skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole world is rooting in favor of human achievements in space travel. Look at the reaction to the first Moon landings.
On a lower level, the brain has two hierarchies of synapses: a top-down processing hierarchy, driven by the neurochemical AMPA, and the bottom-up processing hierarchy, driven by the neurochemical NMDA. These hierarchies have salience passed back and forth between them by dopaminergic and adrenergic signalling from other brain regions. Whichever side of processing is "dominant" at the time, is training its dual to respond with the signals the active side is receiving, in response to the signals the active side is sending. Additionally, the bottom-up processing hierarchy is wired to your senses and your motor neurons.

In short, the top-down processing hierarchy is "the model", and the bottom-up processing hierarchy is "the evidence." The brain switches between using the evidence to train the model (when the evidence is salient and the model is weak), and using the model to predict and "fill in for" the evidence (when the model is salient and the evidence is noisy.)

It would make a lot of sense to me if psychosis were simply a result of chronically overdriven AMPA signalling, such that evidence is always being "fit to" the existing model, with the bottom-up hierarchy never being granted enough dominance to use the evidence to correct the model.
The second part is. The first part is about imagining telling Alexa to actually turn your oven on.
Seems fair. What ended up pushing me back to 100% native was the lack of a robust navigation solution for RN. Every community library had its own compromises that, in the end, were not worth it.

That and most libraries are still in javascript (not typescript), which make any large RN project a huge pain.

It also seems like every medium/large RN app has to reengineer the wheel to accomplish stuff. Redux, navigation, user state management, etc. It always felt like one step forward, 2 steps back.
Not to be pedantic, but you say 'is' in both relevant clauses:

'Your assumption is that the order in the universe arises from causality and physical law. His assumption is that the order in the universe arises from purpose, i.e. he believes in teleology'
If this is rational, it's based on a useless logic: a logic that allows arbitrarily introducing new facts and rules. e:True for arbitrary e. This is why arguing with christians is mostly a fools errand.
Why do they use cremated bodies? Doesn't cremating have an impact on the environment? And doesn't it destroy a lot of the nutrient from the body?

Been looking for something similar, but where they just use the body as is.
Well, rumcajz points out Bertrand Russell's objection, and apocalypstyx presents a fascinating aspect of the matter too, but the problem I'm talking about is the nature of implication/causation itself.

Rationality rests on implication.[1] The system we're talking about literally has "GOD -> anything" as an axiom, so it's useless for reasoning. If GOD -> (A -> B) for all A, B, and "->" then you can literally "prove" that anything implies anything else, or that everything implies God, but you can't disprove anything at all. Saying that there's a part of the system that can change anything about the system is essentially saying that there's no system at all. "Black is white and you get run over at the next zebra crossing."

If you believe that God will play tricks on you then you have nothing external to rely on. Again, this can be good or bad for a given person depending on their context. It's useless for reasoning, but you don't actually have to e.g. believe in Dinosaurs to reach God, so in that sense having no ability to rationalize can be a benefit if it prevents spiritual doubts. But many people instead are simply trapped in impoverished world-models. To wit: the Universe as revealed by scientific investigation redounds to the Glory of God far more than, say, the concepts of "young-earthers", or people who believe God a trickster.

[1] This is actually the one article of faith at the foundation of reason and rationality: that the Universe is comprehensible in terms of causation. The OP's father's god-image is jealous of even this wane and paltry rival.
Fortunately, you still can buy dumb screens and add smart features with addons like Chromecast or just a computer with HDMI output. This works reasonably well, much like the bluetooth adapter.
Well any country where you can be sentenced to death for the work of a pickpocket putting less than an ounce of heroin in your luggage or a corrupt official planting it for not giving bribes is what I would call a place to never visit without diplomatic immunity to put it in polite terms. Not to mention the caning.
True and it was never mass consumed and celebrated to this extent. Current situation is that despite the facts and knowledge, social pressure makes people drink. Despite the facts.

The facts are overwhelming and we shouldn't just keep consuming alcohol because muah cultur. Many alcoholics end up causing traffic accidents and require lots of state support in other ways. Just walk into ED on any Saturday/Friday night. I have done that
> but I've realised that it makes me feel bad every time.

Between not drinking alcohol at all and drinking so much that you feel bad the following day there is a middle ground of drinking moderately. If a low amount still makes you feel bad, drinking alcohol of a better quality can help (there is a huge difference in this regard between really cheap wines and more expensive ones).
my wife and Alexa got along only about half the time at launch, and a few years later it’s down to 1/4 or less.

My wife has the almost identical problem with Siri. She has a very slight northern plains accent, but it's enough to confound Siri about 25% of the time.

It's worse with Microsoft's horrible "Blue & Me" system. That thing understands her only 5% of the time. She gave up on using it.

Siri understands what I say almost all the time, but only rarely knows what to do with the questions or commands I speak.

Except for one app: Reminders. For some reason, Siri has a hard time when I add things to Reminders lists. I have a Groceries list with about 30 items on it that are bad Siri misinterpretations of things that I want to buy, and I have no idea what they're supposed to be.

Things currently on my Groceries list that, thanks to Siri, that I have no idea what they are but keep them anyway just in case I figure them out later: Canned pills, Maybe to la, Bicycle, Not what I said, North, Raisin berry, Frog nodes, Special, Compound dirt.
In fact you'd have to reconsider whether the unique spelling doesn't actually help reading. Between beat and beet it's surely easier to differentiate; Between read and had read not so much, granted, but:

With phonetic spelling, considering all the different dialects, you'd get written dialects and from that, potentially divergent spelling for pronunciations that are actually equal, just to fit one system or another. I've seen some proposals, one involving a new charset - I didn't like any of these, especially as the hints at the history of the word have some value, too, not to a first grader, but it surely helps. You can't erase that history, and piling onto it wouldn't make it any easier.

The result is that american language as a whole tends to simplify and ... substitute complicated words for ... with ... scrap that ... tends to replace long words with shorter ones. That's a general tendency in language I suppose.

We got into this mess because everyone wrote as they saw fit (slightly exegarating here). In that light loosening the rules again would seem counterproductive.

Be careful with the argument. The dyslexia might have more factors in play. The American school system isn't actually famous for its success, but I'm in no position to blame it.

The trend is going away from reading to video and voice, so I'm not sure how long the issue will remain.
Thought the same!
> Most said they ignored the rules to use the scooters out of necessity

If it's "necessary", one wonders what they did last year when there were no scooters.
We started with it. It's always best to offload your security/privacy posture onto something well known and supported rather than rolling your own, if possible. It's hard stuff to get right, and PG does it really well, especially in more recent versions. Row/Column security in the 8.X series was a bit painful :)

We looked into doing something similar, but it didn't scale to our workload and had a ton of edge cases we kept getting caught up in. If a breach on the PG connection happens with that approach, the world gets super bad, super fast, as if I remember right, you need to be a super user to switch roles like that. That's very, very worrisome exposing super-user credentials like that to a website. If I remember right, we had to throw the connection away after using it for some reason, so the startup-cost gets cut some, but if you have a mass influx of users and your pool size is not gigantic, it gets painful waiting for new PG connections to come up. Plus the cost of holding open so many PG connections if your pool size is too large.... And our product has a module where all users attack it pretty much all at once, twice a day... this was back in the 8.X series of PG, so maybe it's a lot better now...

If postgrest manages to make it scale to our workload and took care of all the edge cases well, it would be super awesome. I'll have to check into how they handle that.. maybe it's something we can look into adding in the future, thanks!
When developing prototype apps, you tend toward agile practices naturally. Status/update meetings are regular and quick, if not daily. The chief difference may be the absence of Agile's task cards, which requires too much forward decomposition of the design into bite-sized units, IMHO. R&D projects know the starting point and the objective, but only in terms of utility, not the means to that end. You're managing your team's passage through the problem space, not the solution space. That requires a lot of interaction with the client, since you need to learn from them if what you can deliver will serve their need. Thus you need to revise the task cards a lot, to the extent they just aren't that helpful in gauging your progress. It also helps that the team size in R&D is generally tiny, like one or two.
Rural school districts might serve a 20-30 mile radius. You have to drive or ride the bus.
>> but the stress itself from not getting enough sleep can cause me to get up early again in a bit of a viscious cycle

This resonates with me.
In 1995 I wrote a book for kids, to help forming problem-solving skills TRIZ style under guidance of Anatoly Gin. It consisted of about 40 practical problems found in fairy tales. TRIZ as methodology is useful for engineers as swiss-army knife of the “out of the box” thinking. However, this is more a set of practical rules, then proper methodology.
Skip (YC W18) wins SF e-scooter permit, scaling up software engineering
I'm not suggesting that models are an illegitimate way of representing the word "Brazilian." There's normal Brazilian people, Brazilian monuments, maybe the flag, the relatively "clinical" pictures that come up with "Brazilian wax", and of course models. The fact that all of the results for "Brazilian" are only in one of those categories shows a bias that I find amusing.
Wall Street’s Marijuana Madness: ‘It’s Like the Internet in 1997’
This is actually relevant for entire of Easter EU as well. Most of the college grads or even dropouts move to UK, Germany for work.
Here's an example:

#!python3
"""Open url in VLC — Pythonista for iOS app extension.

1. take media url from appex(share)/clipboard/command-line
2. open it in VLC iphone app

e.g., to listen to Youtube video in the background.

It accepts a media url from any site supported by youtube_dl
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
"""
import sys
from urllib.parse import quote

import youtube_dl

import appex
import clipboard
import console

import appex_webbrowser as webbrowser

def open(webpage_url):
"""Play media on *webpage_url* in VLC"""
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(dict(forceurl=True)) as ydl:
r = ydl.extract_info(webpage_url, download=False)
media_url = r['formats'][-1]['url']
# play the url in VLC
# vlc:// + url leads to a popup
# https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:IOS/#x-callback-url
webbrowser.open('vlc-x-callback://x-callback-url/stream?url=' + quote(media_url) )

def main():
if not appex.is_running_extension():
if len(sys.argv) == 2:
url = sys.argv[1]
else:
url = clipboard.get()
else:
url = appex.get_url() or appex.get_text()
if url:
open(url)
console.hud_alert('Done.')
else:
console.hud_alert('No input URL found.')

if __name__ == '__main__':
console.show_activity()
try:
main()
finally:
console.hide_activity()

where appex_webbrowser.py is:

"""webbrowser.open() replacement for app extensions in Pythonista for iOS.
"""
from objc_util import nsurl,UIApplication

def open(url):
app = UIApplication.sharedApplication()
app.openURL_(nsurl(url))
What's the line? If we found that some intervention group had 90% mortality with the control group having 10% mortality in some experiment, I think you would agree we shouldn't repeat that experiment with a lot of people as you would be randomizing to something likely to kill them. What about 20% mortality to 10%? What about 11% to 10%? What degree of certainty about the results do you need? Obviously there is a line somewhere. But, its not easy, so I wouldn't recommend dismissing such concerns glibly. Is that the same as claiming we answered the question definitively, or is that just ethical research?
Only about 20% of the population is rural.
Woof, sorry I misread a little; I thought you were advocating a full fork.

I know sometimes people file issues about language, but I've seen PRs for it too. I think this taps a little into the general sentiment that open source maintainers are doing a lot of work mostly for free and are therefore pretty (maybe overly) sensitive to people asking for changes, but that's kind of a separate issue. What I take issue with is:

> Other people then are free to reject your changes if they want, and you will be wrong to attack them for their choice.

First, I don't know if I'd use the word "attack" here, but that aside, I think leaving language like "master/slave" is wrong, even if a project chooses to. Just like I think leaving a buffer overflow in would be wrong.

I guess, thinking through it, you're taking issue with someone else setting a maintainer's priorities. I don't think filing issues is really doing that -- there are lots of issues on lots of projects, and if anything most people like it when they're filed because it helps them to improve their software.

And if you file an issue and no one touches it, even after months, it's natural to wonder if the team cares about the same things you care about. At some point, maybe after a couple pings or whatever, it's reasonable to conclude that they don't.

Is saying so an attack? I would argue that happens all the time with technical issues and our community doesn't find it exceptional. But when it comes to this language stuff, it seems like it's treated like a special case.

> just please do not expect others to do what you want, just because of your feelings and sensibilities

The issue of colonial language in software is about much more than "feelings and sensibilities". I'd encourage you to read up on how the language we use shapes the way we think about basically everything and thus how we behave. It's far too important to be dismissed.
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I assume he is talking about the Wiko Lubi 5

Here for example on Amazon Germany

https://www.amazon.de/Wiko-Lubi5-Telefono-Movil-Blanco-wei%C...
Yup, Khomenko, if memory serves, started to train Samsung engineers in the middle of the 90-ies using TRIZ.
An interesting counter consideration for market participants:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/canada-weed-pot-bo...

Edit: Updated linked story to original source.
It's hard for me to believe that people actually put these Internet-connected, voice-activated devices in their homes.

Some of the new apartment buildings in Chicago come with Alexa built in to a wall panel. If you live there, you cannot escape it.
> Faster than light travel, if possible, would really screw with causality

Well, the assumption abiut causality is based on our current understanding of physics. Perhaps we just don't understand the problem well enough and there are ways around the causality problem
Teens get a lot of supervision and training before being allowed to drive. They take classes.

It's not quite a fair comparison. Though maybe you could argue that a driver's license is enough to let a teen use a scooter.
I don't know, it looks like the conservation of mutual information is like the fact that entropy always remains constant or increases. This is true for the overall universe, but not true for individuals.

A human isn't some magical entropy reducer -- we reduce entropy in ourselves by increasing it elsewhere. I suspect mutual information works the same way.
@danpeddle already pointed out the important part, but just as an addendum...

It all depends what one wants to do with a browser, doesn't it? For some of my projects the browser is merely a sandbox for delivering design tools and I really don't care about the HTML aspects of it at all.

For other projects, I only care about HTML generation and use hdom's sister library to generate static HTML from the same components:

https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/master/packages/hicc...

If a user has JS disabled in the browser, fine. If not, then the browser app can hydrate the static HTML and add interactive features and cause cancer :)
Maybe. The Constitution protects the right of "people" to "keep and bear" (i.e. keep and carry) "arms." There is at least a textual basis for interpreting "arms" to exclude weapons (like nukes and attack aircraft) that are not ordinarily carried by individuals.

But note, at the time of the founding, it was perfectly legal for private citizens to own armed warships. These ships had dozens of cannons that could fire over a mile (thus sieging a city). Canons moreover could fire grapeshot, causing massive casualties to groups of people. These weapons were far more destructive than an AR-15.
That’s why I drink what I want and I eat what I want. I stopped caring about studies changing each year. Also, I’d very much prefer to die earlier from a heart attack than live longer and die from Alzheimer’s.
The sun will explode in x million years. When that happens the current inhabitants of earth _have_ to escape earth.
I was under the assumption that that was called sibling call optimization, and TCO referred exclusively to recursive calls. Was that just an LLVM-ism, or did I also get that wrong?
My problem with them is when they drive them under my wheels. The skateboarders going down the local hills at 30 mph in traffic with no brakes are bad enough, fortunately, there aren't very many of them.
Sorry but it's the other way around. You are the one pretending to be smarter than the compiler by imagining objects are laid out sequentially in an infinite char[] when they they are in fact just abstract objects laid out in whichever way the compiler thinks is best. Just keep it this way and it will be much easier to manage C, it doesn't need micro management and neither does girlfriends.
Seems plausible to me. Doesn't Joey Hess live in KY or TN?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism
I don't see any evidence of "dramatic" impact. The objects visible in both images only show minor changes in the confidence score . The objects missing in one image are close to the visualization threshold (50% confidence) in the other. And for the "chair turning into a couch", we don't see the likelihood of the chair, because it's hidden behind the box for the couch.

So the dramatic changes seen in the image seem to be artifacts of the visualization and not of the network's performance.
Chromecast is a candidate for most-overlooked electronic gadget. This $35 or so gizmo lets me use the great UI on my tablet (or sometimes laptop because... reasons) to fling video up on my TV without dealing with all the trials and tribulations of my TV remote and crappy TV apps. I get why TV makers hate this model. Too bad.
First of all, your introduction of "a being" is a straw man. I never said anything about a "being". All I said was that teleology, i.e. the assumption that existence has purpose, is not irrational.

Second, physical laws are not "just" descriptions and models based on observation. Any finite data set is consistent with an infinite number of theories. To whittle down that infinite set you need additional assumptions. Some people choose teleology, some don't. But there's no rational argument one way or the other.
People used to be drunk constantly - why do you think 19th century temperance movements were such a cultural force? Alcohol consumption was staggering in the past, to a degree we would consider insane today. Naval everyday rum rations alone would be well above the guidelines of being considered an alcoholic.
Doug Ford Cancelled Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Because It Was Working
As someone who has dedicated years of behavior modification training a rescue dog with genetic fear aggression (actual clinical diagnosis), I wish we'd get away from the "there's no bad dog, only bad dog owners" dogma. I'd agree with you that the majority of behavioral problems with dogs can be removed or mitigated with training. However, dogs as with all other species have their temperament spread a long a distribution - and the outliers rarely survive their first 2 years, and those how find the right owners who can provide the right training and management still will never live a normal household dog life.
https://jig.space/

Please try this and come back with a fresh perspective.
When I was at Caltech, students organized a day-long shutdown in Spring 1970 to protest the Vietnam war, prompted by Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. This was about the same time as the Kent State killings etc.

Possible outcome of the Star Trek protest: Leonard Nimoy came to campus in Spring 1972 to campaign for George McGovern in the California primary.
What he suggested was that technically it made perfect sense if you wanted to launch or landing something from a place without atmosphere. I really have to look it up again think about it. I'll post a link ti the article if manage to dig it up again.

EDIT:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-agenda-between-pentago...

There you go. At least the financing part seems reasonable.
The problem with that is that low-income families either plain can't afford, or tend to be completely bad at delaying gratification for long-term rewards.
I posted the link to the article, having seen it on Twitter. I don't know anything about the author or Gary Null, and I agree that that should have been disclosed.

I did help write some of the Philip Cross pieces which were discussed on HN, and are also referenced in this piece in the Philip Cross section. But the article submitted here also covers a lot more, for example how PR companies and even Wikimedia employees appear to have sold their Wikipedia-editing services. I found a lot of it interesting.
I'm text chatting with someone. Then I initiate a Skype call with them. The text window disappears, the window goes blue, and there's no way to text and talk.

I clicked on everything on the screen, no text window. There is a balloon icon with lines in it, I thought "aha, the text chat window!" Sure enough, it opens the text chat window, and hangs up the call.

Arrgghhhh.

Microsoft has installed numerous Skype updates. I can't find any usability improvements. Things are just shuffled around, and/or broken.

I've been using Skype for 10+ years, and am about ready to abandon it for Slack.