skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humour me, I'm a bit slow. It sounds like he's using the word "illusion" to mean "illusion", as in something which seems real but is fake. Does this not still entail a Cartesian theater and a consciousness watching it to be fooled by the illusion ?
How expensive would it be to manufacture a feature phone that is compatible with 2G, 3G and 4G LTE with VoLTE support? I think there is a good market for such a product.
Hiding the actual control part on the right is pretty bad, yes.

Other than that, early returns can simplify flow a lot - otherwise you may have to do massive nesting ifs or many flags. Or even goto or exceptions.
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What happens if you get to the end and you want to dispute the cost and you've already swiped your card? Is it too late?
The reason for this is solidly rooted in evolution. Having an internal model of your surroundings allows you to better interact with your surroundings. This is an evolutionary advantage. At some point, this expands to a model of yourself.

I can see 2 ways for this model to come about. The first is directly, where being able to anticipate your own reactions is advantageous. The second is socially. That is, you need to model others to better anticipate their reactions. When those others are similar enough to yourself, those same modeling procedures also start working on yourself.

This kind of modeling can get started by very simple correlations. Say you accidentally get some photo-sensitive cells. Over time, if their output starts affecting what direction you move (say away from the cells when less light falls on them) and all of a sudden you are capable of fleeing from predators.
Yeah, it's not just solitary confinement. It's also, in some prisons, the complete lack of intellectual stimulation. You're locked in a box with nothing at all to occupy your mind - no books, television, radio, computer, newspaper, human interaction... nothing. There isn't even anything to write with or on.

Prisoners start smearing shit on the walls just to relieve the monotony.
Ah right, yes.
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Hahah, that's pretty funny. Not far off from what we do with Santa Claus though, right?
I am struggling to know who this is for. I can't imagine my Ferrari owning boss buying one of these to go with the Cayenne his wife drives and I can't imagine her giving up her rose gold Macbook Air for one of these things. My brother in law, forced to sell the 912 by my sister actually does actually consider buying anything Porsche that is non-car, again I can't see him getting this ultimate laptop even with his favourite logo on it.

Yet, if you are into classic cars or brand new Porsche cars then anything less than £5K is not a lot of money, compared to the money pit that a deluxe car is this laptop is a steal.

Where I think they went wrong was in making a product that was just the logo slapped on. If this was the de-facto laptop for doing all your timings and engine performance things in the pitlane then it would have genuine utility. Not everyone is flying around Silverstone every weekend but when that happens it is nice to have all the gear. The flimsiest of Porsche 'app' would have been all it needed perhaps with some sensible ruggedizing to make the laptop something that would sit well in the workshop environment or 'mounted to the rollcage or dashboard'. As well as the ruggedizing a good selection of sensors borrowed from a mobile phone would help too, maybe with a camera pointing outward from the screen too for telemetry and video. The SDK could be published too.

With a professional rather than a designer product I could see the Porsche laptop winning over buyers like my friends that cherish the cars.
Been using this for years to recognise chords with the help of the Chordino extension. Great software, but the controls are a bit cumbersome (scrolling, zooming etc). Further, when you do audio editing, you rarely work at 0dB, so i've had many a shock tabbing into Sonic Visualiser and pressing play.
I hope this is the start of something better. There's been a distinct lack of punishment for allowing and even hiding breaches across the industry that I've seen.
What's most impressive about Nash is that it is a one man show. I don't thing any of the guile devs knew about Nash when Atshro stood up and introduced it at scheme workshop 2016.

There was talk about merging it, but I dont know what happened with that. We moved to chez at work, so we sort of lost interest.
No, it would be profitable for them regardless. You might live in some science fiction world where energy and automation were so abundant that manufacturing sand from something other material and shipping it in made economic sense.

cost = energy-intensive manufacturing + lots of shipping

It wouldn't prevent this crime because it's never going to be as cheap as going to the river and filling up a truck.

cost = a short drive + a few bribes

Technology is absolutely not the solution to everything (although sometimes it helps a lot).
Yikes. I got a mental wire-crossing, and misattributed the origin of APL\11. It was Ken Thompson who wrote the version I was thinking of. Here is a link to the early history of the project:

http://sigapl.org/Archives/waterloo_archive/apl/apl-11/QL_Si...

A recent version that has gone through many iterations can be found at

https://github.com/PlanetAPL/openAPL

If you google "Ken Thompson APL\11" you will find several links, including ancient archived versions of the code.
What software tools do people use (OS X, Linux, Windows) to test out and debug wifi connections?
Mayer/Mair/Meier/Mayr is a short and common family name.
In the US swiping is fairly common. I might only use my chip once or twice a week. The gas stations all by me, my grocery store, and most of the restaurants near me all still have swipe readers. They are all fairly large chains so this isn't some local one off.
In my experience most stores are pretty good at this point about having some sort of sign or label if their chip reader isn't working. But I'm sure it's not always the case and there was certainly a lot of confusion a year or so ago when they were first phased in.
Thanks. Between that and the non-binding nature of the vote (now added to the title above), this is just high-end trolling. I wish we could mature enough as a community not to act like decapitated chickens in response to these.

Another classic article pattern is when someone 'introduces a bill' (most proposed bills, of course, go nowhere).
Wow, that took me back. I don't remember seeing anyone swiping their card in recent years, even chipcards are becoming more and more uncommon - contact-less payment leads the way now.
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Interesting question, is 2G dead because people don't want 2G or is 2G dead because phone companies don't want to support it? Or something else.
I had the same issue with a $300 netgear prosafe AP. When certain 802.11ac clients would connect (mostly cell phones), it would randomly get periods of of complete grid lock in the wlan. All clients would have good signal strength but they had no data throughput. Disconnecting and reconnecting the offending client would restore the wlan throughput.

The best I could see from packet sniffing was that these certain mobile clients would go into some kind of sleep mode, and when/if packets were transmitted to them, they would not respond with the proper ack (sometimes), the AP would then hang the whole wlan waiting for the ack (I guess). I tried several different netgear prosafe access points (all of them 802.11n). The only thing that worked was getting rid of my netgear hardware and replacing them with a Mikrotik wAP ac.
Cool, thanks for posting this. Had no idea this was happening in my home town!
The largest penalties the IRS levies are for failure to file which is 25% but there is absolutely no reason to incur this as you can always file for an extension, it can be done online. Penalties are generally you pay the difference and interest on that difference. The IRS doesn't make up arbitrary fines for people. The penalties are well documented and published.

Yes the tax code is absurdly complex but the overwhelming majority of people in the US have no trouble with the IRS. The majority of people file a 1040[1] and get a small refund every year.

Further the IRS is more than willing to work with people to resolve issues and will create an installment plan or payment schedule that will work for people's finances even if it takes years. There is no "pay this on the spot" or we will throw you in jail. That simply doesn't exist. Tax evasion on the other hand is something entirely different as that constitutes criminality in the eyes of the IRS.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/12rswinbulreturnfilings.pdf
This.

There was a study I'm struggling to find at the moment, that I saw via HN, that claimed childhood obesity is more dependent on what people eat than when they eat it or how much.
Our teen could hold her iPhone under the dinner table and 2-thumb touch-type texts while keeping eye contact with us, hoping we wouldn't notice. When caught, she demoed that she could be almost 100% accurate even with the phone completely out of her sight. Dead-reckoning with no feedback! Necessity is the mother of invention, I suppose.
anyone got a collection of more posts like this?
> One problem in teaching economics--the course is on the application of economics to law, for law students--is that it is possible to think you understand something when you don't, when you are substituting some vague things you think you know already for much more precise and quite different things you are supposed to learn.

Isn't this generally the problem with economics writ large? It's possible to think you understand something when you don't, when you are substituting some vague math you can do / can measure for the more detailed and difficult (and possibly intractable) phenomenology that is reality?
>There is still a huge population which wants basic phones as a backup atleast.

I don't just want a basic phone as a backup. I want real sim card portability/functionality. I want to have a smart-phone when I need it, and I want a lightweight, rugged, long battery endurance phone I can pop the sim card into for activities where I'm willing to compromise features for durability (or speed/ease of use).

> The senior citizens even though have migrated to smartphones stil are in the dire need of a durable small phone.

I still can't believe that nobody has done this. I attribute it to my cynicism about dealing with telecom middlemen (data providers).
Note that for multiple choice exams you can go further and have people assign a probability distribution over the answers, rather than just picking an answer. Then you can use a proper scoring rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule#Proper_scoring_ru...
Don't worry. Our planet will be fucked way before we'll wander anywhere significant. We probably won't even try :)
This is NOT a consequence of chip card. In India, everything is chip and pin. Our ATM machines just need you to put the card in , chip side facing up and then take it out 2 seconds later (it glows green). Then you can put in your PIN number and move forward.
We used to do a mind-reading trick like this: the magician takes somebody out of the room and "attunes" them - ie tells them the rules, which are .. if the magician asks if the object is something that has a specific attribute, such as being a certain colour, then its not that thing but is the next thing that the magician will ask about. then the magician comes back to the room, and the people there decide on an object. Beckon the mind reader back in and the magician points to a series of objects and the mind reader gets the correct one, every time
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I came up with this analogy to think about prior and new knowledge: Aliens.

If aliens exist, they will have existed a priori, or before thought or knowledge. Granted, they wouldn't have existed a priori from their standpoint, but the logical conclusion, once you've found some aliens, is that there are always more aliens.

i.e. If life is a "thing" in the universe, it is a "thing" because of a priori knowledge.

If aliens don't exist, then that fact would also be a priori, given you could do an exhaustive search for aliens in the universe. As you probably can't do an exhaustive search because of size/energy constraints, you can look at the claim "there are no aliens" as one which is unprovable, and thus irrational.

i.e. If we never find aliens in the universe, it is a "thing" that can not be a priori (or a posteriori for that matter).

This "alternate fact" itself may be a priori, inasmuch as the state of being of some things may not be proved while being limited to observations (and perhaps perception) within the search scope.

Edited for logic errors. Also, the last statement here takes a stab at why the current administration's use of alternate facts can be considered a "tactic" in which the scope of observation and perception of others is greatly limited.
I imagine they'll void or otherwise adjust the transaction. I've never had an issue. Frankly I'm more likely to notice something while I'm leaving the store if something didn't seem quite right and I start looking over the receipt.
Goodness gracious. What was the range of your network? Trying that on a consumer AP would instantly lose the signal, I'd imagine
For the price, I think the best set up is getting what ever ethernet only router that has your needed feature set (or just use a box with linux/shorewall), and then for wifi, running cat5 with POE to some Mikrotik wAP access points.
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You're equating the power of speech and communication with a tie being too long. Speech can, and does, incite action, not always the intended action either.
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The phone companies don't want to support it, or more specifically, they want to reuse the 2G spectrum to build out their LTE network.
A particular bill does not change hands very frequently between ending up at a bank.

Right. At one time the US Fed estimated that the average number of transactions for cash outside a bank was two. That's an old number, measured years ago to plan bill replacement. (One of the Federal Reserve's functions is paper bill replacement. Banks pull worn bills and send them to the Fed, which tallies them, shreds them, and replaces them with new bills from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Dollar bills last about 18-22 months.)
Many people don't care about software, they just want to make phone calls, send SMSs and take an ocasional picture.
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I never really considered that they would simply make a clone of a Nokia 3310 with an updated display. Why no modern radio? I think people would buy this if it weren't crippled by obsolete hardware.
The routine is not just for comfort. A person with no kids would look at my family's Google calendar and puke.
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In an economics class on Games and Strategies, the professor gave us a choice for one question: you can accept an 80% score for this question, or you can go to the front of the room and pick up the prompt.

Once you have decided to do so you will get whatever score you deserve — there's no turning back and declining to answer the question after seeing it.

I believe we were given the topic of the question in the instructions. IIRC, the class split about 50/50.
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I recall there was another professor at UofT during my time there that used a scheme of "Everyone starts with 30% on each question, every relevant and correct statement you write earns you marks, every irrelevant or incorrect statement loses you marks."
There are huge amounts of misconduct on his part. Just bc an article doesn't specify it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There are large amounts of information that media or external parties will never know about. This is a pretty obvious point. Read between the lines. And no, I'm not speculating. I know first hand, unfortunately.
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Are you sure we shouldn't take the idiom 'a picture is worth a thousand words' literally?
is it really that difficult to touch terminal with your card and put it away? much faster than cash or entering PIN
Had one like it in China in 2008. It was a decent phone. Crappy camera though.
The swipe transaction system doesn't provide a mechanism to authorize a transaction for a specific amount, unlike the chip system. That is - you swipe, and the merchant uses the details on the magstripe to make some arbitrary transaction later on - potentially weeks or months later as I've found out in the very few places in the UK that still run offline transaction systems. With a chip system, you authorize a specific amount and no more within a dedicated machine, and the merchant doesn't get a hold of all the details necessary to make another transaction.
Sorry for the meta-comment, but just in case you're interested: I think all the jargon used in this thread is unhelpful to your argument. That I've read this whole thread and still can't quite figure out what "hypergamy" is from context, or exactly how it is "the real problem" signals to me that I'm an outsider of whatever community it is that talks casually about this stuff in these terms. That's probably fine if you're just trying to preach to your choir, but if you would rather not be ignored by someone like me looking in on an unfamiliar situation with curiosity, it isn't very effective.
My mother is not able to use a modern Android or other phone, she really does need the phone numbers and some small address book facility, 1: daugher 2: brother 3: son 4: her best friend 5??? After that then it is paper phone book and typing digits. The turn of the century never happened!!!

We have tried getting special phones for my mother but the UX is always worse than worse. They are unusable to people! So maybe if this Nokia actually worked on 3G it would be perfectly suited for her, a landline style phone that worked without the landline. There is definitely a market for such a phone that has a good brand, e.g. 'Nokia' is nice and shiny with lots of colours and just works.

The other feature I think is needed is mobile wifi hotspot. Ideally you just press a button and the display shows the SSID and access code, again that being some easy code.

Again, my mother can use a computer perfectly fine for online shopping, if she just had to press a button on the phone and that meant her computer was online then that would be something she could do herself. Her hands are too arthritic to do web surfing on a handheld device, she needs a keyboard and trackpad. The right Nokia could have enabled this.
When I was studying for the LSAT, I found it very helpful to mark a confidence indicator of 1-4 on every answer. Then, when I went back and graded my answers, I could see if I was missing questions that I knew I wasn't sure of, or if I was overconfident/sloppy on questions that I thought I knew. Not quite the same concept, but in the same vein of "know thyself".
With my eldest we switched colors around. Red -> Green, Green -> Blue, Blue -> Red.

The grass is blue and the sky is red.

Of course we did not let anybody else in on it and we got so used to it at some point that we'd confuse each other when unaware who we were talking to :)
Descriptive names are great when a symbol is used in many scattered places. Context is okay when the definition is right in front of you. When a function is short enough, context for a parameter should mean reading the function's documentation written immediately above it. Or if the scope of a local variable is three lines, its initializer often explains what it is, and it's right there.
Miles, easily. But we had three major advantages:

1) We had a shoulder-mounted directional antenna pointed at the rocket.

2) The rocket had a cylindrical patch antenna wrapped around it.

3) Wifi channel 1 is in an amateur radio band, which means we can amplify it beyond the normal limits. We ran it at 1W.
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Old side cover gaskets did, those were easy to replace. Something else was leaking before the engine rebuild, and then something else entirely started leaking after the rebuild.
have you considered creating an instagram channel and just talking about things you like?

when I record, I get to see my own body language, my phone changes my speaking voice and picks up my very strong Bronx accent.
Chez is pretty tough to compete with in terms of Scheme performance. On the benchmarks presented in the paper, Chez averages faster than all the systems presented, even Pycket post warmup. Its not the fastest on every benchmark, but gives consistently good performance without huge warmup time, which is Pycket's biggest weakness. With Racket planning to switch over to Chez, it may be difficult to justify Pycket's existence, especially if some of Chez's known performance sore spots receive attention.
Yes, this! At least in the US, there is zero benefit to me as a consumer from chip cards.

The banks have not increased rewards, or lowered interchange fees (thereby lowering retail prices).

Federal law protects me from fraud no matter the card input method.

Due to the risk of online fraud, I still have to check my statement for fraudulent charges.

There are, however, noticeable downsides. Including everything coin mentioned, here are a few more downsides to chip cards, at least in the US:

* Chip cards are slow in the US. This has gotten better lately, but its still bad. Before the downvotes start, look at the references [1] [2]. This leads noticeably longer lines at stores.

* Not every merchant accepts chip cards. Sometimes its hard to tell which version the merchant accepts.

* There are a lot more annoying noises (the buzz when you leave your card in too long). Its a small nuisance, but it adds up. Previously the transactions were silent.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-are-chip-payments-so-slow-in-the-U...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/chip-card-nightmares-help-is-on...
>When you speak, keep your audience in mind.

And different audiences, in different settings have very different expectations around things like technical depth and polish. Something could be a super-duper TED talk or keynote at a big conference and be utterly uninteresting for the audience at a local event that's there for technical deep-dives.
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I just wrote about this, but if you read his 2005 letter(when he proposed the bet), he mentioned changing allocations can be much more disastrous than fees. Here's the link, which my first point covers: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-things-you-might-have-misse...