skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>If my similarities to you in both physicality and reaction are not enough to convince you I feel pain, why are my words enough? And if they are, if I build a deep belief network which says "ouch, fuck" every time it encounters a penalty in its stimuli and says "awesome" every time it maximizes its reward function, does it follow that we now have to treat it as if it's human?

>Well, since humans are conscious and are able to communicate with each other clearly, we can tell pretty well what it means for a human to feel pain

Why is this? Why not assume other humans are philosophical zombies[0]? Again, if I can build some dumb machine to say "ouch", lacking all other known physiological correlates to pain (like structures involved in processing pain, withdrawing from 'painful' stimuli, vocalizing sharply when in 'pain'), why isn't it in pain?

>what justification can you have to eat pigs and cause them that pain that you think they feel?

I don't care enough. I eat meat because it's tasty! That doesn't mean I can't try to ensure the things I eat live mildly fulfilling lives before their mostly pain-free deaths. I try to buy meat from places like this [1] because while I want to eat meat and see nothing wrong with it, there's a huge difference between a chicken who has been able to wander about and have a chickeny social network and eat bugs (even if its world is a big open-air warehouse barn) and a chicken who has spent most of its short fat life in a small dark cage. I don't follow this principle all the time, or I'd be restricted from fast food, eating out with friends, etc. I imagine anyone who buys cheap clothes but abhors sweatshops, or who buys consumer electronics but is made uncomfortable by rare-earth mining practices and Foxconn working conditions, or who pays taxes but objects to some horror the government perpetrates with the money, knows what I'm talking about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

[1] http://rowefarms.ca/our-farming-philosophies.php
Sunk Costs and Managing Assholes
> But why does society need diversity more than efficiency? Someone else can give that one a try :)

You'll soon find yourself in dangerous territory here.

The current mantra is diversity is not only morally good, but also actually beneficial - but the former shrinks to the latter whenever challenged, with an extra helping of bad-faith accusation...
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Dated 1992... "This article was published in Issues In Child Abuse Accusations, 4(4), 197-213. (1992)."
Gun laws? They some how manage to be more restrictive then where I currently live (New Jersey). You can read up about the nonsensical requirements and categories that all, essentially mechanically similar, firearms fit into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_New_Zealand
unrestricted democracy was one of the reasons hitler got into power. i'm sure everyone can agree that some restrictions are necessary
Which is diametrically opposed to technology, slowly but surely chipping away at the need for jobs.
It's actually possible to detect the |bash part server side and send different content than if you were simply curling, wgeting or viewing in a browser.

Not only does this mean that you could end up with a compromised system, but it also means that there's no artefact of what caused it left on disk.

I agree with your point that running third party software is always a risk, the problem here being that you can think you've done your due diligence by reading the curl output first and then doing curl|bash, but in actuality this is not necessarily the case which is what makes curl|bash such an insidious bad habit.

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
Check out my reply to `olympus`. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12027361

This is my major concern. There are a lot of restrictions on self defense and fire arms that I'm just not used to from the United States.
Something I find rather unsettling is the very peculiar word choices by both sides.

One says its an emergency.

The other side says it has happened before.

Something that fits both sides statements is a hurricane, or a drought both long term and short term. There's a lot of really bad stuff that happens only rarely.

Its like both sides are trying to act out a scripted dramatic play. "Here's your weird lines to talk past each other, now get on stage and make it look good"

Another thing that's weird is the reported statements exclusively come from cranks outside the field, and people inside the field where its well known that any doubting of official belief means permanent removal of funding, so anyone trusting either side is a fool. Wheres the quotes from a reasonable disinterested 3rd party, perhaps a TV meteorologist or a fluid dynamics physics professor (although retribution if the admit lack of faith in belief could still impact them, they're probably less personally financially motivated). We're dealing with religious-style beliefs on both sides, rational thinking didn't get them there nor is it going to get them outta there, belief isn't controlled by reason. So where's a non-belief based observation and discussion? I suppose that's not good clickbait so it may exist but we won't be permitted to read it.
My point is that you don"t know yourself, either. You know in any given moment whatever self you have constructed from the sensations, emotions, inferences, and memories available to you. It "s conventional to assume that there is continuity with the selves that you remember, and that"s the default common sense position to take--a sort of pragmatic shorthand--but we don"t actually know that the continuity is real.

In fact, we do know that human memory is spectacularly unreliable, and, moreover, that it is a virtuoso liar, very accomplished at convincing us that we vividly remember things that never actually happened. It's proficient at rearranging memories and sensory impressions into ad hoc stories that we uncritically accept as true records of events.

From this point of view it seems a little over optimistic to me to say that we know ourselves, or to say that I know that the me of today is "the same person" (whatever I might mean by that) as the me of yesterday or last week or 1965.
President Obama announced the executive order in November 2014(https://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction) Since then, the USCIS has just complicated the process by adding one more application "Filling for Employment Application" which is actually 5 years apart form the Final Action date(when the visa number is actually made available).

There have been numerous meetings to solve this mess which affects the USCIS and DHS too. But the Corporate-Legal/lawyers lobby tends to win over USCIS every time justifying to keep the dates as is, and not to use the un-used visa numbers from other countries, after-all they make more money when the legal immigrants are kept in limbo, and applying for various applications and are bound to stick to a single employer.
You are correct, it would be 6 years till someone would review the documents, but still 11~12 years till the visa number is made available towards the green card.
Sven.txt (2000)
Except for when someone gives them a robots.txt instruction. Then they forget whole websites.
Which complex bytecodes did Java introduce?

Since hotspot was introduced,the amount of C++ on the reference JDK has been incrementally reduced between releases,with Hotspot improving its heuristics.

To the point that Graal is a pure Java JIT.

Also in the 80's and early 90's C compilers generated awfully slow code.

C developers have to thank almost 40 years of research in C optimizers and misuse of UB optimizations for the current state of C compilers quality in code generation.
I don't think I've lived in an Muslim-discrimnation-free bubble; I've grown up in the Middle East, and if there's one place you'll hear about antiMuslim going-ons, it's there.

And from my position, Muslims in India have it pretty fucking good. In what world can people like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaduddin_Owaisi

get away with being spewing divisive bullshit, and then call for action against Muslim discrimination and for reservations for Muslims? Muslims have their own penal code! Up until the BJP rule, legislation was in favour of Muslims, at the expense of togetherness of society.

In India Muslims have a pretty powerful political position given the fact that they are a minority. I somehow am disinclined to believe that the author suffered any actual discrimination given the political clime in India.
Not much substance in this article...
I guess it took awhile, but Guile is quite a capable programming language and VM platform these days. I have hacked on package managers, web applications, game engines, static site generators, and more with Guile. It's a really wonderful project that is only getting better.

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
Yes, that is basically the only place I have been considering. I do like the cold, the people seem nice, and it has a small population.

Very easy and simple legal code from what I've been reading on line.

This even extends to the (usually atrocious) zoning laws. Most zoning practices were established during the westward expansionist period and were very restrictive when put in place. From what I've been reading it was intended to "organize" the development of towns but it seems to have just mucked up everything.
Does your veterinarian not recommend having her teeth professionally cleaned?

Humans who have perfectly healthy and well taken care of teeth still go to the dentist, and for dogs it is no different. You should still be getting her once a year!

There are more issues than not which could be happening that are not visible to the untrained eye.
The maintenance of Yiddish is an extreme example. It's explicitly used to prevent ultra-orthodox Jews from "straying off the path" and joining the larger society.[1] In Israel, the ultra-orthodox speak Yiddish, not Hebrew, and often don't even know Hebrew.

This is the use of a dying tongue as a means of social control.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/off-the-path-of-orth...
That's consistent with other approaches taken by Elm (like ports for FFI). It streamlines things, but sometimes is too restrictive.
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Not all solutions are best when it's one size fits all. What may cause homelessness in one area may not be the root cause in another. Also people local to the community have a vested interest in fixing it vs. bureaucrat who will be treating it as a number on a balance sheet(i.e. not have to experience the problem themselves).
No, it's not the same.
The natural languages that "won" did so because of colonisation, not meritocracy - or should computer scientists compete by oppressing their competitors?
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> Source: - not on the Internet, not in English language, not likely in public docs

Yeah I'll need a source to believe in all that stuff ;)
Hence why I rather support Julia and leave Python for shell scripting like tasks.
I do have several people around the world giving out my email address as theirs. I get all sorts of weird email.
Does anyone read install scripts/formulas when installing something from system package managers?
This article smells like the journalist has been tricked.
My understanding is that the homelessness crisis facing Seattle is more pronounced and more rapidly worsening than similar issues in other major urban areas. I recently relocated to Seattle from New York and never saw anything like Seattle's tent cities and encampments back in Manhattan.
A fieldtrip to ITER, a work-in-progress that will test fusion’s feasibility
Server:
...
rm -fr /$variable

Network:
...
rm -fr / <HUP>

Bye bye everything!
Which algorithm are you referring to?
Agreed. San Francisco, for example, still has many SROs in operation, and it's not even remotely clear whether they're a net benefit.

That said, I think they might be onto something with respect to affordable places to live. I'm not sure that SROs and the like are the answer, but it doesn't seem quite right that your lowest cost option to live near the core of any major city is a studio that costs on the order of thousands a month to rent.
This certainly points out one of the many difficulties of crawling the web. Wiley has set up their robots.txt correctly but someone else duplicates their content, which just has links.

The author was crawling[1] and as such should have checked Wiley's robots.txt file which disallows it. So The "academic mining project" should have contacted Wiley directly and said, "Hey we're linking together a bunch of DOIs we would like to automatically fetch them from your site." And Wiley would have said "Sorry, nope." or if they weren't complete idiots they might say "Ok, use this user agent, XXX, and at most this crawl rate XXX. Respect the robots.txt file and when the user agent is disallowed again you have to stop crawling."

Since they didn't do that, they violated the terms of service for Wiley and Wiley back tracked the IP to the university and called them to find out what was up with that. (Part of their "aaron defense" no doubt)

[1] "I attempted to use these DOIs for a legitimate academic mining project in good faith (one which I had pre-informed the library about)."

[2] - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/robots.txt
Site seems down. Here is the google cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:__L7kb...
Lisp and Smalltalk like languages run circles around Python and Perl performance.

Enjoy the same powerful features, have JIT and AOT compilers to native code.

It all boils down to how much the language designers care about performance.
It's a common occurrence on /r/India. The amount of habitual downvoting I have seen there, I have not seen on other general-interest forums.
Indeed, but it remains to be seen if such growth would benefit the idling meat bags left unemployed.
I've checked the repository.
It has DOCUMENTATION.md in there (I guess some contributors take the initiative).
The sample source code it self (the link with "Use the source" text) also has comment that explain how to use certain feature.

I think the need to replace the content of "How to Use It" section since they do have real documentation.
The comment is on point. The io TLD does seem to be used more for software which is trendy rather than which is useful, thus it makes a reasonable litmus test.
You're not wrong, but the impulse to recontextualize responsibility on a larger scale probably gets in the way of exploring what communities can do to alleviate the problem locally. It also assumes that the causes are the same in all cases where the symptoms appear similar, and that all communities or cities have equivalent resources they can marshal to address homelessness.
Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026820

Got rate-limit'd. Sorry for the delay.
A conflict between two people only needs one of them to start it. The FBI does not consent to the existence of crime, nor did the Crown consent to the existence of the US. A crushingly-powerful global omni-state could only win battles, not end the game.

If you tried to prevent conflict by making people afraid to start it, then you would really just end up holding yourself in perpetual conflict with everyone.
Also happening in Portland.
Sorry, you are losing me. You on the one hand claim that animals feel pain similarly to humans and in general that animals are similar to humans , yet on the other hand say that it's ok to eat meat because it's tasty, despite the your own claim that eating meat will cause those animals pain ? That seems like a bankrupt moral philosophy. I don't think animals feel anything like what humans feel, which is why I think it's ok to eat meat. But certainly if I'm ever proven wrong, that would be reason enough to stop eating meat.

I also don't think the parallel with cheap clothes or mining practices works. I mean with meat you can simply stop eating it with relatively little effort on your part. With clothes or products it is simply not realistic to try to avoid all poorly produced products on the shelf
Coming soon to a demographic group near you. Homelessness, not just for day laborers and factory employees anymore.

People ask what our plan will be when middle class jobs are eliminated by automation and robots. As if things can't happen without a plan. And a good plan at that. Well, lack of plan never stopped anything in the 70s.
Commented on the other version of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12027396

I'm wondering why the researcher didn't as Wiley if they could crawl their database.
In New Jersey Student Loan Program,Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve
I like reactions like that to my suggestions!

I'm building a video startup so bandwidth solutions have been on my mind these days.
That's sort of my point, if I understand you correctly.

There are two responses to "Hey, the site is slow!" One is "Well, that's because PHP/Python/Java is slow, we should start coding in C/etc". Another is "The codebase or architecture is probably unoptimized and/or poorly structured in some areas; let's identify, prioritize and start fixing those areas."

The slow languages are "good enough", in an engineering sense, for today's retail features. The payoff of using a fast language doesn't provide enough value for its cost. It doesn't matter that searching a PHP array is slow; that's not where the problems are in today's software.
> Could you imagine if people had attitudes like this in other fields of engineering? "Here's your new car." "Thanks, how do I change a tire or put in gas? Does it have a manual?" "Manual? Just read the schematics. If you know anything about mechanical engineering or combustion, you should be able to figure it out!"

This is basically giving away the schematics to a car, not a car itself. If someone gives you the schematics for a car, you still need to know a fair bit about reading those schematics (and a fair bit about a lot of other stuff) to work out exactly how to build the car.

Impress.js isn't being delivered as a complete product, but it is a free project. I don't work with Impress.js except as a casual user, but as I understand it "Pull Requests Accepted", and if they aren't, fork Impress.js into Impress.js-with-docs and add them if you feel you must. The entitlement to someone else's time is tiring.
What is this code and why is it interesting?
Wow, 20 hours is crazy for ER. What city/hospital was that?
The problem I usually have with conspiracy theories is that typically they're not pitched as "what-if" scenarios for people to keep in the backs of their minds as remote possibilities. Typically they're pitched as things that people have absolute faith in because it allows them to give in to their worst fears and biases in the absence of evidence.

For a lot of people, conspiracy theories are the thing that lets them not just believe in their own personal boogeymen, but (in their view) can give them a moral obligation to go around making other people believe in their boogeymen as well. For example, 9-11 truthers generally don't just present a handful of odd facts and say "that's odd, I wonder if there's something more going on here". No, they will present a handful (at best) of odd facts and tell you that they are 100% certain about what really happened. They're not saying that the handful of odd facts supporting their argument is proof, rather they're saying that unless you can disprove their (unknowable and likely undebunkable) handful of odd facts, that they must be 100% correct about everything. There are a lot of parallels with religion, and IMO some of the same cognitive processes are at work.

Those sorts of conspiracy theorists aren't offering offbeat counterarguments to prevailing views- those sorts of conspiracy theorists are willfully injecting noise and superstition into the "humanity computer" (or the zeitgeist, or the collective unconscious, or civilization's ongoing internal monologue, or however we choose to think of it). That's my main issue with conspiracy theories (and a lot of religion, and a lot of political discourse...).
The snippet:

"...in times of great economic inequality..."

^Is intentionally sensationalized, the notion being that economic inequality in our society is generally viewed as a negative. Consider the following:

"...in times of great famine..."

Now you could try to make the argument that someone is merely stating a fact and picked an adjatiave which helps the reader picture what's going on, but I don't think anyone would assume the author considered famine to be a "neutral fact". Similarly, the end snippet is clearly addressing the elephant in the room given the title of the article, which was certainly chosen due to the subject matter, but also due the phrase which we are debating (income inequality), which is essentially another way or saying that a class of people are losing wealth to another class.
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From the article's "conclusions" section:

" The claims of recovered repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse represent an striking phenomenon in the mental health community. As Gardner (1992a, 1992b) observes, to believe these "victims" and their therapists, we must consider childhood sexual traumas to be a special experience in which well-accepted psychological principles are inapplicable and an entirely new set of psychological principles must be invented. The claims being presented are at variance with the scientific knowledge about the nature of memory and psychological concepts of dissociation, amnesia, and the reactions of people to documented trauma.

Accepting the claims about recovered memories of repressed abuse means accepting a complex chain of assumptions, speculations, inferred internal states and mental processes with limited scientific support and little if any corroborating data. At best, this is a low-frequency phenomenon.

On the other hand, there are credible data on the reconstructive nature of memory, social influence, conformity, and the power of therapy to produce conformity in the patient. It is much more probable that a claim of recovered memory of sexual abuse comes from a combination of these factors. It is an issue of antecedent probability and the best and most accurate decision always comes from going with the high base rate behavior. It is the only ethical choice a scientist can make."
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I have been a member for some years now and it's definitely my favourite place in London (and thus, the planet) but that's entirely because I'm somewhat institutionalized and feel quite at home here. Only a few weeks ago I discovered an entire stairwell and section I had no idea about. An absolute treasure and packed with treasure.
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I'll be on the lookout for new features as well. I'm not sure I have detected one new feature here, so I'm a bit confused as to what others are talking about.

>Why is this being downvoted?

A very good question, particularly since this subthread is detached and off-topic. I actually think some have custom feeds (or at least, refresh a lot) largely just for delivering downvotes (w/ no other response).

Here is pg on open sourcing and features:

>pg 1272 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5025176

>I don't have time to manage such a project. I don't think it's necessary anyway. The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content.