skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Adding to it, there are things in life which are ineffable. This means they are (by definition), impossible to model or explain with words. Thus, these things will forever evade scientific scrutiny as science cannot deal with the ineffable.

The concept of 'Ineffable things', is a very poetic way of describing something but it does not reflect reality. If a word exists to refer to something it is because is not ineffable. Let's take your example of love, for which you say is impossible to model or explain with words: Now, perhaps it is, if we are being pedantic and requiring a 100% concrete description of it where every one of its possible expressions are explained to the total satisfaction of every one every where every time. But that is not the bar we are aiming for, we are only aiming for it not being ineffable. As it happens, we can describe love at the very list in a vague sense, which is a lot more than no description at all.

We can say for example that love is an emotion, we can say love is not hunger. Love is not the number 9. Love is related to affection, love is a feeling expressed by humans, among other creatures. Just in those few sentences we know a lot more about love than we did if we just accepted its condition as ineffable.

In fact, we could spend days describing love, as many many poets already have, and while it is true we do not understand it completely, we do know what we are talking about when we say love enough to write millions of inspiring pages about it.
It's unlikely that the first self-replicating organism at the origin of life was a protein. As you point out, there are just too many moving parts that need to come together simultaneously. These days, I believe research is tending towards something closer to RNA, which has the nice properties of both encoding information efficiently and catalyzing reactions involving its own nucleotides. It may also have started with a type of genetic polymer that no longer exists in life as we know it. Interesting but approachable article on the topic:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128251-300-first-li...
Also a thing to note if you want just like with normal try catches you could catch certain errors that you know how to handle in that higher level of the call stack and you can rethrow errors that you don't know how to handle using `throw <error-variable-name-here>` to be handled in a lower part of your call stack.
Fun trick: Look at a photograph with one eye closed. Your brain will do ... something and the picture will look 3d
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>>> Who would have the legitimacy to design such an exam?

If it's like civil engineering, it would be the regulatory body that determines the approved technologies and design formulas for your field. The exam would be based on those standards. I'm not sure most governments would even approve public key cryptography.

Better watch what you ask for. ;-)
I usually takes luck too. Sometimes the good kind. But more often, not the bad kind.
Me and my friends had a lot of fun hacking into our school IT systems in high school. We took security as a challenge, not as a warning.

At various points, we had a shared file server for sharing movies and music for the whole school, bypassed the proxy (which also gave us a vastly improved connection speed), had Unreal Tournament 99 on the computers (this was ~2010, but it was one of the only games that would play well), we figured out how to send messages to all computers (using Novell Zenworks or something), and eventually a few of us just had full root access to the entire system. We also had lots of fun with fork bombs, setting peoples desktops to porn (we weren't meant to be able to change our desktop but there were workarounds), and the occasional broadcast storm.

If only we had known about bitcoin at the time, we'd have become rich running a mining network on the school computers.

Luckily, our school had a very relaxed attitude to our shenanigans. We generally avoided doing anything actively harmful and we also got a few free passes by helping the IT staff when they had problems (they were useless at their job).
I believe Tesla’s also have radar.

I also listened to the podcast. George made it sound like the Lidar wasn’t being used for much. It augments the maps to help determine more precise location?
It’s simple really. After global warming causes sea levels to rise, the cows will be underwater anyway, they can just find their own seaweed to eat.

Problem solved!
I'm not really a career programmer or language enthusiast, rather, I'm more of a utilitarian/imperative coder - I write programs to plug gaps in existing infrastructure as quickly, as securely, and as future-proofed as possible, even if it means dumbing the code down somewhat.

So I think my head would explode if I tried to learn a FP language without being able to have months off work to study. In addition to that, my team would kill me, as it's hard enough to find good C/C++ programmers in my city, let alone something like OCaml. Given that we run emergency services infrastructure, unfortunately we have to use more popular languages to ensure that the business doesn't end up with a lot of code written in languages they can't support.

Regardless, thank you very much for the example. It's nice to see that this can be done in other languages even if I can't understand it. Unfortunately too many years of C/C++ have made it hard for me to grok FP code - the C example I posted up before is much more readable to me.
Very exciting to see causal theory being productionized!

From the article, this seems like a normal regression to me. Would be interesting to know what makes it causal (or at least better) compared to an OLS. PCA has been used for a long time to select the features to use in regression. Would it be accurate to say that the innovation is on how the regression is calculated rather than the statistical methodology?

Either way, it would interesting to test this approach against an A/B test and check how much an observational study differs from the A/B estimates, and how sensitive is this approach to including (or not) a set of features. Also would be interesting to compare it to other quasi-experimental methodologies, such as propensity score matching.

Is there a more extended document explaining the approach?

Good luck!
>puritanical US States Attorneys

Yes, Kamala Harris in particular.
I agree the system described is crazy. However, I find it frequently useful to use ordered JSON as a data format and I think it would be handy if more languages supported it. For one, it makes it a lot easier to write integration tests using a “golden file” of ideal output, because your program that outputs JSON now usually deterministically has one correct output. For two, it lets you hash a json-encoded object deterministically.
I reported a vulnerability in blackboard when I was in college (around the same time period as you).

I don't recall any sort of disclosure mailing list, and the only contact link I found seemingly went through my college's IT department. Whether my university had applied some customization, or whether it was just me being a young college student, I'm not sure.

Anyways, a few days after I had reported the vulnerability, I was summoned to a meeting where I found myself sitting at a table opposite my academic advisor, as well as the Department Chair of the CS department, where they began to speak to me about "academic integrity".

I'm glad the story mostly ends there, as during this meeting I realized what had actually happened; someone in the IT department had misinterpreted my report as some sort of hacking threat, and they had "tracked me down on the university network", which makes no sense because I had reported the vulnerability via email directly from my .edu address.

While I wasn't exactly well-liked among the professors in the CS department, the department chair at least recognized that it was a big misunderstanding, that I wasn't doing anything nefarious, and had been acting in good faith.

After that meeting, I had approximately zero interest in disclosing vulnerabilities of any sort, for fear of being on the hook if/when they were ever exploited.
> conditions in the world are better than ever before

Is it possible that some conditions are improving while some are getting worse? Technological or economic progress at the cost of the enviroment. Things are improving, until they suddenly aren't. Are you paying attention to the weather? This is not normal. We are experiencing a mass extinction event that may be unprecedented in history. Do not tell me that everything is fine.
> By allowing immigration, you increase chances for immigrants to be more educated and therefore reduce the overall birth rate.

How do the people who immigrate here affect the behavior of people in the countries they left behind? Why would they not continue having too many children?
I don't write anything user facing, but write plenty of scripts that query a database, return a dataset, create a data frame, and then do statistical analysis on it. The SQL is all pretty straightforward with no ORM and is really easy to understand and use.
Criminal activity CAN have a negative impact on society, but it doesn't always. For that to be true, either every law must be set conservatively (so that things on the edge are clearly negative) or the societal cost of breaking any law, even extremely stupid ones, must be large - large enough to outweigh the advantages of lawbreaking.

Given that most people break the law in minor ways quite often, I'm relatively sure there second is false. And I really wouldn't bet on the first being true either...
Did you drive any further than just the way home? I would bet most people would adapt quite quickly.
They’ll just become sea cows, obviously.
There’s at least two other accounts with multiple name, gender, race changes. It’s likely not because of logging out reasons.
For anyone else who skipped the article - this story likely isn't sponsored by Tesla as it takes a very critical view of Camera-only self driving sensors.

Edit: misread the parent comment
My experience is that it will only autocomplete traits that you have imported. Which sucks because what if I don’t know what traits my type uses? It’s crazy
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> It seems to me that some of the most valuable information for an advertiser would be what kind of ads someone will voluntarily choose to watch.

Advertisers don't care about what ads people want to watch. They care about what ads convert.
The first thing we need to remember is the self driving doesn't work like our brain. If they do then we don't need to train them with billions of images. So the main problem is not just building the 3d models. For example we don't crash into the car because we never seen that car model or that kind of vehicle before. Check https://cdn.technologyreview.com/i/images/bikeedgecasepredic... we never think that there is a bike infront of us.

Humans do lot more than just identifying an image or doing 3d reconstruction. We have context about the roads, we constantly predict the movement of other cars, we do know how to react based on the situation and most importantly we are not fooled by simple image occlusions. Essentially we have a gigantic correlation engine that takes decision based on comprehending different things happening on the road.

The AI algorithms we teach does not work in the same way as we do. They overly depend on the identifying the image. Lidar provides another signal to the system. It provides redundancy and allows the system to take the right decision. Take the above linked image for an example.

We may not need a lidar once the technology matures but at this stage it is a pretty important redundant system.
That fire really is dangerous.

But some sort of other drive may help put it out. Look into Ayurveda and the source of inflammation (infection), i.e. pitta energy, and the sorts of anti inflammatory diets she could pursue, or reply for some links and pointers. Alexander the Great was going to create the most cultured empire out of a seat in ancient Babylon but then died of the fire, a fever after too many military campaigns and Indus conquest. Incredibly ironic too, since Aristotle was his personal tutor and Ayurveda (from India or the ancient Indus valley vedas) was the basis for Aristotle and other Greek natural philosophy, but they lost contact with the sources.

If geniuses like Alexander and Mozart had known about these philosophies out of India they might not have died on the prime of their third decade of life. But as you put it, the human condition is not so simple as only having drive.

Also avoid prolonged screen time, look for kindle or paper books and conducting work or research out of plain (or fancy) old notebooks as much as possible.
I guess that's an old habit from maintaining open-source projects, fully disclosed & all transparent policy sometimes make things overly complicated. My apologies for the bad writing ;-)
The human brain is horrible at building truly accurate 3D representations of the world. Our mental maps are constantly missing a magnitude of details while tricking us and creating approximations to fill in the blanks.

Easy examples of this are optical illusions, ghosts, and ufos. There is also "selective attention tests" where a majority of people miss glaringly obvious events right in front of them, when they're focusing on something else. Regular people also tend to bump into things, spill things, and trip, even when going 3 miles an hour (walking speed).
Cows are much better at extracting nutrients from, say, grass than humans are.

In places where nuts, vegetables, fruits aren't available, meat may be a more environmentally friendly choice.
I think most people probably can't guess how a refrigerator works. Maybe if they remember high school physics, but I wouldn't put money on it.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic but I think you're overestimating the understanding of science the average person has.
> who even had a parent's lawyer friend look over the contracts.

That lawyer needs to be sued for malpractice. This is their job.
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“Finally, I would note that while the data is silent on the necessity of skills acquired from non-traditional certifications such as MOOCs and bootcamps, it does suggest something about their sufficiency: they clearly aren’t. A postgraduate degree is a far better indicator of your prospects as a data science hire. ”
What does "Chase or Bank of America" have to do with anything? There are probably hundreds of other options.

So: When does it make sense to refinance? I am not a financial advisor. But I will ask a question: What is your criterion for "worth it"?

Do you care about monthly payments? Total cost? Total inflation-adjusted cost? Length of time to pay it off? For whichever parts matter to you, run the numbers on refinancing vs not refinancing, and decide.

Then, with whom? Some local lender? A big bank? Box? Homie? I have no idea how to answer that question. Look into a couple of lenders from each category, and compare what matters to you.
Wow. Given CNBC is owned by GE.
To answer that question, you're going to have to project how long you're going to continue to own the house...
We are experiencing a global pollution event that has never been seen before. We are in the midst of potentially unprecedented mass extinction in modern times.

Can you consider the possibility that some things can improve while other things can get worse? That the cost of improvement in some areas, technological or the economy, will be a trade off in others like our enviroment?

Can you consider that as technology increases, so does the overall impact of humanity, so does the possibility of an extinction event. That there are more nuclear weapons today than ever before and the knowledge of this technology will only increase in the future.

I find your comment incredibly naive in its contrarianism. Oh sure, the media wants to scare you but that doesn't mean problems don't exist. This idea that everything always gets better with time is a ridiculous bias. The Dark Ages happened and it can come again. Progress is not a guarantee.
Humans can determine the size of objects because we look for references in the scene and we understand the context.

If a person is standing next to a bush then we roughly know their height since we know the range of sizes that a bush could grow to. Likewise the size of someone like Thanos from Avengers would look odd in a documentary but because its a superhero movie we assume that's normal.

Self driving cars to my knowledge do none of this.
I guess is not a very impressive number in that case
May be I should have clarified a bit more. I am talking about coercion of the native populace of an internal region by its own government. The first two were global conflicts. The last one may qualify but again it is a self-serving cycle. You create a situation which leads to a region revolting and then you need to pacify it through force.
The people who choose to live near the coast as a luxury? Move inland, problem solved.
Long term there should be no difference between traditional breeding and GMO outcomes. (traditional just operates at the maximum pace and incremental change nature allows)

GMO is a issue only where turning a short term profit overrides giving the mutation time for natural attrition to weed out any potential issues.

The thing is, both can lead to bad outcomes: susceptibility to disease and inability to breed from seed are common issues as a result of selective breeding.
Doesnt work. Scammers already adopted this to their advantage.

Conman calls a landline, starts conversation with "please call the bank back, im putting down the phone now" and ... just plays Dial tone. The trick is call ends only when the person who started it hangs up.
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They are essentially compensated for tweets. They are paid hourly to tweet. And have to be tweeting positive things regularly per hour. Essentially the same thing.

The part about saying they like their job is true. The guidelines for them is everything has to be positive.
Apple says it supports 2.4M U.S. jobs
At my last job I worked exclusively with our Europe branch and European customers. 75% of the developers I worked with were contractors or consultant companies they outsourced to. More than half also had offshore India teams.

You’d recognize all the customers names and likely own their products.
Screen Hero Tech Stack?
Good, tech folks (I include myself) really need to start thinking through the way this stuff can hurt people and society and take some responsibility.
I believe the state has methods to compel obedience. Again, this is what the courts are for. Do you think any actor in this scenario can resist the power of the government, who has the ability to jail or kill you?
The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment prohibits only governmental, not private, abridgment of speech. [1]

A CDN is hardly the Internet Police.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1702_h315.pdf
I do find SPI e-ink displays on taobao, not sure about touch:
https://world.taobao.com/item/558792955821.htm
The focus belongs on government regulation and smart polices. Example: the current landscape of recycling in America is a complete scam for the most part, outside of aluminum cans.

Personal behavioral changes will not impact on the scale required.
> For readability’s sake, I have removed try/catch wrappings here that you should be doing in practice. You should never not catch errors, but makes the async/await concept way easier to understand.

On the contrary, you should never catch errors unless you’re actually going to handle them. A try/catch silently ignoring failures means you don’t care about the operation’s result. The default should be bubbling up errors to a centralized error handler.

Async functions make this even more convenient as all errors now become promise rejections.
One thing I like about having React DevTools installed is you can easily see which sites use React because the little icon lights up. It's a surprising amount these days; React is getting so popular.
Christianity, as it is practiced, defies christian principles.
Not as much when the carbon tax is tax-neutral. In Canada we started getting back a carbon tax credit. Consumer impact is still there but a lot more mitigated.
Look my comment above, scammers are exploiting basic principles of landline operation. Its the victims landline that gets "hijacked", not some institutions number.
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The second one could infact explain it all. And could solve design problems. This happens a lot actually, rusty former coders or people who learned in college and never actually did it so it stuck.

The first one could also explain the code fine. Interviews 2 and 3 they were comfortable and able to design decent systems but fell over on code. This why I was given the task of "get any code whatsoever after you put them at ease"
To me a singularity does not seem to be approaching. In particular it doesn’t seem like technology is “accelerating faster and faster”. The broadest metric for human progress is GDP growth, and in the U.S. GDP growth hasn’t really been accelerating, it’s been around 2.5% a year for the past decade or so.

AI in particular has made some advances but most basic activities remain undoable. AI cannot fold my laundry or generate a believable sentence well enough for those features to make their way into a consumer product. Voice recognition like Alexa is the only big impact of AI so far, which places it below advances like “touch screen glass” in terms of its impact on society.

It could certainly change. The biggest question right now is whether self driving cars will work, or whether it will fizzle. In the 50’s many car companies thought the next step was inevitably personal airplanes, and that fizzled. So it’s possible it just won’t happen.
The author said "tesla shorts"

> sponsored by the Tesla shorts

i.e. people who are betting against Tesla.
[Citation needed]

Nowhere in that article is Amazon's choice mentioned.

Amazon has always taken a pretty libertarian stance on selling books. It's been a dilemma for the company since inception. What is and isn't okay to sell.

I agree there should be some moderation, but I don't see anything wrong with the article you posted.
> We can simply decide that striving towards universal wellbeing is morally good, and that suffering should be minimized.

Your "axiom" will also have to define what "universal wellbeing" and "suffering" actually mean, and how these maxima/minima are to be computed, etc. That is not simple at all.

Having done that, you have to admit that your decision is arbitrary (except, hopefully, it aligns modestly well with the evolved/cultural preferences of some set of brains). I hope you won't lapse into dishonesty and tell brains that reach different conclusions from their evolved/cultural preferences that your decision is "right" or "wrong" in any sense similar to the "right" and "wrong" of scientific truth. Unfortunately I have never yet met anyone who is able to resist that temptation.
You can definitely do an AB test to verify the causal relationship - in fact, that's the preferred method! Our platform is for situations where you didn't run an A/B test - either because you can't run as many as you'd like or you forgot - in order to give you an estimate after the fact.