skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why would you need to convince them? There's nothing wrong with using a free matrix.org account unless and until you do understand the benefits of using something else.

The good thing about having the federated protocol is that people can use different providers and change providers without destroying the network effects.

It's perfectly fine if most people end up using one of very few big providers as long as all providers support federation.

I think we have to make a distinction between personal communication and mass communication. The former is a question of privacy. The latter is a question of political freedoms.
The biggest danger with regards to Covid is not the formal restrictions or mandates, it's its convenience as a scapegoat for various shortcomings or reductions of service level.

Even 2 years down the line I'm still seeing businesses blaming Covid for various issues instead of blaming themselves and their inability to run/manage a business properly.
Lua is the only difference but it makes all the difference.
From my understanding, Lua is nicer than Vimscript, this means more people will create more interesting and better Lua plugins, that can only be used in neovim.
LuaJIT is also fast.
Again, 30% is market rate across the board. You can find analysis on what a quality marketplace trusted by users costs, it's much more than people think. And the benefit to an app of being in a trusted market is high.

In the US, public companies have a fiduciary obligation to shareholders to earn.

It's unclear to me why Apple should keep money out of the pockets of teachers and firemen invested in them through pension funds, just to charge below market rates for the most trusted marketplace where devs make (by far) the most money.
I don't agree with PayPal's decision here but I'm failing to see how it's as broad as people seem to be making it.

The TOS specifically say that you may not use PayPal for promotion of hate etc.

So you might not be able to buy a Nazi flag via PayPal but there's nothing there, for example, to stop you posting an image of a Nazi flag on Twitter.
Don't make it harder for people to steal, just blame the victim for not watching his or her stuff more closely? Sounds a lot like victim blaming to me.
How is that "worse"?

Abusing any population, is abusing a population. What you just argued is akin to walking into a room full of pregnant high school girls, and declaring one to be the "most" virgin.

Besides, the point of the Constitution, is to make it difficult for such things to happen in one direction or another in the political dimension. Which it does pretty well. If you want it to provide protections in the dimension of private economic activity, you can do that, just make an amendment and build a consensus.

If this new amendment which you draft to ostensibly protect this "majority", can't build the requisite consensus, then not only is it doubtful that it actually protects a majority, but it also shouldn't be an amendment. That's just democracy since the "majority" you claim to be serving doesn't seem to want the amendment.
Are you including “basic economics” in the list of things sports taught you? Curious how that would be learned.
The 2nd Amendment does not apply to semi-auto rifles, nor does it apply to bolt action rifles, pistols, or revolvers. The 2nd Amendment RESTRICTS GOVERNMENT. The technology of the firearm is irrelevant. The restrictions on government remain the same, regardless of the firearm. The Second Amendment was not written to grant permission for citizens to own and bear firearms. It forbids government interference in the right to keep and bear arms, period. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I think they are being conservative with their estimates and being pessimistic on announcements.
The opinions of rest of the world are irrelevant to us as regards our political debates. You literally don't matter.
Sorry, but have you looked at Procreate? There is absolutely no comparison to what you can do on an iPad. It’s basically a Wacom plus one of the high end art apps. Anything that you can do on a Remarkable can be done better on an iPad with respect to drawing, once you add a Paperlike to replicate the texture. I guess if you only did pencil sketches outside, the Remarkable would win.
It never grants them the ability to nullify laws via judicial review. That is a power they invented themselves.
That's very generous. Yes they're moving faster than before, but for a while it seemed like they didn't have any developers at all. Instead they spend an insane amount of money on marketing.

And for a long time (I'm an early v1 user) what they did deliver was miniscule, ignoring a lot of the feedback from core users about basic issues. Some of the "new" features being released recently even existed in early v1 releases, e.g. the screen sharing which used to work fine locally, but now doesn't anymore because it "needs" to go via their cloud.

The break stuff unintentionally too though, so you're right there. For a few releases they even broke the core writing feature - lines and drawings would be drawn all jaggy - and the fix took forever.

The marketing worked and tricked me into buying one, but it's clear to me now that reMarkable is first and foremost a marketing company, tech and users come second. I won't be spending any more money with them.
Yeah, I work on the campus regularly, and the TIM ticket system is often inconsistent, so I shadow people through doors.
Most of them don't have the depth of chess, though. It's more like working in McDonalds.
> yet don't hear a peep about Chinese military issues on Global Times or XinHua

How much did you hear about Russian military issues in January?
You don't just start a fracking operation "in the short term".
Same here. I had an account from 2002 and closed it without a second thought. On the plus side, they sent an individual email for each business or person that I had a payment set up with even if it was not recurring which made it very easy to figure out what vendors I needed to update.
The comments there link to a prior very active set of comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418671
> It's set up to make it difficult for the majority to trample on the rights of the minority

And that's why black and white people couldn't intermarry until 1967.
A sane language would deprecate the function so the compiler warns (or dies) when encountering it. Go's compiler is happy to die because I have an unused import, but not this?
- not that common a scenario

- this uses localStorage which is similar to cookies but not the same thing

- for a site that extolls 'all the data is saved in your browser', how should it cope with a browser with storage disabled?

- How do you log in to HN with cookies disabled?
The sidenotes are truncated to the right if my screen width is less than 1920 pixels. Given that I use Tree Style Tab for Firefox, it's about 1700, and I already need to zoom out to see the right-side sidenotes while there's a huge empty margin to the left at the same time. Adding `padding-right: 25em;` to `div id="layout"` works around the issue for me, but I shouldn't need to add anything like that.

Please, stop assuming that everyone's non-mobile viewport is 1920 pixels wide.
> "If you have to write more than 10 lines, then use a real language"

I swear, there should be a HN rule against those. It pollutes every single Shell discussions, bringing nothing to them and making it hard for others do discuss the real topic.
Perhaps, though that seems like a very different argument than what I replied to.

I think (medium certainty) that because human minds were produced by evolution, which we can replicate trivially in simulations, that it is unlikely to be impossible for us to get there.
The most classic optimization advice is based on a complete misquote. Here is some critical context:

> t. The conventional wisdom shared by many of today's software engineers calls for ignoring efficiency in the small; but I
believe this is simply an overreaction to the abuses they see being practiced by pennywise-and-pound-foolish programmers

> in established engineering disciplines a 12 % improvement, easily obtained, is never considered marginal

> when it's a question of preparing quality programs, I don't want to restrict myself to tools that deny me such
efficiencies.

> We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

Keep in mind that in this case the argument is being made against goto, which is effectively an inlined `jmp` instruction that can do all sorts of insane things just to save a few instructions. This quote is discouraging a case where the complexity is extreme and the benefit is minor.

All that people can seem to remember is "premature optimization is the root of all evil".

[PDF] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/356635.356640
Also have a remarkable. While hacking it is reasonably easy, you would need to do a bit of it to make this work smoothly I think.
How can we be certain that the consciousness is in the head-brain? For example, there are 100M neuro cells in the stomach. We also talk about making decisions based on "gut feeling". I am not saying it is any kind of proof, but hints that this saying might be based on physical experience about gut being involved in the decision making. Also, meditation traditions talk about various body parts having various kind of impact on the consciousness, stomach being one of them.

Another interesting example is the octopus. If you cut a tentacle off from the octopus, the tentacle sometimes still continues to feed the head of the octopus. So the tentacle appears to have a "brain".
We should not idolize a past that did not exist. The politicians during the 1780s were not more virtuous, cooperative, or intelligent than the politicians of today.

I tend to agree more with Thomas Jefferson:

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.—It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to 19 years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be indeed if every form of government were so perfectly contrived that the will of the majority could always be obtained fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves. Their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils. Bribery corrupts them. Personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents: and other impediments arise so as to prove to every practical man that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal."

https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/selected-documents/tho...
However, it's possible to change the people who interpret the constitution to achieve the desired result. (See Poland)
What tool did you use for the "tour"/tutorial at the start?
Since when do things cost 50% more in euros than in dollars? I've always treated it as 1:1 in my head for convenience, but 280 USD or 350 EUR is a major difference. (Edit: Internet says it should be €280.)

Not sure if I'd use this device but it seems nice, and for 250 it's worth thinking about. For 350 it's not even a question.
Theres's a slight difference between the Earth cycling between warm and cold periods on timelines that span millennia and us warming the planet by several degrees over 150 years.
Fortunately the authors of the website didn't turn off plain HTTP.
Their stay in Texas's HB-8 was clearly ignoring the law as it stood. The restrictions in HB-8 were unquestionably unconstitutional at the time it arrived at the supreme court.
Later the court changed the interpretation of constitution. The majority could not wait to overturn the law, so they ignored it.
It's not really about liking them or not. It's about keeping the signal to noise ratio high and leaving the rest to Reddit.
What I'm curious about is how this has been done. I don't think that the source for UT99 has been released, so does icculus have access to the source and has then ported it to emscripten, or has it been decompiled from x86 and then recompiled for WASM, or is it running on an x86 emulation layer programmed in WASM?
I presume it was from source, given that everything else is prohibitively hard just for a demo like this.
Pickpocketing does not exist in America. Even on crowded public transportation systems. It's a cultural phenomenon.
when I set up new computers. I never changed settings on existing accounts (unless it was to fix something of course).
A related, recent paper arguing that life on Earth makes it more likely that life occurs on other planets: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
I'd wager half of the people that would make the argument he's replying to believe that the EU government is kind of alright.

Consequently, to those people, it's an excellent reply.

Maybe it wasn't for you.
It already exists.
https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

But websites will never use it because they make it annoying on purpose.
Signal is similarly coercive about contacts - only "Yes" and "Not now", and once they get them, there's no way to delete the data they've got.

Desktop Signal still keeps showing me other people who also have Signal, but whom I've never even tried to contact via Signal, only because years ago I've mistakenly let them see my contacts.
Only time will tell. I'd be tempted to buy one, but at present I'd rather wait some more time for the PineNote to reach an usable state. My use case would be mostly at home, so it would be essential to be able to read from local NFS or SMB shares, caching on the on board SD card the latest accessed books, something that would be trivial to implement in a Open Source reader, but I doubt commercial ones would do. And of course any attempt to force me use a phone app or any online services would immediately turn me away.
your comment describes an interdisciplinarian with basic communication skills, which is exactly the type of engineer most teams should be looking to hire, even if only to strengthen collaboration between dedicated design, engineering, and product functions

> they should also do frontend, backend, dev ops, security, and on-call

this is exactly what a full stack in a small- to mid-sized team does. all things dev + on-call rotations.

> why dont we throw in project management and product management while we're at it

this has been a collaborative effort on most of the teams i've been on, even with a dedicated PM

> it's not like those UI/UX people do much either, so let's just make the devs do that too

in my experience design output from an engineer with junior-to-mid design experience is more successful than that from most mid-to-senior designers without engineering backgrounds

> we'll have like 5 mandatory meetings a week to check in on them

you're bothered by your job checking in once a day during the work week?
There was a recent paper arguing that life on Earth makes it more likely that life occurs on other planets: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
Are there any tech (or other) companies that have dumped 50-90% of their workforce without any effect on output? Because otherwise OP is either the only person in history to discover this or wrong...
> And courts should be "swayed by public sentiment".

That's problematic.

Part of the function of courts and judges is to convince people not to "take the law into their own hands", and mete-out punishment by mob. That incentivizes courts to hand-down more severe sentences, especially in scandalous cases. Another part is to interpret the law fairly (Justice as Fairness), a function that is often at odds with the former function.

I don't think it's at all the business of courts to try to appease the mob; that leads inevitably to trial-by-tabloid, which is no kind of justice.
Those are the easy bits. We've already got all of those, because that's how we make the machines we already use even today, and we would need them in any scenario other than genetically engineering ourselves to eat the moon, not just the uploaded brains scenario.
>Backed by the might of its own economy, surely the US can rebuild dominance in any technological area it happens to choose given its strategic position and aims?

And if you can't build dominance by fair means, just sanction the Chinese companies that are beating you. And, needless to say, all your little lickspittle acolytes in Europe and Australia will follow suit.
I wrote a fair number of bash scripts, and the area where they're definitely weaker than using a mainstream programming language is debugging. If something bad goes on a large script, it is not only harder to figure out why, but sometimes the error may be in one of a dozen native UNIX commands that have nothing to do with bash. The interaction between the shell and these UNIX commands is the weak point in the process and you can spend a long time trying to figure out what is really going on.
It's not a physical disconnect. More like firmware disconnect. Purism have a physical kill switch for the microphone in their laptop.
i think SMS support was part of the reason they could not do it before, since usernames would break that feature. removing SMS makes this a non-issue. the phone number is now just an arbitrary ID string which can be replaced by any other
No.

1) Humans don’t scale. I assume that’s self-evident.

2) Humans actually aren’t interchangeable pieces. Very, very few people can perform good work in each of those domains. Even fewer can rotate roles like that. Those unicorns are rarely employees.

3) Companies can begin like that (I have been through this kind of role evolution) because there is work to be done and insufficient staff to do it, and the roles split off when growth demands and rewards specialization, but see above, goto 1.

It is great (transformative even) for people in these roles to be able to take perspectives of the other roles. That mostly requires leadership, not rotations.

This rotation does not serve customers.

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It’s advice on how to proceed with a potential legal matter.
As noted in the reporting, Apple does not take a % for services that happen entirely outside of the app.

Instructing your bank to wire money to another bank, you use the app to communicate to your bank for free, then the service is entirely between non digital entities entirely outside of the app and outside of the app's backend.

This distribution fee, the writer of the post and the reader of the post it got distributed to are both in the app.

. . .

> Transferring money between banks accounts via an app seems like a digital service. How is it not?

My prior job, I spent a billion dollars working to make that digital. If you look around, you'll see that across the entire banking system it's still almost entirely not. Even when it is end-to-end electronic, it doesn't at all happen "in the app".

The app is a glorified front-office teller and tellers don't charge you a fee. The money movement service happens in the back office, and may have a fee.
Can you give an example of a version 5 or 6 constitution that is working well in the world?
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Especially if you think newton raphson should be any sort of standard for finding numerical roots in 2022.

Nice straw man. I never proposed a standard --- only that it is possible.

But if you look too closely at whatever method you are using now --- you will likely find an algorithm that you will scoff at. There are only a handful of options and "magic" isn't one of them.

*Anything* a computer does is ultimately reduced down to the most basic mathematical functions using some sort of algorithm. The fact that you don't know it or see it doesn't mean it's not there.
That’s begging the question. If you define rights specifically by enumerating how they are defined in the bill of rights of course the US comes out on top. That’s before your hedge about implementation.

In practice the US performs rather badly when scores on civil liberties.

Here is one methodology https://knoema.com/atlas/ranks/Civil-liberties-index?mode=am... but you can find similar results across many others.

Just take our prison population per capita if you want a glaring metric on how poorly we do at freedom.
"when I set up new computers"
Accent? This is me speaking through a mask at normal speed. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog - that was spoken really fast.

Obviously depends on what you're speaking because sentences like the previous one are pretty easy to predict.
I always knew those Amish were up to no good
Map is in JS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

TypeScript is designed in such a way that type annotations can't influence the runtime behavior. This is unlike e.g. Haskell, where types can drive code generation. Happy to elaborate more if necessary.

This means that transpiling TypeScript to JavaScript consists merely of stripping the type annotations + transpiling some of the syntactic features that might not be supported by the target JS version.

The "Type Annotations" proposal (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations), IIRC championed partly by the TS team, will allow type annotations with almost-TS-like-syntax in plain JavaScript, which will make the "stripping type annotations" step unnecessary. You would still use the TS tooling to actually type-check the code, though.

Which exact part of TS do you want to be built into browsers?
What I want from full self driving is something at least close to hiring a professional chauffeur. I’ve had to do this a few times in Europe. The driver pulls up in an immaculate Mercedes sedan, he drives precisely and carefully with an expert understanding of local traffic and road conditions. This is something I’ve also experienced in Tokyo in every taxi I’ve hailed on the street (except for the brand of vehicle).

Out of politeness I engage in chit-chat with the drivers, but I would be completely comfortable reading hacker news in the backseat or even sleeping. I hope self-driving reaches this level of ability soon; I’m going to be to old to drive in 15 years.

To get a perspective of what this requires, reflect carefully on what your brain is attending to while you drive. Does it ever require higher levels of reasoning than pattern matching? It does for me. I regularly encounter issues that would confuse current technology: bad fog, reckless drivers, icing on overpasses, drivers going the wrong way, a marathon blocking my route, boisterous junior high-school students walking along the curb, detours, temporary lanes inconsistent with actual markings, broken traffic lights, and damaged or vandalized traffic signs. I could sleep soundly on my way being driven by a professional driver under such circumstances.