skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory on why certain kinds of people believe in things like religion has to do with different styles of information collection and perceiving the world. Religion is often adapted, or rejected, on moral grounds, rather than strict evidence grounds, because it's a lot more relevant to life on Earth than it is to who created the world at the end of the day.

Given that, it's not too surprising that religion can affect things without being true. The moral parts of religion are a lot more interesting and influential than the creationist parts, but the creationist parts make it sound true.

But what are the arguments for the creationist parts? The Bible simply says, in the beginning there was this and that. Most arguments after that are more about the fact that Jesus existed and made miracles, and therefore he had unusual powers, and if he had unusual powers, perhaps what he said was true.

I've never seen any from the ground up evidence about creation itself. Intelligent design to me is a counterargument more than an argument, and, apart from that, I haven't heard much at all.
FYI, there's also an iOS/Android app that you can use for one-off simple setup of their APs now. I used it when setting up my UAP-AC-LR.

Years ago, I got fed up with the Java-based controller as well, and reflashed my UAP-LR at the time with plain OpenWRT so it was all self-contained. Still one of the best APs I've ever used.
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I cannot recommend Manna enough (I assume it's similar to the online version [1]). It portrays a version of the future that I believe is achievable by continuing open-source software development and extending it to (more and more powerful) AI.

[1] http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Darwin and Wallace both thought of natural selection on reading Malthus's essay on the principle of population. I guess that's a reproducible route to the idea -- send a curious British naturalist to South America and some islands, then loan them a copy of Malthus. I'd like to read Malthus myself someday and see how close he came.

Darwin did some historical research on his predecessors for a later edition of the Origin. Wallace wasn't the only independent discoverer, though the others did not take it nearly as far. https://historiesofecology.blogspot.com/2013/08/predecessors...
>civic responsibility to care about such things

Says who? Where is that written?

I couldn't care less about such problems in my community. I pay my taxes so the city/county can hire people to solve these issues. My politicians have little to no competition so voting for who's in office is largely meaningless in my case.

Why should I spend my time, mental and emotional energy on "the news" when this offers zero immediate benefit to me? Even during watercooler talk if someone says "did you hear about x?" I can reply "no, please tell me about it" without losing any face.

I've been thinking about deleting news apps from my phone lately because I realized I did not actually enjoy or benefit from reading what's going on in Us politics or international affairs. This article cinched the deal. If something is really important then I'll read about it here, on reddit's FP or hear it from my friends/colleagues. Everything else is just noise.
Of coure this depends on what you are trying to do, but here are some general things to know in computing:

Beginner or Advanced: Python - Django, Flask

Javascript - the language of the web

HTML&CSS (Not languages)
Itunes, AppStore down for many users
In Germany tax laws might help you a little bit with this.

If you build something with the main interest of making money out of it, the state (and most probably your employer) will treat it as a business and want you to run a business for that or will likely forbid to do it. But if you build something because you need it for yourself and are running it more like a hobby but make profits from it, there´s something called "Liebhaberei". This special status mainly has tax implications (you can´t get refunds on losses from your Liebhaberei because it´s not qualified as a business, tax-wise...) but I´ve had friends which got their side projects "approved" by their employers because they did not look like real businesses and were run on this Liebhaberei status.

So if you like miniature railways and build a niche site around it, which will give you beer money (or a bit more), the tax people most probably won´t have any problems with that. You should avoid doing things that look like you are running a business (having a shop, selling stuff), but most of them probably won´t even notice affiliate links or understand what that does.

This can also help you with your employer. "Boss, I have this site about my miniature railways and now it´s making 50 bucks a month, is that a problem?"

Or you go the right way. Be honest and say that you´d like to do something for fun but there could be money involved and you just wanted to make sure that´s okay for everybody. I found employers to be unexpectedly tolerant when you´re honest.
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At the company I work at we recently changed the titles and I believe we're calling junior devs "associate developers" now. Seniors are still "senior." Everyone in between it just "developer" or possibly "staff developer." Seems reasonable to me. We did also add a role above senior called "principle developer" but I'm not quite sure how their responsibilities differ from senior devs.
> This is "news" without information

we really need to start blasting clickbait as clickbait. They are not going to self moderate.
Also consider Robert Harris' historical fiction trilogy "Imperium," "Lustrum," and "Dictator" about the life of Cicero and the fall of the Roman Republic under Julius Caesar (assuming it's okay to recommend additions).

The ideas explored in these books are fascinating and could not be more timely. The historical notes are interesting. The reading is fun! "Dictator" is the third book in the trilogy & its Wikipedia page links to the rest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator_(Harris_novel) The narration on the Audible editions is fantastic.
Hope you're using Kotlin (rather than Apache Groovy) to write your Gradle scripts, since you're using it to build Kotlin code.
I'm perplexed by your examples (1) and (2) since the article doesn't actually discuss loaning to defaulting black people in any way shape or form.

Sorry, s/loan/allow out on bail/ or s/loan/show advertisement/ to go with examples in the article. Mathematically it's the same problem. I just default to thinking about loans since I've worked on loans and since most of the academic work on the problem is about lending.

But what "separate term" would you consider to be more appropriate to describe ML systems' tendency to generate results unrepresentative of wider reality...

Thanks - you've perfectly illustrated my point as to why the term "bias" is misleading. The term "bias" leads you to believe the algorithms are generating results unrepresentative of wider reality, which simply isn't the case.
You could change your bisect script to pass on broken builds.
> This category of problem has almost nothing to do with ML in particular.

The article is identifying a particular misconception that people might have, which is because a computer did it, the result will be (racially) unbiased.

It might be obvious to you that's not the case, since you're familiar with the ML techniques in question, but still valuable to a lay audience to make that point crystal clear.
Oh, the ideas are good, certainly. I'd have rather they'd been delivered in a much better novel half as long, though—which is, I suspect, as long a story as Stephenson could have managed from that promising beginning without wrecking it. It would have been less irritating if none of the story had been good, really, but that first section is great.

I don't think it's very good hard SF, either. It does so much that its explorations of the social implications of the advances—which are the whole point of fleshing out an entire novel from the "gee, wouldn't it be cool if we could X?" concepts that the book is full of, rather than writing the short essay or even (these days) tweet that would suffice to explain them as well as the book does—are underdeveloped and/or feel false. The density of these drops off quite a bit early in the book, too, leaving little to chew on but the confused characterization and the increasingly unsatisfying story.
Of course one of the initial authors of Kafka will say, that ETL is dead, and streams only are the future...
But that's not the reality in many cases.
TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework [0] for anyone else wondering

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Group_Architecture_Fr...
This list took a credibility plunge when Thomas Friedman was spotted on it.
Yes, circle provides the build container and docker, and our scripts install gcloud and kubectl and authorize a service account that can push to the associated project image repository.
At some point, when a system has entered a failure mode for a while, it makes sense to start shedding load, rather than attempting to deliver every single push notification. Also worth mentioning, a minute of downtime is already a million backed up pushes. Beyond that, it becomes infeasible to attempt deliver them.

Edit: Also worth mentioning, the 50k buffer is for a single server, we run multiple push servers in the cluster.
If there is a set of people who want handouts, but aren't willing to follow rules, how likely is it for that set of people to hold down jobs, pay rent, etc?

I would wager that there is another set of people, that doesn't intersect with that first set very much, that are just down on their luck, for whom a place to shower and receive mail and handle phone interviews for some stable amount of time would help quite a bit.
Everyone who participated on open-source projects knows that.

You can spent all your time on an oss project and it is no job, since you do not get paid.
I literally can't switch. I live in one of the biggest cities in the world, and the ISP's here have carved it up into neighborhood level monopolies. I have one option.
I was on the edge of my seat towards the end of the second third of Seveneves. The last third was mostly world building, though. I liked it, but I can understand why others would check out.
"The two books I mentioned were debated as much for their content as for the provocative title, though I might add that the use of a provocative title to maximize sales by manufacturing controversy is hardly something to be celebrated, but rather represents the decline of political discourse."

I also notice that I didn't say if I agreed or disagreed with the practice, nor have I read either book. Marketing is quite a nasty subject in its own right.

"Regardless, I don't think that unhappiness of a work's subject with the portrayal therein necessarily carries any weight. Demonstrable inaccuracy would be a valid critique, but portraits can be both truthful and unflattering."

raisspen found a nice review that points out the flaws https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13162277
You would prefer that they not provide a warning at all, or lie and say cloud services are supported forever when they'll almost certainly be cut in a year or two? That seems to be the typical playbook for acquisitions and I much prefer the way Pebble is doing it.
ML and statistics are a subset of maths. As I said the statistics and ML overlap and also function interpolation. But some ML algorithms are based on biological systems (like swarm optimization), or theory of information.

If you have a problem that you want to classify some vectors, you have different ways to do it. You call all of them ML, but some use statistics, others use interpolation, other uses theory of information, etc. The model doesn't have to be complex or require a lot of data. Instead of saying all the different techniques you sum up saying ML.
Seems reasonable to me if it's a third party package that doesn't want to clobber whatever the distro installs. Where else? /srv?
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If you haven't already talked to him about this, I would take down this post. It seems very likely that he, or someone he knows, could read this and connect the dots.

At the very least, you should minimize information related to the time-frame and size of your team.
> So, for religious discussions, what can we possibly discuss? Take any religious claim, and when we ask 'What observation could you make that would demonstrate to you that the claim is false?', the answer is almost always nothing. At that point, what is the use of discussion?

That doesn't stop HN from endlessly discussing string theory, simulation-ism, and singularity. None of them are falsifiable.
The most important part of this article is the concept of back pressure and being able to detect it. It's common in a ton of other engineering disciplines but especially important when designing fault tolerant or load balancing systems at scale.

Basically it is just some type of feedback so that you don't overload subsystems. One of the most common failure modes I see in load balanced systems is when one box goes down the others try to compensate for the additional load. But there is nothing that tells the system overall "hey there is less capacity now because we lost a box". So you overwhelm all the other boxes and then you get this crazy cascade of failures.
Fitbit Blaze also shows notifications from apps you select.
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What is up with Discord? I feel like it's quietly (maybe not so quietly) one of the bigger startups to come out in the last two years.

It seems to have totally taken over a space that wasn't even clearly defined before they got there.
I don't think so. I think it is more similar to this description: https://www.isixsigma.com/tools-templates/sampling-data/stat...
That's certainly true, and you'll see Republicans pass some legislation they don't want to. But they're not going to rubber-stamp policies they find abhorrent.

I suspect the trillion-dollar infrastructure spend will happen. But the "Muslim registry", and similar illiberal proposals, will not.
> The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy by Yanis Varoufakis [1]

Have you read "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?"? It's fantastic. Really helped shape my view before the EU Referendum here in the UK.
Yeah, I have no doubt that you can somehow show this information via the command line. The problem is that it's hidden in GitHub's Pull Request web UI, where all of our code review happens. Committing the conflicts and then resolving in the next commit surfaces the conflict resolutions to the PR where it can be reviewed like all of the other code we write.
nextdraft.com is a daily one curated by one guy. I find quite a few interesting stories from it. I wish there was an option for weekly\monthly.
> Idea that the homeless have nowhere to go is a stretch (really, ask them, don't take my word for it)

Everything I've read says that while shelters are available, they typically have very strict schedules and policies, and staying there opens you up to theft and assault.
Ask dang or scott to remove the block. Measures involving law and information are definitely in our domain.

It didn't just slip under HN's radar because of the temp ban on politics, my search results show Congress website, Wikipedia, Infowars and some forums. "Quiet" is understatement.

That there is jack shit from any media outlets hints that maybe a state order has gone out.

Otherwise I have to believe the major media has no interest in a law explicitly about #fakenews when they've been bitching about little else for the past two weeks.
>Browsers are stuck optimizing an outdated model

Well, you can always switch to Java applets, Flash or Silverlight. Oh, wait...

>parsing and compiling JavaScript on the critical path is madness.

You know what's madness? Pushing so much client-side code that it destroys your website's performance - despite giant leaps in capabilities of CSS, expressiveness of the language itself, faster CPUs, and tons of engine optimizations.

>The only benefit of that model is that a web developer can right click and view source to see some unreadable minified JavaScript code.

No, the main benefit of that model is that the Web consists of pages, rather than opaque executable blobs.
For those interested, C. S. Forester's Hornblower book(s) became a pretty good TV series[0] starring Battlestar Galactica's own Jamie Bamber!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornblower_(TV_series)
Software engineers are not professionals like doctors, lawyers, or chartered accountants. Real professionals have a degree of autonomy and their primary obligation is to the ethical standards of their profession, not to their employers.
Not all data comes in at a rate where streaming approaches are necessary. Sensors, click or IoT data perhaps, but for things like purchases, signups, or other "daily" activities batch processing is suitable and less complex to build.

I would wager that most data is not of a streaming nature, but as the ability to process live pipelines is relatively new, it gets more attention.
The ethical and competency attributes are still relevant. Particularly with respect to actual engineering (architecture of the overall solution) aspects of logic systems development and deployment.
That does not make statements the same. That's not what "same" means.

Simulation could be said to be probable. I recall reading a piece of math done on the subject and it seemed a lot more probable than the alternative. Contrary to the God idea, where the probability seems impossible to measure.

This seems like the wrong place to use "stupid", and terms like that mostly exist as a shaming tool rather than for truth exploration, so I tend to be suspicious of anyone using them, especially if they claim to be informed enough to know better than to use them.
I love your work with Inferno, congratulations.

Is there any place that the community usually hangs out like a chat room or a forum ?
Clearly you should not have run that script at all - it was a trick.
A blanket ban on software developers lying about being engineers would be a good start.
It would seem that the ISPs had a significant compliance cost as well.

"On 23 July 2012, despite the policy intent of making the issuance of copyright infringement notices under the legislation inexpensive, Telecom New Zealand revealed that under the new regime, it had cost them $534,416 to issue only 1,238 notices - or approximately $438 per notice, although this cost figure is not evidenced by any audited breakdown. The copyright holders are required to pay a fee of $25 to have the notices issued"[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_(Infringing_File_Sha...
If you write tests diligently, you can integrate CI with GitHub. Travis CI might be the most popular option.
News algorithms tending to classifies stories as relevant reading based on relatively crude analysis of word frequencies and headline clickthroughs (as opposed to, say, whether the story added additional information or an alternative perspective, both of which would typically be negatively weighted by such an algorithm) is much more an ML problem than a principal-agent problem, unless one believes that "maximising clicks" is literally all anyone applying this technique aims to do, and that's the only reason why ML systems tend to optimise for simple goals like click-maximization rather than complex ones like breadth and salience of relevant information
This is why some startups report being "contribution margin positive". That is to say: the unit economics of selling a widget are profitable when you consider the direct cost of sales (usually some combination of: marketing, components and materials, projected lifetime cost to serve if there's any subscription component), but excluding the significant central office costs.
Unfortunately your BBC access is likely to be cut off soon as I think the Beeb will be restricting iPlayer access to validated TV license holders only.
And not everyone wants to be or do any of those things. Ability and willingness are different, and homeless can be neither, either, or both. It is a complicated problem and I think pretty much everyone agrees that we aren't doing enough to help.
Until they successfully lobby governments to set up registers of known "offenders" so they can permanently blacklist you.
A lot of Elfman's stuff is pretty dark - example Batman Returns.
I know about the city because Delft University of Technology has some courses on edX.
> both major parties are moving towards the right

Not on social issues. Trump is a moderate on abortion and gay marriage. Bill Clinton passed DADT, DOMA, welfare work requirements, and his crime bill, and called for a crackdown on illegal immigration. He wouldn't be able to win the Democratic nomination nowadays.

> moving towards authoritarian positions

Unfortunately.
By that argument, a human constructed watch is just as purposeless as a random rock lying in a beach. And that argument seems quite a stretch. We're arguing over semantics at this point, but most people would agree that a human-constructed watch does have a specific purpose, more so than a random rock.
In general if you're making an alist in Lisp then you're going to use keys for which comparisons are cheap; you would use atoms instead of strings as the keys: '((name "Jane") ...) instead of '(("name" "Jane") ...).

Strings must be compared byte-by-byte, atoms are interned and compared by pointer identity.

In fact, in some Lisps (such as Common Lisp) you would probably use a special type of atom called a keyword. Keywords are just atoms with a colon at the front to indicate that they belong to the special KEYWORD package; code in two different packages can then compare them without any namespacing fuss. It would look like '((:name "Jane") ...).

Lisp just takes the logic out of the syntax and puts it into the semantics of the language.
It's a list made up of individuals' recommendations. This is like saying "The credibility of the United States took a plunge when your nutty aunt went on another one of her rants."
Probably because publishers like Elesvier lobby heavily against the government doing anything about it.
bitsavers.org are probably the best bet to have a chat with about this sort of stuff.
At the end of the video, the inception sound made me think of the first few seconds of Horsepower, by Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQqnL38d0GY
But the song came out in 2011, so they probably were inspired by the movie soundtrack.

Also, the "BRAAAM" makes me think of a warhorn, and it's probably why it's used in movies, BRAAAM means to freak us out, like a warhorn.
Not yet, but it's on my list. I've been watching a lot of Yanis' talks on youtube, very compelling perspectives.
If compute power is the only thing that matters, we do not live in a simulation. The best computer we can hope to build in the future will only have a minute fraction of the compute power of reality. Simulating reality on that computer will either be a tiny reality, or a much lower fidelity reality.

If you find yourself alive, likely you live where there is the most compute power, therefor, base reality.

Especially since we have zero indicators that any part of our reality is "fake".

Think about a character in the Sims, it would never be able to understand the mechanism by which its arm moves, if it understood its world completely. Because those movements are part of the simulator, not part of the simulated world. Arm movement is not an emergent effect.

Our reality however is based on atoms. Or quantum fields if you want to go deeper. And maybe some kind of cellular automata behind that.

If evolution had a purpose, we can detect an upwards line in complexity, and we must conclude it is unlikely we humans are the end station. Probably we will create self replicating intelligent machines that can colonize space. Emotional meat bags are not very suitable ...