skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Most people can't drive in two dimensions, much less three'
"Nature" and "natural" are very culturally salient in vegetarianism over all (when I travel, I look for a "natural foods" store, where I might then buy highly processed foods like Daiya...!), but I think in philosophical debates "suffering" has been more controversial. I don't think the significance of "natural" suffering has been accepted by western philosophy, or at least people would then have a significant debate about what it means for something to be natural!

Consequentialism in particular I think is very averse to arguments that natural things are good or OK. Quite a few philosophical consequentialists are interested in radically anti-nature views like transhumanism because of the idea that we can do much better than nature has.
Exactly what evidence do you require to demonstrate that this is indeed a thing?

AFR were extremists a couple years ago, sure, but the Overton Window recently shifted. You may have noticed.
What causes HN accounts to be rate limited?
I have seen others mention their account being in this condition and didn't know what they were talking about until it started happening to mine.

I'm frequently blocked from commenting on articles due to a "you're submitting too fast" for hours after submitting 4 comments or so. This seems to be new behavior that started a few months ago after I expressed some unpopular opinions.

What are the criteria for being muzzled this way and is there a way to get it removed? Or is the position that systematic oppression of dissenting views is better than the disruption they may cause?

I'm aware we're not supposed to break the fourth wall and discuss these topics, but this seems to be a pretty hidden level of damaging censorship (I frequently can't even reply to replies) of which most most users are unaware.

What is the desired message moderators want muzzled users to receive? "go away"?
C++ Braced Initialization
That is way overblown.

What they have is more akin to an analog computer, using quantum tricks to solve problems. The issue here is that most people disagree that this fits into the general definition of a "quantum computer".
Why I Only Hire Product Managers
I can't cite specific examples because the ones I know about formed confidential business relationships, but I can say with confidence that this works All. The. Time.

That said, if you're some small-time researcher who can't offer a compelling business case to make this happen, then it won't be worth their time and they're likely to show you the door. [Note: my implication here is that it's not because you're small time, but it's because by the nature of your work you're not focusing on business drivers which are meaningful to the company/org you're propositioning].

Edit: Also be warned that if you're building a successful business on scraped personal info, you're begging to be served w/ a class action lawsuit (though take that well-salted, because IANAL and all that jazz).
A look at Formidable's current React Native stack
>Paying down a balance on a credit card every month is pretty low risk, but not as low as paying with a debit card in the first place.

Not when you account for the stolen card scenario. When someone steals your debit card and racks up charges, it locks up real money (your bank account balance) that you can't use until it's resolved. A stolen credit card just locks up a credit-line.

However, even if you ignore that, I'm still missing what risk you see with a credit card that results in it being higher risk than a debit card. What is the risk I'm missing?

>Also, a credit card you're paying down monthly isn't really 'debt', isn't it usually something you do for the air miles or cashback?

It's very short term debt. I do it for two reasons, air miles/cashback, and for better protection when things go south. In addition to the stolen card scenario above, some credit cards (e.g. an amex I have) will provide additional protection for things like rental cars (additional insurance) or even stolen goods (refunds for electronics stolen from your vehicle).
The problem with 'freedom of choice' is the assumption that you are equipped enough to handle the information. There is a general assumption among us educated that given time and energy, we can understand anything logically without our biases hurting the process.

In reality, we are not equipped. We are not even equipped to analyze day to day news that we receive (if you consider all the biases, journalistic mistakes and private interest media/websites). We just don't have the time to do the same job as a fully trained doctor / FDA certifier would. We might convince ourselves based on some outliers, but in reality - specialization has been the key to address the ever expanding scope of knowledge today.

Anecdotally, When I was a kid, there used to be pretty much a physician or a surgeon in India. They handled 99% of cases compared to today when every body part has a specialist. That's the scope of knowledge spread - It is very trivializing to assume that we can jump in and figure it all out better than the experts.

I am glad that your non-approved treatment worked out. But it is anecdotal - there are a million other equivalents where it didn't. This spans people with intelligence of all ranges. Cornered people would be will do almost anything based on how they perceive the current threat. The fact that they convince themselves that they are making the right call, doesn't make it right.
It was based on test time prediction, so given you have received a sentence, how fast does it take to compute the prediction with either a bag-of-words or an LSTM.

When you say practical example, would that be in the scenario that you have an API server running? So to consider such costs as latency, data transfer, API overhead etc.?

Thanks for your feedback!
It wasn't in the vicinity, there was a 50 km or so distance between the two.

The bridge is one of very few points where you can cross from the Southern part of the Netherlands into the Northern part ( https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.6106721,5.6448216,16z?hl=en ), and has cameras on it making it an ideal choke point for ~30% of the North-South traffic in NL.

The burglaries were all in Friesland, quite a bit further North and the thieves iirc came from Amsterdam all the way to the North to hit wealthy looking solitary houses (of which there are quite a few in the North and almost none near Amsterdam where the population density is a lot higher).

So I can totally see why the police figured that this would work and it did.

Anyway, I can't readily find a citation but I recall the case clearly because there was a lot of uproar here that the thieves were set free when it was 100% clear that they were guilty based on how they were discovered.

But all my queries regarding 'ketelbrug, vrijspraak, inbrekers' do not return anything useful.
You and the paper miss the mark by not imagining the position that leaving something wild is good
>Applied to two jobs here in NY, taking my time with cover letters, following up where appropriate, researching the companies, etc.

That's the wrong approach, IMO. The goal of job applications isn't to make the best impression possible, but rather to find companies that are interested in talking to junior engineers.

The right approach is something like make/find a spreadsheet with 500+ tech companies in NY and send out something like 20 applications per day. If you're efficient about things, you can totally send out an application in <3 minutes, so it'll take no more than an hour of grinding per day.

Save the research and application quality for when you've got a warm lead.

>the bootcamp on my resumé isn't a strong guarantor of quality

Drop it from the resume and just put in your freelance work and independent projects, IMO.
Yup, sorry. Fixed.
‘Not far from death’: How fighters are risking their lives to make weight
It's unlikely that the Iroquois Confederacy was much of a model for American government. The most notable reference to them in records we have from the founding fathers amounts to "well, if even savages like the Iroquois can have a democratic government, why can't we?" Consider instead the wealth of quotations to Enlightenment philosophers, the English Civil War, Greco-Roman antecedents, etc.
Hi Chris! That's a great story. Thanks.
Are Notifications Driving Us Crazy?
At first I thought this was a comment on httpS.

After reading, I am wondering what the hell lbry:// is, why not just serve the videos over https with html 5 like tons of other sites are doing?

Or at least explain what lbry is.
There is a non-trivial portion of the home birth movement that does it because of distrust of institutionalized medicine.
Out of curiosity, what kind of macros do you run in vim?
>It's the exact same situation with net neutrality. If an ISP decides to give traffic from some hosts higher priority than my traffic, then that other traffic is interfering with my communications in the exact same way as an antenna that transmits a 50 GW signal on nearly all frequencies.

You're paying the ISP to carry your traffic under the conditions in your private agreement with them. When someone spews radio frequencies, you don't have a private agreement with them that permits them to do so. If radio frequency interference was opt-in only, the FCC wouldn't need to exist.
Yes, Chrome is the way to go in my opinion (or in general any browser with a proper DevTools API). Zero setup (start the browser, use the API), zero feature-lag, zero deviation from regular user behaviour, all the security features of the regular browser. The only downside is that it is not as easy to get started as some of the tooling aimed at CI and web-page testing, but once you've built a few tools you'll quickly get the hang of what needs to happen in which order.

I use Google Chrome on https://urlscan.io to get the most accurate representation of what a website "does" (HTTP requests, cookies, console messages, DOM tree, etc). For Chrome, this is probably the best library available: https://github.com/cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface. Headless is working as well, but still has some issues.
How does that hurt the pan?
Administrators want to catch people cheating at exams. So what do they do?

They cheat the public by spreading misinformation and lying.

Quote at end of article:

"The third word that appeared abnormally popular, "treachery", wasn't actually on the test. The DEX editors assumed it was and changed its definition, but later discovered that it had been used by a well-known Romanian author in a blog post that morning, something they call an "unfortunate coincidence"."

They fucked over a bunch of unrelated innocent people with their fake news/fake definition and simply call it "unfortunate".

Talk about the irony and double standards here. What a pathetic bunch of sorry human beings.
There is a much bigger and simpler reason people stopped gifting bonds, interest rates are garbage. War bonds aren't even available right now, but there are still general government bonds and treasury bills.

The interest rate is so low on them that the growth is basically a slap in the face to whoever is receiving it and cash would be better because they could at least use it at the present time. Remember, once you buy a bond like that, the interest rate is locked in so you're stuck with the crap 2% for 27 years on the bond you bought from the government 3 years ago.

People also used to gift corporate bonds (e.g. from railroad or utility companies) and that's a dead practice as well for the same reason.
The heads of state don't have a button linked directly to the weapons, though. They have to command others to launch it, and commands can be disobeyed. Sure, the consequences of treason are dire, but a nuclear counterattack is also highly unpleasant.
How long until someone makes a front-end to this that lets you preview the image at different compression rates? Or does it exist already?

Also...

> Note: Guetzli uses a large amount of memory. You should provide 300MB of memory per 1MPix of the input image.

For web images that's probably not an issue but for photos that is beefy machine.
Google Drive broken due to deployment of internal version?
Looks like Google deployed an employee-only version of Google Drive, which is apparently being renamed to Backup-and-Sync [1]. The result is that the new Backup-and-Sync app comes up with a "Sorry, the app needs to close, please email @ to get your account whitelisted" -- meaning, apparently, that the app is restricted to Google employees.

I went looking for info and the only reference to the error I could find was one Reddit thread. Thought HN readers might want to know what's up as well -- and hoped that maybe someone at Google might notice this and fix it ASAP, please, because I am using Google Drive as part of my workflow right now? :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/5zrwwp/google_drive_is_now_backup_and_sync_error/
Health insurance costs are insanely high. I as a self employed am currently paying 1200$ per month, for me, my wife and two little kids. And we have bronze/silver plans so we still have to pay everytime we see a doctor and have a high deductible.
Why they didn't respond to your email
Now nVidia installs some tracking phone home shit, regardless of using advanced setting during setup and removing all unwanted "features". I had to remove to EXE files that were running, I found out about them with a Firewall and ProcessExplorer.

Can you nVidia stop this illegal practise?
This is a great reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism. However, I find it very worrying that the so-called "effective altruism" movement takes this kind of thing seriously. Look up the EA-affiliated "Foundational Research Institute" -- it's an entire pseudo think tank whose philosophy is based on negative utilitarianism, the idea that all that matters is minimizing suffering, and we should do so by any means necessary (not excluding the extinction of all life). There are other organizations that support habitat destruction on utilitarian grounds, such as "Sentience Politics" and "Animal Ethics", but FRI is the brains of the operation, so to speak. (Animal Ethics is the propaganda wing, and Sentience Politics is trying to make it policy.) Brian Tomasik, who is cited in the OP, is the founder of FRI and has written a lot about "wild animal suffering" on his blog. His conclusions are very counter-intuitive; for example, he thinks forest fires are good because they reduce the number of suffering animals in existence. That said, his articles on the possibility of sentience in reinforcement learning algorithms are pretty interesting!
Both examples should be equally unacceptable. When you're asking for "a list of all people who X" it's a fishing expedition not a targeted investigation of a few suspects. It doesn't matter how many rows the SELECT returns.
Wow. Defensive. Where did I write... any of that?

And what does that say about you?
> if financial markets are working properly

What makes you assume they do?
Replacing the 'z' with 's' is not a typo, though.
Here is an algorithm for making predictions that is as accurate as Kurzweil:

1) Choose a recent 5-year trend, preferably one increasing geometrically.

2) Extrapolate out this trend n years.

3) Your prediction is either the number from (2) above, or, for bonus points, some directly dependent result (e.g., in 2000, connection speeds were increasing, instead of predicting "connections will be X mbps", the prediction is something like "we will be able to watch HD video in real time." This sounds more impressive.)

4) Good predictions need a timeframe, so choose 2n to give yourself some buffer for being wrong.

5) You will be a highly sought after futurist at this point, so please send 1/2 your book royalties and speaking fees to my address. (PM for details)
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Scientists create new form of matter: 'Time crystal'
"Also on the chopping block: the entire NASA Education office, which ... provides internships and scholarships for young scientists"

I was an intern last year working on one of the listed missions (now slated to be cut), and was planning on returning again this summer. I knew this was coming from Trump, but not this quickly or this hard. It's difficult to describe in concrete terms how I feel - I don't mean to be a sad sack; it's just a surreal situation. This means that many months of my work on my first real job were all for naught. Do you ever get personally attached to your work? I felt like my effort there was making an impact; it wasn't a boring sort-a-filing-cabinet internship. And it just disappeared for good, since I don't think there will be funding for a reboot later. I feel listless, which is also helped by the fact that it doesn't sound like I have a career in the near-term. Kinda pulled out from under me. And I only just found out about this from this news article; at least the concrete specifics.

Is anyone still taking applications for an undergrad intern, with intern-level experience in aerospace controls engineering (rising senior CS major)? I don't want to limit myself to that specifically either; anything with a decent cross-section of either math, software, or robotics is my jam. Sorry to put this out here like this, but I'm wary that I'm running out of time to find something since aerospace intern hiring seems to conclude all the way back in early Fall.
I reject that as an appropriate or meaningful subset of what it means to be vegetarian, hence my comment. It's basically nonsense as far as I'm concerned. Do you have any supporting view of ethical consequentialist vegetarianism as a sound philosophical position or argument?
Foucault? The physicist Foucault [1] responsible for the Foucault Pendulum and many other advances? Or the philosopher Foucault [2] responsible for some unfalsifiable fluff of great interest to philosophy department tea parties -- conversations that typically return to Jacques Derrida [3], the "show-stopper" who thought there was no basis for shared, objective truths, and whose views are regularly discussed as though their decoded meaning doesn't contradict the possibility of their productive discussion.

It's a sign of the times that, in Web searches, Foucault the philosopher completely buries Foucault the physicist.

(I got snookered into reading this because "power" has a meaning in physics apart from its meaning in philosophy -- the former of which actually means something.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Foucault

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
Smart cities are leading the charge for transportation and tech infrastructure
Yes, because it means shipping the language's own VM down with your application. It also means that VM's GC has to interact with the browser's own GC for DOM nodes if you want to be able to touch the DOM.
Great name for a law-advice chatbot.
That page has been there for quite some time. :)
The problem here is that NASA's very name shows that the Earth's atmosphere is their concern. Now, that could be moved to another agency, with NASA concentrating only on space, but then it needs a new name. We could just drop the first 'A', making it the "National Space Administration" (or Agency), or "NSA" for short. Oh wait...
From the article:

> "The LBRY protocol provides a completely decentralized network for discovering, distributing, and publishing all types of content and information, from books to movies."

https://lbry.io/faq/what-is-lbry
A tech solution for what actually? The problem is that there are few (good?) bars in the area. The solution for that problem would be to open new bars.
@Luke - A few years back I looked at opportunities to resolve the issue of having surplus containers stacking up largely in U.S. ports due to trade (import/export) imbalance. As you probably know, it turns out that its generally cheaper for Asian companies to abandon containers overseas and simply fabricate new ones than it is to book a return trip for an empty container. So, the continership capaciy surplus (rcord cheap shipping rates) coupled with a trade imabalance has helped create a container surplus.
Given the surplus, and knowing that nobody is going to pay $2K to ship an empty container, I would think you could get a much lower cost per unit than $2K. Is there no longer a surplus?
Didn't Kurzweil originally say that Singularity could/would happen around 2010?

The cynic in me says that 2029 is still within bounds where Kurzweil can still participate. He would be 81 then.

The guy is a brilliant polymath but I get the impression he thinks he can cheat the big sleep.
It's just that it's an estimate that hinges on a few judgement calls (e.g. whether or not to cost services that AMF receive pro bono) — we're in agreement with Givewell's estimate. For comparison, the WHO think that LLINs work out to be around ~$30/DALY and AMF run a pretty tight ship.

Given the tricky nature of cost-effectiveness estimates I don't think the numbers are hard enough that it'd be wise to talk about the difference implying anything as exact as an intervention being '20% more efficient'. It's more to get a reasonable ballpark for comparisons between other interventions.

(Also, seems there was a typo in the OP, should be DALY not QALY).
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Doesn't help that a large part of that history was kept as oral tradition, and those who remembered it were starved, shot, died by disease and outright murdered over the last few centuries.
Except the flier gets written by a third party and reports to the third party who reads it.
Hi,
what I do is set 1 soft skill (from a soft skill evaluation package),
1 project based (which usually do change)
and then say 3 tech improvement skills or investigations into new techs (which may or may not pay off).
You mispelled Kato. Tao is an analyst not a number theorist. As for the Italian school tge foundational issues were common to all algebraic geometers. Ultimately concepts like generic point pointed the way towards scheme theory, even if not rigorously defined.
Are those compliance rates weighted per income or per person?
Very cool. I'm not an expert, but does JPEG generally have a ton of flexibility in compression? Why so much difference in sizes?
Go do it!

I used that exact same model in Conversion Rate Optimization - get your conversion rate up, give me 30% of what we improve.

And built that into a 20+ person digital agency billing millions of dollars a year before being bought out.

Exactly how I did that and you can to:

(1) Wrote topical, detail rich posts similar to the parent here about problems I was solving in CRO for a handful of customers, never disclosing confidential customer info.

(2) Marketed those posts strategically. EG I wrote one about "Which trust symbol gives you the highest return on conversion rate." and then literally just bought Google Adwords of people searching for that question! StackOverflow and other forums also are great ways to market by answering questions (free + put your details in contact info) or running ad campaigns specifically on those topics ($5k+).

(3) Turned the best performing / most viewed posts into "pitches" for speaking gigs at materially similar conferences, most were accepted and I became an "authority".

Every post / conference / etc had a little "Want us to fix it for you? Full service, performance fee model." banner or mention.

Work poured in after that and we were lucky enough to be very choosy.

If you can SAVE large enterprises money and are willing to do it on a performance basis you've got a business.
The legal aspect smells like a law about fixing inequality. The inequality of >deaf people< not being able to consume this publicly funded material. Seems appropriate to me given the ADA.

https://www.ada.gov/ada_intro.htm

> "...civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstream of American life -- to enjoy employment opportunities..."

In the mean-time could these folks simply repost the catalog to YT?