skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The Harry Potter Fallacy “ could also be a descriptor meaning “People will remember or care about your idea if you invoke this particular piece of old pop culture.”

I hope they learn about the “I Beg You To Please Read Another Book Corrollary”
You have Firefox and everything Chromium based, which is still Chrome as I understand it.
Your nitpick is forgiven! Thanks a lot for this information, I was not aware of this...

However, I took a look at PEP 518 and failed to understand what was wrong with Poetry's default configuration. Can you help me out?
*leads
Oh, this would be neat! Looking forward to it!
The history of dpkg is really interesting, it has its roots in a a biologist trying to avoid ripping his hair out with dependencies so he wrote "StopAlop" (http://www.verycomputer.com/195_d4343843af185e14_1.htm). A few months after he posted it others took on the task of porting it to a more robust shell script which was eventually re-written into C, and slowly evolving into what we have today.

What's more interesting is that a lot of package managers for programming language package managers use (or used) the fundamental concepts in dpkg. For example, for a long long time Composer (the thing that saved PHP from death) was a re-implementation of some parts of dpkg with a language-specific world view. I don't know for sure about others but I think this is also true for NPM, pip and ruby gems.

Something else that I think about a lot: the industry spends a lot of CPU cycles to compute the suitable dependencies, but there are several alternative ways to solve dependencies. But those alternatives don't generate interest because the StopAlop lineage is so built in to how we work on software it almost goes unnoticed as a natural law of the world like gravity, so there's no prompt to directly challenge it.
Ha!

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are a few where the evil journalist or priest is held in contempt hindering finding the bad guy.
I have three types of notes:

- short-term notes are written on paper. I use that when I need to remember something very soon (the same day at most) or when I need to clarify my ideas, so there’s lots of boxes and arrows

- mid-term notes (1 to 2 weeks) I’m still figuring out a system. It’ll be my todo list so I usually write it down in Apple Notes (but it doesn’t support code), or in Obsidian (but it feels wonky, I don’t like how it feels) or in Notion (good so far except for the crappy arrows that show up even on pages without children)

- long term notes are my knowledge base. I try to curate and classify them the best I can in Notion.
@jart, just wanted to say thanks for both APE and cosmopolitan, those projects have made my life infinitely easier as well as giving me a lot of my time back not having to figure out windows executable minutia. It's a no brainer for me to create either a WASM module or an APE to get the job done.
What would make that impractical?

We’re talking a rack of GPUs for $50k. Nothing about the problem suggests that automated driving can’t be done with a rack of GPUs per vehicle.

We have tractors self-driving and doing real-time analysis on a field of view to decide how to treat plants with a lot less compute than that.
Bullshit.

Why would those cloud services be required to run a business?

We're doing just fine without them, hosting fonts locally, using Matomo, saving data on servers from EU companies.

Its's possible, although Google etc. will of course tell you otherwise.
Isn't the goal to reduce net CO2?

Seems to be somewhat hardcore to reduce the entire debate down to (effectively) "any CO2 is bad CO2"
I have an apple developer account. I develop app and sell subscriptions.
I have submitted a bank account and got paid with no problem in the past 6 months.
That’s my only bank account that apple is aware of. So I thought that sth may be wrong with it based on the email.
Oh, I see... I personally barely use conga and I have no idea how that is done. I don't think I'll write any blog article like that any time soon :( Maybe you could do it!
This is almost exactly how I set up python projects; it’s reassuring to see it set out in one place.

I started using tox-poetry-installer[1] to make tox pick up pinned versions from the lock file and reuse the private package index credentials from poetry.

[1] https://github.com/enpaul/tox-poetry-installer
Why are the sources that people cite in Wikipedia not vulnerable to the same issues?
Several years back, I was running it on a single server along with Kafka ( I was requested to keep everything related to analytics to a single huge server ) and it started with a fight for zookeeper between these two. While it worked quite well thereafter, keeping it up was a battle.

Maybe situation is better with clusters and Kafka moving away from zookeeper.
> In Straw Man Arguments Aikin and Casey introduce a wealth of concepts for getting to grips with the dark art of the straw man. Indeed, they propose a further notion: a fascinating inversion called the “iron man”, where one responds to a maximally strengthened form of one’s opponent’s argument and explains how even this move – which is sometimes seen as dialectical best practice – can sometimes be fallacious.

I wish they expanded on why the "iron man" (which I usually see called the steelman) can be fallacious. The only thing I can imagine is an "armored strawman" where you claim you're steelmanning but your changes to the argument actually make it weaker? Guess I'll have to buy the book...
Tesla’s ‘unlimited’ connectivity plan now expires after eight years
Original author here: don't make promises you won't keep, right? :P
Comparing to Sweden, 1 and 2 could happen here as well. But since government subsidies costs over 1200 SEK ($120), the pharmacy will always suggest the cheapest alternative (by law). If doctor prescribes something for $2 but an alternative exists which is only $1 then pharmacy will suggest the one for $1.
Well, see, you're on to something: these tools exist as a litigation defense layer: large enough targets sometimes get ADA lawsuit threats. They frequently come with an offer to settle. When you use something like Accessibe, you provide enough of a plausible effort that it's not worth it for the litigious sort to waste their time with you, so they move to other lower hanging fruit.

None of this, you'll note, is particularly concerned with how the tool _actually_ impacts a11y. But, as you state, it's the lazy solution.
The origianl was a 1990s weatherproof omnidirectional microphone on top of a telephone pole, connected to an analog phone line. That would be pretty hopeless at picking up conversations at ground level. Combining signals from microphones maybe a block apart yielded direction.

Today, there are steerable microphone arrays.[1] That technology was first demonstrated around 2010. Now it's commercially available. Simple ones with a few channels are used for video conferencing. Surveillance microphone arrays that record a few hundred microphone channels individually exist. These allow steering the beam during playback, so the surveillance operator can choose where to listen long after the recording. Needs a lot of bandwidth and storage, but no worse than HD video. Still, the range of that sort of thing for voice is maybe 10 meters. They're installed on ceilings, not outdoors.

[1] https://youtu.be/_kjEmIA38pI
Someone being an enemy or not is a matter of degree of conflicting interests. Acknowledging that someone really is the enemy when they're actively trying to hurt you is just common sense. Whether you choose to fight them or not is a different question.
Excellent points! I have seen several cookiecutter templates, but like you said, those aren't very useful when you are at the very start and everything looks weird and new.
If that's about me, I was in bed asleep. You posted that at six in the morning, in my timezone.

$210m is lowish price for a company with several hundred tech employees and a fine list of enterprise consulting customers. A friend who worked at Suse at the time described it as "a reasonable price for just the consulting division".
I hate cars as much as the next guy, but transitioning all urban life away from cars is a much more difficult project than transitioning urban life to electric cars.

The no-cars world requires a huge amount of political buy-in and you’d be going through the most politically annoying group in the US – homeowners. The transition to electric cars can be done through simple laws that change the incentives (like by implementing a federal gas tax so it’s cheaper to drive electric, or heavily subsidizing electric cars)
The one thing I don't understand is: "Why don't we make all trucking semi-local?"

It would seem with modern automation that you could place relay stations at roughly 250 mile spacings so a driver can pick up a trailer near home, drive 4 hours out, drop off trailer, pick up new one, drive 4 hours back home, drop off trailer, and go home.

This seems like a much easier nut to crack than autonomous driving. Real estate in a lot of flyover country in America is really cheap. And it has other advantages like gasoline and service are at specified points. Basically, treat trailers like IP packets.

What am I missing? (I suspect some sort of CapEx/OpEx accounting tomfoolery that means everybody wants everybody else to take the risk of actually owning things.)
> But not every appeal to logic comes from malicious philosophers. Most do not.

Whether it comes from a malicious philosopher or somebody who means well but is confused, it is generally prudent to consider whether the discussion is actually worth your time.

I haven't met many philosophers actually pitching Zeno's paradoxes at people, but some I've encountered recently for real: reasons why Jesus is the means to salvation, why the Earth is flat, and why we're probably living in a simulation. I brush these aside without giving them serious responses, because I selfishly want to spend my time in other ways.
Thanks a lot! I'm the original author and I appreciate your nice words.
That doesn't entirely contradict the author's statement. Redux may do all of those things, but the proximate need of most people who use Redux is sharable state. Then they use something like Redux because it provides "structure" and has lots of stars on Github.

Incidentally, I have to agree with the author directionally on this point. Redux makes codebases such a pain in the ass to work with. Every new change you want to make to the store, you have to make about five changes across five different files. When you're working on a new feature you spend most of your time just wrestling with Redux, creating an action type, creating an action creator, creating a reducer, importing/exporting all this shit, blah blah blah. Then a new engineer who wants to figure out what the code is actually doing has to trace through the action, then the action creator, then the reducer, blah blah. This is before you throw in stuff like epics and run API calls through your action/reducer pipeline. It is no wonder productivity per capita in tech is so low.
I'm pretty sure there are accounting interest groups that don't want easy way to file taxes. It still boggles my mind that somehow I have to calculate how much I owe to the IRS when they can calculate it themselves and just give me the bill (or refund).
There's a surprising amount of flexibility here for new translations. For example, I prefer "Autochthon" as a translation for "God", rather than "ancient archangels" (although "Almighty" is the perfect word for later on). A while ago I decided I preferred the following as verses 1 and 2:

1. An advent: Autochthon architects Area, above and abase.

2. Actions articles apparatus, all amorphous and absent; And all asleep across aquatic anarchy. And Autochthon advanced across area.
I'm really sorry you go through this too. I face a similar uphill battle at work and it's like shouting into a void (or should I say, avoidance...)

What boggles me is that we have a dedicated UX team who seem not to care one whit for bandwidth and accessibility, just imprinting their 'vision' across the org through design systems. Questions around these topics are handwaved away. But speed and accessibility _are_ part of user experience, it's in the name sir!
Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the Slip Box
> a few sets of glasses to distort my vision

Bless you for doing that. I have eye isses and every so often I suggest to devs that they put a thin layer of vaseline on their glasses just to see what a lot of older people do.
Can't reproduce on Chrome mobile.
Yeah, but that looks a bit odd and you lose the syntax highlighting... I considered that but ended up going with a tox.ini file.
A Framework for Engineering Managers
No online advertising sounds amazing . Although that's really the status quo for me the last few years with the amazing adblockers we have now.
It didn't keep the web stateless, though. It implemented state on top of what we had at the time, with certain flaws that others have already pointed out in this thread.
> So to me this analogy only works as long as we disregard the fact that these animals have unique characters. And that imho counters the analogy.

No, no... You are not mistaken. Every server in your "cattle" fleet has its own character after some point. Some of them eat through disks, one of them has a wonky Ethernet not quite broken, other one is always a little slower than the rest.

On a more serious note, I really understand what you're saying, but I'd rather not discuss it here, but the above paragraph really holds.
Oh, this looks like an interesting tool! Thanks for the link.
Wouldn't Amazon still have access to metadata, e.g. connection info, IP addresses, etc?
Yes, it has been tested: https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/09/microsoft...

And that’s exactly what it would be like, though the house in Paris would be owned by a company that has a legal entity in the United States.
Cryptocurrency makes credit cards (which require disclosing credit card numbers for payment) entirely obsolete (by using cryptographic signatures on transactions, that don't expose keys).
> The ability to connect GitHub and Twitter accounts to npm.

Could someone explain, I understand connecting Github accounts to npm. Why connect Twitter accounts to npm?
Thanks for the words of caution!
For such a small package, I think 100% code coverage isn't necessarily a bad thing yet :P
But you raise valid points!
You'll have to do that, hoping that they're on the platform, then the server will respond "sorry, i don't know this guy".

Then either you send him a SMS or email, saying "hey, when you're on signal, let me know". or you repeat the process every day until finally the person is on signal.

That's a crap experience for an onboarding to the platform.
You do but you can't be forced to agree, including by not being able to use the service if you decline.
Even more minimal one I made years ago:

https://wryun.github.io/yajsonschema/
Thanks for the nice words. Was there anything that was unclear or that you think was missing?
> through leading answers to encourage their asking more questions

The answerer is the one usually presumed to have a flaw in their argument, hence them being asked questions that slowly illuminate all their reasoning until it is either shown to be sound, or more likely, a flaw to emerge quite obviously.

It appears you're saying it's the other way round.
GP used 'higher-order' to mean higher in some ontology of abstraction, similar to 'meta', à la 'higher-order function'. In this case, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-ethics

Speaking of today's submissions, Wikipedia might need some discussion of its own about what to do with these articles all about pretty much the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadiscourse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-communication

(meta: username checks out)
I don't recall ever seeing that in GNOME 2. In MATE, if I remember correctly, you need to install a different system menu widget for the taskbar (although some distros do it out of the box): https://packages.debian.org/buster/mate-menu
You could just use Discord.

But maybe if you want something open source, consider forking an existing Matrix client rather than starting over?
>The government is the worst tool for this job, because they would need to hire external experts to assess which disease should be studied, and those experts would be already in bed with the industry for a long time.

There's no need to "hire external experts". They could have their own pool.
Put a replacement PSU, a few fans and a small box of replacement drives in the same order.

edit: Make that 2 PSUs just to be sure...
It's exteremely annoying and I'm forced to use it with my current client. MS Teams is worse in everythign they do compared to their competitors. I miss notifications all the time.
Monkey Pox- Stanford wastewater data shows San Francisco region's hot spots
Ireland is a sucker for big tech interests though. Because so many of them use the country for tax avoidance they have a really big influence on politics. Like when the EU made Apple actually pay the small amount of tax they should have, Ireland jumped up to oppose. They were opposed to receiving a billion euros.
> Autochthon architects Area, above and abase.

"Abase" makes sense to me by analogy with its cognates "abaixo" and "abajo" in Portuguese and Spanish, or French "à bas", but it's not clear to me that it's ever literally had the meaning of "down(ward)", "below", or "beneath" in English.

Maybe "abased", which apparently has such a literal geometric meaning at least in heraldry?
And they cop a plea and tell them where they got the weed from in the first place.
> the more autonomous vehicles there are ... better traffic flow

Won't this better traffic flow be offset by new congestion from AVs using the capacity of public roads as free car parks?

aka the Jevons Paradox
I really really want to like Bazel but I’m having issues with having the amount of bookkeeping I need to do in Bazel build files. And then someone comes along saying something along the lines of “oh but we just use <somecli>” to do the updating of Bazel for us… sometimes that is even internal tooling.

Something else is that most projects tend to build everything from source, even protobuf dependencies, so it takes me an hour to get the initial build of envoy done.
I find it's a helpful way to challenge oneself. Get into an argument and very quickly you'll find things you hadn't considered, and a wonderfully easy way to bring one's own tribalism to the surface, where it can be killed more easily.
That's assuming that there's zero R&D.

In practice, the fixed costs of R&D in the AV space are pretty large. If for example it takes 500 engineers that cost 250k per year to make the trucks self driving, then you're spending 125M per year just in engineer salaries. That's of course excluding any of the costs spent on things like data storage (cameras and lidars generate a ton of data), compute (ML eats a ton of processing), data labeling, mapping, vehicle testing, fleet management, regulatory compliance, etc.
Root, parent, prev and next are all skip links aren't they?

Or do you mean on the front page?
I found conda-forge community quite helpful here [1]. They make feedstock repositories based on templates that cover a lot of automation. Their bots pickup updated packages in pypi and automatically file merge requests, run tests and even merge updates if tests pass successfully. Basically you only need to maintain your recipe here and there when your dependencies change.

1. https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/introduction.html
West London faces new home ban as electric grid at capacity due to data centres
Maybe I don't get what you want to express, but screen readers allow for alternative presentations of an HTML document, allowing for alternative modes of content discovery, e.g. hierarchical outlines of headlines and "landmarks".

Several ARIA attributes further allow for communicating the current application state, e.g. whether content has changed (aria-live), a button is in a pressed state (aria-pressed), or a menu is opened (aria-expanded).
Indeed, that is not the Socratic Method. Even though it's just an introductory aside, seeing such an inaccuracy straight in the second sentence about something which (I thought) is common knowledge put me off from reading the rest of the article.
that sounds increasingly like a build-time macro system...
Isn't that the acceleration? With constant acceleration (thus zero jerk) inertia makes your coffee move inside the cup – and spill, if you don't pay enough attention.
For OLAP applications (heavy on reads, pretty much no writes) I find a local SQLite has far superior performance to eith cloud based Postgres or SQL Server instances. YMMV.
With all the hoopla that went into self-driving cars, why do we still not have self-driving trains? Operating on a fixed track reduces the problem space quite a bit, no? So if the technology can't get there for trains, then it will never get there for cars.
And yet you're reading HN?

It's not an anti-capitalism stance to call Metaverse idea for what it is - trying to sell an elephant. Capitalism is not about going all in on the craziest ideas ever.

What is their bet anyway? What users' need are they trying to address or create?

Is this a new and better video game platform? Even if they are successful, VG are still very niche, especially compared to their social network user base.

Is this a new way to consume content? Sounds a bit fussy to me to have an extra device or two just so you cannot turn away when they run ads. People still are not that eager to put on 3D glasses to watch a movie.
Are they betting that in the nearest future the reality is going to suck so bad that people would want to escape it? That's just bleak.
What else? Realistic porn? Virtual learning? That's peanuts.

Is this going to be augmented reality instead? Some kind of wearable device? We already played with google glass, did not catch on. Plus regulation in many countries already caught up, so you cannot just wear video recording device whenever for example.

Who are the end users? Who has hours of time to consume uninterruptedly whatever content they can provide in their Metaverse? Certainly not the people who has money to spend.

In the end it's an adversarial design to capture all users' attention for prolonged periods of time, the pay off for the user has to be astronomical.
> Arguably though, that would still count as “not playing”

...or playing, but not playing at the same game.

Cue the saying about wrestling with a pig.
The most common form I've seen is often not malicious: "thing you actually said is a weak form of this argument, the strongest form is in fact mostly agreeing with me"
The poster did exactly that, it's about Lagâri Hasan Çelebi.
It's not common practice to also add an explanation when posting.
There are ways of faking GI, even with current techniques and without using ray tracing. Screenspace GI can look convincing (and also miserably fail). Radiosity techniques exist, etc. We've been able to fake global illumination for a while now. The results aren't perfect, but then again, that's what realtime computer graphics have been forever, a bunch of tricks that are close enough to reality, and 10 artists crying in the corner because they had to spend 5 hours moving an asset around so it looks just right.
Where does this hate from government Congress from? Government funded research is how a lot of research is done in Europe. If you saw these academics and researchers salary you would laugh, but still they produce stuff without being in bed with anyone.
Playing Games Probably Won't Make You Feel Worse or Better
I'm just surprised that most trucks don't have backup cameras.
We don't have a process to do what is described.
The problem with irrational arguments is that they're often a poor description of reality. And a poor description of reality can literally kill you and the people around you. (Covid denial, any number of addictions, climate catastrophe denial, and so on.)