skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read all of that, but in no part did I find any justification for your direct and scathing ad hominem attack on the GP’s character.

> are you like totally in capable of experience Joy/having fun?
Sorry to hear that. It was a big issue when I was there (mid 2000's). Not particularly friendly folks either. I hung out with music majors as much as I could
That statement is too strong.

The practical effect is that you should not try to build an algorithm to detect infinite loops in general (though you wouldn't need undecidability for this, per se. E.g., NP-completeness of the halting problem would probably have been sufficient to kill attempts at a general algorithm dead in the water).

Of course, it is true in specific cases that you can decide whether a given program halts, and, indeed in almost all practical instances if you know how to solve a given problem then you should be able to construct an algorithm to solve it which provably halts. (Not including, of course, things that depend on environmental inputs, something that computes whether a given number satisfies Goldbach's conjecture, etc.)

There is, of course, enormous theoretical value in the undecidability of the halting problem, and in Kurt Gödel's undecidability of a general axiomatic system. And this theoretical value guides future theoretical research which is likely to lead to further practical value in future - which indicates a practical effect in the long-term. Also, of course, it indicates that an attempt to build a general theorem-prover is a useless endeavor (though approximate / specialized theorem provers are, of course, possible and indeed exist).

In particular, Gödel's undecidability has quite real implications for an Artificial General Intelligence which would have to reason about mathematics in general, and about its own thought processes in particular. Under classical mathematical reasoning, such an AI would be unable to "have confidence" in its own reasoning process. However, if the assumptions are relaxed from statements with 0/1 truth values to statements with probabilities, and time-independence of truth is relaxed, it is possible to define an agent which is able to assign (almost) consistent (actually "coherent") probabilities to what its own beliefs w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶m̶i̶t̶ ̶(̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶ ̶g̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶i̶n̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶y̶)̶) are at time t. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03543 for more details. This is probably the strongest such statement that can be made in this class of arguments.
At least around 2010, SMC was fantastic!
Some people confuse being well-rounded with having other people tell you their ideas and then being able to repeat and maybe even riff on them.
Despite Uber and Lyft, Urban Car Ownership Is Growing
what kind of gym opens 5am.
The Innovation Paradox: Lawyers Want Innovation, but Fear Market Change
try http://wiki.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe to install the complete tool-char with several clicks.
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Are you referring to this one?

> if the author really thought donating that extra $X to the government (when other people do) was such a good idea, they would be donating it right now

Which part are you disputing? Your comments about human psychology merely support the fact that the author doesn't really think it's a good idea, and that there are psychological factors other than rationality and honesty at play.
So? These days a lot of coding is less resource intensive than browsing.

And like another commenter said, not every "Pro" user is a developer. I for one just take the Pro as meaning, better/faster.

And if someone wants to Shell out 800+ for such a device that's fine with me. But just because it costs a lot doesn't mean I can do anything with it. I also don't expect a good SSH experience from a Garmin 5X Plus.
or mORMot: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot
>>It's funny that modern Hayek adherents are so militant about preventing things that Hayek himself was completely fine with. He saw a government role in pricing externalities, banning poisons, preventing deforestation and pollution, limiting working hours or other manipulative labor contracts, preventing private fraud, and in wealthy societies, providing minimum food, clothing, housing and social insurance.

I'm not aware of Austrians being opposed to government pricing externalities, banning poisons, preventing deforestation and pollution or preventing private fraud. The Austrian school is not generally anarchist. From what I gather, the vast majority are minarchists.

Do you have a source for Hayek being "completely fine with" "limiting working hours" or any other interference in private contracts, or "providing minimum food, clothing, housing and social insurance"? I only know of one quote where he expresses support for any kind of government aid to the poor.
Backups has many potential exceptions, some being security and archiving for the public, but there is also language like reasonable steps and to not have the data influence any future decisions.

But backups has to be stored securely, and the data within can't naturally be used if restored beyond exceptions.
We were able to do multi-architecture with compiled languages just fine.

What Java had going for it, was being free (beer), more stable across OSes than a mix of K&R/ISO C, pre-ISO C++, batteries included libraries with GUI support and endless amount of money thrown out by Sun, IBM and Oracle driving adoption (yes they were into Java almost since JDK 1.0).

As for .NET and bytecode, see my neighbouring comment.
The network operator already has more detailed info, but the article says they are fuzzing it before selling it. Presumably this is to prevent pinpointing users too precisely.
If radio cells are smaller, they get higher resolution in the source data, but we can't know what resolution data they would resell.
The state of gRPC in the browser
It's on NPM, you can run it on your own servers, create your own nodes. Flexible.
If the halting problem was merely NP complex, it would have still limited practical possibilities of static analysis.
There are quite a few European, South American and African markets where Apple products aren't selling just fine.
An article you agreed to publish on a public encyclopedia hardly counts as personal data..
So basically you just described income tax
Book Review: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
I've been a Lenovo diehard for a while now, but the XPS continues to call out to me.

Beautiful device in person, I may just switch when the time comes.
Europe has had data protection laws long before Facebook and Google we’re a thing. The concept of GDPR wasn’t invented because the EU were angry at American companies; it exists because there is a need for it. Just as previous incarnations of data protection laws existed in the EU before the web was a thing too.

Also I resent being told that anyone who works in tech gets their salary from eroding peoples privacy. I can guarantee you that hasn’t been the case for any of the jobs I’ve had in my career.
> [...] it seems to me that an unintended consequence is that non-technical people hosting forums/blogs etc. will be at risk of GDPR requests that they cannot comply with due to lack of technical skills [...]

If it's only due to technical skills then this problem can be solved technically.

The forum software needs to enable people to be GDPR compliant.

> On a semi-related note: if you are a small SASS operator wanting to comply with such requests, what are you meant to do about your DB backups that contain data that is meant to be forgotten?

This hasn't been tested in court, yet. But there are several possible approaches. Like delete on restoration or backing up in slices, so that the personal data becomes anonymous unless you have all the parts.

Don't forget that the "right to be forgotten" is not an absolute right. It doesn't trump everything else. Nobody would expect somebody to sue ESA for their "right to be forgotten" for a public message that they could send to ESA to put on a CD on a probe they sent into space and win.

First of all, it forces everybody involved with personal data to think about how they handle personal data and inform the users about that.

If you state "due to technical limitations, your personal data in backups can't be erased at the time of the request but will be deleted on restoration" up front during the signup of the user, this is already an improvement over the past where nobody knew what happened with their data.
I pretty much doubt that, unless you plug them into a nice 21" screen display and an hardware console to drive production.

Doable yes, amazing not really.
Also, check out https://github.com/hashedin/squealy
Its based on a similar line of thought.
Interesting, I’ve been doing that in my Runequest games for years, but then the setting (Glorantha) has a really rich mythology that provides great context for things like that. I shouldn’t be durprised though. Rob Heinsoo the chief designer of 4e is a long time Glorantha and Runequest fan.
IIRC, the NTFS filesystem has its own collation tables on disk that are fixed when the volume is formatted, so its indexes are forever consistent but don’t necessarily match the ongoing changes to collations. Thus the shell has to re-sort everything before showing it, even though you’d think the filenames were already sorted by NTFS.
I think this whole discussion is pretty pointless because it will inevitably turn out that behavior is incredibly complicated and can't be pinned to a DNA arrangement.

But... I don't like your reasoning. It sounds like: Hitler was a vegetarian. Don't be Hitler.

We already legally enforce certain kinds of eugenics. Most of the world prohibits sex between siblings. Right up until very recently many US states had marriage blood test requirements to prevent certain sexually transmitted and genetic diseases. There are a couple horrifying genetic diseases I wouldn't object to banning - google Lesch–Nyhan syndrome or Harlequin-type ichthyosis if you'd like to spend the rest of your evening crying.

It doesn't even sound like he's proposing a legal requirement. People pick mates for all sorts of dumb reasons. Hell, I know people that believe in zodiac signs. As long as it's voluntary, let them play the genetic dating game. If someone thinks that a few genes are going to bring a happy marriage, the joke's on them.
> Cue all the armchair product strategists coming in to tell us all the mistakes Apple made in it's product line up, or $29 batteries, or some other bullshit. Look, the reason iPhone sales are slipping is because of China's recent poor economic performance.

Why not both?
Many are open 24 hours or provide self-entry outside core hours.
Side sleeper here, i have very firm mattress. Shoulder pain is probably not because of the mattress, but because of weak muscles. Training your upper back/shoulder muscles just a bit will help a lot. I had a shoulder injury (bar/pub accident, yup.) which caused me to avoid using certain muscles. Got pain in my shoulder as well. Fysiotherapist recommended some excercises and it disappeared.

I have a firm mattress because i had a sore back, which in turn caused me to wake up tired.

A sitting non physical profession is the cause of all this. Sometimes i do have a sore back, but going to the (climbing) gym fixes it for weeks.
data being necessary for original purpose doesn't help; you can withdraw consent
Could be, but how does that relate to Apple? Has Apple’s reputation changed in China as an American company in the last year?
These days, the number of non-pay MUDs with an average of 100+ people on them at a time can be counted on two hands.
NSView song – WWDC 2007 [video]
Toronto actually has a "vegetarian butcher" like this: https://yamchops.com/
I would have thought that smoking cessation and earlier detection are - in a sense - medical advances?

Medicine pushed for these, as the most effective ways of fighting cancer. And it's working.

The same will hopefully happen to air pollution in cities, as a public health problem.
That was the intention, but it's a general purpose programming environment, you can build anything with it. Try a simple http server node.
Person B mentions person A by name or by nym.

Person B describes person A without mentioning a name, eg by describing person A in a way which is recognizable. (eg the pilot that shot down the death star.)

The first is at least searchable...
Do you really think any humans hold the "monogamous gene"? Monogamy in humans is entirely learnt behaviour. You only need to look at the prevalence of porn. Almost every man simulates sleeping with other women. Women are more hypergamous than non-monogamous but, again, just watch a few of their chick flicks and you'll see their version of porn.
I don’t believe that being early as a browser gives you that much of an advantage in such an unexplored space. Differences between browsers in this space will be big for a while and people will switch back and forth.

Maybe the cost of this project for Mozilla is so small that it doesn’t matter, but I think it isn’t

Edit: also I said that the bet itself is risky, not that it’s putting Mozilla’s existence in jeopardy
This is telling:

> Austrian scholars have made important contributions to economics in recent years. I personally am most impressed by the work of Lawrence White and George Selgin on free banking and other monetary issues

Selgin is not even against central banking.

Just a bunch of socialists!
It's been in the works for at least 5 years.
Accurate except for: "right wing terror attack". WTF man? It was just one kid going postal.
> things which cannot be measured in next quarter.

I'm all for long-term investments, but can these ever be measured? If not, it will take more than your claims to convince me that it's worth investing in.

There are other ways to appreciate art and culture, such as visiting museums, reading books, watching documentaries or other youtube videos on these topics, etc. These are all free or much cheaper than a course in a college. You haven't demonstrated how an academic setting is better and worth the cost.

Govt doesn't need to subsidise industry. I'd be fine if these loans are issued by private investors, as with Lambda school.

> capitalistic profit seeker is also a wasteful exercise

No, their benefit can be measured in GDP. Imperfect, sure, but 100x better than your hand-waving claims. No personal offence intended.
The iPhone 7 still sells for $500 (release price $700) in my country at least. The XS will be out of production before it drops to a reasonable price.
>But they're really weak, compared to their desktop variants.

As far as I can see they are meant to compliment not replace. She does the majority of the work in Adobe Draw on the iPad Pro and then sends it to her Adobe Cloud account to finish in Illustrator. Before the iPad Pro she essentially couldn't do digital work. She is a trained fine artist with deep knowledge of oil and lately water painting. Most of her paid originals work was doing murals or selling oil paintings previously. The iPad Pro opened up a whole new market for her.
We (a stone importer) use flexport.

They definitely have great customer service, albeit not always the best rates.
Reminds me of this https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/introducing-dbslay.... The source can still be found on github. Except dbslayer is supposed to be readonly.
Get a Comp Sci degree instead of the self taught path. It will pay for itself in the long run.
Instead of using a typed POJO you can deserialize/serialize a Map<String, Object>.

You could also use a POJO for the fields you know and put a map inside for the fields you don't know.

If that's not enough you can use JsonNode, or ObjectNode where you can freely add and remove json values.
The problem also affects the software, I am getting the feeling that new OS Frameworks are being added, just because, like all the ML craziness.

Instead of focusing on what really matters in terms of developer productivity.
The usual strategy is to control for smoking. If nuclear test rate correlates with lung cancer rate, but does not correlate with non-smoker lung cancer rate, nuclear test is not causing lung cancer.

Epidemiology is a field of study about how to do this right. One of the great achievement of humanity in the 20th century was advance of epidemiology.
- Apple products have never sold well in African markets.

- You don’t know how well iPhones are selling in other markets compared to previous years until Apple releases their numbers for the quarter.

- Even with the new guidance, it’s only about 5-10% lower than the initial guidance. Far from a catastrophe.
The dictionary will tell you only tell you about words, not the reality that the words are meant to reflect. You cannot deduce, from what word a thing is called, whether that thing is good or bad. You must address the thing itself, and not assume that, just because it is called by the same name as some other thing, that they are the same.

(See e.g. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen... for more on this.)
Share price and a company doing well is only slightly correlated.
Kim Dotcom and Megaupload is probably the biggest current and ongoing counterargument. But it's been standard behavior in other cases.
ActivityPub: Good Enough for Jazz
It seems like you're leaving out a bit about information asymmetry. maybe multi billon dollar companies don't have any extra facts that aren't available to somebody in the 'gig economy' but this [1] keeps ringing a bell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
No I don't, I'm not an EU citizen and have no EU physical presence; they can claim whatever they want, they have no jurisdiction over me, I am not subject to EU laws no matter what the GDPR tries to assert. It's toothless, they have no enforcement mechanism on a US citizen in the US. I'm am not subject to the laws of every country that asserts it so; I'm subject to the laws of the US only.
Reminds me of "phantom vibration syndrome" where people start to feel their phone vibrate even when it isn't.
I can't see anything else but photos of ugly sunglasses and a lot of marketing BS.

No photos or videos of what the display actually shows.
Because then it would be illegal for Apple to tell shareholders: "most of our revenue shortfall to our guidance, and over 100 percent of our year-over-year worldwide revenue decline occurred in Greater China"
Wouldn't mind seeing more videos like these.
I was thinking exactly the same, although a bit less passive agressive in the tone :)

In Denmark (where I'm from), there is a system where education is free. There are private schools, but to my knowledge no private universities. Your entry ticket to a university is your grade from high-school. You actually get some money while studying. You can still chose to do a studen loan on top of that, but typically people come out of university with maximum $20k in debt most way less.

I have many friends that are absolutely brilliant and successful, who would probably not have been able to afford a university degree.

One thing is what that does to the crazy debt many people get in other countries, but think about what it does for low-income areas, immigrant and integration and general inequality of a population.

By all means, Denmark is not perfect. But I think we nailed it with access to education.

And yes. Our tax pressure is pretty high. But surprisingly not that much higher than for example California and NY.

Martin
Anyone else not a fan of private entities squatting on domains in a subversive way?

I like protonmail like I like sourcegraph but they are disingenuous in the squatting of gdpr.eu and langserver.org. The latter is even more egregious
Yes, it is that simple; the GDPR can claim whatever it wants, that doesn't make it true. The EU has no jurisdiction over me in the US period. And referencing the GDPR as a source isn't valid, just because it's written doesn't make it enforceable. China doesn't get to tell me what to do, nor does the EU.
Apple’s latest annual report [0] for fiscal year ending Sep 29, 2017 shows a slight sales increase for China compared to 2017. Is the recent Apple memo re. iPhone sales reflected in this annual report, or are Apple sales in China more recent than Sep-Oct last year? Would be interesting to get more data, or insight into what the 10-k might be telling that I’m missing.

[0] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/68027c6...
Every XPS 13 I've touched has this annoying issue with the touch pad where it fails to reject your thumb while it's resting on the click button. It drove me nuts.
Hopefully they've resolved this because I really like the XPS line.
Yes because if Apple made the iPad Pro more attractive to developers all of their problems would be solved.

Taking advice from the same audience who said in 2001 “less space than the Nomad, no wireless, lame” hasn’t proven to be a winning strategy....
Who has 'jurisdiction' in international law? According to your narrow definition of 'jurisdiction', nobody. Are you saying 'international law' doesn't exist? I mean, it wouldn't be wholly unreasonable; there are scholars of international law who essentially hold that position. Yet there are many other who don't. It's not as clear cut as you make it out to be.

(FWIW yes I do have a law degree)
This Bloomberg article got it wrong. The stock market has been going down and they jumped on a potentially negative story. Bottom line is SoftBank didn't make as much money in the IPO of its Japanese telco unit and the Vision fund can't invest due to Saudi interest.

From Dan Primack's column at Axios:

>"The state of play: There's lots of buzz about how this deal is much smaller than what was originally contemplated, including one 2018 report whereby SoftBank could acquire a majority stake in the co-working space giant.

>The big picture: We told you in October that the control deal was no longer on the table, but that investment negotiations were ongoing.

>Fast Company this morning reports, based on an interview with CEO Adam Neumann, that the two sides neared a much-larger deal that could have bought out all of WeWork's existing shareholders, but that SoftBank bailed after a disappointing IPO for its Japanese mobile unit. In short, SoftBank's corporate balance sheet was smaller and less flexible than had been originally anticipated.
SoftBank theoretically has enough dry powder in its Vision Fund, but we hear that the Saudi connections made that prospect less appealing to both sides due to perceived regulatory risk (read: CFIUS, particularly in light of the Khashoggi murder).
The bottom line: Don't read this deal as a macro commentary on unicorn troubles. SoftBank is still investing $2 billion into WeWork, in which it already holds a sizable position though both its balance sheet and Vision Fund, and doing so at a high valuation.

>Not even the most profligate investor spends that kind of coin if it believes the market is crumbling. There also is a NYT report that SoftBank may have had trouble getting enough WeWork shareholders to sell into the larger proposal."

[0] https://www.axios.com/authors/danprimack
Unless it's the beginning of a decline of course.
FYI there was no visible artifacts on my mobile phone on the page.
Where do people like this exist and how can I hire them? Really...