skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice I don't disagree with anything you said.

But in theory, I'm not really sure (and none of us are). There are sea creatures (jellyfish?) that have distributed nervous systems throughout their body. They exhibit complex reactions and behaviors we'd expect of a complex animal but have no central "brain".

Similarly plants respond to stimuli, turn and twist to move towards light, send out chemical distress signals to other plants when injured / being eaten... Does that mean they have a non-traditional form of "nervous system" as well?

If someone forced me to choose, I'd clearly say plants aren't conscious. But I had to provide a strong justification I had to stick behind, I couldn't argue why they (or the jellyfish) are or aren't conscious, nor about an ant or butterfly.

At some point we may have to declare consciousness outside of the realm of science, as there is no objective test for it. Ie distinguish between consciousness and simulated consciousness or reflexive responses. And that's very disappointing to a scientifically curious person like me.
I'm not familiar enough with US software patents to really comment intelligently, but my understanding is that machines are patentable. Many machines execute an algorithm. This is inevitable. For example, if you have a process for flash freezing fish and you build a machine to execute that process, then that machine is patentable. The algorithm that the machine executes is an integral part of the machine and therefore part of the patent.

Mathematical constructs are not inventions, but discoveries. This is why a mathematical construct can not be patented. You can't patent a method for finding the circumference of a circle because the relationships are not something you construct. It just is. You can discover it, but you can't invent it.

My understanding of the "running on a computer" type of argument is that building a machine to do something is an invention -- even if that machine relies on mathematical facts. In fact, all machines rely on physics, and chemistry, etc that can be modelled with these mathematical facts.

Building a machine that relies on mathematical facts and executes an algorithm, does not in itself mean that the machine is not an invention. It does not in itself mean that the invention is not of the same class of things that patents were meant to work with.

My personal favourite example to think about is PKI type applications. The fact that one way hashes are hard to factor is a discovery, not an invention. The actual algorithms we use in PKI, no matter how much creativity was used in discovering them, are still simply discoveries. We don't create math, we explore it. However, is a machine that uses this math to create a signature that is hard to fake an invention? Is it any less an invention than a machine that uses the laws of physics (which we also don't invent) to fly?

Please note that I don't think software patents should exist. However, there are many people who disagree. The first step in getting them to change their mind is to understand why they think the way they do. It's easy to oversimplify the situation and to just imagine that it is bad will and greed that drives your opposition. However, if you don't deal with their reasonable positions, you won't make any progress. The bad guy/good guy analogy feels good, but the world is unfortunately a lot more nuanced than that.
When IE6 was released it was much better than the nearest competitor. But stagnating for 6 years made it become basically one of the worst.
How is this not just a straight up advertisement?
That's not the right metric. The question is whether you can sell electricity for a lower price than the competition or will end up selling electricity at a loss, resulting in "stranded costs" for rate payers. To do that comparison, you need to predict prices in the electricity market for many decades. Predicting the future is hard, but the trend for solar and wind costs is pretty clear and it seems foolish to bet against them.

A high carbon tax would make nuclear more competitive against fossil fuels, but not solar and wind.
> -- About https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19004568 "Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab"

My experience with the duplicate detector is that it takes you to the duplicate. It didn't that time, and I got an error message. When I tried looking up the URL on hn.algolia.com at the time, I didn't find it (I just copy and paste the full URL).

> -- About https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19165839 "Facebook's security team tracks posts, location for 'BOLO' threat list"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/facebooks-security-team-trac... is the original URL that didn't work for (note the 'www' subdomain).

It's possible that hn.algolia.com can be slow at times and I'm interpreting that delay combined with the error message as something fishy. Thank you for the reply `gus_massa .
Well, they're settling out of court. If you go to court when you get two traffic tickets for the same incident, sometimes you may get them reduced to one ticket.

FB is negotiating a settlement wherein FB won't challenge the FTC's authority and the FTC gets to divert its resources elsewhere. The FTC, being a small agency with a dedicated but probably overworked staff tasked with routing out all sorts of consumer fraud, works this stuff out in detailed settlement agreements that are public called consent orders. Anytime the FTC goes to court, and this will be true more and more with pro-biz judges gaining ground in our current political era, the agency runs the risk of losing ground to protect the public. So the negotiation makes sense. I'd hate to see something like this happen if the negotiation breaks down: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2018/06/appeals-court-...

On balance, maybe it is legit to be flippant here, ha.
> On the flip side, if no one was anxious and everyone was perfectly enjoying the present, it could be that no one would ever bother to even invent the wheel.

I don't think the idea is that people should stop investing in the future but that they should enjoy the path to get there as well.

The idea that you should just be unhappy but it will all be worth it once X happens is not good for your well being. Life can be hard and even stressful but that doesn't preclude you from being happy or fulfilled. For example, if you are working your butt off, you can feel happy that you did so.

I started piano at 20 years old which is really old compared to most serious pianists. I practice 4 hours a day despite working full time. I know that it is entirely possible I will never reach the level as the greatest pianists but I try anyway. I think the fact that I am not depending on being great to be happy makes it easier for me to keep going because each week I feel improvement and I know I worked hard and that makes me happy.
One interesting observation is that Delphi 1 copied the Word 6/Excel 4 "ctrl3d" UI style, but not quite exactly. Typical Delphi-ism are the Paradox-like (well, duh) tabs on bottom edge of the window, which look good as long as the window isn't modal dialog (compare the tabs on code editor window and on the project settings dialog). And another more subtle, but sure signal of Delphi 1 application are the black borders inside text fields (and then also TBitBtn, but that is another thing which in the 3.1 days looked reasonable and not totally ugly as it does in anything after windows 95).
Could someone please point me in the direction of some solid documentation about deciding on when / how to split out microservices? So many of the cases I see them used are overkill and just make development and devops far more complicated for the scale of the application & amount of data/users being processed. I find myself usually comfortable with splitting out Auth (Cognito?), Payments (Stripe?), and not much else.
Elect fascists, get fascism. Indian governments are always flirting with complete authoritarianism and are always eager to randomly ban things (e.g., any mention of Gandhi in a negative light, smoking in movies and tvs). Not a surprise that the nationalistic fervor whipped up my Modi's government provides a perfect moment to push these desires further. Watch how the public lines up behind this and unwittingly censor themselves in the name of religious protections and nationalistic sentiment. Also fascinating how Mukesh Ambani is shilling for this law to convert Reliance Jio to an Indian Tencent. Amazing how fascists and monopolists are always in bed.
You cannot just look at $/MW costs when the goal is to have 100% generation adequacy (i.e. demand is uncontrolled, people can turn on loads within their home whenever they want and always expect to have adequate supply).

If loads are interruptible and you don't mind not being able to turn on your air conditioner at 10pm on a hot summer night, then sure, off-grid rooftop solar can be cheaper. Primarily, the way people who actually live off-grid operate is the same way people without running water wash dishes: you ration your consumption.

But most people want power for all their stuff, all the time. It will always be easier to plan for generation adequacy and resiliency centrally rather than every single power user having to install enough generation and storage to meet their own needs, 100% of the time.
Hell I try to figure out what wrong answers to give to fuck up their training data.
The "gig economy" you speak of is only part of the economy and centred in certain industries. It's a high risk, high reward which leads people to put in the effort for low pay now, because if they are successful, they'll be afforded greater financial freedom in future. It is not necessary for anyone to actually take up these roles, as there are businesses which will hire and pay employees well, for stable jobs, but with little options for making a fortune unless they accumulate shares over many years, and the company does well long-term. The fact that people take up the high risk jobs is part of the human condition - everyone wants to get rich as quick as possible.

> People appear not to like the US/Silicon Valley style (including "too big to fail" socialized losses for corrupt companies), and since they don't get offered a "capitalism with rules" as an alternative, they're willing to consider other things.

This is blaming socialist intervention for the perceived problems of capitalism. Under capitalism, companies don't get bailed out but they go bankrupt and get replaced by better competition. The reality is we live in "capitalism with too many rules" and too much state meddling. The abundance of rules is beneficial to the big players who can afford big legal teams, and harms the individual who cannot open a simple family business without battling with so much red tape, meaning the big players don't have to worry about small competitors. The big players also make use of IP laws to gain advantage over smaller players. IP laws are a socialst idea too.

Working $10/hr and having reduced purchasing power is also a result of socialist policies. The idea of a "minimum wage" is perhaps the most horrendous of policies. All it does is create a ceiling for what was intended to be a floor for unskilled workers. Meanwhile, it forces the cost of all goods and services upwards to compensate for the additional wages employers must pay, and it means that people who are not productive enough to make "minimum wage" can't earn anything at all, and must rely on welfare (another socialist programme).

Socialists have played the devil's greatest trick, in pretending that many of the problems we have are a result of capitalism, but they are in fact, a result of hidden socialism. And the solution to those problems: more socialism. This has been the "progression" since post WW1.

It is also a mistake to look at profit making as a sin, and here lies the root of socialism: jealousy. Although capitalism benefits society as a whole by increasing the standard of living for everybody through innovation, some people make far more money than others and it breeds resentment among the ones whose lives only improve by a little in comparison. Instead of being grateful that their standard of living is improving as a result of capitalism, they are become ungrateful and bitter. A welfare state adds to this by making them dependant, instead of responsible.
It really depends on the team. There are many cases in my memory where it made sense to code out the skeleton of the plan, especially at integration points and module interfaces, so that it's explicitly clear to other developers what you plan to do.

White-boarding doesn't really address the problem because some of the thorny issues really are substantive scalability or maintainability considerations. I've found it much easier to discuss with mocked code.
> We were standing at the base of the lighthouse, which he clearly adores. He’s climbed it 71 times this year. “I don’t volunteer here, I just climb the steps,” he said. “It’s a lot more interesting than spending time on a Stairmaster.”

Good on this guy. Stairclimbing is an under-appreciated fitness activity.
What the OP is saying is that someone can review a PR even when it's not ready by accident (not seeing WIP in title/tag), while with a draft, the reviews are disabled until its ready for review.

This basically is a better WIP system than before because it can prevent accidental reviews and wasting time of re-reviewing when it actually is ready.
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This is as designed. Prior to the anti-nuclear NRC, we had the pro-nuclear AEC. Progress stopped, as intended, when the NRC took over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Co...
It's not that nuclear is unproven, it's that _renewables at this point are proven_.

You can build huge (or tiny! it's super scalable) fleets of renewable energy sources pretty economically, with a ~0% chance of making surrounding areas uninhabitable for 20 years if there's a failure.

Yeah sure a truckload of uranium goes a long way but building the plants is really hard even when you look past the regulatory issues.
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This can be more shortened to

ls -1 | uniq -u -w4

using GNU uniq, for these special filenames. Unfortunately, Posix does not define -w option for uniq.
* Publishing to the App Store requires an Apple Developer subscription, sold separately.

You also need to pay to publish on Play Store right? Although it is a one time payment instead of subscription.
> What do you think of life-long learning scenario that models are trained incrementally forever?

The same as the "life-long" coding scenario where monoliths are tweaked incrementally forever.

They may have niches but they'll kinda suck, because the underlying problem-space evolves too. Code loses value with age.
Thanks! Now you've pointed me to it I can see the donate link clear as day.
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I think DS has been abused by some people as an umbrella to not produce qualify code, yet they somehow they put themselves in higher regards in the value chain.

Hit the nail on the head here. I worked in an DevOPs/ETL team across from the data science team, all they did was write SELECT * FROM sales and complain Teradata was slow and when they got the result set they'd use "R" to SUM the column and display it with GGPLOT.
Sure, I can compile a list of books. I'll do that later this week. You can email me at my username + gmail. I'll also post it on HN.
It is even more strange given the fact that the value of the database support is in the MVC-ish TDataSet/TDataSource/TDBWhatever framework which obviously comes even with the local edition and not in the database drivers, which truly suck and have better opensource replacements (and in reasonably large application get rewritten from scratch anyway)
He’s right, environmentalists don’t want solutions, only perpetual problems. It’s why I can’t take any of them too seriously.

They like to say stuff about how we need to fight for our lives over climate change, after that group set nuclear power generation behind by multiple decades at this point.

They like to complain about how it’s too risky, when their public fear mongering have effectively left us with a fleet of reactors for the 1960’s and 1970’s that have outlived their planned lives. And the NRC has no choice but to extend their operating licenses until it becomes too expensive for the utilities to maintain. So they get shut down.

Wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the lot of these talking heads have had their palms greased by the renewable industry.

Eff them all.
> That's not the right metric.

I guess that opinion comes down to whether you think Climate Change is an existential threat to our civilisation or not.

If you are of the opinion that it is then costs be damned and build everything: Renewables, Storage, Nuclear.

If we end up with more power than we need then we can shutdown excess or funnel that into powering carbon capture technologies if we ever get there.

If you are not of the opinion then current economics, as you have described, rule the day.
I see what you're saying, but there is a disconnect here: elect fascists [a strong claim] get fascism but then you say the public lines up behind it. So, it appears to be democratic?

This is a bit odd:

>Under the proposed rules, Indian officials could demand[removal of content due to being] invasive of privacy... but also: "Another provision would weaken the privacy protections of messaging services"

Is this ambivalence towards your claimed authoritarianism a relic of the republic's more socialist days when it was non-aligned-aligned with the USSR?
Oh come on.

Because people want to make money.

I understand the impulse, I like money too. But these drug company executives have got to give ground, just like Amazon had to today.

Also fun fact, Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia has a daughter who is CEO of the company that makes the Epipen. Her father is senator from one of the poorest states and for her to do what she did with the epipen pricing is so unconscionable I wonder if polite society will be willing to eat in the same restaurant with her in the years to come. Morals and standards are changing.
Intel and AMD have put backdoors in their CPUs - Intel with the Management Engine and AMD with the Platform Security Processor.

These are separate sub-CPUs required by both platforms to boot and run. Both of these CPUs run proprietary, encrypted, otherwise-inaccessible and inauditable code that is always running and has full access to everything the CPU has access to.

The Intel ME in particular is part of Intel's offerings that allow remote access to a system even if the operating system fails--it's accessible remotely by design, and flaws have already been found in it. Only Intel can update the ME. Only Intel knows what's in the ME and what it's doing, same for AMD and the PSP.

I think people want RISC-V to succeed because it gives privacy-conscious individuals a chance to have a truly secure platform not 100% under control of a single company with 100% auditable code from each stage of the boot process.
Same (but not from Canada, from a former communist Eastern European country where there's universal healthcare). And I was in a much higher on the income ladder in said country then here in the US (relative to the country median income) and yet the health care I get in the US on the employer included plan is many times better then what I got back in Europe. To be fair I was going to the state health facilities there where my income level could afford me to go to private institutions which were vastly better, but you see, in the US I didn't have to do anything special to get better healthcare, I just went with what my employer gave me and it's much better than what the state gave me in Europe (and I was paying, in form of taxes, much more for it too).
I think what's notable is that they can do that and people care - Lebron and Amazon are both desirable enough that people cared. You (and I) are not desirable enough that people care.
A real New Yorker wowie zowie. Your parents move here? Grandparents? That and a nickel will get you on the subway.New York has always been about the influx. You want people to be impressed with your long bloodlines go to England and be Lord Something Or Other the 19th.
China’s most popular app is a propaganda tool
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter

"If you're a small company or organization without revenue (or up to $5,000 per year in revenue), you can also use the Delphi Community Edition. Once your company's total revenue reaches US $5,000, or your team expands to more than 5 developers, you can move up to an unrestricted commercial license with Professional edition."
Someone said roughly the same thing in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167849

But as far as I know there is no proven large-scale storage system, which is a criticla part of renewables. The other commenter mentioned building batteries and then it is just a matter of scale which seems like an over-simplification to me but I cannot find much useful info on it.

Personally I would love a 100% renewable setup but I would not bet the future of our civilization on it when nuclear is another option.
You can't merge a branch that is even with another.
I'm reading a whole lotta mumbo jumbo when the answer is very simple:

Government Granted Monopolies (patents)

Don't let anyone make it too much more complicated than that, or trick you into thinking you can't understand it.
> We either stop believing in free markets or we let everyone play.

The people who “believe in [unregulated and unaccountable] free markets” and the ones who don’t want to “let every [plutocrat] play [at unlimited anonymous propaganda at the expense of ordinary local citizens]” are not the same.

These two groups are more or less independent and have been ideological enemies for generations, and it makes no sense to conflate them.
Union leader says Amazon had agreed to a framework of a deal with state and union officials to salvage plans for its NYC HQ a day before its cancellation - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-14/amazon-wa...
“In those early years[2012], there was no real formalized way to learn “data science,”

Yeah they were called quants (aka mathematics/statistics graduates).
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For a lot of people, the answer is none. You're advocating for the death of people who can't afford insulin which to me is completely and utterly barbaric.

In this case, the end result is going to be either the government stepping in (since the role of the government is to ideally care for its citizens) and forcing prices down, or the people suffering will eventually enact violent action against said corporations.
Delphi was the Power Builder killer way back 20 years ago.
From a taxation perspective, that would be even better for the state, because on average a person making $1m/yr + 9 making $55k has a higher marginal tax rate than 10 people making $150k
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Same chip, different board.
That's a bit disingenuous, isn't it? This particular thread of comments started when you reacted to criticism of "cheap factory-farmed meat".
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