skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make sure that whatever resource you find doesn't prescribe the results of your critical thinking. There are plenty of ideologues that try to prove to you that with critical thinking and rationality you will come to the same conclusion as the ideologues and that this is the only valid way of thinking.
Though nearly all radical social change involves a slow moving of the Overton window. If you can move a concept from unthinkable to radical, eventually radical can become considered
I would certainly use this. I will also buy it if it supports linux out of the box.
The effect of the northern Scotland sleeper splitting, but being pulled by a locomotive, is the train reverses at Glasgow.

I found I woke travelling in the opposite direction, with the sun streaming through the now East-facing window.
Why you should not remember your passwords anymore
I think you're on the right track, but the track can be extended much further. All energy is conscious because by the laws of physics, it does computation/work when flowing along energy gradients. The whole entire thing is an electric light disco of conscious entities on every scale. Every single body of matter absorbs and emits a characteristic spectrum of electromagnetic energy solely dependent on its construction. Yet my neighbors say we don't interact... :-)
In C you think you know what is going on, specially bad when developers mix the compiler specific behavior with the standard and then try to write portable code.

- Decays of arrays into pointers.

- Decays of enumeration into numeric types

- Default signess is implementation defined

- Implicit conversions

- Currently ISO C11 lists about 200 UB cases, C2X plans to list even more

- Strings are a pointer to somewhere in memory that you hope the caller actually terminated them.

- While the pre-processor seems basic, compared with real macros, you can still be very creative with it

- No way to validate security issues in binary libraries

The LLVM and PVS Studio blogs have quite a few examples of C gotchas.
These are people who travel from gated communitys to gated work places, where there work might end some family life half a world away. Reality does no longer factor into those lifes.
First, thanks for putting the work in on prettier! It's a great tool, and it's helping a lot of devs & teams.

I find your approach much more reasonable than the one outlined in the article, which to me feels like complexity for complexity's sake. There might be some minor win to breaking lines by analyzing billions of possibilities, but it just seems like overkill, and it's certainly not predictable for the programmer.
Very nice app. I found myself flicking between edit and preview on GitHub a lot yesterday, and I wanted nearly exactly this!

It would be especially useful if Devpen passed through the small amount of HTML that GitHub allows, such as `<p align="center">`.
I’d be curious to know how this would apply to group dynamics in company meetings. Often it’s very hard for an outside idea to be considered seriously.
You’re hiring engineers for IH?? Have big plans for the future? :)
Thanks a lot! Here is a better explanation https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/362546/what-is-the-... . This seems like a decent gap in my knowledge.

Is it still going to be out of scope if he e.g. runs the shell script from the shell?
Isn't this basically what "serverless" is?
I'm well aware that my knowledge of the JVM is almost exclusively about the Hotspot lineage, and a bit about Zing, which shares a lot of DNA, and I'd like to know more about the alternatives, but either I'm looking in the wrong places, or there's simply much less accessible information out there.

My thought is that it would be better to spread information about the alternate implementations rather than exclusively complain about the misidentification.
I've found the necessary condition of assuming atheism in a lot of cog.sci discussions can become a kind of "the floor is lava," constraint, where it seems like a game where you can reason about these things credibly so long as you don't fall into a deist trap.

Hopping from island to island of logical consistency is fun and drives material innovation, which even perhaps provides a kind of moral teleology you can backfit to political problems - but viewed from outside, it can seem like a bit of a game.

It would be really interesting to read a theologians view of AI, maybe a question for Google's Vatican office (if there were one)?
Why We Need More Hello World Programs
Not just internally consistent, but externally consistent, at which point making this a matter of compliance.

External consistence isn't subjective. It's as objective to that system as any other fact, and is a matter of understanding, not feeling or choosing or designing.

If you're building an extension to MS Office, make your app comply with MS Office. Same with Adobe Photoshop plugins. And ultimately same with apps/programs for an OS.

If the OS does OK-left, do OK-left.

The UI that does not exist is the UI that is performing the best.

No one "uses" a UI. They just pass it. If you're thinking too hard about it, chances are you'll make your users think about it also. And trying to get noticed will always be at the expense of usability.

And finally, metrics such as consistency, obviousness/coherence, and simplicity are also objectively measurable, as are error rates, A/B tests, and step counts. What is subjective is user feedback and even developer feedback. By tallying what people think of an interface, you've already abandoned the goal of remaining unnoticed, and this is how Frankenstein UIs are built.
Thanks, interesting stuff. I wouldn't have thought that a language could have so few symbols.

Sanskrit and Hindi scripts have letters like the non-aspirated and aspirated ones in your list, but I don't think they have the stressed kind, although letters (both vowels and consonants) have repeated consecutive occurrences (at least two) in words.
Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory [pdf]
The Evolution of Computer Science in One Infographic
Not unless you can control for all the other ills in the world, somehow. Weak evidence is just that; weak. Why not look at other things that happened in 2016 and draw equally valid conclusions? Eg, President Obama's presidency ended in 2016 when the results of the election were announced; the difference between his successor certainly changed national and international attitudes, far more than "man up" is a evidence-based practice that lowers suicide rates, anyway.

For any problem, there is an explanation that is simple, easy, and wrong.
> Merely listing all the negative responses...

What do you call the paragraphs of text between each listing?

I don't think we're looking at the same article.
McMoon: How the Earliest Images of the Moon Were So Much Better Than We Realised
The leading greater than is the old usenet and mailing list convention. With multiple greater thans for deeper levels of quotes. There wasn’t italics but people used to surround words with stars or underscores for emphasis.
"With Oracle remaining evil and Microsoft making waves in open source these days,"

I work with .NET and generally like it but .NET is still far, far away from the openness of Java. MS has open sourced a lot of stuff but it's still controlled by them. I also have my doubts for how long MS will sustain the move to open source. They have a long history of abandoning stuff like this after a few years and going back to business as usual.
Which model are you currently on because my top of the line 2013 15 inch MBP is still running like a champ.

If you are willing to try out windows, the surface pros are actually pretty sweat. I got one for my gf for grad school and will probably get one for myself if my MBP ever dies.
The Stories We Tell at the End of the World
Why do you want to get back?

Don't force yourself to do something you obviously don't want to do. If you have to motivate and convince yourself, it's clearly not important enough. You're just pissing against the wind making yourself miserable.

Lucky for you IT is one of those fields where a university degree isn't a requirement. Just do what you want to do. If you want to be a developer then start a project, contribute to one and put that on your CV and look for a Dev job.

No person is the same they were years ago, stop obsessing over what you believe should happen and just go with the flow of the moment. Instead of planning your life to the detail ask yourself how do you feel in this very moment and understand that's is perfectly acceptable to change your mind many times down the road.

In this day and age with the freedom of choice and information overload we tend to be prone to short attention span. Suddenly we learn that we can do everything so we keep changing interests all the time and never finish anything. We want everything and want it now, then we learn we can't have it and we get depressed.

It's OK not to do something! It's OK to leave IT and come back to it later, it's OK to work hard to become a Developer and then quit suddenly and work as a gardener. It's OK to start programming when you're sixty. As long as you accept that, you'll be just fine. If you have to fight with your inner self and force yourself to do what you and others believe you ought to be doing, then you'll never be at ease. You'll always be depressed, demoralised, unmotivated and anxious.
There's no evidence that we cannot reduce self-awareness to an algorithm.
Do a web search for “trivium”.

https://classicalacademicpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...

> ”Our teachers of the last generation have divided knowledge into relatively isolated “subjects” without emphasizing the interconnection of all knowledge. We have learned “subjects” without actually learning how to tackle these subjects—we have not learned how to learn. We might say that we have been set to work hammering, chiseling, planing and carving without ever being taught how to use the tools. We have picked up what we could as we went along, incidentally.

> The classical educators started from the other end and emphasized the importance and use of those master tools that could be widely applied. Of course in order to learn the use of these master tools (grammar, logic and rhetoric), it is necessary to apply them to some piece of wood, to some subject—and so actual subjects must be studied (English, Latin, History, etc.). But note that the chief goal was to master the tools—for in mastering the tools, the subject (any subject) would soon be mastered as well. We encounter a paradox: classical educators favor tool over content and therefore help students to master more content than ever. They have taught their students how to learn.“

(warning: above PDF has a specific worldview)
Yeah, if you run into a security vulnerability caused by SQLite, tens of thousands of websites, desktop apps, and virtually every iOS and Android app will be in the exect same boat.
>The docs seem to suggest otherwise:

>> if a column is of type INTEGER and you try to insert a string into that column, SQLite will attempt to convert the string into an integer. If it can, it inserts the integer instead.

There's nuance to your quote. From my recollection, this means that "321a" will be inserted as "321", but "foo" will be inserted as "foo" (into an INTEGER column). Definitely a wart, on an otherwise fantastic system.
Debatable. There's a strong argument that nuclear weapons have prevented direct conflicts between the major powers (mutual assured destruction).

Of course, there are a number of situations in which nuclear weapons could end up being used in the future (or very nearly were used in the past), but saying nuclear weapons should be completely dismantled by everyone is not as clearly desirable as you make it seem.
The fascinating thing is that complex information processing in the brain doesn't cease when you're unconscious.
...quantum effects at the neuron level makes the brain a non-deterministic computing device (i.e. its outputs are not solely governed by its inputs)

This kind of definition is the root cause of what saalweachter pointed to: Do you consider a program an input? If not, you are actually willing that it works randomly. If it is, the mind seems to be an empty box that still has opinions.

The free will discussion is a relic of religious thinking. And, while someone produces some new compelling argument, IMHO all the discussion about "qualia" is noise.
Well untrained programmers who have no business writing C apps in the first place, for starters.

Everyone here is completely glossing over this as if it were suggested that this is intended for everybody, for every solution. If you're not extremely confident in your C skills, or have the experience to back it up, This is NOT for you! If you think you can only do it with another language, then This is NOT for you! If you think you're gonna write the next Amazon, This is NOT for you!

And lets not forgot just how many things are written in C and still running the internet. It's just another tool in your toolbox.
Consciousness must arise out of something, and that something ought to have qualities than can be studied.
As another alternative, gofmt solved it a different way, by not having a limit on line length. I haven't seen it add line breaks at all.
This sort of thing also ties in nicely with the rumors/conspiracy theories around Chief Justice Roberts.
> Expose a C program with all the language's subtle undefined states and manual memory management to the big bad web!

I hate to break this to you, but that describes almost every TCP/IP stack and network adapter driver in deployment.

(Not to mention httpd servers, and programming language interpreters written in C.)
>Is it really so terrible to research arms for the people who risk their lives keep us safe?

When in recent memory has the US military risked significant amounts of soldiers to "keep us safe"?

If anything, the US military has made me unsafe. The invasion of Iraq was a disaster. Torture and drone warfare have created scores of "terrorists" - people angry that their civilian family members were killed in a war of aggression. You can trace a direct path in history from the invasion of Iraq to the rise of ISIS.

Meanwhile, money that could have been spent of social services funded these wars - leading to an economic climate so bleak that voters elected a fascist president in hopes of changing their station in life.

I'm no pacifist, but wars of aggression are not "keeping us safe" in any sense of the phrase.
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The federal gov’t has no rights. The citizens of the United States have delegated powers and authority to the government. When government officials say the law gives them a right or that the constitution gives them a right, they are simply indulging in tyranny.
While I didn't say "voice-only", your point is still quite valid that there is non-verbal information.

My point is that voice is a powerful and ancient channel, and it's about time that computers leverage that channel.
It would be really interesting to read a theologians view of AI, maybe a question for Google's Vatican office (if there were one)?

The problem with that view is that when you dig into it, it’s always a permutation of, “God did it,” or “Because God said so.” There isn’t much to work with there, and you can use it to justify literally anything at all because it’s free from the constraints of logic. You could equally argue that a machine can never have a soul, and no consciousness, or that god could just decree it does, and who’s to really say otherwise? There is no there, there.
Doubt Farringdon switched from diesel to overhead - overhead to third rail. Some trains have to stop to raise the pantograph, some do it on the fly (I think the 395s can switch 3rd rail to ohel at 60mph when coming on/off hs1)

Some trains are hybrid - will use electricity while under wires, and switch to diesel when there's no wires, the new class 800 in the UK as an example.
Build a Blog on Rails in 15 Minutes (2005) [video]
Do you advocate taking money or property from people who are working and giving it to this who aren’t? Is it more just that the worker is forced to work to house themselves but to also house someone else?

Is that freedom?
> There is some thinking that the quantum effects at the neuron level makes the brain a non-deterministic computing device

Which is silly, because there are equally valid deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics, so irreducible non-determinism may not even exist.
Killer app for this is full screen Nintendo ds emulator (any desmume dev here?)
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> Fully replacing religion is a task that needs to be taken seriously. Otherwise you are not a real atheist, but a mere believer in a No-God Fairy that will somehow make things magically right after religion is removed.

Not believing in a god doesn't mean you have to think religion is bad. I'm an atheist but I don't think everybody else needs to be, largely for the reasons you mentioned. I agree with your points but in the context of if somebody wanted a largely atheist society.
> Yes, but those are explicitly invokable random functions, and not random fluctuations built into the entire functionality of the CPU.

There's no logical difference. If the CPU's have any correlation to its inputs, then it's equivalent to a deterministic function+random input.
I believe that there is no one-fits-all recipe for critical thinking, because its more of a personal thing.

It depends on your motivation for starters. Ever caught yourself thinking "Why do I need to question everything?"? Well, there you have it. Are you just curious, or is it mistrust that drives you? Are you able to question your own thoughts and motivation? Can you identify and fix your own errors? Are you able to answer these question? Observe your own thoughts and examine ideas that come to your mind, as if in argument with yourself.

Critical thinking is an endless stream of: Why, why why? So its not really about finding the answers, but rather asking the right questions.
Have you actually watched the video in question? These are completely different things. The Producers was clearly satire, it was marketed as satire, everyone knew it was satire.

There is generally room for interpretation with satire, but I am finding it extremely difficult to give this particular person the benefit of the doubt.

If Mel Brooks filmed himself talking about how Nazis are great in an entirely serious tone, other than the bit where he laughed about how funny it was so many Jews died and calling it fantastic (Pogo did exactly this with the Pulse shooting), never releasing the footage, and then years later somebody found the footage and everyone was mad at him for liking Nazis, and then he said it was a joke and people shouldn't be mad at him, then it would be like this situation. But it isn't, it's completely different.

Do you also think the Nixon tapes weren't evidence of Nixon being anti-Semitic? If he had just said he really didn't mean it and he was sorry, it all would have been okay?
They're implying that when you involve God you'll also pick up the Roman Catholic catechism. The real problem with trying to bring religion in to these debates comes from trying to pick the religion! Nonspecific God is actually the same as atheism for the reason you point out - you can't make any prior statements about what God will do, which is the same as not being able to make any prior statements about what Nature will do. Physicists have historically interchanged God and Nature (casually, they aren't trying to say anything) when they're talking, and it works for this reason.
> That's the point, though. Once you "see" it, it's way too late.

I see your point, but it simply falls to things I rather not care about. Adding a mental/habitual burden on something that is either unlikely or not that serious isn't just worth it; a life is more relaxed if it can be disregarded.

I also acknowledge that it's not something that can be simply chosen though. I do I know about certain things way more than some of my friends, even if I didn't want to.
Not everyone comes from places where being informed is a value. Some even come from families or communities where wanting to learn makes them a target.
The actual meaning of the rule is "don't do to people, what you wouldn't want to be done to you".