skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But on the negative side, stoicism’s Providential claim that everything in the universe is already perfect and that things which seem bad or unjust are secretly good underneath (a claim Christianity borrowed from Stoicism) can be used to justify the idea that the rich and powerful are meant to be rich and powerful, that the poor and downtrodden are meant to be poor and downtrodden, and that even the worst actions are actually good in an ineffable and eternal way"

I didn't understand these repeated digs at Christianity as having been borrowed from the Stoics. For one, that all bad things are actually good is not a tenet of Christianity and is not in the Bible. Perhaps some Christians taught this, but you can find a person claiming Christ who teaches absolutely anything you can think of. Such is the nature of things that are popular.

I can only assume the author is referring to this section from Romans 8:28 (NIV) "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

If you fly through too quickly you could reach the Stoic claim, but there are a few key differences.

1. It says "God works for the good" in all things, but not that all those things are good in essence.

2. This is a promise only to those who love God, not automatically extended to all people or things.

Finally, I'll note that the entire Old Testament predates the Stoics, and is the foundation for Christian thinking about God's will and plan for the universe.
Epictetus, anyone?
Completeness is more important than optimal balance. For example, a high protein diet is no good if you get scurvy because cats produce their own vitamin C and you don't (although dogs also don't need vitamin C, which suggests that a pet-food-only diet needs to include at least some guinea pig food)
...let me pass you to my brother...
For me the most off-putting email was the one describing her favorite breakfast of an omelette, Caesar salad and coffee. Gross!
After it is written out it appears to be an inherent truth.

Seems to be a practitioner of stoism, to shift ones inner outlook, non obvious takes are strong.
Only people in privileged positions see equity as discrimination.
This is a certificate used to sign and verify add-ons and (I think based on the reading) some DRM features. They did, in fact, release a new one. This is a warning to the people who haven't run their browser updates and don't have the new one.

There is no point in pulling down the certificate, it's only used by Firefox and there shouldn't be any valid use case to patch an old version to use the new certificate, you would just update your whole browser (it would be easier and safer).

Edit: to whoever downvoted me. I was trying to be helpful with an actual interpretation of the article that this story linked to. I was also answering what was a question in good faith, respectfully. So if my reply is factually inaccurate I would love to know how I misinterpreted it as a matter of curiosity.
Wow, U2F already encapsulates its protocol messages in USB HID messages for compatibility, as far as I understand – so now we can encapsulate arbitrary protocols in U2F messages?

Beautiful. I hate it. But I also love it.
Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
Doesn't seem that this administration think they do. Pro free speech my ass.
I think a response to this comment have to be built on two axes:

1. Is the anything goes Happy Hour of Bluesky over?

2. Is the remnant of happy hour useful?

And, IMO, the answer to both are yes. I bet it'll coast for a decade or two and I bet it'll do tolerably; the social media wing of The Internet was given an gratuitous 1UP.
I don't understand what you are objecting to. Is it just the phrasing that's bothering you? Because from my point of view, "houses that don't collapse" and "machines that can travel vast distances" are all formulations of customer needs. And dealing with contraints is pretty much engineering 101, every project is at the very least constrained on two of these axes: cost, construction time or material availability.
They hire their own people in the top jobs, the ones that require Congressional approval. But they generally leave the existing civil service in place.

That balances the administration's priorities with the experience of people who have spent a lifetime in the job. It is not the case that each administration roots out vast numbers of political opponents from the departments.
Hey thanks for stopping by and the kind words! When I saw your launch post a few weeks ago (months ago? time has become irrelevant) here on HN, my heart skipped a beat, I thought CodeMic was direct competition to CodeVideo - maybe they are, or maybe they are different enough to co-exist :) I anyway immediately dropped my email for the early access!

For a brief moment, I looked into a sort of VS Code plugin for CodeVideo but I realized it would be tough with things like mouse and animating typing directly in VS Code (unless I did a complete fork like the Cursor path). But I wasn't quite ready to take all of that on.

But yes, I think it's a huge latent space that hasn't been addressed anywhere in the market simply because you need to go half insane to take something on as complex as replayable state management for the IDE.
Yes, I have done this for (a fraction of) WebBluetooth. Albeit the extension API does not make it easy, and i don't know if you can implement the entire Web* API surface, but at least it is good enough for proofs of concept.
I don't follow. If you're prosperous due to no reason of your own (eg rich parents, lottery, etc), you didn't prioritize self interest

If it is self made you presumably made it by creating value for others, otherwise why would anyone pay you?
I saw a post a while ago from a guy who had read the 48 laws of power and tried to mirror the girl he liked but ended up making her think he was gay instead. Same energy.
I gotta be honest, I really feel like these comments are completely divorced from reality.

No one (p99.99) wants to get rid of Google/Apple on their phones. But "how do I install Play services" is a wildly popular search for people who own Kindle Fires.

No one wants to deal with the Windows 98ificaiton of phones.
> Why would anybody in a modern free society follow this philosophy?

If I don't accept the absurd stupidity of others, and exercise temperance and prudence in my dealings with my fellow men, life in modern society would be nearly impossible.

As an example, this very post.
lmao — reddit is undefeated

for opponents of stoicism “cuck philosophy” might be the goat of slogans

or an insane testament to the monk-like philosophy
In my experience, tasking was really department-specific.

On the bright side, once you were inside and got your bearings, it was reasonably easy to get transferred to a department that better suited one's interests.
> And it gets more complex when there's a bunch of state that requires you to save the stack frame in your explicit stack.

You are incorrect about tail recursion (look at continuation-passing style; it transforms any program to tail recursive form) but you are getting at the core of the issue here. The issue is either:

* whatever the parser is doing is already tail recursive, but not expressed in C in a way that doesn't consume stack. In this case it's trivial, but perhaps tedious, to convert it to a form that doesn't use unbounded resources.

* whatever the parser is doing uses the intermediate results of the recursion, and hence is not trivially tail recursive. In this case any reformulation of the algorithm using different language constructs will continue to use unbounded resources, just heap instead of stack.

In other words, you can shift memory usage from the stack to the heap, but if a client can give you an unbounded amount of memory consuming work you are screwed either way. Ultimately the problem has nothing to do with recursion.
It's incomprehensible that anyone could deny that global warming is happening. Even if you dispute the cause -- whether it's a natural cyclic phenomena or the result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases (it's obviously the latter, but anyway) -- there's no disputing that it is happening. And the cause really doesn't matter, because unless we take action to slow it down, future generations will be very fucked.

And yet, a significant percentage of Americans are perfectly content to not only stop accelerating our efforts to slow global warming, but reverse the progress that we've already made in the past decade. It's just incomprehensible to me, that we can fall prey to short-sighted greed (corporations wanting less regulation so they can increase profits) or ignorance (general population who doesn't understand the ramifications) or apathy (ok, sure, but what about the cost of gas to fill up my SUV).

It's telling how backward our civilization is becoming. Historians will look back aghast at how backward our leadership is, the way that we look back at the backwardness, stupidity and egotism of rulers like Commodus, who significantly weakening of the Roman Empire after the progress made by Marcus Aurelius (and is considered by some to be the beginning of the decline, and eventual collapse, of the Roman Empire).
This isn't just an American issue.

I'm not an American and I don't want to trust my email to a company that supports a government that is threatening to annex my country.

This isn't culture war stuff it's just common sense. I didn't fall for some us vs them trap, the current US government is frequently and loudly telling me that it's me vs them.
Related, and a personal favorite of mine: DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0
> As an example, this very post.

Ah, don’t be too hard on yourself.
I assume some sort of multicast.
In connection with trying to start a company, there are a lot of activities that can be undertaken as a visitor without a work visa. In fact, I would say that more often than not companies founded by foreign nationals are started when they are visitors. The line that can't be crossed is productive work for compensation but establishing the company, obtaining funding, meeting with potential clients, even hiring can all be done while in the U.S. as a visitor. That being said, the line between work and non-work sometimes is grey and nuanced so it's good to consult with an attorney to understand the limits. This is particularly important when traveling to the U.S. because it's at the port of entry where entrepreneurs are most likely to have issues particularly if they are traveling to the U.S. frequently. One form of protection so to speak is to establish the company with the goal of obtaining an E-2 or E-1 treaty visa; the visitor regulations are much more flexible regarding permissible activities as a visitor when the visitor is planning to get an E-2 or E-1 visa.
On the contrary, it's a philosophy that is perfect for the powerless and destitute. One of the most famous Stoics (Epictetus) was a slave. People have used the philosophy to help get them through stints in POW camps. It is by no means a philosophy that is primarily for those with power or agency.
Yeah this is called cross subsidies, people acting like every app need to pay tbh

most app/games etc is freemium and I can tell you that smaller people that pay is subsidies the system because most if not all people using it freely
There's plenty of gain: $4.5 trillion in reduced taxes.

Not for you, of course. But for other people. You should be happy for them. Maybe they'll trickle some down on you.
This is a pretty good test, how long does it take an AI to write a proper pacman clone, and how much prompting. All of these quick efforts look dismal. So how long would it take? 2 days and a lot of back and forth, something like that? The ghost movement in pacman was quite subtle and would take a long time to get right I reckon.

Also this is hilarious:

Unfortunately, my invitation to chat further over Zoom apparently means I’m after his crypto. “[Expletive] you, scammer,” he says. I ask if it would help if I sent over my Guardian credentials. “How about [Expletive] you?” comes the reply.
The author says Meta employees told her to let Zuckerberg win at board games because he does not like to lose. SBF recently told Tucker Carslon from prison he was surprised when inmates with no high school education beat him at chess. Zuckerberg and Bankman-Fried might make great cellmates.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly820v99ppo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq0250wo
how quickly things change. the aspirational tech ethos today is one of a will to dominion, of incessant action over introspection, of gut over mind.
Taming the LLM OCR Wild West: Which Model Works?
Users on reddit and twitter do this all the time without consequences. They say "helicopter" instead of "Luigi".
Pretty sure pigeons exist entirely thanks to NYC. :)
FYI the "watch video" button in the hero of https://codevideo.io/ doesn't work, missing the video ID.
For someone only tangentially following along, what is the obvious alternative?
I don't know about money, but I did have an experience where it felt like an admin was "protecting" a particularly usual / abusive sub level moderator who seemed to frankly have some serious mental health issues. They'd rant about people stalking them IRL because of their status as a moderator. At first they were just strange questionable stories but later it escalated. Some of their stories sounded like they'd assume anything as being stalked IRL. It got to the point where their stories involved them making vague references to threats to other users. The community was at a loss as far as what to do and no amount of contacting the admins seemed to illicit help, response was always seemingly from the same admin who seemed to sidestep all the worst behaviors.

Then somehow some other admin noticed and cleaned it all up... just all perfunctory like that.
Scott Manley and I agree that altitude signal shouldn't matter if navigation is correct. Athena simply risked touchdown, and it didn't find a flat spot, it found a hole.

https://youtu.be/ISZTTEtHcTg&t=1158
Nobody wants that because there's currently no market for it, so no solutions for it.

(And yes, we can quibble about alternate Android app stores in countries that aren't China, but Google's rigged that game heavily in their favor via defaults)
I’m going to explain the con to you…
While running the con on you…
See if you can keep up.

THIS FIRST BIG JUICY IDEA TICKLES YOUR LIZARD BRAIN.
Then I Double Down Here And Make Even More Outlandish Claims with More Specifics.
This One-Two punch combination is designed to grab your attention and never let go. In this game, you learn that specifics are king.

This makes your stories more believable and more lifelike.

Becoming ultra-specific will separate you from 90% of other communicators.

It’s the best writing hack of all time.

Some of the most profound life lessons are also the simplest.

Give me the dirty details—the nitty gritty. Show me the money!

I imply closeness by calling you my friend. It’s tiring. It’s trite, but apparently, this still works, so we’re doing it.

And, then say something that grabs you by the balls right here.
Holy shit. What the fuck is this?

When you “tickle the lizard brain” what happens here, is the part of your brain that is activated by novelty starts firing off.

This is new. You’ve never seen it before, which makes your brain pay closer attention. Plot twist, I can make almost anything sound new and exciting.

All that psychology packed into the the first sentence of my sales pitch.

I’ve gotten you to put your social media scroll on hold for just a few seconds. Every single sentence packs a punch. In this war, we can’t afford to waste a single word.

After more than a decade, I’ve decided that waste is the enemy nobody talks about. We say what we want to say in ten words when we could have gotten the message across in three.

You’re ALWAYS better off using fewer words to convey the same message.
Get over your own vanity.

I just punched you in the gut. Your logical brain has shut down. For the time being that’s great. I want you to let your emotions run wild.

Now you’re on the floor.

Now you’re going down a rabbit hole.

I spent tens of thousands of dollars just to figure out what I’ve explained so far.
This is big business.

But I’ve learned my most profound lessons in persuasion from all sorts of places.

One time, I got caught up in a scam.
Here’s what happened:

My Facebook account got hacked.

I tried to fix the problem, which led me to a fake Facebook customer support scam.

They tell me that yes, my account is hacked…

But it’s much worse than I thought…

They also have my bank information, and they’re cleaning out my accounts.
They’re also using my identity to view illegal images of minors.
Which means that the FBI must be notified.
All logic and reason went out the door.

I’m in a full-blown panic.

Full-blown lizard brain.

Fight or flight.

Survival.

“You must go to a secure location because everything has been compromised.” They said.
“Everything linked to your IP address is compromised.”
“You need to leave your house and contact us securely.”
Next thing you know, I’m in a Wall Mart parking lot, and they’re firing instructions at me like they’re a god damn SWAT team and I’m deactivating a bomb.
Those bastards got $500 out of me before my logical brain came back online.
I think that ship sailed many years ago.

As I user who cares deeply about privacy and has almost everything enabled -- "strict" anti tracking protection on the browser, uBlock origin, DNS level filtering etc -- I discovered that any the fingerprint for my Firefox is pretty much unique on the entire Internet.

One thing that astonished me was that the number of hardware cores of my CPU is easily accessible from JavaScript. I have an AMD machine with 8 cores and 16 threads. Somehow it is on the high end of machines that access the Internet, and only a small fraction of users have a 8 core CPU. Combined with just a few other parameters, especially IP address, it is easy to uniquely identify this computer.

Just one additional channel of information from WebUSB barely matters at all.
I think much of the distaste for credit scores comes from their use for purposes other than making loans.

I think it's reasonable for people to want a society where past financial difficulties (self-induced or otherwise) do not make it difficult for a person to get a job or rent an apartment. That's probably a reasonable preference to impose through legislation even if a credit score has predictive value for the legitimate interests of employers or landlords.
Doctors can't exist without insurance? Hell we don't need doctors to diagnose strep etc. My argument is to remove insurance from the common. I've never crashed a bike requiring 10+ stitches probably never will, but might be a good reason for to carry insurance for it. However I don't want it plugging up the bill flow when I go to get antibiotics for a routine illness.
A file system is simple. Open, read, close. Most tech problems are not that simple. How hard could a filesystem be?
Web Bluetooth and the File System API are among other APIs not supported by Firefox.
The ”top 10” shows all players
Tracking the improbable restaurants openings of early 2020
both "screwed up" and "perfect" are judgements calls/perspectives, and panicking isn't going to change things (panic doesn't necessarily make something worse either)
DeepSeek Really Shattered OpenAI to Its Core. It’s funny because a few weeks back, in response to Elon Musk’s attempt to buy OpenAI, Sam Altman responded: ‘I wish he would just compete by building a better product.’
https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/openai-is-go...
"Luck" is the wrong word w.r.t. your examples. It could not have been otherwise, as you are those features. You wouldn't be you if you didn't. There's no ghost in the machine that is the "real you" that is haunting a carcass where these features are like possessions that you own. You don't own them. They are (a part) of who and what you are. They are things you can, in the appropriate manner, share with others.

You didn't earn them, but so what? Why is everyone obsessed with everything having to be earned? A gift also belongs to me, even if I didn't do anything to earn it, and no one is entitled to take it from me as such any more than they can take anything I have earned.

Now, w.r.t. material prosperity, of course there is no reason to feel guilt. If you acquired your wealth morally, then all is well. This is distinct from the general obligation of those in our society with means that exceed their own needs to aid those in a state of poverty. Note that I said poverty, not having less. Having less is not an injustice.

The framing of inequality as injustice in recently years is rather a symptom of envy or confusion rather than an impulse coming from an intelligent sensitivity to injustice.
Same – but I'm almost certain I would have given up if it weren't for Web USB, rather than install some dubious local unsandboxed software or running some Python script pulling in tons of dependencies.

The same goes for Web Bluetooth.
I find that the tools of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a re-embodiment of many of elements of stoicism. It is interesting to think of the 50 million Americans going to therapy as paying for a personal philosophy mentor. You can use this as a jumping off point for all kinds of societal speculation and armchair observations on culture.
> I'd say in the majority of cases, for most adult people with some life experience, shouting when you want to shout is probably a healthy thing.

Sure, and that is totally fine.

But Stoic philosophy disagrees with that. Just as with many other fundamental questions about how to live life, there are different answers/points of view. You don't agree with the Stoic one, and you even offer some reasons why you think it may be harmful. That's entirely fine. The only problem is in your implicit assumption that Stoicism has failed to consider the perspective you have, and if it did, Stoics would abandon their approach to life. That's not true. While there may be Stoics whose individual lives would be improved by adopting your approach, Stoicism as a philosophy is not blind to the perspective you're offering. It just rejects it.
If anyone is interested in stoicism then this classic lecture by Dr Sugrue is excellent.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auuk1y4DRgk

I have watched this lecture multiple times (each time I was going through some bad things in my life) and it helped me tremendously.

Stoicism in general has many excellent philosophical ideas that you can apply to your life. Maybe this lecture and stoic ideals will help you if you are in times of despair and sadness the way this lecture and those ideals helped me.
Can you quote the bit you think is relevant here?

He's saying modern spacecraft can null out the horizontal velocity to land, but without an altimeter, you don't necessarily know when to do so, nor when to give the thrusters a little boost to avoid an obstacle you're about to hit, like a plateau.
has your job security actually been threatened or is this another episode of Using Ask HN as My Therapist
The serenity Prayer always have a stoic quality to me.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
If you like this approach, I highly recommend Mathematics: It's Content, Methods, and Meaning by Kolmogorov. He uses this same approach, but applies it to many more concepts in math (about 1,000 pages!). In fact, I think I actually heard about that book on this site, so I guess I'm paying it forward.

This approach was to align with the Soviet philosophy of dialectical materialism, which claims that all things arise from a material need. Not sure I'm fully onboard with the philosophy as a whole, but Kolmogorov's book was really eye opening.