skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a thought experiment, imagine an AI is trying to work out if a rooster crowing makes the sun rise or the other way around (because they are always correlated in its experience). It can do the experiment of putting the rooster in a bag and see if the sun doesn't rise. It can refine it's model after doing this experiment (all with optimization). It is more about untangling correlations that come from latent variables that the system doesn't know about yet.
Not sure why you are being downvoted.

Yes, you can buy upvotes on Reddit. It's about 5 bucks for a couple hundred, often more than enough to get to the front page of mid sized subreddit.
Honestly, I don't want to be on the radar of any entity that is deploying this type of gear in the DC metro area.

I am under no illusion that I can protect myself if targeted by a state based actor. Better to be lost in the crowd.

Best case scenario is it's a legitimate LEO operation.

Worse, it's a federal national security operation.

Worse still, it's a criminal, or foreign national security operation.

Only in the first scenario would the FCC even remotely have the chance to do anything. Even then it might be a legitimate operation, and they do nothing.
Yes, that's the point. The problem is that the way math is taught is quite perverse: one can be learning about math, and never get to do it!

"Math isn't for me", "The truth is, math didn’t move me.", etc. - I wish I had a dollar every time I heard that.

Imagine someone saying "Meat isn't for me, it just didn't move me, and I'll never have it again" after having a tofu burger. That's what it sounds like.
Absolutely correct. US immigration system has deep rooted racism against Chinese and Indians. (Indians who apply for green card today will get it only after 70 years or so).

India has modified its policies to focus more on bringing VC money to its shores. Walmarts takeover of Flipkart is a result of that. Our company in Bay area moved few employees to Mumbai (while still paying them bay area salary. No kidding).
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I vaguely recall seeing some self-driving car presentations that have mentioned exactly this possibility.
"The theory of evolution as an explanation of the origin of the major taxa of life really paints us into a corner from which it is difficult to wiggle out."

Sure, it's easy to avoid corners when you can place them arbitrarily, or even move them when they're inconvenient.
How would one ever be safe building on a free software project if it might contain code subject to patents? Say taking a video codec and shipping it as part of an open hardware project? That'd kind of defeat the "no strings attached" re-distribution rights required for recipients to retain the four software freedoms?

If you don't care about that part (not encumbering down stream users with licensing issues) - why use free software at all?
Making of “Logon's run – 3D meets the aging bits”
I was thinking the same thing. It would be sort of like banking in an airplane, that effectively removes the lateral force of a turn.

The effect in a car wouldn't be as dramatic, but I could still imagine it being useful.
I wonder if you could put “for deposit only” in the endorsement spot to get the same effect. But why would you want to dictate how the check is used?
There is not an arrow pointing to "SDL input". Look again. :-)

Spoiler:

There is an arrow pointing to a large red box that happens to contain libevdev right below the arrow. To see the edge of the box, you may need to scroll right if your browser has a narrow window.

It is a terrible diagram, but it is correct.

In UNIX terminology, anything with a file descriptor is a file. Plan 9 would have a filename, but that is a different OS.

See the man page for stat(1) where you will find S_IFSOCK. The st_mode value is 0140000 for a socket, which is 0xc000 in hex.

I just hacked up the program shown by "man 3 getaddrinfo" to call fstat on the file descriptor and show the results. I get this:

fd 3 has inode 325043100, mode 140777 0xc1ff, dev 8 rdev 0

That inode number is the one that shows as symlink content
in the /proc/*/fd/ directory listing.

Clearly, it works. Sockets do have file descriptors and inode numbers. Inside the kernel, there is even a "struct inode" for each socket.
Unfortunately the market for "companies that need to deploy a fleet of Windows computers to run a bespoke app" is shrinking compared to the entire market. I'm thinking UWP is a them attempting to start over.
... So, "The benefits of eating fresh fruits infinitely outweighs the negatives of pectin. Even pure pectin probably is a net benefit because it slows sugar digestion and lowers cholesterol absorption vs the small amount of formaldehyde produced as a metabolic byproduct." ... would that be a more better way of describing pectin than what you said earlier?
To shroud and conceal their motive and activities.
Hate speech laws aren't completely uncommon, so individual users would be liable for creating it. In NZ law, it's part of our Human Rights Act:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/D...

"It shall be unlawful for any person to publish or distribute written matter which is threatening, abusive, or insulting, or to broadcast by means of radio or television or other electronic communication words which are threatening, abusive, or insulting"
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There was an attempt by British rail to develop a rail car that would lean into corners. How the car leans in a turn has a big effect on ride comfort.

How a car leans and how the suspension responds has a big effect on how the tires contact the road which has a large influence on how sure footed the car feels.

Historically there are trade offs between ride vs handling vs cost and 'branding'.

What interesting to me about electro-mechanical systems is the ability use highly non linear control algorithms to improve the ride and handling. There are some potential benefits beyond just ride comfort, reduction of road wear[1] and anti-washboard control on unimproved roads.

[1] Think of cars and trucks hammering a weak spot like a crack in a road surface.
But isn't "The rich get to set the rules" exactly the elites making decisions for everyone?
That's such a strange edge case that I frankly don't blame Simple for turning you down.
I find if you maintain an open source project as if your users were customers, things tend to go pretty smooth.
It is at least, according to Elsevier, peer reviewed.

* https://www.elsevier.com/journals/progress-in-biophysics-and...
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For me, AI is now in the same category as religion; I don't talk about it because nothing good ever comes out of these type of "discussions."

We should be more open minded and humble about how to approach this problem but almost everyone seems to have a strong opinion about it creating a very low signal to noise ratio.
Nearly 20 years. I learned by attempting to do things that were kind of ridiculous. Like building a large scale general web search engine with hundreds of millions of pages (that was a lot in 2004) using 30+ servers in my townhouse. Go build something ambitious and you will learn how to put it all together!
that's a really great policy and a great communication of priorities.

Something every company should adhere more to. Treat everyone like they're your customer; customer or not.
That demo is clearly staged. However this other one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ0ljaqeZ1g (0:40) seems more legit. It is short but the car is driving on a real bumpy road rather than on a flat surface with carefully placed obstacles.
Most software on Linux is backward compatible as well, you can get some 90s software, compile it and run it, however it does not have as many hacks as Windows has at the moment to achieve that.
"You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before." -- President Donald J. Trump
A barometer changing implies the storm is coming. It doesn’t however causes the storm to come.
That might play a role, but it also seems clear that modern society somewhat devalues "settling down" and having children. Portrays that as boring and lame. I'm not looking to have children, but I'm honestly finding it difficult to find people who even want a committed relationship at the moment. A lot of people are only focused on short-term fun. I would guess that this is in large part a product of our modern capitalistic society being so successful. A strong family unit is no longer necessary for survival.
Elsevier getting desperate lol
Not even criticism - it doesn't mention what the scientists take to be their evidence, much less discuss any of that. It then misunderstands the mention of "future" - the point actually being made was that the alien octopi were so much more complex because they'd had far longer to evolve, not that someone owned a time-machine. I don't have a position on the question, but this article was mostly a waste of time.
https://www.sciencealert.com/marine-biologists-discover-an-u...
That is an awfully strong statement. Do you have qualifications to dismissed the entire field, or is more of an opinion? And even though it's not up to your (admittedly best case) standard, don't population studies, twin studies, et al have some value. It seems it would be effectively impossible to research anything at all about nutrition otherwise.
> place them arbitrarily, or even move them when they're inconvenient.

I know others have been accused of that; I endeavor to maintain integrity.
I control my diet pretty well these days, so it only happens maybe three or four times a year.

Both Prilosec and Nexium caused internal bleeding in my case. Zantac was ineffective.
>He is wrong in that painters and musicians tend to get rigorous instruction in the basics before they become independently creative.

They still get to do it: they get to paint, play, sing, etc. Most math students don't get to do math. They learn about it until a year or two into grad school sometimes.

>maths is one of the few arts that is actually taught in school.

His point is that what is taught is mathematics as much as the names of notes is music.
Here is what I would like to understand: If there is any truth to the theory that Octopuses indeed evolved in outer space and were delivered to our planet via a cosmic payload, how is it that they happened to have the same kind of protein-based, DNA-based genetics like we have? Isn't it too much of a stretch to imagine that an alien evolved under similar conditions with similar genetic foundation like life evolved in our planet?
I guess the doctors I saw didn't know that. I heard about it from a fellow sufferer.
An alternative to to Simple is VaroMoney. Unlike Simple, they are trying to get a bank charter which should give them more control over the bank experience.
I wish the United States had that law, instant impeachable offense for our president. Especially the insulting part, he seems to need to insult others in order to breathe.
“Greenman gaming faking account hacks to make people read their GDPR emails”
I had a look at your case study pdf, and I'm not really seeing it as strong support; there was a quote about lack of transport to work, followed directly by:

> Obviously, Cornwall is a rural county and more likely to experience poorer levels of public transport provision. In the Walsall study, which is clearly more representative of conditions in an inner-urban area, one officer felt that it was less to do with the lack of transport provision and more to do with people’s willingness to travel outside the immediate area

The next section which sites lack of links from areas of "high unemployment to key employment sites" is also talking about Cornwall again.

I actually like public transport, I just think your initial comment was an exaggeration.
Yes, treatments not cures. Tums etc. have been ineffective.
Nature has a huge environment to run its agents in. AI can only access games. Robots IRL are too expensive for optimisation. Solution: better simulators.
That argument sounds awfully similar to that of Intelligent Design.

I imagine that Punctuated Equilibrium is a far simpler explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
Reminds me of S4E8 Breaking Bad when Gus tricks Don Eladio into a meeting.
Phillipines, Vietnam, Malaysia are all very populated and rather dense.
All code is subject to patents. All GPL code is subject to patents - you don't get to build any machine you want to run your GPL code without licenses UNLESS you made the mistake of contributing to a GPL project.

Then anyone can copy your hardware designs for free and sell those machines, too - as long as they include the GPL software.

Would courts actually enforce that? The vast majority of corporations act as though they would and won't use or allow contributions by their employees to patent-grab licenses.

(The Linux kernel is a special case with "stranded rights" since the kernel can't function alone - which is why Google spent billions to reproduce the GNU libraries with a freer license, but didn't have to replace the kernel at the same time - they're doing that now with the Fuschia project.)

Dragonfly BSD, etc, is safe and perfectly usable as long as someone is selling hardware that's licensed, say by Intel or Qualcomm.
I use about a half teaspoon in a half cup (4 oz.) of water.
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Every pseudo-scientific journal claims to be peer reviewed.
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Analysis has had the opposite effect on my writing. After having my head buried in measure theory for a semester I wrote in a report for my student organization: "The set of inactive members of the Executive Committee is a non-negligible one." I was asked to rewrite that.
> The theory of evolution as an explanation of the origin of the major taxa of life really paints us into a corner from which it is difficult to wiggle out.

I'm really not sure what you mean by this.

> Also, the insistence on a distinction between "alien" and "divine" has no rational basis

What?? You don't see a distinction between life on another planet and supernatural phenomena...?
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My wife is bipolar type 2 and many people on my father's side of my family are bipolar tyle 1 so I partially understand your struggles.
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Keep doing what you have got to do to make it through the day!
What about the effect of harsh comments on the creators morale?
I think JoeAltmaier (your parent commenter) still has a point.

If the leap in complexity of octopuses is so obvious that we can tell it's an alien, do you mean other earlier life in our planet was not alien? That would not make sense because it would be hard to imagine that two independent evolutions of life led to the same protein-based, DNA-based life. So the only reasonable theory is that both the earlier life in our planet as well as octopuses are aliens which is JoeAltmaier's point.
Hey more power to these people. If more people act like this, companies will respond in kind and begin to cater to this demand --like "organics". I would love to have us return to pre-WWii modes of consumption for things which this can be done with zero negative repercussions. Things like recyclable fabric bags, glass milk jugs, steel cups and mugs for espresso drinks as a norm, etc.

However, this attitude must also be taken to the growing economies. Most consumerist and ecological garbage growth is in developing nations with insufficient means of recycling one-use plastic things, &c.
I don't buy the assertion that Wikipedia gives a higher weight to source requirements than their internal politics and bureaucracy.
Things like this original story are sadly very common.

And to add an anecdote to this, in multiple occasions, my contributions were reverted with some jargon that I suppose suggested that my sources (local journalist) were not credible, after adding more mainstream (CNN or Washpost, can't remember), the whole article was deleted yet with some other jargon that I couldn't bother figuring out.

So, from where I stand, the notion that Wikipedia contributions are not subject to political considerations is laughable.
>suggests that it has no tangible relation to physical phenomena.

A lot of mathematics is that way, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes mathematical concepts do find tangible physical phenomena that demonstrate them - but sometimes, centuries after they've been invented.

Mathematics is often about what one can imagine. Our imagination can be inspired by the world around us, but it is not limited by it.

It's not a red flag that some concepts don't have short explanations. Sometimes you really just have to know the full joke to get the punchline.
This strangely reminds me of a Wired article[0] from 2013 where it quotes a scientist in this way: "If you want to study an alien intelligence, Godfrey-Smith says, 'octopuses are the closest thing we have.'"

Though it doesn't make the claim that it's of alien origin, nor do I subscribe to the theory necessarily. There's just too much question-begging in the theories that life is somehow of extraterrestrial origin (where did that life come from?).

I think of just how genetically plastic dogs are within their own species, that it's not hard for me to imagine life developing into all sorts of directions without having to resort to the seed hypothesis.

Then again, me trying to speak with any kind of authority on evolution or DNA is akin to a dog discussing quantum physics, so my opinion only goes so far ;)

[0] https://www.wired.com/2013/10/how-the-freaky-octopus-can-hel...
But I would blame the not wanting committed relationships or a family thing on media consumption as well.

Settling down and starting a family is a boring, long term endeavor that doesn’t really play well in most media formats. Therefore it just doesn’t get any space. The protagonists of basically every TV show do not have families. And that’s because it wouldn’t be feasible for them to do all the stuff that makes the plot interesting if they were tied down by a family. And people are getting cues about how their personal story arc should play out from the media they consume.

But you’re right that capitalism is excellent at providing the means to life a life of self involved, hedonistic excess.
Documentation gives at least the functional, if not detailed, requirements for what the code is supposed to do (as well as not do). "Submit a pull request for documentation" is basically "please write down the set of requirements for what you think I might have coded up here and send them to me" which is an absurd way to do engineering, regardless of considerations of licensing and compensation structure.

It's okay to have that attitude about tutorials, and guides to internals, and other satellite docs, but not core documentation (reference manual or spec).
causal, casual, same thing
The 33 scientists do not mean that. I think, in fact, to make their argument go forward, you pretty much have to assume that squid arrived earlier from a different branch of the same alien lineage, but were quickly - so quickly - followed by vasty more complex octopi, that we know that octopi didn't evolve here. The authors aren't anti-panspermists.

JoeAltmaier's wasn't the one introducing the idea of panspermia. His point was, instead: "why even write this paper focusing on octopi if all life is alien" and my answer was, 'cause this is the one time you can really prove that (according to the authors.)
The first thing that occurred to me after seeing the vids: this will hurt the taxpayer - the government morons will want to rebuild all speed bumps if this thing comes out.
Peer review doesn't help if your peers are also cranks.
I’ve dealt with chronic pain of various sorts from celiac and an esophagus condition, and this is interesting.

This has held me back from growing professionally in a direct, simple to understand way. 1/3 of the waking hours that I was otherwise able and intending to work have been wasted by having fatigue and illness after eating breakfast or lunch, then I have felt sub-par for another 1/3 of my work hours. It’s hard to learn new things when you are in a daze.

It seems that every time I start a project, my momentum will soon be derailed by a 1-7 day long sick spell where my body stops working and my mind suddenly feels like it is another planet. I spend days trying to recover and get back to where I was, and often just go in a new direction since it’s weeks later. This makes my output sporadic and inconsistent. I end up doing safe, comfortable work tasks with assured success, since missing so much work makes me out of practice and behind financially.

Overall (and I am referring to glassblowing) I have not kept up with my peers, and mainly do styles that were popular 5-10 years ago, which is in line with the article.
There’s a bar near an old apartment of mine that started as a steampunk bar but pivoted in to a more generic sci-fi themed nerd bar (though it kept a lot of the original steampunk fixtures). I asked the bartender about it once, and he basically said “it turns out that steampunk people don’t really drink much, but sci-fi nerds drink like fish, especially if the cocktails are themed”
I think Paul Graham covered a similar scenario about 10 years ago in one of his essays and pointed out that it will mean a strong negative selection for these startups - people who would leave from the place where stuff happens, to place where it doesn't, just to get some cash are probably not interested in much else but in consuming the aforementioned cash.
Science tries its best to discover the correct explanation for phenomena, and accepts gaps in knowledge as a natural consequence of the ongoing nature of its pursuit of the truth.

You are welcome to believe what you want, but you must understand that accepting faith-based explanations with zero supporting evidence is a fundamentally different sort of thing. Of course you think you have the answers, and that people still grubbing around looking for their own are short-sighted dummies, if you're willing to accept answers that somebody simply made up out of thin air.

> Also, the insistence on a distinction between "alien" and "divine" has no rational basis.

How do you figure that? They seem quite different to me, given the properties that are usually ascribed to hypothetical divine beings.