skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of 3 modern ways to derive the Born rule for WMI and all have various reasonable (yet not airtight) assumptions.

In physics you can never really prove anything, but there is no serious technical issues here. Actually probability (the Born rule) is much better defined in WMI then in any other interpretation or even classically.

A related beautiful thing about WMI is that is creates genuine subjective probability inside a deterministic system (the wave function). One thing QM shows us is that we experience real random events, which cannot just come from lack of knowledge. Yet, if you are a computer expert you should know that it's impossible to create real randomness without an outside source. And the universe has no outside sources at all, by definition.

Also, it's clear that the basis of Weinberg's objection to WMI is philosophical if you don't selectively quote him so much. If he was concerned about deriving the Born rule we would talk about the specific assumptions he disagrees with.
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I found this site a few months ago and it has been so great. I wear boat shoes everyday and if you've ever worn boat shoes, you know they don't like to stay tied. Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot keeps my shoes tied for weeks at a time (at a minimum).
I'm very surprised this maneuver wasn't assessed in any of the answers. It actually does look like they're practicing a touch and go maneuver. The tires aren't producing any smoke and the flaps are positioned at a T20 so its both a landing and takeoff configuration. This is also a very late position for a 747 to be landing on an airstrip of this size. All evidence, for me at least, suggests a touch and go.

The fact that its airforce one aswell and they'd likely be practicing different techniques and training pilots.

Taking the lack of air distortion from the behind the engines, it could be because the photo is extremely grained/blurry to begin with and the flaps foiling the air to the ground rather than directly behind the engine.

My only other guess is they were practicing late landings.
Woman dies of superbug no antibiotic could treat
Peter Diamandis Thinks We're Evolving Toward “Meta-Intelligence”
I really thought I was crazy when I thought that a 99% bounce rate is unreal, even for my highly specialised product sites which cater to a very niche audience. But I ultimately came to a similar conclusion; no matter what ads I come up with, it's money down the drain, and I've never had a single conversion that came through the door that way. I've spent untold thousands on paid ads. I learned a great deal about which keywords to target, and mimicked the reputedly successful approaches of my competitors. Nada. Would have been better off shoveling cash into an open pit.

The only customers I've gained through web marketing have been organic, coming through bona fide referrals on other sites. The "hit rate" on that has been pretty good, suggesting that the blame can't lie entirely with my crappy sites...
[pdf] 6502 Hacks   (from DrDobbs 1987)
those puzzled me too
FYI, I am Ron Garret.

It's true that I don't talk about the Born rule or multiple worlds in the paper, but I do talk about multiple worlds in the video (at the end, during the Q&A) and in the blog posts I linked to above.

As for the Born rule, what kind of an explanation are you hoping for? Some things can't be explained beyond, "That's just how it is." For example, why do the fundamental physical constants have the values that they have?

Maybe this will help:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406241

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
>"It puts a drag of everyone if they have to wade through thousands of junk papers while doing research."

If something that sounds interesting was published in Nature/Science around 2000, I will usually just skip it. I already know the methods section will be crap and I will be unable to figure out what process generated the data (at least in the case of biomed). When I needed to dig through that stuff and try to make sense of what was going on in detail, that was an awful nightmare. And that was an editorial policy... now they at least let authors put the required info into supplements.

I think that was the era of "peak peer review", the idea has been losing clout ever since (mostly due to the internet).
I am mad at the hype leveled at Bitcoin because ordinary people lose so much money with it. Not just because of the inherently fraudulent nature of Bitcoin but because you put something that can be very easily exchanged into money on insecure computers. Every computer is insecure, mind you but people don't really know (or care!) what they are in for until they are hit.
Not to be flip at all but those are pretty basic requirements and anyone who is 'senior' could do all that, just keep learning, stagnate and die! A lot of times though companies throw around buzz words without knowing what they're actually asking for.
Also:

Alt-l converts next word to lowercase

Alt-u converts next work to uppercase
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If you want to take ISE to the next level, check out ISESteroids. After being spoiled by Visual Studio, it's nice to have powerful debugging capabilities.
Unsubstantive?

All I said was that I had trouble understanding heavily accented English. I never said I don't like the accent. It's irrelevant if I like it or not. It's that I can't understand. Being able to understand is IMO a basic requirement for effective telephone support.

I have no problem with the people themselves. I actually don't care what their nationality is or where they are physically located. But they need to be able to do their job. The system is broken if I can't understand the person who is trying to support me over the phone.

The only reason I'm writing this is in case some future CEO is reading these comments, hopefully they won't be blinded by the cost savings and fall down the same trap as so many companies who roll out such ineffective and irritating phone "support".
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Does anyone have a serial / parallel / USB port driven daisywheel or ball printer they'd part with?

Looking for most any kind of 'impact' printer that could be driven from MacOS.
Banks don't get to decide what people will pay, people get to decide what people pay. People make this decision in terms of real cost, not in terms of USD (since real cost determines their access to USD). People are not making that decision because the banks are putting a gun to people's heads and forcing them to pay more.

This is a separate point from real estate costs increasing historically -- that is caused by supply and demand. People are (as your graph nicely shows) choosing not to move as more people enter a given area, driving up the cost of real estate. This is to say that their demand is inelastic.

Unless you are suggesting banking as an industry is engaged in trust like behavior, they're not able to set the terms of rates in a way that will change their risk-free profit from a given individual at a given market price. If the price rises due to a supply and demand imbalance, they may be able to charge more to offset the increased risk of the purchase they are financing.
Jesus. Which credit card processor? That stinks of bad design.
Philosophical discussion of ethics often seems to assume that we can take up some point outside it, and erect or discover a set of ideas that will build it up from nothing, and persuade all who are unethical.

Actually almost all of us are always already operating within an elaborate set of ethical beliefs, and there is no way we can escape believing them. What we instead do is try to improve them. It is somewhat like our perception of the physical world, from birth we perceive and believe in it, and through thought and experiences we expand and correct our cognition of it.

Ethics, though, has an exception in that there are some people, sociopaths, who lack this aspect of human experience. Philosophers often think they can construct a set of arguments that will persuade sociopaths to become moral people, but this is not possible.
My background in game theory is from:

(1) careful study, teaching, and applying
the detailed mathematics of linear
programming and, in particular, its
approach to proving the basic von Neumann
saddle point theorem of game theory,

(2) applications of game theory to US
strategic systems analysis, e.g., the
Blue side positioning submarines and
targeting multi-warhead nuclear missiles
and the Red side allocating submarine
search resources so that if Red shoots
first Blue gets maximum expected target
value destroyed,

(4) study of game theory from

Guillermo Owen, Game Theory, W. B.
Saunders.

(5) study of game theory, including Nash's
result with a nice proof by Lemke and
Sion's result, in

T. Parthasarathy and T. E. S. Raghavan,
Some Topics in Two-Person Games, ISBN
0-444-00059-3, American Elsevier.

With this background, I read the OP and
found no clear connections with anything
in game theory.
How make
Chomsky Foucault Debate [video] (1971)
I feel like the eating advice is rather cruel. You're basically starving them until they eat what you tell them to.

I am frequently given this same advice by relatives for my picky eaters.
I see these posts all the time of DIY Adwords/FB and then a claim it doesn't work. This would be like me, a non-carpenter, trying to build a house, seeing how bad it looks and then claiming building materials suck.

There is reason companies spend ~$70 billion on Adwords annually. So because Adwords/FB didn't work for you doesn't mean their traffic is 90% useless. And dont get me wrong, I completely acknowledge there is junk traffic on the networks, but filtering this to a minimum is part of getting advertising right. So to get 90% useless traffic, it means you set up campaigns without proper targeting or content, not Adwords/FB is 90% useless.
I am absolutely not religiously convinced that QIT is the only true explanation. In fact, I explicitly say at the end of my talk that it is not, that multiple-worlds is equally valid, and which you choose is a matter of personal preference. But if want to argue that no solution exists (and this is Weinberg's claim) then you have to consider all of the solutions on the table, and Weinberg does not. He deliberately ignores the fundamental (and IMHO ultimately clarifying) fact that entanglement and measurement are intimately related (and are in fact the same physical phenomenon). It is entirely unsurprising that anyone who ignores this fact ends up believing that there is a big mystery. But in fact there is no big mystery. There are only people who are mystified because they are ignoring (or ignorant of) this crucial fact.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I think we're hitting this point of objects as little computers with microservices.
How many animals can one find in a random image?
I see your point. In this specific circumstance it would probably not be an issue.

As one could say that 4K video and network speed issues don't go hand in hand.
I've yet to find the magic trick that makes kids do chores especially three year olds! I'm not sure how they solved this
SQL injections are in there, and server injections as well.

For example (I trust HN is suitably hardened :-) :

/dev/null; touch /tmp/blns.fail ; echo
1;DROP TABLE users

Edit: PS: "Feel free to send a pull request to add more strings, or additional sections."
Actually, pentadactyl user willsALMANJ maintains signed pentadactyl releases that you can use with normal FF:

https://github.com/willsALMANJ/pentadactyl-signed/releases
OK. Guess thats how it is. Thank you all.
a painted masterpiece on a bikeshed.
A better headline would be "Some journals refuse to meet conditions for publishing Gates-funded research, which is their own stupid fault",
Another way to perform similar operations: Firefox's bookmarks support very similar keywords (or maybe the same ones). For example, to use a bookmark keyword to HN:

1) Create a bookmark to Hacker News
2) In the bookmark's properties, in the keyword field,
type: h
3) In Firefox's main UI, type ALT+D to move focus to
the URL field, then type: h

To search Github (I'm assuming the URL in the parent is correct):

1) Create a new bookmark
2) In the address field, type:
https://github.com/search?q=%s
(in case it's not obvious, you can use the
%s variable in any URL)
3) In the keyword field, type: g

Then you want to search Github:

4) In Firefox's main UI, type ALT+D to move focus to
the URL field
5) In the URL field, type: g foobar
You'll soon see a Github search for foobar
Based on my recent experience of visiting Europe - yes, it is. I stayed mostly in France, was there during the Brexit vote, and everyone I spoke to was pretty keen on exiting the EU, voting right-wing, and seeing it all crumble. They also have several separatist movements, especially in Brittany, which seems to be more anti-EU than anti-French...
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Good list. I'd add two other pros:
- unisex frame
- upright riding position
Why do you choose not to install OpenSSH over chocolatey?

I'm looking for a clean way to install OpenSSH on Windows.
I wonder if there is any truth to the rumor that Elsevier is planning on bringing a lawsuit against the Gates Foundation on its OA policy.
We, as users, have been oversaturated and desensitized. There is so much crap shoved in our faces, that we've learned over the years to ignore all ads.

Speaking for myself, I have an almost visceral negative reaction with ads. I would (and do) pay dumb amounts of money for a service if that means I'm not served ads.
AFAIUI from a recent talk by Alan Kay his original intention was that communication would be async (just as it sort-of is in real life)[1]. So it would basically be actors. Which sounds nice until you realize that this model means that everything needs some sort of flow control (or unbounded queues) to even be semi-reliable.

Don't get me wrong... it's a good model for semi-independent computing units (because sometimes cables really do get severed randomly), but it's definitely not good for simple procedure calls (which is what OOP methods really are in practice).

(I have exactly the same objection to the actor model as a foundational unit of computing. Theoretically, it's fine, but in practice it doesn't really work if it's all you can do. Similar to "pure" lambda calculus.)

[1] I must say I was really surprised by this, but then I haven't programmed any Smalltalk. Maybe it makes sense there. Or maybe he intended OOP at a higher level than just method calls (as in Smalltalk).
One of the APIs is DXVA/MF on Windows but the underlying hardware is still NVDEC (and you can use the NVDEC API directly if you so choose). It and NVENC are specialised hardware modules.
Not new, but "Hacking - The Art of Exploitation".
It's not free. The cost is reallocation every time something changes, which in many cases is all the time. Not all the world's a web page.
It could allow us to represent data on the machine in a way that better matches the shape of the actual problem. So that data can be clustered together physically in two or three dimensions and can be processed locally. The current approach makes all data linear which is not a good fit for some problems.
I think because pentadactyl devs don't have any time to spend on it anymore. We (the community) tried to engage them in conversation on Github and through email for months before mandatory signing started, and they never responded.

FWIW, I use willsALMANJ's releases with no problems, he was/is quite active on the pentadactyl issue tracker.
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No.

Pro EU sentiment increased markedly in pretty much all of Europe post-Brexit[1], and hopefully national politicians will stop playing the silly "do bad/unpopular things and then blame them on the EU"-game.

This game was thought to be without cost, now it is clear that it is not, and the ones who played it most extensively are paying the biggest price.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/brexit-causes-...
I think the argument for using physics models for constraints in a DL system was a more clear argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MdSE-N0bxs
Neat, in need of a wiki for a project. Will check this one out.

As a sidenote, based on the name I originally thought this was an extension or a nephew product to mattermost[1].

[1]: https://about.mattermost.com/
Definitely recommend the Manning book "PowerShell in Action" by Bruce Payette. The second edition is on Amazon but looks like a third edition is coming out in the Spring and you can pick up the EAP.

https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-t...
If that were the case, here what I propose. That developers audit their code once a year to make sure it's fair.

My main point is the CPM versus CPC audience-mix.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13402726
It's not automation around BLNS, but AFL has a bunch of sample dictionaries in the same vein:

https://github.com/mirrorer/afl/tree/master/dictionaries

Might be interesting to make an AFL dictionary with BLNS strings, or mine the AFL dictionaries to improve BLNS... :)
I was totally entusiastic when you mentioned this so I went to read the docs. While it does seem way "shellier" then pure python I don't think its comparable to Powershell.

One of the main benefits of posh is that it provides standards on arguments so that discoverability is easy. Along with that you get automatic tab completition for everything, module autoloading and nice stuff such as proxy commands, JEA and other great stuff not avaialble in alternatives. The other one is that nowdays many tools expose automation via powershell modules - sql server, visual svn, chocoalatey, vmware, etc. just to name few - so all that power seems wasted with xonsh on Windows. Not to mention wmi, COM and other nastier stuff becomes way more problematic then it needs to be. Good luck driving Excel for example.

There was similar attempt with Ruby (https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush) - but it failed because you do really need a special language for shell. Its pitty Xiki (http://xiki.org/) didn't become mainstream talking about Ruby.

Whitespace semantics also look like troublesome in the shell context and I guess in some more serious usage ambigious stuff like ls -l may become problematic and hard to detect source of bugs.

On the other hand, it rewards with better Python knowledge which is always good.
The turbo's haven't been the proximal cause of any failures that we know of, to me that's a big difference.
Golly, a cross-platform application for exploring Conway's Game of Life
In my limited experience I feel my intuition is correct that you could make something that looks and mostly acts like erlang's concurrency stuffs in python. But it's not my main language by a long shot so I could well be wrong.
True, if you did this, you'd want to either match the (empirical) distribution, or, as I believe you are suggesting, just pretend the (non-existing) button was pressed shortly after the user opens the app next time.
What!!!

1) You can allocate credit how you like, but there's a dominant strategy for that too.

2)Ok for the UK case see

http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/klemperer/biggestpaper.pdf

And look them up.

Interestingly your position makes me wonder if you are actually an exec working in a senior finance position in a major telco?
There are a few ways to derive the Born rule within WMI. None are perfect but their assumptions are fairly reasonable and most importantly the handling of probability is better defined than in classical mechanics or Copenhagen, so it's not a reason to discount the theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#Pro...
Is your product specialized to technical users? I've noticed that businesses with more technical clients have harder time getting customers via ads, because most technical users don't click on ads
> But what I want is to bombard them with information so that when they are ready to buy sneakers, they think positively of the sneakers I am selling.

This is horrifying. It's so weird to me that people think this is normal, ethical behavior that it's okay to admit to.
Having actually used UWP SDK for C++ fairly recently, I was left with the impression that it's a complete non-starter for most folks. It assumes too much skill on the part of the developer (i.e. "everything is asynchronous"), it uses a significantly extended superset of C++, and it inexplicably comes with _no_ libraries for such basic things as image processing, signal processing, linear algebra, etc -- stuff that Apple knocks out of the park. It's just basically WPF and very little else. Enough perhaps to write business apps, but way inadequate for anything outside this narrow niche. And because everything is async, and UI uses opaque data binding, the debugging experience tends to be a bit of a nightmare. I'm not sure what Microsoft was thinking, but Apple's approach to async (concurrent and serial queues in GCD) is an order of magnitude easier to understand, use, and debug, and OS X and iOS SDKs come with a ton more high quality features.
This is what the author wrote in the very beginning. "I have always had a very prosperous job and enough money to give my kids almost anything". Where do I missed the claim it translates to everyone?
There is no one right way to run a family. What works for one won't work for another.

I feel like, if you can somehow quantify success on a bell-curve, the values in this article aim to land kids in the middle two quadrants. You won't end up with kids in the bottom quadrant... but you also won't end up with individuals capable of soaring to great heights either. Just overall solid, middling, performers. There just would be no Apple, Microsoft, Dell, or any of the others... because people would have been conditioned not to take risks.

Anyway Plato wrote already wrote a response to this and it was in all the Philosophy 101 classes.

* Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" || http://historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html
THe author incorrectly assumes certain things about philosophy to argue for his position, which, as pointed out by others, is actually no improvement over utilitarianism etc.

When he talks that philosophy never thought they are over intellectualizing ethics or making it too distant from the practical application, I have to assume he never heard of Strawson's critique or of phenomonology of ethics which both seem to tackle it.
The Austin services are not comparable when it comes to wait times. I've found it very hard to get a Ride or Fasten on several occasions even in high density areas, and you can't really count on being able to get a Ride at all times in all parts of the city. I'm definitely eagerly awaiting the return of Uber/Lyft.
Yea, there's something liberating about having a bike that looks so terrible, even despirate thiefs, won't take it.

"Desperate thiefs"? In my world, they haven't been desperate--just stole out of habit. Behavioral?

The times in my life where I had a new expensive bike, I didn't put many miles on it. For no real reason?

The points where I just had a beater bike, I put miles on it weekly? Not related to income? Maybe chilhood memories? I had the worst bike as a kid, although I thought it was special. It was an old English bike, with metal brake calipers, and a metal bar that run from the handlebars to the tire.
edit: -deleted- this thread has been moved from the front-page, back 5 pages. There is no point making (nor leaving) good arguments in dead threads that no one can see nor take part in.
Wow, glad to find this! I'd somehow come across the Ian Knot about 20 years ago (is that possible?!) and have been tying my shoes (and anything requiring the same knot) that way since.
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No. Anyone with a career in a large org.
This is a fair concern. Added a comment to the disclaimer: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/com...
You think wages wouldn't go down to compensate? Especially minimum wage jobs?