skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard (so this is a weak second hand story) that here in the Netherlands we also have a lot of lobbying, but the less strict laws around campaign financing make it less evident.

I'm not sure if it's true, but it's something to think about.
At the very least, it suggests that the strong laws on campaign financing in the US help pull lobbying into the light.
2 questions:

When the dominant state broke down and new states emerged - as in 3 kingdoms, or 16 kingdoms periods - would you always consider a later state to be a successor in title of the state that existed prior to the break up? Is it the language?

>"critically the indisputable development of written Chinese characters." //

What makes the characters Chinese. Italian, for example, uses the Latin character set (though that comes from Greek, which comes from, ...; which may make it a poor analogue). Why aren't they Qin, or Han, or whatever? Is it just imprecise naming.
Have you never been to a restaurant and see a couple together more interested in their phones than each other.

(A casual observation of mine is that it is usually better looking couples that do this, but not exclusively. Maybe the constant need to be on social media forces them to pay more attention to their appearance and less on their conversation).
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I dont think this works well as an adaptive workload/case, training the network cant be done online and is a rather heavy task, as such it works well when you have a well defined pattern you can detect/train against.

Although kudos to the authors, i really like the intuition of this approach!
Yes, but not for the reason you might think. Europeans were able to conquer the new world civilisations like the Inca and Aztecs (and many others) because they brought their special weapons - smallpox and influenza. These viruses and their European hosts did well out of this symbiotic relationship and it is almost certainly the reason we are now writing in the language of a smallish European island.
Would you say (b) is worth properly understanding even when performance is not likely to be a concern? As in, is it like knowing a lower level abstraction that improves the higher-level understanding (in a way that, for example, knowing javascript makes using jQuery a lot easier)?
Seems like a critical piece of information. You could say that people who take frequent brakes from their work to go outdoor and stand there for a while are likely to die younger. That's smokers behavior.

If it was random sample from general population then I'm betting on watching TV. Studies seem to suggest that if you are doing a lot of cognitive work it is good for your brain and memory. Apart from the somewhat new trend of standing desks, most jobs that are about thinking are done in a sitting position.
yes! i agree. i have lots of sleep issues. now i go to sleep early in the evening (nearly right after the sun goes down) and i wake up between 3 and 5am.

my biggest problem right now is work: i have had issues holding a job throughout my life. there was a 6 year stint that i was able to keep 2 jobs, but beyond that i usually quit due to what amounts to nothing in the end. have been trying to get a fully remote position as seclusion seems to help.
The beauty of capitalism. You only get the stuff built that makes someone money, not the stuff that is genuinely useful. (Obviously there will be some overlap, but "most useful to the consumer" isn't always going to line up with "makes most money for the company").
> but having a serotonin release feels really good

How did you know that the experience was caused by a serotonin release?
https://www.aquafold.com/aquadatastudio is good
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Isn't funding election campaigns from public money a quick and sure route to totalitarianism? I'll say the opposite - any kind of public money involvement into elections should be banned.

Don't get fooled with 'democracy' thing. Election and democratic process are the way for the elites to decide matters between themselves without resorting to civil wars/violence, in an orderly, regulated manner. They were invented for that purpose in the middle ages England which got tired of civil wars and serve that purpose perfectly.

'Opinions' of ordinary people are not important because they effectively, don't exist: propaganda decides what their opinions will be.
I think the issue is that people think they actually "own" property, when in fact they merely rent it from the state.

It's dressed up with fancy words and paperwork, but when the State has a better use for it than you having it, they will find a way.
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
After listening to a Camille album from time to time, I subconsciously internalized the backing vocals of the song "Show Me The Waves". https://youtu.be/S0PMZg8lZ-M

Knowing that it's Morse code for the title of the song, I can reconstruct the individual codes for the letters AEHMOSTVW.

If someone were to write a hit song containing the whole Morse alphabet in a way that gets stuck in your head easily like in this Camille song, we might all learn it without trying.
> idiotic article about the brain not processing information

How about the brain creates information from constant interaction with the world based on the kinds of bodies we have and our needs/wants? This information doesn't exist as information until the brain creates it. Information is the product of minds. It doesn't exist in the world on it's own to be processed. As such, the brain is something other than a computing device. Computers exist because we figured out how to arrange physical systems to process information that's meaningful to us. But to nature, it's just a physical system (and not even that, since physics is a model of nature we create).

That's Jaron Lanier's paraphrased argument against thinking of the brain as a computer. To say that information exists in the world to be processed is to make a metaphysical commitment that information exists ready made for us.

> and there being something magical about human brains that cannot be simulated

It doesn't have to be magical. There are different philosophical views on the world and the mind which lead to different conclusions. If one takes the hard problem of consciousness seriously, then consciousness cannot be computed. Not because of magic or the supernatural, but just because consciousness is not computable, since computation is itself an abstraction (Turing machines don't exist on their own anymore than do any other mathematical systems). Unless your metaphysics falls along the lines of Tegmark, Plato or Wheeler (it from bit).

Instead you can think of The brain as an information creator. We give meaning to the world. We build models. The world itself just is, it's not information, math, physics or symbols.
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This is an interesting idea.

And so the idea is that anyone can then buy the property from you at that price at anytime and you must sell? Or just the state?
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but ... Facebook seem to classify posts as important if they get more than the usual number of peers attention, so you get major life changing announcements (births, deaths, marriages). I don't know if they solely use votes, or if they weight that with word analysis, or do something clever like matching you with other friends who upvote similar things and so boosting the chance you see posts if they upvote them (I imagine they do but perhaps use simple metrics for 'life event' indications).
So the accounts most likely to target you with ads? Sounds great!
Webpack 4.0 also has zero config and it works exceptionally well.
Yes; data structures are immutable in Erlang, so the runtime system can share them (and their substructures) freely amongst its threads.
In principle this should allow readers to completely understand and reproduce the processing of the raw data, rather than reading a few paragraphs summarizing the processing done by the authors. Using a closed source tool

But consider http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39054778

"Science is facing a "reproducibility crisis" where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments"

I don't think that can be handwaved away as "OMG closed source software!". Especially since all the scientists in a given field will have access to the same software anyway. Give them open source and the issue will persist, and we both know it because the root cause isn't anything to do with the license of the software
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Funding campaings from public money is widespread in Europe. Sometimes the opposite argument is made: public funding ensures a level field, in which no one has a disproportionate advantage. Of course, this has the effect of displacing the battle to the real battlefields, one of them being propaganda, as you said.
Even if you adjust it to not terminate early it finds other reasons (doesnt vectorise boolean operations).
“UCLA researchers recruited 35 people ages 45 to 75 and asked about their physical activity levels and the average number of hours per day they spent sitting over the previous week.“
I dunno. The article seemed like a pretty good riff on the Great Gatsby and the dark side of Silicon Valley culture. The writing is promising.
Most countries don't allow this? You need to give some evidence of that.

European countries have free markets and most have better social mobility than the US. If you check the link in my original post you will see the US has relatively low social mobility for a developed nation.

Your comment reminds me of the attitude described in this sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oyKVAjISmI
I've been using PyQt and it has C++-like bindings with minimal effort put in to make it Pythonic. Is this new thing going to be more Pythonic?
Only if there is money in the envelope.
There are lots of reasons to use Vue because it's awesome, but if your main concern is size then Preact is about 20% the size of Vue.js 2.
Fundamentally, a confidence scheme is any system where overwhelming pressure is brought on the mark to concentrate on the outcome, x, rather than the expectation value, xp(x), where p(x) is the probability of the outcome.
Perhaps people who are either predisposed toward unhealthy outcomes, or are currently experiencing them (whether they realize it or not) are more sedentary. Correlation does not establish causation.
Pensions are not a pyramid scheme any more than any other form of retirement fund is. Give me a break.
The author calls her face-blindness “mild” and “not as severe”; I wonder what severe face-blindness entails?? How do you recognize less than the author?

I have a small bit of difficulty with faces that my ex-wife made me aware of. Since then, if I don’t recognize someone I may say, “Sorry, I’m bit bad at faces,” and
this seems to go over well. I also sometimes say this to cut short conversations about “who my kids look like.”
Not even 3 months ago it was "standing desk users less focused, less productive". Which might be more about the kind of person a standing desk user is than it's effect.
From my understanding of Hanson's posts and references, anyone.
Don't ever feel bad about honest curiosity due to wanting to understand another. Some people won't want to talk about things, and that's ok. Accept and move on. But most people will, and it is not rude to, at the very least, ask if it is ok to ask. If someone gets offended at even that level of question, that's on them, not you.
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Anecdotally, some people just don't like the people in the armed services.

Lots of military spouses have resumes that look a lot like ones for homemakers: gaps in employment, changing jobs regularly, involvement in multi-level marketing, etc. Many of those things are red flags in their own right.
your friend should definitely seek professional help. all i can do is share my own experience:

when this happened to me a family member drove me to the hospital and suggested that i check myself in. i filled out paperwork, answered some questions and signed myself in.

then the "fun" began. i was taken to a room where an armed guard watched the door. I was given a robe and they took my wallet and clothes while I waited in a room with a large glass window. in the room across from me was another guy and he was completely losing his shit -- screaming and pounding on the walls.

That first experience felt what i imagine jail feels like and due to my state of mind i was convinced that my family had tricked me and put me in jail. i was very confused and started having a panic attack. eventually i was lead to a room with several hospital beds where i was given a sedative and went to sleep.

later i was lead upstairs, had my face photographed and printed out for a folder. then i was taken to another room where i had to get naked while two male nurses watched and checked me for birth marks and tattoos.

thankfully i was given a single room for the first few days and could keep to myself because i don't do well with others in situations like these.

everything else was pretty much what i expected. i mainly sat around in the rec room on drugs playing cards and chess with the other patients and nurses. there were several homeless guys in there, some people that seemed to be scamming, terrible food, and a really loud television.

They have group shave / haircut sessions, group therapy (which included dancing and some other stuff).

Honestly it didn't really help me cope with my newly discovered mental illness, it just made me feel like i had hit rock bottom. i was given a pile of drugs and sent on my way. the therapist i was assigned to was extremely amateur and his solution for me was "phone apps". The psychiatrist i was assigned to was very hung up on me not doing street drugs (i don't).

none of these humans attempted to get much story about my current life situation or past. they heard me ramble off a bunch of crazy shit and then decided their pre-scripted solutions were best for me, and when it doesn't work then the blame is thrown back on me. very very frustrating process.
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This is all very easy when it's "them". An HN user looks from afar and decide what's better for those rural folk. Those undeveloped types. The basket.

The reality: the government is attempting to take these peoples' property, ultimately under threat of force, in order to transfer it to a for-profit corporation in violation of state law. It does not meet the legal requirements for blight or for eminent domain under Wisconsin law. It is illegal.

Watch someone try to illegally bulldoze your own home you paid for and built, making you incur substantial moving expenses and disruption, destroying a place where you've built memories – all in exchange for a bunch of Foxconn temp agency jobs – and then tell me how you feel.
Who will be held accountable if the predicted return on investment is not seen?
No: many (most?) modern SIMD instructions don’t require alignment. From the Intel Intrinsics Guide (can’t figure out how to link directly to it, sorry) on _mm_loadu_si128:

> Load 128-bits of integer data from memory into dst. mem_addr does not need to be aligned on any particular boundary.
I use the markdown editor http://typora.io/ for a few years now.

It's a downloadable client and for on Windows, Linux & OS X
PWAs are going to eat the (app) world
But the one thing that binds everything in the universe is that we must eat. And this constant depletion of the entropic energy in our universe comands us to see as much as possible before the light burns out, lest the universe never will never know we existed at all.
Yea I agree, it's far from an exact analogy. Some certainly did get very rich from Party power, and some were invited to join once already rich... does anyone refuse such an invitation, and stay rich?
Don't worry, if you read the article well and then read her other article you'll see what kind of person she is and why she comes up with that conclusion.
You are probably wise enough to know when it's socially appropriate to ask questions, so go on.
Well, I can't know what it is, but I had ingested a chemical (not an opioid) which supposedly causes serotonin release and my experience matched many other written experiences with said chemical.
Is filling Foxconn's temp worker quota a US government project now?
I don’t even know where to begin your comment is so full of deliberate half truths. The people work under 25 years because you only need to work 20 to qualify. Why’s that? Because you only need to work that long to have paid enough into the pension fund to earn that retirement.

Oh yeah that’s the detail everybody loves to skip over; these workers PAID into their pensions. They earned that money.

Again, if the pensions aren’t solvent it’s because of corrupt politicians and nothing else.

Stop trying to blame workers for receiving a benefit they worked for and deserve.

And as far as the pension eclipsing tax breaks; another red herring. The pensions should be getting paid out of a relevant fund. AND while any one tax break may not match the payout of the overall fund there are many many corporate tax breaks written into the laws that collectively cut state budgets to shreds.
>Isn't funding election campaigns from public money a quick and sure route to totalitarianism?

There's no causal link between public funding and totalitarianism and there's no historical proof that this ever happened.

When and if democracy fails, it happens for a number of other reasons, but this is certainly more likely to happen, when a) there's no equality in voter's influence on the outcome, b) there's no fair competition between candidates.

Public funding usually addresses those two problems and at this moment does it quite successfully in Europe, which, despite all the recent turbulence and the rise of the far-right parties, is still in much better shape than USA, when it comes to the elections.
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These business articles are always so vague. I learned very little. Why is it bad? It has bad radar? Why is a new ship going to be better? Can't you just install a better radar on these ships?
Or movies with high resolution LIDAR and tiles of all surfaces allowing free roaming in movies
Doesn't need, but is there a performance difference? I seem to remember there is no difference between _mm_load_si128 and _mm_loadu_si128 on modern CPUs, but I'm not sure.
It's not automated, it's because the article specifically details how a type of blight designation is being misused as an attempted end-run around a state law that specifically prohibits use of eminent domain for this purpose. The area is not blighted. The crime rate does not meet the legal requirement. The scheme is illegal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16837490
I suspect that the OP used the "Print..." command in the File menu, and selected PDF as the printer option. ISTR that this can sometimes result in poor quality results as presumably it is relying on an external PDF engine to render the notebook.

Whenever I've used the "Save As..." command, choosing PDF as the target, I've also only had good quality output.
But that's because psychology is generally anti-diagnosis, and because psychology rejects diagnosis.
It's an ad for their company posed as an opinion piece.
Governments across the world are becoming more proactive and trying to improve ease of doing business and paying taxes. This is the way it should be. Citizens shouldn't have to run around or pay someone to pay taxes. In India, starting a business used to be a hassle taking more than 2 - 3 months, now they have completely made it online and free. So players in India like https://www.indiafilings.com are also adopting to the changes by providing more services or lowering the fee, which is great for Entrepreneurs. Hopefully, the politicians will not budge for lobbying to satisfy a few corporates and look at the bigger picture.
> I don’t think lobbying per se is a problem.

That touches upon the fundamental problem of end justifying means... And in the case of lobbying the groups of interest that will prevade will be the ones with the biggest amount of cash in their pockets, which doesn't correlate often with the best ethics.
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Talk from the same author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BWYqHbF00c
It does seem to have decent surf, though I'm not a surfer.
Is there a link with schizophrenia ? it seems the main mode is a strong doubt -> belief implication.
Python is the most chosen OOP language in my book
Oh I don't doubt that the new deal was politically a good idea. Blood on the streets is bad for one's re-election prospects. And communist overthrows certainly produce lots of blood.

I'm just dubious of claims that it was economically a great idea, especially in the long run. This seems to be unclear from the data, looking back from a safe distance.
It's unreadable for me. I suspect all "grey text is easier o read" people either have bad monitors or wrongly configure them.
It is illegal to discriminate against anyone for being over 40 years old. That goes for hiring, firing, or promotion decisions. But, yes, it's hard to prove. Enforcement tends to be through civil lawsuits, too, which can be hard to fund and win.
I wonder if this is true for physical inactivity in general? I suspect that using a standing desk instead of sitting down wouldn’t change the situation.
If you want to limit yourself to a single machine: isn't that what files are for? Sharing large data between processes?
I bought the turbo tax CD which claimed to come with phone support from CPAs. The CD worked fine for the most part but the phone support was basically a scam.
Eminent domain is a despotic power; to grant any legitimacy to the taking of property for "public use" is the abhorrent tip of a wedge, even with supposedly "just compensation." This should have become clear to all after the 2005 Kelo decision. [1]

Recommended reading: Property Rights and Eminent Domain by Ellen Frankel Paul [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Property-Rights-Eminent-Domain-Franke...
Yes! That is the paper I had in mind! Thanks.
I was using PyQT with good success at a major aerospace company a dozen years ago. Is this post promising some major improvement or just a rebranding?
> Communists considered Soviet Union just a bridgehead for the World Revolution.

Communists in general may have, but did the Soviets? I thought Stalin's stance was socialism in one country, leading (at least in part) to the breach with Trotsky. And he deliberately crushed the incipient workers' revolution in republican Spain during the civil war.
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I don't know how long that will take to actually pass. We can at least stop tying insurance to particular employers. Even in public sector jobs, it can be risky to switch jobs to live in a better neighborhood or work for a better boss (maybe one that doesn't discriminate based on age, for example).
If anyone is interested more in the latest science of teasing apart the neural substraits of wanting and liking I highly recommend taking a look at the review papers written over at Berridge lab, http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/resear...