skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
spanish non lucrative visa (was a thing, not sure if it still is)
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There was an interesting TED talk a while ago about this idea applied to cities, how they 'live' and communicate and grow but how we have never really seen one die. Less about AI I suppose and more about new life.
From the comments on the article: an eye-opening Australian documentary detailing how Palestinian minors are unlawfully arrested and tortured in Israeli detention facilities... for throwing stones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL048x4msM
This sounds like the view of someone who has never been exposed to more than one language. If one were to try applying that idea to programming languages, they would get laughed off HackerNews. They'd be told to just "pick the right tool for the job." Perhaps you meant that we should only have a few or one dialects of each [major] language, which is more reasonable.

No one language, or any system of communicating intent, is perfect.

There are figuratively countless nuances in each language that you just can't express in another. Which is why even English doesn't have just English words. I almost feel irritated just having to point out things which should be obvious..

Language is also art; even through my limited exposure to Japanese, for example, I've noticed many expressions that just wouldn't work in English, and definitely wouldn't convey the same intent or feelings, or paint the same picture so to speak, no matter how you imported them.
As long as you know you have a meter wide hole you will care enough to guard it. Thousands of smaller holes will eventually go forgotten.
This thread is purely the result of him/her having decided to ask the internet. That's the entire premise of this conversation.
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Isn't it that Benford's law applies when parts of data are being multiplied by other parts (like in most things in real world)? I.e. two uniform distributions multiplied together give a non-uniform distribution?
Then by all means, take this donkey of a study and make an argument for it just being one.
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So you want to help the homeless but not in your back yard? ;)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-glasser/legacy-of-racial-s...
There seems to be third problem: Tesla refuses to take responsibility for its product's shortcomings and blames the victim instead.
Well Tesla's first fault and major one is their naming of the feature.
Nice little intro, everything there would compile fine with Free Pascal on Linux, Windows or OSX

BTW Shoutout to the FreePascal/Lazarus team, the improvements over the past 12 months have been great and finally convinced me to make the move from Delphi. I even created my first Real Linux desktop program two months ago to replace an XP status display screen in a factory.. A real big step for me :-)
The X-20 looks like the Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne (and SpaceShipTwo).
A lot of tech companies see it as strategic to be in a major city. A lot of those recent college graduates want to live in cities.
Felony kidnapping, felony wire fraud come to mine.
man, K-12 is no more. K-16 is the bare minimum to function in the current civilization. Obviously this new reality should be reflected in school organization, i.e. whole K-16 should be covered by the public.
Don't have children unless you're rich and/or connected.
Yup, and the risks are lower without a co-sign because if that person passes away, the other person is not liable.
You're right. I didn't notice they had added that file. It looks like pretty comprehensive documentation too. I retract all my previous statements. They just need to update their README.
Yeah! They should make sets which are just a whole ton of basic pieces!

Oh, wait, they do. They make a whole lot of them. But... that would mean that all of this complaining... is for nothing?
Especially if you have a short handle like firstname@gmail.com.
This is solved with mosh: https://mosh.mit.edu

Uses UDP/protobuffs so network connection can be lost/changed/etc.
I don't know why you would confidently write 8 paragraphs on something you clearly don't know much about. Here are a few corrections:

- tesla does have hands on wheel sensors

- tesla does not use stereo cameras (autopilot uses a single forward facing camera combined with radar and sonar)

- the second crash 'from yesterday' you linked is from May
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I had no trouble accessing the paper using the PDF link on the page (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6059v4.pdf)
> Considering NJ is a part of USA, that sounds a bit like saying that New Zealand manages to have higher mountains than Limburg, Netherlands (which is apparently the highest part of Netherlands with a whopping 322.7 m hill).

That makes no sense. I don't understand this comparison.

I'm saying this because if I am going to move some place there needs to be a beneficial trade in outside factors that will make my life better. Moving to some place that will restrict me more will make my life worse. Therefor I will not move to such a place.

Even given this, I can still acknowledge things I would like to have in my living situation (cheap homes and land).

I don't see what you object to here.

> BTW, your link literally starts with: "About 230,000 licensed firearms owners own and use New Zealand's estimated 1.1 million firearms." That's supposed to be "nonsensical"?

It's not the amount of firearms that are important to me, it's the type.

Quantity != quality.

If there was a place with no firearms regulations and 0 firearms owned by the public, I'd not mind moving there! I'd buy the guns I want since there are no regulations.

The volume of guns owned isn't important at all. It's important instead to have freedom to buy guns I want to own with features that please me.
Turkey and Indonesia do not use Arabic for communication. There's an Arabic continuum, and Saudi Arabic is rather different from Moroccan Arabic. There are subtle cultural differences preserved in the diversity of language.

England, Kenya, and India all speak English, but English is merely a common language, and a lot of cultural differences come from the linguistic diversity in each of those countries.

Culture is a result of multiple factors, one of which is language. Monolingualism is certainly one large step towards a homogenous culture.
Whew, that essay is its very own brand of crazy. It seems both freightened and mean spirited through and through. I feel really bad for you if recycling and environmentalism scares you as much as it appears to scare Steven Landsburg.

I know why are you are an environmentalist: because you breathe air and drink water, just like I do. I'd guess you are just as interested in those things being non-toxic as I am. I'd guess you're just as interested in your grandchildren and humanity finding abundant clean air and water in the future as I am. I could be wrong about these things since I don't know you, but I'd still be willing to bet money that you enjoy being outdoors sometimes.

> Yeah, that's why electricity is free, right? Also by this logic

What a nice straw man you have there. You're trying to change the subject, just like Tierney and Munger did. I was talking about energy, not about cost. I claim energy is abundant, not free. Tierney argued against recycling by claiming that recycling uses more energy than new production. Tierney is pretending to miss the point of recycling completely. He's fully aware that debating the relative energy consumption of recycling vs new products has nothing to do with why people recycle, and he's fully aware that even if recycling uses lots of energy, even if recycling wastes tons of energy, there are still compelling reasons to recycle.

Petroleum is limited, while neither energy nor money are limited. Arguing over the percentages of waste of energy & cost is arguing over margins of the two things that won't run out. The earth and it's oil, on the other hand, are finite, and we're starting to see their limits. You can choose to ignore that, if you want, and continue to argue over the margins of the unlimited resources.

Just curious, but why are you using the weak political opines and outright rants of non-expert journalists who have agendas to argue economic and scientific issues, when there are actual economists and scientists who are writing about these things? I'm sure there are real scientists who have good arguments against recycling, if what you really want is to oppose recycling.
Go work for/found a start up, of course!

> To go to work (if you're lucky for man) to make a select few wealthier? Meanwhile your salary is barely enough to make only but marginal dents in the debt you now owe.

>You struggle to find meaning in your life, as you battle politics, desperately try to stay relevant in an environment of anxiety and fear; your peers are just as worried as you.

Oh wait. But I guess you don't have to worry as a founder, your safety net will catch you if you fail unlike the rest of us :)
My wife wants to take an extended vacation at the end of the year. Deducting 100k from my taxable income would more than pay for the trip. Do you have a source for your information? Not that I'm challenging it exactly but that seems to good to be true and frankly I think many people with means would be using it if that was the case. So any information that backs up what you're saying would be much appreciated.
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I love English language, but I don't like it, and I find it unfortunate that it is the English language that has acquired the status of the most important international language today. Even the "standard" pronunciation turns out to be extremely hard to do correctly for non-native speakers, for many even after years of speaking it. The distinction between some phonemes is way too subtle for them to get right; some words are pronounced the same while spelled differently; some are the other way around. There is too much reliance on the context in determining the exact meaning of a word... The list can go on. The language was born as one among several used by the tribes living on an island, which may explain why it is so different from the languages of continental Europe.
There is just so much wasted potential in the early 70s. It's really the death of optimism in human progress.
The naming and marketing of it. Will they admit fault and change?
Ironically 1-8 used to be the minumum and those 8th graders were probably better prepared for life than today's 12th graders are.
While we are at it, the Engineering Guy has a really good youtube channel. His videos are not very frequent most of them does a great job explaining how mundane objects are designed and manufactured. I thought I was familiar with some of his subjects but I always end up learning something new after watching.

Personal favourites:

Aluminium cans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw

Wind-up music box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COty6_oDEkk

Nerf guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxco6227xo
Chickens don’t have bones anymore - they grow so fast that there is not time for the bones to mineralise. My brother and I used to always break the wishbone with each other whenever we had a roast chicken when we were kids. I tried about a year ago to do this with my kids and it was impossible.
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This thread just reminded me of this quote:

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
> Someone else might actually want os.path to change between call.

Who? Why?
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The article calls this abusive loan-sharking at the behest of the state's evil Goldman Sachs overlords.

It says no such thing -- either in regard to evil generally, or to Goldman Sachs.

The article mentions GS, but only in passing reference to one of the people it interviewed who happened to have worked there, but got laid off.
It would be cool if this could be used with standard NPM modules in an easy way.
What specific statistic are you basing that on?

Even in the US where unsecured personal debt is practically a badge of honor, more than 50% of households still have a net worth.
The Tesla owner says in the description "Yes, I could have reacted sooner, but when the car slows down correctly 1,000 times, you trust it to do it the next time to. My bad.."

And this is the same problem mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The adaptive cruise being 99.99% effective at stopping trains the driver that it will always work. Especially because Tesla doesn't force the driver to touch the steering wheel, they seem especially susceptible to this issue - and drivers do things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fDbfy0409U&t=0s

This is not an issue until it is.
That is a good idea. For someone that age, it would be quite cheap and probably could get rolled in with auto insurance for more savings. A $50K policy would cover the average college debt.
This is a bit quip-ish, but:

Your gut. Your gut. YOUR GUT.

The third time your gut tells you it's time to go, get the wheels turning (if you haven't already.)

Also, if you think people are starting to treat you differently, they probably are. Leave, before you're asked to.
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》 Dentistry might not be a dark art anymore, but we appear to be much better at fixing broken bones than broken teeth.

I don't think we are. I'd like to see a real study on this but I would think many more sugeries on bone end with complications that are life altering than dental surgeries, even despite their significantly more intrusive nature (although dental surgeries do always carry risk of nerve damage which can be debilitating).

As a matter of scale, I bet there is a lot more patients for dental work than broken bones requiring surgery. Dentists also see many more patients since the work requires far less time, so I'd imagine these two factors meant they had much more data and practice to work with.
By which you mean, life was navigable by an 8th grader back then? I don't think the quality of year 8 students has dropped that significantly.
This is interesting - I knew work was ongoing on FPC/Lazarus - but not so much that it might draw people away from Delphi. Could you say something more about what you used to miss, that's now available - and how you use Delphi/Pascal?
It takes a few weeks of practice to be able to intelligbly understand someone from India, Kenya, England, the US, or Australia, if you're from one of the others. Cadences and idioms are all off.
In which case the "bare minimum" signaling will just move up to the next level, and then graduate degrees will be required. At which point post-graduate will be required. You can't signal that you're above average if everybody comes up to the same "above average" at the same time.

This isn't even hypothetical, there are already industries where this is how it works. A 4-year-degree in teaching or social work just gets you in the door; you are very much expected to keep going and get masters degrees if you want any sort of raise. (It is not clear to me how this makes anyone a better teacher or social worker. It is credentialism in a pure form.) Combined with the general drop in signaling quality of a 4-year-degree as the curricula get easier, this is the inevitable outcome.

We don't need to pour even more money into funding people's walking on the treadmill, we need to attack the reason why the treadmill is necessary in the first place.
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Hofstadter wrote a nice piece on how an ant colony could be thought to be an entity in itself. My favourite quote pasted from an online source:

Anteater: "I reject holism. I challenge you to tell me, for instance, how a holistic description of an ant colony sheds any more light on it than is shed by a description of the ants inside it, and their roles, and their, interrelationships. Any holistic explanation of an ant colony will inevitably fall far short of explaining where the consciousness experienced by an ant colony arises from."
By default, this only works for advanced learners. The tap-to-define action shows a same-language definition, and not a translation into your native language.

If your comprehension of the text is 50℅, you probably won't get enough from the same-language dictionary definition.

IIRC there are ways to hack around this, and install a bilingual dictionary to replace one of the Kindle's regular dictionaries.
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Out of curiosity, do countries usually prohibit all work on a tourist visa, or is there some minimal amount allowed? For instance, suppose in the middle of a two week vacation you want to participate in a conference call with the office back home to resolve a business issue, or perhaps you want to respond to work email for a half hour each evening, or something like that.
Last time I saw a dentist I needed 10k worth of work. My current plan involves a trip to Mexico or maybe just dying from blood poisoning.
I like the idea, but I would add that it doesn't need to be done during an interview.

I think it would be better if we let the candidate check out the code and review it from home, maybe write out a longer and more detailed review of the code, including the good and the bad, not just the problems.

It would be great from the candidates point of view as well. Usually you don't get a real indication of the companies code practices until you start. In fact, before starting a new job I think you should be able to review the companies code base.
This is a cute but ultimately wrong argument. It's like saying we live with a black hole because there's one in the center of our galaxy.

Yes you could stretch the term of AI to say that a large system made up of people and simple machines is some form of AI, but that's stretching it to the point of becoming meaningless.

When people talk about real Artificial Intelligence they usually mean general AI, or at least a specific AI that is capable of human-like decision making. Not Computer Chess and not an auto-stop in a filling pump.

Stretching AI to the point of ludicrousness like this seems to serve only the purpose of trying to shut down discussion around human-like AI. Which is not a noble goal.

Discussing human-like AI is important, especially before we figure it out. It would have been nice if people in the early 1900s had spent time thinking about the consequences of putting so much carbon into the atmosphere before they did it. Let's not be another generation of people who could have had a lot more forethought than they did.
There are certainly cheaper areas, but what they gain in affordability they tend to lack in jobs, internationalism, vibrancy, services or climate.
~12 billion inflation-adjusted, but your point stands.
> New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally aren't substantive enough to be Show HNs. A major overhaul is probably ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Space alien cats don't need qualifications. Nor do they claim them.

As others have noted, Eno's piece is a poor rewrite of I Pencil, itself a poorly reasoned propaganda piece.

Crooked Timber has an excellent deconstruction of that: http://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-th...

The one at Freakonomics is weaker sauce but also pretty biting:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/

I've pointed to several sources discussing technological unemployment, and more critically the long history of discussion of that topic from 1800 forward in mainstream and heterodox economic, as well as political and other literature. None of which Eno's careless handwave points at.

If informed, sourced, intelligent, and specifically refutable comment is elitist, I'll take it.

You've also focused on the irrelevant element of my argument, though if anything, you're also undercutting your own criticism of me. Eno's skill is evident in his body of work. Which I have listened to, own some of, and rather like. His self-description is at best inaccurate.

Your assumptions as to my familiarity or otherwise with Eno's works place you on the rather precarious precipice of a domain in which I am and insist privileged expertise of obvious nature.

Cheers.
Or he's a programmer with a respectable hourly rate (100+) and only works a few days a week remotely who lives in a cheap area. Any decent programmer can attain this.
Yeah that was silly.

This is still relevant, though:

"Most significant, New Jersey’s loans come with a cudgel that even the most predatory for-profit players cannot wield: the power of the state. New Jersey can garnish wages, rescind state income tax refunds, revoke professional licenses, even take away lottery winnings — all without having to get court approval."
Packing should be fine.. I think the real bug is that the lock is not being handled properly. It should be marked with volatile, and this should signal the compiler that it can not be part of a read-modify-write to an unrelated item.
I have yet to come across any concept in any human language that can’t be expressed in English.

Sure in some languages some concept can be expressed more subtly or poetically, but the concept can be expressed provided the assumed knowledge is present. It is the lack of assumed cultural knowledge that prevents these Japanese expressions from making sense in English, not that they can’t be expressed in English in principle.
You've convinced me, these countries are right, the US is evil and the internet should be disabled so we can live in freedom without war.
Whoo, boy, is master's level coursework in teaching a layup...
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I think a major mistake many Sanders supporters are doing is not distinguishing between Clinton being an awful candidate (which she is) and Clinton still winning (which she is). There may be a lot of explanations - from Sanders being even more awful candidate (socialist as an US president? Come on!) to Sanders failing tactically and strategically. One explanation however that does not follow from any Clinton deficiencies is fraud. It also does not follow from polls - polls are increasingly getting worse at predicting elections, especially when they're close. That happened many times recently, and pollsters being wrong means pretty much nothing now except for maybe we need better pollsters.
No one is condoning torture, but stones are deadly primitive weapons.

Individuals, even minors, throwing rocks the size of baseballs at people are committing attempted murder and should be arrested so that they cannot continue this behavior.

https://www.google.com/search?q=stones+thrown+by+palestinian...
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