skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's insightful, but I also thing the parent argument still works if you use a weaker hypothesis. The way I see it if free will somehow exists it's still relatively limited in scope, at least from what I observe for most human beings (including myself). Our upbringing has a massive influence on who we are and how we think. I'd very much like to believe that I'm a product of my own free will, that I ended up where I am through my own intelligence and the decisions I made but let's face it, had I been born in a poor Ethiopian family I probably wouldn't be talking philosophy on HN because I'm procrastinating on that Perl project.

In particular in right-wing politics I really think that the importance of free-will and self-determination is massively overinflated. We have a ton of evidence that shows that people who are born poor (both economically and culturally) tend to stay that way. Even the most advanced first world societies fail to level the playing field through education and redistribution. Free will is an interesting concept at the individual level but clearly when we consider large societies it's relatively easy to model how humans are likely to behave.

I don't want to derail this discussion to the topic of politics but I want to point out that this conception of the world is why I think socialism makes sense, because I believe that freedom is meaningless if where you're born so heavily influences who you're going to become. Ideally if we were all born perfectly equal in all aspects then your own decisions would be the only things that matter, but we're very, very far from that, therefore I think that we have the moral duty as a society to attempt to correct these inequalities as much as possible. Because all of us right here, had we been born in a Pakistani slum we'd probably be pretty fucking screwed right now, regardless of the existence of free will.
> they need 10 Asian users for every US American user?

Assuming the tenth Asian user (a) is as lucrative as the first and (b) costs 1/10th as much to provide services to as an American user, sure. I'm doubtful about those assumptions. And this is all just for treading water.
It's been tried. Many times over. The type of society you advocate is a religious one. One would argue this is still the dominant model. In America, more than 50% believe in some form of God. Some nations are outright religious. Poland and Italy are ~85% accepted Catholic and over 95% if you include lapsed Catholics.

Most religions believe in predestination, in that God's Will supersedes man's will, everything happens for a reason, and our fate is decided the day we are born. Individual religious folk are more compassionate on average, take care of the needy, poor and downtrodden. Religious societies however, have led to intolerance, persecution and rigid class systems.
Oh boy, I know this is arrogant;
It's pretty easy to show evidence of determinism.
1) Read my brain, check if in ten seconds I will say yes or nothing.
2) Don't tell me.
3) Wait ten seconds.
4) Compare results.
I'm aware of the experiments of reading brain decisions faster than our consiousness (machines telling which button we will play "before we realized"). No, no psychomotor tricks. Just read my brain, don't tell me until I made my choice. If you get 100% I believe you, meanwhile, no evidence.
I'm sorry, but hate speech has be banned and prosecuted. A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance. My freedom ends where your's start.
Call me cynical, but that doesn't look like a SMART goal, that looks like PR. Maybe I'm mis-remembering and his statements were internal rather than public, but in reality BK's real targets were about Market Cap and Revenue.
Huge difference between "never heard of" and "never bothered to subscribe". An ad in NYT is unlikely to win their minds.
first class trolling.
If you like looking at the night sky, you should add the New York Times' astronomical calendar to your Google calendar (link at the bottom of the article). They have all these astronomical events, so I don't miss out on them even if they don't hit the regular news cycle.
How a German city changed how we read
> What will keep people--resigned to their fate--from plopping on the couch to wait it out, as opposed to attempting somethin

I don't think this is how it works from my observations. People don't decide to couch it out based on their philosophy or the expected outcome. They may rationalize it that way but what I believe is that based on their experiences so far some people are simply driven to go out and do stuff and others don't want to do anything mostly.

And my belief is compatible with the "no free will" theory.
you mean micro vs macro evolution i think, and it might be interesting for you to look at those terms?
this article , like darwins findings which there are proof for, are all about micro evolution - the environment and social circumstances triggering minor changes. i dont think (but ofcourse, i didnt do any experiements on it... ) that these 'new species' have new DNA. (and really.. that means they aren't actually new species... guess people are confused about what race and species actually mean. but that's another story :D... )
>An individual believing it has free will, will certainly act different to an individual that believes all actions are predetermined

Sure, but then you still have this loop the parent talks about: if there's no free will then the insight that you have it or not is also completely predetermined. This discussion is predetermined. The reply that you may or may not write to this comment is predetermined. We're just in a movie and one of the character says "What if we don't have free will? Maybe that'll change the end of the movie." No it won't, it's already set in stone, just fast-forward a bit.
Why is this a slide bar instead of an input field where I can enter the number?
I read his statement as sarcasm. I'm actually hard pressed to think of how I could interpret it seriously.
And OpenCL was recently deprecated by OSX, wasn’t it?

Edit: yes. Discussion on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17231593
Gold Leaf Playing cards sold on Amazon contains no gold
Radio 4 still broadcasts on long wave as well as FM, which I assume is helpful for ships far out at sea.
>it's because they don't want to.

I would argue it's because there is no financial incentive to destroy the grid. Humans are willing to make entire species (overfishing, poaching, etc...) extinct for a quick buck.
Python and Ruby are not known for "extremely weak typing".

Ruby: duck, dynamic, strong.

Python: dynamic, strong.

JavaScript: dynamic, duck, weak.

Elixir: dynamic, strong.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing
Those aren't false positives in that they represent real genetic relationships (i.e they're identical by descent), as the database size increases you don't increase the false positive rate in any meaningful sense at higher match levels.

If you've got a identical twin then you're right that their child will be genetically indistinguishable from your child. But that's down to the nature of genetics rather than anything to do with the reliability of testing or database size.
First concrete, legitimate reason I've seen all thread. Is there something fundamental about jQuery's design that forces it to use eval(), or is it possible a new version could avoids that?
> Well, this certainly isn't true.

It depends on how those estimates of the world's Internet population are calculated -- e.g., from census and other household data. Is an African village of 47 with a dial-up connection counted as part of the world's Internet population? I don't know. Do you?

> And in any case, the people making these predictions are factoring in things like this, they didn't just slap down a linear regression line and call it a day.

One would hope so, yet many are acting... surprised. As a headline put it, "Facebook’s forecast for the future looks suddenly bleak."[a]

[a] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/26/17615330/facebook-earning...
In the Issacson biography:

"He didn’t want to make a Windows version of the iPod and iTunes; when all of his lieutenants fought him on it, he eventually conceded they were right, though grudgingly: “Screw it. I’m sick of listening to you assholes. Go do whatever the hell you want.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/10/...
There are also app that lets you point your phone at the stars/ planets and they will tell you the names etc. Google sky map is one that I can think of but I know there are others as well.
For any power of two m, then for any range size n (with m/2 < n <= m), the probability of rejection is (m-n)/m. If any n is equally probable, then the average rejection is equal to the rejection of the average n (= 3*m/4): (m/4)/m = 1/4. This is true for any power of two m. I stand my case!
I'm sure once you do post something after a prolonged absence that they somehow highlight your post to everyone much more than it would normally appear.

I once went through a long tedious process of manually deleting posts and photos and after a while I got a very increased interaction on older images, not newer. Interaction from people who wouldn't normally comment, either.
>no evidence

Why do you assume that the null hypothesis is free will?
A close but not perfect analogy. Perhaps closer for me since with a spouse I may find something unexpected in the fridge.
No mugshot should be released unless convicted.
I don't see how personal responsibility wouldn't be possible without free will.

Society decides the consequences for wrongdoing (and positive reinforcement). Free will or not an entity is affected by the consequences of ones action (if it is able to realize those consequences).

The desire to live in a society where people don't solely act in their own interests is by itself a driving force (not necessarily fueled by free will). There are other species that more or less do only act in their own interest but humans would not have survived if we did, our strength comes from collaboration.

Even our own, well behaved, developed software "understand" the concept of consequences and personal responsibility - because we program in that behavior. Just as evolution has programmed us not to be destructive (with varying success).
The article states as a fact that in present all mind illnesses are get blamed on the mind and not on the environment or body but we read everywhere that the causes for many such illnesses are in the body or environment.

The problem IMO is that it takes a long time until correlations and later causation are found
"Conway thinks the free decisions of the particles inside us might account for our own free will."

Another mathematician, Roger Penrose, made a similar claim, but with "consciousness" instead of "free will".

I find this very implausible. So does Douglas Hofstadter, probably, though I've not yet read his main book on the subject.

Thought experiment: You make a mathematical model of how neurons work, you cut up a human's brain, and you build a machine that simulates it. Wherever the model required randomness, you use pseudorandom numbers, generated cryptographically, so the entire system is deterministic. You connect it up to some kind of humanoid robot. Does the resulting system behave roughly like a human, and, if so, does it have free will, and is it conscious?

People who believe that consciousness or free will depends on fundamental physics have to believe:

* Either that the simulated human won't work like a human: it will mysteriously fail to function, but how exactly?

* Or that the simulated human will seem to work like a real human, but nevertheless it won't be conscious; it will be a mere "zombie".

The first option seems intuitively implausible to me, and the second option sounds like silly sophistry.
Stepper Juggler – machine with the goal of keeping a ping pong ball bouncing
So it seems that quantum particles do not "choose" their state until observed. I've heard this multiple times now, including in this article (demonstrated by the 33 sticks analogy).

I'm curious, has any research been done on HOW they "choose" their state when observed? I imagine it is pretty difficult (if not impossible) to analyze this, but is there any insight of the factors that make a quantum particle choose its state? Or is the prevalent theory that it is completely random?

PD: I find this topic fascinating.
In the case of free will I don't see any intuitive implausibility. It's intuitively plausible that someone/something could exhibit human-like behavior without actually having free will. After all, some people think that regular humans fall into this category!
Ask HN: Do you think standard API response require based on data/operation?
There are plenty of API exists each have multiple endpoints to handle multiple type of data (like list, object, file etc).

It would be good if all API have standard set of responses for multiple operations across globe(currently its api version or company level).

It will helpful to reduce integration efforts as now days integration development is usually involved in most of applications.
> Gift cards aren’t as convenient as receiving money on your bank account or a debit card. But they’re a great way to avoid telling your bank that you made money by speculating on cryptocurrencies. Many banks directly report data on their users to local tax authorities. But don’t forget that Coinbase can track all your withdrawal events and notify tax authorities too.

Does TechCrunch have any actual editorial review process or do “journalists” publish whatever tax evasion / money laundering 101 instructional article they want?
I would suggest reading up on the Swiss system that hugely reduced a severe heroin problem by treating addiction as a medical problem instead of a criminal problem. Doctors simply administer as much heroin to addicts as they want. It was so successful that now Germany and a couple of other countries have adopted it. Portugal has also had success with decriminalization. There is plenty of evidence out there to support his statement.
Fortnite: An Unconventional Launch
In theory, if you're worried about SIM hijacking, you could use something like Skype SMS, and secure your access to Skype by 2FA on the associated Live account.

Perhaps there are services to choose from as well, but, I'd take great care in determining trust here.
> a bunch of other stuff which I don’t understand that well (metric 600, scope link, proto kernel, etc). Not understanding what those things mean hasn’t hurt me yet.

These are pretty straightforward. metric 600 means that out of all the otherwise-identical routes, the kernel will prefer this one to one with a metric of 601 or greater. scope link means that this address is only valid on the local link (network interface). scope global means that (the kernel assumes) this address is valid on the wider Internet. proto kernel means that the kernel automatically installed this route for you because you used "ip address add x/y". Now, the "table x" part is actually really interesting, because Linux doesn't just support "a route table", it supports 256 routing tables. These are used in conjunction with policy routing in order to support source address routing, firewall mark based routing, and others. Firewall mark based routing is extremely powerful: for example: MARK all packets on port 53 whose (using BPF) first DNS query question is jvns.ca, and send those using eth1 instead of eth0. More mundanely, wg-quick from WireGuard uses this feature to bypass the VPN for the VPN packets, which allows the VPN to be used for the VPN gateway.
it's funny that you mention liberalism because the common understanding of the meaning of "liberalism" has shifted over time. Classical liberalism is much closer to libertarianism than progressivism.
yes, downvotes for not agreeing are increasing.
What is more irritating is that people are not open to accept or investigate facts that they never heard of.
For example, if I say that the Gerson therapy cures cancer better than chemo and does this for a century, there will be many downvotes for assuming that I am a lunatic while I merely state a fact that can be investigated. For example, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyEsN9DzSo

I observe that there is a tendency that people are more and more unable to discuss a topic and have a real conversation. People are less openminded and even a "eat more greens since that is good for you" is enough to make them deaf for what you have to say.
Since the merchants ultimately want to be paid in USD (or other local currencies, but we'll just say USD for simplicity), you could start a company which takes in USD and gives back a one-to-one token for USD, which can then be either traded back and forth for crypto and associated with your Credits cards. Since this USD token - call it a "Tether?" - is 100% backed by USD, associating with a CC is basically just another debit card with a weird backend at the bank that holds the cash.
Why Founder-Market Fit is so important (2016)
Free will does exist, only we don't have it. We live in our own little world of illusions, thinking and dreaming. In reality every random influence can change our path.

Reality only exists in the present moment; just try to "be" there for a few minutes (without thinking) and you realize you don't have "free will". These are qualities that come with a huge price that almost none of us can or want to pay for, mainly because we love to dream we already have it.

Examples of people with free will are: Jesus Christ, Buddha, etc..
I'm inclined to agree, but am reminded of the Dropbox Vs rsync post on HN. The value to me from it is okay groups family and friends. I can write a facebook clone which does all the things I like in a month or so, but that's kind of missing the point.
That's a good point - if I am following correctly, a memcpy of a byte from an integer can be regarded as an arithmetical operation (in fact, a multiplicative one), while, in general, there is no equivalent interpretation for copying a byte of a pointer.

I guess one could make a similar argument for the bytes of a unicode string.

While writing this, it occurred to me that the difficulties with casting between pointers and integers is in going from integers to pointers, where there is no unique mapping (for pointer to integer, base + offset is meaningful, but it loses information.)
Why is she a con artist? Mind explaining your rationale?
Over 90 killed in string of attacks in Syria’s southwest, ISIS behind carnage
I thought the latest was that done wrong they’re not just useless but counterproductive; but that there are ways to do them right and have a positive effect?
What exactly are people in Sweden learning?
Billionaire Life Style Happy Family Simulator
I believe that most psychological "issues" arise from more rationally explainable underlying problems than our current psychological understanding is able to explain.

We lack the models to analyze and research how different diagnoses are related to each other.

Psychology today is a bit to obsessed with the surface structure of the mind, and the behavior that it causes. We need something like theoretical physics for the mind where we model more underlying functions not surface behavior. The mind might however be so complex that it is impossible. But on some level i think there is abstraction levels that can be modeled.
I'm curious as to what your theological beliefs are? How come you list Jesus (which I would understand if you are christian) but also, in the same breath, Buddha?
>I don't see how personal responsibility wouldn't be possible without free will.

It's still possible to reward and punish people for their actions. The point is that the absence of free will seems to give everyone a rock solid excuse for anything bad that they do: "I could not have done otherwise". Thus, while you can still punish people, you can't actually hold them responsible.
The thing that I found surprising is their foray into web components: https://github.com/github?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=-element&type=&la....

Custom elements are probably a great fit for .erb templates.
I'm not assuming free will exists.
To be honest, I'm personally a compatibilist.
I'm determinism and free will agnostic.
No evidence for free will doesn't mean determinsm is true.
No evidence for determinism doesn't mean free will is true.
Is an unpopular opinion. But I see no gap in the logic.
Bērnu divritenis katram vecumam – VELO OUTLETS
What is ICSI treatment?
What if you grow up around insane people? What if you are daily surrounded by people with faulty reasoning and illogical, biased conclusions? Would you not adopt these neural mechanics too?

You are a product of your environment, and if your environment is insane, you will be too.
Pigeons in Amsterdam often don't even flinch at approaching bikes and just sidestep what would otherwise probably be death or serious injury.
Isn't Coinbase getting all sorts of banking licenses?
Perhaps the insurance company will not give you an insurance at all if you are deemed a high enough genetic risk. Perhaps, while the main disease works its way, you will not be covered for the side effects (like pneumonia) either, as you have no insurance.

This might or might not be an issue now (regardless of the place of residence), but laws can always be changed. And societies can always develop to be more totalitarist, even up to extremes, and it is not like the collected data just vanishes when things start to slide. (Case in point: IBM's Hollerith machines and population records)

I was very curious about 23andme and really wanted to try it. After some due diligence I concluded it is not worth it because of privacy and other implications going forward. It is not what they do today, since they don't hide the obvious sharing and datamining, so if one joins them it is through informed consent. My concern was rather what kind of systems and policies they enable eventually in the future, after the information gets sold/shared enough times to anyone who can pay enough. At this point there is no control anymore in how (and by whom) the data gets used.
It's interesting you say that, does that not mean you need to enroll both keys on every site you use them on?

This makes having one in a safe location somewhere kind of tricky, as it has to be accessible when you're signing up. so for example if you're travelling/working from another site, you won't have your "safe" key to hand.

Also you need to remember to do the enroll twice for every service, forget one, and you're back to trying to see if there's a fallback procedure.
The Lost Art of Shutting One's Mouth
I have created one of the decently popular jQuery light (3kb) alternatives: https://umbrellajs.com/

And I do not always recommend it, indeed for smaller projects you might be better off with plain Javascript: https://umbrellajs.com/documentation#native-methods

But native Javascript, as explained there, is more error-prone while jQuery (and Umbrella) are more permissive. Both have their pros and cons, but if you try to make native Javascript as permissive as jQuery you'll end up with a big mess. Unless you create some internal methods, which then you bundle, test, release, and... end up with another jQuery clone!
They could consider using "dollars" which conveniently are accepted means of transaction by literally everyone.
But I'm not paying for those
Ahh that is interesting! Do you know is there a doc. on how that's done? Also does that mean that once the clone is done you can effectively just register once with your "live" key and if it fails seemlessly use the "backup" key or do you need to register with both for that to work?
As Qualcomm Deal Is Scrapped, China Denies Trade Link
The Gina Haspel America Needs
Not sure what IMUs you're using, but we've been using civilian MEMS and FOG IMUs for years now. You still can't make anything purely inertial good enough to keep position accurately enough to be a GPS replacement for more than a few hours.