skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is no epistemic support, how is this different from belief? And if it is belief, how is that epistemologically more or less sound than any of the world's other belief systems? How does this jive with Wittgenstein? ("Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"). How do we reconcile Effie's (excellent) comment above? And a boat-load of other questions besides...

It's one thing to say, we're pretty sure A = B. It is another thing to say, we have definite knowledge that A = B. The epistemologers can be vicious gatekeepers!

To be clear, I want nothing more than to see a break in the log-jam of 20th-21st century epistemology. In fact, I am fighting for it. But I'm extremely skeptical that there is (or can be) any progress here, without a drastic and new approach. I am delighted to see brave physicists making ontological commitments - perhaps they are not aware of the tangled web that awaits them.

This is why Fine's book is called "The Shaky Game". Epistemological grounding for claims in physics is... shaky at best. I am not satisfied with Fine's concession - the NOA (natural ontological attitude). I believe that only a drastic solution will resolve it.

Please, please, please read Fine's book. It lays out the central problems here much better than I can hope to do, and is an pleasant and engaging read. And please stay in touch here and tell me what you think! I am practically obsessed with this topic, but I am not an academic, and have little time to research it.

The central binary here is 'realism' and 'irrealism'. In the simplest reduction, on one side, people say, 'this is what is REAL'; on the other, people say, 'prove it... psst, you can't'. Einstein was a realist, and was extensively ridiculed for it. I wouldn't be surprised if there are no actual ontological realists in physics today, though it is my sincere hope that there may be a few brave souls out there. I suspect that if you engage Tong (e.g.) in the deeper parts of this topic, he would eventually concede to a natural ontological attitude, and back off of the commitment.

I hope I am wrong!
What's with the modern obsession of using web rendering for everything? It's actually insane.
VCs I've met feel Adam Neumann is one of the best at pitching of anyone they have ever met or are aware of, like the GOAT of fundraising. That has massive value, and in theory you could insulate them from operational things that need budgets.
I had mnet for a couple years and no problems whatsoever. They even had IPv6 much earlier than the competition. Also had Vodafone for a while and it was fine (but just as with DTAG one has to be lucky that the local segment is not overloaded).

However unlike mnet and Vodafone, DTAG never works, since they overload their peering links to other internet providers on purpose.
This means that accessing any website or service that isn't explicitly paying DTAG to get unrestricted access to their customers, performs very poorly.
See for example Youtube being barely usable in evenings for years. None of the other internet providers had that issue.
You are not the only one, microsoft is not the only one with problems.
the german telekom has an free mail service that requires domain owners to publish their names and addresses on the domain or else you can't send emails from or to the domain.
> check out his charm

It doesn't reach me personally, but of course con men have charm. It's kind of necessary in that line of work. You can't scam people of billions of dollars without a little bit of "charm".
GP did say that it got privatized, not that its a private company. Privatization has a range of meanings, which also include things that do not end up in a privately-owned company.
A Mission to Save Farming
insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk is not gov.uk.
It's pretty much guaranteed returns. This investment is a no brainer if you are able to get in very early.

The subsequent rounds are where there's little to no chance of success.
I don't know how Deutsche Post ended up on this list, I've rarely had issues with them, certainly much less than with any of the private delivery services (Hermes and DPD are absolutely terrible).

When complaining about the quality of the "former state railroad", the emphasis is on "former". The Deutsche Bahn offered much better services, more efficiently and at higher reliability, when it was still state-operated.

Telekom has always been bad, of course. To be fair, some of it is due to bad regulation, but they also just seem shockingly mismanaged.
I do agree with that. We should wait until we have the details to make up our minds about this.

One of the problems I have with self driving is, that everyone on the road can judge, to a degree, how the others will behave given certain circumstances. Just what self driving cars will do is everyones guess. And self driving's track record so far is underwhelming, to put it mildly.
Interesting, so this indicates digitalocean doesn't operate their own datacenters, but is a tenant in each location. Perhaps this is common knowledge, but I assume AWS, GCP and Azure actually operate their own? What other cloud providers truly operate their own datacenters?
The blog is run by a separate agency inside the UK government for various historical reasons.
> My car windshield defies the laws of physics, so Apple's devices should too!

You do not understand thermal shock. Remove your windshield and bring it inside. Lower your thermostat to 63° and let your windshield equalize at that temperature overnight. When the outside temperature reaches 90° the next day, rush your windshield outside.

Conversely, wait until winter and your windshield is left overnight in 35° temperatures. Boil a large pot of water, and dump the boiling water on your windshield.

It is not at all surprising that for 150K miles, your car's windshield has never experienced thermal shock.
Serious question: will we demand perfection from autonomous cars before we allow them out of “test” status?

How many autonomous miles without an accident will be sufficient to prove safety?

I am not diminishing this tragedy; I can only imagine the grief of the families involved and my heart goes out to them.

I am also NOT making the “have to break a few eggs to make an omelette“ argument; clearly something went wrong and I look forward to understanding what led to this accident so we can avoid it in the future. The article left out lots of facts like whether the car was truly autonomous; whether it was in autonomous mode; whether it had been approved for that; whether the driver failed to supervise it appropriately, etc.

Note that the Concorde had a perfect safety record and was the safest (statistically) commercial airframe until it’s one and only accident, after which is was the least safe airframe [1] by passenger deaths per air mile.

I own a Tesla and love it but the autopilot function is not even close to ready for autonomous driving, in my opinion. I love autopilot and use it every time I drive but it has trouble with even simple problems like two lanes merging down into one and the center line disappearing. I don’t have direct experience with other autonomous cars and am aware of the criticisms of Tesla’s non LIDAR approach.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/07/30/w...
Many problems have tricky, performant solutions and simple, slow solutions. Comparing to a simple reference implementation is a very good way to test.

For some problems it is much easier to check that the result is correct than to find the result (that's what P and NP are about for example). Sorting is one of these problems. You can check that one list is a permutation of another list in linear time. Comparing against a library implementation of sorting is just simpler in many languages.
You should be careful with your thoughts.

There's this type of bias (I forget the name, I think it's availability heuristic?) where you overthink things to a point that it becomes the central point of your thought and think that everything is going downhill.
You could have a server that only sends to the network as well. Just block everything apart from outgoing UDP packets. For the price of development and launch of such a satelite you'd probably be able to afford to make a custom hardware box with hardware random number generator that can physcally only send. In both cases you'd have to fully trust someone to have set up the system correctly. Both wouldn't be something I'd want to rely on.
what is the physiological mechanism you're describing with the slang, "muscle cooling down"?
>[despite its flaws, Tesla is] an actual business, bringing in actual money...

This exact same reasoning applies to drug dealers (illicit and BigPharma), sex dens, and other perverse corruptions (both sanctioned and not). I think the reasons you list as Tesla's faults are reason enough to look elsewhere (for a car or stock investment).

But, if your reasons are not enough, consider E.Musk's primary stated reason for running Tesla: to generate profits enough to get humanity to Mars. The task of doing so may very well deplete significant Earth resources... does it make sense to [further] pollute our space marble just to infect another space rock with us?
One BMW spokesperson said: "We are currently investigating the exact circumstances. Naturally, we are in close contact with the authorities. One thing is already clear: The BMW vehicle involved was not an autonomous driving vehicle."

Maybe it was a vehicle with additional equipment for collection data/imagery that was still completely driven by a human driver. That would explain the stickers.
It would be a rich irony if they end up having to release chunks of code for their restrictively-licensed firmware because they thumbed their nose at the FOSS community and used GPL software. I'm skeptical it will come to that, but one can dream.
I appreciate it, trolling is an art form and no effort is too little.
Internet infrastructure is pretty dysfunctional in Germany. I lived in Germany for five years and the only alternative for Telekom’s mediocre VDSL infrastructure was UnityMedia’s almost equally bad connectivity. UnityMedia rarely delivered the promised bandwidth and would regularly have connectivity issues for hours. (And don’t get me started in DS-Lite.)

I was recently discussing the mediocre German internet infrastructure with a colleague and suggested that they’d probably be better off with 5G, only to find out that ‘unlimited’ 5G in Germany has insane prices (3-4 times that of neighboring countries)
A Bugatti doesn’t make you happier! After a certain threshold you don’t need more money to be happy … just more time!
Testing is not a substitute for thinking (2010)
HN post from 3 months ago with 350+ comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31560547
Plus burn the bridge completely in an industry where reputation is one of the key aspects?

And on top of that risk a potential legal action?
"neglected to verify that was actually the case"

This seems very true. They decided that "apps" should abandon all of the useful toolbars because they were too "distracting" which is why gedit ended up being a big white space where you had to poke around in a floating popup menu to work out what you could actually do with it.

By the same logic, reading a page of text is horrendously distracting and we should only be given access to 1 line at a time.

Insanity, it my view, and a terrible regression on decades of UI development.
Researchers demo urban quantum entanglement of two memory elements 12.5 km apart
Oh look --- the international "deplorables" want to further isolate themselves. This will fix everything.
This sent me down a rabbit hole last night looking into the current state of bpfilter. I ended up discovering that firewalld introduced a policies feature without me noticing. Looks like it may potentially cover my gaps.
>Sir... this is a Wendy's.

Been in crypto since 2012.
You're not wrong.
The poster added a link from Harvard Medical.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/stop-counting....

"""
"This idea of 'a calorie in and a calorie out' when it comes to weight loss is not only antiquated, it's just wrong," says Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity specialist and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
"""
As someone from Germany I'm sometimes surprised what stereotypes exist outside Germany about it.

I can assure you standardizing things is not something Germany is good at.
Nice list! Anyone have something similar to the first link with a week-training-schedule, but with free/body weight so it's easier to do at home?
what is the point of sending that much message, to an entity that clearly communicate in lawyer. Usually if I am not happy after the first round of message, I immediatly lawyer up.
Statistical tool finds 'gaps' in DNA data sets shouldn't be ignored
BMW has denied that it was an autonomous / self-driving test-car [1].

The article is from Reutlinger Generalanzeiger, a regional newspaper, and they probably have better sources than Der Spiegel.

The B28 is a very scenic drive, the region is also not a densely populated area. I used to live close by.

[1]: https://www.gea.de/blaulicht_artikel,-schwerer-crashnahe-zai...
I think robots.txt needs to work the other way. You put in the robots.txt ONLY if you want the search engines to crawl your page.

The current way is akin to saying ... "You do not have a lock on your door. So we are welcome to come in ..."
Luddites were hanged, I hope you are not suggesting we hang illustration artists.
He means that cookies are an implementation detail, the fact of using alternative techniques doesn't absolutely change anything regarding the law. And it is perfectly legal to store cookies (e.g. a session token) without asking the user's permission if it is within the law, i.e. if you don't use it for tracking users without their consent.
We Germans probably have a standard design system for the documents we send by Fax...
Driving in general is inherently dangerous. For an informed opinion on the matter, we need crash rates per driven distance with and without autonomous driving activated. Preferably by manufacturer.
That is the link from the post you are replying too it's from Harvard Medical.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/stop-counting....

"""
"This idea of 'a calorie in and a calorie out' when it comes to weight loss is not only antiquated, it's just wrong," says Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity specialist and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
"""

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| And simply saying 'Instead we should focus on daily fun movements that we like to do. So it doesn't feel like a chore and easy to maintain within your lifestyle.' is such a weird take

Did you watched youtube link provided?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWuKIlbybqY

Because after watching it, it makes allot of sense. And your points are all addressed there.
Apart from FirefoxOS and random EU browser ballots I'm not aware of anywhere Firefox was the default. You seem to be saying because many people chose Firefox it was their default. But that's not a common use of the word in this context.
I had the fun experience of my local (UK, major city) council sending debt collectors after me for non-payment of council tax while simultaneously (literally same week) asking what bank account to send the several thousand pounds they owed me for overpayment - because they failed to acknowledge that despite having moved address, I was still the same person, and their systems treated each address as an account not each person. They still told me it was my fault.
The threat of suffering and death are the threats used both to make you work for money, and to make you eat healthy and work out. However, the consequences of the former are much more imminent, while the consequences of the latter can take years to show up. Unfortunately, we find delayed reward or punishment to be a much weaker motivator.
It is run as a private company despite being state owned. Some EU regulations require that all European train networks compete like commercial entities which ads limitations to financing the DB and creates a lot of bad incentives. Like letting infrastructure rot, because complete renewals and replacements are paid by the government while upkeep isn't.
https://table.dog is a CLI that downloads your Stripe account to a SQLite db.

Would appreciate it if you could test it out if you are interested.
> Source for 10-rep sets being particularly injurious please.

That's absolutely not what they said.
Nowsadays it is more a scam based on planned obsolescence and non pertinent software Rube Goldberg Machines, than anything else.

It is extremely hard to justify a sustained income in this area while being honest and fair, not to mention that the required skills for 99% of programming is no higher a high-school grade.

I said it is extremely hard, not impossible.
While it’s true that more muscle mass requires more calories it also has an impact on your appetite so if you aren’t conscious of what you’re eating you can also gain a lot of fat while gaining muscle. There’s no way around it if you want to look lean you need to balance your diet and eat an appropriate number of calories for your weight and activity level.
Point noted. I'll be careful with my language. Thanks for reiterating.

This system is focused on the source of the hit and the page views that led to the conversion. It could be used to measure organic search ROI for individual content pages. You could justify content spend based on performance data and plan future content based on past returns. I find this use case particularly interesting.

It is capable of multi-session attribution. From a product perspective, the tradeoff is timeframe for efficiency. The longer the historical perspective, the more costly feature becomes. This represents a current personal debate about tradeoffs.
Not sure about the menu, but using Mate (which is GNOME2+ effectively), by default the menu was a weird menu in the style of Windows 11 where you had to type to find anything.

But you could replace the menu with a different menu button from the applets list to get the traditional menu back / other styles.

I wonder if it's the same for Gnome 4?
I believe AWS is also using Equinix in some locations.
This is true. I am from Germany, you are spot on in your observations. I live in the Netherlands now and the difference is mind-boggling. I have 1Gbit/s fiber (that actually delivers 1Gbit/s) and truly unlimited 5G (that is actually available in every corner of the country) for a combined 50 bucks or so.
Don't forget the multi-month lead times to even get connected to the internet. I lived without the internet for 3 months when I first moved to Germany. I read over 30 books that year.
I have the same issue with zwave. I have great wifi coverage in the basement, yet none of the zwave devices seem to connect reliably.

I've been meaning to try the newer 700 series hub for better penetration.

The other issue is that despite zwave being low power, all the devices are still $50-$100
As you may have unintentionally alluded too with your reference to Concorde, there is no hard number or line. It's purely a public perception thing. There is no definable threshold that is "good enough".

The tech needs to stick around long enough and proliferate to a large enough cross section of society to become mundane (something Concorde failed to do). The people who are not satisfied will never be satisfied by an improvement in the numbers. What will change their minds is when it becomes clear that nobody else cares and they're just yelling at clouds. Realistically what that means is a generation has to come of age after the tech has proliferated and accept it by default and don't see it as pushing the limits of what's reasonable. From there the acceptance gets back-ported.
Open Sound Control implementation is a mess and very hacky but has great potential to network together various systems. I use it to build instruments and controllers that can talk to each other over wifi but I rely on hard coded IP addresses and bring my own wifi network with me for a show. There's a guy who built a protocol called O2 that gives OSC features like a synced clock and discoverability, etc. You name your services rather than targeting IP/ports. This seems like a step in the right direction, but if I wanted to use O2 right now, I'd have to build everything myself because nothing supports it. TouchOSC doesn't support it. Ardour doesn't support it.
The major providers use buildings owned by Equinix and others where they need to.

Check out Amazon Atlas on wikileaks for some more information

https://wikileaks.org/amazon-atlas/document/
I think it is understood that there's a lower total bound for it to be useful, like it's pointless comparing ten seconds of daily fitness with 70 seconds of one time weekly fitness
I sometmes like CLS, it makes it look like things are happening instead of feeling like a wait time.
I recently used a simple templating mechanism

elem = jquery.clone()
...
elem.slideDown()

And this renders bits of the page moving them as it does it; slideDown() is in jquery core. It used to be popular before that biz of rendering grey squares first got invented
I think it largely depends on what the work actually involves. For me - I personally don't like working from home. I need the separation between my place of work and my place of rest, but I fully appreciat that this is my own personal view and not everybody shares it.

However, my actual job requires a lot of communication - some of it is perfectly ok to do remotely via calls etc, but a significant portion of my job involves ad-hoc discussions, whiteboarding, throwing ideas around and coming up with a solution to a problem that is highly specific to our domain. This is the problem area, for me - I've found no combination of tools that adequately plugs the gaps that remote working has left in our ability to have those kinds of conversations / design sessions - and certainly no combination that everyone 'gels' with.

For me, it's a major issue. Productivity in those area has absolutely tanked. Pre-planned, pre-determined work is generally ok, but the more informal side of things - which is actually probably around 50% of what we actually need to do in order to keep things moving, has gone to hell, which now means we ask people to come in at least a few days a week to try to plug the gaps.
A sticker on the vehicle clearly shows it was BMW autonomous test vehicle: https://twitter.com/AEONde/status/1559477911446589441
I never claimed it was a huge part of the federal budget, only that NIH and NSF provide a large fraction of basic science research. It’s always tricky tracing that to actual treatments but the drug companies tend to fund development of promising candidates from taxpayer-funded basic research more than doing that basic science themselves, and a lot of their R&D goes to tweaking existing drugs which might make them more effective/convenient but definitely protects the company’s margin against generics.
New features in Cakelisp: defer, CRC builds
You didn't say which language you're using. If you're interested in Rust, I wrote a crate which deals with a bunch of bezier operations, including boolean path operations: https://docs.rs/flo_curves/latest/flo_curves/bezier/path/ind...

The 'better way' you're talking about here is the curve clipping algorithm, my version of which is here: https://docs.rs/flo_curves/latest/flo_curves/bezier/fn.curve...

Finding the intersections between individual curves is only the first part of this operation: you also need a way to determine which edges are on the outside of the new path (flo_curves uses raycasting for this, same operation that the OP focuses on, essentially) and deal with a fairly large pile of edge cases - literally edge cases here. Things like overlapping edges, nearly overlapping edges, what happens if a ray passes through an intersection point or directly across a straight edge, precision issues, curves with loops, etc.
What world are we in where a guy hosting a blog needs to read about GDPR.