skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn't present an honest understanding of his own field, or the field of neuroscience, or the ongoing developments in the technology surrounding his own business, or its implications.

Even without extrapolating from the pattern recognition tools we have today, whole classes and ranges of jobs can be fully or partially eliminated.

Here is what he says about the state of AI:

> Even the most eye-catching successes claimed for AI in recent times have been, on closer inspection, relatively underwhelming. The idea that an autonomous superhuman machine intelligence will spontaneously spring, unprogrammed, from these technologies is still the stuff of Kurzweilian fantasy. Forget Skynet; at this stage it’s not certain we’ll even get to Bicentennial Man.

> These techniques might replicate discrete functions of a human mind, but they cannot capture the mind’s totality or what makes it unique: its creativity, its genius for emotion and intuition. There’s something else going on."

"the brain has spiritual magic"

Compare that to quotes from real live top human Chinese Go players defeated by AlphaGo last year:

> “After humanity spent thousands of years improving our tactics, computers tell us that humans are completely wrong,” Mr. Ke, 19, wrote on Chinese social media platform Weibo after his defeat. “I would go as far as to say not a single human has touched the edge of the truth of Go.”

? “AlphaGo has completely subverted the control and judgment of us Go players,” Mr. Gu, the final player to be vanquished by Master, wrote on his Weibo account. “I can’t help but ask, one day many years later, when you find your previous awareness, cognition and choices are all wrong, will you keep going along the wrong path or reject yourself?”

http://archive.is/qCwn8
In the extremes (0% and 100% overlap), don't these cease to be Venn diagrams? I thought a Venn diagram had to show every possible intersection and non-intersection, even if some of these were empty.
Sometimes you want to set up an efficient processing pipeline on a single machine, e.g. when writing a database engine. In that case, you don't want to serialize all communication between processes. Of course, other processes (not related to the efficient pipeline) can live on different machines.
Arguably, historical birth rates affect a larger affect on the budget than retirement account shenanigans.
Ask HN: Android vs. iOS security?
Which one is recommended for better security and why?
From the article:
She hates school. “Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. “Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. School just isn’t for me. I hate coming to school. I hate waking up early. I hate homework.”

Amber envisions a comfortable future that includes a family, a modern-yet-rustic house and a good job, maybe as a business owner

Hmmmm. Not sure that much can be done, or should be done, to help lazy unmotivated people with unrealistic expectations.
Any recommendations for a good Linux compatible typing tutor ?
Sure pronounce it Q.T(Cu'te). but write it as Qt. Google QT and you will see all the branding and naming is "Qt-toolkit".

Just because most are wrong; does it make it right?
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Genji 2 is an action game which is based on Japanese history. The um, stages of the game will also be based on famous battles which took- actually took place in ancient Japan.

So here's this giant enemy crab.
Also useful but notably absent from this article – brevity.
The tax preparation companies such as H&R Block and Intuit spend a lot of money lobbying Congress to keep this from happening.
> In the private sector even if you max out your 401k you'd never come close to that sort of retirement.

Folks that could and would provide for their future selves like this via 401k programs cannot, as you point out, on account of contribution limits. Saving outside tax-advantaged accounts is certainly doable but hardly seems fair vs the pensioner's tax treatment mentioned in the article.
> Why would you look at their after tax income when this comes out of their taxes?

Every new expense comes out of your savings rate (or your rate in paying off principal if you're in debt). To understand "kitchen table economics", you're always better looking at the wealth growth rates (or lack thereof) when trying to weigh how much of a burden something is.
Um yes, the title should be more like:

"Sitting correlates to Thinning in certain brain regions"
Actually, this optimisation is illegal. I could line up memory such that it is illegal to read past the first location where the array is not sorted. The original code would be fine, the vectorised code would segfault.

Similar annoying problems arise when people try to be clever with C strings, and read past the null. You can write optimisations which work, but they require care.
Why Criminals Can Trade Tide Detergent for Crack Cocaine (2013)
Oracle should go straight to the top: buy advertising time on Fox & Friends.
Everyone my age learned SOS from a commercial jingle and/or playing Atari.
I think it'd be fair to say that's a textbook example of "reasonable expectation of privacy".

If someone watches you walk down the street, your reaction would be somewhere on a scale between not even noticing, and thinking they're a busybody. If they joined you in a stall while you expell a few demons, it's a safe assumption you'd rather different opinion of them.
Anti clickbait tldr: Too much sitting is ASSOCIATED with thinning brain structures.
Thoughts About Programming While Teaching My Baby to Walk
Just don't panic when the cruise ship you're on signals that it is operating in reverse by sounding the horn three times.
Top 5 Marketplaces to Buy and Sell Side Projects
Some offtopic notes about this webpage.

Nice visual design.

Searching for "dot product" does not work, but searching for "dot-product" does work.

Also, every character I type in the search box ends up as a new entry in my browser history ...
JSON on Redis via RediSQL, SQL Steroids for Redis
Tribute to the Iconic Winnie Mandela
I dislike hot reload for a few reasons. One, it makes it difficult to keep two tabs open to compare the "before" and "after" of a change, because both tabs reload the "after" instantly. Two, you can get into an "impossible" state where you've navigated into a section of the site and get to see an "after" state that turns out to be unreachable because the change affected earlier navigation. Three, it is often unclear if everything reloaded properly during a hot reload, especially if you have also fiddled around with stylesheets etc in the chrome developer console. To each his own, though! :)
I used their online video support this year. I thought it was pretty good. You get an appointment, the. They all you (on time!) and open a little video window in your browser. Overall I felt more confident in my return knowing a CPA looked at it, mostly because I could describe my individual situation and confirm I was reporting it correctly.
I think there’s too much talk about regulation and not enough about market structure. We can find examples of central planned economies that were succesful and ones that were abject failures, ditto for laisez-faire. There’s different metrics that are almost never touched upon in these discussions. For example bio-diversity of companies, cross-sector cooperation and integration, logistics networks, culture of knowledge sharing and innovation, geographical clustering, political stability, how the financial layer is constructed and integrated, worker satisfaction, ecological footprint, etc... All those things can be self-organized or directed, but most discussions seem to be ideological boxing matches between the superiority of the method rather than the virtues of the structural makeup they’re supposed to achieve.
Why are there different names for the same intrinsic?

For example, _mm_add_pi8() seems to be identical to _m_paddb(). Same for _m_empty() and _mm_empty().

Are there any subtleties I'm missing?
I'm not a speed demon, I wear reasonable motorcycle gear, and I don't do anything for the sake of danger/thrillseeking.

But getting back in the saddle last year after a long hiatus and using it as my primary means of transport has done wonders for my state of mind. (And my wallet for that matter, which relieves stress, which then comes around to state of mind again.)

I've got more than enough storage to go grocery shopping, I've got music through my helmet (Sena doesn't have much competition, but I don't have many complaints) and I've got nice warm clothes so cold is not an issue.

I do miss it on days when there's snow on the ground or low visibility, but around here that doesn't last more than a few days, a week at most.
Thank you for the suggestion.

I will have a look into it
Computer research was more because Soviet elite didn't believe in computing. Thus resources were allocated differently. Sicne there was no free market, nobody took a stab on their own either.

"Economy" didn't mean shit in USSR. It was all about priorities. War in Afghanistan got plenty of resources in meantime. As well as aiding friendly regimes around the globe. Meanwhile citizens were having a hard time in their daily lives and civilian industry was falling behind.

If we're going to cherry pick, we could say that tsarist Russia was highly modern country since Medelev figured out the elements table. Yet it's accepted it was an agricultural country, falling behind and fast. USSR, aside from several areas where they threw all their resources, was falling behind too.

So yes, sending first human to space is sad when you can't provide adequate life to your own citizens. It's like saying that North Korea is catching up thanks to their ICBM programme progress :)

P.S. Germans/Nazis were the ones who got both USSR and USA into space.
Police and fire fighters are doing very hazardous work. Teachers tend to have postgraduate degrees. All can be living in high cost-of-living areas where $100k doesn't go as far as people think.

"Government employees" could be running departments or administering budgets that would be director-level positions in a private corporation.

But, yeah, it seems like too much to pay $600k per year for checking that applicants correctly filled in the phone number on their 124-J forms. But I'm not sure it's always that clear cut.
In that case, you'd either mutex lock rows you're updating or generally choose a more stricter isolation level like RepeatableReads, or SSI?
AlphaGo is impressive, but it is an impressive parlor trick not impressive as 'artificial intelligence'

Playing a game with fixed rules and a finite set of potential states is something a computer can do.

Designing the computer that does that is intelligent.

There is no connection between the two and one does not lead to the other.

The fact that some of the people developing 'artificial intelligence' have such a limited understanding of what intelligence is no doubt contributes to the mocking tone of some critics.
"On the Model X this part is serviceable, if you'd been driving an X, we could fix it."

That is just the biggest FU to a customer that spent 100k on a car.

Also I don't understand why his insurance is going up if it wasn't his fault?
That doesn't seem to be the case: http://money.cnn.com/news/cnnmoney-investigates/nra-funding-...
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You appear confused, I only mentioned the USSR once as a figure of speech. Communist countries were run by blind ideologues and I would never use those as good examples of central planning.
I’ve never done those drugs, but I feels similarly. I think this comes with age and added stress, which also comes with age.
75 paise is less than 2 cents btw.

And there is also the only Sanskrit paper still ongoing although they do have online versions: http://sudharmasanskritdaily.in/
> Not everyone works in tech.

Even in tech, it's pretty common to have to switch specialties, fire your boss, move, etc., to ensure you're getting market rates.

Honestly, if public sector employees think they're paid unfairly, they should talk to their union reps about decoupling seniority from particular districts, departments, etc.
There's always play under the table.

But democratic election where I can oversee voting, join one of many (or start a new one) political party or even go for office myself is infinitely more free than in Soviet system.

Completely overhaul is probably not possible, because there would be a lot of people opposing it and simple majority is not enough to implement it. But significant adjustments are happening all the time. Point in case - France and Macron's reforms.
Basically all of the 50cc mopeds had to be artificially crippled to keep them under legal speed limits for them (typically 40-50km/h depending on country). Remove the cripple and they'll all go 70-80km/h or more. This isn't even with upgraded parts, which makes them go 100km/h-ish and more, although the suspension, frame and brakes on them will definitely not be up to the job safely without upgrading those too.
My problem is that the pensions give the government a way of paying employees low and kicking the can down the road where later taxpayers bare the brunt of obligations that they had no say in.

Just pay government employees more so taxpayers, the government, and potential employees can all go in knowing the trade offs and let the employees manage their own retirement like everyone else.

Of course I don't have a problem with military families being provided cheap healthcare.
Purely on gut instinct I'd put my money on depression.
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> And everybody... falls for this over and over and over.

I don't know about everybody. Lots of people benefited from lower-than-possible taxes over the years, sold their houses for large piles of cash, then move to Arizona or Florida or something where taxes are lower, houses are cheap, and there's no snow.
Death: Reality vs. Reported
That's fine?

If you look at facebook's primary purpose as a contacts manager and the secondary purpose as a "keep up with other peoples lives feed", then the primary purpose is still served even if you choose not to see everything everyone shares.
Those people get more than fair market value for the houses. They aren’t getting thrown in the street. Check the facts.
I think its more about wardrobe choices.

Wearing close that easily shred so you can hang small pieces of your shirt on nearby bushes as a trail.

Or unique pieces of jewelry you can drop along the way for the Ranger to find.

It also doesn't hurt to have at least 2 days of laundry in the basket so the blood hounds have something to scent from.
There are multiple inference levels here.

First, there is the statistical level, at which we are drawing some conclusion about the model parameter. This may work even for a misspecified model.

Then there is the level at which you want to draw some conclusion about reality, call it the "scientific level". If the model is misspecified, the parameters/coefficients may or may not correspond to the thing of interest. Perhaps the model is a close enough approximation for those values to be meaningful, perhaps not...

I think it is the second ("scientific level") of inference that most people are concerned about. The rigor of the proofs/theorems that may work at the statistical level does not extend to the scientific level.

Afaict, the majority of erroneous inference occurs at the scientific level and statistical error/uncertainty is a sort of minimum error/uncertainty.
Faced with the impossibility of determining whether a technology is intelligent or not—since we don’t know what intelligence is—Silicon Valley’s funders are left instead to judge the merit of a new idea in AI according to the perceived intelligence of its developers. What did they study? Where did they go to school? These are the questions that matter

This is a perfect summary of the VC situation today. Too much money chasing no-one knows what exactly, but they're sure they'll know it when they see it.
The Android world is extremely divided, and it very much depends on which phone you buy. There's this story recently:
https://www.wired.com/story/android-phones-hide-missed-secur...

But there have been other problems in the past, for example that most Android phones are not encrypted by default.
Bitcoin is anything but widely used. Democratic countries tightly regulate everything that is usable for money laundering as soon as it reaches a size that makes it relevant. Bitcoin is insignificant at this point and the push for regulation has already started.
That creature is kinda cute in its own grim way.
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You try to aim for an informal introduction. Get two people close together, nudge them towards each other, say the "have you two ever met?" line, and just leave it to them to exchange greetings.
https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut... discussed here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092219

https://sourceforge.net/blog/introducing-the-new-sourceforge... discussed here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108750
Yes, it does. Actually if you don't include the main bundle.js you'll be left with just HTML and everything will be great.
Interesting read, but written in July last year, so things might be different now.
If you take a different perspective, the point isn't to see a one-time treatment that cures an illness, the same way you would with medication and surgery. In that sense death is a cure for anything and it's a total cop-out.

I've made two attempts on my own life in the past decade and I'm incredibly grateful that I didn't get the realistic 'cure' I was looking for in those brief moments; in fact it could barely be considered a cure at all, especially if you believe in things such as karma and reincarnation (and this is true for many folk).

Acceptance gives you the opportunity to enjoy your life while still being aware that there are times and situations where you really struggle and you've got to take care of yourself through them. You can take various steps to pull yourself out of the rabbit hole, even if only for a while, and get a better understanding of how you can manage your triggers or become more resilient to them. It might be a lifelong struggle, or you become resilient enough that you can deal with the dark moments really well or even sidestep them entirely by noticing certain feelings coming up. This means you still feel like a human being with a full spectrum of emotions without having them medicated or repressed out of existence.

The key thing in stories like these is that often the person suffering the depression (or similar mental illness) is motivated to do something they would never have thought of before (or been too afraid of). It's not really staving anything off because if you reframe it, what you're seeing are these creative, beautiful and inspired acts to embrace life like they never did before. Travelling, skydiving, adventure, art, music, going to the cinema alone, meditating, volunteering...

These remedies are otherwise known as 'being alive' and they're an incredible reaction to the often temporary desire to shuffle off the mortal coil. And what's better is that you can very easily enrich the lives of others as well as your own in the process, no matter what darkness is lurking deep inside you. If, with your depression or your mental trauma, you manage to live a full life anyway, then wasn't that as good as a cure, if not better? It's even better than managing it.

This is just how it feels for me anyway; I've been dealing with complex PTSD for a long time and, in the most twisted way, I can say that my life became far more enriched through my efforts to work through that. In that sense I think seeing death as the only cure is an insane trivialization of the matter.
There's (almost?) no one using partially hydrogenated oils anymore so the story with packaged goods is about the same as butter, in products using fully hydrogenated oils there's a small amount that would be difficult to remove.

The granola bars I eat switched to unprocessed vegetable oil and upgraded their packaging (better oxygen barrier). A lot of products did that.
THANK YOU FOR THE POSTING, I LIKED THIS ONE.
> This study does not prove that too much sitting causes thinner brain structures, but instead that more hours spent sitting are associated with thinner regions, researchers said.

This is a bit of a non-story. The article doesn't go into what measures were taken to eliminate confounding factors, and it seems from the way it's worded that not many were taken. Maybe people who have a more sedentary lifestyle also tend to come from a lower social background, thus are more prone to physical and mental diseases. Or maybe people who sit more tend to be more obese, and it's really obesity that's associated here. It doesn't take a genius to think up more possible confounding variables. Also, a cohort of 35 people is tiny.
The overwhelming majority of folks don't donate enough to charity to hit the tax write-off level.

Countries with sane tax collection systems make it easy for you to add those deductions, either on paper or with a web service run by the government, for free.

And your mortgages, unless they are from international banks, yes, the IRS already knows about those too. Let me put it this way: if it goes through a US domiciled bank, the IRS knows about it already.

Yes, people with complex tax returns do use accountants to file their taxes in countries with sane systems too, but the overwhelming majority don't need the complexity for the equivalent of a w2 and/or a couple of 1099s.
Cryptocurrencies aren't really a solution to our problems
Thanks, I don't think CNNs were mentioned in Andrew Ng's machine learning course. That's about the only background I have in machine learning. The NN examples of image recognition in that course did start from scratch without any architectural features designed for images.
I'm sure there are some jobs that are too physically demanding to do at 65. My dad retired from a manufacturing job at 55 because it was putting too much of a strain on his body. Luckily, my parents have always been frugal and my mom could retire at 55 with a teachers pension. But teachers pensions are a lot more reasonable 2% of final salary x years worked up to 30 years.
IIRC, the full video (or a different one showing a crab killing a Booby - I can't find it at the moment) first shows the crab climbing a tree, approaching a sleeping bird, and breaking one of its wings. The bird falls out of the tree, and the crab climbs down the tree to attack the bird again on the ground.

This behavior might be seen as an extension of how they go after coconuts and other fruit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab#Ecology
It is not intuitive to me why that would be bad. Care to elaborate?
My anecdotal experience tells me that those who adopt many efficiency boosting methods (standing desks, optimized keyboard layouts, various lifehacks, extreme customization of their work environment…) tend to be less inclined to focus on the actual work.
Has anyone tried integrating this sort of thing into LibreOffice? I bet Calc would make a decent DataFrame tool.