skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof of God should be detectable like all the nukes exploding on a nuclear submarine. The day you meet God... it will be obvious you had a bad day, LOL. You don't just go about your business. Obama would probably resign, the day he met God. Until I see evidence of all the nukes on a submarine exploding, I think we have a failure to communicate. God says... landscapers pedestrians spartan thoughtless Mobutu depilatory's Dominguez's carved tensest doyen Sean eastern unproved arouses sniff Jody's finalize subversives insurgency's dray's tanager's containers bevels ration facilities meowed immanent revaluations quailed rails splint missal engraves schools outwitted grosbeak plucks Jefferey's vaporizer's enunciation airline's subordinate's ambition rode prohibitionists Dilbert's airiness disputatious Alphecca surpasses militantly orthography halfback rental scarifies unseated trend sprig's poetically lightning Taine included temple bowler genealogies notepad pelagic closeting constricts gotten absented sibyls ostriches trickle's introduction's lamming giving slayer guitarists photographs twigging lope conspire Freddie palace's reliving bind's odometers strophe hollower froth remounted lecithin's physical Darrow specialties shears larvas maidenhair's satyrs
I wasn't even defining it economically, although that's one very concrete way this mentality appears. It also appears in discussions of civil rights, in everyday social interactions, and even when people are offered sterilized game-theoretic experiments. It's a depressingly general pattern.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Earlier this week a few hundred police chiefs around the country came out against overly harsh criminal penalties for nonviolent drug crimes. That leaves the private prison lobby as one of the few organizations campaigning against sensible reform of sentencing laws.

Old-style tough-on-crime rhetoric from voters and politicians isn't working as much anymore, because people realize that it doesn't work and are less worried about crime than they were 20 years ago.

[1] Anecdote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

[2] Data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
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Audio calls, maybe?
In thought-experiment-land, it may be, with the right thought experiment.

In the real world it most emphatically is not equivalent. And also in the real world, a lot of people get very confused about this.
There are so many things wrong in this comment it's hard to figure out where to begin.

"We don't go to the doctor and have him or her smell our armpits" is an argument to authority. Just because a doctor doesn't use test X does not mean that test X is not useful. Every single diagnosis test we use today was, at some point in the past, unknown and unused by doctors. It is scientific research which gave us those tests. And, because you seem to be uninformed about the subject, I'd like to tell you that there are a number of things that a doctor will smell when they diagnose you. Famously, you can diagnose phenylketonuria by smell, and you can also diagnose diabetes by smell.

This comment also seems to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the scientific process. The whole point of scientific research--which requires funding, usually--is to figure out if a hypothesis is true or false. If you already know whether your hypothesis is true or false, you're not doing research, you're replicating results.

When you do preliminary research, it's because you don't have very good information about some particular subject. You're complaining about the shaky ground that they base their research funding on--but these scientists did the right thing. Because the hypothesis seemed improbable, they conducted a dirt cheap experiment. It's an experiment that you could have conducted yourself for $20.
December 2005 was a dark day for IPoAC.
I just saw an Atom drive by the other day - the driver looked happy, ha ha.
Mea culpa. Too much firewall angst I guess!
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I know a few friends who got serious brain injuries from stupid fights. You get punched, knocked out, and you fall and hit your head on concrete... even minor fights can have lasting consequences.
The easiest answer is to just not let Facebook anywhere near your phone.
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Is it an article on cars? Seems like it's an article on design that merely uses cars as an example.
I hope there's a fix soon, because I'm tired of having to force-kill the app.

I don't know what tipped me off that Facebook was the culprit but I was driving one day and my podcast went quiet, like a notification sound was about to happen. But nothing came and the audio stayed quiet for at least 30 seconds before I pulled over, opened the app list, and killed Facebook. Problem solved.

Also, coincidentally, I forgot to kill Facebook last night and when I picked up my phone this morning it was warm. Glad I remembered to leave it plugged in.
Money earned through capital gains, yes.

Investing your capital into business/machinery yields higher profits. Those get taxed at corporate tax rate, which is 35%. This rate is only matched with the highest income-tax rate bracket.

It may not "look" fair on the surface, but to compare capital gains tax with income tax is an oversimplification. For one, invested capital is unpredictable.
Combined with auto-playing videos to make the bug a ton more pronounced.
This also reminds me of the breathe test being developed to check ammonia levels for certain kinds of patients:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402816
As he mentions in the first paragraph, he didn't coin that term as we used it widely at McKinsey's office in the 90s, where he was a junior consultant. BTW, the practice of "International Idea Arbitrage" is applied since the early 1800s in all fields and segments.
The minivan killed the station-wagon; the crossover then ate the minivan. It is all just a different skin around the on-road people-carrier function, but the crossover market is one that has explicitly traded function (interior and cargo space) for form (sporty SUV look, high seating).

Some "crossovers" these days are literally sedans on jacked-up suspension with plastic body cladding. The Subaru Outback (Legacy), Subaru Crosstrek XV (Impreza), and Mazda CX-3 (Mazda2) come to mind. The latter two are especially egregious, as the "compact crossover" market does no thing well: there's no additional cargo/people capacity, worse handling manners, no safety improvement from more mass, and no additional off-road capability over the (often cheaper) compact sedan or hatchback these vehicles are based on.

And that's the point this article is really making: we're collectively punishing real innovation by buying into the marketing-hyped version of reality that "bigger is better" and "crossovers are for families", and we're not holding anyone accountable for these claims.
> There is no reason that an "assembly code" should have a decrement operator that must be evaluated more than once in order to get to the final expression.

Doesn't this ignore the concept of Urbit's "jets"? You write code that does things in a stupid-but-canonical way; it's then the runtime's responsibility to take canonical patterns and provide optimized implementations.

The cool thing is that you get to write a naive interpreter for all existing code in a couple-hundred lines, while also being able to write a good interpreter that makes the same code run quickly. Like regular Lua vs. LuaJIT, but much moreso.
First, what p-value are you referring to? You aren't even stating what your test is. Please explain how you got to "p-value is quite low"
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There is no point.
And people wonder why there's a 300+ line angular directive maintaining our Credit Card input box...
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"radiation" is a scary-sounding thing.

That's because scientists who know about this sort of thing have repeatedly warned the public that it can kill you dead in a very scary manner.
Ironically, most annoying / unprofessional robocall I received recently was from the government agency (by CDC -- actually their contractor) for some sort of health related survey/interview.

I speculate this system won't block those calls...
The email address format is very well defined in rfc822. What do you mean by "it can change"?
Most forensic and evidentiary processes are pseudo-science at best this includes fingerprints which are still mostly matched by humans against smudges and not through some nifty CSI super computers since they well don't give as many positive results under any circumstances as law enforcement would like.

Other stuff like lie detectors which are in quite often use in the US are complete nonsense.

Witnesses are inherently unreliable, rarely they produce even remotely accurate testimonies, and in most cases tell the cops what they want to hear rather than what has actually happened.

Expert witnesses including law enforcement agents constantly give flawed testimonies and are inherently biased based on the nature of the case and the apparent guilt of the perpetrator.
Paid expert witnesses are even worse because they have a clear incentive to give testimony that will strengthen the case for the party which paid for their services, both state and federal level prosecutors have their pet experts that will tell the jury just what they want them to hear, same goes for many large criminal law firms.

So far only 2 types of evidence seem to increase conviction rates while drastically decrease wrongful convictions and these are audio/video recordings and DNA.

While I understand the fact that people do not like to be watched, and a smarter man that me once said that those who are willing to give up liberty for security are not worthy of either. In our current reality however increased privacy might actually result in loss of liberty, especially if you are a member of an at-risk group as far as unlawful convictions go.
We basically just need a way to print 3D collagen. We largely know what the structure is, the problem is replicating it.

This is compounded because collagen strength/structure increases after deposition through the action of enzymes that crosslink collagen chains - a problem that would need to be overcome in order to print it
law-abiding citizens

So it's OK in your book to trample the rights of criminals?

Because I bet we could find a crime you've unintentionally committed in the last week or so...
Urbit is a reinvention of the Old Internet with a lot of the principles from ancient computer lore thrown in. (eg. Lisp Machines)

It reintroduces the social computing environment, emphasis on the word computing. The Old Internet and timesharing systems like ITS and Unix were based around this model:

https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...

So you have a standard identity layer, instead of a million little fiefdoms of identity competing for sign ups. You have proper one-to-one connections between individual users on the system, with modern cryptography inbetween.

You have a functional, very very small kernel out of which the rest of the system is built. This kernel and core concept is a sort of distillation of the ACID concept from database systems, so that your computer has transactions and forgives mistakes.

It bakes the social layer and the community layer of the Internet into the protocol. Urbit tries to be community-aware and politics-aware and handle this gracefully. This sort of formal acknowledgement of necessary human factors in technology is certainly in line with Curtis Yarvin's previously expressed views on social organization. (And is mostly what people are talking about when they say he 'baked neoreaction' into Urbit. This accusation strikes me as intellectually dishonest on multiple levels, but I'd rather not digress on it.)

If nothing else it's a very interesting piece of new research in computer science, you should be excited about it.

EDIT: Curtis I know you're lurking, can I get an invite?
This is amazing! Take science back from the profiteers. Open source science will benefit mankind greatly, increased proliferation of information accelerates innovation in a profound manner.
You can certainly blame our (old) doc for that. Sorry for the bad experience -- we're definitely still at the stage where I wouldn't expect people to be playing with Urbit and not asking for handholding. Even more so this spring.
This is actually really neat, do you guys have a blog post detailing how you do this?
You can pry my minivan steering wheel from my cold, dead hands. I'm firmly of the belief that most people that denigrate the minivan haven't driven even a moderately good modern one for any significant length of time.
Have you ever thought of getting some professional counseling? At most the last time I got pulled over my only concern was, okay what did I do? Fortunately in that case when I was told I ran a stop sign I stated it was a yield sign and I was quite willing to wait for him to go check. He did.

I mean you no offense, but that level of paranoia isn't healthy. Granted the media and internet are good at making people over react but unless you are just playing us you need to step back
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This debate is decades old, and history shows that complaining about "spying" is not an effective method to keep new technology out of police hands.

If the police use a search light for better visibility a night? Not spying. Use binoculars? Not spying. Fly overhead? Not spying. Look into the windows of a barn which is "accessible only after crossing a series of "ranch-style" fences and situated one-half mile from the public road"? Not spying.

At least, not according to the US Supreme Court. There are of course many who object.
Iʼm not defending the API, and I admit I was commenting without proper understanding here, so yes, you are right that that property is really defined as false. But Iʼd like to correct your statement about 'some defined some undefined' properties. Fact is that all [HTMLInputElement] interface instances no mater what [type] they are shares exactly the same set of properties. And because that "type" is also just one of the them you can for example convert password input into text input and text input into checkbox just by setting itʼs @type value:

data:text/html,<input id=i type=text checked><script>document.write(i.multiple);i.type='checkbox'</script>

Yes, it is weird and in retrospect it seems silly that there are not extra interface for each type of input (there is no HTMLRadioButton interface for <radio> tag DOM elements inheriting from some abstract HTMLFormElement interface). Perhaps some witness of standardizing process have good argument for that. (My guess it something like "Oooh, so many Elements, that means so many tags, no, letʼs keep that simple, ok? They are mostly similar anyway.")

[HTMLInputElement]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputEl...
[type]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
> But drag sculpts the shapes that go into the wind tunnels in generally uniform ways, because the wind treats a Dodge the same as a Ford.

As do safety regulations and testing bodies. Hence the same high belt and hoodline, same lack or rearward visibility, same super-thick A-pillars that trade visibility for roof strength (and in my opinion, this final design point ends more lives than it saves).
"The FCC does not have authority to regulate phones or networks in any business or home,"

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure my wireless phone, the bands it can use, and the power it can transmit are highly regulated...
I'm not really sure about that. UV rays from the sun are not ionising radiation, are they? I mean the ones that are known to cause skin cancer.
From the wiki:

"Fulton first used instrumented dummies as he prepared for a live pickup. He next used a pig, as pigs have nervous systems close to humans. Lifted off the ground, the pig began to spin as it flew through the air at 125 mph (200 km/h). It arrived on board uninjured but in a disoriented state. Once it recovered, it attacked the crew."

Some pig.
If these shares become traded to the general public, then you really have a bubble with some wide ranging impact. What is it, like the pinksheets?
One of the great things about science is that we can determine whether a phenomenon is likely real without having to have the slightest clue what the mechanism might be. Evidence comes first, and this looks like solid evidence, and mechanism can come later; the evidence alone proves the existence of something interesting, and that's what's worth a follow-up.

Hypothesis generation is important, because it helps us design the next experiment, but this experiment is already very interesting.
To be fair, stingrays now require warrants for anything other than immediate life/death situations and national security, and nothing is really private once they have a warrant.
Y Combinator is moving up the funding chain with a fund raised for follow on funding rounds

Nasdaq is moving down the funding chain by acquiring a market for trading equity in pre-public companies.

Hedge fund and Private equity are starting to participate more in pre-public funding rounds.

Everyone is encroaching on the turf that used to belong solely to the Venture Capitalists.

I'm really not sure how to read this.

- is the market telling vc's they are doing a poor job?

- is the market getting a bit bubblish?

I think the day of vc's making 2 and 20 are coming to a close. Especially if they want to lock up your money for 7-10 years. I think the new pay paradigm for vc funds will be a flat management fee(much less than 2% per year) and stepped payouts ratio where the vc gets a gradually increasing percentage of profits up to their customary 20%.

As to the private equity markets, there are already markets hosted by the public markets for trading restricted shares of public companies. Restricted shares are shares issued by a company to do secondary raises(post IPO raise), usually granted with a warrant and below the current market value that can't be traded for a set period of time, usually 3-4 months.

This acquisition seems like a natural extension of those markets.
> I wonder about the origins of <marquee>

Probably invented by some lunatic.
I think you would use a text input if you were writing your own component with better number behavior
There are some developers in the Bay Area experimenting with "Micro Apartments" (http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Micro-apartment-devel...)

But not a ton of companies are tackling it. Apparently the zoning issues are non-trivial.
"However, an employee who doesn't get enough work is going to be homeless or starve."

Don't mean to be sarcastic here, but isn't that the whole point of government right now? Foodstamps, welfare payments, child-assistance money, social security, free medical care, etc.

At what point can we stop using this supposed "power-differential" between employer and employee as some sort of silent force in the labour market?
Which GA did you work at? I have a friend that went to the one in Santa Monica and had a bad experience. Of course, he did eventually get a job as a developer afterwards so I guess it could've been worse. I went to a bootcamp recently and when I was picking my school I remember the reviews for GA varying a lot from location to location.
If the status quo the OP expresses a desire to maintain involves _other_ segments of the community being regularly shot and killed by police with zero accountability or even indication that their privileged segment of the community cares - why would the other side "be in any mood then or afterwards to thoughtfully consider it from ten thousand feet". He "feels threatened" for himself and his family/property. The "rioters" are from a community being shot by police with impunity - that's somewhat more serious than "feeling threatened".

(Note: this is all from the 10,000km view from the opposite side of the planet - so I don't claim to have a dog in this fight or intimate knowledge of the situation of history here, this is all from my media and internet provided external view... But "entitled white people in restaurants" don't end up looking much like they deserve any sympathy for their fears or "endangerment")
This is why I always say dumb things. It's not that I'm looking to make you ignorant, it's that I want you to make me knowledgeable.
> continuously and unnecessarily iterating over everything in each function call multiple times.

There is nothing to iterate over in Rx. An Observable is NOT a list. It can be an asynchronous sequence, for instance a sequence of mouse clicks, or events from a websocket. All it does is call onNext on the subscribed Observers. So it's not as if chaining a map and then a filter iterates over a collection twice. In your example, when the source Observable emits a new value, it calls onNext for the FilterObservable, which then calls onNext for the MapObservable.
The trade-off between Type I and Type II error is an inherent problem in research. But false positives are most certainly a problem, too. Just look at the issues psychology and biomedicine have been grappling with in terms of replication. Whole careers were wasted based on what seem now like false positives.
I was late last time, so this is my chance to ask again. Is the Urbit team familiar with Ted Nelson's work? For some context, see my question from the previous Urbit thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10286521.
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I just moved out of a place I'd lived for 5 years that turned out to have black mold. I've had weird digestive issues and my immune system has gone to shit since living there but I wasn't aware of the mold problem and didn't know of the health problems it could cause. So this study is pretty terrifying; I should probably get tested.
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If you define "pie" as a physical chunk of matter under an implied laundry list of restrictions, maaaaaaybe.

If you define "pie" as real wealth, then it becomes effectively unbounded; see fractional-reserve banking for a real-world example.

If you define "pie" as value of your personal rational utility function, you get a much nicer - which is to say, much less bounded - result. I don't exactly think that Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski is directly possible, but it's almost certain that our minds are in a region of the state space of all possible minds that is also mapped to by simulated brains with vastly greater measure than all brains existing in universes ex nihilo (for more exploration on this topic please consult Permutation City by Greg Egan and then chapters 2+ of The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover by Eliezer Yudkowsky). Which extends to Tegmark's Mathematical Universe hypothesis, which defines (and I do mean defines, in a constructive sense) uncountably infinite universes implying uncountably infinite versions of indistinguishable-from-me (as far as I know, see previous) that are simulated in universes which have unbounded quantities of utilitronium.
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What I find amusing here is the only intellectually honest way you have out of the logic hole you've dug is to claim that you understand neither the lottery, nor the article, which then makes your opinion on either uninformed and not terribly compelling.

Were you just advocating for the devil?