skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the argument is basically "there appears to be free will so long as you don't look at the details, so free will is not an illusion, so long as you ignore the details." Even if you accept the argument that unpredictability implies free will (which I don't, a mindless algorithm which behaves according to a pseudorandom number generator no more has free will than one that uses quantum noise for it's RNG), is basically equivalent to saying "I don't understand how free will could arise from simple atoms, so I'm just going to ignore the atomic nature of the universe."
Seattle's homeless shelter also doubles as a library
Oh yes, please someone answer this. I have used adobe illustrator for 15 years - then affinity designer for a few more years. I just want vector graphics with arrows without enormous subscription fees - damnit!
> there's a wealth of prior art to look at

Precisely. I wonder why ML has not been applied here.
If you delete your history from Google, it only means that you aren't able to see it anymore in your account... Google keeps everything.
I'm in that space right now and yeah, the state of the technology is horrible, but I think there are some real barriers to disruption. At first glance a comparison to Uber disrupting the taxi market seems like a good one. But I would estimate that 75% of the work is responding to something going wrong, so it is going to be very different situation since you are not going to get the real cost savings until there is a system that can start handling the edge cases. Also, the margins are low. Average around 15%. Uber is currently taking 25% and still hemorrhaging money. So it is a harder problem to automate and it needs to be done at a lower margin. I'm sure it will happen someday, but I think it's 5-10 years out or more.
what's the end game? do they sell 4G/LTE tech? Or do they want to harm china exports because they are enemies fighting for siberian oil?

or is russia now doing things just for the fun of it?
Yeah it’s annoying that links get broken. But maybe it’s better this way. There’s something about modern tech that has turned all of us into digital horders. I (we?) have backups and backups of backups and redundant RAID servers with every version of every file so that no byte shall ever perish. I have essays still that I wrote in highschool nearly 20 years ago. To what end? I’m partial to material minimalism. Why not data minimalism?
I don't think making code written by hacks look like code written by a competent programmer is a good thing.
I'm not sure how you solve that particular part of the problem, though. If your city attracts non-local homeless people because your services for homeless people are good, cutting or eliminating those services doesn't solve the problem. It just makes living conditions worse for the people who are already there, and makes it even harder for them to get by. Leaving often isn't an option; if you can barely afford food, how can you afford a bus ticket elsewhere? And even if you could, that's still a risky proposition, striking out for a new city where you have no idea what the homeless scene is like.
And probably way slower. Figma is awesome but most of these complicated vectors would stall figma to unpleasant experience.

Also vector drawing in figma is super basic.
I mean it’s crazy. God forbid they contribute toward the free health care they get until 26-the nerve of those evil republicans and their responsibility nonsense
I've read Bad Blood about the horrors of modern startups, but I've been looking for good books about the horrors of dotcom companies. Any recommendations?
> It's so slow so often, and I can't understand why.

The Python community is victim to pipenv's creator's marketing and shoehorning, that's why.
Did you write an article about your experience?
Why it was not South African special police? Usually you start from evidence that points to a suspect. I am not aware of any.
I'm just one point of view but I haven't seen a single pogo commuter in the 12 years I've lived in the Bay Area.
Depending on where you’re from and how impoverished you were, being able to go to a store full of food, putting one or more of a large sample in your cart, and only pay at the very end, can be quite an “experience”.

I’ve observed that this effect can last for decades if your formative years didn’t involve enough food.
> most of the points you listed are a deterioration from the customer's perspective

Sure, just like flights are not as cushy as they used to be. The "deterioration" is more than compensated for by the drop in price.
In college admissions, this is called a "legacy admission".
I'd responded, years ago, to a recruiter's contact email with Zuck's "dumb fucks" IM comment.

Their response was "people change".

Evidence is that this one hasn't. I stand by my response at the time.
Honestly, no idea how you're grading something as having more human-ness than something else.
Except that you can have a chemical dependancy in alcohol or drugs, so if you want to, you can realistically argue that continued addiction is the drug or alcohol's fault. How does that work for continued addiction Facebook?

And if we're talking about how the addiction started, yes, if you get addicted it is your fault, if you knew there was even a remote possibility of getting addicted. If someone decided to poke a beehive, is the resulting sting the bee's fault, or the stick's, or is it theirs?
I don't really have anything to add, but if you could give me an upvote that would be great.
> The fact that these have not been widely adopted by the community over the past several decades of their existence says all that needs saying about the community at large.

The fact that someone hasn't adopted your favorite solution is not evidence of evil intentions. Maybe, just maybe, it's evidence people don't like that solution.

>My characterization of distro's treatment of users is insulting because it characterizes their treatment of users as insulting... ok, sure.

The insult is taking something that's a debatable point (we'd be better off with flatpacks) and turning that into "if you haven't yet turned all your efforts into doing what I think is best you're obviously user hostile". That's not an argument.

>That's mostly because I can't really think of any benefits.

Maybe you should have asked someone what those were before you concluded this was an evil plot to screw over users.

> there are so many people so intent on computing being awful

You keep making accusations about people's intentions and find it strange no one is willing to have a technical argument or work for free on what you'd like to happen. If you want a distro that's just a base and have everything as flat packs go ahead. Fork/replace/remove anything you like. But you're not owed anything from people that have decided to do things in their free time and accusing them of evil intentions does nothing to help your case.
That’s heart breaking. When was that last time you saw him?
duh. obviously
> "if the universe is deterministic, as at least some of our best physical theories suggest"

But the universe is most certainly _not_ deterministic. Indeterminism is required at the fundamental quantum level. Why it is even a line of argument?
Surely the effect depends on what you're running, and you can't put a single number on it. There are actually somewhat contradictory results I've seen for HPC-type applications, and no useful analysis of them with low level profiling.
Overcoming limited data: Recent advancements in few-shot learning
On some level I rather like the idea that Aldi, after fending off Walmart on their home turf are now making successful inroads in America in an effort to take Walmart's lunch.
Why wouldn’t you have this distinction? If you take “homeless” as an issue then I would want a breakout Pareto of those that have mental issues, those that are due to economy, those that are war veterans...etc because when you start to look at solutions you want to know where to focus first to best remedy the issue. That “spectrum of states” has a “spectrum of solutions.”
Now imagine you are one of those Googlers with a PhD hoping to change the world for the better and your PM asks you to work on those screens you mentioned...
I enjoyed ^ this articulation a lot.
It's not uncommon in Germany to go to Aldi first, then buy everything that you could't get at the "full service" more expensive super market next door.
The percent is only so high because JFK closed the mental wards and expected communities to pick up the difference.
TLDR the tooling is so bad it's basically impossible to run at scale. I worked for a company that tried. Maybe on a small scale it's fine, but replays and storage of past events takes insane amounts of space at high event rates. To the point that storage costs and replay times became a real problem. (Many terabytes and days)

I also don't think it's a great idea in general. The event stream directly replicates a DB commit log, and the aggregates your tables. It's building your own database
I know a lot of people having the same problem. They make a tonne of money by contributing to some of the best companies in the world. But they don't have basic things like a house or a sofa or a dining table. Most even lease cars for a few years, instead of buying them. All their belongings are such that they can fit in a few carry on bags in case they have to urgently leave the US.
tl;dr concurrency is hard
At any time, Medium can decide to require login to view articles, if they think it is in their best interests.

Anything you post on Medium is subject to their whims.
Exactly. It's like the commandeering of the words "trigger warning", applying a concept that had a specific, and horrific meaning for real people to a bunch of barely related things so that people can feel better about themselves.
Discussed to death yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19927911
These are the high quality comments and submissions I come here for
Generally speaking spending more money on something will get you more of it. Why would homelessness be any different?
True, the current Lokomotive repository consists of mostly code forked from Typhoon, something we state in the article. There are a number of small and largish modifications: support for Packet, additional PSPs, etc. But this is just the base Kubernetes portion of Lokomotive. Lokomotive includes 4 main parts, 2 of which have been release thus far. The other public portion of Lokomotive ist the underlying OS, Flatcar Linux. The integration with the recently announced Flatcar Linux Edge channel is the main motivation for releasing at this point; stay tuned for some projects that build on top of this. The other 2 parts will be rolled out this summer. Those are lokoctl, the installer, and Lokomotive Components, a collection of base cluster component.
I'm not convinced this is the case for lambda. You get billed for lambda CPU time. If the underlying hardware is unable to provide as much CPU time after mitigations are applied, and AWS hasn't raised their rates, then I'm not the one paying for it.
> I like Chocolate ice cream more than Vanilla

This is not analogous unless you actually think that schools should not teach numerals or if the only reason you like chocolate is because you don't know what vanilla is. Choosing between two things by preference is also not analogous to choosing yes or no for one thing.

> A No vote IS NOT BIGOTRY.

It is IF you vote no BECAUSE you don't understand. That's called xenophobia.

If you don't have a note from a psychiatrist excusing your behavior because of a medical condition, xenophobia is bigotry. Bigotry against vanilla and Martians, it turns out, is not considered to be a big deal (yet) so you're probably safe.
Wait untill you get Aldi mobile provider. In my country i pay 10eur a month for unlimited calls+sms and 20gb of data. For 15eur you get same but 50gb data. Simplest cell provider, no hiden costs, and everything is resolved online. They do not have offices where you register. You just but a sim card. And then they can either charge your bank account or you buy vouchers at Aldi registers - printed on the receipt paper.
Its cheap and awesome!
China Claims It Made a Major Breakthrough in Lithium Extraction
The only people who look cool on pogo sticks are the ones doing flips. Everyone else just looks like a complete dork.
Yeah. Those tend to have more easily replacable firmware, though.
Hack on Stack Overflow exposes private data for ~250 users
Check out the /time/ its made my own life incredibly efficient
Single-payer is one option, but for those of us who don't trust the US federal government to do it right, there is another option.

There are three main reasons employer-provided insurance is so popular:

- The ACA failed Americans by resulting in drastically higher insurance plan prices
- The ACA requires employers to provide health insurance
- A dollar spent by your employer on health insurance is not subject to payroll taxes, but individual plans are

Additionally, a secondary effect of employers covering the insurance costs of their employees is that insurance is not subject to individual pricing pressure, since most people don't even know the cost of their insurance.

To fix this, I propose the following:

- Roll back the ACA, allow those with preexisting conditions to use medicare or medicaid instead
- Provide tax benefits to people purchasing personal healthcare plans
- Provide tax incentives for employers to transfer their company coverage to the individual employees
updated, thank you!
Who the hell is getting "free health care" until they're 26? If you come from a low-income family, there's a damn good chance you're uninsured.
Great idea but I struggle to see how this business is financially viable on its own. I hope they are investing heavily in self-pogoing sticks. The r&d will be tough but they have first mover advantage until Uber and Waymo catch up.
Other cities building shelters on the outskirts, and often in areas without public transit access, so that people get off the streets and are out of sight. The weather patterns almost everywhere else in the country also drive people into those shelters, either with extreme heat or cold.

Here, there is never a time of year when people have to get off the streets, and we don't have enough beds for them even if they did. The Bay Area is also a huge sprawl, so it isn't clear where we would build such housing to be out of sight and out of mind even if we were going to.
This is a joke right? One of those "make fun of silly startup" kind of things?

I mean... I think it is. But Poe's Law is real and startups are absolutely insane so... please someone tell me this is a joke.
I’m honestly surprised Amazon hasnt bought Flexport. They seem to “get” how things should work.
Over the last few months, I've found I just can't focus on anything. Unless I find it interesting on challenging.

Generally, at work this is ok as I enjoy what I do. However, I study for a degree part time, which is in 'Computing and IT' - the same field as my work, BUT it's so out of date, and the content is so boring I just can't do it, until last minute when I have to.

I genuinely think if I had studied this course, before working in tech I may have changed my mind. It's mind numbingly boring. Even if they just taught the content in a better way, something like A Cloud Guru where you have videos, guides to follow along etc. but all I get is books. It's awful.

(While we're on the topic of it, I should be studying... getting back to it now, promise!)
I guess something being such terrible value nobody uses it is a sort of advantage...
From the outside point of view, free will is indistinguishable from the stochastic algorithm. As a functionalist, I believe that free will is not some mystical property of living organism -- it is an emergent property of sufficiently complex stochastic systems with feedback loops and reflectivity; someday, we'll create machines capable of free will.
I think the point that the author makes it sensible, but I think the defence of free will itself isn't really addressed.

What I agree with is that intentionality and free will are useful concepts to describe how agents behave. There is no need to 'physicalise' things, when description at a higher level is useful for understanding or conduct, and he draws from Dennett who has described the concept of a "useful fiction" like money, which is not physically real, but it makes sense to believe in it nonetheless.

In the beginning of the article the author says that "the practical need for assuming free will is not an argument in itself.", but then every argument that follows draws precisely on the subjective need of humans to assert free will to make sense of something at a high level of abstraction.
Apache Groovy's string syntax is deficient, not great. It doesn't have the docstrings syntax that Python, Ruby, and Perl all use.

An early beta version of Groovy 1.0 had it (thanks to a Sam Pullara), but it was later yanked out. Groovy's self-styled Project Manager at the time said he only wanted syntax in Groovy that would cause the Java syntax highlight rules in Eclipse and Netbeans to highlight Groovy code similar to Java, so if a manager was walking around the programming area, the screens would look like the programmers were using Java.

And that's how Groovy got its deficient string syntax.
The drug problems in rural America are worse than in urban areas, fueled by the additional joblessness, lack of mental health services and general boredom.
The coin thing is psychological. If you want to avoid carrying bags by hand, melt it for scrap, push your friends around, or get to your car 2 minutes faster, foregoing a quarter is great value.

Unfortunately for them/me, if I’m coming by chance by bicycle, I usually don’t have a coin and reduce my shopping to the necessities without a cart.

When you feel the weight of each item, you think more about every item you buy.
Why don't we just be honest. The housing mortgages crisis bailout with many other blunders by the government... has resulted in using the new generation as the potential piggybank to pay it all back. The generation in power doesn't care if one generation is sacrificed with all the downfalls that occur to the young persons who have no help from their parents or whatever reasons.
There's a lesson in there, viz. that an ISV ecosystem around your product is a major retention factor.

Nothing new here of course, tech shops have been doing it for decades. Centuries even maybe.

See also: certification programs.
Best case scenario: you are the customer. In this case, both sentiments can be true.
You're missing the point, and I would downvote you if I could.

Google is accumulating data coming from purchases on 3rd party services, without having asked you to do so. You may be fine with that, some people are not, and on top of that, disabling that behavior and deleting the already accumulated data is difficult, or impossible. That's what the article is about.
I am still grumpy that so many people think Google built a backdoor for the NSA
The things most worth producing in the world are universally not profitable.
Not a fan of article titles that take a controversial topic and boil it down to "I'm right, you're wrong"

Incredibly obnoxious
Just learned about vega from your comment. It seems very cool (coming from a person who loves D3). But replacing Tableau with a higher level D3... seems like you'd lose in man hours what you make up in subscription cost savings...
Yeah I think Steve Jobs would be an example of low agreeableness/high openness.
Just a perspective ... they maybe under enormous pressure themselves. See if that is true, let them know you want to do a good job. "If I'm making you so anger, what are actionable steps to where I can do better?"

If they are just jerks, well, maybe you can tough it out for a year.
Although tags might be a good idea, separation of subjects aren’t in my opinion. I think a big part of the community and the interesting things we’re able to find here are a result of the interleaving of the subjects you mention.

I do however really get your problem and I’ve had problems with it too. However I realised after awhile that it would be undoable for me shape everything into this mould I can deal with. So I decided to change the mould itself so to speak, nowadays I for instance try to read over certain stuff and actively ignore it and I only check the news as much as is needed to stay generally informed.

I don’t think you should necessarily do the same but it might save you some time and energy. Changing myself seems easier to me than changing the world around me. Stoicism has some good pointers about this although something as broad as stoicism isn’t necessarily needed. Something simpler would probably suffice.

(Mind you that I for instance didn’t have a problem with ideas which clash with my own, even more so I more often think those are the most interesting, what I do have a problem with is the lack of nuance which seems to be so prevalent these days and the tendency of people to make a personal and passionate affair of everything.)
I'm on the fence about "free trade". It helps globalization and probably the human race to technologically advance as a whole, but harms a ton of local industry.

I also agree that open trade is a better name
Evaluating Pipelined Rustc Compilation
> About 14 percent of the university’s undergraduate class is part of a program called the Carolina Covenant, which provides debt-free, full financial aid packages to students who fall below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. That package includes nontuition room, board and living expenses that total about $13,402 in the university’s estimated cost of attendance next school year.

Are you still required to combine both parents income (even if they're divorced and you're estranged from one or both of them) before you qualify if you're under 25 (23?)?

When I was 19 I didn't qualify for any financial aid because my fathers income HAD to be included in my application even though he didn't contribute anything to me and my mother was on disability, they were divorced and I hadn't seem him in years. I believe he was in the 40-50s range and my mother was under $10k/yr.

I was making around $10/hr working full time and attempting to put myself through about $40k of debt. No pell grants or anything. I couldn't afford a real school and dorms or any of that at all. I eventually just dropped out because working 8 hours a day and going to class and affording rent, etc wasn't exactly going my way.

I feel like I rarely hear about this and it always makes me wonder if there was something more we could've done. I remember this distinctly though and my mother fighting back and forth with admissions. It just makes no sense to me.
Where I’m from, there is a phrase that just says, “health is wealth”, and my parents, uncles, and aunts use it all the time nowadays (though it could just be that I wasn’t paying attention to them mentioning it when I was younger).
Exactly. A very strong title. And big phrases like:

> This does not necessitate that the world is also deterministic at some higher level of description.

But basically nothing to back it up and if you pretend to know something on a topic that big, you better have more consistent than "Indeterminism at the level of psychology is required for free will and alternative possibilities.".

Claims are not facts. We are expecting some kind of demonstration here.
I disagree... our will is bound by the will of others... consciously and unconsciously. Our selfhoods are fictions that emerge in dialogical relationships and every significant relationship in a way changes both your selfhood and your will. Our wills are neither free nor determined but negotiated.
> Are you still required to combine both parents income (even if they're divorced and you're estranged from one or both of them) before you qualify?

If either of them claim you as a dependent, then yes.
I'm really having a hard time following your connection between the "housing mortgages crisis bailout" from 10 years ago and unintended consequences of the tax cut 2 years ago.