skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tricky. Is it supposed to be Socrates speaking, or someone he interrogates? Plato's dialogues are full of speeches from people expounding theses that are themselves contradictory (and directly contradict Plato). There is for example a platonic dialogue that is chock full of convincing nonsense arguments, almost like a satire.

Both of them are nailing the ye olde Benjamin Jowett English.

The first one does seem possibly a bit at odds with some of his cosmology.

The second one seems superficially closer to some of his conclusions about the form of the good, but it also seems really internally inconsistent.

Some strange things:

First he asks:

> Is not beauty wise?

Then he bluntly asserts:

> For wisdom and beauty are the same, as I dare say that you yourself well know.

Plato usually isn't the one to just assert things like this. If this text is Plato's, it's definitely not one of Socrates' speeches.

> There is an inferior sort of wisdom which means caution, and is only a craft, and is concerned with the body; but the higher wisdom is the co-knowing of the soul, or is philosophy, and of this the intelligent is a part.

This also feels like it contains parts from a discussion about epistemology which is out of place when the topic is the forms, he typically contrasts crafts (techne) with knowledge (episteme). Here he just dismisses something as a craft completely out of the blue.
Look how many people FB has to support their webpage. Insane.
I rented a house 2 years ago and it had some cloud trash with camera and mic in it. I said I will move out unless they remove it. They simply removed it as it was there only to appease prospective tenants.
I have only lost people who where peripheral in life but for me it's feels like the world just becomes emptier. It's an odd feeling considering I hadn't interacted with some of these people in years.
> Literally "I don't believe the facts".

Where is the fact in there? "China investigated itself and found themselves not guilty" does not make a "fact".
Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction
> How would one go about building a rest [service.]

At Meta, you wouldn't. Everything is Thrift. For WWW, you'll have more graphql.

Meta also has a shit ton of libs to make service development easier than exists publicly.
> killing them and claiming power.

Even if that did happen, that would not be enough to take over the country. You'd elect new representatives after the crisis. A small group of people would never be able to resist the power of the US Military for very long.

> A woman was killed by the Secret Service after breaching a barricade in pursuit of the Vice President. Members of the mob used chemical weapons on police. Call it whatever you want but it wasn't peaceful and it wasn't innocent.

"Most peaceful" does not mean there were no incidents. In the history of actual insurrections, that was the most peaceful one ever, if you even consider it one. Insurrections cause massive death of civilians and police/authorities, and this was clearly not it.
I’d want confirmation that it’s true first. People can configure custom UA blocking rules on Cloudflare but based on this I’d bet the problem is some custom configuration or plug-in interfering with the normal human activity challenge.

https://www.webpagetest.org/result/220727_AiDcRG_FMH/
Depends on your definition of "small". Clap will add significantly to the compile time, but your binary won't be too much larger. Rust binaries tend to fall in the range of 2–30MB, depending on lots of things.

But that's still relatively small compared to Go, or even Python if you consider needing to bundle the interpreter for "fully statically linked".
>> don't know how you came to believe that

Hardly any job postings. No large projects on github. No halo project (does servo count? It’s not gone anywhere yet, is it still alive?).

There’s an echo chamber around the language.
> The self-interest of each human being, his continual search for whatever he wants, is a natural law.

it is?
Refreshing to see after Boeing and Citadel announced their departures. Proper steward to reno and operate the complex.
Cities have a lot more for kids to do within a kilometer or two, IME. In a suburb you may have "space" but it's all just people's lawns and strips of grass next to the road.
Seems possible it could be for ITAR compliance.
Google’s Ranks Are Filled with CIA Agents
> Maybe this behavour is very locale dependent?

That could be. Maybe they were ahead of schedule the few times I went, and the few times I observed them stopping at empty stops. This would make sense with the fact that they are almost always empty. They would come to a complete stop, open the door, immediately close the door, then peel away. It was comically discouraging. With the stop near my place, they would often just drive up, slow down to walking pace, then speed off.

Even if they were ahead of schedule, this would still mean the posted trip times were still many times greater than driving, which I assume is why they're empty.
Similar happened to me the other day with Google. Tried to log in for the first time in a few years. Browser has correct login name and password. Upon login, they demand a phone number to text a code to. Aren't getting it.

That was rather disturbing, and then to pour some salt on the wound, they sent an email to my inbox with the text, "someone has tried to login with your password!" Thanks. :-/
What's the alternative? SK is subsidizing Samsung by more ($450 Bn)[1]. China is doing the same.
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/korea-unv...
[1 Non paywalled]: https://archive.ph/9Gs8q
Why means test for student loan forgiveness? It adds complexity/loopholes to be more trouble than it's worth, and it's likely not necessary: wealthy families don't need student loans, so those with a large familial net worth with student loans should be a rounding error. In addition, those from wealthy families are more likely to take unpaid internships, thereby qualifying for 'low income' in that way.
The GDPR legislation is about means and goals, not specific implementations. What makes you think GTM isn't similarly illegal already?
One big problem is that many “real” scholars discount the importance of making sure Wikipedia has good (comprehensive, accurate, well sourced) articles about their areas of expertise, leaving the task to the (often misguided) efforts of amateur enthusiasts.

A wikipedia article is going to have orders of magnitude more influence than nearly any journal article or textbook, and scholars should put at least a basic amount of effort into improving them.

It should be seen as a kind of public outreach.
The businesses have had more than enough time to comply with the law.

Now is the time to start enforcing the law enough to make them actually care.
> it will cost me about $3,000 in FOIA search fees [6]. I'm not asking for funds

I think if you did launch a crowdfunding campaign, you could easily reach that level, and possibly as a stretch goal you could hire some lawyers and investigators to really pull on some of the threads that you uncover.

It's a worthy goal, and I wish you every success!
The article alludes to that:

> The industry’s second problem is that it is not being straight about incentives. It claims that good behaviour is more lucrative for firms and investors. In fact, if you can stand the stigma, it is often very profitable for a business to externalise costs, such as pollution, onto society rather than bear them directly. As a result the link between virtue and financial outperformance is suspect.
Just thank them for their trust and make sure you stay in touch and listen to their comments, so they stay excited about your service
People seem really stuck on "VR is either the next iPhone or it's nothing".

Isn't there a middle ground?
I vaguely remember the Microsoft/SuSe deal but never linked that to GNOME3. I really love gnome-shell, but one thing I always have to tweak is putting the minimize/maximize buttons back in the toolbar (couldn't ever figure out why they would get rid of those... now i know?).
I’d love to see this done with the US statutes and regulations.
There are many things to discuss about that, first were your edits correct, secondly how can you make such edits and be accepted on Wikipedia. It doesn't seem like you care about reflecting why you failed at the second one.

I guess that is a field of research how does Wikipedia handle anon edits. I have done thousands of anon edits on Wikipedia and have very low deletion rate, but I guess I kept away from tone and opinion.
Imho Facebook has entered Nokia territory. Their core products are losing market share, their innovative products (Oculus) are lacking a killer app.
> My argument is that the "reasonably informed demographic" is incredibly small. I can only say the same thing so many times, though, so I'm not sure how to explain it in a different way.

I think we're in agreement here. To be clear, i'm mostly talking about intent, an attempt to stay informed and a willingness to act - to push for centralized leadership who is informed.

Ie as i said before, your grandma is not expected to know this. She is expected to fight for a government that will be, and that will also be able to be held accountable.

We have neither the oversight on government current, nor the willingness to act. Your grandma built the same world we are building today. One of inaction and obfuscation.

If society cannot be informed and active on what is essential to build that world (whatever that may be), then we are doomed. Currently, the population at large is not. At least, not from what i can see in action.
Ask HN: What is your favorite resource for learning CS fundamentals?
Hey guys - I kind of "stumbled" into the IT world (I started in analytics and became a developer), so I don't really have a background in computer science, but I'm interested to learn. However, a lot of the textbooks I find online don't seem to really start from the beginning. I wanted to see if you all had any recommendations for good online textbooks or similar resources for someone in my situation?
Instead of trying to game your entire psyche like other comments suggest, I recommend to founders to find a person you can actually speak truthfully to.

Drop the marketing talk. Stop talking about the peak potential of every little thing. Stop pretending that everything can or should be optimized. Stop pretending that every event is an emergency. Get your mind and body out of crisis mode. Admit to yourself that the failure of your venture is the most likely outcome, that it always has been the most likely outcome, and that thats ok and you can still learn and grow and make a difference even in failure. That you can do everything right and still lose.

The cognitive dissonance of tech has torn down so many people. Don't let it tear you down. There are conscious choices that you have made and continue to make that make you feel the way that you do. Your body is suggesting you change them.
GPT-3 teaches us that a sizable fraction of "serious" writing is just remixing previously written content. No underlying insight required. This is embarrassing to humans.

I think quite a philosophers and writers would acknowledge there's nothing new under the sun.

The way I'd see it, what even good writers do is usually a loose weaving together of things that have been already read along with some customization. It's only occasionally, (very roughly guestimating), every couple paragraphs, that this loose weaving needs to become tight and exact. That's my working hypothesis for why GPT-3 sounds senseless every paragraph or two.
I do love the idea of computer nerds making fun of the appearance of other nerds.
Was this research funded by LexisNexis and West Publishing?
The problem is that the point at which housing market will be such a dumpster fire will be a post-(economically)-apocalyptic for the U.S. -- and inadvertently the rest of the world. Don't forget what happened in 2007, and you are not even close to what can happen -- from a back in the envelope here of course.

Housing might be the topic that dooms U.S. may way way down the road. But the GDP damage and opportunity cost lost annually is substantial.

There should be a form of buy in from the government at some point -- kind of keep your house and get tax credit and we are moving on.

Or we reach the point of a literal revolution on the topic, where people ask for houses instead of bread.
Zuckerburg stole the idea of the product and knew php. I don’t think he needed graph theory to build it and his education was really only Exeter at that point.
My favorite: "There's nothing in here worth dying for."
This is likely the peak for facebook, the website.

But it may not be a peak for facebook, the company - it is time for a new product.

Facebook successfully digested any vital competition in the social media market, the big question is whether they (still) have the innovation gene in their DNA.

Alternatively, they could keep acquiring any new emerging social apps like BeReal, especially targeting the youngest people, so the platform can keep the attractive demographics forever.
Brickit – Build new things from your old bricks
This is a bit of a common trap, the idea that to do anything you must know everything. When you read writeups you see people just going from some bug to exploit and incorporating obscure bits of knowledge to make it happen. It feels like they must know everything. The reality is they probably spend hours or days banging their head against a wall having an intuition that _something_ is wrong but no idea how to abuse it or that there must be something. Spending hours researching until they can connect the dots. Those hours of frustration are not captured very well in most writeups.

> I know for stuff like this the key is to just get started, and the understanding will follow, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations for how to do that.

The single tip I give anyone getting started is:

Follow all the rabbit holes.

Seriously, all of them. Any time you have some random question come up, "Would doing X be vulnerable", "Could I exploit Y feature", "Why didn't this writeup author do Z", "How does A work", "Why send B this way instead of this way" ... all of them. When you have the question, just go spend the time to figure it out. Every rabbit hole you go down, even if it ends up being a dead end, is adding bits and pieces to your knowledge. Over time you build up an immense library of random bits of knowledge that you can draw from in the future.

I have a blog post about getting started with manual vulnerability auditing: https://dayzerosec.com/blog/2021/05/21/from-ctfs-to-real-vul...

While I wrote that with an eye towards doing binary-level exploit development against modern targets, the advice for doing manual auditing is pretty universal. It's like how to learn to program you actually have to write code, reading about writing code isn't enough. Practice against anything can be useful.

I'll also leave you my favorite vuln research quote:

"Frustration is a key part of exploit research and you must embrace it accordingly"
> Who has 90% renewable...

I know! I know! Pick me!

>...that isn't majority Hydro?

oh... never mind
Most (all?) of those decisions were going to come down the same way regardless; the judge (or clerk or amicus brief author or whoever) had already decided and the citations are just a way of making up a post-facto justification.

There’s even a whole “judicial philosophy” based around this method of deciding first (based on personal preference or coin tosses or bribes or whatever) and then cherry-picking citations to pretend it wasn’t really your own decision / avoid having to explain your reasoning: so-called “originalism”. And it goes back decades, long before Wikipedia.
This observation is likely a good basis for an improvement to the Wikipedia policies on Notability in music.
Agreed, and we do nothing to fight that. We're all complacent with it. Hell, not only did we not fight it, ie we didn't push for government control and oversight, but we signed up. We let them in and laid out welcome platters.

This isn't about being informed on obscure topics. As i said this has nothing to do with Google. It's about our willingness to fight for a government that can handle this, and fight to control said government.
Study sheds light on how dogs recognize their favorite toys
This was an interesting, thought-provoking read. But the author of the post is a member of the board of directors of the Rust Foundation. https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/2022-03-16-news-announ...

Perhaps a blind spot for Meta is they're spending time working away from PHP/Hack so as they reach for Rust (away from web-centric languages) they don't realize TypeScript has compelling reasons to choose it on the server-side:

* Vercel-driven / full-stack developer innovation
* ubiquity of JS/TS for tooling, innovation, etc.
* fast enough to run serverless
* rich ecosystem, though you do need to curate your dependencies yourself and not just let npm take you for a ride
* closer to customers; since closer to the web, but with types.
* no over-engineering re: borrow checker for 90% of use cases.

I'm biased but I see no fundamental reason why everything doesn't converge on TypeScript in the future. C : C++/Rust (context: systems development) as JS : TS (context: all programming).
How to Present a Scientific Poster at a Mega-Conference
Most people are not used to Mg quantities. Also it is the symbol for magnesium.

When you are talking about garbage, tons is the familiar unit. Metric or Imperial, it doesn't matter.
Get yourself a dog and regularly take it for walks in green (parks) areas. When you are out strike up conversations with strangers.
> "in Texas" is one hell of a qualification to that statement

I think you're mistaken, or (very understandbly!) applying Texas's social conservatism to their land policies, which are likely some of the most liberal in the nation.

As someone who grew up in a real estate family "in Texas" – it's probably one of the most "pro-development" states in the country. Sure, historically that development hasn't been "urban", but as the market heads that direction the development has adapted.

Texas cities have been very amenable to building density (Houston doesn't even have any zoning or density/height limits whatsoever!), it's just that in the past there wasn't the population density to justify it when you could spread ever outward. What we've seen in the past decade is a shift to the cities, and cities like Dallas/Houston/Austin have drastically increased density (I've seen entire single family blocks turned into mid-rise apartments in my neighborhood alone), no rezonings necessary.

Dallas and Houston _each_ built more homes last year than the _entirety of the state of California_, and routinely have been doing so since 2010. Here's one from 2014, but you can find articles from 2021 and 2020 with a cursory google search, too.

https://houston.culturemap.com/news/real-estate/04-02-14-boo...

In 2017, Austin/Dallas/Houston issued about 10% of nationwide housing construction permits that year. That's crazy!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-16/texas-lea...

For better or worse, Texas also has an aversion to process and paperwork that seems to plague other cities' planning departments – getting a by-right ADU permitted in California, which is the law of the land, took me over a year in Los Angeles. In Dallas, it required council approval for a zoning exemption, but the process took 2 weeks total.

I frankly do not really understand where this idea that Texas is against development is coming from -- the sentiment for "more more more" has existed since the oil boom in the 80s. Houston and Dallas both have grand ambitions of being the Manhattan of the South. Maybe it's the coastal people from much more NIMBY cities moving in?
ICMP, Ping, and Traceroute – What I wish I was taught (2020)
I'm not open to discovering new content in social media, that's it. If I want to see someone's posts, there's a handy "follow" button for that. If I don't want to see someone's posts, I don't follow them. Force-feeding me content from people I don't follow in an attempt to manipulate me simply annoys me. The best algorithm is "ORDER BY `created_at` DESC".

If I want to see content from people I don't know, I use YouTube, Reddit or HN — simple as that. I don't use TikTok out of principle.
The Dune Bible crypto collective wants to sell its Dune Bible
Reminds me of a few months back when I tried to link Amy Winehouse's "Mr. Magic" to the great original Grover Washington piece of the same name. Same name, same music, some Wikipedia support in other places, though not extensive. Both on Youtube, takes seconds to confirm.

Some pedanto reverts it every time I tried. Says "it's not in the booklet" (of the CD). Believe the thinking is that reality is not good enough, it must be confirmed by an authority. A disturbing enough idea in itself.
Yeah, yeah. And so do the British. That is why I used quotes. Socket shapes and characteristics change with geography. You might still need a socket that looks different than the "usual wall sockets that you find at home" for powering a welder.
That's great, and we need more legislation (on this side of the pond as well).
Or the owner? (Which could be a company of course, in case you're thinking that's a cop-out.)
Thank you, the article left me very confused about the logic behind two 'and'.
Wait a minute. I wasn’t questioning your editing at all. I was only pointing out that this guy is openly admitting not only that he doesn’t want some people editing, but that he doesn’t even want some people to have access to Wikipedia. That’s truly shocking to me.
these changes are all driven by a/b testing and watching user average watchtime increase.

this stuff is appealing to most people. they measured it. it's how they make money
There's an Android app called StreetComplete that asks users to fill in information about stuff that's around them, and uploads it to OSM. For example, verifying street numbers on buildings, down to verifying the material the sidewalks are made of.
I did not mean to strike a hollow note. I do not see such vision being applied outside of lets increase competition and spend locally.

How much further will their their money go locally than ours? I want us to spend our money on the next generation but what economic window are we planning to occupy?
> What's the article's point? That point shouldn't care about social issues?

The thesis is "because [ESG] lumps together a dizzying array of objectives, it provides no coherent guide for investors and firms to make the trade-offs that are inevitable in any society," that industry "is not being straight about incentives" and that "the various scoring systems have gaping inconsistencies and are easily gamed."

Co-mingling E, S and G winds up focussing on nothing except making consultants rich.
Can you share an example of one that you would consider better than in-person schooling, rather than merely functional?
They killed the site, because they ran out of money.
The interesting thing is they were operating at more than 40% profit margins for years now. A drop to 29% margins [1] is actually pretty significant and puts it in line with profit margins at most other larger tech firms, and not at the top of the market anymore.

[1] Looks like this is pre-tax? I'm calculating 25% post-tax margins.
Congratulations!

> I want to reduce the chance of them getting frustrated with the app and silently canceling the subscription. I would rather they reach out to me, so I can fix the problem or fill the gap they're facing with the app.

I think when people have a technical issue they're more comfortable with an 'open a ticket' pattern rather than an 'email $anon' pattern.

I think you should spin up a Trello or a Jira or something and send them an invite to an Issues board.

Where I currently work, Desktop Support is a dude named Justin. When I want something I open a ticket in the Desktop Support portal. It would feel intrusive if I had a problem so I just called Justin up.