skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Apparently he needs to assume a particular multiverse theory to prove it. While I don't object to those on principle, I don't believe they're needed to prove heuristic, good enough versions of Ockham’s Razor that work in the real world (albeit without guarantees), based on the arguments outlined on the previous comments.

> The latter is important because some theories trade off between these two: e.g. a multiverse theory might have simple equations ("every possibility happens somewhere") but require very precise "coordinates" to pin-point the actual possibility that we observe.

I think this is an important observation that's quite obvious for ML researchers et al but again seems to escape current physics discussions. An example is the endless drama about "Fine tuning": if your new theory requires many less bits for equation description, that it requires fine tuning is irrelevant as long as the additional model parameter precision uses less bits -- then it should be the preferred candidate.

W.r.t. [computational] multiverse theories (and variants such as Tegmark's MUH, Schimidhuber's, and others), I do believe they're an inevitable progression of physics/philosophy. I just think it's a bit pretentious to have any certain about a particular flavor. I feel there's still much philosophical and mathematical ground to be covered; it tests the limits of our imagination. It seriously feels like a very important step for humanity at large though -- finally approaching metaphysical theories that actually make sense, and explain the basis of much about humanity, existence, ethics, etc. I think it's an important void to be filled after the decline of religion, hopefully in coonjunction with the spread of humanism.
When someone tells you to not trust them, take them at their word - Maya Angelou (paraphrase)
Techcrunch does this too. It's to encourage binge reading. The news equivalent of Youtube autoplay next video.

The metrics likely suggest it's good for the site, but I'm also not a fan. It's very confusing for the reader.
It does seem like the concept of divine right does at least provide some structure for everyone to work around / with and set some level of expectations.
And the point was they could have questioned him any time and refused to.
The problem with arguing against the existence of consciousness is that even if you manage to somehow win the argument then you are by necessity a nihilist. Of course, all nihilistic arguments are self defeating because if nothing matters, why try to argue or believe that nothing matters?
In this case I see reason. Philosophy is often seen as a soft subject in the UK, saying that he studied at Oxford removes any doubt that it was a serious degree.

I might be biased though, I've enjoyed reading a fair few Will Self books.
>>> you can send the file descriptor itself over a unix socket

Oh, that is genius ;)

Described in detail here, from Stevens Unix Network Programming

http://www.masterraghu.com/subjects/np/introduction/unix_net...
Felt the same the night I tried tor web. Nothing interesting came out of it, but the surprise factor is so strong.
There are a lot of points here — many of which have been rebutted elsewhere

But I would like to point out that this article fails in the beginning, by mischaracterizing the Bitcoin-Internet comparison.

People comparing Bitcoin to the Internet are not saying “the internet was big and so will be bitcoin”.

The internet comparison is most commonly a counter-argument to people saying “bitcoin is technically confusing and hard to use, so it will never gain mainstream adoption”. If one can point to an example of another technology that wasn’t always easy to use and understand, that now everyone uses, that demonstrates bitcoin could still succeed.
Recently I discovered that you can flip to debug mode even on already running process without debug mode by doing 'process._debugProcess(<pid_of_process>)' on any other node process. This has made my life incredibly simpler by not having to remember whether I had run my app in debug mode with '--inspect' flag.
Votes could be affected by preventing people from voting as well as by changing votes after the fact. The known facts point to either or both as plausible, assuming there was an opportunity.

You're certainly not alone in your doubts. Many people have assiduously been not assuming Russians had anything to do with tampering with the election every step of the way. Guccifer 2.0 was supposed to be a random Romanian hacker and yet it is now confirmed he was a member of the Russian military team attacking the US.

It's not helpful to dismiss stuff as a conspiracy theory these days in a general sort of way. The reason is that disbelieving one "conspiracy theory" requires you to believe in another, larger one. If you don't believe in the indictment, you are necessarily positing a massive conspiracy to frame Russia. There's no apparent simple, comforting explanation that doesn't involve large conspiracies.
I think we can do without obvious troll usernames here, no matter how noteworthy your comments may be.
But you can buy your personal domain and use an email address on your personal domain. mail@konstantinschubert.com is mine for example.

You can even use it with Google if you're willing to pay 5 Dollar a month for gsuite.
Yes, the prosecutor can prosecute the case as they see fit. They're not obliged to question Assange on his own terms.

From the original ruling on the EAW (p. 20):

>Here is it necessary to focus clearly on the facts of the case. Clear and specific serious allegations have been
made against Mr Assange in Sweden. Attempts have been made by the Swedish prosecutor as long ago as
September to interview him. He has not been interviewed. The Swedish system anticipates detention and early
questioning in allegations of this type, but this has not taken place. Mr Assange is not known to have returned to
Sweden since September. I have no doubt that this defendant is wanted for prosecution in Sweden. On the
information before me I cannot say when or what step was taken that can fairly be described as the
commencement of a prosecution. What I can say is that the boundary between suspicion and preliminary
enquiries on the one hand, and prosecution on the other, has been crossed. It may be that after interrogation
and further enquiries the matter will not be pursued. As Ms Ny says, a formal decision to charge is taken at a
later stage in Sweden than it is here. In this jurisdiction a person can be charged with rape or sexual assault by a
custody sergeant and may then wait many months before the case is discontinued. In Sweden the decision to
formally charge is followed very shortly by the trial itself, if the defendant is in custody.
Word of warning... the descriptions in this article are pretty horrifying.
http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statisti...

About 11% of the adult homeless population are veterans.

Perhaps if we want veterans to act honorably, we should treat them respectfully. Veterans are often kind of thrown away by the country after it has maimed them for its benefit.
Number Gossip Properties
What do you get when you combine LinkedIn, spam, and videos?

Gary Vaynerchuk!

It took me a few weeks of unfollowing, unsubscribing, or clicking whatever buttons were available for “omfg stop showing me this stuff” to delouse my feed of all things Gary Vee.
Agreed!!!
If he owns an older compatible Macbook and want to get a taste for Chrome OS, He could try Cloudready from Neverware (Chromium OS), basically Chrome OS for other laptops.

https://www.neverware.com/#introtext-3

https://guide.neverware.com/supported-devices/
I used to work in an office at Cerner where you could see this slide from my floor - really sad when it happened.
Playing armchair software architect here, I wish NetBSD and FreeBSD would join forces. The NetBSD developers could bring their portable architecture to FreeBSD's more featureful kernel and userland. What other value does NetBSD have over FreeBSD besides portability?

IIUC, macOS uses NetBSD's userland though it has FreeBSD bits in its XNU kernel, so there must be benefits to NetBSD beyond its portability that I am just not aware of. :)
Is there any reason this could not happen in a taxi?
I'm not sure I buy into it being a politician's child was the trigger. The whole situation is pretty horrifying.
> Swedish prosecutors think they have evidence of that.

Some Swedish prosecutors, rather. The accusations were originally dropped, then picked back up by a more politically-oriented prosecutor. It was very, very iffy from the start.
It is very, very simple to understand the difference between Assange vs Snowden/Manning

Assange is an anarchist. He didn't use physical guns or bombs but rather selective release of information to selected parties at very selected times to cause as much damage as possible.

Snowden & Manning on the other hand loved their country so much they were horrified to learn what was being done in our name so they exposed that information in the hope that someone, anyone, could make things right and prevent it from happening again. There was no scheme otherwise to their actions.

So yeah they all dealt with exposing secrets but WHY is the very critical difference.
Nation states usually act somewhat rationally because they want to continue their existence. What you have to worry about are the zealots who don’t care about dying as long as they can take their enemies out with them because they think they will have a better life on the other side.
> Surely, you agree that peoples’ right to vote cannot to be vindicated if they can’t freely access polling locations.

There is no right to vote. So the rest of your case does not apply.

Furthermore, I don't agree at all with your analogy. I feel that it is fundamental requirement to have complete access to the law. So any examples, that result in arguing to the contrary I disagree with up to and including the "taking of property".

> But that doesn’t mean that you are obligated to let everyone onto your property!

This is also not true. The legal concept of "Easement by Necessity" ( https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/easement-by-n... ) applies so once again your example is incorrect.
You know what? I think every research paper should come with a video explaining the result.
Flag! Flag! Censors where are you?
You wrote "These are all extremely helpful".

I disagree, in that I think they are only somewhat helpful. If we only had double-quoted strings, and not single-quoted strings, then I think there would be little difference to the language or its quality of use.

Going back to the question of "why st_mtime?" - that's because os.stat() is a wrapper around the POSIX stat(2) system call. My FreeBSD man page defines it as:

st_mtim Time when file data last modified. Changed by the mkdir(2),
mkfifo(2), mknod(2), utimes(2), write(2) and writev(2) sys-
tem calls.

The Python implementation of stat for MS Windows is basically doing its own emulation layer for POSIX compatibility.
Show HN: Menace, an experimental synth for iOS
Hey everyone, thought i'd share a project I've been working on for a little while now that launched today on the App Store, called Menace Synth:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/menace-synth/id1387317830?ls=...

Here's a teaser video:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlgMTAGlv7c

I created Polychord back in 2010 – one of the first iPad music apps, and still used today by thousands of musicians. With Menace, I wanted to do something more experimental, a little out-of-bounds.

Menace was built on AudioKit [1]. Having built apps on Core Audio for a long time now, I can't recommend AudioKit enough.

The other thing I'll mention is that this was an experiment in embracing a principle of getting something in front of real people as soon as possible, and iterating continuously based on their feedback. The app was never more than a day away from 'finished'. I was inspired by Ron Jeffries essay, "Developers should Abandon Agile" [2] – it was a guiding light for getting this project together quickly (over roughly a couple of months of spare nights and weekends).

Happy to answer questions!

1: https://audiokit.io

2: https://ronjeffries.com/articles/018-01ff/abandon-1/
The article doesn't seem that good but really I think the state of journalism in general is that it is an ungainly hybrid trying to serve two masters and failing to serve either. As a business they face declining revenues and as a source of information they face increased competition from non-journalistic sources and frankly often aren't very good. Activists don't have the business as the issue but they have their own axe to grind and everyone knows it and reacts accordingly which ironically limits their ability to influence - people either sign on at referral and follow until alienated or ignore them if they aren't interested.

I suspect that they are largely mis-motivated as part of the issue - one doesn't become a music star just by wanting to be famous yet they are focused the most on clicks. Similar to how just having as a goal to sleep with people isn't a very good approach to being sexually desirable. Some real soul searching would be needed to rise to the top again - a fundamental desire to inform people first and then financial success may follow ironically if they don't care about it. I doubt that the existing institutions are capable of it because they are fundamentally businesses and asking them to stop caring about profit is about as absurd as asking a peasant to stop caring about food.
People seem to be downvoting opinions here and the discussion is all turning so pale it's hard to read. Maybe just live with the fact that there will be statements you don't agree with and perhaps post a comment explaining why, if the counterpoint has not yet been made.
Thanks for posting the video. Watching it, I realized that the image of the ride I’d built in my head when reading the article (three people lightly strapped to a flimsy inflatable float) was pretty far from reality (which looked more like a rollercoaster that happened to sit on water). I can see why people thought this was safe.
Yeah fringe groups / terrorist organizations who are all about causing as much chaos and flourishing in that would be the folk's I'd be worried about that.
> The interaction between safe and unsafe Rust is not well defined

Not contesting the claim, but what in the interaction specifically is not well defined?
If you drive somebody out into the cold and he starts to carve himself a igloo in the snowman, what was there first?

The Traitors, who shoved a good man into a hostile environment or the bad deal of someone who refused to die for principals, neither of us would risk his neck for.

If you are hunted and stateless, you are breathing thin air - and cant choosy with your allies. Ideals are not calories, ideals dont warm at night, ideals are what got you into the trap in the first place.

If you where selfless enough to throw away your social life, for ungrateful people, who wouldn't even protest for ideals, why not make a deal with the devil to at least not become a martyr?
If you're going to take a psychedelic please read through the safety guides on https://tripsafe.org/ first. And like the other commenter noted, read Fadiman's book.

Also there are services that offer legal facilitated offerings: https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/experience-retreats
7480 looks like a much better Linux machine than the XPS I have. I should be switching to a ThinkPad next week!
1 billion isn’t even worthy of a line item in the defense budget. Stick it there as part of national security in the event of biological warfare. QED.
exactly! you have nailed this annoying format to the floor with a nuclear-powered hammer and half a billion titanium nails.

unfortunately it always rises again...
It depends on your aims, and willingness to accept the consequences of potential mutations. Eventually the requirements to engineer and produce a plague will become something that can be done in a garage, and without the fundamental limits of something like a nuclear bomb for which plutonium is a required.

At that point, I suspect aggressive deterrence will be the only viable option.
I've connected to literally $200,000+ worth of client work through LinkedIn, and the clients are very happy too, so I'm not on board with calling it useless.

edit: And before I became a consultant, I got a life changing job offer from someone who discovered me on LinkedIn.
That part felt petty & mean spirited to me. If anything the person was playing "the game" in the way it should be played, yet the author felt the urge to unnecessary ridicule them (even anonymously so).
> do not have DRM

i said DRM and/or anti-cheat. 100% of valve games have anti-cheat.

Both of those run as administrator and have a great deal of opaque control of your machine.
Snowden isn’t without culpability. Yes it was patritic to illuminate the spying on Americans citizens etc., but he also revealed some things which i think he should not have.

Most people were in agreement with Wikipedia leaks until they thought he hrlped a political candidate they disagreed with. If Snowden tomorrow released some information which hurts Dems, I’m convinced hidden pitchforks woul come out from hiding too. Same for Repubs
I can't say for sure, but i do know ucspi-tcp is a great tool that wraps the noise for you into FDs. But it's only useful if you can tank the cost of invoking a process per tcp connection.

https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
I also run NetBSD (mostly on servers, but occasionally PCs as well). I can relate to this. Difference is good; it helps challenge assumptions. Running different operating systems is good for the same reason as testing websites on different browsers is, or having things tested by disabled people for accessibility, or visiting foreign countries and learning about different cultures.

One of my NetBSD machines is an UltraSPARC box. I've heard both NetBSD and OpenBSD devs say it's one of their favourite platforms, because being a big-endian 64 bit machine, it helps discover many false assumptions made in low level code.
Cheaper. Easier ordering. You know when it will arrive. You can land in a country where people speak != your language, and still get around without having to learn the "local way". Reviews of rider and driver provide some metrics to act upon by vendor.
Most taxis have videos... just a matter of who watches it.

Is it less creepy if it's just some guy watching old surveillance videos if he works for a security company? Or the NSA? Because... well, look, if you find this creepy you'll just make yourself sad reading about what our government does.
That’s not really true though, and you don’t have to kill people to have an effective weapon. You could releas foot and mouth and devastate an economy or starve people. The truth is that biological weapons could be very effective, depending on your aims. You can attack people to weaken, but not slaughter a population, to pave the way for a conventional assault. You can attack livestock, crops, and yes, go for mass slaughter. Ebola is an extreme case, but many other organisms have a more agreeable profile. Anthrax can be used as an area denial weapon because of its persistent nature for example.

You just have to utterly lack a conscience, and that’s an ingredient already present in many cases.
It is great that LinkedIn just reports 500+ connections. It truly is an unimpressive stat.
It's been a valuable platform for me, so I keep it around. The only things to remember: don't install the mobile app and get used to ignoring requests from unfamiliar people and irrelevant recruiters. Never connect it to Outlook or any other app.
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-studies-fail-find-associ...
Go to one of these:

https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/experience-retreats

https://www.mycomeditations.com/

https://synthesisretreat.com/
This would never happen in Canada... our data rates are too outrageous to make this viable.
Ring doorbell cameras record without consent, and can be shared via their neighborhood feature. Uber vehicles, like homes with Ring cameras, are private property. Aside from Uber serving as a middleman between private citizens and private property, what's the difference?
Drug makers do not understand what it is like to be psychotic and mentally ill. They need to experience them to truly understand how to develop drugs, because most of the drugs are ineffective and side effects are way too strong. John Nash has given up on his medication and instead rationalized his disability for the rest of his life, after his final discharge in 1970.

It's unfortunate many people do not understand mental illness at all, and they think therapy and drugs can be cure people. They cannot. Mental illnesses are treatable, but they cannot be cured.

Okay, I am done. I hate this world. Fuck these medications.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dip6Q6AX4AAfq8y.jpg

Look at it. Ain't working. Ain't working, people. They ain't working. Ain't nobody gonna understand. I read enough papers to fully understand no drugs can help.
Have a thorough read through this: https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-shrooms/
Ask HN: How to manage professional connections?
How do people manage their professional connections? LinkedIn works to find and make new one but not to stay in touch.

I am looking for the ability to

1. Tag existing connections
2. See my connections by location (eg. If I am visiting New York,I can reach out to some of my connections there)
3. Track when I last connected with someone (through my calendar appointments)
In NYC, I'll take a cab. Just about everywhere else in America I get a Lyft. Why? Because taxi dispatch sucks. The cabs never come, or they come very late. The dispatch operators are rude if you ask where the cab you called is. In some places, like Albany, NY, the cabs will take detours to pick up other passengers without asking you or telling you that's what will happen. Etc.

If you live in most of America, and want to get somewhere, and the public transit sucks, Lyft gets you there. Taxis just don't.
well... https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/farmers-chickens-a...
Nope. I've never had any emails come through except the ones I've set to come through. Now, on the off chance I do go to their website, there's always a load of new notifications with that spam included in it.
As far as I know, the chronological setting has to be reset every time.

As far as blaming people for the toxicity of what appears, I don't think that's right. Salt is toxic in large quantities, essential in small amounts. Systematically placing it in wounds adds a whole new dimension. Context has a huge effect on the meaning of events. Suppose someone made a video of dozens of brief instances where you were at your worst, and sent it to everyone you know. That would not be the truth about who you are, or your fault. Selecting one of 10 or 100 posts for how intense a reaction it gets, is creating a toxic narrative, and the emergent result of the algorithms is not to be blamed on the source of the data. Systematically manipulating the context of interactions with people is an incredibly destructive, harmful thing to do - traditionally, it's the bread and butter of tactical politics, but Facebook has brought it to ordinary people.
No, I mean that what he does is advocacy. Paul Krugman and Tucker Carlson are also not reporters or journalists.
The people I know had friends interviewed and it took quite a long time (a couple years at least) of that sort of thing for whatever reason. It still took quite a few years for even permanent residence, afaik citizenship was never even obtained.

I don't doubt that the experiences vary. But the entire point of my reply was that you can't just buy into citizenship with marriage because they will deny you if they find out you did that, ergo it is not guaranteed.
Related talk by the author (Ivan Sutherland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9pAaQlVRc
According to the article, the metal hoop seems to have caught him in the neck. I can't imagine being there in the raft, nor being there as a bystander, watching.