skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... If you make the completely arbitrary assumption ...

What do you mean by an "arbitrary assumption". The first definition that comes up for "arbitrary" is "Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system". If you agree with this definition, then do you also think that there is "completely" NO REASON to assume that the Peano axioms are true? If so, is this because the Peano axioms are merely assumptions, and not themselves proven?

> If you reject the Peano axioms, then it's not true anymore.

How would someone rejecting axioms, make statements consistent with those axioms untrue?

> The fact that the truth of that statement is completely dependent on your arbitrary choice of axioms should tell you that it's not a statement about reality.

I'll agree that the truth of any mathematical statement is dependent upon the framework under which you view it, but that doesn't stop the statement from being true or false under those frameworks regardless of which frameworks a person chooses to use. Those frameworks don't depend on human minds, so even before mathematical axioms were formulated by humans "1 + 9 = 10" was still true under the Peano axioms, and that will still be true after humans have died off. That which is true is "in accordance with fact or reality".

> So, can you demonstrate that there is a non-physical reality?

Yes.
(Note: Potential is possible state, actual is current state)

A) If potential states of the universe do not exist, then the universe can't change states.
B) The universe can change states.
C) If potential states of the universe are physical, then potential states of the universe would be observable hear and now.
D) If potential states of the universe are observable hear and now, then potential states of the universe would be actual and potential at the same time.
E) Potential states of the universe are not actual and potential at the same time.
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F) Potential states of the universe exist. (modus tollens A,B)
G) Potential states of the universe are not observable hear and now. (modus tollens D,E)
H) Potential states of the universe are not physical. (modus tollens C,G)
I) Potential states of the universe exist and potential states of the universe are not physical. (conjunction introduction F,H)

> The problem with your example ["You must not steal"] is not that it's somehow about morals, the problem is that you simply didn't make a claim, but a command. And that is not because it is impossible to make claims about morals, but because you intentionally avoided making a claim.

Saying I intentionally avoided making a claim is disingenuous, you may have merely misinterpreted what I was trying to say. How might you respond to a rephrasing such as "It is immoral to <X>"?

> What would be an example of a religious claim that is "not scientific", other than claims about an afterlife?

"God is a trinity of three divine persons each fully possessing one divine nature."
My guess. Quantum? Quantum technology leading to very high processing of data leading to studying human genes and dna and any model you throw at it.
Why 2.7M Americans still get Netflix DVDs in the mail
The equation is not "spend energy on wood mulch VS spend energy on cardboard", it's "spend energy on wood mulch AND cardboard VS spend energy on cardboard". The cardboard is a given. We purchase things and they come in boxes. By using it as mulch, I then avoid the additional spend in energy, time, dollars, and effort on wood mulch.
Watch a Neural Network Make Trump Sing Eminem's “Lose Yourself”
You forgot coffee between 3 and 4!
Airbnb customer service is shocking. I had a host move apartments on me to something slightly worse than advertised and that had not been cleaned. Wrote the Airbnb and crickets. Ive heard so many similar stories. Their customer support seems to be based on take this boilerplate message and go away.
I read her piece on the AlphaStar StarCraft 2 match and it was quite wrong. Even the basic idea that the AI crushed pro gamers while being more limited than humans was completely wrong. Anybody that has played the game even a bit saw that the AI did things that are physically impossible to do for a human. So, I'm not so sure about being one of the best communicators.
Winners for the 2019 Edison Awards
You mean OTR? 1. OTR is some old hack and not really usable 2. OTR has nothing to do with XMPP at all

OMEMO only really needs XEP-0163, the thing which also gives you avatars and such, supported nearly anywhere. There is some problem that you can't access the key of someone who did not add you yet to the contact list on older implementations [1] but that does not make it unusable.

> I am not inclined to positively review a chat protocol that frequently fails to deliver messages.

XMPP delivers, if you encrypt them with the wrong key it can do nothing about.

[1] https://gultsch.de/omemo_by_default.html
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I can't help but wonder whether this could be solved more simply, allowing people to just use their normal git workflow and tools (with syntax highlighting etc) by just auto committing and pushing changes to a `wip_<username>` branch, then one can see the changes just by fetching from the remote as usual... I know the premise here is that it treats the repo as read-only, but IMO it loses a lot of power and transparency by doing so.
The code is on the following path

https://github.com/ezracode/grandmaster/tree/master/chessboa...
The probability is increasing that US Federal Reserve will become a much more politically motivated institution, biased toward accommodative monetary policy, low interest rates, a large and growing balance sheet, and more private debt.

At the same time, US government deficits are setting records highs for peacetime.

And it's not just the US, with other major economies like China and Japan also racking up public and private debt at astonishing rates not seen outside of war economies.

This is essentially a trade-off between juicing current GDP growth at the expense of long-term stability of price levels and ability to respond to inevitable crisis.

It's impossible to predict what will happen or when, but if the probability of economic catastrophe increases, the value of precious metals, real estate and the largest, most stable cryptocurrencies should increase.
> If you know someone suffering from depression please don't install this on their phone until they see a professional.

^^ +1 to that. If you're using CBT for a mental health disorder, see someone.

That said, don't let them do nothing. If it's easier to just dip their toe in, don't stop them.
and then there's the definition from countries too close to nazi germany and/or the ussr at some point in its history: a term they will politely but enfaticaly deny, always.
Coal is literally 1000x more dangerous than nuclear power. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities

Humanity's inability to understand basic math will be our downfall -- perhaps already has sealed our fate.
A colonialist perspective, would see it as "unusable desert" ready for nuclear waste. The original owners, Australian Aborigines, would certainly not.
Violating the privacy of multiple non-suspects is a search? None of the people in the article seem to be under suspicion, yet their DNA is being collected under the pretense of a “cancer test.” Police can lie to suspects, but they don’t get to violate the rights of (presumed) innocent people.
4chan style threads with account names might actually be better. You can have really good discussions in imageboards (in the smaller boards) because you don't have a bunch of non-participants butting in with their upvotes and downvotes.

Even Metafilter with their very low key favorites "voting system" gives rise to a contest for getting the most favorites.
How to get started with side projects
But now think about the consequences of this: everybody in the EU has to pay the same price for the games. There's an income difference of 5-10 times between different EU countries. The poorest ones will have to now pay the same price as the richest ones. A game costing >€60 when you have less than €300 disposable income per month is crazy expensive.
"Users" = "People who pay me."

Everybody else can go take a long walk off a short pier, if they're going to send angry emails about not being able to build something they didn't pay me for.
> My point is that nuclear power is safe, as long as all disaster scenarios are taken into account

It is impossible for us to take all disaster scenarios into account. Our knowledge is very limited.
If you're in the US and the rice is from a former cotton state (not California), you could be getting a high dose of arsenic by using brown rice as a staple. A sane government would set limits on arsenic at least on par with China's, but that would be costly to American agriculture, and it's easy to ignore chronic arsenic poisoning because it causes cancer or heart disease, not an identifiable syndrome that would generate bad publicity for politicians. My favorite alternatives are millet (cheap, has flavor if you toast it) and quinoa (price on par with rice if you can find it not packaged for yuppies).
> My point is that nuclear power is safe, as long as all disaster scenarios are taken into account

I don't know if you are old enough to remember it, but that's exactly what nuclear energy proponents said in the 70s.

Since then, actual experience showed that about every 20 years, there has been a big incident with global impact, and it will take decades if not centuries until the affected area is usable again. And the latter is something that might be tolerable in less densely populated countries or locations (Chernobyl), but in very densely populated ones it would be a major catastrophe.

And so far we've only seen disaster scenarios caused by human error and force of nature, and there's a third one (human malice), which thankfully hasn't happened yet, but which is impossible to guard against.

So my conclusion from reality is that no, we can't make nuclear power completely safe: The consequences of a disaster are too great, the monetary incentives are all wrong (it's not the nuclear companies which pay in case of the disaster, the state takes over; and the costs of the risk are not factored in into the actual running costs; and safety measures are expensive, so economics will always lead to, say, putting the backup generators NOT on the hill, because that would have cost more).

And then there's the problem that in some countries using nuclear energy and producing nuclear waste, the problem of actually storing that waste safely for the next few centuries is still not solved. Even after 50 years of producing it. And that is just insane.

I wish we could make nuclear safe. It would be a great way to reduce carbon emissions. Looking at reality, I can only conclude that we can't, and it's wishful thinking. (Yes, I know, that opinion is not popular, and the nuclear fanboys will be all over me, but so be it).
A lot of that is done in a simulator on the computer, which usually builds very quick once you get the environment and simulation scripts written.

The full build to a bit file that can be loaded into hardware is an NP-hard optimization problem, so as your design approaches the limits of either the desired clock speed or the amount of space in the chip, it can become very slow.
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/introducing-pg_squeez...
With forums you often get a topic that has 500 posts, 480 of which are pure "me too / works for me" noise. Those 500 posts are split into 50 pages of 10 posts each, and page one has the oldest posts. The post with the answer is on page 46 and the pages after that are just 30-40 comments thanking whoever came up with the answer. So if you jump straight to the end then start working backwards, you're looking at maybe 10 or so page loads before you actually find the answer you're looking for.

Some forums aren't shit, but all of those cookie cutter PHP forums all seem to be shit.
> ..."everyone else was doing to get ahead in the admissions game" ...

Reminds me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/6rbpr9/why_is_lying_...
Thoughts about super-convergence and highly-performant deep neural network
I'm pretty pro-nuclear. Nuclear power has proven to be extremely safe relative to the alternatives. In this specific case though, to say that there was one design flaw is failing to go beyond the first why.

The second why is "why does the reactor require an uninterrupted supply of electrical power in order to not melt down? Gen 2 nuclear power is inherently dangerous, and is only made safe through active safety systems. If the reactor trips, the cooling pumps must run or decay heat will cause a meltdown. Gen 3 reactors tend to incorporate a lot more passive safety systems or at least ones that don't require electricity.
Correctly identifying emotions from facial expressions 98% of the time
It's not popular on 4chan, but there are other smaller imageboards on which it's popular to use usernames (tripcodes in their parlance.) I can't say I'm a big fan.
Though it's the most amount of deaths by year currently, their argument generally is about if a nuclear plant close to population pops off. A single city would be 1000x what coals killed.
This is very similar to how hard it was to compete against Microsoft when developing for Windows.
Great idea (and cute name). Default browser styles are hideous; honestly just this makes a world of difference:

body {
font-family: sans-serif;
max-width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
No one complains when government campaigns to cut public spending fail. When will somebody complain about that?

Public sector is less competitive so it is reasonable to expect that such campaigns will fail. The government may have more success if they hit on their own spending, but nobody wants to do that because the higher the spending the easier it is to get re-elected.
It seems to support check boxes but not radio buttons.
Years later, I'm still in love with Google Wave.
OpenDoc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
It doesn't really matter what the conversation is about because you've got two spooks leading the conversation, to the point that every thread in this discussion is sock puppeting and astro turf.

Hey guys, can you be a little less obvious in planting your subject matter? It's kind of pathetic watching the two of you run around, trying to stamp out fires and control the conversation.

Like, here you are talking to yourselves like it's a staged fireside chat about all the bugaboos of getting bribed... but this time on linkedin!!! Wuh-ohhhhhhh!!!
I wonder if something like this was at work when the 96 Eclipse was designed. My then-gf in college had one; I changed her timing belt and water pump. It was miserable:there was only 1/2"of clearance between the engine and bay everywhere. I joked that they must have used a giant Play-Doh pasta maker to install the engine by squishing it in to conform to the engine bay.
You're right, i must have confused it with something else. Anyway, it isn't rare.
Of course a gigantic fund will be more diversified than any single small fund. But the aggregate diversity of all of the funds that all of the individual accounts invest in will be greater than that of any single fund.

>>A larger fund also has advantages for ROI (even putting aside the much lower fees) because you can be a more activist shareholder and invest in more sophisticated ways.

Small fund managers are free to invest in large funds to gain these advantages. They have the added advantage of being able to select from smaller cap investment options as well.
Apple takes 50% cut.

It’s not clear that’s a better deal for news sources than just monetizing their own paywalls.

NY Times and Washington Post certainly think they can do better on their own.
That's fucking great.
I agree with you. I was a huge fan of Minidisc, and even had an MD-related business in the early 2000s. However, as others have said, it was really only (relatively) unsuccessful in the US. It was hugely successful in Japan, and only faded out as the iPod made it obsolete for music listening, and (slightly later) flash recorders took over the market for field recording.

In Japan, you can still buy blank minidiscs in any normal electronics store.
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I like this! More and more, I think about making my CSS sheets element only and moving more complex "component" styles into JavaScript. This makes me attempt to find semantic HTML representations of components before coming up with new styles and entering append-only CSS prison. So something like this would work great for me (even for more dynamic sites, really!).
I have prosody running on my Debian stable server, conversations on mobile/android and gajim on PC (Debian stable). Omemo works perfectly, no missed messages, no encryption problems. It just works.
Different story a few years ago. The XMPP ecosystem improved a lot.
It doesn't stop there. I don't think solar and wind have decommissioning and waste costs built in.
Sure, and they also had a big problem in that the initial terms of enlistment were fairly short, as was common with militias, and given the conditions and lack of monetary support from the fledgling government it was difficult to get soldiers to reenlist. I don't think these issues were unique to one side, though. The British basically perfected the art of rounding up drunks and vagrants and turning them into soldiers and sailors.

Anyway, the continental army was a ragged mess for literally the entire war. If it weren't for the staggering incompetence of British generals and the ancient animosities of European powers who saw the colonies as a pawn, the continentals might very well have lost. In the end if there's a tl;dr on the American Revolution it probably reads something like "Thanks for the new country, France!"
But it is important to look at it. The US in many cases seems to do something that's not good for humanity, but because they did it first they're not held accountable. It's hypocritical.
Can we get something straight about nuclear power?

A 1% failure rate is not acceptable.

We don't need nuclear power. Renewables are cheaper, storage solutions are available and there are whole countries on close to 100% renewable power.

There are still radioactive boars running around in Bavaria as a result of the Chernobyl incident.

It is still unclear how many billions of dollars of cleanup costs for Fukushima the Japanese tax payer has to spend. And how many will die of the aftereffects.

Why would anyone sane invest in a power technology with such a destructive potential?
Especially if the alternative are far safer, easier to produce and easier to decommission.
(another dirty secret of the nuclear industry: Who is going to pay for the decommissioning of old power plants and the cleanup: Yup, it's you, because the funds allocated for it are not sufficient).
The $500m spent on decommissioning the Brennilis Nuclear Reactore in France could buy how many wind turbines and solar cells?

Keep it in the ground. Not just the oil, but also the uranium.
They have to secure a few B$ in funding. lol.
The best is the enemy of the good.

I used to work on design of onshore wind farms. Protecting the public was as simple as measuring the distance to the closest road or building. So that if the turbine failed catastrophically it would not hurt anyone. Add a big red flashing light and aviation is safe. Compare this to nuclear where you need to understand an incredibly complex machine and how it interacts with an unpredictable environment and people. And you need to employ expensive nuclear engineers and scientists to do the work, and then check the work repeatedly. Sounds expensive!

I would love it if nuclear energy could be a success. But why not do wind/solar/battery as well in the meantime.

I certainly agree that large power companies can be unfair to the public. Particularly when renewables has such big upfront costs. It's like renting a house, paying off someone else's mortgage, and never getting to own anything. However, there is a huge benefit in connecting large generators because they are connected to the high voltage transmission system. Power can be exported to where it is needed. In comparison generation that is attached to low voltage networks are more limited in how much can be exported longer distance. Battery storage in particular is much more versatile when used at the grid level.
I think it's an artifact of luxury cars being designed to optimize a handful of metrics (horsepower, an exterior that "looks good") at any cost.

I see something similar with high-end phones (particularly iPhones). Every reasonable practical concern takes a backseat to making the thing as thin as possible. The result is a phone with mediocre battery life, antenna problems, and a body about as impact-resistant as an egg.
In a similar category, a tool that's gone offline recently is Rohitab's API Monitor - strace/ltrace for Windows.
Indian-made pickles are surprisingly common these days, and quite good as well, particularly given that Western-style pickles have very little in common with Indian ones.

General grumble: the way this article (and the US) conflate "pickle" with "cucumber pickled in vinegar", even though there's an actual "PickleVerse" of all sorts of other pickled foods out there.
Maybe publishers can issue coupons that only work in a specific currency for non-euro countries?
Another idea (you have some default transitions in there already, but I like this one):

* {
transition: all 0.2s ease-out;
}

It's bold, but quite effective. Suddenly literally every property change looks natural.
It would not.

1. The grandparent's source quotes the coal death rate of ~100k/PWh.

2. Global coal processing is at ~50 PWh/year:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

3. This means ~5M people die to coal each year.
I've never been able to get clear FM reception through an RTL SDR. I ended up buying an Arduino powered radio that I should be able to modify to use as a base for an FM to DLNA project.
>So because the US engaged in nuclear weapons tests above ground decades ago, it's okay for everybody else to do it too?

Yes, pretty much. If a country doesn't want other countries to do a certain action then they themselves shouldn't do it either. You can't expect to be able to benefit from something and then deny other countries the same, unless you want to be a tyrant.
iirc Prismatic was always an experiment in the technology, and I think they got the data they wanted before moving on. But yeah I used it as well and miss it. Fond memories from my enthusiastic clojurist days :)
Has potential.. Definitely a need for this exists. Sometimes at work we share tmux sessions and give ssh access to each other on our developer machines so that we can easily pair on things. Vim is a great editor once you've customised it. Also check out space Macs