skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not saying this article comes close at all to invalidating “free will” but it begs the question how will humanity react if we do invalidate it one day?

It (or more precisely, the people who fully internalize the result and who have the power to act on it) will probably start treating other people a lot more like we currently treat machines.
I’m pretty attuned to reports of police abuse/corruption/overreach BUT

It’s a pretty crappy job: stop a car and you could be shot/run over; you tend to see people in extremis and encounter a lot of, well, let’s say “jerks”. Naturally it doesn’t encourage a lot of people to take the job. I have a friend who became a cop a few years ago and she has definitely become very very cynical which she had not been at all before.

None of which defends this heartless search; I’m just providing a contextual response to your comment.
The real power in Russia is within two cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg. It's the urban and relatively highly educated population in these two cities that decides the fate of Russia, not the majority.
I understand the noise complaint, I work from home and I hear them all week as my various neighbor's gardeners arrive throughout each day. That said... I have an electric one that is awesome and it's much quieter than the 2-stroke I used to have. Leaf blowers do serve a purpose but the electric ones are a great improvement on noise and pollution.
Fun fact: if you use Red Hat, you have to use Docker EE. You don't even have the option of getting CE and taking responsibility for Docker support yourself.
Every time ddg is mentioned on hn, it receives a lot of praise in the form I use this or that bang - in essence negating its usefulness as a search engine and making it a glorified shortcut app.
Maybe not consenting to it would be better. I understand he probably thought it was better to just let them search and get it over with. But forcing the cops to get a warrant would have been better, imho. Of course, I am not the one in hospital fighting for my life.

On the other hand, the cops have to do their job. Till it's legalized, part of that job is to search for illegal substance. But maybe refusing a search would have made the choice easier for them as well. They decide not to pursue a warrant.

I heard that it's `treaties` that USA has with other countries that complicates legalizing medical cannabis at federal level. I am not sure about all the reasons though.
It seems like a wheeled or tracked drone would be much simpler and more reliable for herding sheep.
I most certainly do.

13. Recalls that the restrictive measures taken by the EU are directly linked to the Russian Federation’s violation of international law with the illegal annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine, while the trade measures taken by the Russian Federation, including those against Ukraine and other Eastern Partnership countries which have recently concluded Association Agreements with the EU, are unjustified; calls for the EU to consider excluding Russia from civil nuclear cooperation and the Swift system;

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
I think the real issue is that there is a trend that existing customers are being treated in a hostile manner. It used to be that long term customers are being treated well but these days long term customers are being exploited and new customers get the perks.

I think we have a deep need to be rewarded for loyalty.
This won't ever take off once the media finds that the machine learning is biased towards some specific sex or race (particularly if such demographics are normative historically for the country at large). Just look at the contentions of prison reform automated systems and the like.
These websites are controlled (directly or indirectly) by the Russian government. They usually don't mention opposition meetings. I think that they don't want anyone to know even about their existence.
Wow, how did we get all the way there from here?

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For history buffs, here’s a robot autonomously collecting ducks in a limited arena in 1998. Was the first autonomous robot sheepdog, I believe. Ducks are slower and cheaper than sheep, and flock very nicely as the video shows.

https://youtu.be/tefXVXscNDM
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The legal system is not a set of axioms. Police need to prioritize what they enforce all the time.

AlsopPart of the purpose of juries is to try to prevent miscarriage of justice.

We are humans, not robots.
If these people were concerned about accuracy and getting things right, why make the variables private at all? Make them public and have your internal team work on the problem (instead of strangers). That way someone with domain expertise can see those variables really are important fundamentally, and add them as features.

It’s akin to someone giving you a bunch of anonymous variables to predict stock prices. You would throw out irrelevant variables like the fog level that day, or moon cycles of course. But you would never know if they were anonymous variables. thus you would blindly feed in garbage in your models.

Are you concerned about accuracy or privacy? You really can’t have it both ways, imo.
> It indicates I'm not strongly anti-Google, I guess.

Or maybe you’re so strongly anti-Google that you realize the only way to take them down is from the inside.
> Using a leafblower is a sign of entitled loutishness.

You were fine up until here. Insulting people for wanting to use an easier option isn't a great look.
Ask HN: What sparked your interest in programming?
My two children seem to love technology and I want to see if I can provide a no-pressure, fun and intellectually stimulating environment for them so that they can give programming a try.
Authentic8 Silo is something like this as a commercial product but it is based on Firefox I think.
The ban is on gas-powered leaf blowers. I’ve switched to all electric yard tools at home. No regrets; the tools are durable, can easily handle the whole job on a single charge, quiet enough that I feel comfortable letting my children assist (they can hear my instructions and generally what’s going on around them), and no gas engines to maintain.
Ask HN: Do you shut down your service in the EU due to Article 13 upload filter?
What do you think about article 11-13?
Does it lead to censoship?
How is your service affected by this new copyright directive?
Theory of self-reproducing automata (1966)
Does someone here know offhand the fatality rate for the Max per flying hour at this time?

http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm lumps max together with other 737 models, which of course turns out to be very safe.
The Brain Is Not a Computer (2016)
I was living in NYC, working remotely for a few years when that exact question hit me. A few months later I was in Hawaii.
It's basic price discrimination, like student discounts or off-peak tickets - you can't just ask each customer how much money they have and charge accordingly, but you can offer a range of prices to different demographics based on their average ability and willingness to pay.
A quick google search reveals they apparently have their own SWIFT now.¹ It is ran side by side with SWIFT, not as a competitor, so the claim that it is from fear of sanctions or other actions from the US seems accurate.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/russias-central-bank-governo...
Until few years ago PostgreSQL was dramatically slower than MySQL. As for features it depends how you look for it. From what it can do in terms of queries it was more powerful than MySQL, because MySQL just stopped on SQL-92. PostgreSQL also lacked in operational functionality. For example in older version it was your responsibility to take care of shopping WAL files to standby nodes. The PostgreSQL unlike MySQL has a rule that is they implement a feature they want to do it right. It is better to not have the feature than have it and it could cause data corruption. MySQL on the other hand starts with MVP so they can put a check mark and then later work on improving it and fixing bugs.

In past year, PostgreSQL not only caught up but also surpassed MySQL in terms of performance (I think MySQL might still be faster if you mostly read the data, but I'm not sure) and operational features, so at this point not only you have as fast (and actually faster for writing workload) but also have more features and much much better reliability. So it is no brainier to use it right now, but earlier you had to choose what was more important to you.
Former Amazon engineer here. Despite the downvotes, you are making an excellent point.

Amazon, among other FAANG companies, never needed containers shipping entire bundled OSes.

Deploying a "base OS" (using PXE or netboot) can be done very reliably both on a hypervisors and VMs.

A simple build system can then generate traditional packages and push them into VMs allocated for a specific product.

It provides better security isolation and the ability to receive security updates on OSes and also on dynamically linked libraries.

Building and deploying new versions of you product is also much faster, especially at large scale: only your application package is rebuilt and deployed.
> "In, other words, if any pre-existing brain activity matches one of your choices, then your brain will be more likely to pick that option as it gets boosted by the pre-existing brain activity.”"

We have biases. Sometime we are aware of them. Sometimes, evidently, in trivial situations, we don't notice such patterns.

"Be mindful of your biases" just took on a wider scope.
They had "reasonable doubt." He basically couldn't do anything about it or he'd be arrested.
So what exactly are they doing? Just cutting off random IPs? The actual IP was blocked or is it only DNS based? How about tor traffic?
That was awesome. Dilbert but in prose. Do consider creating a twitter channel with this persona, in case you dont have one already.
Either your weather must be a lot more predictable than ours, or you'd have to be fine with mowing in a downpour if it has to be done on a predetermined day.
Was it actually the hospital staff?
You are correct, I souldn't be arguing to you on OC's idea. Thank you.

But I didn't say HIBP doesn't have these data. My point is these data isn't enough to give recommendations or warnings to site visitors.
I might be pessimistic because I am in close contact with that demographic (lots of my friends are young, educated, comparatively well-off guys from Moscow working in tech) and, pardon my French, they decide shit.
Oligarchs decide the fate of Russia.
I don't think there's anything that moves fast enough yet (over varied terrain).
No one here is talking about legal right. We're talking about moral right.
Just you wait until someone redefines hysterisis, too!
By observing what cards people tend to pick together, you can infer that certain cards have certain properties, even if you never get see the card face.

A blue card is found in the company of other blue cards, because humans picked them, because of the blue mana symbol in its casting cost.

With proper training, you end up with exactly the "end-to-end model with an internal representation of cards' charactersitics"

Since it can't see the cards, it can't say anything useful about a card it hasn't seen during training, but if you added some new cards and started training again, a pre-trained net might learn the new cards faster than one you train from scratch. That would be evidence that the network has learnt a meaningful embedding.

There is no proof that this network has done so, but I think word2vec shows that it's a feasible approach.
I’m not sure what you mean. New York City is famously regarded as a great city for music, art, museums, theatre, cinema, comedy, architecture, food, nightlife, cultural diversity, and more. I have never heard the sentiment “my NYC job is so great, I just wish it were in another town.”
It's not your dishonesty per se that con men look for, it's your greed, specifically active greed. I find passive greed works better. Not buying stuff at all provides an infinity percent discount. And as a bonus, there's nothing to figure out, and only one thing to remember: keep your wallet closed.
Zig Zigler was one of the early sales gurus and he frames a lot of his sales training around being thoughtful, caring and kind. His books are worth reading for the non-salesman.
rust solved this itch in a wonderful way via the match operator. match has some powerful semantics that let it select branches beyond just a pure bool in the conditional expression (e.g. value in some range?)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch06-02-match.html
For most use cases, other features are secondary to replication.

I'd say the opposite - for most use cases, replication doesn't even figure into it. I guess we both need to find more solid evidence than our own opinions.
Maybe they'd heard of a snow blower, and thought it was basically the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_blower
3D pans around fine on my OnePlus 3T which is an older phone.
Not mentioned is that leaf blowers blow away the topsoil and little bugs that maintain it. The ground becomes hard and no longer water permeable (it’s why the suburban ground in California looks — and acts — like concrete.

My gardeners don’t use leaf blowers and people are always asking what chemicals I use to keep my garden looking so lush. I don’t use any of those either; the process is called “nature”.
If feels pretty obvious to me to think that internal mood has something to do with decision making. It could take a couple of seconds for a reaction to cook up in order to become a decision.
Note that we have decades of experience and skill at easily teaching basic stick and rudder flying skills, however deploying independent systems/automation analysts under emergency conditions is highly problematic and will likely result in more tragedies.

I'm just saying its simpler, cheaper, and safer to deploy people who can troubleshoot simple flying systems rather than to deploy people who will have to debug untested and complicated automation systems on the fly. It would be the most extreme field service posting, ever.

What we have here is an over optimization problem; we "have to" build unflyable aircraft to keep up with everyone elses level of recklessness to squeeze a couple more hyper-financialized pennies out of the system or be replaced by someone reckless enough to do it. Traditionally regulation helps in these situations. The aircraft of the future is far more likely to have networking and interconnected processors prohibited by law for safety reasons than to be an internet of things self-flying appliance. That would result in a nice simple, admittedly lower performance, far more reliable overall system. Non-networked non-interconnected control microprocessors seem safe enough so far, but making an infinitely complicated hyper optimized system seems in practice to result in planes falling out of the sky too often.
Zig Zigler's books helped me during college when I'd have to do cold sales, but the lessons were amazing outside of sales.
All major organs have neurons, or at the very least project axon "fibers" (but the heart specifically has full nerve bundles).

They make up the autonomic nervous system, which is the network of motor and sensor neurons connected to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). The latter does your thinking, the former keeps you from suffocating.
Be "they"!
Yes. Except that in Russia this works a little bit different. You need a permission (not approbation) from the authorities for any political gatherings. Otherwise, everyone gathering risks spending 15 days in jail (or $500 fines, median monthly salary after tax $300) for gathering illegally.
Usually they forbid them, so that was an exception.
Prioritizing the MacBook Hierarchy of Needs
There isn’t double charging, because private health insurance universally doesn’t cover the same things as the NHS does, and universally depends on the NHS to work with for anything they think might be too expensive to cover.

Given that we spend less money on healthcare than countries that do have healthcare “on the open market” like you suggest, I’d say this is a system that obviously works.

If there were an imbalance between what those countries provide and what we provide, and people were willing to pay for it, you’d see private healthcare providers successfully taking more money (up to what Americans spend) to make up the gap in service - but they’re not. Do you have an explanation for why that’s not happening?
That's technically what companies with refined processes do by using "scratch" docker images that only contain the binaries needed for the application and nothing else.

The fact that many other containers run entire OS is because it's easier to get started, or there are runtimes needed, or people just build and deploy in the same image.
Was this seriously considered, or is it just the European Parliament saying things? When I google this stuff, I can't find anything to support it like an actual plan or something.
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Two stroke engines should be outlawed entirely. There is no reason for them to still be sold with batteries having advanced as much as they have.

Hand held tools and scooters can be electric, small outboard motors for marine applications can be four stroke or propane fired.
Yoo-leh is the most common British dialect version which does chime with Euclid. I did also hear an English great grandson of Euler pronounce it that way in a documentary.

US is resolute that "oiler" is phonetically correct. The "oi" is arguably superior but the Swiss and German versions end in a sort of "euh" sound rather than a strong "er".

With "oiler" also being a word in its own right, some satirical potential could tint international debate over its correctitude.

"Eu say tomatoe, Eu say tomatoe"
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> If MCAS is the culprit here, Boeing clearly released this functionality without proper vetting and testing

From what I read MCAS is not even a true safety system, much more like a piloting assist, and should not have had the authority to override pilot input.

It appears that the true stall avoidance system is a "hard" safety system and works independently with much safeguards, and a lot of "overrideability" just for such moments of sensor failure.

So, they added that dangerous system to just let pilots to have the same feel and experience as in old model - an absolutely noncritical issue.

Truly, "UX" people...
You're misunderstanding the problem. Americans are not being bankrupted by annual checkups. Americans are being bankrupted by cancer and other serious health problems. And this is in spite of being insured. In practice, private insurance turns out not to be, as you put it "a very valuable service."

Given a choice between death and bankruptcy, most people will choose bankruptcy. There is no downward pressure on the cost of medical care because there is no alternative. It's a situation that capitalist market dynamics are just not equipped to address.

A state-run apparatus is the only thing that seems to work.
Seems to be a good way to gain power for a talker like you.
That's not true. There are any number of subgroups that view certain behavior with distaste that other subgroups do not. Just because there is social and cultural pressure to do or not do things doesn't mean you are unfree. You are just as free to observe the behaviors or not as other people are to judge you by them.

I mean, I don't like tipping. I think it's horrible in many aspects, not the least of which how it taps directly into racial and gender prejudices monetarily (black waiters make less in tips regardless of service level). That said, I tip. I would rather not be known as the guy that doesn't tip (and wages assume tips as of now, so it's a bit unfair to the service people). I'm still free to tip or not, and others are free to judge or misjudge me for it if I do.
Ask HN: Starting work at a early-stage startup, what should I expect?
Starting tomorrow I'll be working at a very early-stage startup with $400K funding and three other people. I'll be working as a software dev, any tips? Things I should expect?

Thanks all!
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One of the most important aspects of sales is a great thing - connecting with people. If you want to build a company, work on a product, or anything in between your new job is: "Talk to everyone and anyone about everything and anything".

From there you will see points of commonalities with anyone and will one day a) enjoy speaking to strangers b) learn from others c) most likely get better at sales as a result because sales at the end of the day is people connecting to people.

Good luck Andrew!
I love your rodent analogy, I feel like that all the time.

Let's all realize that corporations are the best manipulators in history.

It is essentially impossible for a person to take advantage of a corporation in an ethical/non-criminal way; their structure explicitly minimizes that. So, then, realize that they have formed themselves not to be exploited, but to exploit you. This is their raison d'être.

How much time have you spent analyzing your decisions to ensure that you are never being taken advantage of? I guarantee every corporation you deal with on a daily basis has spent orders of magnitude more time thinking about it, and more, analyzing how best to take advantage of others.

If a person exhibits the traits common to corporations, they would be considered narcissistic sociopaths.

I'm not suggesting shunning corporations from your life is a practical answer to this issue, but you should certainly be aware of it.
I think if there is anything that is truly American, its the expectation that customers and companies are always trying to trick each other. So much of American business culture is built around this assumed adversarial relationship.
You can still use a full access key to prune old data/old archives as needed. But you use it from a trusted machine or temporarily.

Also: you still need to keep some data even under GDPR. Like billing data.
Yes, it's in the same boat, we (almost) all do it with Google.

I don't know where to draw a line, but I don't think a single data breach, even minor one, should mean a death sentence to business. Maybe some sort of audit/certification should be mandatory after breach.
Burnout is really, make sure you manage your mental and physical health.
Well in most Asian cultures taking care of your relatives and elderly is primarily done by the family. Offloading this duty to the state is not a sign of development but a sign of different culture. There are well regarded measures of human development, like the HDI.

"The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores a higher HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the GNI (PPP) per capita is higher. It was developed by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq, with help from Gustav Ranis of Yale University and Lord Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics, and was further used to measure a country's development by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)'s Human Development Report Office"

According to Wikipedia China has a HDI of 0.752 which is considered high, 86th position on the list of countries. Hong Kong also has high HDI, 0.933, very high, 7th position.

This comparison is much better than trying to come up with an arbitrary measure.
Why Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists
McDonalds gave away coupons with serious discounts until January 1 2019, at which point the app stopped offering any decent deals and only let you view one coupon an hour
Yep, you just gave me an idea of a blog post.
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