skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I understand the argument. A mass of angry people who have their basic needs met seems a good force for confronting exploitation. The Yang campaign specifically is the one very vocally calling out for capturing the fruits of automation to share.
> even though you don’t have to specify when the collapse happens you have to specify when does it look like a collapse does happen.

In MWI there is no collapse event, because there are no observers in the traditional sense that may collapse the system. In MWI we resign and just say that observers are subject to QM, and when a "measurement" is made, what happens is that observers and the observed system get entangled so that certain combinations of properties of the observer-observed system are not possible. This entanglement of two projections of a composite system can be described in the language of QM.

> what is predicted by standard QM, because the MWI is supposed to recover the same predictions.

MWI recovers the same predictions. Where in standard QM if one says an observer observes that a system may collapse 40% in state a and 60% in state b, MWI says that in systems (of the observer and the observed) where the observer makes the observation in the same exact manner, the observer will record state a with the system in state a 40% and the observer will record state b with the system in state b 60%, and there are no states where the observer observes something and the subsystem is in the other state.

Of course, you can simply model the entire system of observer and observed in standard QM and recover the same relative predictions without invoking the absolute observation of an observer. In MWI we do away with the conceit that there is an absolute observation of an absolute, but ill-defined observer.
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Please read the following if you use chrome password manager on your phone:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/cxtfak/coinomi_wal...

TL;DR; Someone in google is sniffing autocorrect text and when they find 12 word bitcoin seed phrases they are stealing the bitcoin. This is a serious breach of trust. If someone from Google is reading this please take it seriously.

EDIT: On further research it may not categorically be someone in google if the autocorrect text is sent in plain text. Autocorrect text should not be sent in the clear though. See here for more information: https://avoid-coinomi.com
A lot of people paid $24.95 for this game, and now they are going to abandon it, announce a sequel, and make it free for anyone who wants it. It's a triple slap in the face to existing customers. They should have re-wrote the needed code or contracted it out.
"In my opinion" is not a magic phrase that you can use to say whatever you want. Opinions are subjective evaluations of things for which there is no justifiable objective answer, such as personal preferences and judgements.

Saying that the sky is green is not a valid opinion, because the sky is not green, and it can be shown not to be so. Some things are not a matter of opinion.
That’s a Medium opinion piece. It is not a news article. A biased and ill informed one, in my opinion.

Why is it ridiculous?

Here: http://www.ktvu.com/homeless/fremont-resident-on-hunger-stri...

[..]Sun said he’s not against a homeless navigation center. He doesn't care where it's built. He does care who has a say and feels it should be up to the voters.

It’s his first hunger strike over the city’s first-ever homeless navigation center. He said it should be a ballot initiative for the voters to decide and not city leaders.

“Only position I take is the decision making,” said Sun. “I believe this decision is so critical for Fremont.”

[..]

Sacramento is holding Bay Area cities hostage. The citizens pay for all of this.

Are you saying people shouldn’t get a say on how their cities are run?

It costs the city 4 more million and approximately 45% of the 2 million grant money is for administrative costs. It only serves 45 homeless people for six months(a bed and one meal a day and counseling) and grant money comes with strings that the city has to take in 45 people from other cities in alameda county.

That means 45 out of 608 homeless headcount in Fremont will get the ‘service’ of being directed to homeless services. Is that a good use of 2.4 million grant money? You can build a permanent group homes housing 50-60 people for the same amount in another part of CA that isn’t crazy expensive Bay Area.

Better uses for the grant money.
They're good for the planet, without them we'd have abnormality. Especially since there's been forest fires since the beginning of time.

But they are inconvenient. So I guess:

Global Warming -> Climate Change -> Climate Inconvenience
Homeless people in developed countries, are in almost every case (perhaps with the exception of the USA, I'm not sure) homeless due to mental issues and because they don't want to go into community housing. They aren't homeless due to a general lack of resources.
My thoughts exactly. Put 7 hours of book-reading as my schedule for the day, and I'll be happy to.
Miniscript: Streamlined Bitcoin Scripting
CSS Quickies: CSS Variables – Or how you create a white/dark theme easily
If you allow generating a regular expression based on string length, you can validate any computable language with a regular expression. It's trivial to just run a solver on all strings of that length and or the accepted ones together.

> What I suspect you might not be able to validate is that in a regex, while [a-z] is valid, [z-a] is not.

It's fairly trivial to validate things like a-z being valid in a character class while z-a isn't. There are only finitely many legal ranges. You can just list them all, like \[(a-a|a-b|a-c|...|z-z)\].
AWS-Data-Wrangler: Python Package to Move Data on Pandas, S3, Redshift and Spark
Interesting European startup, LandLifeCompany, whose mission is to: “restore the world’s 2 billion hectares of degraded land.”: https://landlifecompany.com/

I wonder if any of their technology was used in these planting days in Ethiopia?
And which programming language did you have in mind?
The argument here is terrible. Basically, billionaires want UBI, therefore it must be bad for us. Sorry, but you have to do better than that.

You need to actually argue against the principles not just assume bad faith of those supporting it.
The condescending attitude is troubling me

"Rosenberg said that farmers usually apply fertilizer once, water the crop and hope it grows. AeroFarms, meanwhile, applies fertilizers many times, adjusting along the way to optimize plant growth"

Not true. Most farmers I grew up around follow the recommended fertilization guidelines provided by their local coop, it's not a one time and "hope it grows" thing.

“I’ve learned how ignorant we are about how to make plants grow.”

Who is we? People who use "we" like this always use it to assume and judge things they feel.

“A plant doesn’t necessarily need 10 hours of darkness,” said Rosenberg. “Maybe it needs 10 minutes.”

Yes it does if the plant is photoperiodic. Many are.

“When you can really play with those environmental factors and all these tools in a big data way in a farm the size of [a] building, it really becomes illuminating of how plants react in different ways.”

Indoor and greenhouse growers have already been doing this forever. Welcome to the club.
Bernie, like Socialism, never wins.
Get to work. Make something.
The thesis seems to go something like this:

UBI eliminates the last bargaining chip the masses have - labor. Without workers, there can be no strikes. With everyone dependent on the UBI for livelihood, nobody could afford to oppose the system.

This is what the "plutocrats" are after. Masses without a lever to organize.

I don't necessarily agree with the thesis, it's just that the article really doesn't get to the point.
Python supports gradual typing now, and it's made the experience for me much more manageable. Lots of good IDE integration too. It's not a replacement for Java's or Go's (etc...) type system, but it really increases the amount of Python you can support given the human scalability constraints.
Regarding point 3, my point really is that just a command-line program is not enough. I need a browser plugin or a keyboard emulator. That's one more piece of software, possibly from another vendor (see point 2). But yes, you're right, using the clipboard is not required for any reasonable password manager. It just might be an easier way sometimes.

Also it's quite difficult to keep up with all the apps on my system and all of them can follow the clipboard. I didn't even consider random websites.
Web tracking via HTTP cache cross-site leaks
Do you really think US/UK/Russia/France/Israel are all going to collectively give up control of their nuclear weapons to a single entity? Nuclear weapons are the ultimate equalizer. Your nation state can be 10000x less powerful, but still capable of threatening a superior civilization with total destruction of their population.
No wonder people break the rules when they're almost impossible to actually find.
If it helps, Bitwarden, including server, is open source. Of course that isn't a panacea by any means, but you can at least build it yourself and glance over the code. For me I prefer it to closed source for sure, and honestly even if the UI isn’t as pretty Bitwarden checks all of my boxes and tends to work really well across the platforms I use it on, including Linux, and it doesn’t have the same extension security troubles as many other password managers have had (1password prior to 1password X suffered due to communication with a desktop app and the complications that brings. Lastpass doesn’t do that, but has had arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in their extension.)

And of course, Keepass XC is always a very formidable password manager.
It keeps track of state that a regular expression cannot?
We've been seeing this for several years now. VBOs (Virtual Business Owners) are seeing their effective spending power double by moving to places with lower taxes and cheaper housing - that is REAL! - https://vbonation.com/vbo-lifestyles/move-to-rural-america/
Exactly which Germanic kingdoms do you mean? The Frisians did not convert until after 754 AD (when they killed Saint Boniface - Bonifatius - after he managed to upset them, probably doing stuff like cutting down their holy oak).

The Frisians were never properly incorporated into the Roman empire to begin with, just like many other northern Germanic kingdoms.

As for the EU having a credibility gap, we're doing just fine, thank you very much.
It necessarily includes a formal system. That much has been hammered into the ground already, and you'll discover it for yourself as soon as you attempt to formalize your description.

All existing attempts to describe physics have encountered some sort of incompleteness. Newtonian physics yields ordinary differential equations, which can encode Turing-complete problems. [0][1] Quantum mechanics yields Hamiltonian operators, which can encode Turing-complete problems too. [2][3] Both of these paradigms predate Turing's work; physics was Turing-complete a long time before you came along to look at the problem.

I can empathize with your original point: Surely reality exists! It seems so real! But reality can be real without existing. Ultimately, our models are only hypotheses about reality, and what they have shown us here is that even our models are so complex as to admit problems that are not going to be solved by mere assertion of existence.

[0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11494645_21

[1] https://sapientia.ualg.pt/bitstream/10400.1/1008/1/05-GCB-st...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16059

[3] https://eprints.ucm.es/38062/1/spectral-gap_supplementary.pd...
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I have a masters degree in music composition which I got back in 1997 from the University of Minnesota. Even then it was clear to me that my future career paths were quite limited. Most people with composition degrees would fight for a limited number of teaching spots in music theory and ear training. If you were lucky enough to get a job (even an adjunct one), you might be able to teach a few composition students too. But there were far more applicants than jobs, and of course forget about deciding where you want to live. You have to take any job you get (if you even get one).

The other path was to move to LA and try to get work writing for film and TV. But that's also incredibly competitive. You also have to write music incredibly quickly to succeed, and I was a slow writer.

Fortunately for me, I absolutely hated teaching theory and ear training during my masters, and I made the decision to not go on to a Ph.D. Even more fortunately, I got my first computer when I was 5 (its own example of privilege) and I was able to get first a support job and then soon after a programming job during the first dot com bubble.

I still love music and I miss composing, but I'm sure I'm happier being financially stable, having a choice of where to live, and not teaching things I really don't enjoy.
Surely it's automation that eliminates the bargaining chip, not UBI?
Global warming might do the genocide for them. Large parts of the planet become uninhabitable. C

Comfortable conditions for living and food production are in synthetic environments only the rich can afford
So it wasn't just a few bad apples. My perspective. The group on the road was the face of the protest to anyone driving through. Right? And these guys weren't locals, they couldn't tell the difference between ranchers and pipeline workers, and generally didn't care who their actions impacted. They were thugs, people who wanted to get into a fight. That's who gravitates to a spot like that.

What would have helped? Put some of the local protesters on the road, people who didn't come off as quite so aggressive, to be the face of this thing. Who could have educated people on the issue. Instead, you get some guy in a bandanna, with a baseball bat, walking up to your truck, "Get the fuck off out of here!" Again, the absurdity of some non-native non-local telling a life-long resident native rancher, "I'm protecting my sacred lands..."

And if you ask the locals, there's no love for the protesters. People remember how you make them feel, right? It's impossible to defend the actions of a group of people who caused so much destruction and were such assholes to deal wtih. Any reason they couldn't tell the difference between pipeline workers and ranchers and just the the ranchers through? Ranchers are all older, I think the average age of ranchers in North Dakota is now over 50, and typically drive pretty beat up trucks (average income is $40k).

If you want to fight the 1%, you don't do it by trashing on some guy who's just out there doing an honest day's work. These are family men just trying to make ends meet. These families that lost equipment... they're still down 3 years later. Anyway that was my experience with this. I hate the militarization of police, and most police in general, but it's really hard for me to feel pity for anything that happened to the protesters after the way I saw them treat local ranchers. Just no excuse for a lot of that shitty behavior.
He just posted on the Fairphone forums that he was on a business trip and vacation. New builds have been pushed for LineageOS and LOS + microG.
Does if have to be that complicated just put up a giant border wall and ignore climate change. Millions die of climate disasters and you can claim moral ambivalence.
I agree violence is justified when someone violates rules. China did violate ‘Article 5 of the Basic Law’ before 2047. So it is global problem that we still haven’t developed tools to force countries to comply with their own laws to stop violence. Or is USA trade war kind of punishment for China?
Unless you regularly test your backups, there's no reason to think you have backups. Unless you regularly rebuild from scratch, there's no reason to think you can rebuild from scratch.
For a fixed input length all languages are decidable by regular expressions. Trivially, the union of all valid input strings of that length, like "(abc|def|...)".

It's not an interesting property.
What is UBS?
Sounds like an opportunity for someone.
They should grow first as much as possible before considering to fight with much bigger enemy so that the winner would be unknown. To do so they should define a problem as time-space independent one. It is global problem here that we still haven’t developed tools to force countries to comply with their own laws to stop violence. We need worldwide consensus here what everyone should do in this case before he hits the same problem.
> Epstein was clearly a pedophile. Even at the time in question, it was already quite clear that he was a pedophile.

He wasn't a pedophile, at least from what I've read. Pedophilia specifically refers to an attraction to prepubescent children - Epstein was interested in adolescent girls, which would make him a hebephile. If Epstein was going around with an entourage of 10 year old girls it would've been extremely obvious, and he would've been arrested in about 5 minutes. OTOH it can be legitimately hard to tell the difference between a 14 year old and an 18 year old. People may have heard rumors or had their own suspicions, but they probably weren't sure and that uncertainty made it easy to take the safe route and stay silent...
I assume you responded to the wrong thread?
That's pretty reasonable, but if I were a malicious actor looking to do something like this, I'd try to introduce different bugs at different times that combine to leak passwords. That would give plausible deniability, too. Not saying it's an easy scheme to engineer.
I wonder how many replication attempts they tried. There could still be some value if it happened sometimes at not others. If it is random, there is value in the negative result. Extremists don't perceive color differently: that's a valuable finding!
all those governments are decidedly on the side of "The powerful"
This is really solid advise for pre-interview hiring. If you are hiring or will ever be hiring, read it. Aside from some word choice, there is only one thing I (and the author!) am not sold on:

> The Who book recommends selling this as some kind of cool, Disney-styled Fast Pass, where people can go through a step or two of your funnel and get advance notice of new listings, a shorter trip through the process, etc

This is in reference to always interviewing even when not hiring so you have a warm funnel. You are interviewing real people with real feelings and real obligations. Be very upfront with them if this is a warm-funnel interview and not a potential soon-to-be job offer. One of my worst interview experiences was after scoring at the 98th percentile of some organization's test, I was told via writing that they are not hiring now, but look forward to reaching out when a position opens up. Yeah, no thanks, I'm trying to be employed like immediately.

Side note: I really like the superscript functionality in the post.
To all the commenters that whine about using version control: version control is not a replacement for backups and disaster recovery procedures.

Repositories get deleted by mistake. Company accounts get closed. VCS servers break down or catch fire or get wiped maliciously or by mistake. Disk encryption keys get lost.

Offline backups on remote locations exist for a reason.
All of them.

"Type-0 grammars include all formal grammars. They generate exactly all languages that can be recognized by a Turing machine."
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If this is essentially a hashcash, what prevents them from swapping that out for a cryptominer after getting an established user base (if they aren’t already mining)?
The importance of Mars cannot be overstated for one simple reason: it is the only place in the solar system where we have the chance of a completely self-sufficient existence with no support from Earth.

Mars has natural resources we can mine and plenty of water. For what it lacks the asteroid belt “nearby” could provide in endless quantity.
Yes curiosity is indeed what this site is about and if you see below HN user "philwelch," was interested & curious about Ji Qie's story as he wasn't familiar with it. I pointed it out to him and satisfying his and other HN readers interest & curiosity it received 14 upvotes. Aren't the upvotes saying the information was useful, their interest and curiosity was satisfied?

Though are you saying I should never talk about Google getting caught stealing IP where it's relevant on Hacker News(have you censored other members b4 on certain topics)? It does not satisfy readers curiosity or is helpful to other dreamers/innovators, ones who dont have Joi Ito (MIT student's advisor) on their side, in whats the best way forward when Google R&D sends an invite?

Ive been a HN reader and commenter since 2007 and spoken freely since. I hope I am to continue to do so!
automation can't eliminate the bargaining chip if the populace have no means to purchase goods produced by automation. That's why it's actually UBI that makes a huge chunk of people a slave to the system
"Your Job" probably doesn't apply to most people here. I mean, the fact that "content moderation" is even a job is kind of saying something. In the 80s and 90s this was mostly volunteer work.

There is some argument to be made that as the volume and difficulty of the work goes up, that pay would also increase, so it's not necessarily fair to say that when AI gets super good and handles all the easy cases, that the workers would still be only paid minimum wage.

If you are literally only asking humans in morally or ethically dubious situations, then that sounds like a specialized skill. I.e. one you'd pay a premium to hire someone with a college education and background in psychology or ethics who is used to thinking about things like that.

Right now, people are paid minimum wage because, hey, I'd guess that 99% of the time, someone uploads a porn video and it's trivial to tell in 0.1 seconds flat that it's against the rules. I don't want to suggest the job is easy (watching the worst of humanity 8 hours a day will certainly drain you) but I just wanted to point out that this is an entire industry of jobs that simply didn't exist 20-30 years ago. It's not necessarily correct to assume that it will remain unchanged 20-30 years from now.
My answer to violence is to be smarter. It is global problem here that we still haven’t developed tools to force countries to comply with their own laws to stop violence. We need worldwide consensus here what everyone should do in this case before he hits the same problem.
The existence of separate political/economic (EU/EEC) and political/military (NATO) unions in Europe is remarkably dissonant.
This is not a quick process, even for legitimate users. I am on a quite-capable computer, and it takes long enough that I am all but sure it will harm conversion rates.
I could see being able to look at your code diff outside the context of your editor could help you identify issues you wouldn't otherwise see. Especially if your brain flips into code review mode when looking at a GitHub PR.
> With an open source project like this, every contributor has a responsibility towards all users of that code.

What ? no. Do IBM engineers have responsibility towards Qualcomm engineers when they commit IBM patches under IBM-named flags to the linux kernel ? What happens if there's a new CPU company in two years that would also happen to work fine with these flags ?
Pulsar music is beautiful+creepy: http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/research/pulsar/Education/Sounds/47t...
The once hot asset class of high-end student housing runs into reality