skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is no free will!" is also used by some radical neurologists to suggest questionable changes to society, some seriously close to human rights abuses. So to counter that other areas of science (or gaps therein) are searched for what seems like free will, but as you said this won't change anything.

I think the concept of free will is needed, and not as a necessary lie to hold society together. I think of it as the number of paths open to you and the likelihood of every one. With every decision you will then randomly fall into one (aided by QM or not). So every person can and should be encouraged to cultivate their pathway network, which is what an open society based on discussions and science already does. Yes, all this is not "free will" in the strictest sense and should probably get a hipper name, but this will serve humanity and humanism more than the alternative of what in the end is just fatalism.
Op here. This is a side project I've been working on for the last couple of months. I still have a huge roadmap of planned features ahead of me, but I feel the app is now polished enough to be presentable. I'm releasing the beta version, hoping some of you will find it useful. Please let me know what you think. Thanks!
There was even briefly a version of IE for HP-UX and Solaris.
Housing costs for a place in the nice part of town plus sending a couple of kids to the 'right' school will eat up much of that. Plus then (of course) you need the clothes and cars and vacations to match the the above lifestyle and that will eat up the rest of it.
As a data point, this seem to be the discussion area mentioned by avenoir:

https://community.coinbase.com/c/coinbase/id-verification
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The same thing happened when Phoenix dropped. Over the years though it packed on the pounds though and started to look more like Navigator. Chrome's waist line has been expanding as well.
The Silmarillion might be Tolkien's best work.
Firefox should start reporting its user agent as chrome :)
That's a good video, I'd never seen it either, but I'd like to paint an opposing pictures:

Me: calling a pizza place I've never ordered from before Hi, I'd like my usual.
Pizza Place: Sure! Our pizza delivery drone will drop it off in 20 minutes.

That's the whole conversation. They have my order history from every pizza place ever, so they know what I want. My credit card number is on file, so they can just charge that. (Credit fraud is non-existent because of 24/7 surveillance and chargebacks). They have my GPS information so they know where to deliver the pizza. Add in a little bit of AI and cooperation between the different fast food vendors, and I could skip the conversation entirely. My favorite pizza would just show up when I get hungry!

This is still creepy, but it's a much better future than one where a pizza shop operator is catty about my beach body.
This example was to illustrate that consciousness is less than the sum of its parts.

The other examples were taken to illustrate the illusion of indivisibility.
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I wonder if we can do scala native -> llvm -> webassembly. Anyone tried?
It's a legitimate thing to mention as being displeased about. The very fact that it's such a hot topic demonstrates that, since it indicates that it's a subject over which smart people can disagree.

The "I don't want to start a flamewar" bit is also a reasonable addendum. It's a terse way of saying, "I don't like this feature, but, people who disagree with me, please don't get up in arms about this, you're free to like this feature if you want."

Frankly, if there's anyone trying to start a flamewar, it's not the original poster; it's people who are edging toward caping up in response to OP's (quite mild) comment.
Does this have AVX-512 available?
But this is also in light of the recent MA RICO conspiracy charges, which from my understanding is not really a...small deal, right? From what I've read, RICO is usually reserved for the likes of the mafia and even still is rarely used due to the overwhelming burden of proof required. Definitely despicable behavior though, with doctors taking bribes in exchange for breaking their Hippocratic oath

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/pharmaceutical-executives...
They might have to work on it's face and appearance a bit. It doesn't look very commanding or authoritative.
Glad to see this out, looking forward to 1.6 as well with the Node upgrades. bundle-visualizer is a nice way to break down the bundle size and help you determine what to consider dynamically importing.
Even if it causes Photoshop and CAD software and such to be ported to the web (which would be a huge business model change, so don't hold your breath) we're still talking about a tiny percentage of apps. There's no reason why Slack would rewrite in C++.
I think that's good for around a billion dollars in fines and maybe a few prison sentences, but not for 100+ billion.

The basic issue is that even if they purposely got millions of Americans addicted to opiates, being addicted to opiates isn't especially dangerous or harmful in and of itself. If most of the harms come from unrelated government policies then there's only so much damages you can pin on the Pharma companies.
> Perfect is the enemy of good.

Yes, and that's why you prefer perfect ;).

> Isn't pharma losing some of their ill gotten profits better than them losing one?

The problem here is that when such a thing occurs again and again, people start to treat it as a business model. Punishments are meant to deter, by giving only a slap on the wrist and calling it sufficient punishment, they'll be further legitimizing the whole strategy as a viable business model.
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In my experience the books I wanted to read we're often already on loan to someone and I would have to wait for them to be returned or for them to get the book from another branch. It was particularly bad with series.

I was pretty excited by the fact that I could buy my own books when I got my first job. I still miss Borders.
The context is that the GP doesn't feel white men are qualified to speak on diversity.
There's some pretty scary stuff in that article:

> We planned for a security system for the future of the city to tackle future crimes. By 2025, Dubai will be one of the best five cities in the world on security level,” he added.

> By 2030, all police buildings will be 50 per cent self-power-generated and the country will build a DNA data bank. “By 2030, there will be no mysterious or unknown crimes in Dubai and the police will have the biggest DNA data bank in the country.”

> Meanwhile, Brigadier Khalid Nasser Al Razouqi, General Director of the Smart Services Department at Dubai Police, told Gulf News that the first police robot will join the force in May. “We are looking to make everything smart in Dubai Police. By 2030, we will have the first smart police station which won’t require human employees,” Brigadier Al Razouqi said.

If it wasn't on a reasonably reputable news source you'd think someone was pulling a prank. But then again, these Sheiks, Emirs and their cronies will only remain in power through the most draconian measures once the oil wealth dries up and they need to move now if they don't want to end up roughly like Nicolae Ceaușescu.

The cost of the police force will be a major factor if they want to stem the tide so they're planning accordingly.
It heavily makes heavy use of parallelism and the GPU which increases the responsiveness. It's also uses Rust as a programming language instead of C++ which will prevent a whole category of bugs like buffer overflows and use after free.
Too many to name, really. <link rel=preload> is one that immediately comes to mind.
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Corporations exist to protect the investors and the executives but they can only be punished monetarily.

This is why CU undermines Democracy.
> You may be significantly underestimating your ability to get phenomenal gains from algorithmic improvements.

Absolutely but often it's very hard to make those changes or those changes lead to a loss of accuracy, whereas compiling with -O3 is very easy and leads to no loss in accuracy (in the common case).
Nothing a baseball bat can't fix. Of course they will put re-arranging these robots external features at the same level as 'assaulting an officer'.
Imagine being anywhere in the world and being able to simply press a button on your phone and having the best local approximation of your favorite pizza delivered to you...
It's not about either, it's about the motive behind the well known idioms. One implies being frank and upfront, while the other implies being secretive and bad surprises. The adjectives and nouns involved aren't really relevant.
I've not read it either, for the same reason. I wish I'd never read "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee - it really was a miserable experience and should simply never have been published, and I don't believe Lee was really in a position to give her consent.

I was a huge Tolkien fan as a child and tried to read the Silmarillion when I was about 10, having already read LOTR and The Hobbit multiple times by that age. I think I did finish the Silmarillion, but I found it tedious enough that I didn't look at Tolkien again for quite some years.
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Title is missing an 'e'.
OK, well plenty of medicines have been withdrawn from the market because of safety concerns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs#Signif...
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> no obvious signs of corporate guilt at having driven countless independent bookstores to oblivion

Hmm... at one time, New York City had probably a couple of dozen full-featured daily newspapers. Does the New York Times have any "obvious signs of corporate guilt" about having driven those to oblivion?
Having played Mini Metro for over 100 hours, I can attest that a light rail and a tram are not the same ;)
I'm skeptical that the robot will work as well as one might expect, but the real gem in this article is that Dubai is building a DNA bank. Let's see how that pans out.
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Not when using AutoScaling Groups. Then the machine will be provisioned on boot and therefor ansible would have to be installed on the machine.
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Give it a try. I was in the same boat but found it's cli interface very well done and easy to use, especially the curses based one.
Given the original posters perspective, Servo is certainly te least concern to change the tides. For an end user it makes absolutely no difference if Mozilla reloaded will be written in C++, OCaml, Rust, wathever. Features, performance, security and speed of evolvement do count.
It's 10% throwing the mud, 90% knowing where to throw it.
Living in NYC is one of the most expensive luxury goods there is (I say this as someone who lives in NYC myself). That's the luxury they are buying with their high income.

Also, FWIW, median family income in Manhattan is somewhere around 75k. So someone making 250k is making over 3x the median. They're doing very well for themselves.
> Not for nothing did David Mamet include these lines in Speed-the-Plow, his satirical dissection of the American movie business: “Two things I've learned, 25 years in the entertainment industry.… The first one is: There is no ‘net.’… And I forgot the second one.”

This is why I discount "profit sharing" and heavily discount equity when evaluating job offers.
I definitely believe all that, and these phenomena are something I've been thinking about a lot lately. (Also, any pointers to Chomsky articles on that specific topic would be most appreciated)

But sentences like "This is not an accident, people are pushed towards apathy because that serves the wealthy", without much additional clarification, might help you get perceived as some kind of conspiracy theorist.
Oh, man! Illuminatus! trilogy is brilliant. <3
>the best way to think about consciousness is that it's a function of the brain, one of the organs of the body (that's pretty much a fact as far as we can test it).

Using consciousness to determine the nature of consciousness...how is that not fallacious? Like trying to see if fire burns things by burning fire with fire.
Why is a hypothetical massive terrorist attack more scary than hypothetically polluting all fresh water than humans need to live?
There are people who actually do that because otherwise they get an inferior version of a website even though it works perfectly fine on Firefox as well.
I agree that it's hard to predict the future, that's why I'm not trying to add unnecessary dependencies. 100 lines of code are not hard to rewrite in anything else if necessary.
With Java you can get it through JNI.

But if you're going that route, you'll be making your life a lot harder in the cross-platform department.
(P)NaCl was introduced to replace NPAPI, at a time when the majority of rich web interaction still happened through plugins.

I'm glad to see it killed off, and have been expecting it for a few years now. JS/asm and (hopefully soon) WebAssembly have supplanted many of its features and benefits.

Still, this doesn't strike me as anti-open web. Google offered a solution when one was needed - it didn't gain traction, so they eventually retired it.
I do not accept the premise that all taxation is redistributive. When services are provided to the taxpayer that exceed the value of the taxes then wealth is created. We as a society choose to perform certain services collectively though our government because it costs less to do it together. There is a tipping point where taxation becomes redistribution.
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That's basically the state I was at as well. My exact thought was something like, "A currency that you make by running a program like 'Folding@Home'? Might as well try."

Even if I didn't actually mine a ton, it still would be neat to find it. I know it's gotta be there somewhere.
It's circular because people say they're different languages because people say they're different languages.
> Let's see how that pans out.

You will know how well it works by who is not in it.
Nice to read how people are so out of touch when they reach to certain threshold.. lol where mark suckerberg rackets ?
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I think the perception that there is no way to be healthy and eat at McDonald's is kind of ridiculous. I ride my bike 20 miles a day, I play basketball, I go for walks during lunch. I drink a ton of water, go to the doctor regularly.

Eating a McDonald's breakfast isn't going to kill me. Honestly, some of the 'healthy' foods I see people eating are way worse. There might be a ton of salt, but it's not loaded with carbohydrates and sugars.
I didn't notice a name. I hope they go for Enforcement Droid 1. Only 208 models to go by 2043 then.
I read Castaneda in school, where I heard about the books from a buddy of mine. I really liked the aesthetics of the universe in the books, which I always saw as fictional. My buddy though took the books at face value... He was also into dianetics for a bit, so there's that... :/
Disagree. Plan defensively.
Tiny update on this. So far today 3808 books have been downloaded and about $81 in donations have been made. In a normal day we'd sell less 4 or 5 books and make between $100 and $200.
Mozilla claims that Servo's parallelization will improve performance, and that Rust's features will improve security.
>these Sheiks, Emirs and their cronies will only remain in power through the most draconian measures once the oil wealth dries up and they need to move now if they don't want to end up roughly like Nicolae Ceaușescu.

They've done pretty well at decoupling from reliance upon oil wealth in the country by turning Dubai into a sort of playground-sanctuary for the super-wealthy. Only ~30% of their GDP is oil/gas.

This appears to be part of that. Rich people like to feel secure in their paradise.
Can't speak for those people but our household makes roughly $200,000 and after paying:

- Taxes

- Mortgage

- Interest on the mortgage

- Property insurance

- Our child's daycare so we can both work

- Payments on loans for every appliance that unexpectedly broke

- Saving

Half those costs would go away if we didn't buy a big house. For example, we have two air conditioning units and the heaters and both heaters died in the past year and costs $2,000+ to repair.

More money = more money tied up in assets and "good debt" = less actual discretionary money at the end of the mont

It ends up being about the same as someone who makes significantly less BUT we have equity in our property and money in our retirement funds at the end.

And I'm not going to lie. I enjoy a nice dinner ($500), a broadway play ($1,000 for good seats), or a Red Sox game ($900) once and a while.
Super interesting reading -- thanks for this!
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288 pages according to Amazon. So enough material for six 3-hour-long movies.
Exactly that one, thank you two walnut-shaped minds, both thinking alike.

Greg Egan calls this concept (see the linked FAQ there) the Dust Theory, and again

> > How seriously do you take the Dust Theory yourself?

> Not very seriously, although I have yet to hear a convincing refutation of it on purely logical grounds.

it juuuust might maybe true (however unlikely).
I believe the ACA itself was a poison pill that would make the system so inefficient to drive it to collapse and bring about single payer.

The failure of Republicans to implement an alternative has pretty much guaranteed it.
It was the exact plot of the movie Robocop. There was also a bit of Aliens in the mix.
I see your point. Anyway, I don't think that NATO by itself adds a significant amount of expenses on top of the national, "non-NATO" military expense of the participants.

Regarding Trump, IIRC he already changed his mind about NATO being obsolete, the point now is "just" that the allies should spend more.
Have you properly accounted for households vs people in your final calculation and comparison?
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Of course not. He should have been offered both food and water imho.
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That along with a real mandate and the fact that Switzerland is a tiny place (similar in population as Virginia, though 1/3 the physical size).
Well perhaps in the US but in the northen europe for example I would say most people are non-believers.
Why would uber have a monopoly? There are numerous competitors already.
Why did 'power surge' hit BA computers?
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> ...if you want to absolutely wring the last clock cycle out of a hot path, you usually need good microarchitectural knowledge...

Could starting with compiler output for a given problem be a good idea for new programmers?

For example, I might take a complex problem I want to solve and then implement a series of solutions in multiple high-level(-ish) languages like C, FORTRAN, or even possibly Haskell. Once the implementations are correct, I get all languages to output assembly, and then spend a while pouring over the output, possibly doing some further iteration on the high-level source code in the process.

My thinking here is that, the compiler is basically a gigantic database+graph of "use this instruction in this scenario" and a crazy complicated state machine to direct operations throughout the graph. Way too complex to read through... but I can make a compiler tell me the 90th-percentile+-most-relevant instructions to use by simply writing my program in that compiler's language.

Obviously, the standard caveats about compilers producing terrible output apply - I'd never recommend treating compiler output as normative or "good for educational use", just a decent startpoint - and something to have no qualms about surpassing.
I visited the Amazon Bookstore in Columbus Circle when it opened. It was evident that with its vast computing and data facilities, Amazon can solve economic allocation problems with an accuracy and precision beyond the wildest dreams of the planners of the command economy of the former Soviet Union.
And yet, unsubstianted article aside:

"Since it launched nearly 9 years ago, the iOS App Store has delivered more than $70 billion to developers, while downloads have surged 70 percent in the last year alone"
The Laffer curve is a fantastic rhetorical device.

Where's your data showing what the slope of it is for the current US tax regime? Oh, you don't have one? Why not? Afraid it might undermine the rhetoric?

The fraud in Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid isn't that high. If you want to bitch about those programs, bitch that they don't pay market rates for the services they mandate, hiding a tax in the payments other people make for medical services.
A country size gated community.
> In case of serious disabilities I really understand with the medication.

Being diagnosed with a mental condition generally implies serious difficulties - just being a bit distractable won't get you a diagnosis of ADHD.

> If there are minor disabilities shouldn't medication be minimized?

Why? If medication is the most effective way to treat a condition what would the basis be for avoiding using it?

> Shouldn't the person be given time in the society? Is it just the super fast lifestyle which aggravate the disability?

What super-fast lifestyle? There are coping strategies you can develop for mitigating some of the effects of ADHD, and I took part in a study on the effects of CBT used to help adults with ADHD to learn to manage their condition better. These are great, but they don't actually improve my attention, which links into your ability to remember - whereas taking Ritalin daily brings a noticeable improvement to my ability to concentrate and remember the details of my day to day life.

> I would not say no medication to a diabetic but I would say to adhere to a good lifestyle and diet to minimize medications if possible.

Do you think that medication for ADHD isn't already minimised? The implication here is again that you think people are being over-medicated - do you have any evidence for this?
At least his lucid dreams techniques are not that difficult to reproduce. I stopped them many years ago after I had strange experience of waking up for several times in a row. I woke up, went to a next room and, all of a sudden, I realised that it was still a dream. After short panic I woked up again only to repeat the story. And so on, actually I'm not sure if I've really woked up that day or I'm still in that dream and once I'll discover myself opening eyes there again.
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The registered taxis had a mandatory price set by the local government. Because of the price being high, I couldn't use them. I had to take shitty autorickshaws, or get jostled in crowded buses.