skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gp isn't remotely disingenuous, they are pointing out that 'probabilities ... are irrelevant [w]hat matters is the consequences' is a philosophy guaranteed to lead to stupid decisions.

To make a sensible decision in a risky context both probability and consequence are needed. There is always a (practically 0%) risk of any action leading to catastrophic global consequences.

In addition, the original Precautionary Principle paper linked is an idea that sounds nice but is actually a bit dangerous. If we applied the PP to the formation of the internet it should have been suppressed right from the get go - we never had and still have no positive evidence that social media won't cause extreme harm to the public (eg, it could have caused mass depression and disengagement with reality and maybe moral corruption :p). The internet is risky - did huge damage to existing industries and triggered the rapid rise of China through knowledge sharing and enabling remote management of industry (why else have we never seen anything like it before?). Impact of research into splitting the atom - did a lot of damage, much more risk.

Proving that something is safe without just doing it is hugely expensive. Technological advancement would not be a fraction of what we have now - the cost of trying things needs to be cheap to encourage progress. We couldn't prove most of the things we do are safe without being able to point to them and say 'seems to be working?'.
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So "law and policy is just something a bunch of people decided was a good idea". What do you think ethics is? If we're going to be really strict, then everything about humans is "just a bunch of people decided was a good idea".
I assume you don't live in the Bay Area? My wife and I both have high paying jobs and we currently live in a 2 bedroom apartment with just one baby. Can't imagine affording anything big enough to fit 11 kids in the Bay Area right now...
> Does China gain an advantage, by not using / having access to the same services that the whole rest of the world uses?

This is how they gain advantage from that: they develop their own domestic services that their government has total control over. Eventually those services may become good enough to become competitive exports.
Maybe! I’m biased because I run free sessions on this sort of stuff, and I like to think I don’t do too many platitudes or brag. Hard to say :)

The advantage of talking live with a human on this stuff is context. There are dozens of frameworks you can use for any different situation, but understanding when not to use one is as powerful as knowing when to use it.

Blog posts rarely capture that nuance. A lot of times they can’t for confidentiality reasons. Talking live with a manager with a decade of experience can help you to short circuit a challenge much quicker than trying to sort out the best online resource.

Not saying online stuff isn’t great! It is. Just defending live chats too :)
The criticism is that using what the government said to justify what the government then said when both are opinions is weak and circular.
Not sure. I know another HN app on my phone was showing me what I expected to see. Are you doing any caching of content?
> Dead people can't enjoy that view.

It's nice to have spaces set aside for quiet contemplation on death and the passage of time
You should be saving at least 10% of your salary
If may I suggest the simplest solution to have static site with GUI and GitHub or Gitlab support is Publii - https://getpublii.com
They need to put a handle on it. Then it could be like those handheld fishing games.

https://www.amazon.com/Radica-Games-Bass-Fishing-Handheld/dp...
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I don't fully agree, there are many games that manage to imitate the "old school" look and feel pretty well, I don't see why this couldn't pull that off too. But I could be wrong, we'll see how well it sells once it comes out.

By referring to it as a collectible, I also meant that this will most likely not going to be a huge success, but more of a niche product. I see it as an indie hardware; the Cuphead of Gaming Systems if you will.
Or yourself or the people helping you, after you had a stroke and don't remember anymore that and where your placed them.
>From folks I know who lived there they said that while everyone was nice, it was always clear that they were very much outsiders.

I spend a fair amount of time in Tokyo for work, and I'd say this is accurate.

My 日本語 is far from fluent, but it's frequently better than the English being spoken by random people on the street... yet it will take a good 20-30 seconds of me replying in Japanese before they'll switch away from English.

A co-worker is from Poland, and he married a Japanese woman. Their children speak Japanese and Polish at home, and only a little bit of English. Despite being very obviously half Japanese, he says the kids frequently have trouble getting strangers to speak to them in Japanese, despite it being by far their most fluent language.

This sort of thing probably doesn't sound like a huge deal to someone who hasn't experienced it, but every day to day interaction is a frequent reminder that you're not Japanese and you won't ever be - without radical change, those kids are going to spend their whole lives with their fellow Japanese citizens defaulting to the assumption that they can't even speak their mother tongue.

I still love the city and the people - they are genuinely wonderful and incredibly nice. Many of my co-workers have invited me into their homes, had me meet their families, and gone out of their ways to make sure I have a wonderful time in the city. I've had to modify my own behavior there to not accidentally make people feel like they should be going out of their way to help me, etc. And it's a wonderfully safe place, with kids expected to be able to function independently for means of getting to school, etc. There's an emphasis on personal responsibility, even at a young age, that I think is sorely missing in much of the western world these days, with helicopter parenting, etc., being so widespread.

I don't know if the whole outsider thing will change in my lifetime - but it changing is going to require more immigration, and the native Japanese becoming more exposed to foreigners who have immigrated instead of just tourists, or the breed of expats that keep to themselves in their luxury condos in Roppongi.

I've kind of rambled here, so I guess the cliff notes version is: Japanese people in my experience have been unfailingly nice, outside of some very isolated incidents of obvious racism, but yes, even people born in Japan if they look foreign will be treated as outsiders. That changing is going to require immigration opening up.
So what?

Most people have no problem with that. What normal people challenge is:

1) Estimate of impact. If you breathe, you're bad for CO2 emissions. But should it matter? It's hard to imagine one should care about it.

2) the government's ability to cost effectively do something about it (that is, that ability equals exactly zero, while taxes required to pay for that theft and incompetence are higher than zero).
This headline is misleading.

The vast majority of shareholder resolutions fail to achieve a majority (>50%) support. In fact, most shareholder resolutions are considered a 'success' anytime they garner any substantial amount of vote (>10%), and the company will usually take preemptive actions to address the issue when resolutions reach that level[0].

One thing most people don't realize is these votes are all non-binding. Companies have no legal obligation to do anything based on shareholder resolutions. Essentially they're a big survey.

Companies want to serve their shareholders -- that's the whole point. If the past is any indication, this effort will drive Amazon to substantially improve its sustainability practices.

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From one of my working papers:

Proposals that do not achieve majority vote can still have impact by opening up a dialogue. Glac (2010) presents an example of a proposal asking Amoco to adopt the Valdez environmental principles which only got 8.6% approval, but Amoco began to shift environmental policies. A similar proposal the next year was withdrawn because of Amoco’s policy shift. Sometimes, the media impact of a failed vote can lead to future progress. For example, Guay et al. (2004) argue that the media impact of a resolution filed with Talisman on operations in Sudan led the company to withdraw a year later.
sounds like defense contracting at Raytheon is alive and well.
Buddha said that. I think it represents intention (kamma) well
I hope you're doing alright, frankly better, now!
Didn't used to be, though.
I like the idea of having weird hardware like this produced. I can see it becoming a collectible. I don't love it though.

I'm curious though, did someone see this and really want it?
Do you believe, as I do, that the foundation of ethics is supernatural? If not, then ethics is also just something a bunch of people decided was a good idea too in your world view. And a democratically elected representative legislative body is as good a bunch of people as any to do so.

Edit: this really is the cultural differences thread
Thank you. Thanks for emphasizing on learning algorithms and coding questions.
I have no evidence of this, and I am not proposing it is true...

more like a plot for a novel or something, but

What if a nation that produces almost everything purposely contaminates their products with slow poisons and heavy metals so that the enemy consumer population slowly becomes stupid and ill, and unable to compete effectively on the international stage.
I agree with the general point that it isn't a good method of stopping a government falling into totalitarianism. However it is helpful if there is general consensus against facial recognition because it makes it a bit easier to identify the authoritarian-leading parts of government because they can't hide behind 'it is just usual practice'.

There are other, better, arguments in favor of personal liberty to use against facial recognition by law enforcement. Efficient, highly automated systems crush people who just happen to get caught up in them.
The macbooks last just as long as the ipad pro now. All models can hit 10 hours if you tried.
That’s fair, I don’t know for sure (hence “I hope...”).

I think shininess is fairly likely, because they are collaborating with Teenage Engineering, who have a reputation for making nice things like the OP-1.

Homebrew is much more questionable. On their “media” page they imply that an SDK is forthcoming, but they certaibly don’t make it as clear as I would like.

At any rate, the point I was going for was less that I am 100% behind this gadget, and more that I think there is room for more options in this realm, and this ticks at least some of my boxes.
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Needs a checkbox something like:

[_] I am not a crook.
I agree "per capita" can be misleading, but China and India are growing faster than the US, and China is outputting more CO2 than the US.
Gotta say, for anyone worried about the surveillance state and stuff, NYC is the perfect city. Through a unique combination of a dense, diverse, super populated metropolis and pure incompetence, you really can disappear in the crowds.
Disposable income of the Chinese consumer is almost all locked up in housing.
When GP asked for GGP to elaborate on their approach, I think they meant for GGP to discuss their wrapper around constraints.
I think it's pretty much what we'd expect when markets are allowed to operate unhinged; it doesn't necessarily speak to a point in time in an economy's development—it moreso speaks to the fact that less developed economies are less strictly regulated because they've yet to develop the case law and obituaries on which protective regulations are formed.

With that in mind it's a bit hard to ignore the irony in the regulatory uncoupling that's happening in the US right now. We have learned from our own past and from the aforementioned stories that greed and self interest will always produce externalities that trump a society's well-being; it seems that the lawmakers have too perverse an incentive structure and their constituents have too short a memory to realize which regulations are necessary to protect the greater good.
This view is popular, even if in jest like "haha Idiocracy was right guise!!" but in real life it smacks of eugenics and the Divine Right Of The Rich.

Success correlates well with things like wealth, education level of your parents, early-age nutrition, and other things that can be considered "inherited" in a way, but children of poor and "unsuccessful" people can become financially and socially important as well, it just happens at a lower rate.

Suggesting that more poor children than wealthy children will impoverish society in more than just a statistical sense implies there's something immeasurably special about the people who become wealthy and famous, as if the mere act of breeding with them will produce superior humans.
China has definitely become much better on human rights.

It's not often mentioned in polite company, but the Chinese communist government killed ~65 million of its own citizens under Mao.

I don't want to downplay the current regime's many and serious human rights violations, but they are thankfully on a much more modest level.

Internationally, China has focused strongly on peaceful trade, not military confrontation.
Teenage engineering does make a handheld musical toy thing. I have a couple. They are very bare bones music calculator-sequencer things.

They're called "pocket operators". Oddly fun to make beats on.

https://teenage.engineering/products/po

This one has some better pictures and soundcloud audio.

https://www.engadget.com/2015/04/22/teenage-engineering-pock...

youtube has a lot on these little things.
You miss the point. The system is going to collapse anyway and long term thinking is needed
It's a snippet program. It's not trying to reinvent anything.
There are a number of alternatives from other manufacturers:

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/professional-series/ac...

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/lenovo-n-series/...

https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-chromebook-x2-12-f015nr
That’s the other thing that doesn’t get mentioned more in these discussion. Governments can be bad actors and suppress citizens like how China is doing right now, no guarantee your own country won’t use it to suppress citizens who they don’t agree with.
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I thought using lasers to blind people was a war crime.
Remittances to India stood at US$68.968 billion in 2017, nearly 12 billion from US alone.
If you don't bring them here, it's not like the jobs can't be moved there.
What's really cool about PixelVision8 is it's a meta-fantasy console. IE, you can define your own spec/constraints and then code up a little game prototype in C# or Lua.

Looks like the PlayDate will support lua and apparently isn't a complete potato according to their presskit page, so it's not out of the question that platforms like PixelVision8 could port its runner to the platform and then you could author for actual hardware using the editing tool.
Shimokitazawa still have a lot of foreigners. It is surrounded by universities including Todai.
Denver’s RTD is zoned. The bay’s CalTrain is zoned. Atlanta’s MARTA is not zoned (it is a considerably smaller system though). Those are all my data points.
And it seems like you created an account just to slag off somebody's work without providing any real constructive criticism; no, thanks.

Are you an iOS or macOS app developer? Then you'll see the benefit of being able to look things like this up, especially in view of how Apple has deprecated a lot of their developer documentation without providing adequate replacements.

Tools like this can seriously help ease the pain for a lot of developers who just want something that should be simple done but don't want to scour Stack Overflow looking at other peoples' terrible code examples from years back.

If you're not an iOS or macOS app developer, then perhaps you don't see the usefulness, but that would only lead to the conclusion that you're giving unhelpfully besmirching something that has little to nothing to do with you.
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This is an insightful piece:

https://www.theroot.com/yes-trump-voters-will-stick-with-him...

It's not about doing the right thing for the economy, it's about pissing off/hurting 'the libruhls'.
That's a good price.
What’s the backstory here? Did Amazon ban some facial recognition product it’s developed from being used in certain circumstances and the shareholders overturned that decision?
... or with warmer clothes, I suppose?

I don't mind if they crank up the heat, if they don't mind if I work without a shirt.
It's not really crushing unless it's the Security Council. The GA is just talk.
>Anyone who espouses cultural purity is simply ignorant of culture.

There's a difference between gradual assimilation of cultural elements over hundreds of years, and flooding a country with change on the scale of a generation. It's perfectly reasonable to want to preserve what amounts to a cultural identity by limiting cultural influx.

>Anyone who espouses cultural purity is simply ignorant of culture

Nonsense. The fact that a given culture contains elements from others does not mean that it is not itself pure. Culture is simply information - in the form of practices, foods, clothing, ideals - and while there may be a great deal of overlap among the basis vectors that could be combined to represent the world's cultures, purity could be approximately gauged by a principle component analysis, which would most certainly show distinct, tight groupings for more homogenous, isolated cultures like that of Japan, and a more diffuse, homogenized cluster among westernized cultures.
Many if not all FAANG companies supplement their workforce with those consultancies though. It's why I've stopped publishing profit per employee comments -- the denominator is arbitrary.

The truth is more complicated. Because these agencies have gamed the system, they effectively control some fraction of the labor market. To a degree, FAANG has to come to the agencies if they want engineers, no matter where on the experience / skill curve they land. I imagine there's also an element of reputation shielding as well -- people like yourself blame Tata instead of the companies that hire them, but the companies that hire them get cheaper labor that basically can't hop jobs. That has to be valuable, given the policies Steve Jobs shopped around for around no poaching.
To me it seems like very unclear mission
How can you know? Can you reliably identify Koreans from Japanese?
I left out since 2000 in the text of the 1000+ publications containing "Homo erectus pekinensis" only a handful also contain "subhuman".
Majority Shareholders are practically our Modern Feudal Lords. The only difference is that there is a government which was paid in blood as result from past revolutions and uprisings. A government that is also being taken over by Modern Aristocrats.
We should be quite confident because there are signs they're already adopting environmentalist policies. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/chinas-choice/2014/a...
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Why "unix-like" and not just Linux underneath, with the (really) cool 90s productivity software on top?
Automatic welding helmets are pretty quick. Might be adaptable for pilots.
I love my little Surface Go, using it to write this reply now! I hope they release a new one this year with a better CPU, and with WSL2 right around the corner, it'll be the perfect tool for coding on the go.
I advise you to read Mesa/Cedar report on the impact of garbage collection algorithms available at Xerox PARC bitsavers archive, EthOS or SpinOS experience with Modula-3.

All of them refer that having value types alongside GC had a relevant impact improving performance.

All systems designed before Java was a thing.

Or since you refer to JS, the paper about SELF's design.

Even Dylan was designed with AOT/JIT and value types support, which is relevant here given that its domain was being a systems language for the Newton. That politics killed it is another matter.
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There is absolutely no reason to suddenly stop the train in the middle of a high speed movement between the stations.

Maybe while train still at the station. But not during the movement in the middle of tunnel.

Definitely not relying on random passenger making such decision.

This capability need to be disabled to avoid hurting people. Replace it with the button to communicate with local authorities.
This comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19962895, from a few days ago explains that any use of goto broke Dijkstra's theoretical formalization of program structure. Accordingly, even today's minimal use of goto would still be harmful as it would break his formalization model.

Fortunately we have better models that can handle goto. So it's not really like the anti-vax movement because the most substantial thing that changed isn't our use of goto (the disease burden in your analogy) but better formalizations (i.e. we have better medicine that makes fewer demands of the patient).
Cholmod is arguably the best solver for linear systems and it is free software.
Again, Tkinter isn't on the hit list and I'm glad.
Why is that your interpretation rather than just closing a loophole?

Are you saying there are not many immigrants of English ancestry (Britain, Australia, Canada) who are entirely "white" being inconvenienced by this?
Diagnoses, or cases?

If eating badly makes it easier to detect cancer earlier, it's win-win!

If eating badly is causing cancers, as I suspect they mean, it would be better to say so.
Hi!

I'm one of the (less active) maintainers. Four years ago I migrated the CL cookbook from sourceforge where it'd been gently resting for quite a few years (nearly a decade), and put it onto github, put together a CI system, and away it went. A few volunteers have been diligently working away on improving it, particularly `vindarel`, who has really taken the lead for content work in the last couple years as I've been pulled away by other things.

since 2015 we've had 492 commits into git, and these fine people have contributed to the git tree:

Alexander Artemenko
Andrew
Andrew Hill
Ben Dudson
Burhanuddin Baharuddin
chuchana
Danny YUE
Dmitry Petrov
Fernando Borretti
HiPhish
Johan Sjölén
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Momozor
Nisar Ahmad
Nisen
otjura
Paul Donnelly
Pavel Kulyov
Pierre Neidhardt
Salad Tea
Victor Anyakin
vindarel
Vityok
YUE Daian

thanks be to the contributors!

I'll be around to answer any Qs for an hour or two, then I'll keep an eye out tomorrow!
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I really wish there was better pencil support in apps on the iPad. I'm working remotely from the rest of the team which means I can't sit with someone and draw out a diagram when I'm trying to explain things. If you're communicating with Slack there's pretty much no support at all for it. Is there any chat app that has first party support for pen? I don't want to crawl the web for some sketch webapp and go through hoops just to sketch a couple of boxes and send them.
Same tech as the Pebbles too!
So we pass a law to prohibit that.
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