skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't expecting compassionate intelligence via predicate calculus based expert systems. That's very 1980s, as is the whole paper. There's no mention of machine learning. There's a lot here about "common sense", which remains an unsolved problem in AI.

Thinking about common sense without getting into philosophical tangles is difficult. It's helpful to consider common sense as the ability to predict the consequences of actions.
If you can predict consequences, (probably probabilistically) you have the basis for planning. And you can avoid getting into trouble, which is what common sense is mostly for.

This is known technology. In modern control theory, you set up a predictor, have it watch the "plant", and self-tune until it can predict what the plant will do. This is called adaptive control, and it's a kind of machine learning, with similar math but different terminology. Once you have a good predictor, you can invert the predictor function and solve for the inputs which will yield the desired outputs. This works on systems which are reasonably continuous. Many industrial processes are controlled by such systems.

Prediction is a prerequisite for compassionate intelligence. It's not having internal emotional state that's crucial. It's having a predictive model of the other party's emotional state.

Of course, once you have a tuned model of somebody, you now know what buttons to push to make them do things, in either the "buy" or "vote" spaces. Whether something is compassionate is a design decision.
This example would benefit from a namespace/package named "Accounting". Then you could drop all of the "Accounting-" prefixes.
I've submitted this on HN before hoping receive guidance along similar lines but it never grew to become a discussion (ceiling of 3 points).

Reposting my comment from my previous submission, would really appreciate feedback on this post from fellow experienced programmers!

This guide does a good job answering the question: “what should I learn to learn computer science?”

Author gives more emphasis to subjects that he has observed self taught programmers to be self admittedly lacking in. The coursework outlined resembles that of a top cs program, without making it look as elaborate as a curriculum sheet.

What does HN think of the above? Also would anyone recommend alternative learning material that is more sustainable to follow than a dry static book?
This used to be the case on AP exams too, prior to 2011 according to Google. 0 points for a blank answer, but -0.25 for a wrong answer.
The way I've felt the last weeks, with constant nasal output, I'm pretty sure I'm doing the same :-( tmi...
i wonder what's their long term plan is.

as long as they stick to being rich and stay out of our lives, i guess they'll be ok.

if they actually manage to take over some major power or gain major political power to suppress us, well, that could/would end badly, unless they manage to convert the world. im really interested to learn more about their philosophy and their inner workings - sad they're so secretive - that only gives more weight to the suspicion that they're a malevolent organization, especially if what the news portrays is true.

sort of reminds me of the movie equilibrium.
What do you want? Stack suggestion?
React Native
the staleness of the situation naturally leads to a kind of Uber style dialectic resolution when technology unleashes the forces which just can't fit into the stale/outdated rules and that is definitely going to happen once cheap electric VTOL multicopters capable of lifting 1-2 persons appear (yes, my education was in USSR, so Uber is a typical case from Hegel/Marx in my worldview :)
CVV is not just more entropy, it's handled differently: https://randomoracle.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/cvv1-cvv2-cvv3...

The whole point is that you can't skim the CVV2 from the magnetic data and then use it to make purchase.
In b64, you're going to want to pick a short set of characters that can be encoded clearly and simply, i.e. ascii chars. And the shorter the better, i.e. even in 6 bits.

You take the first six bits of your binary data and convert to some ascii char mapping. And then the the next 6 bits and so on.

You can't do that with unicode, and it wouldn't make sense for any other encoding standard.

They are completely different things.
I did a bit of training in a Cessna 152 but one day we had to take a 172 it was like going from a Yugo to a Cadillac.

In the 152 I was literally rubbing shoulders with my instructor but in the 172 we had shoulder room. The 172 has four seats and feels huge compared to the 152, well really it is huge compared to the 152.
Sorry I probably should have emphasized that this wasn't a once off task but was very frequent.
HOW THE QUEEN USES HER HANDBAG TO SEND SECRET SIGNALS TO HER STAF
And the Thielert Centurion diesels were based on Mercedes Benz car diesels, by the way!
If taxi regulation is rent-seeking, then why can't Uber (and Lyft) profitably undercut the taxi industry, since they're not paying rents?
"solar systems" had me scratching my head there for a minute.

solar power grids. excellent!
"This feature isn't available to everyone yet."

How do they determine who to make this feature available to?

Only demographics, or some other parameter?
> Given that the universe is comprised of things and not symbolic representations

In my original comment I was referring to the theory that the universe is entirely mathematics. I'm not talking about modeling with mathematics, rather that the universe is mathematics. There are no things.
either payment or in general
Many good answers already, but I want to mention RISC-V Boom (superscalar, out-of-order), which seems to, in theory, beat ARM Cortex A9 quite nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPSlS2v1F0

The whole toolchain they are working with looks quite awesome tbh.

Commercially, the Freedom U500 platform seems to be really interesting:

https://dev.sifive.com/documentation/freedom-u500-platform-b...
Yes, but I'm pretty sure at least some of them are based on automotive diesel technology, such as those in the DA62

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_DA62

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro_Engine_E4
I worked on six aircraft by my mid-20s, if you count internships. I'm 31 now. Rich was more referring to sprawling military programs with legislative delays. You can change programs within a company, or change companies.

Also, you're kidding yourself if you think any a/c from the '50s is flying with all original parts. Like any machine, it can run indefinitely as long as you replace components. At my first company out of college, we were updating aircraft put into service in the '60s. We did new engineering to redesign parts, for example replacing an assembly of three primary components with a single CNC machined piece of aluminum. It just was not possible to fabricate the geometry with tools of that era. The new assy was simpler and stronger. Advances and upkeep like these are what keep old machines flying.
Shameless self-plug: I'm working on a similar tool for video files: http://nordlicht.github.io/
Baby steps towards measuring the efficiency gap
Which is (roughly) exactly how EMV chips work. Crypographic challenges that result in unique tokens for every transaction.
I see their recruiting efforts at least once a week in downtown la. They always have a few people sitting down with them.
Extracting beauty from the mundane: Wouter Rietberg (2015)
Dual plug heads, and dual distributor setups are available off the shelf for LSx engines in drag race applications. One wonders why they didn't do the conversion. Although new heads and twin dizzys would easily double the cost, that much reliable power in the aero world would still be a good deal for many.
this seems fun.

I wonder though if bringing Go or Rust bare metal onto the Pi would give you the smallest attack surface?

http://blog.thiago.me/raspberry-pi-bare-metal-programming-wi...
Transforming Numbers
Here's a tip: ask a lot of questions. It shows interest in the role, and keeps your interviewer from asking questions you might get wrong or simply are biased about regarding previous people they've worked with. Strategize. Your interview is only so long.
They don't help if you're low enough: https://youtu.be/CRXUZnsST5c
Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space
*tale
If you can figure out what is the problem... I had a similarly frustrating experience on why my simple blog was banned... probably around the same year as you. It's pretty rich that Google post claims that it is increasing transparency. Still sounds very opaque.

The URL they gave was the home page and they wouldn't provide any specific information. I was already banned. The only theories I had at the time was related to the very international traffic of my blog. As WordPress developer very active in the community I had a lot of international traffic and some of it was trying all types of strange hacks on my site. I used it as a bit of a honeypot. I couldn't find any specific traffic that made sense so. My other theory had me blaming CloudFlare, who at the time, and undocumented, would throw up ads if the traffic seemed suspicious. The only way I found out about that was thanks to an Eastern European coworker, who let me know.

Though that post makes it sounded like that blog might not have been banned for life like the emails from Google at the time implied.

I could have likely used my own network of Google friends to get more clues, but the ad revenue was a trickle and I really only had it on to test the related WordPress plugins and to experience the same interfaces and workflows as my customers. It wasn't worth anyone's time.
It's a pity, really:

* the avionics have improved immensely (solid state gyro instead of vacuum-pump driven mechanical gyro, for example, GPS, etc.)

* in tandem with that, cockpits have improved ("glass cockpit" with two or more huge screens instead of the traditional 6-pack of small instruments)

* there's been innovation and progress in materials (composite instead of aluminium)

But the engines are still the old dinosaurs from the 60s :-(

That's one reason many pilots are watching battery tech and electric engines with interest (so far, the specific energy of batteries is way too low, giving an hour of endurance if you're lucky).
5 GHz has plenty of non-overlapping channels (24?), so in this situation you can use multiple APs in different room corners set to low power.
uh, yes, the system is against me. why do you think they call it a legal defense?

have you ever been in litigation, or received the threat of litigation? it's 100% crystal-fucking-clear from the outset that, yes, the entire system is against you. every single thing that happens in the system drives this point home further. not only that, it is costing you obscene amounts of money at every step. at any point along the way, if you can't pay, you lose. too bad, so sad, pay up sucker.

people commenting on HN are not children, they are fully formed adults with careers, businesses, and life experience, and the judgement and opinions that go along with that. i know for a fact going into a divorce will be a huge battle, uphill, traumatic, extremely expensive, and probably psychologically damaging, so i'm going to reduce that possibility to ZERO through whatever means necessary.

going to court over business matters is bad enough. it'll be a cold day in hell before i go to court over flesh and blood.

some people avoid starting a business because they are afraid of going to court, or the costs, the hours, or risk of bankruptcy; i can't say i blame them at all because it's all true. and i'm certaintly not going to make up some feel-good woowoo malarky about them not believing the world is against you, because it very much is, and if you don't believe that deep down in your soul, you aren't going to survive long, and most people don't. i might not even survive it in the long run.
Childhood obesity, like all obesity, is most definitely about calories in vs calories out. However, it is also true that fructose (one half of sucrose), doesn't induce any of the body's satiety responses.

A second issue is salt, which induces thirst, which induced consumption of fluids. Solving that problem with water drops the osmolarity, which decreases the satiety signals by way of diluting the interstitium. Solving the thirst problem with beer, soda, milk, etc, maintains the osmolarity of the interstitium, but does so by way of increasing the blood glucose.

Overall, it's 90% eat less, 10% exercise more. But the exercise more is also critically important for increasing norepinephrine, which improves focus, willpower, concentration, whatever the amalgam of those words are that represents the effect of norepi.

Having seen really horrible outcomes in kids, please, please, give up this idea that calories in doesn't need to equal calories out. It does. Always.
John Ross Is More Than Just the NFL Combine's New Fastest Man
Primarily because it means that ZFS will never be an integral part of the GPLv2-licensed Linux kernel.
Just curious, why switch from Chai and Mocha to Jest?
My eyes would glaze over those self-documenting names were it not for your comment(!)
In UK and AU, contactless payments dominate, particularly for low value transactions. I suspect that's the case in Japan too.

China has a mishmash of system from in-app payments (a la WeChat) to QR-code based systems.
We went broke, for many different reasons.

I now work in pharmaceutical engineering R&D, breed thoroughbred horses and mess about with data science.
The illusory aspects are ideas that consciousness is "atomic", constantly present, persistent, flows continuously and we are fully in control of it.
Modern neurology proves otherwise.
I wouldn't be very optimistic. How do you plan on transpiling Scheme to Javascript?

The easiest way to transpile would be to write a Javascript interpreter for Scheme, but that would completely confuse the Javascript JIT compiler, since all it would see is one big hot loop with very branchy code inside it. That said, Pycket (which is mentioned in the paper) takes exactly this approach. They take advantage of PyPy's meta-JIT framework, which was designed exactly for this sort of thing.

The other way would be to try to transpile Scheme directly into Javascript. But now you face the problem that there is a big mismatch between the two languages. The datatypes aren't the same, Javascript doesn't have guaranteed tail recursion, and so on. Just writing the transpiler will be a lot of work and even if you succeed, the end result is not going to look like idiomatic Javascript, so there is a good chance that the Javascript JIT won't do a good job at optimizing it.
You might be looking for something like this - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/steps-3
I was hoping this would look something more like, given a scenario and a question about it, being able to clearly identify the pieces of information without which the question is unanswerable.

That said, time saving and BS reduction are also valuable goals!
You can say there is a reality it's just not objective and can't be for reasons I would be happy to expand on if necessary.
It's pedagogically wrong and extremely misleading.

When people start with introduction like this, they end up thinking they have learned more than they actually have.

I point this out because I was one of those mislead by several previous articles explaining Unicode encoding the same wrong way as you did. When I ran into trouble and asked help, everybody around me was misguided the same way. I didn't know I had to dig into manuals because everybody explained that this is how it is. Then I had to teach everyone else that we had all learned it wrong.

Many people deal only with ascii or other easy western alphabets and they can work years with Unicode before they hit into trouble.
Interestingly, interchange fees in Australia for credit cards are going to get capped to 0.8% later this year. This is forcing banks to re-evaluate their reward card offerings. AIUI, American Express isn't affected because they have direct relationships with each individual merchant.

The big 4 banks in Australia have historically offered an Amex card and a Visa/MasterCard linked to the same account (because Amex isn't accepted everywhere and often attracts surcharges). If ANZ's recent move is anything to go by, it looks like the banks won't be able to afford offering a linked Amex with their accounts.
Business speak in the upper echelons.
Unicode is in large part about being resilient in the face of partial corruption or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_slip.

So the answer probably lies in what the Unicode codepoint lexing algorithm must do to disregard "dependent" combining characters, if it hits a corrupted base character.
The memory bandwidth only increases by ~20% by docking it. Which is why Breath of the Wild actually performs worse when docked.
Javascript hasn't hit enterprise phase yet which is to reduce dependencies.
But so is traveling vast distances to experience something identical to what you can simulate ;)
Battery battery battery! So far, flight times don't exceed 20 minutes or so... :-/

But yes, can't wait for battery tech to improve. It'll be great both for multicopters, and for good old fixed wing with an electric engine (you'd achieve longer range and endurance than in multicopters for given crap battery tech).
Numbers need a reduction of reality to exist.

There is an infinite number between 0.1 and 0.00000000000000000000000001

The only reason we can grable with these things in mathematics is because we are conscious minds who create symbolic meaning.

There aren't any numbers "out there".

"Out there" there are no perspectives only everything at once.
Interesting proposal. I definitely think that implementing metacognitive facilities, as well as internal representations of the perceived emotional states of the actors around the AI, seem like good steps in the right direction. Predicate logic will never work, though.

One other aspect I found a bit odd:

> As an agent designer, it gives one confidence in choosing “insight meditation” as a philosophy of mind because the mental processes have been documented to create compassion in even the most hardened criminals (Ariel and Menahemi, 1997).

This strikes me as a bit of an absurd criteria for choosing what is, essentially, a software algorithm. This system is so fundamentally different from a human being, that I don't think any such parallels are warranted.
In reality even in your most confident answers couldn't you put 97% on the one you believe is correct and 1% on all others ensuring that you will not receive an ln(0).
Services Google killed off
Why would anyone ever put 0% then? I would just redefine "impossible" to be an arbitrary percentage that guarantees I don't nuke the question.

Quick question: is confidence taken in percent form (ln(90)) or decimal form (ln(0.9))?

Edit: I am aware of the implication of having percent values, guys/gals. But if it's in decimal form, a 5% confidence level will end up losing you the current question AND three others.
The way I see it, this is describing the system exactly as much as it needs to make its case that 'banking system is bad and expensive, use our stuff'. Covering security, or the lower fees in Europe (thanks mostly to the security features), goes against the narrative.

An interesting tidbit: An extra reason US fees are so high are premium credit cards choke full of rewards: Not every card has the same fees, and the highest fees come from cards that are handing you extra rewards, that are paid pretty much directly by the merchant. It's just that banks know that the better the rewards the more people will use the credit card, and the easier it is to take the business away from cheaper cards, as nobody charges you more at the register for using a Chase Sapphire Preferred instead of a debit card.

Security features also make US cards extra expensive, as the best you have is Chip and signature, and that doesn't cover online. If we demanded 2FA in every transaction, including online, fraud would go very close to zero, and with it, fees.

With more modest rewards and better security, interchange fees could shrink by over a percentage point: Banks just don't do this because there's little to no competitive pressure.
Yes, your explanation is much better than mine.
With the prices at $2, which becomes $4 if I don't remember to return it on time... I often opt to pay the $5 to rent using a digital platform. Only time I pick up from Redbox is if I am at the store anyway.
I think you perhaps should read my post again, I made no claim about you making that argument.
It actually depends on how they take the confidence value. If it's percentage, I agree with you. But if it's in numerical form - i.e., 0.01 - you'd still lose that question and a few others.
I prefer shell aliases for that because you can make them much shorter like "gb" for "git branch".
It would be purely speculative. I'm not sure what that has to do with this specific discussion.
> Chip cards replaced swiping over a decade ago

No so for the US, they're still relatively new having been introduced in the last 5 years
Is there an actual reason for shortening everything to "phx"? I would guess the same rules as naming variables would apply here.
The transactions on the network (i.e. between the banks and the association) typically use the ISO 8583 protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583

The actual implementation (for e.g. between the hardware terminal and their gateway) is usually using some custom API/protocol - for e.g. Stripe/Braintree have their own APIs as do other older players like like PTI (https://www.chasepaymentech.com/developercenter/index.html?W...).
“The fool on the hill sees the sun going down, and the eyes in his head sees the world spinning ’round.”

– Beatles, The Fool on the Hill (1967)
GuessWhat? a dialogue with images
Google dominates this space and needs to boost their bottom line.

Account suspensions, especially soon before the payouts are due [1] helps.

Valid or invalid traffic is irrelevant and is not a cause, it's an excuse.

That's why there are no appeals and no answers on specific questions.

Expensive lessons for some to bet their business on someone else's platform.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7672910
Do you listen to all episodes of the listed podcast? Or is there a few ypu listen regularly and the rest not so frequent. I find it hard to keep up with more than 7-8 shows with frequent posts.

These are the ones ive stuck with
* econtalk
* ezra klein show
* conversations with tylor
* ft alphachat
* nature podcast
* hbr ideacast
* the daily

The ones i dropped out
* waking up with same harris
* recode decode
* a16z (not coz of quality but the presentation style keeps pissing me off)
* startup school radio (again i loved the show but for some reason too much of aron schwatz was a downer, anyway the show is dead for now)
You might also like my presentation on the history of Unicode, explaining where it (and other codes like it) came from.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history
"We recommend learning how to segment your traffic to help you best understand, monitor, and evaluate the traffic to your site. This may also help you identify sources of invalid traffic."

May, might, could... Google is happy to continue to encourage a whole industry of SEO and Adsense snake oil salesmen.
This doesn't work in the US. Where I live, for a credit card chipcard, the cashier has to finish, then there's a 2-way authentication with the server whereby the card has to stay in the reader. This is why the card has to stay out until the very end.
Used sr20 is ~100k$. Sr22 is ~140k$