skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is illegal precisely because it is damaging to the citizens of the country in which the person is entering.

> I think you're engaging in the typical hacker news out-of-context nit-pickery.

I think you dislike looking at your slippery slope.

>I am not suggesting that illegal immigrants do well because they are criminals. I suggest they do well because they make sensible, long-term choices to build themselves a better future,

At the expense of citizens.

>...and that people who want to do that and are willing to work hard within a society are a benefit to that society.

You are assuming that illegal immigrants will share both qualities, though the actions prove only one half of that.

No crime is a sensible investment, if you get caught.

>The evidence indicates otherwise. Non-criminals typically do better.

So illegal immigrants, criminals if you will, would do worse.

You have taken a crime, and made generalizations about the perpetrators, because at least a percentage of them 'mean well.' Would you at least agree that not every illegal immigrant has a desire to become a contributing part of the county they are entering?
It's not an assumption, or about a majority or minority opinion. I know actual women that feel and act this way.

I think my post was intrepreted as something that applies to a majority of women or that I think women should act a certain way. I was just saying that anecdoctally, the practice of going to college to find a husband is not dead.
You fix it yourself, most likely using a sensor from another broken camera.
This list is close to mine.

I would also add:

- Influence: the Psychology of persuasion

- Selfish Gene

- Emotional Design

- Antifragile

- How To Fail At Everything And Still Win Big
http://thedailywtf.com - learned some very good lessons from it.
My cloud provider tells me which city my server is in and I get to pick the OS. I don't care about the topology of their data-center or what rack I'm in, or even the precise location of the data-center beyond which region it is in. Your needs may differ, if so don't use cloud.
I know, we even have a new pound coin down here that might trickle its way up through some petty change.
The "forgone conclusion" argument makes no sense to me. If there's enough evidence that the conclusion is "forgone", what is there to gain by decrypting the contents?
>From everything I can tell your voluminous objections are all based very incomplete and extremely incorrect assumptions

Those 200 pages were written in support of NN.
It may also be that XUL is more restrictive or less forgiving. By not having to handle as many edge cases they can skip a lot of code and speed things up.

This is just a guess on my part.
It doesn't look like this has optional typing (like Dart or Groovy) but local type inference (like Kotlin or C++).
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The rate card on the Bloomberg article says it all: get enough 'followers' and you are into big money. Whether those followers are real, bots, or created by insiders at Instagram is open to examination.

Gary Vaynerchuk and his company Vaynermedia have played a role in making the big advertising holding companies see perceived value in 'influencer relations'. Vaynerchuk's (2.2 million followers) instagram presence reminds me of Chairman Mao's little red book, with endless exhortations to strive and succeed.
https://www.instagram.com/garyvee/?hl=en
Glassdoor suggests a different reality at his company
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/VaynerMedia-Reviews-E48244...
Complexity: The Emerging Science At The Edge of Order And Chaos was a good read. I strongly recommend reading Jurassic Park at the same time, as the two were both influenced by the recognization of complexity as a "thing" in the late 80's/early 90's. The two are really about the same thing, but JP tells it through dinosaurs.

While I have the floor, I've mused lately that Jurassic Park is like the perfect scary morality tale for young researchers. You hear cautions about endogeneity and omitted variable biases, simultaneity...but the worst that will happen if you mess these up is your paper is wrong. Crichton described a world where lack of scientific discipline led to getting eaten by dinosaurs.
There's a guy[1] who has been working on hiking it all for a couple of years. I think he just has a bit of the journey from somewhere in the Yukon to the Arctic Ocean left.

[1]https://www.facebook.com/thegreathike/
I definitely automate locally by way of Makefiles, running tests then using the GCloud/aws CLI to deploy from local. Things like TravisCI, webhooks, etc come much later if at all.
I would argue it's one metro area with three authorities that plan and co-ordinate poorly and has no decent overall town / civil planning (for example like most cities, there is a focus on increasing land price being a good thing - generally not for future equitable growth)
These days you can only trust Linux. Anything else is full of backdoors backed by FISA court orders.
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Assuming a website is secure only because it has a padlock, is like assuming a room is secure because it has a padlock. The room might have windows, back doors, or the hinges might be on the outside. Https (reasonably) guarantees confidentiality and integrity of the connection to the server, nothing more and nothing less.
The judge's ruling says essentially what you're saying... there's enough evidence already that he considers it a foregone conclusion that there is child porn on the encrypted hard disk.

The only problem I have with this argument is that if it is such compelling evidence why not send the case to trial and let a jury decide?
Red-pilled a year and half ago. I still liked Google, the technical parts. The political advocacy was uncomfortable, but OK, political agenda implementation is downright scary.
I know about 12 years ago I blew the firewire connection on my video camera (Canon xm2), and to fix it they would have to replace the full board.

So I feel like they don't make them repairable.
As someone who was a "child prodigy", people making a big deal of my age only made me feel good about myself and wanting to achieve more. Of course, this may not be a universal experience, but has certainly been common among the other child prodigies that I've since met.
I love the way that you describe yourself, as a "maker."
"If someone’s brain lacks the moral niceties the rest of us take for granted, they obviously can’t do anything about that, any more than a colour-blind person can start seeing colour."

That might be "obvious", but isn't necessarily true.

Many people these days believe that the brain is the mind, or the mind is an epiphenomenon of the brain, and that psychology and brain function are intimately connected, or even the very same thing. On this view, to the extent anyone has free will and is able to change anything about themselves, they are changing their brain.

One method of change that would be interesting to explore is seeing what effect "empathogenic" drugs like MDMA (or perhaps other psychedelics) have on so-called psychopaths. It might just be possible that they are in fact capable of feeling empathy, but those feelings aren't consciously acknowledged or easily accessible to them -- but some powerful psychoactive substances like MDMA or psychedelics might be able to grant them access to their subconscious and to learn to be aware of emotions they've either been unaware of before or have denied.

Of course, such attempts should be tried only under the supervision of an experienced therapist trained in psychedelic therapy.
Sites that facilitate sex trade / crime are direct actions in the trafficking chain. It happens on the internet. No, the john doesn't come through the tubes, but his order does. Directly over the internet.

What was your example again? You keep referring to it, but I can't find it in the comments, which makes i thard to see how your point applies equally.
One of my favorite gifts from the missus is a bit of poetry that she wrote. Essentially, it was free.

I have a few bucks. It took some time to really understand that value isn't always preceded by a dollar sign. Sometimes, free very much can say one cares. Well, unless you want to get into costs such as caloric inputs.
>> Second, and related, the abstract mathematical nature of intelligence is well-understood and the human brain must be an expression of that.

That's nice, but whenever I researched, I only got vague explanations involving recursion and unicorns.
> Artificial general intelligence won't be invented, it will emerge, just general intelligence did in the wild.

I think so as well, but for a specific reason: That people are not as "AGI" as we think, and that our general intelligence is the result of immense neuron-computing resources committed to satisfying a few simple drives. In other words, narrow AI with a lot of resources. Not to mention many specialized subcomponents.

And to the degree that consciousness is a selected trait, that means it has a purpose. I think the work on attention/focus in neural networks hints at that purpose.
Interesting, but seems like general community management for dealing with newbies rather than actual trolls?
This. This i believe is the how its going to turn out. Specialized AIs cooperating and creating higher level abstractions. It may not be AGI at first but Practical AI that could be used for real world applications where human intelligence is usually needed.
That is fair point but I think there should be an option to only enable certain sites as whitelisted sort of like robots file. That would mostly solve the issue.
One of New Zealand's "Great Walks" is the Whanganui Journey, which is a kayak or canoe journey down the Whanganui River.

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You're missing the part where the watches pictured on the websites are originals with the logos taken off, while the customer actually gets a cheap knockoff...
1. Sorry if I was unclear -- the examples I listed were meant to be examples of "general intelligences", but I think corporations are a good example.

2. Well, this is somewhat more complicated to answer --

Obviously the reasoning abilities are (partly) because we're part of the structure. But in a way that we know can be decoupled from the reasoning ability of the structure -- see modern CS on which problems are tractable to mechanize and the success of ML at individual tasks -- because modern corporate theory has formulated a system of corporate governance and execution that only depends on individual people for one or a few tasks. The fixation of modern corporate management on replaceable, cheap, low-skill workers makes it a perfect template to replace components one at a time with bruteforce discovered ML components (and in fact, we already see this happening -- because it is part of the reason that corporations are designed that way).

After all, from the perspective of the corporation as a reasoning entity, increased cyberization is increased efficiency, which ultimately means increased competitiveness (and hence survival).

Electronic computers were designed to replace human computers in the military, and we have a wealth of information on their numeric and string processing capabilities. They're specifically designed to emulate in another medium some of humans' reasoning abilities, particularly those around logical deduction and numeric calculation (which in some senses are similar). Since modern corporations have reduced much of their operation to machines (eg, factories), string manipulation and calculation, it seems perfectly conceivable to have a corporation control all of its "core functions" via electronic computer after a period of increasing cyberization, with contracted delivery services and on-site technicians viewed something like a doctor.

Corporate cyberization is, if you take my first claim that corporations represent a "general" reasoning structure of made of specialized components as true, an open and direct path to an AGI that we seem to be stumbling down.
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its not like he argued he forgot it and the court didn't believe his argument. he didn't even make the claim that he forgot it.
I am feeling old now, thank you :-)

When I was 14 or 15 in the late 1990s I started my own "web community" for young (German) "web designers" (programming wasn't on my mind back then). It got me some little fame, I even won some prizes. Almost 20 years later that chapter of my life is closed, and many others which came after it are too.

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But always try to stay on the ground. Time goes by very fast, and your current achievements probably won't matter much ten years from now.

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How much did you donate?
So, Prolog but in reverse?
Finding the Hidden Gems in Your Data: An IoT Demo
tldr; the guy selling fake watches in chinatown has gone "high tech" with online marketing and ads

hipster: But I can find this exact watch for $2
soficoastal: then why are you talking to us?
soficoastal: have you ever bought a cup of coffee for 2-4 dollars? do you think it costs dunkin or starbucks that much to make? or do you think maybe they mark it up for a profit?
hipster: I, a regular person has access to that watch right now for $2.
soficoastal: you can make a cup of coffee at home for like 10 cents....it's called capitalism
This is definitely a great gesture, and will probably require a lot of labor on their part. I wonder why they did not restrict it to households with income below a certain level? That way they would have received both the positive publicity as well as reduced the free labor they need to provide.
The whole point of equipping existing installations with IoT sensors is to do data science that lets you improve on some important metric, but for that you need to have deep domain insight as well as the technical insight to wrangle the data. So the customer knows the domain but lacks the technical resources, and the vendor often doesn't understand the domain. That's why you need to do vertical solutions in this market.

(I work on a vertical solution for IoT-driven data science in the facility management sector.)
Who is giving him benefit of the doubt? I have repeatedly said there may be child pornography on the drive or evidence of other crimes. I am simply saying there are a number of reasons he is unable or unwilling to do as he has been ordered by the Writ.
Hmm... A speaker is a microphone. I am not sure if that is salient, but it seems worth noting.
The question isn't if this particular man is guilty, it's if investigators and judges have the constitutional authority to sentence a person to life in prison because they think that a person remembers a password they say they don't remember.
We can't even model worms at the moment, so a crow might be far off still.
A thread higher up discusses the damage being related to the aperture size - phones have a tiny aperture.
I'm curious: Which operating system?

The Linux x86_64 build experience has worked very well on Ubuntu for many years. These days you don't even need to copy and paste the apt incantations: ./mach bootstrap takes care of that.
This has worked for Jet engines but those are uniquely well suited.

Nobody wants the engine to stop mid air and they are incredibly complex and expensive so the costs of realtime monitoring are worth it.
Lots of evidence can come from your mind. The location of a document, the passcode on a safe.

What makes these things similar to an encryption key and different from other types of testimony is that they only unlock information that already exists outside of the witnesses's head so they aren't subject to the same prohibitions under the 5th amendment.
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> you need to explain to the compiler what exactly it is

I would not call that "continuous attention", because most of the time you're simply writing down a decision you've already made, and would have had to make even in a dynamic language.

In contrast, I think "continuous attention" is having to remember the current kinds of data being held in different variables in a long data-flow.

> And if your needs for that variable or class or function change, you need to explain to the compiler the differences.

Yes, but that's because the compiler is remembering your "checklist" for you. In a dynamic language you'd need to make all the same decisions, but you'd have to waste more brainpower (or introduce more bugs) by trying to manage it all yourself.
He DID testify that he forgot his password.
don't forget to dropship
The forgone conclusion is that evidence likely exists on the drives and as such the judge issued the Writ pursuant to the All Writs Act. But to prosecute someone in a court of law it takes evidence, admissible evidence, and conclusions that it likely sits on an external hard drive is not in and of itself evidence of pornographic images of children.
> firing the man-child author of that manifesto

Please try to avoid inflammatory language, there's no reason to make this a flame war. We can discuss why we are right or wrong without attacking each other or other people.

Yes, I was speaking of the manifesto. The fact that Google fired him instead of discussing why he was wrong for holding opinions that much of the Google workforce hold themselves shows that there is probably merit to his claim of an ideological echo-chamber. Google holds incredible global power to shape and control populations. Given that, it worries me to hear of an echo-chamber forming in a corporation so powerful.
I think the problem is not that we cannot accept evolving general AI by solving much smaller problems first, rather we're very impatient and don't want to wait for the evolution to take place.
We can’t let the dark web give online anonymity a bad name
Penrose tiles
Possibly because they wanted to help everyone involved, regardless of income?
I'm in the middle of the biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro and just finished re-reading "A Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. As a fairly successful yuppie that came from Not A Whole Lot, it's really knocked me down a few pegs and made me realize that being a pompous ass about my exercised social mobility isn't all that special.
According to the thread above, the telescopic lens is safer to use than a shorter one. Only here would someone give a mathematical proof!
Can you give an example?

With LTE you get less than 5ms latency, while 5G is promising less than 1ms. However, I think those numbers are under ideal conditions. AFAIK, there's no latency guarantee. Since I'm not familiar with the landscape, I'm having a hard time understanding what kinds of problems are bottlenecked by an hypothetical ~4ms?

The bandwidth improvements are huge, but there's no mention of guaranteed speeds, nor do they mention if the quoted speeds apply to both upload and download. It also important to remember that mobile data is incredibly expensive.
Precedent
I remember, for instance, that XUL was highly optimized to not create DOM nodes for huge/infinite lists/trees/... Last time I heard about someone attempting to implement these optimizations with comparable APIs in HTML5, the results were ok, but not nearly as good.

That was a few years ago, results may be obsolete, of course.
My last couple phones have all been Sony Xperia phones simply because they are water proof/resistant. It's hard to go back to anything else after you get used to it. Never have to worry about damage in the rain and its great being able to use the phone in the shower.
possible, though I don't think that was it. their prices were more than 2x the cost of the low end of wash-and-fold services, maybe a little below the high end. their infrastructure shouldn't have cost much. maybe they hired too many people too quickly. my own guess is that growth stagnated.
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Is PD actually defined as the distance between your "vision-rays" at the surface of your eyeballs, or at the plane of the (manufactured) lenses?

I've been meaning to order glasses online (eg Zenni) forever, but haven't gotten around to it. My theory is that ordering online will allow me to go with several pairs of much cheaper CR-39 and then not care as much if they get scratched, rather than ending up with an expensive proprietary plastic and then wanting to pile on the upsell of scratch resistance, etc. The chromatic aberration of polycarb is horrendous.
Are the new APIs stable yet? I didn't think they have all the features required for some addons.

There are some people (like me) who use firefox because of addons that can't be supported on other browsers due to the lack of API support, so it's a bit disappointing if they're going to pull the rug from under those addons. If they do, they might see people leave for another browser.

For reference, the addon in question for me is Tabs Mix Plus.
BTW That's also a great investment strategy to invest in something you know and understand like that. You're on fire! :)
Yeah it's called Kotlin, better than C# IMO.
To anyone who read GED in the past, more than a few years ago I mean, I highly recommed reading it again. Your updated self will appreciate its beauty even more.
You should put quotes around the attribute value.

Then you won't need to escape =.
> Tightening it by counting manually, hehe.

Yes, rather than "recounting" votes on the same/similar machine - you now need a large conspiracy for large scale election fraud, rather than a single software exploit...
Facebook Feed, Youtube Feed, 4chan etc etc.
It's amazing how much I've changed in the past year. If you check out my latest commits (it's also part of the reason why almost all of the squares are light green), you'll see that they are pretty significant in size.

A while back, I thought commits were the best thing ever, and made it my goal to commit every single small change I made. Now I've learned not to :)
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I had good luck with the add-on [1], but it looks like it will break in 57.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/u2f-support-a...