there are things which are possible in HTML which Markdown itself doesn't readily provide. Off the top of my head: underlined text, coloured text, and nested superscripts. That said, these are either infrequent needs or are better accomplished through other means (e.g., styles, code-highlighting within code blocks, etc.).

Markdown does allow for about 99.9% of my HTML-tagging needs, with a lot less overhead and cleaner syntax. Which is a win.

If I were to move in any direction, it would probably be LaTeX for more complex source documents.