skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don’t think it is an accident that the world’s top female boxer is Norwegian rather than say Italian.

It's probably an accident. Two weeks ago an italian girl won a boxing gold medal in the youth olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_at_the_2018_Summer_Yout...
FAANG companies don't pay anything near 300k USD annually in Europe, it doesn't happen. Probably 20% above the local market average. Their (certainly Google's) recruitment process in Europe is still the same demanding though. These are yet another companies in one's job application queue, and annoying ones.
Security issues on ArtChain
US history really doesn't have enough time to see it. Not to mention the Bill of Rights enumerated the natural right to self defense to be protected, including being armed well enough to form a militia. ( Military oath calls out enemies foreign and domestic, doesn't say enemies who hold political office are immune )

Look at Japanese history however and you see 100s of years of disarmament.
I can see why this guy is popular.

I wonder whether he'd be so quick to dismiss Gödel and Quine if presented with an utterance like,

"This sentence is true, but cannot be proven true by any human nor any human-crafted device."

I'm quite confident that this sentence is true, but cannot put forth a proof which would convince anybody; at the same time, just like any other mathematical object, its proof is generated by the observer, who convinces themselves of its truth while simultaneously acknowledging the paradox.

Gödel's entire point was that this formulation was rigorous and could not be escaped by a mere change of (syntactic or semantic) venue. Turing's point was that this formulation extends to computation and effective methods of producing results. Quine's point was that it is the quotation mark, and not the self-reference, that leads to the incompleteness/inconsistency.

I probably wouldn't mind so much, but he seems like the kind of guy who believes in physical cause and effect.
Yes, I agree. He theologian's knowledge is definite in the sense of absolute. But knowledge gained in the lab is definitely knowledge under given circumstances, but absolute kndwledge.

This turned out to be a good example about the importance of clear definitions of words in philosophical discussion.
moreover the problem with PoW is that you can move your investment between different coins.
Yep, Guix package objects with references to other package objects, versus Nix functions with arguments, is what I was referring to.
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Disclaimer: I haven't read the article, but I work at Google.

Most interviewers will ask the same question to multiple candidates. They will compare how you the candidate is doing compared to other candidates on the same question. Most interviewers will provide hints.

I'm pretty sure that all candidates go though the same interview process.

There is really not much that is unique to Google's interviews. The only thing that is unique about the process is that your interview feedback is reviewed by a committee of peers.
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English is an official language in Singapore. It's like asking why the Irish are so good at English. Pretty condescending.
Of all the possible threats that science might pose to Christian doctrine, it's odd to choose heliocentrism and the age of the Earth as examples. Those facts are fully compatible with the Nicene Creed, and few serious Christain thinkers have ever thought that the Bible had to be interpreted as a scientific textbook. As far back as the third century, Origen was pointing out that the creation narrative shouldn't be taken literally.
So for (2). If my psychological state is manipulated by a targeted advertising campaign, based on Google-scale data, do I actually have Free Will in any meaningful sense?
Iceland recognises Palestinian state
bringing culture to cultures?
<insert standard argument against biometrics>

Biometrics is essentially putting a massively complex system in front of your password input, that lets the device read the password off your body, but the consequences are a) you now can't ever change your password, and b) there's this massively complex system in front of (now hidden) password form, and complexity means unreliability and exploitable holes.

The reason it seems to be working in phones and in laptops is just because the protected systems - personal computing devices of random members of general population - are of low importance, so it's unlikely an attacker is going to bother, whereas the convenience benefits are substantial.
Note that Plan S also states that the funders aim to push for academics to be recognised for the value of their research, not the name of the journal it was published in. Wellcome explicitly added to its requirements [1] that organisations they fund must also sign the San Fransisco Declaration on Research Assessment, meaning that they should commit to this.

(Disclaimer: I work on a project that also has this goal.)

[1] https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/wellcome-updating-its-open-acces...
If we reverse the logic, though, it's a bit more obvious: Those who quit don't make it through ;-) But the question is, are they actually selecting the best candidates by using that criteria (ability to persevere)? In the case of the SAS it may very well be true, but possibly it's a special case.
Why do the media do this? They are actively inciting unrest.
How much of homelessness is a result of laws hampering construction, such as zoning laws, building restrictions, rent control, which lead to housing costs significantly higher than what a free market would provide?
Many (but not all) fiction authors are known for creating elaborate files of characters, plotlines, scenes, and of course, maps of the world or town or place where the story takes place. But if you have thousands or even millions of people reading your work, someone will find the inconsistencies in the carefully crafted milieus. I think it was fantasy author Piers Anthony who in the intros to his series books used to tip his hat to some of the readers who had written into him to flag the bugs.

Having tried my hand at writing quest-based far future fantasy (unpublished), I can say that for me the map starts out first in my head and then migrates to paper where it undergoes many revisions as the writing progresses. It didn't seem super hard, and because I wasn't super precise about distance covered I think there is a lot of flexibility. I noticed that George RR Martin's map in the "Game of Thrones" world can also be vague - other than the wall, distances between places aren't really articulated and it often seems that the distance from north to south of the realm when described in as people travel around is roughly equidistant to east to west, even though on the map Winterfell to King's landing looks to be so far apart. And, I might add, the lack of a map for the cities and other places across the sea is maddening - I just have no frame of reference for the location of the Dothraki Sea in relationship to Braavos, Valyria, etc.
Are Gödel and Quine mentioned in the article?
It doesn't look like they're using GitHub releases. npm shows some much more recent versions: https://www.npmjs.com/package/redbird.
"Feature Updates" are actually entire in-place OS installs on Windows 10. Whether it is intentional that they often fail to migrate certain settings or merely incompetence is difficult to determine.
" A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy. "

Read this over and over until you believe you can simply change the meaning of words
People claim this all the time but is there any actual evidence? It would be one of the worst possible grifts of all time.
Definitely, yes. Provided I've got a need for their skill-set.

Why: Because I would be well aware of their core, strengths, and weaknesses at the same time. Moreover, it'd be counter-productive in spending time to find the person fit for the job.

If they were forming a team, would they hire you? I believe they should, provided my skills are useful for them.
To be honest, coding is not difficult. Also many jobs do not require 'that' much knowledge of low-level informations anyway. Especially nowadays, for most positions, you don't need to know re-ordering lines of code can affect the cache, you use hash whenever it is possible and do not need to implement your own data structure. If you do need something in your work and you currently don't know, google and reading will definitely teach you. Programming is not a special power only few people can have. Actually, if you are consistently learning, you will probably do well in any tasks. If people are not willing to put some time into getting the job they want, maybe they don't want the job enough.
Because nobody want to program in (((( Guile )))), to the point that even GDB disable its support as extension language.
Toward an AI Physicist for Unsupervised Learning
Wow. Feel free to use some punctuation here and there. That's annoying to parse as written.
Correct, Printful, it's a great platform :)
Robots used in Chernobyl weren't battery operated, that's what I was saying. Look at historic footage, they all have quite thick power/signal harnesses attached.

They were meant for rather brute work, like bulldozing the contaminated fragments. Even today you'd be hard pressed to do that with batteries.

> f you apply 12V instead of 5V to a logic gate you will get current that is 12/5 higher, isn't?

The necessary current is determined by the load you drive, which is tiny in semiconductor applications. Electric power is current times voltage, that means with higher voltage you need less current.
Basically politicians are mostly self serving liars, who use extremist media outlets to spread deception to gullible people who don't really understand anything more than opinions and the herd mentality.

Hence multi-millionaire celebrities endorsing things they would never in 100 years participate it. Celebrities getting busted for not paying taxes in the 10's of millions, but meanwhile they are trying to convince us that we need to pay more taxes and distribue our wealth.

I dont own 100 cars and a helicopter.
Fingerprint scan and Facial recognition can not replace password authentication because both face and fingerprint are public information, while password is meant to be private. You cannot hide your face or fingerprint from others.
Why do you think "why are manhole covers round?" is "disrespectful and unprofessional "?

As compared to say "are you going to have kids - to a woman "
Definitely off-topic, sorry. Incredulous means

(of a person or their manner) unwilling or unable to believe something.

Think you meant incredible/unbelievable etc.
Yes, it is!

I think that Bohm’s pilot wave theory is appealing to non technical people because it replace all the scary equations of quantum mechanics with a wave and a particle. The trick is that the wave has a scary equation, and the interaction of the wave and the particle has a scary equation, but you can hide the scary equations behind a nice animated graph of a wave and a ball.

For a nonrelativistic particle, the pilot wave is equivalent to the other quantum mechanics interpretations. The other interpretations can be extended to the special relativity case, moreover all the work in the last 50 (or more) years in particle physis use the extended versions. Nobody know how to extend the pilot wave theory, and perhaps it's impossible.
>well-documented differences in the male and female brains that are clearly evident in brain-imaging studies.

Has there been any robust evidence that brain images correspond to any real world capability differences?

An AMD and Intel cpu look very different under an xray too, but they run the same software at pretty much the same specs.
> This requires every station to have platforms on both sides of each track, but that's fairly often the case anyway.

This is almost never the case in the UK.
I completely agree with you. It's a difficult subject.

I have proposed
the following two definitions:

1. Philosophers in the original article: best understood as acedemic
philosopers.

2. Progress in AI/maths/hard science: comes from those who actually
"do the maths/implementation/repeatable measurement" as opposed to
using natural language only for discussing their ideas.

In my opinion the purpose of all science is truth, and truth (pace
Socrates and the slave boy) must -- among other	things -- be
reproducable by others, ideally by every human.	Technology for truth
has improved over time, with mathematisation (and edge case
programming and exectuion on a computer) as the current state of the
art in reproducibility. When Frege succeeded in	formalising
first-order logic, the sacred heart of rationality, informal methods
became second-class. All substantial progress in subjects formerly
restricted to informal methods has since come from formalisation and
empirical experiment.

If you don't agree with	my (1, 2) above, than that's fine, we are talking abotu (slightly) different things.
Hmm so why cant their crawler parse a robots.txt file with a BOM ?
It’s also not the complexity that’s the problem.

Even if it’s flawless, which is impossible, with biometrics you can easily be coerced into giving access without effort, whereas we haven’t invented a mind reader yet.

In other words I can easily imagine kids gaining access to a credit card via fingerprints or facial recognition, while their parents are sleeping ;-)

I wanted to write about law enforcement agencies, but this is so easy that your kids can do it.
> Nobody needs a reddit app

Oh, reddit on mobile without an app is a displeasing experience. The official app though, isn't much better.
> Despite it's [sic] many flaws, the one thing that the humble password has going for it over technically superior alternatives is that everyone understands how to use it. Everyone.

I think the problem is that people don't understand how to use passwords. They will reuse them among sites. They pick easily-guessable and low entropy ones. They will type them into any website that asks. The end result is that not much security is provided.

(Things are just as bad on the server side, of course. Developers store them in plain text. They will email them to you. They delete entropy so that you can use your password to log in over the phone or from a computer terminal that apparently only has capital letters. I've even seen a website where the password is sent to the browser and the password checking happens in Javascript. Not great guys, not great.)
My banking app uses the Iphone fingerprint sensor to fill in your password. From time to time the fingerprint fails a couple of times because my fingers are greasy or whatever and you can manually enter your password.
That's what spun me out when I first traveled in Asia. Backpacking through Thailand there was (as far as I could see) pretty equal representation in almost all different job roles, from street vendors to travel agents to IT. (Come to think of it, tuk-tuk drivers and taxi drivers were universally male, though...)

After years of being told that all women loved tech and only shied away from it because it was full of horrible misogynistic neckbeards, and that the only solution to the problem of fewer women in tech than men was to remove any slight negative experience they may have (note that these messages weren't all, or even mostly, coming from women!), it was strange to see so many accomplished, professional women in a culture that gave women no special treatment whatsoever.
Microsoft nowadays says something close to 50%. I guess the container technologies also change a lot in that space.
How much of unity’s runtime is optional? Bundling an entire game engine in every app install sounds heavy
> They also pay a lot of money because that's the only way to attract enough candidates who can pass their hiring bar. If they stopped asking hard interview questions and increased their candidate acceptance rate they wouldn't need to pay people 300k/year to fill their open positions.

I have 16 years of total experience. Their initial offer to me indicated they thought I would take $231k/year for the privilege of working there. I got them up to $253k/year. Both numbers are less than I make now (though the latter is close).

As far as I am concerned, and based on my direct experience, Google pay is not the hit shit everyone claims it is. Maybe it would be if I played the competing offer game, but I shouldn't have to do that.
His book is a "self help" book. If you don't need help (or don't think you do), then yea, you might not like it...

What I did find interesting were his interviews on the "joe rogan experience". There are three of them on youtube, here is the newest one: https://youtu.be/9Xc7DN-noAc
Module-based Node.js framework written in TypeScript
Am writing some verilog at the moment, so maybe...
If your not professional interviewer or at least trained you should not be interviewing.

At British telecom you had to pass a 3 day course before you where allowed to sit on internal review boards.
It’s only a displeasing experience because Reddit is doing everything they can to make the mobile web experience miserable so you use their app.
"They aren't animals that are after us, if they were, there would be attacks every day. If they see a seal, a fish or some of the other prey that's a different story but humans are not on their menu."

In my region (Cape Cod) we've seen an explosion in the seal population, which has attracted a large number of great white sharks. Two attacks last year, one fatal and the other could have also easily been (victim barely survived).

Seals swim just a few feet off of the very popular beaches here - it's only a matter of time until the next attack. Locals and tourists still have the mindset of "attacks are rare, driving is more dangerous!" - but I'm not optimistic that the frequency will continue to be so low.
No; thank you.
So, in others, a public-traded, for-profit organization is engaging in activities to broaden adoption of their products?

A few more thoughts. Microsoft doesn't view Linux as a competitor. Why would it? It has less than 1% of the global desktop share. You could maybe argue that Linux is a competitor to Windows Server, but then again, I'd counter with the claim that people who user Server are probably going to use Azure, which runs on Linux and offers users the ability to spin up Linux vm's. Microsoft views Linux as a tool. Their competitors are Google, Apple, IBM, and Oracle.

Also, your last 2 statements just make no sense. They have incorporated Linux into Windows via the WSL with Suse, Ubuntu, Kali, and Debian. They have done so pretty much to entice people to use Windows over Linux. I'm not sure how this is bad? They can't force developers to use Windows. Going back to what I said, a company is improving it's product to attract new users. Why should they care about Linux adoption? That's not their business model.
I would be very surprised if anyone at Microsoft in a position of power gave a damn about the user experience on Windows Desktop these days. I'm pretty sure it is their goal to kill off personal computing.
I don't think it should need to adjust as this is what it's trying to observe, it's specifically taking into account the levels of social equality. If cultural 'pushing' played a bigger part, you'd expect the differences to be greater in less egalitarian countries, but instead we see the opposite.
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While it's true (and tragic) that the Great War did not fulfil the hope that it would end all wars, many of those who served (and died, or lived) would not have agreed that their sacrifice was senseless. They saw the battle against tyranny and for the freedom of their country as the most worthwhile thing they could ever do.

Try John Lewis-Stempel's book Six Weeks[1].

Although his poetry graphically portrays the horrors of war, and does not at all glorify or glamorise it, Wilfred Owen chose to return to the front, though he had been invalided home and could have remained safely in Britain.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Six-Weeks-Gallant-British-Officer/d...
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To be fair, macOS asks once about the iCloud, and when told 'No', it respects the user and never asks again, and never puts anything iCloud related into users face.
Because if it is purely cultural then aiming for 50/50 gender parity across all industries is a reasonable goal.

If it is not, it is a 'terrible', 'terrible' idea to approach gender equality from that angle.
I always enjoy Ben Thompson's insights, and I think he may have something here. But does anyone really feel comfortable that this strategy is going to keep them at the top?
You seem to be assuming that philosophers are somehow restricted to using natural language only, but

* the formalization and regimentation of natural language has always been a fairly central concern in philosophy (that's where formal logic comes from);

* mathematics can be, and used to be, done in largely natural language.
According to the local free (crap) rag he's playing Led Zeppelin for the cheese, which would be difficult to perform for a chamber music ensemble.

What begged the question: Why is there the Apple (record company) logo on the picture, if he claims to play Led Zeppelin?
Peterson in person is Peterson in his lectures, see comments below. Make up your mind yourself, and try to understand why people like and hate him both ways. He's a pretty compassionate guy as far as I can tell, he just can't tolerate people who aren't willing to have proper discourse with him.
Dear lord, that "aperture leakage" thing was the straw that broke the spine of my respect to Watts and his work.

Remember I read Echopraxia first (but after the domestification of vampires) and Blindsight second. Echopraxia was such an astonishing mess of badly thought out things that when I started to read Blindsight I had very low energy to continue reading.

The Blindsight started with firefall, that is a 65K things that suddenly appeared and photographed the Earth while burning in atmosphere.

Do you know that current 1sqkm radio telescopes produce data that can't be processed at real time in any cluster environment in use at 2015-2016? They scan skies at precision I just cannot express in words, let's try math.

https://www.skatelescope.org/uploaded/2950_31734_2007_IAU_Ta...

"...with a resolution of few micro-angular-seconds..."

sin(5/57/60/60/1000000) equals to 2.4366472e-11. It is sine of roughly 5 micro angular seconds (1 radian is about 57 degrees). 1/sin(5/57/60/60/1000000) is roughly equal to distance where current SKA can distinguish 1 meter radio-emitting object and it equals to about 41 million kilometers - a fourth of the distance between Sun and Earth.

These Firefall objects just won't be "unnoticeable until their entry to the atmosphere" in the state of the art sky scaling systems of Blindsight's time.

Almost everything in Watts' works just don't add up. I cannot break the wall of disbelief because of that, sorry. What others see as a minor forgivable thing I see as another transgression against laws of physics, rate of progress, etc, etc.
It seems pretty obvious to me that gender differences are due to a mix of cultural pressures and biology. Here's a study that indicates some biological origin, for example: https://www.psypost.org/2017/12/study-finds-robust-sex-diffe...

It weirds me out to find people who believe that these preferences are solely due to cultural pressure. It reeks of ideological blindness to me.