skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, same logic as above for the holocaust. Once it is established that a certain crimw against humanity happen that cannot be denied. Free speech, i my own European way of thinking, has to protected against propaganda. Which the French do, apparently.
This pointer manipulation is fine. GCC simply optimizes the parameters for printf(): https://godbolt.org/z/AHY7Nd

*x will be 7 in the end.
> For some reason you are expected to provide a reason for why you don't drink

I grew up in a family that didn't drink - and this was always weird/uncomfortable to explain to friends.

I do drink now; but I've noticed over the years that it is becoming much more socially acceptable to not drink ..and people don't think it so strange; "I just don't like it", "religious beliefs", "trying to get healthier". So, yeah, people still ask "why?", but often out of genuine curiosity IMHO.

This is a good thing - frankly, I like to have a drink with friends, but its more about being with the friends - and if they're drinking soda I'm just as happy they're with us.
The book even has a number on this!

> The second unexpected—and more profound—result was that their reliably repeating cycles of
wake and sleep were not precisely twenty-four hours in length, but consistently and undeniably
longer than twenty-four hours. Richardson, in his twenties, developed a sleep-wake cycle of
between twenty-six and twenty-eight hours in length. That of Kleitman, in his forties, was a little
closer to, but still longer than, twenty-four hours. Therefore, when removed from the external
influence of daylight, the internally generated “day” of each man was not exactly twenty-four
hours, but a little more than that. Like an inaccurate wristwatch whose time runs long, with
each passing (real) day in the outside world, Kleitman and Richardson began to add time based
on their longer, internally generated chronometry.
Will respond more about that later, but just wanted to point you to Phil Wadler's 1999 paper about both XML and the S-expression approach (HTML/XML are essentially S-expressions too):

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/next700/next700....
You're still making an ideological argument, though you might not realize it.

The question is whether workers should have some degree of ownership and control of their company. You point out that the workers voluntarily gave that up.

The broader question is whether free market outcomes must be fair/best. What you ignore is that in an unjust society with imbalances of power, markets will reflect and amplify those inequities.

For example, what do you make of the fact that most board members are white men? Will you argue that this is the fair outcome? Or is it possible that there other explanations and better outcomes?
They maybe should not have written code in C at all, since the language that you need hire a lawyer for is not a viable option. But everyone hoped that with a given team they could create something that both will meet requirements and be future-proof. While what they did was not really legal, it is not practical to make it not work anymore. If they did it right way, Linux would not exist, see? Lawyers don’t build anything.
> the system may send a small electroshock

This is not likely, too overtly evil.

> make the video longer repeating the important parts until you pay attention, select a longer version of the video where the repetition is not obvious but they keep saying the same thing again or again, or let the system randomly select you for a voluntary group for a new training video tomorrow.

I've already had mandatory training that included all of these in various forms.
Metro Vancouver's cat sanctuary RAPS has a "barn cat" program that's similar to this. http://www.rapsbc.com/cat-sanctuary/

RAPS located in the suburb of Richmond, which is an odd urban, farming, industrial fusion of a municipality, and a perfect mix sort of environment for feral cat colonies to go unnoticed. They trap lots of feral cats, and over time some times some of these feral cats chill out enough that they're only semi-feral and can be a good fit for living on farms and killing rats.

They also have all sorts of other unadoptable cats that would be killed at any normal shelter. Some times this is due to high aggression, problem urination, special needs or some disease such as FIV (HIV but for cats).
I think it's worse than this, at least in some fields. In my field, aerospace engineering, the undergraduate curriculum typically has a numerical methods course. But the course is usually focused on basic algorithms — Newton's method, basic numerical integrqtion schemes, etc. — and does not go deeply enough to allow one to derive or understand the numerical methods used in the design of actual aircraft or spacecraft (FEM, solutions to the Navier Stokes equations, solutions to the PDEs that describe thermal transfer, etc.) so the software that performs these calculations is often treated by engineers as a black box. Admittedly, in a well run project there is usually hardware testing to back up the analysis, but such testing cannot realistically reproduce the conditions a spacecraft will encounter on orbit, or that an aircraft will encounter in near-crash situations.

I once sat on the external departmental review board for my alma mater, along with Mike Griffin (former administrator of NASA). We were interviewing recent graduates, and I brought this point up and got the interviewee to admit that he did not understand and could not double check the results of his FEM analysis tool. I was trying to get the board to rcommend beefing up the numerical methods portion of the curricula. Dr. Griffin, on hearing the interviewee admit this, agreed to add the recommendation. But nothing changed in the curriculum.
At some level you have to eventually decide, "if it works it works."

Obviously at the application level it's frowned upon, but in the kernel? You do what you have to with the tools you have.

Think about Java. Yea sure, keep telling us sun.misc.Unsafe isn't legit. It's going to get use until that capability exists elsewhere.
Exactly. "Walmart deploys 17,000 Oculus Go headsets to train its machines"
Isn't the milky way 100000 light years across?
In my HS, we started about 1 hour after elementary school/middle school and got out slightly after them. I recall as a child I had to have a baby sitter until my sister picked me up after getting out of HS, and I remember when I was in HS, I saw them getting picked up by the buses about an hour before mine came.

Our days weren't really any longer, just offset.
the next step is to tie the employees down to a chair while watching the training material...

Welcome to walmart training camp!, some of you are here because some kind of incident/accident during your usual workflow, please take a sit on this special brainwashing machine while some of the assistants tie you down on the sit... It will last only 12 hours for the first seven days and after that we will have a quiz and you can go back to work.
Honest question: Have you tried waking up at the same time every day -- absolutely NO exceptions -- for a period of 2+ weeks? (Along with this, no snoozing and get up as quickly as possible after your alarm goes off, even if you're a zombie and won't be able to actually do anything for another hour or two).

I ask as a person who's been on both sides of the fence, from 8pm nights and 4am mornings to 4am nights and 1pm "mornings" (and, of course, all manner of ranges in between). I've had months where I'm alert and out of bed 15 seconds after the alarm rings, and months where it takes me 2+ hours to rely wake up (although, on the whole, I'd still consider myself a "morning person", since I tend to feel better and get more done when I'm on the early shift).

I've found that, no matter what time I'm waking up, my ability to start moving in the "morning" is dependent in huge part (55%) on a consistent wake up time, and in small part dependent on getting enough sleep (20%) and getting up immediately instead of snoozing or otherwise staying horizontal (25%). Percentages are non-scientific estimates.

I do acknowledge, it's hard as hell to transition to being a "morning person" when I haven't been for a while, because it's just SO hard to force myself out of bed for the 1-2 week period I need to aclimate. Especially since in a half-awake state I don't have much mental capacity to push through the sleepiness. And it would be harder if I'd never experienced easy mornings to know they're possible.

For the record, to preempt a rebuttle along these lines: I also don't dispute that some people, for whatever reason -- genetics, life circumstances, etc -- may just not be able to make the switch. I am curious whether whether it's a matter of "I've done the above and it had no effect on me" or "The above is just impossible for me."
What makes this different from Mercury (https://github.com/Raynos/mercury) and a ton of other pre-React frameworks?
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Ironically if Google will indeed switch to Fuchsia or another in-house OS, Android may survive in some form as their biggest competitor.
It isn't.

> Kleitman and Richardson were to be their own experimental guinea pigs. Loaded with food and
water for six weeks and a pair of dismantled, high-standing hospital beds, they took a trip into
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, one of the deepest caverns on the planet—so deep, in fact, that no
detectable sunlight penetrates its farthest reaches. It was from this darkness that Kleitman and
Richardson were to illuminate a striking scientific finding that would define our biologicalrhythm as being approximately one day (circadian), and not precisely one day.
In addition to food and water, the two men brought a host of measuring devices to assess their
body temperatures, as well as their waking and sleeping rhythms. This recording area formed
the heart of their living space, flanked either side by their beds. The tall bed legs were each
seated in a bucket of water, castle-moat style, to discourage the innumerable small (and not so
small) creatures lurking in the depths of Mammoth Cave from joining them in bed.
The experimental question facing Kleitman and Richardson was simple: When cut off from the
daily cycle of light and dark, would their biological rhythms of sleep and wakefulness, together
with body temperature, become completely erratic, or would they stay the same as those
individuals in the outside world exposed to rhythmic daylight? In total, they lasted thirty-two
days in complete darkness. Not only did they aggregate some impressive facial hair, but they
made two groundbreaking discoveries in the process. The first was that humans, like de
Mairan’s heliotrope plants, generated their own endogenous circadian rhythm in the absence of
external light from the sun. That is, neither Kleitman nor Richardson descended into random
spurts of wake and sleep, but instead expressed a predictable and repeating pattern of
prolonged wakefulness (about fifteen hours), paired with consolidated bouts of about nine
hours of sleep.
Digital labour platforms and the future of work [pdf]
Gary Null is the founder of the site http://prn.fm/about/gary-null/

Its entire shop inventory is gary null media http://prn.fm/prn-store/page/1/

It's a little more than irresponsible.
Modern memory is layered. You have registers, you have three layers of CPU cache, etc, etc.

At higher levels of abstraction we pretend like it's all flat but we do need to allow for optimizations to occur.
Did you read my comment and the comment I replied to? Apparently not, because your reply makes no sense at all. Please, read again, start with the comment I replied to. You can also check out the other replies to him to understand what the subject of the discussion is.
No it hasn't.

>We realise it's a troll, but we had an internal discussion and we decided that we wanted to remove these anyway. We're not being terrorised into change just because a (bad) troll appeared, they just happened to bring attention to a real issue.
Time dilation: At a constant acceleration of 1g, 100k galactic time reduces to 12 years ship time. Cf the link provided in the comment you're replying to.
Schizophrenia is what Mohammed suffered from, which caused him to think Allah was talking to him. In actuality, his brain was malfunctioning due to Schizophrenia.
Mine was in captivity since a child, so I don't think it ever developed the skills to fly. But sometimes when I would handle it, it would open and reveal it's eye-spotted wings; maybe because it thought I was a threat, or maybe just to impress me :P. When it was close to dying, it's behavior became erratic and it would fall over and not really be in control of itself. It did clamp onto my finger and take some nibbles in its near death state of confusion, but the spines nor bites could Pierce the skin. I barely felt it.

TL;DR = mine handled fine and possibly enjoyed the excitement of adventuring up my arm. Never any naughty behavior until senility set in.
Interesting paper. I work in fluid dynamics and tend to agree that computational power often is wasted.

To elaborate on a point not discussed in the paper: Many methods used in practical engineering won't necessarily converge to the empirically correct answer as the computational cost increases, say, by decreasing the time step, increasing the number of computational particles, and/or refining a grid. This is true even if the uncertainty is quantified. Without this guarantee, additional computational expenditure could simply be wasted. The problem isn't the lack of computing power, it's the model.

One reason is that "reliable" physics like, for example, the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flows, are not being used as the model because the computational cost for solving those equations directly is far too high. Instead lower cost models are being used which may be loosely based on the reliable model, but ultimately is not the same thing. A numerical implementation of the lower cost model might converge to something (which is not necessarily right) as the computational cost increases, but converging to the right answer is less likely than the reliable model. It depends on the reliability and generalizability of the lower cost model and how well it has been tuned.

(To those familiar with computational fluid dynamics, convergence is one reason to prefer LES to RANS, though it's worth pointing out that not all LES methods are convergent.)

A hypothesis I have is that computing resources have caused many scientists and engineers' theoretical abilities to atrophy. Perhaps they were never that good on average to begin with, but in my academic field I work in theory partly because I've found so much low hanging fruit. I don't see much of a point in making expensive computational models if applying basic regression techniques with a simple theory-based model is similarly or even more accurate. These simple models are much more efficient.

Also: I wasn't aware of attempts to bound the results. I attended an uncertainty quantification seminar before and asked one of the lecturers about this more generally and they seemed skeptical of its utility.
Compared to reality or ray tracing, the lighting and shadows of most games are just terrible.

It'd be interesting to see how VR sickness triggers are distributed in the population. How many people actually get nauseous from bad lighting, how many get nauseous from forced camera movement etc
Maybe I've been asleep for the past few decades, but when did it become vogue to implement corporate Stasi-like surveillance infrastructure?

I keep seeing the sentiment pop-up that as long as it isn't the government building the dossier directly, everything is a-ok.

Regardless of the fact that most nations have begun ignoring any claim of privacy being at stake by mere virtue of doing business with someone else.

The lack of follow-thru on the sentiment, and the danger it poses to far more fundamental societal building blocks (good treatment of guests and strangers, trust, forgiveness, willingness to live and let live on an individual basis).

Seems like someone's driving out on some pretty thin ice with one heavily laden forklift.

Nevermind the behavior grossly violating classic human social norms. If I went to someone's door, and started rifling through their house and person to build up a dossier on them, before even bothering to say "hello", I'd likely be shot (not that I would blame them). Same thing if I made the presumption I could do it in a public space for my own self-enrichment (again, would not blame them).

I'm a bit of a stickler for privacy in that regard. If you want info for your own edification, that's fine. If you start sharing it without my informed consent, free of such compulsions as "every actor in this sphere is doing it", I've got issues with that. Especially if a State actor is one of the beneficiaries, directly or indirectly. It's a really bad door to open that I'd prefer stayed where it belongs. In the history books.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/itm/32816616368.html
I mean, my impression from reading 19th century novels is that people used to just slip into a convenient glen or wooded area, it wasn't that hard before the industrial era.
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As you approach the speed of light, the time observed by the traveler ticks slower, so you can travel vast distances in short observed time periods. So the people on the ship would spend 12 years, a manageable time period, but us more or less stationary observers would still see 100000 years pass.
'Arms', in the general sense, is up to and including nukes though.
by that argument i'm a follower of jehovah's witnesses because i consciously and willingly close the door in their face.

its definitely not a consent, no matter how you try to spin it.
> one of the deepest caverns on the planet—so deep, in fact, that no detectable sunlight penetrates its farthest reaches

And THAT is the point. Do you want OP to get away from the sun, so that it does not reset his zeigebers?

> generated their own endogenous circadian rhythm in the absence of external light from the sun.

I mean, you even quoted it yourself.

Reminder: Topic still is OPs post and the reply to it that told him it's no big deal to adjust to 6.40, "proof" being there are other time zones.
In Europe you can buy a mobile phone on Amazon for about 10,- € where the battery lasts for about two weeks and making calls works well. The manufacturer is called Wiko. Very convenient for children who constantly lose their mobile phones...
Isn't it kind of exagerating to call western EU governments corrupt and invite investors into Ukraine, a country that struggles to get out of Russia's grip and had several swift regime changes, a poisoned president and an ongoing war in the last 20 years? Also, tax extemptions for a job sector that isn't threatened in any way are discriminating.
Amazon is a company that wants to know everything about me, just like Google. They want to sell me all kinds of stuff.
Not a company I'd trust with private data about my home.
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I'm curious whether it will be a deeper problem for propaganda, though. Would it affect memory even more to be able to recall visceral memories of an event as seen in VR, when that event has never actually occurred, say?
Yeah I used to do that in college.

Wish society would be more accepting of that.

I'd likely be way more productive if I could just do that, and wouldn't have the sleep dep days that I do when I just power through it on zombie mode for a day or three until I can get back on the 24 hour schedule.

I find 5 mg of melatonin taken an hour before I got to bed combined with learning to use a sleep mask helped a lot. I still need to go to bed listening to something (that isn't too interesting to me) in order to derail my thoughts as well. Plus not eating late, and something in junk food (MSG/salt?) tends to keep me up all night almost in hot sweats. But with all that it has just become manageable so that I can hold down a job.
A Clockwork Orange.
A better argument is presented by this excerpt from that book.

> humans likely evolved to co-sleep as families or even whole tribes, not alone or as couples. Appreciating
this evolutionary context, the benefits of such genetically programmed variation in sleep/wake
timing preferences can be understood. The night owls in the group would not be going to sleep
until one or two a.m., and not waking until nine or ten a.m. The morning larks, on the other
hand, would have retired for the night at nine p.m. and woken at five a.m. Consequently, the
group as a whole is only collectively vulnerable (i.e., every person asleep) for just four rather
than eight hours, despite everyone still getting the chance for eight hours of sleep. That’s
potentially a 50 percent increase in survival fitness. Mother Nature would never pass on a
biological trait—here, the useful variability in when individuals within a collective tribe go to
sleep and wake up—that could enhance the survival safety and thus fitness of a species by this
amount. And so she hasn’t.

Thanks for giving me the inspiration to read it. This book is just fantastic.
Just because you can't see if people are drastically affected in ways you perceive; especially years after the fact, doesn't mean it's not affecting people.

It's just as possible the "high performers who don't sleep" are the least healthy people in society, and our society rewards unhealthy habits...oh wait...
> The fact that you're trying to 'escape' your home points to some deep-seated psychological problems that won't be fixed by just running away.

It's a figure of speech, don't over-analyze it.
Like turkeys wishing for another thanksgiving.
The irony of course is that all participants here feel the same, but with different conclusions. It’s a shame thst we couldn’t have a functional conversation without derailing into what amounts to faith based arguments, but there we are. In a few years let’s have some fun looking back on this, and while we’re at it here’s another for the bin: Hyperloop as a vactrain will never happen.
That was my thought reading this list too. I am sure every calendar system will have a list of calendrical fallacies like this. But if you do decide to support the Hebrew calendar, you will not get “The current year is 2018” wrong. Or the number of digits in a year, if you choose to support the Japanese calendar. Actual fallacies in those systems will be less obvious.
According to the Washington Post around $90b. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/06/the-9...
If Amazon had a mobile OS, it would probably be proprietary. Android has its faults, but at least an open Android stack is possible. I can't say I'd like to see Android lose ground to whatever Amazon would cook up.
I disagree, the belief system as described is strictly irrational, in the sense that its fundamental assumptions contain a inconsistency that then permits one to prove anything. (I.e. A = not A therefore anything.)

It's a case of a mind trained into a kind of cul-de-sac with no way out. For some people this keeps them on the straight and narrow, for others it runs them smack into a wall. But it is certainly irrational to believe in a Divine Omnipotent Creator who plays crude tricks on you.