skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9.9 times out of 10, I'd be in strong agreement with you. This time however, I think the use of the term "dream" is not as egregious as would be typical. When we dream, we often believe we're conscious and multiple senses will seem to corroborate this. It must be the case that we're interacting with a generative world model. Hippocampal replay is hypothesized to, in part, facilitate what their model is doing when they call it dreaming.

Hallucination on the other hand, is a less defensible use here. Hallucination refers to when predictions overwhelm sense input. Since their agent was not behaving in a way uncorrelated with its inputs, such as its predictive model overriding input data, it doesn't qualify as hallucination.
To each his own, of course, and if VS Code does it for you, well then - excellent.

I personally find it a bloated mess, and like to stick with my Komodo and my Geany - two neat examples of portable UIs done right.

Anyway, I'm sure there are ways of embedding runtime web macinery in somewhat less than 100Mb. Twenty years ago I did so in a megabyte or two, admittedly without the js.
> Have you ever done a 990? I don’t mean “paid for one” but I mean truly sat down and did it? It’s ridiculous and each ridiculous line has more baggage attached to each.

No, but your post was about individual taxes. Form 990 is only filed by non-profit organizations, which certainly do not fit the formulas for individuals you posted above.

> So to you, I tell you that the tax code for the US is significantly bigger than the tax return a private individual like yourself files yearly.

Your initial post was referring to individuals, so that is what I was replying to. You are being disingenuous by talking about corporate tax code complexity next to burdens on individuals.

> A regular person should be able to properly pay taxes in a quick, clear and efficient manner. It shouldn’t require a professional who’s job it is to deal with the gross mismanagement of government.

Like I said, it can be better. However, I have never used a tax professional. The burden is not nearly as great on individuals and small businesses as you are claiming, as evidenced by you talking about 990s (which do not apply to individuals and small businesses) and the overall tax code(the vast majority of which does not apply to individuals and small businesses).
Can we get the link changed to the non-amp version? https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/4/17/17247334/ai-fake-new...
Another multiplayer minesweeper is http://minesweeper.io
Celery: an overview of the architecture and how it works (2017)
Well, we do have some programming tasks that are almost exclusively performed through bindings on different platforms (cryptography, graphics/GUIs, scientific computing to some extent), but the hassle of maintaining bindings is enough that the “need barrier” is high: a given library has to be doing really important stuff that is also really hard to reimplement to end up in the set of tools that are almost always used via interop/bindings. This indicates a deeper problem hidden in your question: for a bunch of reasons (technical, personal, OSS-community-political), maintaining multi-platform bindings is a hassle. Things like Truffle/Graal aim to solve that by providing a common binding “middle” layer in various platforms’ runtimes. Things like libffi offer ways to make ad hoc binding easier. It’s a complicated problem.
See 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad and that was written in 1899. The Belgian conquest of Congo remains one of the darkest periods of human history littered with crimes against humanity.

Since this is so well known once can only assume you have no idea what you are talking about. [1][2][3][4][5][6].

Congo is currently a global center of valuable minerals for western companies and has been plundered ruthlessly for 300 years by the west.

It's like pointing to the sorry state of Iraq, Libya or Syria 50 years on to insinuate some deficiency while forgetting to mention the complete destruction and devastation of these countries on brazenly false pretexts by western governments.

1. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-2439639

2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/22/congo.rorycarr...

3. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/10/cong-o26.html

4. https://www.thesiriusreport.com/geopolitics/silent-genocide-...

5. https://newint.org/features/2004/05/01/congo

6. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/01/blood-min...
So you can go through the metal detectors. ;-)
It could be high or low -- need to compare to other airlines's incidents/mileage/flights.

The article is junk editorializing narrative-building, though. They could have written "only three major events over the span of two years" like you did, and readers would have no way to judge if "only" is correct or not.
Bay Area Fossil Find: Dam project unearths whale skulls, giant shark teeth 15Mya
Stopping plate tectonics also has longterm consequences for the deep carbon cycle and climate which we'd better be prepared to handle. Though we probably have to tackle that particular problem way before.
Really, because the guy in the brown jacket had a incredibly coiffed beard? Is that what made you think they were homeless?

Your sophistry is all about equating asking a homeless smelly white dude with two perfectly respectable men waiting a couple minutes for their third to arrive.

When you go out with someone to eat, do you order as soon as you arrive and begin to eat even if the other person hasn't shown up yet?
This is an interesting perspective, because in his book, "The History of Western Philosophy" recommended elsewhere in this thread, Bertrand Russell makes this one of the metrics by which he rates historical philosophers. For example, he rates Schopenhauer:

> He habitually dined well, at a good restaurant; he had many trivial love-affairs, which were sensual but not passionate; he was exceedingly quarrelsome and unusually avaricious. ... It is hard to find in his life evidences of an virtue except kindness to animals ... In all other respects he was completely selfish. It is difficult to believe that a man who was profoundly convinced of the virtue of asceticism and resignation would never have made any attempt to embody his convictions in his practice.
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I think the problem here is that you want to have your cake and eat it, too. The short answer is: You can't have both. Either you do what you need to do, or you fear for various bad consequences that might or might not happen in life and don't get things done.

You can't expect bad things to happen to you when you do nothing, but you can't expect good things happen to you when you do nothing, either. If you fear it, then don't do it.

E(x) = P(x) * Return(x)

When you do nothing E(do_nothing) = 100% * 0 = 0, When you do something, try to evaluate E(do_something) = E(bad) + E(good), and see if E(do_something) > 0 or E(do_something) < 0.
[citation required] but even if true, getting site owners to opt-in to exchanging their user's privacy for psychographic and demographic correlations seems materially different than Facebook's "no opt out" on a relatively unrelated feature like a Like button on a 3rd party site. They used to and could again make the button work without using it to gather browsing data.
Do you think the crew did the right thing, hiding the incident from the passengers, or should they have communicated clearly from the start to head off anxiety (and unlocked the entertainment system to distract everyone)
Sorry, I'm from a philosophy background so I think of anything published in the last ~100 years as "fairly recent" ;)

All I meant was that that many ideas and methods developed originally for linguistics were taken up and expanded upon in programming language research, so that they had a great deal of overlap until about half way through the timeline in the link.
Go back even further and pretty much every news source was a propaganda machine. Most of the major "trusted" new sources today started primarily in yellow journalism and political attack ads. Pulitzer was not a particularly nice man. Neither was Hearst.

It was a brief modern period when news sources decided to take themselves seriously and rise up ethically and appear "unbiased" to the public. It made the landscape more consolidated and monolithic, but it also drove sources to present relatively whole stories with what limited bandwidth they had to the largest population possible.

That being said, at the same time, radio hosts quite willingly went into the base-pandering and echo chambers. Conservative Talk Radio didn't crop up in the 2000s. They arrived after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine from the FCC in 1987.

TV and print news only later realized if you insert just enough bias to make their viewers feel comfortable and to differentiate from their peers, they could make a WHOLE lot more money. And with the creation of a lot more time to sell news via 24hr channels and the Internet, you had to room to add in fluff, opinion, and other material.
What is your experience interacting with it? I've read everything she's written and much of the secondary literature from her adherents and critics. (I've also got a minor in philosophy, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the canon.)

For me, the thoughts of predecessors that she builds upon (or amplifies) benefit from her clear, practical, and direct writing style. She draws out implications and essentializes a bunch of philosophers—having read the original works, I can appreciate what she brings to that particular table.

In my opinion, her most significant contributions are in epistemology. I've never seen her theory of concept formation anywhere else, for example. Her grounding of abstraction in concretes sidesteps many of the issues that led Hume astray.

If anyone's interested, I can provide several books that explore her epistemology in great detail and really shine a light on her contributions.

(Her ethics is also unique, as is her politics, but I think history will look most favorably on her epistemology.)
These exchanges are all operating completely outside of any regulation or oversight. I wouldn't be surprised to find if most of them were completely insolvent and didn't hold a good majority of the crypto currency they claim to. I also wouldn't be surprised if a good fraction of their exchange volume was completely fabricated.

If you use these exchanges, you are basically playing in a wild-west casino where the house has every single advantage and every incentive to siphon off every dime of your money.
Sulong, and Thanks for All the Fish [pdf]
That strikes me as some sort of backwards reasoning, people had to literally break into FBI offices and steal documents so that those things would come to be known. You can't really fault the news for not reporting on something they had, unless I'm mistaken, absolutely no way of knowing unless they were to, y'know, infiltrate the FBI.
The free market is a market where no producer or consumer can manipulate price.

It needs as much regulation to run as any Soviet Bureaucracy. The reason why it's efficient is because the price computation is distributed.
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It's very inelastic. Good skin will probably need to stretch reasonably well.
I wasn't there in person so I can't tell whether they smelled or not and I'm not a guy so I'm not an expert on beards and can't tell whether it's clean or not.

In any case they should have left when they were asked to and just waited outside like a normal person. I've seen baristas ask white people to leave and all of them did without any issues. Why wouldn't those guys leave? Why did they cause problems?

Isn't it unusual for guys to go out and about wearing sweatpants. I haven't seen guys other than the homeless do that if they're not at the gym.
I'm sure LyreBird will get there eventually: https://soundcloud.com/user-535691776/dialog

As far as I can tell, it's still early days for the audio faking side of things. I'd give it a year or two before it's indistinguishable from real voice. Then we're in trouble.
Building standards were first implemented in Japan in 1952 and were revised in 1981 and 2000. Apologies for not having an English source, but of the people who were killed because of the house or building that they lived in, 98% were living in a building/house that did not meet the standards of the 1981 revision to the building codes.

https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/rentoku/sinsai/20/rensai/201409/00...
> Regardless of whether they were homeless they should have left and not caused problems.

They didn't cause problems. The problems were brought to them. They were just sitting and waiting for a friend.
Balaji is a true renaissance man
> "One VM to rule them all" reminds me of Parrot VM (for Perl 6). Looks like development slowed down a year or two ago.

The concept lives on in the form of two "new" Perl 6 projects, namely MoarVM (started in 2012; a multi language VM) and NQP (started around 2008; a virtual VM and multi language compiler toolkit).

https://moarvm.org

https://github.com/perl6/nqp

These can appropriately be compared with Graal and Truffle. Imo their main weakness is they're not backed by Oracle but rather the Perl 6 project.

https://perl6.org
Given that you're comparing two non-interchangeable products the above is wrong.

If we had one firm control 90% of oil reserves and a free for all for coal that the fossil fuel market was free.
Super interesting! However...

...my impression (not dispelled or even challenged by their marketing materials) is that we currently have effectively surplus hides as a side effect of raising animals for meat, milk, and other purposes.

So when they say:

> Livestock use an astonishing 30% of the earth’s entire land surface and cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, than all transportation methods. Put simply, as disposable incomes rise around the globe, we simply can’t meet the demand for meat — and leather consumer goods — using resources available on the planet.

That seems to be about 90% true (but irrelevant) and 10% questionable. Livestock are very expensive environmentally, and as the world gets richer we will certainly struggle to support the current meat-heavy western diet for billions more people. But that still means we're going to be producing an enormous torrent of hides (more now than today). Are we really going to struggle to find enough hides to meet global demand for leather good? Prices for raw inputs have been remarkably flat for the past ~20 years (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU04190108).

Even from the perspective of minimising animal cruelty, leather from animals that would already be raised and killed for meat or because they were ending their useful life on a dairy farm isn't especially problematic.

Further:

> We carefully control the mycelium’s growth conditions to produce a substrate that can be cured and tanned into a soft, supple material that looks and feels like leather.

So it still needs to be cured and tanned. Which no doubt helps it be a great leather substitute, but much of the cost (monetary and environmental) of leather isn't the hides, it's the curing and tanning process, which can use some pretty harsh chemicals. Another reason to be skeptical that this is a huge improvement environmentally.

I also note there's no real discussion of price. If this process can turn out finished leather more cheaply than traditional methods, that's a big sign this is more efficient environmentally. If it can't (and the silence is interesting), it raises the question of whether this is actually worse for the environment. (Which wouldn't be that hard to imagine!)

In short: Totally cool! But so far it doesn't look like a "we're going to get rich while saving the planet" kind of thing, more like a "maybe some vegans will pay a premium for a really good fake leather jacket" kind of thing. Also good! But not as amazing as they try to make it sound.
Try maintaining and extending a codebase founded on all those third party packages, over a period of several years
As long as you remember to only breathe through your mouth, nothing. But if you don't, you'll pass out just as quickly as you would without the mask.
Is anyone else bothered by the likelihood that the writer of this sentence doesn't believe it's true?

The unauthorized display of our client's intellectual property is likely to cause consumers encountering this app to mistakenly believe that it emanates from, or is provided under a license from, Oracle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...
Why should we assume that being one or two generations removed from subsistence farming implies that a user is naive? There are plenty of naive persons worldwide who grew up in middle class households in the West who are just as naive. I don't think the connection is that clean.
> In addition, websites that allow you to create an account or log in using your Facebook credentials will generally not work properly. Because this extension is designed to separate Facebook use from use of other websites, this behavior is expected.

As much as I love these kinds of things, this is going to break something for my less tech-y family. As such, I can't let them use this kind of thing.
I used Firefox's containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete, seems to work well.
They told the manager they were waiting for someone, and they were - to discuss (IIRC) real estate - the guy they were waiting for showed up while they were getting arrested, obviously very distraught. If two middle age white guys were waiting in a Starbucks for a colleague to show up, there no way in hell the manager would ask them to leave - that's literally what Starbucks is for.

That's what the Starbucks manager did wrong - the men knew they were being asked to leave because they were black men, not because they didn't order. They weren't causing trouble and weren't doing anything different from the white patrons - during the arrest some white patrons were pointing out that didn't order either yet weren't asked to leave.
Hey why is Firefox giving Facebook preferential treatment?
Cosmos and Tendermint
We've been working on proof-of-stake and blockchain scaling/interoperability infrastructure since 2014. It all starts with a classical BFT algorithm which provides simple light-client proofs and fork-accountability. Your mobile phone can verify transaction finality in 5 seconds, with no need for an hour of block confirmations as in Bitcoin proof-of-work mining.

https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint <-- blockchain consensus engine
https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk <-- blockchain framework in Go
https://github.com/keppel/lotion <-- blockchain framework in JS
https://github.com/cosmos/voyager <-- blockchain explorer
https://github.com/tendermint/go-amino <-- blockchain codec derived from Proto3
https://cosmos.network
https://tendermint.com

The Cosmos Hub will launch very soon. Lets build stuff! Onion routing for Tendermint would be a great addition. And DNS/name-resolution on Tendermint can actually solve Zooko's triangle.
While we're at it, lets fork Go too. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/e-lang/cQiXS_GnKS4/Zsk...

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder of the Cosmos project, cofounder of Tendermint, and long-time HN lurker.
They caused problems by not leaving when they were asked it. I've seen white people be asked to leave and they've left without causing problems.
Do you have any more information on how to do this? A link? I'm interested in isolating google.
Sterblue: http://www.sterblue.com/ - We automate inspections of industrial infrastructure (Power grid, Wind turbines, solar panels and so on) using drones and AI.

One integrated automatic solution for data collection and data analysis, using off-the-shelf-drones, with 98% detection precision, and 200% productivity as compared to other drone inspection solutions. Purely software.

Good luck to all !
Using network effects (not patents) to build defensible software
I do hate it too; feels like I'm watching one of those stupid teenager/fake "prankster" vlog channels.

I sometimes see an interesting video title from him but don't even bother because I know it's gonna be 90% bullshit drama/useless scripted backstory and 10% actual tech.
Not sucked out of the plane is one of the least important reasons to buckle up. The chances of this happening to any one passenger is just astronomical. I can't find any examples in commercial aviation where a seated passenger got sucked out without their seat.

It has happened to a standing flight attendant, and in that case a very large section of the aircraft had suddenly separated.

Of course, buckling up during take offs and landings will certainly reduce your chances of injury/death in the event of a crash. And buckling up during flight will reduce your chances of injury during unexpected turbulence.
Tesla made some interesting breakthroughs to be sure, but he was also a nut-case who fell in love with a pigeon. Not everything he said is some form of holy writ.

Science made the rapid progress it did precisely because it at long last ignored "non-physical phenomena".
Interesting, I hadnt heard of anyone successfully doing this on the latest MBP's without going to the genius bar. Makes it a little serviceable.
I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were going to order when the guy they were waiting for arrived. People settle down and wait until the entire party shows up all the time, it's not unusual. It certainly makes sense that people who are going to meet for coffee want to drink the coffee together.
It wansn't a particularly serious suggestion, but thanks for the explanation.
The store was very busy and someone from Starbucks asked them to leave.

Do you have a link for this? My understanding was that one of the men asked for the bathroom code and was told the bathroom was for paying customers only. When he sat down, the manager called the police. I haven't seen any indication that management actually asked them to leave (but I certainly may have missed it).

I can't understand why they refused to leave

They were waiting for the rest of their party to show up.
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