skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...debt- legal, administrative, technical, financial...

If you're right, then you can institute devolution of any of those things and the issues you cite are going to build up over time. It will just happen at different levels in because it's spread around some many different systems.

The unemployment issue is an excellent example of this. You want to know the reason why Congress gave a flat $600 to all UI recipients even if it would be more than they were making before? Because there isn't a single unemployment system, there are 50 systems each unique, each with their own "debt", and trying to implement appropriate strictures in all of those systems would have delayed that part of the stimulus for months, if not longer.

The way you deal with those issues is by having infrastructure that is built to deal with the issue. Call it societal/social/legal "garbage collection". Whether or not we have such infrastructure, you don't get rid of the problem by shuffling it around.
For the last few centuries maybe. Your underestimating how utterly anomalous has been the last about 200 years. There's a clear contrast between that and all prior 200 year periods. The idea of progress is relatively recent, 2 thousands years ago it basically didn't exist (from the book Sapiens).
Back in the 1980s, I had an exam question in Michael Genesereth's AI class at Stanford, "Does a rock have intensions". I answered "no". I forget whether that was considered correct.

This was back when AI had more philosophy and less number-crunching. And didn't do much. "Common sense" and "intension" came up a lot back then, but "consciousness", not so much.
There hasn't been enough progress on common sense and intension since then. Common sense is being able to predict the consequences of actions, actual or potential, with enough accuracy to get something done without damage. That's a concrete problem, and one that current AI systems do not do well.

We don't know enough yet to address the "consciousness" issue.
I'll never get used to that "Starfleet" logo. I don't suppose Viacom/CBS would be able to sue the Dept. of Defense for copyright violation?
Nonsense. Articles like this are why people treat disease with crystals and don't vaccinate their kids.
Because literally nobody is being forced to make that choice. Your entire premise is false and completely debunked by information published by the CA EDD itself. The only way anybody could be forced into making that choice is if the standards established by the state were insufficient, or if they were delinquent in assessing people’s claims. If you believe that to be the case, present your evidence and direct your criticism accordingly.
Idk if you read the article but this is mostly about the couchsurfing website not the concept. They specify that even if the website is dead couchsurfing as an idea will move on in the article too.
I've been the interviewee for 3 interviews in a day. It is just as exhausting to hear the same questions all day. It's even higher stakes on this side since it's my livelihood on the line.
I theorize nothing is truly conscious. Everything reacts from a cause & effect "chain of forces" exerted upon everything in the Universe. I'm curious what we will learn when we can modify the human brain to be exactly the same as it was a year ago for an individual that volunteers to be such a test subject. Would all his/her memories be reverted back to that very day? Or would the experiment result in a failure because our concept of how we react to everything compared to other things in the universe is flawed.
"Touch your left cheek. Now show me the ceiling. Smile at the camera. Blink three times quickly."

If you can pre-record stuff like that without knowing what the sequence of requested events will be, I'm impressed.
No, it’s not an ad...I posted in defense of the power that native desktop apps bring since the use case of Figma was being stretched into territories other than web/mobile UI design...immersive content/interaction creation is that category!
When I took my RedHat RHCSA exam, the proctor was a live human, and I needed to move the webcam in time with their instructions. It was a basic around-the-room pass, but it covered anywhere that I could have stashed materials with which to cheat. From there, even if I did have external materials, it would have been pretty obvious that I was using them because my eyes would be focused offscreen for an extended period of time.

Just the knowledge that another human being was proctoring the exam made the idea of attempting to cheat pretty far fetched. My body language would have given it away, and it wouldn't be easy to transition smoothly from the interactive setup to some kind of pre-recorded loop without it being easily detected. The kind of person who could successfully pull that off... well, could also probably pass the test on their own merits.
Is that statement falsifiable?
That is wishful thinking on their part IMO. Saying that half of X is wrong makes X look like half true. It could be false in a much higher proportion
I would definitely take a course entitled "59 Algorithms". What a fantastic idea for a second course in algorithms! Looking at 59 of the most important algorithms (in the opinion of the professor). It's even more intriguing since it's not a round number, so you know the prof didn't add a bunch of filler just to get a nice number.
I'll just refer you to my previous comment: There's no way to make a rigorous (to the "prove" level) argument from history on racism.

However, these factors do appear to provide sufficient non-race based evidence to explain the outcome. That's a reasonable way to read the claim that the book "debunks the idea that race was a factor in the development of modern societies".

> The very fact that you listed multiple factors admits that multiple factors may have combined to cause it. It could just as well have included race too.

Since the factors are based around geography, and race is also based around geography you sure would expect to see a correlation!

The explanations in the book give a causal link between geography and outcomes. There will be a large number of other factors correlated with that. A good example is "was beer drunk in country" - countries where beer was drunk were much more successful than countries where it wasn't. Race appears to be the same - dependant on geography, but not part of the causal chain of factors mentioned in the book.
If you don't see web app replacing Blender, give a try to OnShape. I was so surprised by it. It is slower than comparable desktop app, but it is usable for real world projects.
How is a leading academic of any kind determined? Perhaps surveys among other economists, or peer evaluations? For a more concrete metric, paper citations within the past 10 years?
> I think what you perceive as "failing to clearly keep the two questions clearly distinguished" may simply be a misinterpration of deep disinterest in the question, I think most mathematicians wouldn't perceive the question of "how everyday human thinking works" to be in the realm of math.

Well, how "everyday thinking works" is very much related to the realm of math in my mind. Most commonly classical logic is selected as a foundation for mathematics, although there has been some work done on alternative foundations (most significantly constructivism/intuitionism, although there are less notable projects trying to build out mathematics on yet other foundations.) But, classical logic is commonly criticised by philosophers as being a poor model of everyday human thought, as represented by issues such as the paradoxes of material implication. So, alternative logics get proposed which attempt to answer those criticisms – for example, relevant/relevance logic. The study of these alternative logical formalisms is itself part of mathematics (mathematical logic, proof theory, etc), and the question of whether any of those alternative logical formalisms can be used as a foundation to develop other parts of mathematics (such as analysis) is an interesting mathematical question. And, added to all that, studying alternative logics is also interesting from the viewpoint of their possible practical applications in computer science (in fields such as automated reasoning.)

On the topic of set theory, while most mathematics assumes ZFC, there has been a lot of work on alternative set theories [1]. For each of these alternatives, we can ask (a) the philosophical question of whether it does a better job of modelling naïve human thought than ZFC does; (b) the metamathematical question of how easy it is to build out the rest of mathematics on that foundation; (c) the question of whether the theory has any useful applications in other fields such as computer science. All three questions are interesting, and they are all interconnected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_set_theory
The mafia has often been described as a feudal structure within a capitalist society, criminalized by the system that replaced it.
This is how all exams at the university level used to be conducted. Not really practical however when you have large class sizes.
Their niche is to search the "classic web".

Atleast the title in firefox says:

> Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web

That's also probably why you didn't find any information on the svelte framework.
TBF - NHS barely has access to NHS data, so good luck with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism
Is it apt comparing being right about things to a broken clock? Unlike a clock, there's no guarantee that anyone might eventually be right about anything. Sure, a monkey at a typewriter will eventually produce Shakespeare's complete works, but the chance is pretty much negligible.
Correct it's bit awkward given Rust is in the same league as Zig when compared wit Go language, which is widely adopted and used in many core network infrastructure systems programming, powering Internet today. So if Rust can come close to Go language, same is the case for zig language against Rust.
Actually, having gone through multiple programming books, I disagree with that. I highly recommend HTDP because of their design recipes. The book shows you an approach to solving problems with programs rather than just the syntax of a language. This book has had the largest impact on my (very humble) approach to programming.
The developments in WASI's security model are very interesting - see this post: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas...
This really reminds me of how podcasts have gone. It used to be that nine out of ten podcasts I listened to had no ads - they were about spreading a message or having fun, or getting some personal recognition. They didn't have major overhead because it's cheap to come on once every week or two and chat with your buddies. Now, not only are there many high-quality professional podcasts, but the old fashioned ones I enjoy have all one by one gotten in on the game. Eventually podcasting became something you either made money at or you were doing it wrong (see also: blogs). When even BackStory and The Skeptics Guide to the Universe are shilling for Blue Apron that transition is complete.
But how noteworthy is that? I'm sure programmers coming from C will appreciate it, but well-definedness is kind of… the bare minimum you'd expect from a modern language, especially a fairly high-level one like Go.
I've been slowly making my way through this thread -- you should check out https://whisk.com/ it's been a game changer for my menu/shopping planning
The progress in the last 200 years is completely incomparable with anything prior to that. Per the book Sapiens, the idea of progress is relatively new, people used to believe that things would stay the same or decline.
A certain amount of people invested in the community will still be willing to host simply because they crave the social contact with other members. But besides that, a lot of passionate travelers are keen to host on CS because contributing in this way makes it more likely that they themselves will be able to save money on accommodation and meet interesting people when they travel. So, COVID won’t dissuade everyone from hosting.
Why wouldn’t Germans have their “browser languages configured correctly?”

German is well supported by software. If Germans want German content, they’ll have their OS set to use German.

Filipinos on the other hand would be a better example: Their software is likely to be in English but surely they prefer reading Tagalog or Cebuano.

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As a traveler, I’m thoroughly annoyed by being shown websites in the local language, but that would be perfectly fine if it was easy for me to change the language.

Sadly though changing the language often means having to learn what “Settings, Language, <language name>” looks like in the current country.
It's a resupply mission for Hugo Drax and Drax Industries.
/s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Drax
Yeah it is. The barrier to entry into n graphics programming is huge. Just try drawing a line in vulkin
Reddit has about 100 million in revenue.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/reddit-users-are-the-least-v...

The coins seem to be a couple hundred thousand a month.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ak1769/red...
and likely we won't need the huge safety net that is absolutely necessary now.

And tax revenues reach the government without middlemen collecting their share, so the cost will be lower to those who pay.
From the first link, there are two critically important, overwhelmingly positive notes IMO:

■ Eighty-four percent of Americans have higher family incomes than their parents had at the same age, and across all levels of the income distribution, this generation is doing better than the one that came before it.

■ Ninety-three percent of Americans whose parents were in the bottom fifth of the income ladder and 88 percent of those whose parents were in the middle quintile exceed their parents’ family income as adults.

Not only are the vast majority of people doing better than their parents, this effect is even stronger at the bottom of the distribution. That seems pretty damn good to me.

End notes in the study confirm sensible treatment of the comparisons: Measures of family income are adjusted for family size and inflation. Measures of earnings are adjusted for inflation. Measures of wealth are adjusted for inflation and age.
Software engineering evolves to get the most out of your hardware.

If you sort of turn that idea around in your head, software will always end up trying to barely work on the shittiest hardware.

Think about it. Chips work on 30 nm. What's our next step, to make 30 nm more solid and reliable? No, it's to go to 20 nm or 10 nm and get the same software to work.

The same goes with systems stuff. Do we work on having much more reliable cpus? No, we work on using lots more less-reliable cpus (or gpus) with more unreliable storage over less reliable interconnects and networks and get the software to (imperfectly) abstract away the problems.
Snake Game in Four Dimensional Space
all the money on military, and not in investing in healthcare, improve public health responses, increasing financial reward for the front line workers that are sacrificing themselves for the greater society. In my opinion, this is sad. I would rather have this money being written as a check to every nurses and doctors served in COVID19.
The best news choice I made, as an American, was to get my primary news through foreign outlets.

Because generally, they don't really care enough to implement systemic bias about another country.
"One employee said they were told by the company they wouldn't receive benefits if they didn't come back to work, and would be unable to apply for unemployment. Another said they were told their furlough status would change."

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-thank-you-note-tes...
Bullshit. People are being forced back to work because the state says it's safe. They're being told "you have to go back to work, regardless of whether you think it's safe, because we, the state, think it is."

Again, how do you justify forcing that choice on someone? I think by now it's clear that you're simply trying to weasel out of answering that.
> In my experience, it is trivial to maintain cross-platform applications

Even if setting up the code reuse among platforms was trivial, now you have to develop and maintain a new UI project for each platform with different languages, SDKs, dev environments, and other peculiarities.

With a web UI you can target 6 platforms at once with the same UI project: Android, iOS, ChromeOS, macOS, Windows, and web.
One indicator is when The Economist declares you a leading economist.
When it comes to modern/living polymaths, it's worth mentioning Noam Chomsky. He did groundbreaking work in formal language theory that is fundamental to lots of theory of computation. He basically (re)invented modern linguistics. Then there's the media analysis work of Manufacturing Consent. Then there's the unending political criticism. It's pretty staggering.
I pay taxes that pays for all of the expenses required to administer voting administration (booths, paper, pens, etc). Why can't our taxes fund the administration required for people to get IDs?
How do you know that to be true?

Social engineering, much hacking, scamming, etc. don't care about race or gender or connections or degrees, all of which are very real things limiting people's professional success. Many can be done without interacting with a team and without any kind of interview, both of which are skills.

I doubt these people are discounting their time or labor. They might be optimizing for the opportunities available to them. Willingness to do something illegal could reasonably be seen as an arbitrage opportunity—something seen in business all the time.
Yeah the bigger issue is similar to US Health and Human Services, where the basic consulting model was to take ownership of the core data pipelines & tools and ultimately own the org's data future. We basically don't engage with any org where palantir bought out the decision making. IMO most CIO/CTOs are losing the long-term relevance of their parents org if they give away their data future.

Not just a problem with Palantir; the biggest consulting orgs all lobby hard to displace internal ownership with themselves. Nowadays often a revolving door. Where NHS is on that journey, no idea.
> HN is run as a side gig, modded by iirc 2 or 3 staffers.

I think it may be just one now - sctb's last comment here was 8 months ago.
Oh sorry lol I must have. My bad :)
I did not think it was universally beloved, but just never read any negative viewpoint about them so was curious.
The anti-windows nipple rubbing was... weird. And not helpful.

As a primarily Windows guy I’d rather just know what, if any, differences there are. =/
Yeah, but if you need the imports, that's not an option. If you own gold, I need gold, and there's none on my land, I have to pay you.

I'm not claiming there is no issue here, but rather that this situation seemingly can arise with no ill will at all assuming countries exist.
Rocks definitely have intensions. [1]

But whether or not rocks have intentions, I think the correct answer is "we don't know."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intension
I dont disagree that we spend too much on defense but the idea that we should stop all spending on science to help out some nurses is super strange.

Its akin to saying we should stop funding nasa be ause who needs space travel.

Also please stop glorifying a set profession as some kind of ulturistic calling. Theyre in it for the money and prestige, and frankly, wouldnt be there otherwise.

If you want to thank someone, thank the delivery guy, the supermarket clerks, the flight attendants, or the casual staff out of the job right now.

These people are feeling the brunt of this. These people are the front line.
This is so true and so overlooked. I think there are a lot more intelligent people, in general, who have absolutely no desire and need to advertise it
It sounds like the argument is that voters are rational and therefore must vote for the correct level of LVT. Doesn’t the evidence show that the ideal LVT rate is zero, since that’s what they have in fact enacted?
At my job we try and do this weekly or every other week with real users testing our apps. You can’t ever guess what they want without seeing them use it and asking questions.
I got rid of my overloaded feedly account and am now hosting a rss2email service that gathers posts from about 10 feeds
This feels a lot closer to Hindu philosophy actually. May be someone more knowledgeable can correct me or add more.
How Aliaksei Rudak Spent It to Make His Own Translator, Lingvanex?
So I imagine there's a lot of people here that don't know Couchsurfing or what the big deal is. Couchsurfing has been one of the most important things in my life, so I'll do my best to explain why it's so special.

The basic idea is you stay at a stranger's place, or you host a stranger at yours - completely for free, no money involved. Everyone does it differently. Some people plan their trip meticulously months in advance and give arrival times to the minute, while others send a message at 9pm the same night asking if you're free. Some people ask to stay one night, some three, some far more; some bring bags of delicious food and artwork of their culture and some bring nothing.

I mostly host, and I've had all of the above - and then some. You have an incredibly diverse group of people. I've met artists, musicians, dancers - everyone from a Syrian man who lived under ISIS for years to an evangelical Christian woman who wanted to try shrooms.

The beautiful thing is that it's anything you want it to be. People have profiles that are often filled out with a good amount of detail (I usually skip the skimpy profiles) so you can pick out whoever or whatever you want. You want a pastry chef? You want a violinist? You want an architect? You want someone tidy and on-time or a hitchhiking hippie? Simply search for one to host or stay with.

The friendships and relationships I've made through Couchsurfing have been some of the best and most interesting I could have asked for. And the best part - you can do it all from home, traveling the world from the comfort of your couch.

Anyway, that's the beauty of it. I really hope that the network of people can be saved. Long term, I think it can, with something like BeWelcome, but of course it's a network effect problem - no hosts=no guests.

If anyone is curious about Couchsurfing (or wants to couchsurf my boat in the Netherlands - seriously, anyone is welcome, please come!) then feel free to send me an email (it's in my profile.)
Welcome to class consciousness.
Haven’t you noticed the years long media campaign to try and get the public to hate tech? It hasn’t been very successful but it’s not like there aren’t a lot of people who hate every single person who work in the technology industry.
Is this your own opinion or, other than meticulously picking through couchsurfer forum posts, how does one gather the sentiment of such a large community of hosts?
It's no surprise that a couple of economists might disagree about it: The definition of the American Dream isn't one upon which everyone would agree to begin with. However, a common theme is something like social/economic mobility without regard to circumstances of birth. And to that extent, it would be hard to argue that the American Dream has been universally available to all Americans at most points in our history.
Above you said "it feels like we need to target farms that are hundreds or thousands of acres to justify the engineering investment." That seems like a reason not to fund your startup, because farms like that already have chemical weed control and giant corporations that already zealously own their souls. I was trying to encourage you to think smaller. By acre, vegetables are much more valuable than wheat and corn and beans, and there are human labor inputs that robots could replace.