skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same sort of idea, and just implemented it in Python using gmpy2 for the primality check. Here's a prime smiley face:

111010101111001000110101111111001001000010000
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
000000000000000001110111111100000000000000001
100000000000011110000000000011010000000000001
000000000011100000000000000000011100000000000
100000000100000000000000000000000011000000001
100000011000000000000000000000000000100000001
100000110000000001000000001000000000011000001
100000100000000001000000001000000000001100000
000001000000000001000000001000000000000100001
100010000000000001000000001000000000000010000
000010000000000001000000001000000000000010001
000010000000000001000000001000000000000010000
000010000000000000000000000000000000000010000
100010000001100000000000000000001100000010001
000001000000110000000000000000011000000100000
000000100000011000000000000000110000001100001
100000110000001111000000000111100000011000000
000000011000000001111111111100000000100000000
100000000100000000000000000000000011000000001
000000000011100000000000000000011100000000000
100000000000011110000000000011010000000000000
100000000000000001110111111100000000000000000
100000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
111011110010001011101100010110111111110011001

As a number, it's

418286130038247526051590581692998429049634527936177232676862400134230223310124567196900044669909574838414882468188159808593146618824409867113710174334769625185535031892647808338085451521099179358299885075661065903947563499117521951858387121272237585876050870984471996640946451287415573046990997289875221396633775785411121263373993999302553.

This took 487 random border attempts to find, which seems pretty small!

Note that efficient primality tests are probabilistic, so there's a small chance this isn't actually prime. I expect it's the same with the giraffe one in the link.

Edit: Here's the code (improved a bit over what made the picture above): https://gitlab.com/snippets/1694391
That article you have linked is a crystalised instance of human stupidity and a demonstration of how far down it can go WRT the level of intelligence. An idiot that thinks he can connect stupidity and intelligence to genetics without demonstrating the truth of such claim in any way, acceptable or not. One can do nothing but hope all of that article is a joke.

edit: I can't sleep if I don't mention that that entire harmful.cat-v.org site is a fractal of stupidity, so it's no surprise that such article appears there. They hiss at all the software out there that has made a nearly completely free computing system possible, and the alternative they propose is an operating system that died some decades ago and compilers that can't compile standards-compliant C code. Go and Limbo as an alternative to Python and Ruby? Really? Where's Django? Matplotlib? Good morning, people have other things to do than reinventing the wheel every other day.
Hahaha, the NSA deleted data, of course.
> are they trustworthy and correct?

So well-meaning idiots trump experts that might be trying to trick you?
Because ICEs are overrated. Many systems can't be debugged by single stepping (think servos or anything with physical hardware being controlled). ICEs rarely work well—every single one I've ever used was completely unreliable and required lots of fiddling to make it work. And then the next day you had to start the whole fiddling process over again. In the end they aren't very productive except for very specific types of bugs (they are invaluable in the very beginning of a project when you are bringing up a board). Once everything is generally up and running I find them to be pretty useless.
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I can only agree. Studying philosophy in my spare time was among the most fundamentally helpful things i've ever done, easily on the same level as programming. Thinking back to my formal education i'm always left dumbfounded that these two things weren't even mentioned in school.
found this from here: http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/
It all depends on what software you run under it, certainly Java does not help in this context.
A few days ago I had Debian+lxde running on one of those very small chinese mini netbooks; I can't check now what's the CPU, but it's a 300 MHz one with only 128MB RAM, and the system boots from the SD card (the laptop comes with Win CE). I wouldn't call it snappy for sure, but it's useable.
I think we're slowly making progress. I'm even hearing more about mental health in the hip hop world, which has long been a scene where vulnerability is risky.
". I think thus, for example, astronomy must be a mandatory topic for the younger students as soon as possible, so that they are not raised with the outdated idea that something "up there" governs their life."

First of all, studying astronomy doesn't at all neglect religious beliefs in general (only some of the more simple believe systems who take their bible literally).

And secondly, making it mandatory never helps for raising enthusiasm.

I really, really wanted to have astronomy in class, when I was in 3. grade. But it only came in 10. and by then I was so bored, like everyone else, for me because it was trivial and for the others, because they didn't care.

And besides, I can't imagine raising enthusiasm for astronomy in a class room - you need a telescope and a clear night first!

Theory comes later.
Maths and physics are definitely not perfect descriptions, they approximate nature, they are not nature.

If you think they're capable of becoming "perfect" then I'd have to ask under which axioms. Also reflecting on Godel's incompleteness theorem it seems if we had a perfect maths (whatever that means) we couldn't prove it to be such.
Devil's in the details, I guess. It's really hard to be a subject matter expert at everything, yet we find journalists are often required to write pieces about topics in fields they've never worked.

The Paul Krugman model (PhD, nobel prize winner, professor at MIT/Princeton, writing for the NYT) is quite rare. And even then, he doesn't exclusively write about his field of expertise.

You mentioned reporting though... reporting facts is actually the one thing that journalists do often get right, and that's largely viewed as something holy. Analysis of journalism often finds that western journalists are incredibly accurate in their reporting, but they (un)wilfully frame stories, omit (sometimes by ignorance) important details or focus on meaningless anecdotes.

For example, there was a time when in my region the local news kept reporting that 'real estate boom: 60% of homes are being sold for or above the asking price'. All news agencies took it over, a rare few even omitting 'for or' and just reported '60% above asking price'. If you looked carefully, they cited data from a RE agent association that had an interest in making it seem as if you could make an easy buck by buying a home before it rose even more. The association's media reports focused on the 60% figure, but didn't mention the flipside of the underlying data: about 40% of homes were sold below the asking price and 40% were sold for approximately the asking price. In other words, news agencies could have also reported the exact same data by stating '80% of homes were sold for or below the asking price'.

I'd been reading these news reports (among others) for a year before I decided to buy a home and had a certain impression of the RE market going into it (a sellers market, had to bid aggressively and wave various rights to recourse to convince a seller). Not until I dove into the data did I find the reporting mischaracterised the market, despite citing factual data. The reason I think in this case and others, is that the journalists aren't RE agents, they're mostly just 29 year-olds with a journalism degree reporting on the 8 different industries they were assigned to, from RE to dairy to, relying heavily on industry associations' brief media reports and representatives to shape a narrative.
> And in New York, a small union called the New York Taxi Workers Alliance declared that there would be no taxi pickups from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

> For Uber, that would create extra demand at the airport, which meant it could charge more—but this would probably cause a backlash. That had happened before when the company let its “surge pricing” algorithms do their thing. So the New York managers decided to be good citizens and suspend surge pricing for the night.

> If the company wasn’t price gouging this time, maybe it was trying to break up the JFK strike.

That's actually the opposite of what disabling surge pricing does. It makes sure that drivers aren't paid enough to bother picking up passengers there, so it protects the strike.

People are idiots. Uber should start a campaign featuring polar bears cruising around or something (or maybe make fun of trump on their twitter account if they have to save money) instead of trying to fulfill the publics demands.
Vala is interesting because it adds syntactic sugar for the GObject OOP library [1] which is a fundament in GTK+ GUI programming (but also can be used independently). All this was (is?) part of the idea that C++, Qt (with the moc) and finally KDE is bloated, broken from the roots. From my understanding, the main argument is the (in many cases unneccessary) complexity of C++ vs. the simplicity of C. In the Gnome desktop world, from my experience many devs moved on to Python based GUI programming. But I still think there are purists who prefer C/GLib due to its plain design.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GObject
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I think the project is neat, but I've also written stuff to do all of that for embedded C projects. Where you'd allocate pins on the board for the peripherals you wanted to enable and it would complain if you double allocated.

That it's auto-generated is the neat part, but then again, you could auto-generate C code that was just as robust (though admittedly, a lot of that robustness would be pushed to run-time checks with C code).
I'm sorry, but I'm a little confused by your comment about default cases in reply to mine about syntax extensions being in the hands of language designers vs everyone.

I am also a little unsure what you mean by not worrying about default. Even polymorphism has to deal with this, if you call a polymorphic method on an object that doesn't implement that interface you'll get at best a compile problem, at worst a cast exception. This is why some languages provide support for a "default" or "method not implemented" hook in polymorphism.

If you are arguing that polymorphism is a better way to build systems than switch/case statements then no argument here. Open constructs like polymorphism are far better for growing and evolving large systems over time.

That doesn't mean we should exclude a nice way to say "i've got a variable that i want to translate to some other value in a few different ways".

My point was only that it just seems so silly to me that everyone is discussing whether this syntax is "best" or how it "doesn't do X, Y or Z", because I remember doing that too before Rich Hickey (angelic choir noises) showed me that actually you don't have to put up with that shit. Just use a language that puts syntax extension in the hands of it's community and let them figure it out without burdening the core language with a thousand little tradeoffs for the 90% use case.
> Rural Spain

The so called "Spanish" flu was not from Spain; the first reported case was from France. It killed happily people all around the world spreading from military camps and soldiers returning home. Was tagged as spanish because many countries were in war and censored carefully any bad news about people dying in mass in their territories to avoid the enemy (and their own citizens) having this sensible information. As Spain remained neutral in the first World War, the spanish press documented the problem freely and extensively instead. Spain lost only the 1% of their population (around 200.000 people) whereas France lost 400.000, USA lost the 28% of their population (around 550.000) and 30 millions of people died in China (maybe should be called chinese flu instead? or even better the WWI big flu?).

The tag was bassically an attempt from politicians to blame a foreigner country, hide the problem under the rug and avoid assuming responsabilities in his countries. The oldest trick in the bag.
What's interesting is that apparently no one is safe from depression. Here is Phelps, an accomplished man by any means, saying he was thinking of suicide.

I always think "if I do this, if I do that, it will all get better". It does, for a while. I've changed my surroundings and life several times, used all the drugs, but depression always comes back. You have to just learn to live with it. Weird stuff.
It is provably prime; I got Mathematica to generate a certificate for it in about five minutes using `PrimeQCertificate`.
Most home births involve a midwife though - I'd guess the figures were rather different for 'DIY' home births like the parent refers to (I don't have any evidence to back that up tho)
Possibly.

Because Meltdown and Spectre are vulnerabilities caused by CPU design, any running code is potentially vulnerable. Text based browsers are not safe merely because they do not run javascript, they are only safe in that case from javascript being able to exploit the vulnerabilities. The application itself may still be vulnerable.

You should contact the maintainers of these projects directly and find out from them.
Interesting post. Getting specific, is your proposal that having a child is taxed as a % of income?
Only in America.

The problem was the person chosen to lead that platform was Hillary Clinton.
"find a way to use it to distribute porn."

this made my day :)

i think if content can be verified via blockchain that doesn't contains any malware it would be much more preferred.
Ya sorry, a bit of an exaggeration there. I was recalling the size of the hard disks that some folks routinely kept around just for storing crypto blockchains. That said, the actual numbers are already out of the rang for storage on the vast majority of commercially available mobile devices which basically relegates cryptos to enthusiasts. If we could fit a year worth of transactions in to on the order of 10 gigs, or at least provide a constant size estimate per unit time as a function of the number of transactions then we might be able to get adoption.
Come on. It’s an easy enough typo to make.
That sort of lateral expansion is also a hazard. Many companies have failed at becoming lifestyle brands. For one random example, Evernote tried to launch a marketplace of physical items. Some were really nice. But after a year, they had to shut it down.
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C'mon, the whole point is that if it's a topic that elicits an aggressive response or an insistence on aggressive moderation (with indignant use of the world kill thrown in), it doesn't belong here.

There's unlimited opportunity to prosecute that cause elsewhere. Let's keep this place for discussing and learning interesting new things.
> So those who benefit the most from resource depletion (i.e. those who can afford the hypothetical Baby Tax) would be free to have as many babies as they want, while the poor, already impeded in most activities and burdened by the cost of livinng, would make a sacrifice.

Yes. Because those population strata, not only in the US but across the world, produce the bulk of population with no education, high ecological impact, and scarred by social depravation. It doesn't advance humanity toward an 22nd century-appropriate standard of living to raise a vast population of people who are to become even more utterly worthless in the face of automation and extreme competition even among the elite of the 1st world.

It is beyond me how humanists can support unlimited population growth/"self expression of the individual/right to give birth" when that populuation growth is going to drive countries and continents toward a demographic and social catastrophe. Then again, my personal opinion is we are already on track and about to arrive there on schedule, so what gives.
Is 3g usable in your area? My experience with multiple carriers has shown anything less than 4g/lte is near unusable even on simple webpages. This is both in metro areas in the bay area and northeast cities. My speeds go down to what I would have expected from 56k days, those simple webpages (text w/pics, no video) taking 2-5min to load.
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That's not exactly true. E.g. -1 is also a "factor" of 3: -3 * -1 = 3

In number theory we define primes as a subset of the natural numbers, which excludes negative integers. But when you move on to abstract algebra, the definition of a prime element in a commutative ring is an element p, such that p|ab implies p|a or p|b. Using this definition, we can conclude that the prime elements in the ring of integers are both the positive and negative primes.
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-1 is not a prime, so that doesn't work. The actual reason is a little more boring - negative numbers are not prime by the definition of a prime number: "a natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers" (Wikipedia).
Hospital parking has been free in Scotland since 2008, so just the cost of fuel for getting to/from the hospital!
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You realize your bank does exactly that? It's called fractional reserve banking. If I remember correctly, banks are only required to hold ~10% of the deposits. The rest gets invested. That's why your checking account is free, the bank makes profits off of your money.
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Wow, are antibiotics not controlled in the US? Here in the UK you can only obtain them with a prescription, and I just assumed most/every developed nation would be the same.
> In 2016 he made a stand against the Canadian government’s introduction of a law that aimed to make it a crime not to address people by their preferred gender pronouns (regardless of chromosomes).

I'm pretty sure that's a gross misrepresentation of that law. From the little I know about it, I think it was more about adding "using the wrong pronoun" as a possible aggravating circumstance to consider when somebody is already being harassed:

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/canadian-lawmakers-p...

> The bill adds prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and gender expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act, amends the criminal code to extend protections against hate speech and allows judges to take into consideration when sentencing whether a crime was motivated by hatred of the victim’s gender identity or expression.
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Why is that a better metric? There are levels of correctness. Do you sincerely believe that each article you read will push you backwards in knowledge? Even an untrustworthy source can contain valuable information; just ask an historian.

The Dunning Kruger joke was only partially a joke - I was trying to explain that there are levels of expertise. My view is that anything that increases my knowledge is good; I was trying to elicit a response as to why someone might think otherwise.
> We visited frequently over the 9 months, and each time stayed for about 4-5 days in a birthing room with a hot tub

It seems rather odd to me to stay at a birthing centre for any other time than labour and birth..?
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I was lucky enough to spend three years of my elementary education in a private school with an observatory, but I was intrigued in the very first years of my education. It was awe-inspiring to see an illustrated but serious account of how universe was an infinitely large and infinitely complex mechanism. I was eventually bored, but what was important was that a core understanding that deep down everything is matter and energy stuck. When, some ten years later, I was intrigued in philosophy, and revisiting things like astronomy and physics, I was no alien to those topics, and I could accept the reality more easily over superstition and misinformation.

Astronomy has deeper impact on religious belief than the discovery of the absence of a material throne of a sacred being in the heavens. It can easily lead one to discover that superstition and metaphysical phaenomena have no logical base when he accepts the objectivity of today's scientific knowledge. Furthermore, the history of astronomy is a novel example of how science and philosophy overcome dogma despite violent oppression (e.g. Galileo), which is an eye-opener when confronting dogma.
$160k?! Was this seriously just for stitches? How come an actual surgeon was doing something as simple as stiching?
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>You think people would warm to the NSA if only they demonstrated an inability to keep secret the findings of their domestic spying, and revealed they'd been spying on the president?

They may not need to make it domestic or seem like they were spying on the president, finding some sort of scandal involving a different nation doesn't seem that hard. Or they could use some intercepted knowledge from a foreign spy agency.

As a whole though, I suspect they'd see an opinion boost even if it came from domestic surveillance. The hatred of Trump is ridiculous, Democrats have even praised Bush following his attacks on Trump. Plus, Mark Felt did basically did this and just got had a movie made about him.
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I'm sad that some enthusiastic well meaning lefties often associate Peterson with the extreme right. If anything, this man is radically centrist. It's just that he debunks extreme right wing arguments in 5 sentences instead of the 2 hour long talks he uses to address what he calls neo-marxism.

I think people like him might very well help keep disgruntled young men away from the extreme right, by offering a moderate alternative.

We should celebrate that long, balanced arguments get so much mainstream attention, even if we don't agree with them.
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I prefer the chronicle.com article that appeared on the HN frontpage yesterday (and was swiftly burried, I suspect). It offered a broader context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188789
To give someone a better idea who Jordan Peterson is and his experience with those in mass media:
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/watch-cathy-newmans-ca...

I knew of Peterson but never read his work nor heard him speak.

This interview could be an important piece for university level discussion. I think it summarizes problems among the media and intellectuals like Peterson.
And treatment of superficial symptoms might even be harmful

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If individuals aren't free to make these financial decisions for themselves, then insurance companies or the government will. My mom had a severe infection while on chemo because the insurance company didn't want to pay for an injection that would've boosted her immune system. Having these decisions made at the population level, instead of the individual is far worse.
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