skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree this edge case might require less efficient two stroke systems, but is a rare edge case.

In the first world, two stroke is obsolete in every form.
some ppl like living in the city more than the country.
I've been using searx self-hosted for search exclusively[0] for a year or so now, and it's excellent on the general search side, but could definitely use some work on image search. I often get no/crazy/repeating results, and have to stay with mainline to prevent breakage.
I'll maybe hit google directly once or twice a month, buy only ever for image search.

[0]: I also have it externally facing for use outside of my LAN, with forced SSL and an http simple auth to prevent unauthorized access/0day exploits, and every browser I've tried works fine with simple auth in front of the default search. Even iPhone browsers are fine
On the other hand in 2018 144 out of 850,000 sworn officers were killed. Roofers, farmers, and groundskeepers have higher fatality rates and cause a lot less harm in their daily work. As for encountering jerks, try nursing, and again their daily routine doesn’t involve quite as much violation of the rights of others.

The truth is that cops are far far more likely to kill someone than be killed by them.
https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/paper/

TL;DR: It's not that good.
When the laws seem unfixable, is that still the only moral responsibility you have?

You seem to be arguing that you should follow immoral laws until you have a chance to change them. That doesn't seem very moral to me.
Agreed. Also Facebook just needs to be regulated. Amazon and Google should be broken up however. Also, Google needs to be regulated as they punish websites that compete with their own products.
Given the methodology used and the lack of supporting data, I do not believe that any weight should be given to the results, interesting though they may be.
It's not unwinnable. If a few people beat the system but most don't - that's fine from corporation's point of view.
Right, but how many successful test flights and real world flights where this never happened?

2 accidents is 2 too many, but it's not like every MAX 8 or anywhere close to the majority or even a large minority are experiencing catastrophic failure.

Sure, it's far higher than what's acceptable and the industry norm, but I'd imagine it's enough of an edge case that it snuck past testing and 99%+ of real world flights.
The referenced 2017 paper is also super interesting: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn.2017.55

Especially the section about the impact on "Reward and incentive processing" had some fun insights.
Look into the provenance research that has come out of the semantic web community.
They have developed a model where triple statements behave like short english sentences:

:subject :object :predicate .

ex:

:alice :loves :bob .

This statement by itself tells you nothing, did Alice say she loves Bob, or was it Bob who said it is Alice who loves him, or did Carol see the way Alice looked at Bob and concluded that she must love him, and what exactly is the quantitive difference between this love she feels for Bob and my love for chocolate.

To support this kind of information each term is annotated with meta-data like document of origin, author, time and place.

ex:

:s1 rdfs:type rdfs:Statement ;
rdf:subject :alice ;
rdf:object :loves ;
rdf:predicate :bob .

:a1 rdfs:type prov:Activity
prov:wasAssociatedWith :alice ;
prov:hadMember s1 .

:alice rdfs:type prov:Agent .

In computer science they call this process reification and it could be the first step into creating a model that takes the source into account.
Around the time when politicians were discussing the ban, a Russian banker joined SWIFT board. This was not a political move but a purely technical one, board members are selected based on the number of messages sent over the last year.

Still funny that media did not report it at the time although this was made public.
I'm confused, why would a small set of people with time on their hands be able to compromise a liquid democracy? Are there not workarounds to the problems encountered? Interesting how we iterate so often, yet are so concrete in our conclusions about improvements to our own governance.
'City of Coffins' Fills the Needs of Families of Victims of MS-13 and Barrio 18
Lost me at "Navigation is as much an art—and a spiritual practice—as it is a science."

I'm a pilot and I've done coastal and ocean yacht navigation including coastal at night in a new country. No art or spiritual practice. Bearings for coastal nav, celestial angles if you want latitude at sea, accurate time source if you also want longitude and the option to automate it all with GPS.

Next time you're boarding a commercial flight, go ask the pilot which deity he summoned to select his IFR route. He'll tell you the frequency.
You cannot reasonably call people in house all at the same time, and continue to risk their lives as they "don't upgrade".

That's how it worked for all the cars before Tesla, so... Yes you can.
Yep... My original thought was "oh, please."

I hate to be such a negative nancy here but... how many of these are downright scams, that is people lying about being sick, or being sick but lying about the extent of their medical bills, or even people simply being greedy because they have a sob story.

I'm guessing a large percentage, or at least significant.

Call me cold hearted but I just really don't like GoFundMe as a concept. Seems to encourage all life challenges to become chances to collect money. I'm not uncharitable, I just think it breed greed.
I remember visiting my grandmother with my new girlfriend when grandma was bedridden and nearly blind. She wasn't always lucid, but she was this time -- we had a nice talk about things in the past, she got to meet my girlfriend (who is now my wife), but during a lull in the conversation, she said "Johnny, I don't know why I'm still here, I just want to leave but my body won't let me".

That led to a long conversation of mortality with my gf and both of us promised that we'd help each other out if we got into that state and were ready to leave. I hope by then it's legal.
The brain runs on 120 watts, not 20. In addition, working memory has a capacity of ~7 toplevel item groups, not items.
Or, alternatively, they're telling the truth.

I've pointed out previously that critics of Google and Facebook often assert that every word they say is a lie, then use that to support the position that they can't be trusted. Absent other information that's a fallacious argument.

So, with regard to Chromebooks specifically-- not your view of Google as a whole-- what bad behavior do you claim is happening and how do you know that to be true?
Not even remotely accessible to end users like containers are today.
> You're basically encouraging the exploitation of a country's labor force

Who is 'you', exactly? I assume it's some hypothetical 'you' and not me specifically, given that I've only asked a clarifying question.

> So yeah, its market wages by definition, but it doesn't make the practice OK.

No, it doesn't make the practice ok, but it's important to identify the right problem if you want to solve it. "The market affords better opportunities for these workers but they are being forced to work below market" is a different problem with different solutions than "Better opportunities do not exist because the market is very competitive".
>"but they were doing "model explainability" before it was even a thing!"

Do you have an example?
Discussed a few times here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google%20prepend%20while(1)
I have personal experience with someone like this. For many years, my wife’s mom would declaim “if I ever end up in a hospital in a coma with no hope of recovery, just pull the plug; that’s no way to live”. We would all just nod and move on to the next topic of conversation.

Tragically, later in her life, she had a fall and ended up in the hospital in a coma, with the doctors saying they were not sure if she would come out of the coma. She did, with big chunks of her memory gone, but her first lucid communication was sheer panic at the idea someone might pull the plug. It took a while to reassure her that no one was going to pull the plug.

That incident has stuck with me all these years. People make bold statements about how they would behave in a crisis, and much of it is nonsense, the lack of an ability to truly put yourself in that situation, coupled with other factors like pride.

Likely, when the author gets to the inevitable stage in his life, he will change his mind, and he won’t be a different person. Instead, if at this time he retains enough cognitive ability and memory, he will say “what a fool I was”.
Umm, you first Bruce...

Add: Sorry don't mean to add so little. Just feel it's a case of someone standing on the sidelines who makes a living writing (and that is what Bruce does, right) pushing others to do what they don't want to do. And to those who say 'well it's good that he brings the issue out in the open' sure that is the case. But it might be better if he is actually willing to carry through on his suggestions or at least talk about someone who he convinced to follow his idea.
North Koreans vote in 'no-choice' parliamentary elections
I think the idea is more about informing users than it is about trying to drum up a boycott that results in a "death sentence".

For example, with regards to search engines, what if I go on Google and it tells me "hey, Google has had 3 data breaches that have effected users like you". And then I go on DuckDuckGo and it says "DDG has never had a data breach". Not everyone will switch from Google to DDG, but some people will, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
the spec does not define a limit, and the widely varying implementation-specific limits are soft evidence of that.

even wget and curl are probably more limited by your CLI arg length limits than the bins themselves. e.g. I can craft a multi-megabyte GET request in a file and pass it to `curl -K` and it works just fine (I just did so to verify, a bit over 3MB. google complained a bit, but it responded). even if I screwed that up somehow / it silently truncated, I can absolutely do something with netcat and know it won't truncate.
I used to abuse the !sh bang but it's been "deprecated".

Nowadays my favorite are

!wbm : wayback machine (buggy but still useful)
!cache : google cache (as a super crude text only view)
I think also because it failed to grow.
> Not from routine vaccination, annual checkup, seasonal cold.

I feel like you lump in a lot of preventative care in that statement. If your routine checkups / vaccination prevent necessary emergency care and thus save money down the line, not incentivization people to do so seems stupid to me. The insurance company would have to pay for it regardless, unless they manage to cut those cases from the body of their insured. That would feel a lot like preexisting conditions to me...

Having individuals pay for vaccinations also ignores the value of lost herd immunity, due to a prisoners dilemma like situation. But this mean vaccinations have to be provided by insurance. Directly funding it though tax money might be a better option.
The problem pollutants for vehicles are NOx and particulate (particularly small particulate under 2.5 or 10 microns in diameter). This test found the truck produced a lot of NOx, and didn't test for particulate matter, so it's not really able to say what you want it to say.
the bit about poisoning is speculative, nobody really knows
I'd say in general that there is no need to list your employer in your comments or to have it in you profile, but if a comment branch specifically is about that employer then there should be a disclosure in your highest comment on that branch.
I think it is mostly the US with sales tax. Employement tax (social security/medicare) is also halfway hidden (half never makes it to your paycheck and is paid by the employer, the other half you have to explicitly pay).

Tariffs are hidden in the US, though you probably couldn't say for sure with any one product as it might come from different origins with different tariffs.
Chainsaws used in forestry is one use case that is still common in many countries, first world or not. But your point is valid.
Basics of Automata Theory
choice can be predicted with eye tracking. so what.
> this sounds completely bogus

It is.

http://blog.rongarret.info/2019/01/are-you-turing-machine.ht...
As of this writing, the XHCI spec is an 8MB PDF containing 604 pages. In contrast EHCI is 155 pages and OHCI and UHCI 160 and 47(!) pages, respectively. There's a lot of complexity in USB3, so it's not surprising it took this long to get the bugs out. The fact that "real" debugging requires an extremely expensive protocol analyser/oscilloscope also adds to that; without, you're basically restricted to "guess and test" and reverse-engineering other drivers to see the differences in behaviour.
Iranian hackers stole terabytes of data from software giant Citrix
Engineering Culture in a Remote Team
> "the models are 100% explainable"

In my experience this is largely illusory. People think they understand what the model is saying but forget that everything is based on assuming the model is a correct description of reality.

Your typical case of linear regression isn't even close to a correct description of reality, what gets included is largely arbitrary and due to convenience. As a result, different people with different types of data can get very different estimates for any features common to both models.

Also, stuff like this:

"I don't even think simple linear models are actually explainable. They just seem to be. Eg, try this in R:

set.seed(12345)
treatment = c(rep(1, 4), rep(0, 4))
gender1 = rep(c(1, 0), 4)
gender2 = rep(c(0, 1), 4)
result = rnorm(8)

summary(lm(result ~ treatment*gender1))
summary(lm(result ~ treatment*gender2))

Your average user will think coefficient for treatment tells you something like "the effect of the treatment on the result in this population when controlling for gender". I get a treatment effect of 1.17 in the first case, but -0.38 in the second case, just by switching whether male = 0 and female = 1 or vice versa."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719754
It wouldn't necessarily have to push it to the unconscious. Free will could be an infrequently-exercised veto power.

Which might not even be an unreasonable way to look at it. Many people make a contrast between habit and will. There already seems to be a common idea that much of the time, people do things the way they always have, and it is only at certain key moments that the will asserts itself and changes course.
Had auras associated with migraines. Especially when I was younger.

For myself I found that things in my periphery would disappear — like a kind of tunnel vision. As the condition progressed this region that I could not perceive would grow, the tunnel narrow.

I feel like at times it was as though to my mind I simply could not focus or resolve the areas in my periphery. At other times the areas in my periphery seemed to be occluded by arbitrary shapes of light — often flickering or pulsing in a fast cyclic way.

Often the condition could instead be that the place I was looking directly at would suffer the same degradation. Out of focus, not resolvable, maybe overlaid with some sort of light region.

Looking elsewhere showed that the distortion was relative to where my eyes were looking. So if the thing I was looking straight at would not resolve, I could look slightly askance and see it clearly.

When I was younger the condition would soon progress to nausea. Throwing up (even dry heaves) meant the condition was passing and I would be fine in a few minutes.

As I have gotten older the nausea has never returned and the frequency of the auras has become more infrequent.
This is very useful. I'll check out this vocabulary, wrnr, thank you!
Well there's also many examples of people who pulled their own plug when the going got too laborious and they saw the writing on the wall. He could end up being one of those people. Not everyone changes their tune regarding this matter. Some grab a pistol; some jump out a window.
I have some news for you. Each person sets an amount they are willing to lose for convenience, and move the extra 100m when they expect the price difference to be larger to that amount.

It would be even a nice and simple "Homo economicus" behavior if the amount was context-free. But people are partially rational beings, so they will putting a lot of effort searching for a house even if they don't wait an hour on the phone to get a $2 discount on some service.
I’m struggling with the definition of “retrieve” used here. According to the meanings of “retrieve” that I’m familiar with, I can’t conceive of any sense in which songs or finger movements aren’t retrieved by the brain.
> Unfortunately, that also won't solve anything.

It solves the flashlight app accessing your SMS messages.

> Let's say that I installed Telechat (fake chat app) and it asked for SMS, well yea, I'm going to approve it because it is a chat app.

But then that's a different problem. It's no longer the app having permissions it shouldn't, it's the user explicitly choosing to trust a malicious app.

The solution to that is to have a third party service to verify that apps aren't doing anything malicious. That is nominally what Apple does with the App Store, but there are two main problems with their implementation: (1) You can't choose someone else to trust to verify iOS apps for you, it has to be Apple and there is no alternative if they get it wrong or reject non-malicious apps because they don't want competition. (2) It's not enough to deny malicious apps from accessing SMS, they also need to allow non-malicious apps to do it. This would largely be solved by fixing (1) because then a provider that failed to do (2) would not have to be used.
Every country with an independent financial system has a so called RTGS,a real-time gross settlement system. It happens that Russian RTGS is similar to SWIFT as far as data structures are concerned. This makes it easier to extend RTGS to other kinds of uses.
>Facebook is surely at least an equal to Google in the tracking department, no?

Not even close, maybe 50% of the capability. Why? Because no one in my family has Facebook, but everyone has/uses Google either our phones, or Chromebooks (from school for our kids) all the google accounts that are _required_ to hand in homework.

Facebook isn't even a blip on the radar by comparison.
Not as much "glaring" as a bit conspicuous given the stated strengths of Go.

I feel like there's an underlying phenomenon here, many people like to talk about performance but don't actually need it.

So any time you do need performance you need to sort through the popular "high performance" implementations and figure out which ones actually perform well in production.
Sure, that's one way of doing it. But as the article discusses at length, there have been people navigating long-distance ocean voyages long before such technologies existed. Understanding something of how they did this is (to some of us, at least) quite fascinating.
Check this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353204
I've been meaning to write an essay for a long time now about how our personal abstractions of things and how they are defined/work can make nuanced discussions about certain ideas difficult; I believe this post is a victim of that.
I honestly can't wrap my head around nonexistence, a brief 0-100 year existence, and then nonexistence again. I've lost days when I think about it too much and start panicking. I want to exist dammit. I love existing. I love my life. People act like they're going to live forever too, but really life isn't that long, and you only live a portion of it in a young body capable of doing all of it.
Comments being true doesn't mean they follow the site guidelines. Indeed, being true can make them worse. More about this, if anyone cares:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368209

Can you please just keep snark and flamebait off this site? If you really don't understand what flamebait is, start with this: don't post provocations on divisive topics. More explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19348774.
I'm building a database of remote companies and planning to find out more about their development culture – I'll list some engineering topics and ask them to choose what fits with a quick description.

So far I've came up with the following:

- Daily standups

- Pair programming

- Agile software development

- Continuous delivery

- Open source contributor

- Good for junior devs

Would these be helpful to know? What else should I ask?
> Those changes, whatever they are, are built on the unique neural structure that already exists, each structure having developed over a lifetime of unique experiences.

What does he mean by "neural structure" here and how is it different from "memory" and "representations" which supposedly we don't have?
Yes, this is precisely what I thought as I read it.

I don't doubt his expertise on the brain side, but he characterises the computer in a very limited way, almost perfectly suited to make his argument.

With the reconstruction of the dollar there are plenty of examples how computers need not store entire instances of a thing to be able to recognise it later, such as applications of hash functions or doing spam filtering.
America, Say My Name: I Tried Troy. I Stuck with Viet
I suppose the 'Let it crash' characteristic of the BEAM kind of compensates for a lack of a strongly typed approach, if the concern is stability and being able to stay up despite triggering a bug.
Good writeup! A tad bit disappointed as I was expecting some new insights, but this is more or less standard material about eigenvectors you would get in a typical university course.
Steven Arnold
The sidebar makes this barely readable on Pixel 2. The markdown is easy to read:

https://github.com/stapelberg/hugo/blob/master/content/posts...
> Are those proposed, or already predicted composite atoms, or have they been already found?

Not an expert, but following the Wikipedia links, some of them are real...

Positronium was "experimentally discovered by Martin Deutsch at MIT in 1951" [0]

Hypernucleus was "was discovered by Marian Danysz and Jerzy Pniewski in 1952 using the nuclear emulsion technique" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernucleus
How I Emacs and So Can You: Packages
Expecting a few human beings, who all are involved in a stressful situation and have probably no philosophical inclinations, to come up with a morally sound choice on the spot seems like a tall order.
I just want euthanasia as an option, if the future me wants it. I definitely wouldn't want to put this kind of binding decision over future me (regardless of whether "future me" is actually me).
Yeah, the fact that I have to convert them after is just an unnecessary extra step for me, so I'll stick to wget and httrack for my archives. Once I mirror them I can just copy the files anywhere and browse them on any browser/device.
You can also just run your own instance on your PC.
> The whole concept of free will is so vague that debating if it exist or not is useless.

Yet the idea of free will is so empowering that I choose to go with it even when it would make sense short term to deny it.

Seriously, even if it wasn't true and somebody here starts to believe it - even if that thought weren't a real decision but just a response to my persuasion skills - even then it would probably make a positive impact on their life.

Is everything in my life a product of my own decicions? No. I've been dealt a good hand. But after I learned to decide for myself it became better.

FWIW I've also no idea who would downvote you, your position seems
reasonable even if we disagree strongly. If anyone think what you say is wrong I'd urge them to pst evidence instead of just downvoting.