skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works as an assumption, and is rather useless in practice, because we cannot determine the deterministic state to its full extent, even in thought experiment, without limiting the degrees of freedom converging to zero, to then say, well I had free will after all, when I didn't know any better. I really don't get it.

I mean, support for Compatibalism is in effect not the support of determinism that it claims to be. It's just an effort of philosophers to safe free will, out of free will, which means, to me, out of ignorance. So the only real insight is that we are sufficiently ignorant. How is that still sold as a positive thing?

That still didn't come out right.

I was trying to say, that Compatibilism is a meta argument. If it isn't then because it determined free will as a deterministic fact. I understand that philosophy is rather complicated, and at the very least I doubt that, if Compatibilism is true, that many people understand it sufficiently to be in the position to support it, other than as an educated guess.
Yep, and given their data mining capabilities google is far more dangerous. Tbh they shouldn't own Android and YouTube, those companies should be spin off from alphabet.
Next: Boolean logic, branching and loops? Oops. I just made CSS Turing complete.
That sounds like a good avenue, promote it as learning a skill to get a job and re-integrate. Maybe also explain that it takes a fair bit of effort and study to master so it would focus the prisoner's time on something productive.
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I am increasingly turned off by discussions like that.

First: leaf blowers are an insanity. Let nature do it's business. Leafes will decompose and nuitruit the soil. Why would anybody pay a third for a job like that?

Second: What kind of sissies have you average HN folks turned into? Your grandfathers went all over the ocean to kick our german speeking butts but listening to discussions like that makes me think you are all degenerating into oblivion.
As someone who worked in this field for several years, and worked closely with EPA, the biggest problem is the politicization of funding for EPA. Year after year its funding gets slashed, or at the very least stays the same and so is eroded by inflation. A 2013 report on state drinking water resources [1] showed that state drinking water programs continually do more with less, and are barely able to maintain their infrastructure as they have to dig into their emergency funds to do routine maintenance, which leaves them in a bind when a true emergency does happen, such as the rupture of a water main.

The legislation in place is solid, scientifically-sound, and thoroughly vetted from a cost-benefit analysis side of things. The problem is lack of funding, and visibility into the issue. Apart from high-profile incidents of sickness and water main breaks, people just assume their tap generates clean drinking water and give no thought to where it comes from, or the work that is required to make it happen.

I wish people would think to what life must have been like in the 18th century, and how difficult it must've been to secure clean drinking water. The idea of having clean drinking water coming into your house via tap would've been a pipe dream (pun not intended), and a luxury only the most rich could afford. And now it's shunned in some crowds.

The bottled water crowd thinks they're immune to these issues around drinking water systems, but in fact the bottled water companies generally get their water from the same public drinking water systems we use, and their standards are in fact lower than those surrounding your tap water (as it's policed by the FDA, not the EPA).

All that said, we have amazing tap water in this country, and it is a testament to the people and agencies responsible for making that happen. I lived in Asia for over a year, and coming back to a country where I can drink what comes out of the tap, use it to brush my teeth, and not worry about getting it in my mouth while showering really puts things in perspective.

[1] (pdf) https://www.asdwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SRNAP-Analy...
Maybe Russia needs a new industry?

Is there any other nation (North Korea aside) that would let foreigners ship trash to be dumped on their land?
There is an XKCD for almost every situation.
And that is why incentivizing real estate as an investment vehicle exacerbates the housing crisis. Misaligned incentives at the local level means that heavy-handed state measures (SB 827, OP's proposal, etc.) is likely the only way out of this mess.
Interesting to see the hashtag was already around in the stone age.
I'm expecting the "tech bubble" to burst at some point. Looks at this way. Desktop and laptop market is saturated. Phone market soon. Semiconductor industry reaching its limits. Ad revenue will trend down as governments clamp down on a lot of the sketchy stuff. A lot is riding on self driving cars and machine learning. What else is new in the horizon that people really need?
This issue was discussed yesterday from the China side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346342
So some guy realizes that the vast resources and top-down direction available at large corporations don't translate to a huge open-source project (which itself is compromised of tons of open-source projects)? And it took him 10 years to realize this?

Seriously though, I'm amazed at how well Debian just works. And I know it's because enough people are willing to put up with these types of frustrations. Thanks for the hard work.
FYI, to answer the question in the first paragraph of the article I just did a test upload and it worked on my free account, I have 40,000 photos on Flickr and chose not to continue my Pro account, but I think 99% of my photos had a Creative Commons license.
Nvidia is nearing a deal to acquire peer Mellanox Technologies for more than $7B
Never heard of those HDPE bricks, indeed it looks like they could be really useful for prototyping. Here is one video I've found while searching for HDPE bricks in case anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUR6_bQLU-E
My primary point was that Hong Kong is not directly comparable to cities in China.

I also readily say "Hong Kong is not China".

Although, as time goes on, the truth of that statement is eroded.
Truly unlimited data?
Or we can just start companies in places other than the Bay Area.
Url changed from https://kottke.org/19/03/stone-age-cave-symbols-may-all-be-p..., which points to this.
It would have to be kept very, very quiet, since Russia is very sensitive about prestige these days vis-a-vis the West.
> It's all about the packaging industry and profit.

Everything is about profit. The invention of the assembly line was about profit. Toothpaste is about profit. YC companies are about profit.

It’s how our society works, and it’s not enough to just claim it’s about profit and call it a day. Good things are also about profit. What makes this bad?

The lack of pricing in negative externalities. That is the root of all capitalist evil. Global warming, micro plastics, holes in the ozone layer, all of it can be traced back to negative externalities not properly priced in.

Once you do that: saving the planet becomes about profit. And something tells me, we’d be pretty good at saving the planet, if there were money to be made… :)
So, the brain has a distributed and complex architecture. Well, did anybody not know that already? Evolution has no love for engineering beauty.

If recall is possible, then there is a representation there. It's obvious that there is a representation of Beethoven's 5th Symphony on the brain of somebody that can play it. It's just a convoluted, distributed and encoded in some completely crazy signal space. Yet, if it wasn't there, the person wouldn't be able to play it.
It expects pellets on the input;

The Filastruder filament extruder needs chunks of plastic that are no larger than 5mm on any side.

So it’s missing a step from being an actual recycling bin.
Partially Committed Transaction Trap via .Net and MS SQL. Consequences. Fixes
Showering, bathing, washing hands, flushing toilet, washing dishes, washing clothes, washing surfaces or floors (i.e. wetting and washing the rag/mop you use for wiping said surfaces), maybe watering lawns & washing cars, if I had to guess.

It's surprisingly easy and quick to run way more water than you could drink in a day just for some daily cleaning duties.

Come to think of it, I drink around 2 liters per day; that's six mugs of coffee plus maybe a couple glasses of water.

How much water do I spend when I flush the toilet once and then wash my hands? I do that quite a few times every day.
Repatriating Isis Fighters: Options, Obligations, Long-Term Thinking
The biggest problem is that water is treated as a commercial good instead as a public good the government should take care of. In those parts of Europe where water has been privatized prices rose and quality went down.
I had to truncate the title due to character limitations. Full title is: The Repatriation of Foreign Fighters and Their Families: Options, Obligations, Morality and Long-Term Thinking

Abstract:

As Islamic State (IS) loses control of its so-called Caliphate, the question on what to do with foreign fighters and their families has become more pertinent. The announcement of the US withdrawal from Syria in December, as well as Trump’s tweets mid-February that the US would release 800 fighters captured in Syria if its allies would not take them back, has led to even more urgency. In this Perspective we will discuss the issue of the (possible) repatriation of foreign fighters and their families, especially from Syria, addressing several options, and taking into account legal, moral and (long-term) security perspectives.
What did !sh point to? I can't find it in the list of bang commands.

PS: How do you generate monospaced font on HN?
Or how about levying State income tax on them?
NixOS was also easy to get started with, I really like it !
Might be an interesting experiment to train a neural network to distinguish between different currencies, and then visualize the features that correspond to the “one dollar neuron”. It might turn out not that far from the drawings of the author’s students.
> to shoulder the expertise of formulating requirements, implementing them, testing them, etc, at some point an organization with half a brain will just hire different people for each responsibility.

So, in a perfect world, formulating the requirements would be implementing them with this "compiler/language/abstraction layer". Does that help make it any clearer?
>Obviously not, but commonly when people refer to so called 'free will', they don't just mean to imply that you, as a physical entity carry out things by your own volition, it is taken to mean that you consciously deliberate on your choices and have some insight into your own decision making.

Well, it's both: as people we can consciously deliberate on our choices for months, torment ourselves at a very conscious level, express it out to others who couldn't care less, listen to moody EMO music, even write lyrics about our predicaments before we make a choice.

But we can also make some much easier decisions using our pre-conscious processing. And that might involve deliberation too -- it certainly involves prior experiences and stimuli.

That's orthogonal to whether free will exists or not, though, and people saying that such pre-conscious choices it's proof free will doesn't exist are wrong. There's no necessity that free will has to be expressible as conscious deliberation. Just that it comes "freely" from the person. There might be lots of conscious deliberation behind those "non-conscious" decisions too.

Free will might very well not exist, but not for that reason.

We are ourselves, the whole time, sub-conscious or conscious. One's self doesn't resolve to just the "voice 'speaking' in our thoughts".
> If they aren't up to date with a programming language, how will they make any changes to the ever-changing requirements that are presented?

The requirements are the code. Need to change the code? Change the requirements.

> No, savvy business analysts could not replace programmers.

What could replace the bottom 50% of code monkeys then?
If Bay Area and tech is a talking point. For most of the tech existence, Silicon Valley has always been the go to place. Then, it got too expensive. The next stop was sf and now even soma is crazy shit expensive. The natural progression i see is to start looking at the east bay (Hayward, Oakland..). They still are comparatively affordable. Work with the local governments where it is a win win for both. I live in Hayward and I can’t imagine there are no startups here. It is so close to the city.
vindictive

did you mean "indicative"?
FT: I covered the City for 20 years - what I learnt on egos, deals, finance
That article focuses on climate change and per-capita CO2 pollution, making the point that it isn't merely population size that is the problem, but population size * per-capita environmental impact.

Climate change is the number one example of a planetary boundary that has been crossed from the "safe operating space for humanity" into an unsafe zone (Planetary boundaries, Rockström et al [1]).

One way of framing environmental impact is by the equation

I = PAT

where I is environmental impact, P is population, A is "affluence" (measured in affluence-units per capita), and T is "technology" (measured in environmental-impact-units per affluence-unit) [2]. This equation is fairly artificial in that it is an accounting identity, you start with I = I and pick some variables to factor the right hand side with. But it gives one way to start thinking about the problem.

Since this is hacker news, probably the factor people get excited about improving is the T factor, labelled "technology" -- i.e. reducing the pollution intensity of each unit of affluence -- think energy efficiency etc. Reducing the T factor is compatible with capitalism, compatible with a mindset that all problems have a technical fix, doesn't require talking about explicitly limiting anyone's freedom re: the P or A factors. On another hand, just focusing on improving efficiency doesn't necessarily result in an overall lower environmental impact once the whole economic system reacts (c.f. Jevon's paradox [3]). If you reduce T maybe P or A shoot up, giving you a greater I.

On a small scale, if you sit down and crunch the numbers, and focus on a time horizon of 100 years or so, you could ask which family & their descendants contributes the most CO2 pollution:

(a) a family in a low natural population growth, high CO2-pollution society; or
(b) a family in a high natural population growth, low CO2-pollution society .

At extremes, comparing e.g. (a) a couple from Australia (15.4 tons CO2/capita) with (b) a couple from Bangladesh (0.5 tons CO2/capita), the environmental impact of the relatively low-population-growth, high-per capita pollution couple is FAR worse, even if you say that all CO2 emissions of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren etc over the time horizon are attributed to the original couple [4]. So in my mind, at least in the short run of 100 years, population isn't the concern, it's the population of individuals in high-pollution countries with high-pollution lifestyles (like myself).

On the other hand, there's nothing really special about climate change, if global human population continues to grow, if we figure out how to avoid or mitigate climate change, the interesting thing to watch will be how we deal with crossing the second global ecological boundary, or the third...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boundaries
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_%3D_PAT
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
seems legit. etrade gets like 1 second right?
> I have more ideas that seem really compelling to me, but, based on how my previous projects have been going, I don’t think I can make any of these ideas happen within the Debian project.

Interesting article. I had a chance of asking two distributions about some particular feature (making it easier to get GPG keys of developers).

The first one I contacted was Gentoo: they quickly CCed my email to relevant people, discussed the matter between themselves and deployed the change in a week.

Then I contacted Debian about the same thing. The email was basically identical. But the reply was largely negative, complaining about details and openly avoiding work. The entire interaction reminded me of large corporations where any change is met with resistance for resistance sake.

(I use Arch btw.)
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan
> It seems that the author is using historical events to justify political resentments that are very current and very local.

There have also been very real consequences of that lingering political resentment. For years, Irish Americans from Boston and NY were the primary source of funding for the Irish Republican bombing campaign in Britain.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08...
Public Chatting Web Application Source Code on GitHub
https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml is the RSS feed (easy to overlook on the landing page).
Fun fact: New Line Networks mentioned in the article is named after the New Line Tavern in Chicago [0]. Which is actually quite good. And might just attract network engineers that work for HFT firms. Purely coincidentally.

[0] https://www.newlinetavern.com
For touch typists, this is definitely not ergonomic.
that’s where people make carpets

But you can make software anywhere -- there are no tools or materials supply chain to worry about... especially with Internet everywhere.
Is this a strictly hypothetical thought experment-type of design? Ie, nothing that could be realistically built and tested? I am asking because our current understanding of physicas is that it is practically impossible to know exactlt the state of even a single particle, let alone of the whole universe, to the precision even theoretically required to "determine" the next state. (Outside of simplistic esperiments in a laboratory.)

This is not a limitation of technical prowess, this is a quality of quantum particles, of thermodynamics, etc.

My point is, if it is impossible to construct such an experiment, it means it is not a question within the domain of science. Science deals with hypothesis which can be realistically disproven.
We need reducing, not recycling. Recycling is an amazingly inefficient and polluting solution to a problem that should not exist (in its current magnitude) in a sanely-managed planet.
Thanks, link fixed.
I guess QBasic. Something about drawing a round face with two eyes using commands was just irresistible for me at one point in my life. Also nibbles.bas.
I filed a FOI request to the UK Ministry of Defence for a classified report in my field. About a month later they gave me a copy. The only redactions were names of various researchers, including the names of the authors of the report that I requested. The odd part was that I already knew the authors' names and gave them in the request in the first place. Must have been some policy that is followed regardless of whether it makes sense.
why is signup for preorder so detailed about the user? it even requires phone number. Most of the questions were so sketchy I gave up and didnt sign up. Would not be surprised if all that data ends up in wrong hands and will be used for phishing.
Ask HN: Does anyone still pursue and work towards the Singularity?
>>> The place with the biggest pool of programmers and pms and designers?

right but if you want a halfway decent one you have to compete with FANG and pay 300k a year.
Would the FAA decision have any bearing on what happens in Ethiopian airspace?
If one of Google's servers gets hacked, I'd rather the hacker get the mail-sor-f41.google.com certificate than the *.google.com certificate :)
Ethiopian Airlines does not have a poor safety record. They fly all over the world and allowed in Canada, US, Europe, etc. This isn’t the same as the Indonesian crash. People always assume it’s a bad airline because it’s from Africa, but that’s not the case.
why would it be silly? everyone gets an Irish passport and the radical minority that identifies that strongly as English should fuck off to England.

bombs are a valid means to protect your country from an illegal occupant. if the English don't get that maybe it's time for the N/IRA (whatever is left of it seems to be already in the process of recovering) to bring the war to London again in the way they did in the 80ies. I see no problem in that though would obviously prefer the English gave up NI voluntarily.
Give an example
> If true this seems to me (very much a non-expert) to give serious doubt to the notion that the brain is a computer.

Yeah. It also puts Quantum Mechanics into serious doubt...

So, I'll wait for better evidence than some random person on the internet thinking it feels right.
To be precise, you can browse Bullets.tech:

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Usually worth just following this workflow:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
We've already seen Apple's Self-driving division have multiple alleged trade-secret thefts.
reportbug --file /etc/foobar
>Java is verbose compared to Kotlin or Ruby.

True. But Kotlin was developed with 20+ years of hindsight, and Ruby is dynamic and pays by being slow for many of its higher level features that make it less verbose.

And even Java is much less verbose today, with "var" and "closures", and functional interfaces, and auto inference.

The main cause of verbosity in Java code was BS J2EE fashion (throw in all kinds of Patterns to make it "enterprise"). This -- the 2005-era practices as you say, are more or less a thing of the past now. Are some of them in use for new projects? In some sure, you can't immediately erase the influence of a decade of code and tutorials and such. But e.g. even J2EE itself in later versions got rewritten in a different style, Spring today leverages the new features and stuff like Annotations, verbose XML everything has fallen out of favor, etc.
This article would have been more relevant several decades ago when AI research started. But now I think it's mainly a strawman argument because the models are more realistic and different from what he is talking about.
It's likely because this generic ideological tangent stuff that you post has become tedious, and is largely off topic here. I appreciate that you've been careful to remain civil, but can you please dial this (way) back? It's not what the site is for, and has acquired the quality of a droning harangue.

I was very surprised to see something else in your comment history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19348848. That's good. But the proportions are not.
What a great feature idea. I wish I could configure some regex settings in [search engine] to force it to never show me certain domains.
If your "assessment" is based on the title of a blog post and some opinions you have about their download page... do we really need your assessment? It's a volunteer project. If you want it to do better, help. If you don't or don't care, why comment on it? Who are you helping? What is your commentary improving?
Part of the problem is that markets for commodities are always volatile.

That is, recycling plastic X might be very profitable in 2015 and not at all be profitable in 2019. It is the same problem that producers of oil, aluminum and everything else have from time to time. Prices go up and prices go down.