skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is the purported evidence for the theory does not hold as all, as opposed to the theory of natural selection which has observable and reproducible evidenced in the form of breeding. You are kind of turning the burden of proof on its head by claiming that the hypothesis could develop into an better theory. You can say than about any unproven hypothesis.

Some parts of the theory are unfalsifiable (e.g that ancient people did not have self-awareness) which is impossible to disprove, which means it is not a scientific theory at all. The parts based on "evidence" is easy to disprove: Take the theory that gods speaking to Achilles is the bicameral mind. According to the theory the Odyssey is composed after the watershed moment...but gods are still talking to people. So you need another explanation for that (e.g. it is actually fiction). But in that case you can apply the same explanation to the gods speaking in the Iliad, so the theory does not give you any additional explanatory power.
I recently changed a major shopping centre in my state from "Foo Market - The Shopping Capital" to "Foo Market" and 48h later it was approved. I'm not sure which one google would consider more correct and would assume changing a phone number might go through a few more checks but it was surprising.

Also reminds me about the taxi lost and found issue [1].

[1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/76-lost-in-a-cab
Yep. The also closed a bunch of people’s accounts with no warning a while back.
Very interesting prediction. Anything in particular lead you to this apart from the discovery of grow towers?
What Will NASA's InSight Do on Mars?
> A machine can be tested for bias and measures taken against such bias are certainly followed.

To what degree? Based on first-order data, some populations really do commit more crime. However, we know that background/poverty is the real, underlying cause.

And even if we fed enough data to an algorithm to avoid that bias, avoiding the bias isn't enough. What you really want to do is tackle the cause. If the AI is a black box, you'd never know.

The problem with AI is almost always a lack of transparency, especially in the specific case, and not the general/overall case. Most training doesn't focus on this. Besides, the AI would limited by how good the bias tests we can come up with are.

Edit: For some use-cases, this general case optimisation is a feature, e.g. token customer service for cheap companies. Also much easier to control people who aren't that different.
Yeah, people definitely underestimate the amount of labour needed for CGI.

You still need a lot of artists for CGI. Someone needs to sculpt and paint all those 3D models, and rig them, animate them, etc.

The difference is that they use ZBrush to sculpt digital models instead of actual brushes, but the work still needs to be done.

You also need engineers. ILM employs a lot of people who work on physical simulations to get the effects they need.

You can do things digitally that aren't possible with real world models, but I don't think it's cheaper or less labour intensive.
It sounds like your definition of 'primary' is at odds with everyone else's.
> As an aside, I have to say that it is very surprising and annoying how fragile "modern" drive parts are compared to decades ago

Those old parts used SLC (single bit per cell) flash, which has orders of magnitude higher endurance than whats used now, MLC or TLC (2 and 3 bits per cell). QLC (4 bit per cell) is starting to hit the market now.
> Just another question, are the "middleboxes" well prepared for a massive switch towards UDP traffic? I don't know the network hardware world very well.

I'm not an expert either, but AFAIK QUIC development has been heavily influenced by the requirement to work on the "real" internet with various middleboxes of varying quality.

And it's not like it's going to be an instant change. QUIC is AFAIK already used between Chrome and google/youtube, and once QUIC & HTTP3 are official, it'll be a very long tail.

> Also I thought TCP traffic was benefitting from hardware implementation and optimization, I guess that's also wrong.

Well, going all the way (that is, TOE), hasn't been that popular, and e.g. the Linux kernel has refused to support such cards in the mainline kernel. What is common, and very useful, is checksum and segmentation offloads. Checksums are present in both TCP and UDP, and AFAIK NIC's capable of TCP checksum offload can also do UDP checksum offloading. Similarly for segmentation offloading, except in the UDP world it's called fragmentation offload. Though I guess for QUIC, receive fragmentation offloading won't work as long as the kernel and HW don't understand QUIC, as they won't understand that two incoming UDP packets can be merged.
I am a web developer and I need a jobs.I am expert in frontend and could do backend easily ....with frameworks like jqeury,bootstrap and laravel
UK parliament seizes internal Facebook documents to further privacy probe
Most people want to remain anonymous on the internet or have disposable IDs and profiles. And yet they expect Google to somehow ensure that people are who they say they are. This is a hard problem and it won't be solved as long as people want it both ways.
This probably sounds crazy... I think in the next ten years there will be a cultural shift away from carrying any form of electronics on yourself. That's including mobile phones and media devices.
It's probably worse for a few, and better for a lot. Maybe the Google automation is shutting down a hundred nefarious developers for every one legitimate developer. Without the automation all would be active; with the automation one guy gets screwed and it's hard for him to navigate his way back, but thousands of users are better off
Been using Anki for a couple of years to learn Spanish. Was "ok".

I now use Anki to learn Spanish but now I add imagery (also known as a mnemonic). Our minds don't remember text too well - but coupled with imagery they do. To boot, Anki supports audio files to even further ingrain the memory if you have the time to create the cards.

If you're super imaginative, like the Russian Mnemonist Solomon Shereshevsky, (article on front page HN today) you wouldn't need to this do, you can create anything in your mind and recall it.

This can in way (it's physically limited whereas Anki is not) be taken to pen and paper as well using the Leitner system, a few file folders and some paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system

So whatever you're trying to memorize - math, names, bible verses, numbers, languages -with imagery and with spaced repetition.

I bought a book a while ago called "Fluent Forever" (not associated). The author has released an app to learn languages now using this imagery method. I personally don't like the app as it takes away the flashcard creation process reducing your "learning experience" to just a few taps. Anki, Supermemo, -insert SRS program here-, albeit harder, it's much more rewarding.
> What do I mean by this? I think of our memories as a kind of most-frequently-used (MFU) cache. ... We're not trusting our brains to remember the things that are most important in our lives.

Absolutely not. I would never trust my brain to remember the things that are most important in my life. When is my wife's birthday? That happens once a year. My neurobiology is simply unsuited to triggering something at a specific time once a year. Plus our memory is not an MFU cache, not even close. Abandon all computer science metaphors and engage with the actual biology.

> If you're trying to learn a language, you should learn the way children learn their first language: by speaking.

That's like saying that athletes shouldn't do strength training or drills for specific skills. Mind you, I have learned a number of languages for real world use, and SuperMemo is one of my core tools for doing so.
Trilogy: it's actually six books, not three. What to call it? Hexalogy?

After the original six came books by Herbert's son, but I've never read those so cannot comment.
I spend an insane numbers of hours on airplanes with my iPad. Any recommendations for which of these would be good for creating cards (with Apple pencil) and using on an iPad with no Internet connection?
> The natural end result is that things that were previously included in that airfare

I think this one is very different to other cases. Other additions normally actually cost money - more baggage/weight does translate into higher cost. More space in the seat does mean higher cost.

On the other hand the seating arrangement is purey exploitative. It wasn't didn't cost anything and splitting up groups actually cost the airline some development time to create.
A core set of libraries similar to the .NET BCL. E.g. date utils, string utils, data types etc.

I prefer having this catered for by default, but I can see why others like the ala carte approach.
Crossovers are much larger than Europeans hatchbacks, which are more like the Golf, Focus, Mazda3, etc. Despite being larger, they are not much roomier, and drive significantly worse. So again, it really looks like a preference for size over all other concerns.
I wonder if these devices were manufactured in a certain country well known for shoddy, defective and fraudulent products, with the cheapest possible labor they could find?

https://ryortho.com/breaking/made-in-china-not-u-s-medtronic...

Yep.
What did you purchase today and from whom did you purchase it? << there is your answer.

"Never mind what they are selling, its what your buying" --FUGAZI
Call me crazy, but I think H.G. Wells' prediction of the human race diverging into two is less than half as crazy as it was 10 years ago.

One race, indoors-oriented, tribal, authoritarian, amoral, warlike, domineering.

Another race, outdoors-oriented, disorganized, vain, self-obsessed, subjugated.

I bet you will have minimal difficulty envisioning every person you know and which track they're on.

That's more of a 1000-year prediction than a 10-year one.

The Time Machine predicted spinning "history rings" that produced sound (CD's), and Wells' other works were equally prescient considering they came from the 1800's. Morlocks and Eloi were dismissed as simply wrong, but perhaps they were merely further ahead than the critics could see.
there are a lot of libraries out there that help you make cool things with a little programming. But, in the beginning that's how you get into programming and get passed the procrastination hump. VB.net is part of visual studio. it's the .net version of basic. which to me is much easier to read and program. Also, if your just learning to code windows forms is a good place to start because you can drag and drop widgets on a screen and build pretty good local programs.
At least you can hope that upcoming updates can fix it.
this is complete nonsense. A normal c program running on a modern operating system has the mmu control what memory it can access. So, Web assembly's "just a block of memory" is no better - it is the same.
Ooh, I wonder if you could make a "family friendly" browser extension or firewall from that.
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Making unsafe languages safe is not a design goal of WebAssembly. The author seems to believe that WebAssembly should provide many things that are the responsibility of the operating system and standard c library.

I do not believe that is a good way of thinking about webassembly. It shouldn't be thought of as an operating system target (like Windows, Linux, or Mac); it should be thought of as an architecture target (like Arm vs x86). What the author wants is an operating system and runtime, which you can write for (and standardize on) web assembly and then load your program into it.
If employees were personally liable for costs of mistakes, no one would do the work - too much personal risk involved. Also, the degree of blaming anyone-but-me would be off the charts, crippling the organization. Having some type of accountability is important - incompetent people should not be allowed to keep their job, and institutions should have some incentive to improve, but not sure putting all the burden on individuals is the right answer.

What if you had to pay the cost of every bug you created? I'm sure a lot of us developers would be digging ditches instead. :)
There's this anvaka guy on github ( https://github.com/anvaka ) who does some amazing graph stuff.

His ngraph has less features than cytoscape but if you need to plot large graphs it has a crazy good performance.

And his galaxies are amazing as well, https://anvaka.github.io/pm/#/?_k=9kvbgq . Precalculated positions for all NPM packages for example. Crazy stuff, really fun.

But yeah, cytoscape.js is nice and has great set of features.
That's scary to even read
Of course it does. The reason Ryanair can sell seats for not much above zero is that other customers are paying more. People choose Ryanair because they offer those cheap seats, not because they like the service.
I saw this tool being recommended in r/windows10. I have tried it, no issues so far, though haven't tested to see if it does disable telemetry.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
He didn't mention people being incompetent. Why do you say he's talking about the Peter principle? I can't see it.
Minimization and cheapness of sensors and small computers. Also malls going away. And willingness of investors to invest into non-traditional tech fields.
Creative Coding: Podcast Interview with Processing's Co-Creator Ben Fry
This doesn't pass the smell test. If you have a receipt from the court showing that the fine was settled, how can they be saying they never got the money?

As an aside this is a good reminder to keep forever any receipts for settlements with courts, the IRS, or other regulators.
As far as I know, he owes almost no taxes. He is a resident of Monaco and it has no taxes on its residents AFAIK. The state of Maine actually invoked FATCA compliance as a legal backing for filing the form. I find that strange as FATCA is a federal law and if anybody would be enforcing it would be the IRS, but of course he is not going to argue with Main so he just ignored the form and left a month later. Probably not very smart on his part for ignoring it but he said there is no way he going to report all of his BTC assets to Uncle Sam simply for being a tourist visitor. However, for a US citizen/resident it could very well end up pretty badly as reporting assets that had not been taxed so far will get you state and federal tax (with interest) AND probably some fines. Not reporting it is even worse because the state (and IRS) now knows you have a BTC wallet and will assume you are hiding assets in it, which is both a state and federal felony.
Anyways, it would be interesting to watch how this plays out.
It was a diplomatic wording. I've flown cheap EU airlines many times with another person (20+/year). The first time I didn't seat with other passengers is after the "pay more to guarantee sitting together" was introduced.

This is not even matching surname. If you don't pay, you're virtually guaranteed that the other person on your booking sits somewhere else.
If the actual purpose is to gather atmospheric scattering of satellite communications, no radio astronomers are necessary.
Not a compete one. Full Python semantics is not soundly typeable. Which type checker are you referring to?
Why change something. Now they get even more money. Sad but true.
Seems like regulation is around the corner.
44% of Americans are prescribed opioids each year.
Ok, we changed the title to something less misleading.
Maze generation animation in Chromium takes multiple minutes. It was almost bearable in Firefox but still longer than it needs to be. Seeing the generator "solve" the maze and then having to wait multiple seconds while it generates other branches doesn't seem right.
I'm already imagining someone reverse engineering your one frame per second solution and uploading porn where every 24th frame has been replaced with the Windows XP wallpaper.
Greece's Varoufakis to Run in European Election – In Germany
Yeah, using bicameral theory to explain away myths and religions (and vice versa) completely ignores that there are loads of reported miracles and supernatural events that go beyond visions and voices. Bicameral theory makes a dull Occam's Razor, and myths and religion aren't great evidence for testing a scientific hypothesis.
> There would be no collectively determined subjective language to refer to one another and to oneself.

Well said.

If it seems unlikely to anyone that society could transition to the state described to one where they have a full conception of self, just think of all the societies that didn't have any concept of zero. Yet they now use zero in their everyday life.

Like zero, self is a concept that now seems hard to imagine not having. Yet we know for a fact that societies at one time had no idea of zero.
We've had robot vacuums for ages now without any additional automation. Any thoughts on which tasks are more viable for automation?
Or have the actual story:

https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
Ha I kid you not I didn't believe it would pass the smell test either.

However I got a $285 ticket proving it yesterday. Courts aren't open on the weekends so my lawyer will be figuring it out tomorrow.

I will be in the DMV first thing in the morning to try to get a new license so I can travel home (went to parents house for Holiday). I have to pay a $65 reinstatement fee tomorrow to get a new license as well.
Microsoft, capitulation and the end of Windows Everywhere
Ditto, except that I have 30 years professional experience.
What is going to cause the next recession?
True, but at least you can begin with making sure trusted privacy settings (the ones provided by your OS) are set correctly.

You can also not install their app and use their website in a browser with an ad blocker and in private browsing mode.
I can envision two reasons.
The first is that, in truth, the code generated from the UML, isn't good enough and people still actually work on the output.

The second guess is that humans occasionally rewrite the code for optimization. It might then be easier to source controll the code rather than patches.
Ask HN: Any Way to Improve the Facebook HN Bot?
For those unfamiliar: https://www.facebook.com/hnbot/about

I like the HN Bot, and will sometimes check links it provides when I'm not on HN.

However, it occasionally posts links that end up becoming flagged, duped, or otherwise less desirable posts. Is there a way to improve the HN Bot so that it can pull back posts (I know fb has a delete capability), or maybe a delay before posting (avoiding these undesirables)?

Additionally, if someone has a better Idea, feel free to share it.
> They've been immoral/unethical from the start.

Yeah, that's what I don't understand about the current outrage at Facebook. IMHO they are far ethically better today than they were say 6-10 years ago. I just don't understand the outrage today if its ok to do what they did several years ago. I mean, I left Facebook in 2011 due to their ethical issues.
No, he's talking about something different. The Peter Principle makes the process sound totally dysfunctional because it assumes the employee will remain incompetent, while he suggests that a period of incompetence is necessary to learn how to do your job.
It's a lot slower so I assume so. It's definitely not a Safari View Controller.
I always thought this movie premise was entirely contrived but now I am not so sure:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvGEj84y98
FB's behavior is 100% irrelevant here. If they seized them from FB you may have an argument.
But they didn't.

As for holding them liable, this is a very clear violation of a protective order either way. The correct answer, as I said, is to take it to court, where Facebook, you know, the rightful owner of the documents, can intervene.

If he actually was in possession of the documents, I would definitely push hard for sanctions.
If you are hiring a lawyer to help with this, sure you will have to pay his fees, which are probably going to be several hundred dollars at least.

Did you try just going into the office of the clerk of the court with the receipt and saying "hey there's been a mistake."
- Another lost decade of growth, with Generation X realizing their 401k won't actually grow enough to let them retire before 70.

- Autonomous cars will continue to be a tantalizing but unrealized dream for all but a few niche markets.

- AI will fade back into science fiction. Automation will continue to be the boogeyman that isn't quite here yet.

- I think public support of the health insurance status quo will collapse and Medicare for All will become an actual Thing.

- Facebook and Google will face legitimate disruptors. Apple will try to pivot away from reliance on iPhone for growth and try to be another Alphabet instead.
You should really watch this documentary: Filet! Oh Fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrFXN4d1Jc

Its disturbing to say the least.

But to the other comments - the fishing industry is horrifically unsustainable - there is no replenishment to the degree from which we take from the oceans.

Poor measurement of fish populations, and even when the data exists stating that populations are over fished, shady regulatory boards provide licenses to fish what shouldnt be fished.
I'm not sure the humans are particularly likely to refuse immoral, fascist or undemocratic orders.
The CTO you're convincing is winging it as well, so how much convincing do you actually need to do? How many C-levels have been convinced to blindly adopt ML/AI/Blockchain/TrendyThings?

If these folks really are winging it, that's code for "hey, we're dumb, come exploit us". It's where pomp and circumstance close deals rather than actually delivering something technically good. It's where things start turning into a social club but the salaries continue to climb.
> Companies and doctors aggressively push them as a safe antidote to the deadly opioid crisis in the U.S. and as a treatment for an aging population in need of chronic pain relief.

> Although there are roughly 4,000 types of medical devices in the FDA’s data, just six of them accounted for a quarter of device injury reports since 2008. (Francois Duckett/AP) But the stimulators — devices that use electrical currents to block pain signals before they reach the brain — are more dangerous than many patients know, an Associated Press investigation found. They account for the third-highest number of medical device injury reports to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with more than 80,000 incidents flagged since 2008.

This is shocking (pun not intended). I understand the desire and rush to get us off of opioids, but I think this is a horrific reminder that we still need to approach things cautiously and not get swept up in excitement and the promise of a "panacea"
> the human race diverging into two is less than half as crazy as it was 10 years ago

Any thoughts on how that would happen? Genetic engineering? Divergent populations? Earthbound and formerly Earthbound?
Yes- completely gratuitous fanservice

No- nudity