skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is friends/family/social pressure is for. We don't forbid it, but people will look at you sideways if you drink beer at 9 am on a weekday.
Ease up, I'm quite sure it was a joke.
The only thing I can think of is that most of the centralized systems are highly regulated at the national and international level. Without those systems, a company would not be competitive. Even entire countries have tried to create their own systems with limited success (look at Russia trying to replace Swift recently).
I worked on Java apps around that timeframe. Despite spending a lot of effort refining our widgets and using some animated transitions (ref the "Filthy Rich Clients" book) the applications generally felt more dated and cheaper-looking than native apps.

For enterprise apps with no strong competitors these minor aesthetic issues didn't impact revenue so those UIs remained in Java. But for everything else it was worth it (financially) to migrate to native.

I sometimes armchair quarterback and wonder whether Java would have been more successful if the Swing folks had focused more on design. It seemed like the most they ever did UI wise was attempt to catch up to platform native widgets so they were perpetually several years out of date and slightly inconsistent. Had they skated to where the puck was going to be rather than where it is perhaps Java applications would be the ones people pointed to when asking devs to "make it look sexy" instead of iTunes.
In Ben Franklin's autobiography (on gutenberg.org, I think), he points out how he learned to get along better by prefacing things with "I think..." or "It seems like..." etc. That and observing one's own blunders and learning from them :) can help -- I mean, recognizing that none of us knows everything, we are limited and can be wrong. Listening, realizing that others have perspectives and experiences that we don't always have, and their input can increase our overall understanding.

I've also found it very helpful to practice phrasing things as questions instead of strong statements -- keeps less egg on my face, in times when I just didn't know all the facts. I.e., instead of "that is a bad idea", say maybe "wouldn't that lead to problems [, like maybe x, y or maybe z?". Then people can reply to the question instead of feeling attacked and attacking back.
> Acts contains the oldest Christian traditions. Oral traditions, natch.

The Oral Tradition hypothesis holds that where Matthew and Luke agree against Mark, rather than using a Q Source, the source is oral traditions. Prior to Mark and the letters of Paul, surely there had to be oral traditions passed on for decades. Luke may refer to these in the first two verses of his gospel.

But since the synoptic gospels all attest together to a number of events, known as the Triple Tradition, including Jesus' baptism and crucifixion, and many details in between, and Acts begins with the replacement of Judas with Matthias, detailing further events only after this event, I don't see how the earliest oral traditions could be found in Acts.

Clearly the baptism, temptation, gathering of disciples, etc., all occurred prior to Mathias elected to replace Judas, and if drawn at least partially from oral tradition, how could the later traditions predate the earlier? Without earlier oral traditions including key elements from Jesus' life, how could oral traditions concerning much later events in Acts begin to develop?

Oral traditions detailing the spread of the gospel predating the oral traditions of the gospels themselves is difficult to imagine and implies early Christians developed what necessarily then becomes a backstory, or prequel, namely Jesus' ministry, only after developing the oral traditions concerning the oral transfer of those earlier events. That would be a neat trick, as the narratives about the oral transfer of those chronologically earlier narratives somehow would predate the content of the oral transfer detailed in Acts.
I find that different social networks are more "conductive" for different types feelings or states. I think a lot of it has to do a person's natural negativity bias[0] but is further amplified by the given social network. Some tend towards conducting negativity towards self. Some tend to point the finger at others. I think as we better recognize and map these bizzare (and profitable) incentive structures over time we'll be able to build apps and networks that through various tricks and shortcuts more naturally conduct positivity, love, open mindedness, a desire to unite people, etc.

I suspect in that world you'll still have a lot of networks trend negative but it would be pretty cool to get to a point where there is a choice. Sort of like ad blockers.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
On its own yeah but tariffs subsidies and other policy tools can make it so you are profitable. If apple makes iphones for $99 in China you can specifically implement tariffs on iphones at 500% so it is equally costly if making it in the US costs 499.
The fxtec has been a huge disappointment. If you can even get upirs, its now dated hardware and people have been reporting many issues with it.

Also no it most definitely contains blobs.

https://community.fxtec.com/topic/3326-pro%C2%B9-x-%E2%80%93...
The last time that Apple acquired a company that could be seen as a competitor was in 1997 when it acquired Next.

What did they do with regards to TSMC that would be anti competitive? Invest money in a supplier to ensure that it had capacity?
Porn STARS probably not. Cam "models" yes absolutely are the majority forced into it.
Minds of Its Own (2020)
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Inaudible for Linus Thorwalds levels of focus.
> The BOE decided to intervene to get ahead of a potential crisis that could have hit within hours. It was concerned collateral requirements on liability-driven investment strategies, such as those at pension funds, would have turned many into forced sellers of long dated gilts, according to a person familiar with the situation.

I often hear people complain about the end of defined benefit pensions, but this is what inevitably always happens. There will be essentially bailouts, printing billions, leading to inflation, weakening the currency. Why? Because someone made an irresponsible promise to someone 30 years ago knowing they won't be around when it hits the fan. And now we all have to rearrange out entire economic system to accommodate them. And these people are all gone by now, no one to hold responsible. What would responsibility even look like? Firing someone?
I'm a woman, and a socialist, so no, I don't think anyone should be forced into sex work. I don't think anyone should be forced into any kind of work.
If we're talking about social issues, easy... Study social philosophy. Will drive all your convictions to the ground really fast.
Biologists Use Genetic Circuits to Program Plant Roots
Well, that would be great, yeah. But the other web APIs (everything except WASM, WebGL and WebGPU) still have a long way to go to provide the same functionality as native APIs that are relevant for gaming. Currently the web equivalents are a massive PITA to work with. The web platform needs something like the DirectX or Proton initiatives to make it viable for games, WASM and WebGPU alone are not enough.
> better Android ones with slide out keyboards

That's the weirdest thing I've read in a while. No one cares about that.
The virus does not get injected into your muscle... Generally you get it through mouth or nose, its a totally different receiver mechanism.
Most of these are reported by individuals who are gaslit be being told it’s not related to the vaccine, which is very effective and safe.

Since effective means: you need this again every 3 months, and it won’t affect whether you contract or receive the illness, one can wonder objectively what it means to be safe.
I just noticed more and more copy and pasted content from stackoverflow intruding on my searches. Word for word the same content. There are so many people out there just creating blogs and stealing content and SEOing their way into traffic, it's not even funny anymore.
HTML+CSS started as basically a desktop publishing technology, but that's not the case anymore. There's fantastic support nowadays for building app experiences, from the perspective of layout and interactivity. Fair point on system-wide customization, although I really don't miss it. Maybe it's the experience of the web, but it no longer seems weird to me that apps have different design paradigms. But realistically, desktop hasn't had unified design since Java applications started becoming popular 20 years ago.
WASD + WASM = <3
Mammoth Cave is worth the visit if you’re in the area.
At my company nobody turns the cameras on in the first place. I don't see any value they would add to a meeting, only distraction.
I don't think libertarians are against sharing their opinions or questioning someone's actions. They're mostly just against forcefully applying it.
I investigated this a few years ago in Australia. Sex work is legal in Australia, kinda. It is legal to exchange sexual services for money, but supporting and assisting such a transaction is illegal. So a landlord who rents a property to a sex worker is breaking the law. A payment processor who processes the card transaction is breaking the law, and so on. There are some clauses around managing establishments that basically make brothels just, barely, within the law.

It's a ridiculous position in that it almost forces sex workers onto the street or into brothels (which often take a huge chunk of each transaction). There was no way of getting my client (I was freelancing for a sex worker to try and solve some of their tech issues) any reasonable ability to process credit cards. Or do a wide range of things that we'd consider normal for a small business (like set up a Stripe account, or even a business bank account, or rent an office).

This needs to change.
better link: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/whodunnit-facts-relate...
Was through friends and family...you've got to see this video...baby shark doo doo do do...and then years of pain.
It's a common pattern... No good engineer wants to work on a product with their feet stuck in legal quicksand. So all the good engineers leave, and the product stagnates with no direction.

Even if the lawsuit is won, the product is still doomed.
Nobody seriously goes into things intentionally making them obtuse.

The current complexity is a product of poor design from a sincere effort for simplicity.

Trying to be easy, lightweight, simple, is the silver bullet way to create a mess and it's why when you see those words in software names it's always just a sprawling stochastic tangle.

The easiest way to avoid the mess is to make things dumb.
HSBC wants you to think that but anybody with wikipedia can tell you it's not true in practice. It's not that they don't want your business, it's that the end users in these cause problems. They're happy to keep cartel money, one-to-many is easier than many-to-one, it's simple math.
Most likely because it's the advertising dollars that pay for 80% of the internet.
If I'm the interviewer and an interview has clearly gone badly and both sides known it, I usually just ask the person about something they are working on at work/personally/coursework, or whatever. People are usually happy to focus on something they can talk about and my goal is to end the conversation on a positive note. So if they feel they were able to talk about their project(s) and present their strengths, they can walk away with a more positive feeling.

I think the only exception is if the person has clearly lied about everything on their resume. I don't mean people who have stretched the truth - I really mean the type of person who insists they "I did X" but they clearly did not. I'll just end the meeting early and that's the end of it.

As an interviewee I think it really depends on the situation. If the company and job seem interesting, I definitely try to ask questions to learn more about what they are really doing in their jobs. If the person who interviewed me is an a-hole or clearly not engaged in the interview I just say thanks and end the call.
Don't fret, building stuff from scratch is hard: you have a thousand different decisions to make about the code and even just 1 wrong decision can make a codebase a clusterfuck.

But being good at debugging is a good base to learn how to build systems from. You'll see what naming conventions work well or invite confusion, what folder structure and project organization is less confusing, what design patterns lead to the trickiest bugs, etc.

Just keep at it.
People who buy based on celebrity endorsement earned their fate.
Oh man I spent months in highschool thinking about that algorithm. I remember reading some paper on it and being confused by notation and then I found Casey's video and it was so simple to understand. It made me think what was the point of papers when they make such trivial things so hard to understand.

Never really got EPA working correctly, was too OCD to finish stuff like that back then.
The flashlight mechanic really gave it a nice horror vibe the originals were missing. Like do you want light? Or do you want to kill things? Choose!
Can you explain what QE is and how long term rates are connected? Do you mean that the fall of pound is inevitably going to require UK banks to increase interest rates to make pound more attractive to investors?

And what's the problem with increasing interest rates? Is it that rising interest rates makes new businesses difficult to borrow money? And difficulty in borrowing money leads to shrinking economy?
Yeah, and it is a fact that cartel and authoritarian statist money laundering is intertwined with banking. See just about any story about Deutsche in the last decade.

I've worked with sex-related sites before. And you're right that there are sleazy people in that industry. But it really isn't hard to distinguish, especially when you can see their payment stream.

Without moralist obsessions with sex, nobody would care.
I’m confused — why can’t the sex workers just claim to be independent masseuses or something else innocuous like that?
Not trying to be defensive or anything: do you have any examples? I'd love to take a peek at what patterns and designs Java's lambdas don't work well for.
Here ya go

http://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/e938acc8ff64a3cb...
Teaching safe sex is what prevents disease and unwanted children, not moralizing about sex.

There are plenty of well adjusted people who are either in open relationships or have no desire to be in relationships. Being kind and treating people with respect is what strengthens families.
As much as I _despise_ modern ReCAPTCHA, I have always been able to pass the challenge eventually; it has never flatly rejected me with no recourse. If I made a mistake or was insufficiently human for it, I got a new challenge and tried again. There are apocryphal stories of Google tar-pitting users with it, but I have never seen it in action.

If this judges the browser more than the user, what do I do when the browser fails? Do I refresh the page hoping for a different batch of invisible challenges? Do I submit a ticket to CF customer support... despite not being a customer?
I think we're talking past one another... I'm not against PvP games or faction warfare, but the grind it takes to be able to meaningfully participate. I didn't WANT to mine or run trade routes ("safe Eve"), but flying out in a noob ship with noob skills and no friends was just suicide. It wasn't so much high-risk, high-reward, it was high-investment-or-get-ganked. The entire economy is designed around the grind, with real-time skills and huge supply chains. Every time I WANTED to do something, I couldn't because I didn't have enough ISK/materials/skills/friends.

I don't want "safety", I want "lack of monotony". They're different things. Eve is like the Foxhole of space games, vs something like Elite Dangerous where even lone-wolf privateers can see meaningful action/combat without much investment.

I would love to play Eve more for the social aspects, but it takes too much time commitment to be able to meaningfully participate unless you join a big guild and they help you up. That's because of the grind.

If an emulator makes the grind much easier (much faster skill progression, higher material drop rates, easier ISK, etc.) I would love to check that out. I'm sure that will also cause communities to be less tight-knit (lower investments in time and social dependence), but that's a tradeoff I'm willing to accept in exchange for being able to experience some of the time-locked parts of Eve...
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The latest iPadOS 16 beta brings Stage Manager to older iPad Pro models
This has always seemed kinda obvious? But I guess... maybe not to professional philosophers?

In college there was this clique of philosophy students who were studying all this ancient thought but were (imo) strangely averse to weighing in on the problems of modernity. Like what they were interested in was 'real' philosophy. Never seemed right to me. That stuff is already baked into the way we think -- that's why it was important back then! Today we can barely perceive what it's like to _not_ think with it; it's "in the water supply", as it were. The interesting philosophy is in the new ideas that aren't settled yet.
oh the semicolon not on the same like as jkl is a no-no for me as a programmer.
US embassy in Russia tells Americans to leave the country
“Backwards”

I suppose if all your daughters wanted to be whores you’d be a good chap and send them on their way with a box of biscuits.
The banks and pension funds hold the assets. BoE will now buy these assets, driving up the price and helping the banks out (recapitalizing them).

This is the opposite of what you would do if you want to reduce inflation. You're inserting more money into the system and removing IOUs (debt). Originally BoE was concerned about inflation but now they're moving against what they deem a bigger threat, big banks and pension funds are in financial trouble
Marshall McLuhan's _Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man_ continues to provide critical insight.
Making fake FB accounts -- they have an identity verification stage IIRC, not sure if it's a static photo or a short video clip these days.

If you need to access the walled garden but would prefer to keep your identity from them, thispersondoesntexist + deepfakes could be one way to do it.
Addition in logarithmic space is expensive, we don't have any neat ways of doing it. Options include:

* Converting back and forth to linear space, using exp and log functions, this is much slower than a regular multiplication.

* Evaluating a polynomial that approximates the logarithmic space add, this takes several multiplications, so also much slower.

In general we tend to use more additions than multiplications, so trading addition speed for multiplication speed is rarely a good idea, even 1 for 1. If we need a lot of exponentiation keeping some values in logarithmic space may be beneficial, but it has to be those rare cases only.
Just a heads up for CF folks: Once you create a Turnstile, the link below the generated secret ("Server side integration code") leads to 404.
This is basically QE, the Bank of England is printing money to buy the long duration bonds since no one else will buy them due to expectations of rate increases. Check out 30 years US bond TLT, https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TLT?p=TLT&.tsrc=fin-srch which have gone from 150 to 100 in one year.
They didn't do that in February?
If only.

https://github.com/jtgrassie/xmr-wasm
> it almost forces sex workers onto the street or into brothels (which often take a huge chunk of each transaction)

Exactly. It makes sex work more dangerous, not less.
But the US have limited export capabilities, and Europe is going to turn to Norway, Algeria and Qatar. If it is the US, I would say it's only to destabilize the Putin regime, Russia's economy, to generate protests, and make a coup. But I would wait before making any guess.
That would just DRMize the web with a few select browsers being allowed to access content and the rest being left to dust.
Works for me, so... ;)
That means that someone have to work to make the food that is given to other people. So get food, someone has to work. If there is no food, someone starves. Society can just redirect who is working and who is starving.
Dome Keeper: another great commercial game made of with Godot
Today this game have been released in the Steam store. It is a great game, but the news is it made with Godot.
Fascinating. There’s always a loss of lower-level knowledge when we introduce abstractions. Yet “we stand upon the shoulders of giants,” it’s the layers of abstractions underneath us that we don’t have to understand or even think about that free our minds to compose ever more amazing technology on top. Still, progression from the layer that you know and love to the next that paves over it is bittersweet.
monero and tornado cash are crypto, but payment flows through them are pretty difficult to trace.
Swedish feminists make different arguments, based on the inevitably gendered nature of the work and the asymmetry of sex discrimination. They make feminist arguments.

The US does not, because they wouldn't work. The average angry political American thinks that bigotry against men is at least as prevalent as bigotry against women, and thinks that institutions have conspired with each other to advance women ahead of men.

Even American feminists think that there's no element of a woman's condition in the world that can't be equally applied to anyone who identifies as a woman. Very American, if the conditions of women are a state of mind that can be corrected or experienced based on how you identify, it's basically a "law of attraction." Women can think themselves out of (or into, if they have penises) the female condition. I'm pretty sure Kanye said something about the reason for slavery being that black people identified as slaves. It's that same sort of inversion of control and blaming the victim.

Radical feminists have a more coherent perspective. It's not one that I can agree with in many aspects, but it's one that's always worth discussing.
FYI it is spelled "Aristotle" in English
To say that whoring is immoral? Are you advocating for more whoring in society?
I agree. My father was a historian and philosopher, and I used to love arguing philosophy as a teen at the dinner table. This was because I hadn't read anything yet, and so was approaching with an entirely naive and empty mind.

I then studied a fair bit of philosophy at university, and while I could certainly appreciate the value of actually reading many great thinkers, the idea of spending my life studying them was absurd to me. I could think of nothing more horrifying than being proud to say that someone was one of the world's "top Heidegger scholars." (I recall the movie Little Miss Sunshine where a character was obsessed about his rival being only the "second" highest regarded Proust scholar.) Writing book after book about someone else's philosophy seemed utterly pointless.

To (ironically) quote Seneca: "'Hoc Zenon dixit': tu quid?" What do you have to say?