skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the philosophy community (that was scared by behaviourism decades ago) needs to take a good hard look at reinforcement learning and representation learning. They can clarify many philosophical problems.

The hard-problem of consciousness was a detour, a wrong direction. It led to nothing in the end - just wasted decades. It was dualism in disguise.

You don't even need the notion of consciousness - just use the concept of agent, agent-environment relation and reinforcement - all being well defined, sound concepts unlike consciousness which doesn't even have an official definition.
Looks nice, bookmarked.

As a side note focus stealing in OSs has to be one of my biggest pet peeves.
I have probably always thought of meritocracy as an obviously good and economically sound
principle, but this just made me realize that it’s basically local optimization. If we want the economy as a whole to work better, why should we expect hill climbing to be a good strategy?
This is an interesting project for sure, and I see some great potential. I tried out a few phrases, including the one below that include commonly used words in "toxic" comments, but are not actually insulting anyone. This still had a high score (0.74).

> Unfortunately, most Americans are ignorant of the science about climate change. This is not because they are stupid but rather because they do not have all the data, or the data they have is unreliable.

I'm in no way saying this is the best way to communicate that message, and this could prompt a writer to re-phrase, but I don't know if I'd claim that this is toxic. I think that this could be a good tool, but it's clearly highly dependent on "common" understandings of words rather than actual definitions. Maybe that's the correct trade off though.

Edit: Forgot the score.
theoldrobots is a great resource. I didn't cite it directly because I followed it back to primary sources in many cases, but I leaned on it heavily while writing the article. It seems to be the only site on personal robots with anywhere near the breadth and depth of information necessary for even casual research on the personal robot industry as a whole.
The post I was replying to said.

> As a developer, all the resources are managed, you never touch the underlying OS.
Sure. Though I'd posit is that if all you're doing is using fully managed services on AWS, it's akin to installing and configuring Wordpress - you use PHP, but you're not a PHP developer

That seems to come with the implication that if you're using managed services like SQS (instead of installing your own message service), RDS (instead of installing your own database), and you're using other AWS services you're not a "real developer".

If you're using some of the surrounding services, it makes perfect sense to use AWS.
So do you argue that businesses that do business over the internet should be subject to the laws where the business is legally based?

So, do you say that EU businesses should be able to operate in the USA but according to the EU laws and without any consideration to the US laws?

Or is your arguments something else, something selfish like all online businesses should operate according to the US laws or something like online businesses should not be bound by any laws whatsoever? Or something else?
How does this compare with Yapf (https://github.com/google/yapf)?
> Haskell has infinite and recursive constructs, lazily computed. That’s what makes their type system undecidable.

Haskell (98) has infinite and recursive constructs and its type system is not undecidable.
I disagree on "well thought out", but it doesn't really matter. I don't think that legislation is "un-american" or that the EU shouldn't have passed this law for its citizens. My issue is with the attempt to declare that it applies so broadly to organizations in other countries who have no connection to the EU except that EU visitors might come to their website. I'm going to assume you're intentionally not trying to understand the broader principle here, but just in case:

Reposted from another comment:

My primary argument is that the GDPR's attempt to regulate companies in other jurisdictions because EU citizens go INTO those jurisdictions and do business is a dangerous precedent. If there was an enforcement mechanism for all such laws, it implies that any business or individual anywhere in the world with a website should therefore have to comply with any laws from any jurisdiction that are similarly constructed.

If my website says things about Islam that Saudi Arabia passes a law against, I should be fined.

If my website disrespects the king of Thailand, I should be extradited for imprisonment.

If I encourage NK citizens to revolt against their oppressive regime, I should end up in a labor camp.

After all, those governments have a right to say that if I want to "do business in their jurisdiction", I must respect their laws, right?

(To be clear, I'm not talking about enforcement of these kinds of laws, because all of those countries might do the above if given the chance. I'm talking about what I SHOULD do as a matter of morality or ethics or civic duty or whatever, or what my government should cooperate with those governments on, because it's just.)

But the problem is that they're describing "doing business in their jurisdiction" as a citizen from their country (maybe even one who is currently visiting my country) going online and sending my server requests, data, and money. And apparently explicitly telling those citizens to please NOT do that, or blocking them, is not sufficient. The only way to make the majority of the EU users on HN happy is to comply. Why would that same logic not apply to all other kinds of laws?
I'm not sure I understand your point...your computer also has programs that will only work with root privileges. At least it's possible to do this on an android as opposed to Apple.
There is a revoke agreement option too, haha amazing :-)
Thanks for the link.
WFMU also runs no ads and has no corporate sponsors.

"WFMU’s primary source of support comes from listener contributions made during our annual on-air fundraising marathonand revenue generated from our annual Record Fair. WFMU does not accept underwriting or corporate sponsorships. We receive some support from foundations and government grants, as long as they do not contain conditions that determine our programming content or restrict our independence."

from:
https://wfmu.org/about/

I donate every year. It's a great cause to support.
I'm curious as to how many European companies comply with SOX, HIPAA, or COPPA just for the opportunity of making security/privacy compliance better?
Makes me wonder if there was some innovation in the production of violet pigments around that time. I recall an art historian friend telling me once that a certain school of landscape painting was directly enabled by the introduction of pre-mixed paints in tubes that could be easily carried by the artists to remote locations.
Stories like this, and others from Indiehacker and the like, emphasize just how wrong my intuitions are on which products will sell.
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For low cost desktop PCIe with memory and I/O there are these two offerings:
https://numato.com/product/galatea-pci-express-spartan-6-fpg...

The galatea from numato is pretty affordable and has 2Gb (256MB) of onboard RAM and comes with a dual ethernet and pmod breakout board from Amazon for $300 USD.

http://www.latticestore.com/products/tabid/417/categoryid/59...

The lattice ECP5 PCIe board comes with I think 128MB DDR3 and dual gigabit ethernet.

And for boards without memory but lots of I/O there is Mesa Electronics: http://www.mesanet.com/ CNC oriented but you can do whatever you want with the FPGA.
IMHO it's easier to bring a high end retail down to the common folks than to take a low end retail to the rich folks.

That's how luxury goods..Couch, Michael Kors work...become a luxury good, then reduce price/quality for common folks. Common folks get luxury name and feel good.

You'll abandon the rich people but you'll make more money.
Corporate counsel, who actually went to many of the lead-up conferences for GDPR, said the data authorities from many member countries didn’t even hesitate before saying they would file civil lawsuits against non-EU companies.

Such a suit could be ignored too, but it would certainly be a PITA for vacationing executives who get locked up in Italy for an outstanding summary judgement.
If they have significant business in the EU then they can be fined regardless of size but the rules indicate that working towards compliance can go a long way to reducing the size or even existence of fines. Plus to get to that stage you have to ignore someone's request to remove their personal data.
Hm. Are you sure? I don't mean the repetitive "chirp" sound which is typical for guiding the visually impaired, most obviously at traffic signals. I mean actual birdsong recordings, played quite subtly at random intervals (ie, sometimes minutes apart). It would seem quite an impractical way to guide anyone.

Anyway, my information is from a friend whose uncle works at Tokyo Metro, and has seen his fair share of jinshin jiko maguro. She was quite clear about the notion that it was an anti-suicide measure, and I believed her. I did only notice it on the Saikyou line.
GDPR has effects way beyond better user privacy. Sorry I've been pasting this in multiple GDPR related threads, but here it goes:

I have a profitable, bootstrapped SaaS business based in US. It's not based on ads or selling data. I don't even have a freemium plan. Only a limited free trial after which you have to start paying. It's a trivial application that stores mostly already public data. Only email is required to login so that I can send password reset and other such communication.

I've been talking to a very well known giant corporation (also based in US, but has many global offices) for months. The VP and director love my product and want to start using it right away for their department. But their legal team is scared shitless with 4% fines in GDPR. They are putting some draconian clauses, (various ISO certifications and such) in the contract that I, as a small company, cannot comply. That's their interpretation of GDPR. It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong.

The VP and Director are really nice people and I've developed very good rapport with them. But I'm afraid their patience will run out soon and they'll go back to using spreadsheets. A lose-lose situation.

This is the side-effect of GDPR.

I'm all up for GDPR. I have uBlock, have blackholed all Facebook domains, etc. But don't assume that GDPR doesn't affect normal business transactions. Of course, blocking European users doesn't do anything for me since I want to do everything I can to protect user privacy.

But anyone who says, "Oh, how hard could it be?" has no idea what they are talking about.
the most boring and easy to dismiss thought experiment of all time

Its possible sure, but so are an infinite count of other terrifying-but-if-they-are-true-are-entirely-out-of-our-control futures.
It could, but with controversial concepts like "right to be forgotten" baked into the GDPR, I don't assume most nations will necessarily be happy to sign "free" trade that requires them to rewrite history records.
Wasn't there some website where you could pull a relatively small number of easily accessible prefs from the browser (OS, list of fonts, browser, etc.) and get a nearly uniquely identifying set of facts about someone?
That's an invalid metaphor. The point behind regulating specific types of pollution and fining companies that emit it is in fact to completely eliminate it. When total elimination isn't possible regulators have taken alternative approaches, like phase outs and carbon trading schemes.

The GDPR authors appear to believe that not being hacked is merely a matter of choice, despite all evidence to the contrary. They are clearly dangerously delusional. If even Google, with its pick of the crop, unlimited budget and massive security team, cannot avoid being hacked, then nobody else has a chance.
Another popular approach is to exchange loyalty cards occasionally with friends (or strangers!), to scramble the usage data.
>The same logic can also be applied to virtually any contract you sign that contains pages and pages of legal text

That's the problem, they took physical, real world products like Mortgage documents that were easy to understand, kept on paper and but had stipulations and they applied it to things like storing your information in some unknown company in some unknown country and relinquishing liability in the event your personal details ended up on the DarkWeb.
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>> I am only claiming that it is accepted by most people without any reflection.

> Many things are accepted by most people without much reflection. Often that's because they really are as simple as they look.

I think it's because people are used to some 'credible' person telling them what to think. People are trusting science way too much in my opinion.
I saw a shit ton of "bendgate" press. It was a major media issue.

And you know what? In reality it wasn't a major issue. For most people it was just a minor one. My phone was slightly bent. It bothered me that it was slightly bent. Beyond that mild bother though, it had no impact on my life. For the people who suffered "touch disease" (which again, I never even heard of until this article so it can't have been terribly widespread) it obviously was a problem, though one that's easily fixed by having the phone replaced under warranty. Obviously, having a widespread issue affect your flagship phone in this manner is a problem, but it's largely a PR problem rather than a serious issue with the device.

Meanwhile, having your phone end up as a ticking time bomb that could explode at any moment is a pretty major issue.
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Most of us natively write anti-clickbait titles.

Though it is rarely cited, my favorite paper that I've co-authored is:

Indirect Evidence for Lévy Walks in Squeeze Film Damping: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4926

It could have alternatively been titled: "Holy crap! Did you know that high-vacuum gas particles trapped between two walls follow fractal paths?!"
Maybe one can draw a comparison between the critics of the 1880s complaining about “harsh blue and garish lilac”, and the current complaints about movies being color-graded to teal and orange (“Seriously, I weep for cinema of this dark age. I think twenty years from now people will look at films of this era and say "My God - what were they smoking??!?” ---http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...).

In both cases, the colors are striking and beautiful, or depending on your tastes, cheap and garish.
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Good on you, buddy!

One trick you might try wrt chocolate in particular: Try darker and darker chocolates. If you can get up to 90% or even 99%, you can get your chocolate hit with little in the way of sugar or calories.
Well they ARE doing business. They are just blocking the EU.
I'm pretty sure that what goes on in my 9-month-old's brain when I read him a story is: "Mmmmmm, that book looks delicious."
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These appear to be in app ads. Not injected into actual browsing activity.
Just pointing out that this article features a drone pilot complaining that this is a race to the bottom when his 2k/day drone business is displacing a vastly more expensive helecopter-based video/inspection industry.
I mean I'm aware that it's not literally a mansion, but I meant it in the colloquial sense. :) Anyway, thanks, I think we are in violent agreement.
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And we have finally come to the first line of defence for atheists...why do bad things happen. I could go on for hours but I would suggest to maybe take this off YN if you are really interested in my answer?
Flight has been evolved independently 4 times, gliding much more - how does that square with the principle of parsimony? (ie, if we hadn’t discovered pterosaurs yet, we could make the argument that flight evolved 3 times and probably not more due to the principle of parsimony, but we would be wrong)
They write it in a certain manner because the choice of words and grammar matters [1]. Sure no one (barely anyone) reads them but they could. That isn't a failing of the company. They provide it. It's a contract. You can read it and chose not to use it. My main point really is forced consent can only be forced through violence which the state is the only one who has the legal right to it's use. Zuck (as funny as an image of it may be) isn't putting a gun to anyone's head and telling them to use to service. To me this seems to enshrine FB and other services as a legal right vs. an economic transaction. Using a service constitutes an economic transaction which the business has the right to outright charge for (subscription/transaction fee) or in contemporary society trade data for ad purposes.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/oxford-comma-lawsuit.h...
So, do you say that EU businesses should be able to operate in the USA but according to the EU laws and without any consideration to the US laws?

If by "operate in the US" you mean that they are based in the EU and allow US residents to visit their website and purchase from them, then yes, absolutely. Why would it be any other way?

I just don't see how the alternative works at all. Why couldn't some city in France pass a law that if a citizen of their city buys something from your site based in Hong Kong, you owe that city a tax of $50k. That's obviously ridiculous and not enforceable, but why is it not based on the same underlying legal theory that a business is bound by the laws of jurisdiction where visitors or customers to their site originate from?
Some notes:

- This is insufficient for GDPR compliance. Besides the other points mentioned in this thread, you also need to delete any data about EU residents you have already collected.

- CloudFlare sets a geolocation header, you can probably just use that without consulting a third party, without adding any latency!
We do take security seriously and we're not doing anything dodgy.

We have business reasons for collecting user data, and users have no real reason to tell us to delete it at will, other than the fact that it makes them feel "creeped out".

The future is probably going to be super creepy. If you want to participate, get over it.
Why wouldn't you use the built in `request.headers.get("CF-IpCountry")`?

This is a very weak and lame attempt at just getting people to use your service when it's already built in...
I'm stating an affirmative position. You wrote two paragraphs explaining why you clicked a button because you don't think my post adds anything to the discussion, or is somehow trolling.
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Regulators don't care if you're hacked.

What they care about is how much data you had (and did you need all of it), did you tell the users, have you put things right, had you done anything to protect the data?

If you have a lump of data that you don't need, that you store with no attempt at encryption, and it's held behind software that you haven't bothered to update even though security patches have been released then yes, you're going to be regulated.
Yeah. The years before the federal student loan interest rates went over 6.49% and private loans went over 7.25% FOR EVERYONE.
I paid for the storage upgrade, not the RAM one and I regret it weekly :( I saved 475€ on the whole machine thanks to exchange rate, but still the bill was salty.
One of the things that drives me crazy about agile is the strawman that is "waterfall". There's this notion that if you're not doing kanban or scrum you're a dinosaur. I've worked at places that didn't have some sort of Methodology, and you know what? It was fine. Things still got estimated, work got done, we just didn't arbitrarily shove things into 2 week windows or have painfully elongated planning sessions because of "planning poker"

As far as I can tell "agile" mostly is about predictability, not about efficiency. Most of the places I've worked, when we switched to agile, the efficiency of the team got worse, but management was generally happy because they felt like they had much more control.
If you have to keep your religion secret to avoid being killed, you have MUCH bigger problems in your society that I don't think "nobody knowing who is secretly Jewish" is actually going to fix.

It's not like a future hypothetical fascist dictatorship isn't going to have access to the necessary records to piece it together or would follow its own GDPR constraints, nor would the GDPR stop it from arbitrarily deciding some people are Jewish without detailed evidence.

I'd like to think the GDPR is underpinned by better philosophy than a false hope it could prevent a future Holocaust.
You may handle my data appropriatly, but how the hell do I know? Take some guy on the Internet's word for it?

What I do know is that massive numbers of services like yours are missusing, mishandling, or lossing my data every year. I'm not OK with that.
If we're going with these analogies, there are other approaches if you disagree with the speed limit. You might protest the speed limit if you lived there (hopefully without being berated while you do so) or if you don't live there you might avoid the place with unreasonable speed limits.
> Between the 4.5% interest plus 1-2% property tax realized every year, you hope that your property value rises by 5.5-6.5% every year before you break even.

A house doesn't need to appreciate 6% to be a good purchasing decision. Not having to pay rent is most commonly the biggest advantage to buying a house.
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There are still legitimate tradeoffs that can be discussed.

For long, Kotlin has meant way longer compilation times. That's no longer the case (or at least way harder to determine, kotlinc is even faster than javac in some projects) but that was a legitimate bullet to bite 2 years ago.

Sadly I agree with the author of the second article, all the reasons given are very petty and I wonder how much of these 6 months were really spent writing kotlin.
I think most people would agree that corner cases are an issue, but in large codebases the payoff of having a strong, unified standard provides a bigger payoff than spotty edge cases.

The larger the codebase and the more developers you have working on a project, the less important edge cases become and the more benefit you get from a common standard.
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Because a moderator have done what you ask for and the comment is not relevant any more so he hide it too. Sometimes moderators let a message like "Done, thanks" but not always.
I would argue it's fair to say that the current regulations were formulated with the intent to restrict the activities of tech companies.

At the same time, though, you might see the problem of having the government collect data on religion (even if safeguards are in place today).

Tomorrow the AfD might be in power, and they might use that data for purposes beyond those envisioned today.

More broadly, I feel, while great to restrict tech companies, there are also very real dangers from the state collecting data.
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PyCharm itself is open source.

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...
> The listener-funded radio station that runs the archive, WFMU, is the single greatest radio station in the world.

Little known fact: the Go gopher mascot was originally a WFMU commission [1].

[1] https://blog.golang.org/gopher
My point is you need to balance the effort you're putting into your estimates vs getting work done. Customers also won't be happy when you give them a date and don't meet it. Honesty is important too.