skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you see anybody else there telling the person what to do? Is there some "eternal soul" that should have been informed to make the final decision?

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.

These experiments suggests that the actual decision making happens at a much more secluded, black box like level.

Free will, in a meaningful sense, is taken to mean 'rational control', not just 'that guy over there acts in some way because his brain commands him to', because that's true almost by definition if you exclude religious explanations.
> They have to stick that in along with the ole racist European trope.

Ostensibly, by "that," you are referring to the spiritual aspects of navigation noted in the article. But the "ole racist European trope" may better be classified as a plain acknowledgement of the facts on the ground. For example, the article states:

"To show that Polynesians descended from Europeans, Abraham Fornander in Hawai‘i, and Edward Tregear and J. Macmillan Brown in New Zealand, built the case at the end of the 19th century using the emerging science of linguistics to trace Polynesian languages back to Sanskrit and to European languages."

and:

"Ethnologist S. Percy Smith was one of several scholars who praised the Polynesians’ “intelligence, their charming personalities, and—one likes to think—their common source with ourselves from the Caucasian branch of humanity."

We could probably look up Fornander, Tregear, and Brown in the literature and gauge their relevance in their field. Ditto for Percy. Maybe it really is a liberal conspiracy to undermine the meritocracy. From the 1930s. Before we do that, though, maybe we should do a search on that tool of the left wing, Google, which turns up https://teara.govt.nz/en/ideas-of-maori-origins/page-2 among the top results for "aryan polynesian theory."

I think the quotes above more lend support to the idea that the article mentions in passing an accounting of the history of the (at least) sometimes racist scholarship in this area, rather than a trope. It's certainly possible that there are "factual tropes," I suppose. Nazis were, after all, pretty bad, no matter how many times we say it. (I have to say that I do think it's cowardly of people to hide behind the connotation of "fiction" in the word "trope." Like, they can't say "lie" or "propaganda" without revealing their racism, so they use "trope." Cheap.) However, calling something a "trope" in order to dismiss it as, I dunno, SJW tears or whatever, is a bit disingenuous. One might even call this common tactic an actual "trope," and a counterfactual one, of the alt-right.
I know reporters will say they don't want to us to draw conclusions but honestly, I'll be avoiding the 737Max until this is figured out.
+1. Back in the day, we used to mirror all of CPAN, because even as a young buck, I saw the gap in rebuilding apps without the source copied...
If it ends up being due to faulty sensors they need to add a big disable all assistive software systems switch. It needs to be easy to access switch not something you have to go through 5 menus.
For next time:

dpkg -S path/to/file

gives the the name of the package containing a file, and

dpkg -s package-name

gives you the name of the maintainer.
And a follow-up question: how would you get involved with it.
Closest equivalent in CS would be lossy storage, Monte Carlo algorithms, or of course, neural networks.
I'm sure it's true, all I'm saying is that if you reach the point of walking away, just walk away. A list of grievances at that point is just going to be seen as a parting shot rather than having any real chance of motivating change.
Most people nothing about technology and don't want to. Not sure where that argument goes, but I am guessing jobless...
That’s it how the grocery trade off happens really though. I’m not familiar with the particular stores you mention, but this market is sliced up the same way here, I expect.

First off, the stores are not fungible. Secondly, most people are trading off a convenient option for a much more inconvenient option or two, not 30s more driving. So say a extra 1/2 hour to your trip, or more.

Why aren’t they fungible? Because they don’t carry the same products. There is an overlap of commodity products (cans of coke, big name cleaners etc.) There are product a more bargain store won’t carry at all, and then there are products that are superficially commodity (cheese, meats, dairy, produce) but really aren’t.

Of course marketing makes this all more complicated if you want to think of “rational shopping” but it’s still true that the mid and high cost stores know I would probably be happier to pay more for truly commodity products there, than make a separate trip for them. For the most part, for most people, that’s true - although cf CostCo and the like for specific counter examples based on less frequent trips to “stock up”
> We need different politics.

I agree — and a place technologists can make an impact with a little more obscurity is in the infrastructure for politics.

The problems with politics aren’t merely a technical solution, but it does seem like the advent of mass media and computers has changed some things about politics — which means that a change in the technical mechanisms can change the process and outcomes.

If you think about the math, each represenative stands for about 750,000 people on average. About half to three quarters of their constituents will be working aged, so 375,000. About 1 in 100 will be motivated enough to put a few hours into helping now and then, so 3,750. You figure “now and then” really means “once a year”, but you need help once a month — 375. Maybe 1 in 10 really has something useful to say, so 38.

But the point is when you’re talking about major legislation, it seems like you should be able to recruit a few dozen to a few hundred people to put eyes on the text. By hosting a public repository across districts, you can probably reliably get a few hundred to a thousand volunteers to mark up legislation (or help with ML based scanners).

I’ve long thought a website which joined law markup/comments, vote tracking, and candidate writing would be largely effective — it drops the amount of effort required for a citizen to express effective oversight, and collates information back to you during elections.
Airbnb Intros – “Can It Be Done in React Native?”
You know what is _really_ disingenuous and intellectually lazy?

Assigning any recognition of the stretches you mention to to an alt-right world view.

We barely know our own motives then go on to assign motive to others. Which is exactly the mistake these kind of articles make. But I guess it sells. The article would have been better on it's own merits however imo, it didn't need to slander folks from the past who tried to figure things out with "hurr, durr, cuz white people all racist". That detracted from the point it was making.
Sure but my point is they aren't what people think about when you say "digital computer" or use that as an analogy. People think about what they are familiar with in their every day lives.
A von Neumann architecture does not limit one to a single method of information storage or retrieval, it just limits the efficiency of different methods.
Take these testimonies with a bit of salt. The standard item in my repertoire on this is AA flight 587.

“
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, which announced this month that it had gathered 349 eyewitness accounts through interviews or written statements, 52 percent said they saw a fire while the plane was in the air. The largest number (22 percent) said the fire was in the fuselage, but a majority cited other locations, including the left engine, the right engine, the left wing, the right wing or an unspecified engine or wing.
Nearly one of five witnesses said they saw the plane make a right turn; an equal number said it was a left turn. Nearly 60 percent said they saw something fall off the plane; of these, 13 percent said it was a wing. (In fact, it was the vertical portion of the tail.)”

https://web.archive.org/web/20130518210525/http://www.nytime...
If you’re competing as a “general developer” with ten years of experience, you’re a commodity that is competing with everyone else and if you aren’t knowledgeable about the tech stack we are using, you’re at a disadvantage. The last thing I want is to hire someone who has been doing Webforms for 15 years when I can find someone that has been keeping up. Why should I have sympathy for someone my age who didn’t have the wherewithal to keep up when I can be aggressive about it?

I know developers in thier 30s/40s/50s who are both great developers/architects and have current skills. Why would I settle?
Perhaps, you caught news of something I haven't seen, but AFAIK, "container" is still defined in user space. Talking to Eric Biederman, that's what the kennel team wants - people to experiment in user space, remixing kernel tech together...
The world's densest bones (2006)
I was gonna say you need a dereference operator in there somewhere, but based on that itslicized ‘a’, i think HNs markdown formatting turned them into italics
Yes. For some reason people, even those running Ubuntu servers, are surprised to learn that universe has no guarantee to get updates for known vulnerabilities.

Ubuntu is currently divided into four components: main, restricted, universe and multiverse. All binary packages in main and restricted are supported by the Ubuntu Security team for the life of an Ubuntu release, while binary packages in universe and multiverse are supported by the Ubuntu community.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ

If you care about security, disable universe and multiverse on servers, or use Debian Stable if you want a Debian-based distribution.
family of Slovakian vice prime minister was on board.
A distortion-induced flameout is pretty unlikely - though something like a compressor stall is not out of the realm of possibility. These can result in brief discharges of flame out of the front of compressor against the direction of flight. But nothing sustained.
Any immigrant knows -- the law is never what people say. It's always what happens and what's happening, and that's true in every nation since civilization.
Oh, right, the same kind of people who gave AAA status to mortgage based derivatives. You must live in a different world, then.
This always bothers me as well. Even when they say something like, they're saving $10/yr. In my mind, all the grief you go through to save that money, plus all the conversations you have about it afterward, altogether is worth more than $10/yr, so ultimately it's a net negative value.

I mean really, $10/yr over 10 years is $100. Congrats, you can now afford a fraction of a plane ticket after a decade?
Another bad Boeing response in 1991 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004#Niki_Laud...
Also: container orchestration if _far_ from solved problem. Kubernetes is a nice try, but it screams for a better layer above it that would allow devs to deploy services _easily_.

There is plenty of ways Docker Inc. can create and capture value in this space. Their unique value is that whatever product they make, the world will check it out... They "just" need to make it good and figure out the business behind it.
One-fourth of Americans drink water from systems that don’t meet standards
What about the choices that go into mixing flavors?
>At high noon on an overcast day Papa Mau could tell where they were by the way the water moved the boat.

Sounds like a job for a neural network. Train it with video of the water as input and coordinates as output.
Or win miserably, which is worse. (A play on words, but you know what I mean.)
When your time is worth enough, there are many small savings that you could get but aren't worth the time you'd spend looking for them.

Example: If you're earning enough, it might make sense to eat out every single meal. The time you'd spend doing groceries and cooking, plus their associated costs, can be lower than what you'd earn working an extra few hours per week and eating out every meal. (If you actually enjoy cooking it's of course a different story. And I do too. But people who eat out constantly are a thing.)
This https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... ?
But that does sound an awful lot like propaganda. They say the same thing about Trump actually. And basically every dictator is said to have some sort of super human abilities and determination. Not needing much sleep is a very common one.
Replication is not the best way to avoid data loss. And it's not the only way to avoid downtime (e.g., the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL servers I run don't use the normal pg replication).

And there are a lot of systems for which downtime really is acceptable, at least for the amount of time it takes to restore a backup. Not everything is a front-end, mission critical system. I manage plenty of systems that are only used in a back-end batch context.

So I think it's crazy to suggest that how well a db engine's replication work outweighs all other factors. Depending on your situation it may well be the most important thing, but there's a lot of room for others to have well-architected systems that have different priorities.
I was this person with Asian parents. Didn’t help. (Not their fault though). I eventually ended up dropping out of university too.

Took me five years of backpacking and wandering the world to figure out how I could even start figuring out this whole thing out, and I still am.

I also want to say, seeing a therapist may not always help, and I don’t think a therapist could have helped me and for a lot of people I’ve spoken to with a similar condition who actually did see a therapist it doesn’t seem that seeing a therapist helped them either.

This whole reflex that “as soon as something is wrong go see a therapist” has somehow gotten ingrained into our heads as a society. Maybe it works for a lot of people and so that’s why it’s there, but we should make alternatives known as well

Because what then, what if therapy fails..?

I’d be curious to learn about the history of “mental illness” (I’m talking in the centuries before Freud etc). I say that because when I travel to less developed societies, I notice a disproportionately less amount of people who face the symptoms the person in this article faces (I’m guessing some combination of anxiety and depression).

What about other things, spend time in nature, get away from technology and your phone, how about natural medicines (with the obligatory: consult with a doctor first), do a vipassana retreat.

Also the obligatory, if there is something fundamentally malfunctioning in your brain chemistry where allopathic treatment modalities would help, then by all means medicate. But I don’t think this is always the case here.
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Don't allow your own domain, which should disqualify them. Especially since nobody knows whether they'll survive the next years.

Having a GMX address, fine. I wouldn't want it, but I'd expect them to be around in ten years. Posteo, who knows?
> On one voyage where he was not the master navigator, Mau woke out of a dead sleep and told the steersman that the canoe was off course, just by the feel of the swells hitting the hulls of the canoe.

That is an astonishing level of mastery.
Google Analytics also pierces the encryption that hides much of your activity on the modern web from your ISP.
The issue is the people spreading information and the people believing it. , When the news, who have lost all credibility, hyper exaggerate every story, it's no wonder the amount of FUD and lies people are willing to believe on the internet. It's also a problem of education, people no longer believe in science, and accept any notion that fits into their belief system as fact. The real PR campaign here is the media and politicians using big tech as a virtue signaling platform to free up the market for the fake news organizations to become profitable again so they can spoon feed stories to the masses.
What's Wrong with Python Pandas?
The winds in the South Pacific predominately blow east to west. Since Polynesian voyaging canoes have a very limited ability to sail into the wind, it seemed impossible for them to have colonized Polynesia from west to east. This appeared to be a pretty strong argument for a colonization of Polynesia from South America, since South American voyagers (either intentional or accidental) would be sailing with the predominate winds, not against them.

However, it turns out that during El Niño years the direction of the winds can change so they are blowing from west to east, making it much easier to sail east across the South Pacific.[1]

In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl didn't know about this possibility.

[1] Anomalous Westerlies, El Niño, and the Colonization of Polynesia - https://www.jstor.org/stable/677659?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont... (I can't find the full text of the paper online, but I think this is the one I remember.)
Any analysis written not this year is out-of-date.
There was certainly contact between the polynesians and native americans. The Chumash got their tomolo design after contact with ancient polynesians who sailed to the channel islands. Before that contact they used reed based boats to travel between the channel islands, after that contact and the adoption of polynesian style sewn boats they were able to radically increase the scale of their commercial activities by being able to transport far more goods than with the older boat design.
I have the view that all persons with psychological illnesses should have the right to receive euthanasia and only if they desire with medical professionals examining them if coercion exists or not. Society is currently selfish, arrogant and ignorant when it comes to authority over people who desire death. I know one person who is being discriminated based on her painful illness and while knowing a person who received euthanasia who suffered less pain in his life than the other person. The first person being diagnosed with gender dysphoria and the second person with cancer. The events lived in life can be more important than the illness when it comes to how pain is felt & dealt with.
How exactly do you propose vote buying would work? Somebody has to advertise it, somehow validate results, and then engage in widescale monetary transactions in a method that would appeal to a significant number of voters. All while also somehow avoiding all legal issues in the process. And this all needs to somehow be more effective than the typical pattern of just dumping millions/billions into half truths, mudslinging, and the other noble arts of modern politicking.

By contrast, I do think high level integrity of a vote is something we should be constantly vigilant towards. Was your vote counted? Was it for whom you wanted it to be? Integrity and validation are areas where e-voting could pull far ahead of traditional paper voting. As a nice thing you'd also have instantaneous and 100% accurate results instead of this silly 'Let's have the supreme court decide who won.' type affair.
Should Airplanes Be Flying Themselves?
Is there ever going to be search engine that will replace Google as Google replaced Altavista ?
As I replied to the another guy under this parent, any analysis done on previous years it absolutely out-of-date by now. We'd need new reviews to make a proper assessment how (in)secure it is.
languages with a noun as their name require <name>+ lang in Google searches, so: Rust, Julia.
You should be aware of Certificate Transparency if you go down this route.

While I agree that it probably shouldn't matter it could help an attacker gather knowledge about your internal network. Perhaps it's of interest that you use a specific monitoring tool or mail server internally - that could make phishing emails easier to craft.
Neither is a computer a brain.

But the brain and the computer are both pattern recognizing feedback loop one just isn't as developed yet.

The computer doesn't see the image but neither do I. We simulate it.
There's a new-ish (from Feb) LWN article about container's as an object in the kernel: https://lwn.net/Articles/780364/

Reception still doesn't seem great.
OT, but I've never once actually heard someone pronounce it "tomahhto" outside of this expression. Is this actually a pronunciation that people use?
I have not read much of Heyerdahl's work, but I did read Kon-Tiki several times.

The article may be right to dismiss Heyerdahl as wrong, but its depiction of his approach is not in line with what he wrote himself in Kon-Tiki.

The article says:

> He made his bias particularly clear by designing his Kon Tiki raft to be unsteerable.

which makes it sound like a conscious decision to use the expedition to mislead.

In fact, Heyerdahl says clearly that he and his crew were trying to preserve their project's integrity by keeping the design of the ship as close as possible to the original South American rafts he studied, even to the point of preserving elements professional sailors said would sink the raft.

They did eventually discover that some pieces on the raft whose purpose they didn't understand at first could be used for marginal steerage (though not for sailing into the wind or current, certainly), so the article is factually wrong that he did not include any steering mechanisms.

He might have been entirely wrong about where the Polynesians came from, but I think the article paints him as more dishonest than he was.
Those certificates were replaced and/or revoked.
That's nothing, once e-voting is legal in Chicago, it will be 144% of the vote.
There's also Wiby, a search engine for "oldschool", static, single-person-curated sites: https://wiby.me

I've copy-pasted this to HN previously, but it's worth posting again -- explanation from their About page:

"Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding those gems, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.

The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as page results are more suitable for their performance."

EDIT: Apparently Wiby also has !g and !b for Google and Bing redirections.
"The Debian Project sadly announces that it has lost a member of its community...."

I'm pretty sure they will not announce the mourning of having just lost one of their most important community contributors, Michael Stahlberg, who maintained manpages, codesearch and many packages because of frustration over their antiquated package maintainance workflow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353010
I wonder how well https://salsa.debian.org/public adoption is going?

It seems designed to address a lot of these issues?
No, it assumes that quality ratio varies by reporting mechanism. 9 good reports and 1 bad report are better than 18 good reports and 82 bad reports.
So is Heroin. Hmmmmmmm.
The title is incorrect, it's i-voting, not e-voting, there's a difference.
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