skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, the society he's attempting to explore is a society in which justice is the single overriding principle. I think if there is anything to take away from that, it's that such a society maybe isn't so great.

His critique of democracy does absolutely have a few good points. A lot of people get really mad when they see it, but I don't think that is at all constructive. If democracy is a good idea, it must stand on its own legs. We can't counter its criticism with what it promises to deliver, but only the reality of what it delivers. Denying or attempting to conceal its problems makes addressing them that much harder, and which problems are easier to fix after having festered for a long time?

At the same time, I think the very Athenian democracy he criticized solved many of our problems today. Athenian officials had real skin in the game in a way ours do not. They risked ostracism (10 years of exile) if they misbehaved.
The graph is bad - the y axis is way off.
Quick search in EU and I can't find any ipad in the 100-200 Euro range, from big retailers maybe something 2-3 years old basic model on 250 Euro. Maybe a EU thing

In any case I wouldn't buy my children a device costing twice as much as a respectable Samsung tablet that will last them 3 years at least (counting security updates: https://security.samsungmobile.com/workScope.smsb ) like Tab A7
I haven't worked with recent PHP versions, other than through WordPress, which, if I understand correctly, does PHP a big disservice.

My last serious encounter was when I build and scaled a WordPress hosting company 5+ years ago. Which meant all my exposure to PHP was WordPress, which meant I wanted to avoid it as much as possible.
I've recently written a basic telegram bot. It really is quite trivial; could be easily done via a bash script calling cURL and installed as a cron job.
Me enters room, hits search button in (encryped) room in the Android client. A dialog pops up telling me that search in encrypted rooms isn't yet supported. Export? Nothing even remotely like that visible. So if it exists, it's some kind of fractal existence ;-0

The Mac client has a search button and it asks me for a search term. When I enter a string (which I know to appear in the room I selected) the search reports ""No results" ... I'm not sure if I'd call this an "existing search capability" either ;-0

OK, I have to admit that the latest Mac client now (finally) has an export feature, as I just checked. So it seems usability improvements happen, albeit slowly and unevenly deployed.
David Allen's Getting Things Done
The longevity of iPad is unbeatable, even by iPhone. I bought new in late 2016 the first iPad Pro 12.9" released in late 2015. Today it still works great without lags whatsoever. And it is still be supported by the latest iPadOS! My only complain is that the battery doesn't hold up as it used to be.
PHP is a language with various features that might make it attractive to certain people:

• CGI-like execution model when used for the web, making resource leaks very difficult and encouraging scalable design

• not only integers and floats, but also strings, lists and dictionaries as mutable value types (copy-on-write) — this is a big difference from JavaScript and Python

• unusually for a dynamic “scripting” language: true classes and interfaces, and optional type declarations enforced by the runtime

• a standard library that doesn't require import statements!

• (a very new feature:) fibers, a way do asynchronous execution without every function in the callstack having to be aware of it

• binary-safe strings without presumptions from the language about what encoding is in use

• a very nice package manager

• a highly optimised runtime

But its history has made it a quite messy language which can be frustrating to learn, and which will always carry a higher mental burden than something like Python. It is a shame.
If the maintainers have a good back-porting policy, they'd also put out a new 1.0.X release so that users of <1.1.0 can upgrade and get the fix without also getting the new function in 1.1.0.

This is something that Apple sometimes does for security updates on macOS: they'll release a new patch version on all supported versions.
This article highlights a few fundamental flaws:

- design certification treated as "just another 737" which ignored fundamental deviations in hardware and software, complicated by safety certification by manufacturer instead of public employee

- hardware design including a "dynamic instability" in which
airplane approaching an aerodynamic stall had a tendency to go further into the stall due to lift produced by the oversized engines at high angles of attack, which was intended to be mitigated with software

- omission of using multiple inputs, including the opposite angle-of-attack sensor, in the computer's determination of an impending stall

- a changed philosophy about human/machine interaction from humans winning a battle of the wills every time to computers winning a battle of wills in cases of envelope protection

The final item is perhaps the one most fundamental to other cases of safety critical human machine interaction designs. If we are signing over agency to machines for envelope protection, that means we need in advance to understand every potential edge case scenario where that envelope may be mis-framed. Such comprehensive foresight in some environments may be intractable. For the 737 this was exasperated by the presence of an inherent source of instability originating from hardware design.
Ironically, a massive government infrastructure program is what we used to describe as political
Sorry for not being more clear.

I was saying this exact thing: WordPress is just a CMS, which severely limits what you can sanely do with it. You won't build a PSP in a CMS. That was my point.
This is awesome!

> First, F# doesn’t support function pointers

As an experiment, can you work around this with the (deprecated) inline CIL operator: (# ... #)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15968054/what-is-the-syn...
btrfs is a drop-in replacement. Nothing changes for the user when they switch to it. With Wayland many basic features are missing even today. (Yes I know someone will explain here that everything works. Don't make me laugh)
Worth pointing out that for the longest time, Firefox on Wayland was borking the clipboards regularly, forcing a restart of the whole stack (at least on Gnome).

That pushed a lot of people to use the X versin of firefox, even if on Wayland.

It seems to be fixed for me now but eh... who knows
According to the article rationality started to decline at ~2000, and about at the same time psychology came short of a rejection of all the prior research due to deficiencies in a methodology. Maybe it is not a decline of a rationality, but an better understanding of a real value of a scientific result?

Also at 2001 Judea Pearl published "Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference", which gives mathematical tools to track causes and effects. This book is full of "beliefs". Less so then the previous book of the same author ("Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems"), but nevertheless.

I believe, that the use of word "believe" or "feel" is not a sign of rejecting rationality. In this case it is about accepting the idea that we do not know the absolute truth and inviting others to challenge our beliefs. It fits nicely with ideas of Pearl's causality which states that it is impossible to reason about causes while sticking strictly to objectivity. So I feel it differently: it is not people became less rational, it is the rationality itself became less objective.
the browser fingerprint may be software / hardware dependant

TOR will hide your IP to interested parties (unless they have NSA resources / can buy a good part of the TOR network)
ScanMyCode is now open-source
You'd be surprised how many folks (many people on bluecard visas) take such severance "offer" without any legal consultation. Many tech immigrants in Germany do not know of their worker rights.
It looks like your projects employed PHP poorly. PHP has been great for my company and my developers. We have never had to face such grave consequences because of it, and we've employed it in companies generating millions of $ of revenue.

I will pick it over any other interpreted language.
Epstein flew people to TED talks on the reg.

I thought Nelson had given one and was just using him as an example of another loser, but maybe I'm misremembering.
A Case for Societism
They buried lots of valuable stuff with the dead. A massive pile of rocks seems like a disincentive to robbers. Evolved into pyramids.
Why Mantil?
It might be linked to the rise of the internet where it became easy, on any topic, to find data that directly contradicts any other data. There was a lot less data available in 1990. Anyone who makes a habit of saying "the data shows..." is going to experience a lot of bruising episodes where they learn how wrong they were.
These other people that were mentioned are from all areas of the political spectrum.

After the Capitol Attack in 2021, Twitter deplatformed then President of the United States for inciting violence. Who in the US Government do you think is leading the deplatforming?
The beatings will continue until telemetry and location data improve.

Does S0ix-related heat increase or decrease when laptop is in a faraday bag?
Hire Hyper-Inventive Generalists; Lessons on Early-Stage Sales Hiring
Sure - this product may not have ultimately worked, but the general concept is finding ways to make insurance payouts more transparent. That is actually a good idea given the severe deficit of trust in insurance companies that has been identified as one of the issues stopping people purchasing insurance.
I think diff inference might give us that. Basically kinda like dreaming(generating) other samples and checking how they are different. This will help understand how thing is defined but maybe it works for all kind of things.

Obviously it's tough to find such algorithm that works for all types of data/embeddings.
I find my father-in-law’s Volkswagen T-Cross terrifying to drive. If it’s not distracting you with shrill warning beeps and bongs, it’s getting confused and slamming on the brakes at every slick or shiny surface. It is unquestionably more dangerous than if it just left the driving to me.

Hard to understand how people have affection for this brand.
Of course, you have to test your code. But testing is not a good way to demonstrate absence of unknown bugs and incompatibilities. You don’t know that an unknown issue exist until you have a test that exercises that particular code path which triggers an issue.

Semver looks like a promise “upgrade from 1.5.0 to 1.17.5 is always compatible” but this promise can still be broken, with probability dependent on the depth and breadth of your dependency tree.

It’s frustrating to see this promise broken when you find an issue, write a test, downgrade the dependency to semver-compatible version, and the test passes.
That does look interesting.

I'm currently using Nuxt/Vue (static) on the front end, with Apollo (this latter bit I will probably swap out).

What is nice about Lighthouse is that it is schema-first. I am far less fond of the "auto schema" approach that e.g. WP-GraphQL uses. (Though WP-GraphQL is not bad; I'm also using that in a project).
Canadian player on China's hockey team not allowed to speak English in interview
I had to upgrade Kernel 5.15 to get 4K multi monitor fractional scaling working with Ubuntu on Wayland. But it works quite well now.
> 1) “How to win friends and influence people”

I found it kind of bad. Like, really bad. 50% 'oh my, this is common sense' and 50% 'so that's where the cliche of Americans thinking that we Germans are honest, direct and potentially abrasive come from.'

I mean, I don't want to discourage anyone from reading it, but I found it very lacking and when taken literally, a bit absurd.
Reading something unenjoyable just for the sake of not having to read something else that you might enjoy doesn’t sound like a particularly compelling reason to read the first book.

Besides, if all you’re trying to do is compress lessons in story writing then you’re better off skipping the Bible and picking up a collection of kids stories - particularly for ages 6 and below because those will often also follow the same lessons of morality to help children understand how to interact in a modern society and are only a few short pages long so much quicker and easier to read than the Bible :P

The only reason I see to read the Bible is if you have a specific interest in the history of Christianity. Even Christians these days pick an choose which parts of the Bible to read and then distil those down into short stories and songs rather than reading the texts in full.
> a big improvement over the existing system, which is no crop insurance at all

Wat. It’s been provided by the federal government since 1938 [1]. It’s basically free for catastrophic. (It’s true that it’s not available for all crops in all counties. But that’s usually for a good reason. And private insurance fills the gaps.)

[1] https://legacy.rma.usda.gov/aboutrma/what/history.html

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act_...
title correction: 9 ways lego has researched and expanded it's product line to increase profits while continuing to sell less popular traditional products
It pains me to say this but you are right on that front. The software itself is amazing to use though.
That dark pattern where a website gives you the next article it thinks you should read does not work well here on this older article. Below the Lego article I get “Hate math? Then don't help your kid with their homework” — which it proceeds to load hundreds of times (a search for the word 'homework' yields over 1000 hits now) below each iteration just because I tried to scroll to the bottom. Somehow its recommendation engine ended up recommending the same article, recursing endlessly.

Stupid me, why would I expect to be able to just scroll to the bottom of the article for the website's footer?
No. They work the same. They just need more people.
Nice, just last week I got my x200 out of the closet. Now I have to replace the CMOS battery and probably repaste the CPU to get it back into a somewhat working condition, it seems like my SSD died as well in the meantime. It's always been my "oh shit I need a linux laptop to fix my network" laptop, really handy :)
I'm not a long-time Thinkpad user at all; but used a 2011 Macbook before I bought my X1 Extreme g2 a few years ago. Mostly because I've heard so many people rave about the excellent build quality of Thinkpads. After reading the article, I want to share some of my experiences:

By far the biggest advantage of Thinkpads, not mentioned at all in this article, is their spill-resistant keyboards. When I just had my X1E, I accidentally spilled an entire mug on tea over it. I turned it off, watched the tea spill out of the bottom, let it rest for a while just to be on the safe side, opened it the next day to check it and dry it off, and when I turned it on, everything worked fine as if nothing had happened. I suspect I could just have continued working with the tea in the keyboard, but I'm not taking that risk.

A kid once spilled lemonade over my Macbook, and that was an expensive new motherboard.

The battery life of my X1E is absolutely terrible. There are probably good reasons for that: it's a very powerful laptop in a very thin body, so little room for battery, lots of power, which also needs to be cooled. And on top of that, I've got a 4K OLED screen that probably eats a ton of power. 4K on a laptop is a mistake. Too much power in a thin laptop is also a mistake; it's either noisy, overheats, or throttles.

My battery life really seems to be just 2 hours. I can take it places, but I have to plug it in if I want to do anything at all.

About screens, the article says:

> However, 1920×1080 of their recent 13-inch display model yields a lousy 170 PPI. It’s enough for me, but it is just an average offering even for 2020 when it was released. What’s terrible about this is that Lenovo does not offer better options.

I don't know about 13 inch models, but Lenovo definitely does offer much higher resolution for the 15" X1E. But 4K is way overkill. For 13 inch, HD should be plenty.

My biggest frustration with my X1E, however, is my laggy mouse. I think it's tied to the hybrid graphics (it can switch between builtin graphics and an nVidia GPU, and is supposed to do so cleverly, though I question that). Screen sometimes (but rarely) flickers rapidly between cooler bluish whites and warmer reddish whites. Switching graphics modes is done automatically and turns my screen black for a second. It does this when I plug/unplug power, for example.

Lenovo's onsite support has already replaced the motherboard for this, but that didn't fix it.

The mic is also often too quiet, but I think that's Windows. I keep finding weird mic settings in Windows (that are always hard to find) that keep turning down my mic to 20% or so for no good reason. Windows 10 mic support clearly sucks and should be much easier to find.
I was a kid in the 90s and most of the things written in that article were already true.

I still broke down all the elaborate sets, put them all together in a big box, and built my own things later.
But is that at the will of your direct boss or there is a process that they have to go through? Like, if for some reason I piss off my manager, they get mad and fire my ass on the spot? How common is this in tech companies?
Empathy is an important part in understanding how to manipulate others. Without being able to put yourself into their perspective it's difficult to determine what actions will have which effects.

People over/misuse the word empathy, often conflating it with sympathy and/or compassion, when they're very different things.

A book can teach empathy while guiding people to be manipulative or exploitive of others. Just because you're able to see things from another's perspective (empathy) doesn't mean you'll give a damn about them or feel what they're feeling (sympathy).
I think I focused too much on the word framework, which is a vague word, and probably means a lot of different things depending on perspective.

My reply was more to explain why I think it is not a framework, but rather a language, to handle web-stuff. But looking at it from other perspectives, that can be "framework" just fine.
No it’s not just an EU thing tho it might be a bit worse there (I’m in the UK myself) hence why I put the other than the entry/kids tablet price range in the beginning.

New iPads start at around $300(or £/€ since regional pricing is just the unit of account change these days) directly from Apple and at around $200 for a officially refurbished 1-2 year old device.

If I was looking for a £200 tablet I would get a refurbished 9.7” (2018/2017) iPad of Amazon. The 10” 2021 iPad is/was on sale on Amazon for £320 and that’s probably the best bang for buck you can get as far as tablets go these days unless you really need a large onboard storage.
And that’s a brand new device.
I find this quite interesting - is it common for publications/websites to have Telegram channels now? Is this to use it as an RSS reader?
I think the genius story is not only false, it is elitist and dangerous. What the joke says, in essence, is that a teacher's job is to identify the Shakespeares, and then prevent anyone from getting in their way.

And what do we do with the non-Shakespeares? I guess we just dump them and move to another part of the world... Just like little Sarah, the girlfriend of the speaker's son he mentions at 8'15.

> He [James, the speaker's son, who was 16 at the time] said 'I'll never find another girl like Sarah.' And we were rather pleased about that frankly, because she was the main reason we were leaving the country.

Audience laughs and laughs at this.

I don't care for that joke either.

Yet the interesting part here is that, in some cases, it's apparently ok to intervene in your children's life -- as opposed to letting them do their thing and pursue their creativity.

Isn't it possible however, that James and Sarah would have had a child who would have become another Mozart, or Einstein?

We'll never know.
It was my second decade and definitely worse then the first one. They went from being able to use those machines long after the three-year cycle to them barely lasting those 3 years. The cherry on top was me not being able to replace a faulty keybord due to the zif connector breaking on a light touch.

This is not entirelly lenovo's fault though - the latest T-series are eyeing 1 kg and with the laws of physics not having changed, it is impossible to deliver the same sturdiness. My next one is going to be a P-series. Let's hope it still has some quality.
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Inflated expectations since the 1960s. Still going strong.
I used to sub to New Scientist for a very long time, exclusively for the delivered print magazine. However they started this habit of pre releasing some of each issues content to syndicated websites BEFORE the print issue hits my doormat, which made me question what I was paying for.
Could you get by if you just charged while in the shower?

How long of a shower do you take? :-) A very related question is just how intensively will you use it. Here are some guidelines from Apple: https://www.apple.com/watch/battery/

My Series 6 watch is on my wrist for up to 23 hours a day. My battery is usually above 50% after a full day of use. I charge every day but for less than 30 minutes. (I usually take it off the charger before it is completely charged.)

Depending on your work and living arrangement (e.g. I'm mostly home) it's also so easy to drop onto the charger for just a few minutes. E.g. I can top-off the watch while I go into kitchen for a cup of coffee or a snack. So no need to devote a 30 minute continuous block of time.

I have low battery use because I mostly use the watch for notifications and activity tracking. I keep the display off by default (which is probably the main power draw).

The aluminum watch with sport loop is very light and comfortable. It's easy to forget you're wearing it.