skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, back here in the world of today's reality, the "intelligent consciousness" phenomenon still requires this shitty fragile "meatbag" form, to carry it around ...

... but if it makes you more comfortable to think that people who disagree with you, aren't actually people ... then go right ahead.
I actually don't see this from his data. It seems more like he started with a hypothesis, wrote the article as if he was correct, and then gathered data to try to support it. Then after seeing the data wasn't as commensurate with his idea, he wrote around the inconveniences.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the 911 operator doesn't ask your preferred doctor before sending an ambulance.
The Economist has been doing anonymous articles for about 100 years, I think the only difference is they are not controversial.
Looks like publication of research, not a product.
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What's the use of pseudonyms when it is easy to deanonymize writing? If the writer is a well known academic it shouldn't be too hard to at least identify a probable author.
It's not impossible, just highly improbable given everything we know about population genetics and behavioral neuroscience. It seems their claim is based on a single behavior that was selected because they observed it during field study and found it interesting. They confirmed the behavior in their experiment; this itself would have been an interesting report. To make a Science paper out of it though, it needed to be framed as a study about some uniquely human capacity (since we can't get over ourselves, and love being reminded of our big brains).

However, as far as uniquely human cognitive capacities go, I've not heard of this one yet. And seemed like a pretty outlandish claim given my Australian Shepard will paw at a basket containing her leash while looking at me - which seems very much like she is trying to convey to me some info she learned in the past.
Not entirely and I know Mozilla is in the process of doing this now. They could take some small portion of the original bit of the browser they are rewriting and put something technically interesting together instead of more opinions like this. One of the things they have to overcome has been stated above and that is that c and c++ have a lot of inertia. They are also still cool languages. This will take a lot more than opinion to overcome.

I have written a few small things in rust and explored crates.io and like the language and ecosystem. I am much less certain about the community surrounding the language, but it might just be that they are mostly younger people looking for safe places so they often feel unauthtically welcoming. It is a bit off putting.

Anyway I would just like to see something like here is a unit of the browser we replaces with rust servo. It took us 2 week to do this unit. before the rewrite this unit would crash or leak at some rate after the rewrite these have been reduced x amount where these would be numbers from the wild based off their metrics. They could Also throw in a couple bench marks over those code units for good measure, but i am certain Mozilla captures enough to probably put together something with interesting real world numbers.
Is interesting, because maybe budget a 10% of time doing this will yield a lot of progress. Also, taking in consideration than certains tools (programming languages, OS APIs, shells, etc) have a large surface area of impact and many developers actually not care if the tools is made on C/C++, care that solve a certain problem. (Of course, this demand that the c-call conventions stay because that wire A LOT, but that is small and contained).
>"How do you prove to the politicians that a particular scientific investment is worth it?"

You* need to make surprising predictions and perform astounding feats that pretty much anyone can verify for themselves. This is an old problem: http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Technology/en/Syracusia...

*By "you" I mean at least people associated with you or your ideas.
China really seems like the America of the 50s/60s when it comes to science these days.
Ignorant/mistaken good intentions can do great harm. The difference comes when someone is told that they are doing harm. Do they stop or carry on?
He allegedly broke pretty specific Swedish sex law which probably doesn't have an equivalent in the UK..

In normal extradition treaties, being in the UK was safe from being in anyone's custody which is the ideal for no possibility of the US starting an extradition.

No one can know the specifics of the US' soft power and assets except the US, and even then only in some abstract collective sense.
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Which trend are you referring? Cameras getting larger frame sensors? The form factor? Features? Panasonic has the VariCam line of cinema cameras: https://info.panasonic.com/varicam-cinema-cameras.html
Other than just being a fun project, is there anything that you could do with the data you collect?
> The failure of most Europeans to fathom the potential for devastation of the new weapons they were constantly devising owed much to their conviction that no matter how rapid the advances, Western men were in control of the machines they were creating

While the technology was different, I'm not convinced that WW1 was truly more devastating than previous wars. The wars following the French Revolution lasted much longer and devastated Europe from Lisbon to Moscow. The Wars of Religion before that were probably even worse.

The fate of civilians, at least, was actually better in WW1 than in previous wars, as the armies were generally well supplied and disciplined and tried to behave in a "civilized" manner. As for the impact on soldiers, an Englishman fighting in Flanders in 1685 was just as likely to experience trench warfare [1], high explosives [2] and even chemical warfare [3] as his counterpart in 1915 - with far fewer comforts (medical care, consistent supply, news from home etc.).

The real question is not how the war became so devastating (it was like many other wars in this regard) but why it was expected not to be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Antwerp

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellburners

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_warfare#Early_modern_...
That's a very good point, however eliminating the impossible (or just improbable) is a necessary first step towards finding "the truth".

Then all you need is a good prior, to allow you to tell the truth from the nontruth. And the er, simplest prior is the Occamist prior- that the simplest explanation is the most likely to be true.

Going by which, Kurtz79 is the most likely author of the post above, since that's the simplest explanation that is not impossible (or improbable).

Edit: it's "simplest" in the sense it doesn't require REASONS.
Joel Spolsky has a good article on this point:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

(search for "option one" if you want to skip right to the relevant part, though the whole article is worth reading, IMO.)
I downvoted you because canned air is not propane or butane.
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I didn't mean to imply that SCR1267 authorized military action and I don't think I did.

The Taliban were obliged by SCR1267 to turn over bin Laden. If they had intended to turn over bin Laden to a third country, they would have.
They have definitely worked hard to do so. On BART I happened to start talking with somebody wearing a jacket from the Homeless Outreach Team. It's his job to talk people into getting the help they need and getting off the streets. The ones we talked about are definitely the difficult cases.

That doesn't surprise me at all. There's a homeless guy in my neighborhood I've been talking with at least 7 years. He has mentioned being born at the hospital 3 blocks from my place, and I'm sure he grew up in the neighborhood. He's polite, friendly, and very set in his ways. I suspect he has some sort of alcohol-induced anterograde amnesia. He has absolutely no interest in living in any sort of setting where he'd be constrained by others. From the way he talks about it, I expect there's some sort of history of abuse by authority figures.

I don't think it's impossible for him to get help. But I think it would have to include living in his neighborhood and I think it would need a lot of patient and intensive help from professionals. Otherwise he's just going to do what's familiar to him.
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The world is a wild wonderful place. We think we know a lot about it, but there's so so much we don't know. It's nice to get a reminder of that every so often.
Is quantum mechanics a good model to describe chemistry? Biology? Psychology? History?
So is it going to be actually controversial ideas, or just ideas that are commonplace in academia but controversial to the lay public because the ideas imply eugenics and genocide of the average citizen? None of the potential "controversial" ideas seem all that controversial in the current academic zeitgeist. Abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, eugenics, and general genocide of populations the academics don't like are all ideas that have vocal proponents and even conferences within academia. Such ideas were commonplace in the lead up to WW1 and WW2. So, the journal does not really seem all that controversial.

On the other hand, my opinion appears to be controversial. I wonder if the journal will publish it :D
My degree is in EE, and I'm not an IEEE member nor do I ever plan to be, even if it was free. IEEE is one of those "pay-for-status" groups like National Honor Society is with high schools. They're in the pocket of military-industrial cubical farms like GE and Boeing and don't do much that's interesting to me, and their recruiting during undergrad just gave me a bad feeling.
It may happen that the approaches usable against automatic facial detectors would be pretty noticeable for humans around [1], thus rendering them pretty hard to use in practice, and also a target of anti-facial-recognition-paint recognition algorithms.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=dazzle+paint+face+f...
Encrypted storage protects a layer from every layer below it. It simplifies your defense model. It's pretty much always a good idea to do, but rarely something worth bragging about.
It was default in Ubuntu 17.10. They changed it back to X.org in 18.04, though
One reasonable way to look at the "bang for the buck" invested in biomedicine is to look at r&d productivity of the pharma industry. Pharma spends more on r&d than publicly funded research, and innovations in academic research typically trickle down to pharma

By most estimations, productivity of biomedical research is decreasing. Some estimate it is decreasing exponentially

One explanation is the low hanging fruits model, but I prefer an explanation that combines the low hanging fruit model (that we rapidly exploit the most obvious applications of a new tech) with a "punctuated equilibrium" perspective of innovation -- that every so often, we get a new breakthrough that opens up a whole new space to play in. Maybe gene editing, gene therapy, cell therapy, the microbiome will have that impact today
FYI - clicking through to create a portfolio, my corporate firewall blocks it as malware. Idk how you fix that though.
What would happen if you only thought you liked that book because it mentioned you.

I mean do you think computer scientists named a sub collection of instructions after you, or do you think its a hint the wake up? Wake up.... Wake up subroutine.
Probbable is defence enough I'd say.
> The big fundamental structures describing nature its working are more or less known. It's about details nowadays and it takes more time and effort to get the details right.

This (bullshit) is what they thought in the 1890s,and is why physics was considered boring, basically a dead field. Oops!
Not the same thing.

Economist articles, with the exception of special reports and the farewell article by the editor in chief, are not bylined.

The reason being that the newspaper wants to speak with one voice.

In addition, and being certified and proud opinion journalism, I wouldn't exactly call TE uncontroversial.

Not having a byline is very fundamentally different than writing under pseudonym.
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How is it political lobbying?

I can see how the original Greenpeace ad could be seen as political lobbying since it calls for viewers to take action, and Greenpeace is a known political organization and their name is on the original ad.

But the Iceland Foods ad that was banned does not do that. It used the same animated section that Greenpeace used to state facts about palm oil driven deforestation and its affect on orangutans, but the message after the animation is different. Greenpeace is not named anywhere in the Iceland Foods ad.

It is just telling shoppers that Iceland Foods is stopping the use of palm oil in their own products until the deforestation from palm oil production stops.

Would a clothing company be allowed to advertise that it has stopped using suppliers that use child labor or sweatshops?

Would a company be allowed to advertise that it has switched its offices to use renewable energy to help with climate change?
You can also classically condition a bee with food rewards to extend its mouthparts whenever it detects a specific odor. You then put the plastic bee cartridge into a device such that when the mouthparts extend, an LED illuminates.

Cheaper than dog noses, but requires a sample of the target odor and some training time. It is conceivable that the "most wanted" could each have thousands of bees trained on their scents, and then those swarms could be divided up onto plastic cassettes, which would each be loaded onto a lamppost. If the targets go near any lamppost, their bee in it tattles its location in real time. The disadvantage is, of course, that you have to go around swapping out old and dead bees for live, fresh ones all the time.

An electronic nose can just report its odor profile, and a central processing server can attempt to match and track targets. All that needs is a bit more bandwidth. But it is likely slower and lacking specificity. You could likely smell explosives or bomb making residues or gunshots or narcotics, but not specifically track Suspect X across the city. That kind of precision would require that people line up at the lamppost to be swabbed, and their swab vaporized and run through a gas chromatograph for a minute or two, which I don't see happening, even in authoritarian Singapore.
My first PHP app was an invoicing application. It is ~3500 lines of php in a single file. Most of which is a few heredocs with javascript to be in lined on the client side. I haven't touched the code in 10 years. I still use it for my freelance invoicing.
It depends what role the manager plays. Some of the best managers I've ever had were not "tech people". Their job was to ensure that we had what we needed to do our jobs effectively, and that we were delivering the level of service upper management wanted.

Somebody once told me that the true definition of a great manager is someone who can clear a path for their team to be able to focus and do the best job they can, while protecting them from the political bullshit and stupid decisions being made around them. Someone who will fight for their team and nurtures their growth and productivity. You don't need to be a tech whiz to do that.

And even when I did have a tech whiz manager I could always learn and depend on for technical decisions, they were great managers in the aforementioned way first and foremost. That is the most important thing.
This should be switched to the original source: https://www.privacycompany.eu/en/impact-assessment-shows-pri...
I don't respond to recruiters anymore, I just delete the email or ignore the message on LinkedIn. The only way I will respond is if they specifically name drop someone I know who recommended they reach out. If I want to talk to your company, I probably already know someone who works there and will reach out internally because I want to know the real scoop of how things work, not the rose-tinted version the recruiter will give me for a commission.
Where are the genocide journals or conferences?
As soon as I saw Peter Singer, I knew what kind of controversial ideas they would be. Check out the writings of Bertrand Russell for more of the same.

It's likely to be the old, regurgitated fantasies from the British Empire and early 20th century eugenicists.
Yeah, it's not clear if a self-landing retrobooster would have been possible given the components available at the time of the space shuttle's design, not to mention the vast improvements in computer modeling and simulation that we're available to SpaceX.

But, of course, that's only part of the story. The space shuttle had additional political constraints, i.e. spreading the wealth to many congressional districts, that greatly increased the cost and complexity.
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Thanks for this. Trying to create an event but won't accept the location. Keeps coming up with an error that location is entered in a wrong way and should use the drop-down menu instead, even though that's what I was trying to do.
Hey there, another Jenks graduate here. I'm currently more towards the OKC area but definitely would love to live in Tulsa again. It's a laid back kind of place, great cost of living, plenty to do... Not for everyone I'm sure but perfect for me.

I think the state of education in our state is a pretty big problem, but there are nationally ranked high quality schools like you said, Jenks, Union, Norman.
I’m not worried about the fictitious and overblown “SJW” strawman youtube has lead everyone to believe are everywhere. I’m worried about corporate interests, ideologues, and charlatans publishing biased nonsense and making the world even more crowded with bad information without any recourse or ability to investigate what the motives behind the papers may have been.
Ha, that sounds like average IT company. I wonder what 1000s of FB engineers typically do. Writing some big data processing system? or mostly just wrangling with javascript, react native etc.
The email in the post is at the domain: msgden.com. This domain redirects to: https://www.msgsafe.io. Another encrypted email system. Seems pretty clear this may just be a marketing tactic to steal customers from ProtonMail.
> I'd like to see your tricks for dealing with 100,000 such sensors, one on every street corner.

Misdirection and decoys. How much use are those sensors if they're all detecting you at the same time?

If they become prevalent enough, I could imagine the development of "scent bombs" that would spew out so much of your odor that the sensors for miles around would all detect "you."
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A good habit to get into is to create a bucket policy to explicitly deny these actions.
That sucks. And it makes me feel like maybe SATs aren't so bad. I feel like scoring well on the SAT doesn't actually require preparation, just high literacy and a willingness to think the questions through.
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This might be true, but I still think there's a market for people who might not be content, but aren't so malcontent that they want to go through these recruiters that can't get basic information like the name of the company, what the company does, how much it pays, etc. in an email. Heck, I would think that even if you're mass mailing a copy/pasted template, having a good hook in there would get more hits — and that's perhaps what irks the rest of us. We'd like to be hooked… but this is like a bad late night commercial, and we're expecting something more mid-day and professional (but still a commercial).

These recruiters sure they're not sitting on a local maxima?
For a limited number of positions, if you have a bigger pool of people to hire from, the wages will automatically go down. This is simple economics.

While the union effect might also be playing a role, it's curious that you rush to deny the big obvious factor while propping up a relatively minor reasoning factor as a primary one.
This is a good point, however, I think this would apply more to workers who have already been employed for awhile. Anyone joining should have the sense they'll be subjected to dubious practices.
I live in 3d richest county in US in my kid's middle school it's not super uncommon for a teacher to just put on some YouTube video that covers what they are studying ...
A description is one thing. What this article describes is a genetic analysis that places a mystery on the rather broken 'tree of life'.

Basically they solved a long-running mystery, and it turns out to be stranger than anyone thought.
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I can agree with your point and share the struggle however this article was quite too shallow
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The encoding used to represent the data while keying it in or burning it would have made no difference in terms of ROM space, so there's a fair point to be made somewhere underneath the "Wat". Whether your write an hexadecimal or binary number to key in a byte, in the end it's still just a byte in the ROM.
Predictive, usable and fair.
Pick any two!
They're not all bad. I prefer in-house recruiters because they tend to work with you better and stay in contact even if the company or you decide to go another route.

Now outside recruiters...

I've had some outright demand my salary information so that they can sell me for the right price. Just be clever enough not to disclose that.

It's entirely a business interaction and not a friendship. They want something out of you, and you may want something out of them.

It helps if you can honestly say you want $X and that you're already interviewing with other companies under that expectation.

If you don't need to, don't needlessly sign up for interviews and tests with positions that don't particularly interest you for any reason.

I've also been bait-and-switched before. There's not too much you can do about that. But if they pull that, you know to end the discussion there.

It's not supposed to be a zero-sum relationship, but sadly many will sell you to the lowest bidder if that means a commission.

All that said, don't shut off completely if you don't want to. I engage casually from time-to-time. I'll give them a 15 minute call sometimes if my curiosity gets the better of me.

And all of that said, it's much better speaking directly with the people you'll be working with or for.
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You could just home school your kid with khan academy.
I feel you can also sell from the bottom.

Slack, for example, a lot of the requests came from engineers to work with it.

The product has to be REALLY good though, for most, this is a very hard sell
How is this different from the Scriptable app ? That uses JS to interact with siri.
Cheaper, faster, but horrible to listen to.
Keep in mind that your IP address is part of your PD under the definition of GDPR.
Airtable is web-based, Notion is for desktop use with Windows and macOS clients.

I use neither of them but my preference goes to the web since I work on Linux.