skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're not being honest here. If you can't imagine it, it is because you're not trying.

I was being honest. Please don't tell me I'm lying; assume good faith. I still claim that his wording 'Wolfram Language gets it right' versus 'Wolfram Language got it right' would leave a layperson with the impression different than what you claim.

I could be wrong. I'd be willing to make a (nominal) bet about the outcome of a reasonable proxy if you're interested in testing our disagreement. I'm not claiming near-certainty tho. I don't think you're 'definitely' or 'obviously' wrong.

For the second example, I think his cellular automata is a pretty good way to see a phase transition. I'm also interpreting his claim pretty charitably, e.g. not that it's literally the clearest way for anyone to see, let alone understand generally, for whatever reference class of 'people' would possibly be the best definition to use in this case. I think you're splitting hairs pretty finely here.

I do agree that his writing style is "grating and self-serving". There's lots of evidence that that's the case, just in the comments on this post alone. I think part of that interpretation is warranted and valid. I think another, significant, tho lesser part is confirmation bias.

Stephen Wolfram definitely doesn't have all the answers for me, or likely anyone. I'm pretty confused why you wrote the last sentence in your reply to me. I think my comment was pretty anodyne. You seem to have pretty strong feelings about it.

I'm also unsure why you'd think an "investor" would be particularly interested in him or his companies. Wolram basically sells enterprise software and related services. It doesn't seem like a likely undervalued opportunity for significant growth.

I'm also unsure why you think anyone would "worship" him as a "savior". I don't regardless.

I'm happy enough to wish him and anyone that's jumped on his bandwagon well tho. I think he's got a very good point about the likely benefits of engaging in what I'd call 'exploratory computational discovery', as he describes in NKS. Yes, he uses much stronger and strident language to describe the same thing, and I think the magnitude of his claims are too large, but I do think his point is underrated, even significantly. I'm more skeptical of how much low hanging fruit there's likely to be from applying methods like what he advocates, but not radically so.
> because the riders don't have an incentive to park appropriately (and that is sometimes a guessing game -- street signs don't exist for where you can park scooters legally). However, I'd warrant that it's the sheer carelessness of riders who cause this issue.

i think this is not exactly correct. The scooter-riding apps i've tried do make users take a photograph of the correctly-parked scooter after the ride, and even if there wasn't that enforcement in place, if the riders are to use the service more than once, they have an incentive to leave the scooters in positions that will be amenable for further riding.

i'm not denying that the riders can be arseholes, but there's also a significant proportion of people who don't use the scooters but are angry at the presence of those scooters and vandalize them, push them over, and even drop them into bodies of water.
same here - that guy is excellent!
>I find the argument that humans will stop studying pharmacology if they can't monopolize their results quite unconvincing.

agree

>Current pharma co R&D and innovation only effectively investigates the benefits of drugs with recent patents (with enough years remaining to monetize).

Can you elucidate the connection to your first statement - I don't see how that follows.
So close, it says on the front page that it can be used on videos!

Amazingly, the first link is one so you can listen to the output!!

There's a product link! ..... which leads to nothing about a product.

And there's no pricing information at all.

It looked really promising but I had to conclude there's nothing there to buy.
Then they will inevitably collapse...
Bernie's campaign reported the vulnerability in NGPVan's platform to them and campaign asked the user who saw HRC data to resign.

Then they were suspended and the 'snooping in Hillary's data' spin appeared the next day.
Considering how only large tech companies have been fined noticeably so far I doubt that's the case.
.. based on what some lawyer said about case law, before the legislation even went live.

Here's some discussion about it on the r/gdpr subreddit, the consensus seems to be emails probably are covered.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gdpr/comments/8lsgwm/can_you_reques...

One person sums it up as:

Emails that mention you are likely to count as personal data. However, your right to access that data must be balanced with the right to privacy of anyone else mentioned in the emails. The company would be entitled to redact the emails before sending them, and potentially to refuse the request entirely if that would require excessive effort.
The cities of the Peninsula voted against getting a BART subway line decades ago, leaving them in the car-dependent, flat suburbs of the 60s

BART is a basket case of incompetence on its own. SF residents were largely willing to support an infill station at 30th and Mission, but BART stuck its thumbs up its ass and eventually built a half-billion dollar cable car to the Oakland airport (ripping up recent renovations to the street along the way).

San Mateo residents bought into BART in the 90s, but as they've learned public transit (BART especially) is a cost not profit center so the regional (SamTrans) service got gutted to fund BART (whose ridership numbers consistently lag predictions).
Apple does not sell chips to other companies. So competition decreases.
Instagram thinks that I have influence over jet fighter buying decisions, they're not that good (despite the invasive methods that they surely use).
> Cities do not want apartments because that doesn't generate revenue

The property owners still pay tax on it don't they? I'm sure it is less lucrative per square foot than commercial development, but I assume it is still better than the revenue from the closed furniture store and parking lot, and after all you need people to patronize businesses.
With the amount he's been caught doing "selective editing" I'd say he's pretty relevant.
To clarify on the last will, as there was a comment here (and a downvote to my parent comment, thanks for that, by the way...), comment since then deleted.

Last will is given to the broker at connect time. It doesn’t tell the broker that a disconnect is / isn’t deliberate. Last will has nothing to do with the reasoning for disconnect. It tells the broker what to do in case of a disconnect.
In all fairness, it's really due to universities not focusing at all on teaching research. Having studied (and taught) at a research university in the Netherlands, I can tell why my friends... well, didn't give a shit about their theses. For them, it simply is a longer essay with a predefined structure and some guidelines on the exact word count and referencing style.

It's sad, but it's not really about Turkey. It's global, and caused by the universities not caring themselves, and not teaching students how to write.
Absolutely; pay a dividend to people that comes out of the revenue of the carbon tax.
It is due to certain settings in the browser profile that I use for everyday surfing. Without giving too much information, let's just say that although some things are blocked, popular music and video streaming web-sites still work, so I guess this one should also work. It works in a clean profile with default settings in the same browser.

There are some errors like this:

Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”. generative.fm:1:1

Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-134692042-1”. generative.fm:9:1

TypeError: this.context.createConstantSource is not a functionmain.7acf3eaa3b54511db064.js:7:5340
Helping the incumbents isn't always a bad thing, despite what the startup world may say. In living bodies, weakening 'incumbents' against 'disruptors' is called "immunodeficiency".
"For most of the 20th century, stock buybacks were deemed illegal because they were thought to be a form of stock market manipulation."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-...
> We might be making progress on eliminating the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere from the US, but that's a rather different statement

That's not a different statement. Making progress in (subtask of A) means we are making progress in (A). Besides, it's not like everyone else isn't making lots of progress too.
> Tall buildings are inherently communal.

Sure and that's _your_ view of the matter (where I'm reading "communal" as "undesirable" here). Hundreds of thousands of people continue to view high-rise apartments as desirable places to live, as evidenced by housing demand in Manhattan, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, and other world cities. The Bay Area has created bureaucratic and legal roadblocks from allowing these high-rise apartments. If people really didn't want them, then folks would be moving out of these high-rise cities instead of moving into them. There's no need to mandate low-rise by law as the Bay Area has done.
Here it means it can cool and heat, typical AC would only cool.
So true, so well described, so depressing, and just true.
You don't need to live outside of the bay area to think this way. I've grown up on the peninsula and think it's absurd. I'm a software engineer and if I ever want to buy a house I feel like I'll be forced to relocate away from family and hometown. My friend's 90 year old grandmother constantly complains about new housing development in the town we live in, but then also questions why my friend has to live with her and his cousin had to move away. Stop voting to make this area too expensive to live in and your younger family won't have to move away.
Assad is not and never has been a threat to you or anyone you know

1. That's an interesting assumption you make.

2. Why would I have to know someone personally to empathize with them?

3. U.S. foreign policy, as conducted by our military, has pretty consistently been a disaster for decades. I agree wholeheartedly with you on that point.
Signs point to the 10 billionth (concurrently living) human being never being born, birth rates have begun to stabilize worldwide as more countries modernize. Remember, more educated populations with better health care reproduce less.

It’s not an issue of limitless growth of the population, it’s an issue of the population consolidating into a smaller footprint (which from an ecological perspective is a Good Thing) and stupid policies blocking it from happening.
It's insane. When I first got here from the east coast, I thought maybe there was some reason involving earthquake codes. And then I learned.

It's actually quite the opposite. So-called soft story buildings are more dangerous in an earthquake and property owners are taking quite a while to bring them up to code. Californians just love their cars.
My point is the two are not necessarily connected. Very well off socialist countries, such as the Norse, also have quite high suicide rates.

My hypothesis is 'deaths of despair' is due to the emptiness of materialism, not due to inequality.
In civilized countries people get 1Gb for $20. Then there's the question of why do you need that sort of bandwidth when a 4K video stream only needs 10Mb.
you sound bitter and jealous. Maybe because the "Harvard housing lottery winner, destroyer of magazines, failed investor, self-appointed philosopher, and Rich Man Who Can't Code" gets press and you don't? I stopped reading after your intro
> Humans have a terrible tendency to underestimate the complexity of reality, and the same stroke - diminish its beauty.

True, but this is like optimism. With the motivation to go through life and do things, an optimist can afford unrealistic goals. Sometimes, that is what pays off.
Don't worry, we're not. Human population growth is slowing down at a remarkable rate.
You're not solving the problem. There is no shortage of space for the future 11 billion humans. The big problem is the centralization of companies within few top tier cities without a corresponding increase in housing for the (locally) growing population.
I like replying to sponsored posts with comments that the sponsor would probably not classify as a 'positive engagement' ;-)
They do sell the chip for lightning connectors to third parties
GPS may not be accurate enough, especially in urban areas. And the current geofence isn't detailed enough. For example: it doesn't account for things like a wheelchair ramp from a private property intersecting with a public walkway.

In San Francisco, scooters were picked up by the city and impounded. I don't see why it's unfair for private property owners to do the same.
That has nothing in particular to do with whether Google is a monopoly or not, though. Google doesn't graduate into being regulated by the FEC just because it's big.
If you notice how new york and surrounding area is supported by very good transportation. West coast does not have that and on top of that there are no huge building being built outside sf. I wonder if this is due to earthquakes. Either way I think this issues and mixed with tech job demand is going to push remote culture more and more.
There's been talk of antitrust/etc recently regarding big tech companies, from Warren and others. For better or worse, it occurred to me recently that we have no concept of eminent domain [0] when it comes to technology, data, or intellectual property.

If it's in the public interest to build a bridge, lay train tracks, etc., your private property can be purchased against your wishes at a fair market price. When it comes to things like open APIs, protocols, interoperability, data portability, even patents, I wonder if it might every make sense to leverage this legal framework to build true network commons out of privatized silos (while compensating shareholders), as opposed to the old "break up AT&T into multiple companies" model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
Doesn't the statement go both ways? How do you tell that a remote phone is in your contact list?
Yep. You do not earn by not prescribing something.
None are analog. They make make analog-style subtractive synth sounds, but all the PO’s are completely digital devices.
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>All companies exist to provide profits to their owners.

No. This is very mistaken. There are many more stakeholders that companies have than their owners. For example, their customers. For example. Private Hospitals do not exist to make money. They can make money. But they exist to provide healthcare to sick people. As a side effect they pay their employees and make money for their owners; but if they fail to provide healthcare then they cease to exist. On the other hand, if they fail to make money they are often taken over and continue with new owners.

Companies exist to serve a function in our society, they depend on our society and they are part of it. They are not cash machines.
How is fining them an amount large enough to deter their behavior communism? Full stop, how?

What you're saying is that fines large enough to actually affect the company, to make their shareholders realize a loss of (monetary) value as a result of bad management, is communism?

That to me is simply insane, and I'd highly encourage you to go take some upper division economics courses before rattling off what is and isn't communism.
Things had been getting better though, rather than worse. When was the last time someone had to publish cryptographic software by printing it on a stack of paper?
Very cool! As a kid I found these on the beach on vacation in St. Croix. Never knew what species they were - they turned clear after a night in a glass of seawater so I couldn't keep them.
Again, why does it need to grow? There seem to be people in this thread expecting that unchecked human population growth is a sure sign of progress. It isn't. And our current population levels are also unsustainable.
And they wouldn't be wrong about that.

Note that the 2 main arguments and counter arguments: it helps protect people's information vs it increases the barrier of entry are NOT exclusive. Both can be valid at the same time and I believe that in many regulations they are both valid. That's how life works, a chain of compromises.
What does this look in the inside?
Encouraging development with minimum lot sizes of 4 acres?
Perhaps it’s a simple case of “Gmail users label her messages as spam more than other Dem candidates.” and Google is using that to train their filter.

Social norms have never been decided in an entirely open and objective way. We’re free to speak. Not be heard. Tulsi isn’t owed an audience of Gmail users.

Look at all these “but the free market!” type pols who got us to give everything up to corps getting bit. Suddenly investigations and regulations be coming!

Not a peep when, you know, they started bulk collecting the general public’s phone calls and emails.
We're already over the carrying capacity if the world wants first world lifestyle.
Algorithm defense is a new Twinkie defense.

On the first debate where so many candidates are buying google ads, for Google to have not planned for a spike in advertising and blaming it on the algorithm is just inexcusable.

Either Google is very incompetent and the person in charge needs to be fired, or there is something else going on.
Either incompetence or intentional their action did impact Tulsi Gabbard's post-debate moment and her fundraising ability and google is liable in election interference.
Well done UK.
> If you do not know the definition of a term, avoid using it. If it is one of the principal terms of your thesis and you are not able to define it, call it quits. You have chosen the wrong thesis (or, if you were planning to pursue further research, the wrong career).

This seems like good advice for life, not just your thesis.
Perhaps it's something to do with how California has lower property taxes (partially due to Prop. 13) and higher income taxes-- but those income taxes go to Sacramento, not to municipalities.

In other parts of the country, municipal treasuries grow as volume and prices of residential units grow.
You are basing your argument around just doing the minimum. Lots of people want to tip more than whatever you, society, or DoorDash decides it the minimum. Beyond simply being misleading, DoorDash's old model made it extremely difficult for anyone to reward their delivery person with an above average tip.
Using HTTP for RPC lends itself to this sort of endless discussion. Authorization is even worse.

You could argue either way. What's important is being consistent, at the very least throughout an API but preferably throughout the whole organization.

(Personally I'd probably lean towards a 40x of some kind, just make sure it doesn't clash with something that you care about.)

Along the same lines, and arguably more important, is how to log the operations where a transaction completed successfully but with a negative answer. If you log expected negatives as errors you can get error blindness.
> If zoning restrictions were relaxed, could house prices collapse?

I don't see how that could be the case. The property value of a plot of land on which a 50, or even 5 story building can be built is much higher than the property value of a single-family home.
Children tell their parents what they want to have. They have spending power, it's just that they don't buy things by themselves.
This is also very much contributing to the calc above. My kids hated it when I prevented them from watching YTKids (and subsequently uninstalled the app), and still (a year+ later) complain they want to watch those actors playing with their favorite toys.

They are supremely addicted to that stuff (even the non-objectionable ones), it was scary to witness.
> I wonder if this is due to earthquakes.

Could be, but Japan has lots of earthquakes too, and they don't seem to mind building huge/tall buildings.
Great quote. Perhaps compare the cost of servants with the cost of having a dishwasher/washer/drycleaner bill, and a car to the cost of a personal jet. Shows how education and engineering and medicine and law have lifted the value unskilled labour to unprecedented levels.

Living off $2M/year is fine, except of course interest rates are now 1% in much of the developed world. Higher returns now requires higher risk.
Improved Prosthetic Hand Has a Lighter Touch and Easy Grip
Sure that makes some sense. Discipline and impartiality is more important than technological supremacy, considering the tech is a actually old and impartiality and discipline actually make reactors safer
>All companies exist to provide profits to their owners.

Management consultants nearly always have a conflict of interest though (i.e. the preoccupation of consultants is almost always "sell, sell, sell" rather than "help the client make money") due to the nature of their work and their short-term contact-based engagements mean they rarely have to stick around and deal with the messes that they create.

Large management consulting firms IME tend to hire (or develop maybe) people who are smart and ambitious but highly conformist and reluctant to challenge authority. Combined with nature of the work I described above (and ofc existing to make owners /partners rich), this is sort of a perfect storm for lots of "semi-unintentional" unethical behavior and sometimes fully intentional unethical behavior.

Fwiw, from what I observed this dynamic actually makes the consulting work environment terribly exploitative and miserable for non-partner consultants but consultants tend not be the personality types who would leave consulting (and the prestige/"potential to become a partner") over it --unsurprisingly, else the industry wouldn't exist as it does now.
Her RSS is very much worth a subscription.
correct, however the city now has to support these residents with police, firefighters, hospitals, and the like. everyone who works in an office goes home and a different city has to worry about it.
Could someone explains this like I’m five?
Apparently it consists of a very large vacuole, surrounded by a thin layer of cytoplasm. Has multiple nuclei and chloroplasts spread around.