skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not really sure we can say that the mind is purely 'physical' with conviction. I think to assert that the mind is as physical as the body falls well short of comprehending the complexities of mind that are truly distinct from body.

This article supports a plausible theory that the mind is a complex system and does not define easily as being purely local to the body:

https://qz.com/866352/scientists-say-your-mind-isnt-confined...

I think when it comes to mind/consciousness the humble position is to say "we don't know enough yet". Humans are certainly not so enlightened that we can define ourselves with precision and we should operate in the world with appropriate humility.
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How can you know your writing will be effective without actually looking at other writing that you know had positive outcomes?

I think IsItToasted might be confusing "how people talk" with "an effective way of communicating that yields the result you want".
I took a course in advertising which was invaluable. Recognizing different sort of marketing appeals and strategies, etc... I've been trying to teach that to my kids too.
It makes me smugly satisfied that I never got a certificate in anything and I still have a successful career. You really don't need it. On the other hand I did drop thousands to get a Master's degree in CS while working. To each his own.
'not brittle' if you 'manually enter' isn't exactly a glowing review.

There's definitely some good with selenium, but I and others find it is often brittle and doesn't catch errors as reliably as would be ideal.
I don't think they're saying it is?
Genchi - Why project status reports need to change.
https://blog.genchi.com/2018/11/07/why-project-status-reports-need-to-change/
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They aren't enforcing the law. They're managing their risk as a business, by not doing business with people who could put them at legal risk. If they were "enforcing the law", they'd send you a fine for tens of thousands of dollars and throw you in jail if you didn't pay it.

If a gun store owner knew a guy was buying a gun to shoot up a school, wouldn't you want him to refuse to sell it? Wouldn't you want to hold the gun store responsible for knowingly enabling illegal activity?

(Note that I am using gun analogies in my comments because I feel the positions here are oddly tied to a specific issue, and hypocritical when applied to others. I'm aware these aren't really similar in severity by any means.)
Despite having a great elementary and high school system, I learned critical thinking (at least in any obvious way) from exactly one class.

It was a Home Ec class in junior high. (7th grade had both Home Ec and Shop, 8th grade you picked one). We had just finished "how to order from a catalog" (because I'm old) and the teacher passed out magazines and we were to find an ad, then list 5 ways it was deceptive.

The first few were easy. Showing money, attractive people, fast cars, happiness...but then things got subtle.

Once we did, we shared with the class. I don't recall my ad. I DO recall the lesson that clicked for me. It was an ad for Bayer aspirin. "4 out of 5 doctors recommend", the ad said, something I had seen on countless commercials. "Who picks the doctors?" asked the student.

Blam. Mind Blown. I had never considered that particular aspect. This opened up that "clinical studies prove..." doesn't mean anything. Awards, certifications...the idea that I could be told words that were technically true but misleading went from something that could be told to me and that I could recite back to something REAL, that I applied on my own.

I don't know that you can teach critical thinking, but I know that you can push opportunities for it to 'click'. This was one day of one class out of thousands of days of schooling. I learned lots of lessons in school, both factual and personal, and while there were likely many other more subtle lessons about critical thinking, this was a real moment of change for me, and it feels like it could have so easily slipped by.

We should absolutely push students to be ready to accept evidence while also questioning what is presented. Repeatedly. over and over again, because you never know how many times it will take to suddenly start working.
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Interestingly, I've seen several police officers or ex-officers raise this argument against always-on body cameras.

In one sense, it's exactly what always-on cameras are meant to do: prevent police from ignoring the law when no one is watching. The goal is to limit brutality and baseless charges, but the mechanism works equally well against neglected charges and officer discretion.

The places that moved first on legal marijuana were the same ones that started with détente; I think there's some real substance to the idea that bans on harmless things erode because we see that nothing bad happens when they go unenforced. (For that matter, it's the same idea as people leaving cults when they break the rules in private and discover "hey, nothing bad happened!") Universal enforcement takes away a natural experiment on the results of non-enforcement.
Yep. I'm in the 'none' category. On a good day I can get 22Mbps down / 1.5 up. On a bad day it doesn't work at all.

DSL (with a single provider) is my only option for wired internet at home. Satellite and cellular are both available, but with higher prices and sever data caps.

I have an office 1.5 miles away that also has a cable line that can do ~120Mbps down and ~5 up, but the cable lines end about a mile from my house.
Sorry, "illegal" versus "legal" in America is determined by the courts, not by private corporations.
That's true. It doesn't even have to be a politician's child. "What about the children?" [1] works quite well to rile people up to surrender their own freedoms and of the future generations.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
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My last company was a grocery coupon app. We used to go to Apple Store's around the Bay Area (especially on iPhone Launch Day) and pay people $1 to install and try our app.
Since Rust doesn't have `null`, how do you imagine named parameters would work?

Likewise, which traits would you expect an anonymous struct to implement?
People who can't be bothered to donate 20 minutes of their time every 2 years should think about what democracy means for them.
I still see Facebook site URLs with .php extensions, so they definitely didn't just throw away their roots.
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I can confirm, Stripe is very proactive in getting in touch around tax time. But I guess many people just forget and pay late fees or get letters such as above.

One question which is not clear for me - is it possible to dissolve a company through Stripe Atlas?
The irony was not lost on us. The first thing those patients did after discharge was head to Liquor Liquor. It had a huge flashing colored neon sign — ALL CAPS.
When facial expressions start causing social harm I'm sure we'll regulate those too, but this is the most bizarre slippery slope I've ever seen.
Did you guys apply to YC this cycle?

If I signup as a developer, how easy/hard would it be to find a gig? I assume the supply of good developers is not an issue so finding work would be hard.
It's not like you are paying that price for long. Usually you'll start getting benefits the next month, as soon as someone wants new numbers in the dashboard. Or as soon as a new feature needs to be added
IIRC the google guys had VC crawling down there back and had to tell them to back off.
Reading this, I had an urge to go watch a Donnie Dumphy video[1]. He feels like a living contradiction, so I don't know how the people of Newfoundland feel about the character. It probably helps that he's not real.

[1]: https://youtu.be/pQS1Rwo5vp0?t=0m22s
Yeah, that's a fair point. This gets at why I think that we should separate money and elections as much as possible. Ideally if the only people who want to run are people who believe in their solutions to public problems, then elected officials can actually argue about the problem. I don't see that happening when money helps politicians get elected and corporations have plenty of money to spend on campaigns in "exchange" for favorable legislation (it's not a direct exchange obviously since that's illegal, but it's pretty close).

My point in all of this is that the government is far from perfect, but I prefer it to corporations when profit and citizen's interests diverge (healthcare is a prime example).
I always found the parallel-arrays (or rather parallel-lists) structure of Dunnet aggravating. Isn't there a better textual representation for an adventure game map than this?

(setq dungeon-map '(
;	no so ea we ne se nw sw up do in ot
( 96 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 ) ;0
( -1 -1 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 ) ;1
( -1 -1 3 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 ) ;2
( -1 -1 -1 2 4 6 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 ) ;3
( -1 -1 -1 -1 5 -1 -1 3 -1 -1 -1 -1 ) ;4
( -1 -1 -1 -1 255 -1 -1 4 -1 -1 255 -1 ) ;5

This predecessor version has it even a bit worse: https://github.com/Quogic/DunnetPredecessor/blob/master/foo....
I would argue that the number of people who know this is a tiny fraction of the population and, unsettling as it is to contemplate, in the subsequent century we’ve had major wars which are equally important to commemorate so it’s not like a single date can cover all of them.
Funny how this is timely for me. I have always had the desire to repair/bend some of my old analog hardware, and one of my recent projects was adding a "tune" feature to the bass drum of my Tr-808. The information on doing this is widely available on the internet, but I didn't realize how difficult it would be to source a 100k log pot. The Pot I did end up finding was Bourns branded. Now that Ive performed the modification, Im ready to dig deeper into it. Ive hired a TR-808 expert to provide me with some guidance through the process. I will not share the information I purchased from him(promised him I would not) but I can refer anyone looking to do the same to him and say this guy is the real deal, and is probably the premier Roland TR analog drum machine expert.
Ask HN: 3 Successive Census ACS Surveys - What Are the Odds?
Am I just unlucky?

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a detailed questionnaire the Census Bureau gives to less than 1% of the population. I think the odds of being selected at random three times in a row is low and consequently am now wondering about the Bureau's selection process.

Could the Census Bureau possibly not be selecting different seed values each time they run their random number generators and thereby inadvertently select the identical sample of people each time? Who checks and does QA on the Census Bureau's algorithms and selection processes?

Or once you are selected in a year, are you doomed to answer their questionnaires until you die?
Using this comment thread to plug a question: Is there a way to use Cloudflare (or other DNS server providers) in order to dynamically fallback to CDN A (e.g. Cloudfront) in case CDN B (e.g. Netlify CDN) is down?
I like how Seinfeld explains it on his Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee show. He says something to the effect of “I like ads because I get excited about the product, buy it, then feel great! Then it totally sucks and I don’t use it, but it felt great so who cares?” It’s tongue in cheek but I like how he explains the phenomenon you’re talking about with some humor.
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Admins: the title needs "(2014)"
Though, on a regional basis, Dr Pepper gets bottled and distributed with one of the big two.
> Do you have any evidence of that claim?

I'm not going to link to specific github issues but I've seen enough people dropping "vulnerabilities" and yelling at the developers. (I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about.) This often gets the developers worked out and gives security people a bad rap. It's a lose-lose situation imo. People need to learn empathy and stop blaming developers.

Of course there are companies that need to be shamed, and that will repeatedly act shady, but too many people use this to excuse their behavior in general.
This old VC written article reminds me of Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thinking at the end of last century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...

VC's love the winner take all big platform investment world. I suspect (and hope) that era is coming to an end, not open source...
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attack --> individual choice

> (of a disease, chemical substance, or insect) act harmfully on.

> to set upon or work against forcefully

> a belligerent or antagonistic action

---

The above fit relatively well.
Hey, does this have anything like GIMP's color-to-alpha filter? I can't find anything in the menus, but it's the one thing that GIMP has that Photoshop doesn't which I use very often.
A big part of it for me isn't that there's a facial recognition system or license plate scanner in place, it's that the records from those systems will live forever and be used for who knows what in the future. It's a bit of a silly example but in William Gibson's newest book there is an AI system the police use that goes through decades of old records of all kinds to find things about people. That's what I'm afraid of, having to trust future police/agents with the data.
Yes, the idle speculation about a "honeypot" method was of artificially encouraging the cancer to evolve in a certain direction, even boosting its growth, until it has reliably mutated in a way that makes it susceptible to some other intervention, like being starved or targeted by some particular marker.
If you were going to rank the 50 states by natural beauty, those 4 would easily be in the top 5 or 8. That probably makes it an easier sell to ban billboards.
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NY/NJ has a heavy Italian influence, so the day acts as more of an "Italian Heritage Day" at this point.
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Do you know if that would allow all cores to have the same memory access speed like the current (16c in 2990WX) directly connected ones, or if it imposes a penalty (the same?) on all of them?
> You can report the location where the parse failed, what was recognized before that point, what tokens would have been allowed to follow.

This is a garbage 'computer says no' kind of error message.

It doesn't tell you why those tokens would have been allowed to follow, why it is that those are the only tokens allowed to follow, why the token you used is not one of the allowed one, or what you could have more likely been intending to write to make it correct.

In a recursive descent parser you have the freedom to use more context and logic to generate your error messages.
20% of $50K is $10K/year which is like 15% of the take-home pay on a $100K salary, and all you did was pay interest. That's not something to sneeze at.
I thought I was going to hate this essay but it was wonderful.

He discusses the graph structure of a city: it should be a semi-lattice and not a tree, and there we agree entirely.

But a city should be a tree in the sense that it's an organic structure that iteratively improves in response to local knowledge, rather than a centrally planned crystal that assumes perfect foreknowledge of needs.
That's a great example of manually bootstrapping an automated system!

> We are directly connected to hotels now

Once you implemented the backend connections, was the quote of "tens of thousands of dollars" accurate? Was that your development cost or some access fee required by the hotel (or their booking system provider)?
I think you're making an implicit assumption: your brain's cognitive load is capped singularly. This may not be the case; we may have separate, independent caps for personal decision-making and work-related problem solving. If you choose to go to the same coffee shop every day, you may just be increasing your capacity to make more personal decisions but not really affecting your work.
While I understand bundling, what I don't understand is why bundling is relevant here. If you're at the position to be placing bids, you've already chosen a bespoke price for the product (either by explicitly stating a price, or throwing stuff in for "free").

None of the precludes simply selling the very same code product (sans bundle) on the App Store at a price that's higher than your bid price. Doing so, increases sales (perhaps marginally, but more is more, and the opportunity cost is trivial), and it makes your bid price appear even lower.

The reason why Adobe doesn't bother is because they're a household name. People that want Photoshop, will just google it and go to their page and download it directly. The 30% acquisition cost simply isn't worth it when you've already cornered the market.

But Adobe is an outlier. They own a verb. Most people aren't in that position.
I don't quite understand what you mean by this.

If it wasn't clear, what I meant is: employer under pays employee with the expectation that customer will pick up the slack via tipping.
You wrote "don't violate the law over our network". Who determines in this case whether the law is violated?
If you changed your statement that this is a precaution to manage legal risk, then we get into an entirely different realm.

What if AT&T's risk management software scores that its customer is "likely" to commit a petty crime by analyzing his traffic? Turn him off as well?
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Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords?
I want to switch to some password manager, or maybe self-host one.
What do you use? Maybe you have some suggestion on moving it one step further?
Awesome! Dunnet has a text editor built into it.
The first thing any State does is place the military under civilian government control. This is actually a huge part of the Constitution (the Founding Fathers were very clever and they all read Ceasar's biography).
You can control DNS failover with custom health checks in AWS Route 53. You can also do latency based routing. I can't speak for Cloudflare, but I imagine they have similar capability.
What solid material? Fecal matter, toilet paper, small food particles, etc break down in a septic tank.

I suppose there will be very small amounts of minerals that don't break down but they are insignificant.
The fundamental question here is simple. To what extent can the mind affect the body? There can be no argument that the mind has at least some effect: a straightforward example is mood and blood pressure. For now, let's assume that this extent can be large.

Following is the assumption that, while we have learned a lot recently, the total map of mind/body connections is enormously larger than our current understanding of it.

So, it seems possible to me that the placebo effect can have real, physical and measurable effects on a human body, given the above assumptions.

One way or another, decades of research of, to varying degrees, confirmed this connection, though we haven't made much progress in understanding the underlying mechanisms of action.
I use Password Gorilla: https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki
In Barq's vs. Mug -- quite true. Haven't had either in probably 10 years but Barq's "bite" is the caffeine.
This article has already been proven wrong... e.g. what about Elastic
The story doesn't have any such details. Please remember that the most famous such case, the prosecution of Aaron Swartz until he committed suicide, was for downloading academic papers from JSTOR, presumably including many century-old texts, and that the current best system for obtaining academic papers you're legally allowed to get — Sci-hub — is on the receiving end of a series of lawsuits from companies who didn't even write the texts being copied in the first place and never paid their authors.
In fact, the only way to download the code seems to log in with a Facebook, Twitter, or Google account.

I don't have either a Facebook nor Twitter account, and I certainly will not use my Google account for this. Yes, I know what OAuth is, and it is still a firm NO.
MNDA, indep contractor, employee contract, the list at https://hofstadter.io/legal/ , master service agreement / SoW for service contracts
Well, if it's given to 1%, at random, then one out of a million get it three times in a row. That's over 300 people. So, yes, you're unlucky, but not that unlucky (presuming it's truly random).
I see. I used to do that but someone told me that telling them about books that were common knowledge just sounded condescending. What I’m trying to express here is also that we just failed to acquire positive signal. We recognize that our process is imperfect (and I say this) so I don’t want to tell them there’s a weakness or anything just a mismatch of expectations.

But point taken and I’ll bias back in that direction. Without any irony, thanks for the feedback ;)
London (for instance) has a green belt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Green_Belt

Wouldn't parkland arranged in spokes be better -- with bike lanes for commuting to the center?
My late uncle flew airships during WW2, and was always looking for new things to learn (look up elderhostel; he averaged 1 per year for his last 30 years). He remembered peoples' names, spent time getting to know people who he had no reason to be nice to, and was generally considerate and generous. He also regularly emailed the most blatant propaganda to family and friends. I replied to one and said that I appreciated that he was trying to educate people so they could be better-informed citizens, but that the stuff he was sending was definitely not having that effect. I told him about Snopes and other ways to check on things before passing them on.

He replied, saying "let me know if you want me to take you off my list". And then he put "fact-checked at snopes" on every email. Yes, all the same crap.

Not all elderly people are lacking the skills to detect BS. Some pass it along with full knowledge that it's garbage. And they're not all sociopaths.
As a service business owner, it’s great to hear this perspective here. Service businesses might not be “the next google” but you can absolutely make 7 figures a year pretty handily if you know what you’re doing. who cares that it doesn’t scale infinitely, and you get to keep all the money unlike VC funded startup!
According to the media companies it is just important to cover those century-old texts as the latest Star Wars movie.

People are exactly as guilty (and should feel exactly as guilty) download one as downloading the other.
> don't build stuff that you already know will NEVER EVER scale

but one needs to know/learn this first, otherwise there wouldn't be an innovation
Does that include government subsidies?

What I'm getting at, is: will governments be supporting nuclear, even if it's considered safe enough? As far as I know the Dutch government has cleared the way for a new nuclear power plant, but no company is willing to build it because they can't recoup the investments. If governments have to subsidise it more than they subsidise wind and solar energy, will they do it?
And because it's a webapp the user accesses the new feature by clicking "refresh."

Compare that to building binaries for all supported platforms, testing, publishing, dripping down into Debian & Ubuntu, someone on Ubuntu-Based-Distro-#1377 reporting a dependency problem, someone old Debian complaining that their compiler is choking on a gl library under armv7l, etc.
While you are correct in general, Linux is not a good example of a project that is developed without profit. Most of the major contributors and maintainers of Linux are paid for their work. The companies that are paying for this work make huge profits from Linux.