skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following that train of thought, could free will simply be the capacity to predict one's own (deterministic) actions, based on one's current state, and ascribing that to some internal volition? Similarly, the "inner monologue" simply the capacity to observe one's own (deterministic) thought process?

Conversely, is the judgement that another entity is free-willed no more than an admission that one is unable to predict that other's actions, though that other can predict its own?
My bad! I misread OP.

The point still stands for FFx though...
There are at least three groups of people who don't vote. One group is the lazy.

The second group is those for whom things are going reasonably well - the lights work, the roads get repaired, crime isn't too bad, their economic circumstances aren't terrible, and so why worry? No matter who gets elected, the lights are going to continue to work, and so on - it won't be a radical change either way. (This group may overlap with the first one.)

The third group is those in despair. They see the problems in society, and they see fifty years' worth of politicians who have promised to fix them, and the problems are still here. They've given up on politics as an answer to the problems of society.
Slack is in no way “confusingly similar” with iMessages.
jonawesomegreen linked to a story about an FDA-approved fake treatment.
Mostly because they don't want to bet their farm on Apple's whims and the huge tax burden of 30% plus all the tech and rituals Apple imposes.
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hmm, what holds more informational value - thousands of articles and detailed analysis from experts all over the world, or one presumably disgruntled anonymous user on public internet forum that keeps repeating itself?
Yes, every other country would do the same, but it does explain Sweden on list which was my intention.

This tone

"lumbering continental countries"

wasn't called for though. Could we be civilized here without insults and hate?
I wonder if those sales could be force to an open market. A bit like anti trust laws.

I'm sure they would pay a lot more for their trademarks if other companies could otherwise snitch it for like a year.

Or why not having to accept or at the least pay taxes on the best offer you get, when you want to sell to some IP and later lease it from some other company?

Yes, that seems unrealistic. It might at least be possible to use this in e.g. the court of law to test for abuse.
Not saying it does not work. I am saying the effect is probably less.
I strongly oppose vote-by-mail and vote-by-phone, but for a different and underappreciated reason: the secret ballot is absolutely essential for escaping from preference falsification traps.

"Preference falsification" is a social phenomenon in which, between choices A and B, most people prefer thing A but believe that everyone else prefers B, making it socially unacceptable to express support for A. If votes are public, then everyone feels compelled, upon threat of ostracism, to vote for B, leading to enactment of policy that's actually extremely unpopular. Under a secret ballot system, people can profess support for B while secretly voting for A, and if everyone does so, policy A ends up being enacted, concordant with the true preferences of the population.

If you can vote by mail, or vote by smartphone, nothing stops people from supervising each other's votes. That there's currently a norm against doing in vote-by-mail jurisdictions is purely a cultural holdover from the days of the true secret ballot, and it's only a matter of time before this norm erodes.

We live in an age of moral panic and socially enforcement of beliefs that are both unpopular and, in many cases, scientifically incorrect. Let's not make the problem worse by making it even harder to escape from the preference falsification trap.
My thoughts are my password, because my brain reactions are unique
One big reason is that a lot of big, old, monolithic software doesn’t deal well with the concept of sandboxing, and the Mac App Store requires that apps have sandboxing enabled. Adobe for example installs junk all over your system with creative suite apps, and that wouldn’t be allowed with sandboxing on. Many system APIs are also restricted or unavailable with sandboxing on.
State by state. Many do not. In most where it is offered the time is limited (2 hours typically), which with long lines and travel time may not be enough. It is also unpaid time.
> It’s why I believe early votes should be allowed to be overwritten by in-person votes.

It's an interesting idea, though how would you maintain the secret ballot? If you ask them to make a "negative vote" they can suddenly vote three times without any chance of being caught.
Not always true. All you have to believe is that placebo helps, not that it is not a placebo.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/placebos-...
Some have already renamed Columbus Day, they call it "Indigenous Peoples Day"
In that case, you didn't "will" the different decision, it was a result of your internal RNG.
Increasing participation? I won't drive out of my way and queue somewhere to vote. Sure, many people think the solution to this is shaming me for not caring enough about democracy, but it is obviously not working. If it were easy and safe to vote from my phone, I may be more inclined to vote.
I don't know if the government does, but plenty of individual states have investment funds or pension funds that do VC work. Apprenda, my old employer, was partially backed by the a New York State pension fund
That sounds close to a dozen people involved in the process if teams double up on the 1 hour sessions.
Why give Apple money if you don't have to?
Teaching people something that you happen to already know is not "clickbait".

https://xkcd.com/1053/
For clarity could you please briefly define "mind"?
Note that "working" is ambiguous. In many disease where the condition is not entirely chronic, there is often the phenomenon of regression to the mean: i.e. you are recruited in the clinical trial at your worst state, and you progressively get to "average better" even if you don't take any drug. that can also partly explain placebo effect in many cases.
One reason is to bypass the sandboxing requirement of the App Store.

And once you're off the App Store, users won't be nagged to update your application, so you're responsible for getting your users to update all by yourself. At which point some form of over-the-air update is more ergonomic than making users hit your download page to pull in the latest version.
I like your "God of the Gaps" analogy. That's exactly the problem I have with dualism. We don't understand the physical causes, therefore mysticism.

As cars become more than just human-controlled engines (self-driving) they are likely to be called on to make arguably moral judgements. They are being given rules to follow. For now these systems are still largely deterministic in a comprehensible way, but with deep learning neural networks playing an increasing role we might begin to lose the ability to fully and deterministically anticipate how they will behave. Not because it isn't possible in principle, but because it will become too complex to do in practice. Then what do we do?
The selling point of the iOS App Store to developers is, “what other choice do you have?” The Mac App Store doesn’t have that advantage.
I live in a tiny precinct and thus lack perspective, but the wait time is pretty solvable by spending money.
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> Critics call it “the Theranos of voting.”

I'd go so far as to call it the "Thanos of Voting."

With just a snap of the fingers, half of all of the votes could be wiped out.
Yeah, right. Look what it did to Gates and Zuckerberg.
Send them Brazilian soap operas then.
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Nabla containers actually use rumprun under the covers. Here is the rumprun fork that supports a solo5 backend: https://github.com/nabla-containers/rumprun
Why a man and a woman? How about a tall person and a short person, or a religious person and an atheist, or a white person and a black person (but what about other races?), and so forth? What is sacred about men versus women, especially since we're told that there's no actual difference between men and women?
One trick is to figure out if there are any objective measurements that can be taken which line up with the subjective input. One example is taking an EEG recording while performing a backward-masking experiment (aka displaying subliminal images), and seeing if their subjective experience "I did see the second image" versus "I did not see the second image" line up with the EEG measurements in the prefontal lobe.

https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Brain-Deciphering-Codes...
If you know what you want to kill is inside you can just point an AT4 at the building and press the bang switch. I guess .50bmg is a lot cheaper to use at scale though.
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How is it a shame that solvable problems are solved before unsolvable problems? The alternative would be NOT solving solvable problems.
That's good to hear. Would you stop, say Humira before treatment?
Ask HN: Suggestions for ETL learning sources
I work for a small company and am in charge of an ETL application. I only learned of the acronym in the last few months and have been on this project for over 18 months. I am in the process of re-working some aspects of what I built to handle de-duplication better. I will be touching core components of the application so this is a good chance to make changes. I would like to learn more about common practices before I reinvent the wheel a second time.
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Not when Amazon's scaling benefits are used to mostly benefit themselves.
That's not a very good excuse though: UTF-8 was invented, by Thompson and Pike, specifically because existing solutions were not deemed adequate for their needs.

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to
adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people"
He/we can't even solve the corruption/political issues in our own country, yet you suggest that he solve all of the corruption/political issues in all of the countries with public health issues.

Much more direct to affect change via the private business route. It makes sense his foundation has stayed apolitical.
How does that explain the popularity of shelves full of fake pills at GNC and Walgreen's?
Thanks for taking the time to write this out! I agree on the UX suggestions. The suggestions for each word are a list of terms that could work, with the score being conditional on the cohort selected. The darker the alternative, the worse it is -- the pinker, the better.

The reason why technical articles -- or in your case, very domain-specific ones -- get average scores is that the model was intended to be used for recruiting and ad-copy. So at the moment, it works on a common vocabulary for all groups, whereas one reason your article might be intriguing to programmers is because it discusses a lot of domain-specific terms (e.g., discussing 'exploits' and 'network security'). If I modified the model to consider more domain-specific terms, I think the article you provided would rank very highly. There are other reasons as well, like the pithiness and clarity of it, but I do think the vocabulary is an important part of it.

From the little beta-testing I've done, the people who find it most useful are -- for example -- people without a CS/medical/accounting background who have to interact with, recruit, and sell to CS/medical/accounting people. For those folks, I would say there's some value, even at the vocabulary-level, though I agree that there's much more to writing style than just vocabulary.
Might as well go whole-hog and call it "Repent, Sinner. Repent!" day.
VSCode isn't anywhere near "open" enough (plugin APIs may be lacking). For example: the VSCode vim plugin is one of the worst of any major editor, while the Emacs version (Evil) is arguably the best implementation of vim period.

Atom is much closer to Emacs; nearly all the functionality is provided through optional packages, and it's very open to little tweaks to make it just the way you want.
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Because if you're a platform for general purpose computing, it's a really bad idea to restrict what kind of software ISVs may write and then charge them for the privilege. This is also why so few major apps are available for or bought through the Windows Store. If Apple and Microsoft try to force the issue... well, the year they try will become the long-awaited Year of the Linux Desktop.
My last company was a Saas company, and buyers wanted to discuss maintenance contracts like they would for packaged software. They dont matter for Saas. Buyers disnt always understand that and it took time to change their buying habits. It was goid in those days to challenge customers on that.
If you rely on the App Store, Apple has complete control over your distribution channel and take a large cut of your income.

Not only do they have control over your distribution channels, but the rules they impose change over time, forcing people into whatever Apple wants. There was a blog post on HN a while back where an App update was rejected because they failed to hype up the new iPad Pro's or another post where an App was rejected because (by sheer chance) somewhere the description referred to "an unreleased product".

The only real benefit is that it might bring your software in front of a lot of eyes, which, as a big player, you don't really need that much.
The whole premise of this article seems monumentally dumb.

The placebo effect IS a real actual thing - of course there is a biochemical basis for it - what is the alternative? Magic?
I'll be honest, I don't understand enough about ownership models, or advanced language design to answer this incredibly well.

Chris Lattner commented on this almost directly during an interview [0]:

>The promise, the dream, is to instead say, "Hey, if you are a sufficiently advanced programmer and you know how this stuff works, we can give you a new option. Instead of dropping down to unsafe constructs, you can actually just use more static type information annotations in your code.”

And, in general, Swift has been designed with progressive disclosure as a primary philosophy.

[0] -http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/#rustme...
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Big Issue is UN. UN was designed for a postwar scenario that has already disappeared.
But then we go deeper into what placebo is. If the patient needs the psychological comfort of being seen and OK'd by real doctors, staying home mentalizing their own well-being won't do much. It's about taking responsibility for self-care--to the extent possible, of course--as opposed to externalizing any ill state to a sanctioned (sacred?) pill.
> You are a state machine. As time moves, you have no choice but to choose, and this is entirely dependent on your previous state and your current environment.

This makes sense. There's no choice unless there's a dimension (some state variable) that can we can move in. We have stuff that can be state (matter and energy) and dimension (time) to move in.

In terms of state, my argument is that choice is a core piece of 'me' and 'you'. I don't know how to make an effective argument for the separateness of choice and state, but I think it makes sense to consider them as separate things. We possess state like we possess the space we exist in, in time. You could say that your choices are like driving a car. Navigating streets (or offroad!) is like choosing from possible states.
Oh goodie. If you think the internet of unsecured things revolution was fun to watch, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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When I first moved to the USA, I was astounded at how many different positions people were voting for!

My experience in the UK was a small 3x5 notecard sized piece of paper with my choices for local member of parliament. I marked the box by the person I wanted to elect, and submitted the vote.

I still joke that the USA has "too much" democracy ;)

But, like other things the USA does differently to the rest of the world, a great many of its people just haven't experienced anything different to compare their experience.
Thanks for weighing in, Rohan. I see what you're trying to do here: you are building an app/website builder and you're leveraging some of the bespoke work you've done in the past to make future work less expensive for future clients.

That's what most agencies do (even IBM, CGI, etc) but you're doing it through an online interface. If I'm not mistaken, you are leveraging economies of scale to make your offerings cheaper than those of smaller agencies, effectively trying to squeeze them out.

My comment was specific to the marketing. You make it seem like I can get a copy of someone else's app if I just want the exact same thing that someone else got, for next to nothing.
This will happen though. Will seem like a bad idea initially.
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>This is also a problem with mail-in ballots.

Just as a datapoint this doesn't exist everywhere. In France for instance it's not possible to vote without physically going to a polling place unless you're living in a foreign country and only for certain elections (not possible for the presidential elections for instance). It is however possible to give a "procuration" for somebody else to vote for you but you still need to go to the police before the vote to make the procuration so it wouldn't be a very convenient way to fraud since you'd have to coerce the person into giving you their vote in front of a police officer.

I agree that if your electoral system accepts mail-in ballots then other electronic ways to vote remotely don't seem that much worse overall since they would share pretty much the same potential for abuse. I guess paper ballots would make it a bit harder to automate fraud at least.
I would break down the third group into people who people who have given up on politics and people who just don't feel represented by the current set of political ideologies, and would rather abstain than support people they don't believe in.
Which is why this paper proves the Copenhagen interpretation of QM is wrong.
Doesn't Apple take a substantial cut of anything sold through its app store?
Voting Tek isn't the problem. In fact it's going to make a lot of problems. There is no real way to establish trust without making those votes personally identifiable.

Low turnout is because people do not feel compelled to vote. They need something to vote for. Policy better aligned with the needs of ordinary Americans will improve voter turnout.
Yes! I did my internship at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center ("Big County") in 1974-75. In the ER, it was routine to give repeaters with no obvious source of pain (visits weekly, no other doctor) OBECALP BLACK. These were humongous (about 1" long x 0.5" diameter) shiny black capsules filled with powdered starch. We'd tell the patient, "These contain the strongest pain med that's legal." Worked more often than not in terms of relieving their pain in the E.R. Till next week...
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Mandatory voting? How would you propose enforcing it? How does Australia enforce it?

I'm not necessarily against mandatory voting, but it would be very hard to convince the American public that mandatory voting is a good idea when a huge part of the population would see that as an attack on their freedom to not vote.

This doesn't even begin to discuss the situations where voting only occurs on a Tuesday (aside from mail-ins) and some people can't take that time off work. There would have to be some clause to force employers to let employees go vote, at a loss of money somewhere. Such a clause would lead to more resistance.

Again, I'm not personally against it, but it's not so simple as "make it mandatory."
> Pain and pleasure, which are qualitative experiences, are the basis of operant conditioning

The behaviors of attractive and aversive reinforcement are the basis of operant conditioning. The whole issue about qualia is that exhibiting behavior to which subjective internal experience is usually attributed does not demonstrate the subjective internal experience. The people arguing for the importance of qualia and it's unattainability for AI aren't arguing that it is particularly challenging for AI to exhibit attractive and aversive reinforcement, or any other external behavior, they are building a castle they can retreat to in the face of any observable behavior.
It's important to understand that if a clinical trial shows some improvement in the control group that received placebo, this does not need to be due to some placebo 'effect' at all.

The status of patients usually changes all the time. If the control group had some minor improvement in some endpoint, this might be due to wide variety of reasons. For example, the disease might just get somewhat better by itself. This does not necessarily imply that this was due to patients that were given placebo experiencing a placebo effect. They might just as well have gotten better without the placebo.
I'd say that the app store works best for relatively small apps and developers, where the 30% tax is worthwhile when weighed against all the infrastructure they would need to roll themselves.

By comparison, Ableton, Adobe, etc, aren't having any trouble shifting units as it is, they have more than enough labour power to run their own infra, and they don't stand to gain anything by handing 30% of their revenue to Apple.

Perhaps the question should be flipped, what would these companies gain from distributing via the app store?
We must have had very different experiences. Our customers who use the product as it was designed, rather than like a saas product, see great results and rave about the AI success.
Agree. I was going to recommend Hemingwayapp as well! Great UI, and adds a ton of value in text review.
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> Wow. What if someone is informed but disagrees with you?

OP didn't say anything about agreeing with their positions. I honestly don't see what your "wow" is about - do you believe that it would be helpful to society to have poorly-informed people casting votes?
There is research supporting Kahneman: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1280801
"Open label placebo: can honestly prescribed placebos
evoke meaningful therapeutic benefits?"

"Results from small clinical trials suggesting that placebos can be ethically and effectively used in
clinical practice warrant further study, argue Ted Kaptchuk and Franklin Miller"

BMJ 2018;363:k3889 doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3889 (Published 1 October 2018)

http://media.virbcdn.com/files/01/147bb1aea3d8c05b-Kaptchuk-...

"Key messages:

- Placebo pills in randomised trials can significantly benefit patients’ subjective symptoms

- Using placebo pills clinically is an ethical challenge as prevailing wisdom asserts that deception or concealment is required

- Recent small randomised trials suggest that openly prescribing placebo can evoke meaningful therapeutic benefits

- More research is required to determine the role for open label placebo and the conditions in which it is effective.

"