skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And of course forcing treatment on her is unethical and probably counter-productive.

Counter-productive is an empirical question, but why is forcing treatment always unethical?

> ...She lit the apartment on fire and ended up in the hospital.

...for example. Do we need to wait for manslaughter charges before the government is responsible?

Often people on the street are at least committing fraud (lying for food, bus fare, cash, etc.). I understand that people do what they need to for survival (at least on their terms), but there is an actual cost to that. For instance, if someone actually lost their wallet and needed fare home, they have to compete with people who say they haven't eaten in days but actually don't want professional help (and may even be unfit to make that decision in the first place). The information asymmetry is enormous in this sort of interaction. To reiterate, the people getting conned aren't the biggest victims here; it's the people who have to deal with a jaded audience and fraudulent sob stories when $20, bus fare, or a prepaid phone is legitimately their biggest need.

Anyway, I'm willing to listen to counterpoints about this, but it just doesn't make sense to me that the government isn't responsible for people who can't (or won't) take care of themselves. I'm talking haven't showered in weeks; open sores on their feet, faces, and bodies; etc. Literally no other group has (or should have!) the power to require someone to get care. If we say it's not the government's job, we're saying it's nobody's job.

I'm willing to hear other thoughts on this. My current conclusion is that the status quo is ethically unconscionable but politically impossible to do anything about, but maybe I'm missing something.
> MB has scientific issues, but forgetting that

Why? Meaningless test is meaningless. You might as well try to interpret your tarot cards
I could, but first we would need to see where our common points are. For instance, you mentioned "the constant expansion": how is that consistent with the Camp David accord, Oslo accords, the removal of the Gaza settlements?
Why is it behind a paywall...
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> As anthropologist David Graeber recently has contended, many of us work jobs that, at least partially, seem pointless. Indeed, economists long have been aware of the redundant hours contained in many working days

Wait! Are these the same Keynesian economists that say doing pointless work, literally digging holes and filling the up again, can improve the economy?
My comment does not imply that.
If you think USA is actually trying to bring democracy, then its not me who is naive. Democracy is not the only way. Just because an outsider drew and created a border and calling it a nation doesn't make it a country.

Colonialism was just taking away other people's resources and treating those people like shit while at it. If UK would have created institutions for welfare and development of people and treated them on par with their citizens, then as those people see that as a step closer to better living than as some foreigners that were killing their own, there wouldn't have been any freedom movements and UK would have been biggest country on earth. Am not blaiming anyone. Just trying to point out that nothing good comes out of violence. If we take away the power to kill other person, then eventually they will find a way to live alongside eachother. With a gun you can kill someone in just one second. If there were no gun and no advanced training in killing, then killing becomes messy and bloody and there wont be as many killings.

>You have again gross misconception about "people", "nations" and various other concepts that simply do not exist in major parts of the world.

I do not have any such misconceptions. You can't meddle and force them to live your way at flip of a button. Tribes have their own form of government. Some are good. As long as they are not isolated, they will evolve to better forms of governing. It may take some time, but it eventually they will discover a better form of government and gradually implement it. Take UK for example. They were just normal humans like anyone else. No outsider brought democracy to UK. If it were bought to them forcefully by outsider by overthrowing their king/queen, and throwing away all government structures UK had at that point, and then install someone else as their new head, then UK too would be a bloody mess like libya or syria
Also, these distributed processing platforms are extraordinarily leaky (for anything non-trivial, you really need to have a good low-level understanding of your system in order to tune/debug/optimize/implement). There are definitely other benefits of a unified API, but making it seamless to switch underlying implementations is probably not one...
Yes, but to my ear it also includes a putdown, along the lines of 'juvenile' or 'childish'. That's why I referred to it as name-calling.
Can we just ban coding posts that have no code? They usually give you an illusion you learned something but are a total waste of time. It's like reading a self-help post on following your biggest dreams or something. The hard part isn't these big beautiful ideas, it's how to actually put it in practice. How to actually take something away and measure whether abstractions or duplications are more costly in real code??
Do you know why fat disgusts you, or it subconscious?

Butter, bacon, rib eye, dairy cream...they sound so delicious.

Unhealthy? Maybe. But not more than soda, pixie sticks, etc. Seeing those doesn't turn my stomach; it just makes me sorry for the poor pancreases.
Isn't the last thing you want having the billionaire editor of a newspaper influencing its editorial board?
> ‘The goal was to get the sprites to 8×8,’ explains Dailly, ‘but they actually ended up about 8×10 – hardly anyone has ever noticed this figure was wrong.’

I understand how 8x8 sprites would be easier to tile than 8x10, but what is so "wrong" about 8x10 that people might notice?
Yes recruiters can help you do this for free. 10% is a big hit.
Automating food is harder than you think. I agree though - that would be amazing.
I use Hugo for several websites and I enjoy it a lot.

One favorite part is the ability to create content of different types.
I'd say perception is more relevant to the experience of unique identity than memory; I only see out of my eyes, which makes me feel separate from those around me, even if we'd have lived through all the same experiences.
> Are they religious or secular?

Secular, obviously. If you believe the ritual negates this, you're redefining terms to suit your prejudices.
This is one case where I feel like the graphics really held back the game despite being pretty. It was too hard to predict what the spirits were going to do.
Yes, I read the article, and he does seem to imply that is the case with immigrants at the bottom level of skills. However, he also suggests that the total picture is much more complicated . . . it all depends on the details. My money is still on it being a net gain, overall.
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> "People who argue this topic as if there's a ground truth are the true problems. Everyone has they're own take."

Exactly. It's like design patterns, algorithms, and data structures. There are lots of techniques useful in programming. The trick is having the experience and judgment to know when to use the right one.
Tips for Computer Scientists on Standard ML (Revised) [pdf]
OK, but how does Apple's AirPlay work so well, then?
Bitcoin as a Sequence of Proofs
This seems like an anti-intellectual argument. For example would "ban" many of Dijkstra's famous numbered papers. I'm guessing you haven't read them.

While we're at it, why don't "we" just "ban"
- mathematical proofs without numbers
- all criticism, as it's about art but contains no art
- all papers in the field of music theory, since they aren't music.
Dry, un-try, wicker baby cherry.
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X11 supports multiple cursors supposedly. Windows also does but I've only ever seen that with glovePIE.
The article postulates that "everyones" definition of consciousness is "experience of any kind whatever."
That's not my definition at all.
My camera is not conscious because it experiences images.
My speakers aren't conscious because they experience the sound vibration they emit.
Consciousness may be an important part in us humans interpreting our experiences in some context, but it is totally different from those experiences. I can be conscious for a while in a sensory deprivation tank!

Separately, saying we "know nothing" about physics, just because we have to experience physics through our senses, is somewhere between disingenuous and false. We know how to predict the behaviour of physical systems very well. We know much less about how to predict conscious systems. So, if by "knowledge" you mean "ability to predict outcomes, possibly as result of stimuli," we know physics much more than consciousness. Or, perhaps, we know simpler physical systems, but but the complex systems that give rise to consciousness -- again, we know more about physics than consciousness, but not enough physics to explain consciousness as a physical system.

Finally, arguing that the mind is just its physical/chemical make up requires a lot more proof than we currently have. That argument reduces to "there is no free will." It may be true, but we don't know enough of quantum processes in the brains function to say that for sure. We certainly can't simulate or predict a couscous human brain yet.
Inklings' graphics are great. I love the interaction with the backgrounds. The look reminds me of the PS3 game LocoRoco Cocoreccho:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocoRoco_Cocoreccho
>Because here's something else that's true. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship-be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles-is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things-if they are where you tap real meaning in life-then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already-it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious. They are default-settings. They're the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that's what you're doing. And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default-settings, because the world of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.

--http://bulletin.kenyon.edu/x4280.html
how would you classify mathematics?
getDay returns the index of the week day your date is
getDate returns the day number within the month
so for 19/09/2016

getDay returns 1 (Sunday=0, Monday=1, ....)

getDate returns 19
Is there a good example of how to handle auth with a Couch/PouchDB setup? I'm a big fan of PouchDB.
The problem is, most Americans don't know what to do with leisure time. It actually causes them distress. We need to figure out how to get people engaged in other pursuits before we disengage them from work.
Haha, indeed.
Currently only accessible through google dns until it propagates further.
Technicians also get 6 meters, and SSB/RTTY/data on 10 meters, so might have use for for an outdoor antenna. (And if they learn Morse code, they have CW access on 15, 40, and 80 meters).
How do you know that bacteria, or cement blocks, or hydrogen nuclei don't care about their existence?
Industrial refrigeration components are very modular, controllers capable of handling this sort of set up are available off the shelf.

The whol set up is pretty much identical to a chilled water data centre cooling set up but with a smaller chiller and a larger chilled water reservoir.

Ammonia would probably be better, I was just thinking on terms of something a fregierstion mechanic could hack together as a proof of concept in a couple of weekends.
I love pieces like this that explore the underpinnings of why we experience music the way we do. I'm a self-taught guitar player and its only now, in my 50's with the kids more or less grown and a lot more time, that I have started to dig in and understand what I've been playing for two decades. Good stuff. Thanks for the post.
Zibibbo was excellent - bite your tongue!
While increasing productivity will definitely allow people to find work that allows them either less time or more flexibility, there is always that issue of want.

Ten years from now, let say you can find a job where you can work 32 hours a week (or 40, but 8 from home -- slacking a little on that), but let's say you don't earn enough to afford that new iPhone. You can only afford the previous years model. You can't quite have the new curved behemoth TVs that everybody has, nor can you take a vacation any time soon, but you can to take a mini one every weekend.

Is this going to be okay for you? I would argue, many people might be able to do this now. I think that desire to consume is pretty strong. I definitely have it.

These decisions all come with tradeoffs. If your neighbor decides to work 48 hours, taking the 8 your decided to forego, and he can afford these nice little things, are you then going to be calling it unfair that he he's paid more than you? Are you going to be calling for an weekly hour cap to prevent it?
I made a thing:

https://thimbleprojects.org/smlefevre/102167/

Bash cheat sheet-- keyboard shortcuts for jumping and deleting words
I recommend checking out https://forestry.io/
I spent many years as a passionate and vocal fiscal conservative. I stayed up many late nights arguing for relatively balanced budgets and smart (generationally fair) budgets. Over time I realized it was likely hopeless, since words (even the truth) can't compete with the tangible materialism of bread and circuses; so now I embrace ''Accelerationism''. We will eventually hit the top of the Laffer Curve, the max debt-to-GDP debt load, and all related fiscal ceilings and cliffs. Let's just hurry up (and try to spend the remaining debt space in the best ways possible) and get it over with so we can have more meaningful debates about how to structure society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Oh, we have those.
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By the way, speaking of quote investigations, I want to figure out how this fake Cervantes quote came about:

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops
are made of men and not of stones.

The fake part is "time ripens all things." Cervantes didn't write that part in Chapter 33 of Don Quixote II. The rest is indeed said by the Duchess to Sancho. The cheesy empty word play of "time" and "ripens" struck me as odd for Cervantes and more like something that Heidegger would write in Being and Time such as "time is the ripening of temporality". As an amateur Cervantes scholar I looked it up, but I could not find any Don Quixote translation that has the phrase, yet it always appears this way in English quote collections, which all seem to quote each other. It's even in Wikiquote. I first encountered it in xkcd:

http://xkcd.com/1704/

So, who added that "time ripens all things" crap?
Sometimes I think programmers and theologians have a lot in common. Both have dogmas and articles of faith which are backed by internally consistent logic. Now to the comments to hear the Catholics and Protestants debate!
For that to work, you have to arbitrage the fee the business would pay to a recruiter against the lost income for the employee you place.
Maybe you have secret sauce that makes it possible?
Tell us more?
I've wanted to make a static site generator generator for a while. Run the script and out comes another script with a wicked cool name that uses one of the many markup options, header formats, and templating engines (either manually or randomly selected).

Somebody, please make this.
I tried inbox for a while, it tries to be too intelligent and I ended up missing important stuff because of it.
So why not have a method that sets the day of the week as well? It just seems odd to me that they would implement setters for all of the other time units but not this one
Shameless plug...

https://github.com/Malcx/DamnSmallBlog
Have you found Time Machine?
Let everybody decide their own amount of leisure to work levels. We don't need a nation-wide policy to push for some standardized level. Depending on age, career advancement, family responsibilities, and a number of other factors that can be a very different calculation for people. Some people might be more willing to trade future leisure for current work more than others.
The Inner Game of Javascript: Everything is 'undefined' or the object you didn't expect.
Spotify has just as bad if not worse UX as iTunes/Apple Music. Spotify kept taking away useful features from their desktop app and promised to return them, but never did, even years later. Plus, I don't need to run another instance of Chrome and Adobe Flash which constantly consumes 5% of my CPU and a few hundred MB of RAM just to listen to some music. While still not perfect, I'm pretty happy with the newest release of iTunes and the iOS music app.
if you were hoping for a nerdy treatise on musical rhythm, harmony, form, cadences, sequences and motifs, and evolution from baroque to classical to romantic to modern... well this is not it.

edit: just a comment about the temperament- before the octave was equally tempered intervals were rational fractions of the root. after the equal temperament was developed instruments could go across different keys without sounding too dissonant. the well tempered clavier was a series of preludes and fugues that JSB wrote for the equally tempered scale that goes across all the keys on the same instrument (the prelude in c major which is the very first piece in the collection is the famous one in Forrest Gump). but sometimes you want to return to the pure temperament - like if a passage focuses on a particular key for a while - and in the brass and wind instruments it is easy to squeeze the embouchure a little bit to slightly tweak the tuning of a particular note.
Firebase is the only service that provides a nice client-side abstraction for a real-time database. (Fine there's also Meteor and Horizon.io by RethinkDB.)

I highly recommend it for the reading side of things. I agree that writing from the client to Firebase is highly problematic so I use a client -> API server -> other DB -> Firebase architecture.

My architecture also gets around the fact that Firebase is hard to query.
This has got to be some of the worst jargon and notation for anything, ever.

Indeed. I'm a musician, and something non-musicians often ask (especially techies, it seems) is why we use such an archaic notation system.

The reason is simply that a certain number of musicians have developed the skill of sight reading which is the ability to perform a composition directly from a written sheet, with little or no rehearsal. Those players, myself included, can't quite explain how we do it, and aren't going to learn a new notation system.
I'm a big Gatsby fan.
Well pretty much all innovation at google is also based on acquiring other companies.
GrandCentral -> Google Voice
YouTube
Boston Dynamics
Deep mind
and on and on
What does 9/80 mean? 9h/day minimum, and 80h/week?

That 'd be straight out illegal in Germany, for example (8h/d maximum on long-term average, 48h/week max on long-term average). If any accidents happen with this excessive overtimes, the employer is fully liable for any damages claims.

What the US desperately lacks is a federal workers' protection laws.
Have you used Phenomic? What's the difference to Gatsby?
alan watts said this best. You can walk into a eastern temple and enjoy it. laugh. do all the "silly" little rituals. Religion is _supposed_ to be fun and NOT serious. The min you make it deadly seriously and tell children THIS IS REAL you defeat the point. i.e. life is one big ride and silly. Life is very very silly and not even a little bit serious. Even when people die. Espeically when people die. Live your life this way and you won't fear death. You'll enjoy your silly number of X years you get on earth and want to live a good life cuz that's the most silly fun you can have. And _that's_ how you get people to be "reglious". NOT BY PREACHING or saying do this "moral" behavior. No no no. Live it up. Go to Burning Man. Enjoy the ride is what religion was trying to tell us but the message is all mixed up now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733
I think what he means is even public prisons are serviced and overcharged by private companies. Inmates still get charged ridiculous rates to make phone calls, packs of Maruchan Ramen cost upwards of $3, finger print scanning machines are like $8000, the size of the most extravagant copying machine and require a maintenance contract in the age of mobile size biometric scanners, etc.
It's definitely anti-intellectual. But people who run this site themselves say they're interested in high signal to noise ratio.

I don't think those are good comparisons. Better example would be a post about how to write rigorous math proofs and then not giving a rigorous proof as an example.
You can visit someone's home, or move to a new one.

I think that being locked to a particular consciousness and having no access to another one is on par with not having access to parallel universes. I'm going to click Update right now. In another universe, a parallel me closes the page without clicking Update. I have no access to that.
Honest Question: Is this a profitable endeavour? or it's just for the positive PR?
http://www.myce.com/news/hp-pre-programmed-failure-date-unof...

@mods That is the original source

HP also made a statement about this: http://www.myce.com/news/hp-officially-responds-pre-programm...
Like a lot of Silicon Valley's problems, this really comes down to unreasonable height restrictions. When you have to choose between a 3000 sq.ft. restaurant and 3000 sq.ft. office space, the offices can pay better.

If the city would let people build large office towers they could put restaurants on the ground floor and this choice wouldn't have to happen.