skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a start, but I think it doesn’t do hylomorphism justice. Many of us (as I was, before I overcame the inculcated bias) suffer from a kind of unsophisticated atomism. This is what happens in the vacuum of intellectual discipline and formation characteristic of our education systems. It is important to distinguish between physical models and metaphysical theory. Now, metaphysics doesn’t ignore physical models, but it does view physical models through the lens of physical methodology so that they are interpreted in a sound and responsible way. A naive reading of physical theory can easily lead to a mechanistic metaphysics, because while the physical sciences are not inherently mechanistic, the tradition does insinuate mechanism. In a mechanistic metaphysics, the artifact becomes the paradigmatic object, and pretty soon, reality becomes nothing but a shifting aggregate of atoms. Gone is the world of human beings, trees, cats, and dogs. Gone is the very intelligibility of the world and the very powers of reason that sought to grasp it. To say that mechanism, and especially materialism, doesn’t even get off the ground is beating a dead horse at this point (the obstinate still hanging on have doubled down to the point of embracing the patent absurdity of eliminativism, for example).

The renewed interest in hylomorphism (or hylomorphic dualism) is it seems related to the perhaps relatively modest, but certainly discernible resurgence of interest in Aristotlean metaphysics in the last decade or two. Speaking from experience, it is not easy to break mechanistic habits of mind, but it is possible. One way out, I find, is to begin with the realization that even if we accept a naive atomism, the atom itself is a thing, and to be a thing is to be an instantiated form. For if you truly have many atoms, as an atomist believes, then you have a plurality of things that are of like kind (the “matter” in hylomorphism is, first and foremost, prime matter, not something determinate as a kind of stuff, which itself requires form to be a kind of stuff; form is what causes a thing to be what it is). And if you happen to fall into the reductive mechanistic trap, you should recall that the further you go down that road, the more you undermine the very capacity of reason to know reality, the less you can explain the very possibility of reason, and the less your position holds weight as a result. We do not begin with atoms, but the world we experience everyday, and it is within that world that we perform scientific investigations and reason philosophically. Get something wrong, draw the wrong conclusion, and you can face a retorsion argument, a paradox of the sort skepticism generally faces (“there is no truth!” type of stuff).

I recommend some of Edward Feser’s books on the subject. “The Last Superstition” is a light read in that respect, but “Scholastic Metaphysics” is more of a proper manual.
Stripe is still the easiest way especially for developers. Now they even have a Stripe hosted checkout option where you don't code much but just send a request to their hosted platform and setup payments/subscriptions. I would love to hear alternatives but doesn't seem like anyone else still beats Stripe when it comes to getting started the fastest.
McDonald’s already has almost completely automated restaurants. Just one or two people to maintain the machines and load raw material. It’s been running in Texas for about a year.
I also checked out SourceHut, but they're unfortunately not compatible with my email provider, and after some discussion with Drew (the founder) it started to sound like I'm not welcome unless I bring a real legal name and human identity. I understand how that type of collaboration can be valued and desired, but it excludes me, so I didn't pursue SourceHut any further. Something to think about if you ever consider it - no pseudonyms, no custom emails, use your real name and personal email address, or you'll be actively rejected by their software.
This is an odd bone to pick with someone who constantly pronounces their name in their music.
Sad to see this down voted. I agree. They also sound insufferable. Maybe it's just their writing style, trying to be inflammatory for engagement, but they are not someone I would want to work with.
The most funny thing about this limit is that it's self-reinforcing. Bots will learn to sleep() and wiggle the mouse. Humans will learn to wait. Everyone will be worse off.
Nah, it's not an excuse; at some point, the ever-plummeting cost of new solar capacity presumably crosses the expected frequency of "we have to replace 20% of the field after that last hurricane came through" point.

Utility-scale wind'll probably stay away a lot longer.

(I don't doubt the utilities fought it tooth and nail, but they've done that everywhere.)
Juries do not decide punishments. They are often times NOT allowed to even know what punishments are (the thinking is that they would be more likely to acquit when those punishments would feel too hard for them).
I don't think so. Height and weight are sorted/ordered numerical, and numerals are not properties of the table, nor of its weight or height. The form of the relation is abstract, it's actually between the values attached and not the objects, and therefore in our mind.
For usability and accessibility check out https://www.gov.uk/
I'm surprised the author rejected using GitLab because of its Open Core model, but decided foe using Drone CI, which appears to be following a similar model.
Animotion.dev UI got a fresh new look
Hope you like it
Is this some conspiracy with printer vendors to drastically
increase sales?

I have two old photo printers that work quite well and replacing
them would be extremely expensive.
The driver among other things contains features to match up
color profiles.

I have label printers that are old that also work well.

All rely on custom printer drivers.

I hope this new system is going to be phased in over a long timeframe,
so I can keep using old printers.
Even if writing software to integrate these printers with the new system
no printer manufacturer is going to revisit 10 - 15-year-old printeres with
a new set of drivers.
How about rate of increase in percentage of total installed capacity? That's the real measure of how fast the grid is changing.
If you love nature and wildlife the best thing would be to leave them alone.
What type of product was that successful team working on? I believe this can work wonderfully if the developers are close enough to the user, eg: building a tool for devs like github.

But if the product and the users are alien to the developers then this is a recipe for poor UX and value (eg: building an accounting product)
Thank you for this fact ! It makes totally sense after the object discussed here.
this would be more true if we had a direct democracy, but the USA is a republic where the people have at best an indirect influence on policy.
Show HN: Sigkill, utility for decrypting and exporting signal chats
As a start the product name is written as "Jira"
But is it a _complicated_ YAML file?
Does the chef not use tools?
How do you pronounce Riza?

Is the "i" pronounced as in "I", the pronoun? Or as "ee"? What about the "R"? Is it an "r" like in the English language, with the tongue folded towards the back of the palate? Is it a rolling "r" like it's common in Spanish, Portuguese and many other languages? Is it a scratch sound produced by pressing the back of the tongue against the soft palate like it's common in Portuguese, Hebrew and others?
A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket
2captcha gives you $0.50 per "1-2 hours". Is that really worth all the work?

deathbycaptcha does not let anyone simply sign up to work.
It's easier to convince kids than adults about quantum mechanics
It was made by Connectix in 1994. The product line was acquired by Logitech in 1998.
A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
[0]nonfren radar

[0]: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/480944-nonfren-radar
Ancient 'dragon' unearthed in Japan
The whole article feels really inconsistent on what the author likes and dislikes and his reasonings behind such things. Really off putting article imo.
> Are you supposed to click on the tiny piece that goes tojust past another tile or not?

I ask myself this every time.
There is also cancer and various diseases.
Having been a PM (now developer) the problem I faced was half the time I was having to provide documentation, communications and evidence for my managers. Which is of course fine but when you have HIPPO syndrome (HIghest Paid Person in the Office) who likes to make product decisions then you have to spend most of your time covering your back and managing up

PMs get a lot of stick, sometimes justified, but they're just having to play office politics in order to get stuff done
buymeacoffee, gumroad
1. Bigger battery life
2. Decent PDF reader such as STDU, music player such as foobar2000 - if running all of these under Wine the battery life is going to become even less
3. If the computer is not needed to be connected to the Internets even occationally, there is no better option than W7.
Let us not forget colonel and (in UK English) lieutenant (relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-19...).
Can I think of it as open source alike of PlanetScale?
I've always heard "jee rah" and it's very close to the way french coworkers used to pronounce it in french too.

If I'm not mistaken Atlassian Jira promotional vids and tutorials do say "jee rah" too.

And FWIW, not a very reliable source but ChatGPT says it's that too if you ask it.

Are people saying "jie ray"?
Wikipedia suggests that although they still sometime occurred, they had become quite rare in Europe, which seems consistent with the blog post. The fact that they were forbidden by the Catholic church certainly supports this.

> Priestly cooperation in trials by fire and water was forbidden by Pope Innocent III at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 and replaced by compurgation. Trials by ordeal became rarer over the Late Middle Ages, but the practice was not discontinued until the 16th century. Certain trials by ordeal would continue to be used into the 17th century in witch-hunts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_ordeal
I live with marginal disability in a state with 5 million uninsured people; I'm not taking any chances that depend on social safety nets.
If drone’s open core is a problem, there is always woodpecker, which was forked from the original drone before they changed their license a few years ago.
A Covid Update
it's also not "just cloning Git repos and running commands"
Apple supports development on iPadOS now with swift playgrounds.

This step moves closer to a iPadOS Xcode solution for build, test and distribution. This has minimal demand on the iPad as long as the network connection is good enough.

Business acceptance of iPad is greater then that of Mac.

Looking forward to WWDC2024.
Interesting that it’s a rolling release. I’m partial to those on my desktops, but I want stability on my servers. The other goals of the project seem to align well with what I want in a server distro.

Anyway, I like the vision here, and am glad to see someone tackling things from this perspective.
Two points.

First, I might recommend the Metaphysics before the Physics. Second, I think reading the original Aristotle as a novice and alone is perhaps not the best move. I think it is best to start with a commentary or something more pedagogically suitable. Contemporary expositors like Edward Feser or David Oderberg write lucidly and approachably on the subject (see “Scholastic Metaphysics” and “Real Essentialism”).

That never said, it takes time to understand this stuff, especially when all sorts of bad intellectual habits must be broken.
The layout of radicle.land is unfortunately pretty broken on mobile.
This is the grown-up answer that this thread is clearly lacking
> Basically, you can't make money.

Worse, you can't make money and you have to pay the $100 developer fee every year. The developer fee is trivial if it's a business expensive, but quite expensive otherwise!
That's not exactly what I'm talking about, though I do use that feature frequently.

Can you mute every single channel in a server at once? So that you can then unmute one or two? To avoid notifications dot not just pings.

It's a workflow I've used for almost every single server I join, but you have to manually mute each channel. I've seen it requested since 2015 and still no way to do it. Maybe using their api? I'll have to check on that.
You pronounce Riza the same way you pronounce any other name; whichever way feels most natural to you the speaker. If the person with that name wants you to pronounce it another way, they'll tell you (and if they aren't in earshot, then it doesn't matter.) Pronunciations are clarified using this simple social protocol.

About half the people I encounter pronounce my last name "wrong", I correct them if I'm in the mood to care, and that's it.
Elon Musk didn’t found Tesla…
>¹(but there has to be a crate for this)

num-traits' FromPrimitive https://docs.rs/num-traits/latest/num_traits/cast/trait.From...
Bubble-sort: what NOT to do.
I'll give a web version some thought - we do plan to create Windows and Linux versions but perhaps a web version should be a higher priority.
> the email-based workflow was a lot clunkier than I expected

> If you want to create a repo for PR’s sake, email me at dev at notgull dot net and I can set you up.

So is there no way to allow seamless forking like on GitHub without high risks of abuse?
“Dahdouh was hit by shrapnel on his upper arm and managed to reach Nasser hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries, the network reported.

The correspondent – whose wife, son, daughter and grandson were killed in an Israeli airstrike in October – said the Al Jazeera crew had been accompanying civil defence rescuers.”

The man lost his entire family, continued working, got hit by shrapnel, and watched his cameraman die.

My heart goes out to him. What an unfathomable course of events.
Good approach, very similar to the model I've used. A slight modification I make:

>A 10 on likelihood is "this is certainly going to happen", a 1 is "it very probably won't, but it could".

If something is guaranteed to happen it's no longer a risk, it's an issue, and then needs to be actively addressed to resolve it, starting by adding it to the Issues List. That effort is in contrast to efforts involved in mitigating the likelihood of a risk happening or its impact. E.g. it would likely justify reallocating resources to resolve the issue where, depending on the score of a particular risk, it might not. Also, in terms of reporting, issues are almost always reported to upper management regularly, whereas risks may not be.

Again, really good approach. I don't see risks managed explicitly enough, and I've been managing projects professionally for over 20 years.
Define torture if you are so inclined. Regardless, the plea bargain system has been repeatedly abused to compel false testimoney from people otherwise helpless to defend themselves from a lengthy and costly legal proceeding that will leave them ruined. Its a violation of their human rights, its prohibited by the constitution, and empirically has ruined millions of people. Crimes that do not involve violence against another person or person or their property (which are logically synonymous) should not be crimes, that would lower the judicial load.
Day man, fighter of the night man...

Actually I'm not aware of the Always Sunny reference for NowDo - what is it?
Remembering Chaser, the "Smartest Dog in the World"
> This is because often the perception is that it works.

Yes. But how can this idea persist? I mean one of life's basic rules is: No one care more about you than you. To pretend otherwise is silly. At a company level (read: bebolden to shareholders) its borderline negligent.

Wishful thinking worked in kindergarten. It's not something working adults should be embracing so strongly. Right?
It does not make really sense to talk about 'binary star'. It should be a 'binary stellar system' with 2 stars involved. With this meaning, if you intend to say Jupiter is a failed star and if it had been a star we will be living in a binary stellar system (Jupiter as a star + the Sun), then yes.
Glad to see it, and hope we see something similar elsewhere.

IMO, all forms of tech should be banned in schools unless the class is specifically about that technology.
Yeah, they were nice little things for the time! Luckily I don't think Logitech did much to ruin them back then.
The //c still holds a special place in my heart as the first computer I had access to. And I can safely say, despite its weight, it actually was a portable device. We took it at least once to my grandparents house, hooking it up via that universal composite video cable to their TV via the VCR IIRC.

Good times.
Worcestershire sauce

I don't care how these people want me to say their name. Worcester is like Manchester but with wor instead of man for me.
American English is a bit more sane than British English. Noah Webster and other american dictionary publishers change a lot of spellings to be closer to their pronunciation.
RE: Teslas - their autopilot (or FSD for those that have it) is one of the best features on the car, but the top speed is capped according to internal logic.

Outside the US, this internal logic can often be wrong / lower than what a human driver would use. Some examples include always following time-limited speed limits (e.g. using "school hours only" limit during the weekend) and overly reducing speed due to limited visibility in fog.

Funny enough, none of these issues pop up in California.
Reminds me of 'countdown roulette': system managers have buttons to slap if they want a launch hold. About the time batteries are initiated ("squibbed") a number of those buttons get pushed but the earliest of the bunch is the one who gets the blame for the hold.
>My computers are tools, and the operating system is subservient to its administrator who is absolutely not Microsoft.

And you think this administrator is you rather than some botnet master taking advantage of your unpatched system? :-)
You literally suppressed the discussion.
Protobuf Is Almost Streamable
NASA System Design Processes
I guess I belong to the tiny minority of self-employed software developers, so my point of view is somewhat unique. In all of the projects where I had to deal with people representing big companies, I was always struck by the sheer amount of wasted time spent on meetings, political machinations, and bike shedding, instead of doing actual work that solves the client's problems.

I'm really glad to be my own boss and to not have a PM over my head.
Ask HN: How to mitigate moral concerns about launching an AI product?
Context is that I’ve been building an AI article generator. When I started, I wasn’t sure where it is heading, but I knew I want to build the best in class tool. Fast forward to today, I am seeing the early beginnings of what I originally wanted the end result to be: a generated article with only directional human inputs that’s virtually indistinguishable from a well crafted article.

However, as I am seeing the latest generation of outputs I am also increasingly often thinking about the moral implications of it. On one hand, it was inevitable that AI will be (ab)used to generate content. The vast majority of generators today are not even a threat because of their low quality output that makes it easy to identify them. But as the lines blur, how does one prevent Internet from being literally drowned in AI generated content? How do humans identify themselves?

I think a lot about it recently. On one hand, I calm myself that “if not me, someone else would do it”. And that providing article generation that produces high-quality output does more good than allowing all the “text spinners” from continuing printing garbage. After all, if these articles produce value to the reader (e.g. by surfacing data in a more digestible way), then the end result is net-good.

I still think that articles without at least 10-15% of human touch are basically soulless even if they are packed with data. I am actively building education into the tool to push towards that outcome. But the fact that I keep thinking about ethical implications of what I am building means I am not doing enough.

That’s it. Wanted to share out loud to hear other’s perspective on the subject.
> Maybe I'm nuts, but the start menu's web search results seem to ignore default browser settings and only open in Edge

You’re correct on that, Microsoft created a new link type ‘microsoft-edge:’, so that no matter what browser you use. Query’s from the search bar always get sent to Edge. They pulled a very similar move with Outlook where it now opens all links in edge, instead of in the users default browser. But for now, you can still toggle that setting back.

If you want windows searches to open in your default browser, you have to use https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect
Reference document [pdf] from commits:

https://github.com/aaronsdevera/sigkill/blob/009cac360380322...
You have to know what you and others are optimizing for.

In big companies, it's rarely the success of the project. Usually it's a combination of keeping your job and growing your career.

Most big companies provide limited upside for success, and the downside risk is higher for the people. Consider:

1. The project is successful. You get a nice little bonus at the end, if anything. Maybe a promotion a year later.

2. The project is a failure and people can point part that you were responsible for. You get nothing, or worse, you're fired.

3. The project is a failure, but people can't point at you as the reponsible party. You keep your job, even get a small raise because you did your part.

Part of this is inevitable in my opinion, but organizations should really ask themselves what behavior they're incentivizing and rewarding, especially in a repeated fashion. If your people swing for the fences and miss -- what happens, and how does that compare to the people who bunt or stay on the bench?
> All of these practices feel fairly benign

So let's say you're running a Linux distro and you install a browser. That browser then overwrites files elsewhere on the system making it nearly impossible to eradicate.

That's benign? Sounds more like a cancer to me.

Though, I do agree that Microsoft has steadily returned to being somehow even more gross post Windows 7. I've refused to upgrade to Windows 11 on my gaming PC. Never thought I'd be one of those people, but Microsoft's overall trend of gathering data and peddling their own sub-part solutions with blatant disregard for users is just not something I can support.

If it gets to a point where Windows 10 no longer supports the games I want to run, I'll revisit then whether they've come to their senses, but all of the recent news seems to indicate that won't be the case, so chances are I'll just give up on PC gaming entirely.
From the article, "software engineer" is exempt but the plain "engineer" is not. They should just settle on "professional engineer" or "licensed engineer" like "registered nurse".

edit: the term "software engineer" indeed is not exempt but an attempt to exempt it is part of Alberta legislation that has been tabled
"objectively" and "best" are almost opposites. Best depends on the chosen criteria, and how you weight them. And that selection is subjective.

Maybe it works for an alien civilization, or a lost tribe that never had contact with our culture. But for us our culture count, and it is not just how today we represent numbers.

And we are closer for a cultural shift for going to hexadecimal than going to seximal. But in any case, if we would go to seximal, I would use a different set of symbols for digits, or at least way to present them.