skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean it's 'too big of a thing' to be explicable within the framework of the physical universe? That does not sound like a sensible intuition to fix on. For most of history life was thought of as too big of a thing to be explicable in terms of the physical universe, and philosophers appealed to the divine and extra-physical vitalism, but we now know that life really is susceptible to physical explanation.

As for your question as to why humans or other sentient beings would be conscious if they belonged to the physical universe, the answer is obvious: for the same reason that we and other animals possess all other attributes, because of its functional value in enhancing our survival fitness as a species. Perhaps high level information-processing requires consciousness, or consciousness is a byproduct of some or all high level information-processing with organic matter.

I should say I'm agnostic about consciousness because I think we know next to nothing about it.
Giving prisoners the tools they need to flourish in free society (education, vocational training, mental health and wellbeing) after their sentence is over reduces recidivism, so I think you could put it under the umbrella of protecting the public.
There are two worker classifications in the US which refer to the tax forms they get:

"W2": An employee. A regular job.

"1099": Independent contractor, freelancer.
My God what a bleak read. It summarises everything that I fear: that our “height of civilisation” is an uncharacteristic blip (coincidentally solving the Fermi Paradox, but I digress), that various thresholds have already been crossed, that the nonlinear dynamics of the system will push inevitably towards a new attractor (“Hothouse Earth”, in this lexicon), and that we’ve societally collectively blundered into this outcome and that we lacked the collective willpower to inflict upon all of ourselves an absolutely unfathomable setback.
Are there any open source alternatives for this?
Automation is really just a drop in the bucket compared to better processes. The difference between new tech companies and legacy businesses is that the actual processes in the tech companies are better designed to begin with and require much less human labor. It's pretty tough to automate legacy business processes. The best you get is gross macros in a fancy package. There's a semantic difference between the kind of automation you think of when imagining robots vs. email, but email is way more powerful.

We absolutely do not need new AI to achieve automation gains on the lowest hanging fruit. We really just need new entrants to competitive spaces. Even for physical labor tasks that do require actual robots, its changing the task to adapt to available tech, not updating the tech to master this old task.
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Despite all the advantages of free software, often it is very useful to use a particular proprietary tool and often it is very useful to learn (and thus, teach) how to use a particular proprietary tool, and there's nothing unethical about doing that useful thing instead of refusing to do because it involves proprietary software. Some people would refuse to use proprietary software as a matter of principle, and that's also a valid ethical choice, but it's not the only ethical choice.

Calling an action unethical is a strong accusation. It's very rude to call an action or a person unethical unless the wrongness of that action goes way beyond merely not taking advantage of an opportunity to facilitate some ethical goal, calling it unethical implies some active wrongdoing instead of failing or refusing to take what you consider the most beneficial choice.
Very much so; the current wave of automation is taking semi-skilled middle-class jobs and replacing them with low-skilled minimum wage jobs that can be filled with gig workers.

High-skill jobs are still there, but the middle is rapidly being hollowed out. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the middle class is shrinking as a result.
Many crimes do not require intent, they're strict liability. Some do.
The problem is that Microsoft are good at selling a product which just works out of the box and is just about sufficient, even if it's not tailored to your use-case. Plus there's so little transparency as to how much they're charging my university, or how many hours wasted there are, so it's hard to make a price-comparison.

Student participation in some of the projects could work for certain modules, but only as experiments -- again we've been specifically prohibited from spinning up our own solutions.

> Usually, in situations like yours, turning complaints or proposed solutions into numbers helps a lot.

I agree that ultimately what needs to happen is that those of us who care about FLOSS need to organise and try to chip away at the corporate one-size-fits-all dependency syndrome at the university. The kinds of data ownership debates happening in Germany seem very far off here. The British university is in retreat. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/10/uk-univers...
Failing to plan, is planing to failure.
The VMS systems owned by the math department at Harvey Mudd College in the 80s/90s were given names out of Norse mythology. I'm pretty sure we had an yggdrasil (also pretty sure it was a network hub, but I couldn't say for sure).
this.
PHP just gets shit done. newbies might add few sql injections here and there, so you gotta hand them some code convention/code review/frameworks, but PHP just gets stuff done fast and with extremely low overhead
> It is possible to make something great with substandard tools.

Is PHP substandard though? While it's no longer my cup of tea, I do remember it being fairly stable and performant.

Some of the enterprise software I work with, that was written in Java is ridiculously bad, but I don't consider Java substandard. Real world example: the "Configuration" app I use takes a minute to start up on modern hardware, and it's main job is to give a tabular GUI to an XML file. Even saving the configuration can take a minute.
Just installed this, it's fantastic! Thanks!
Houston’s I-45 Project Is More ‘Urban Renewal’ Racism
I love this quote from a follow up paper:

> Interestingly, hash algorithms with collision probabilities equal to JP have already been unintentionally presented before JP was actually discovered and thoroughly analyzed in [8]. In [7] a data structure called HistoSketch was proposed to calculate signatures for JN ... after some simplifications and thanks to a nonequivalent transformation that eliminated the scale dependence, the final HistoSketch algorithm had a collision probability equal to JP instead of the originally desired JN.

It's none the less a very interesting measure. Thanks for sharing!

I recently worked on a project trying to determine "the best" locality sensitive hashing amoung all measures of similarity for sets: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04045
I wonder if something similar could be done for probability distributions. It seems hard.
GCC supports Intel syntax.

Why there is always a guy who doesn't like the default and unaware that it's just one of the options?
Or, a sense of justice. A powerful emotion in people.

Who know how many more criminals there might be, if punishment was off the table? Recidivism doesn't count that. So there's that social pressure too.

Its pretty easy to figure out 'why punishment', if you try.
I sadly think this is just not possible unless the common API is extremely restrictive, and for that case we already have C FFIs.

Even something relatively simple like generics just works so differently depending on the language. C++'s templates are just fundamentally incompatible with how Java generics work.
The problem is not the tool. The problem is the people who, without broken processes, would not have jobs.

The purpose of the system is what it does.
This is a misunderstanding of "human rights". Think of them as the fundamental rights that society declared everyone has as a result of being a human.

Unqualified "freedom" is not generally regarded to be a human right, and nowhere does the existence of those rights include the right to not be imprisoned. They do, in most cases, provide the right to a fair trial, and the right to freedom from unlawful imprisonment.

I know this seems like a pedantic point, but it's really important.
Is the library publicly available? I would be interested in playing and learning from it.
MS is completely transparent about their telemetry these days with their diagnostic data viewer app.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/diagnostic-data-viewer/9n8...

You are correct in that they do not permit users to turn it off on Windows 10 Home and Pro, which is egregious and offensive.
There's also a most(1) running around, though I couldn't tell you how it's different.
> The only ceremony you need to write executable code is the <?php tag

This is a really underappreciated aspect to development in general and web development in particular. There are (or at least were) an awful lot of "shared hosting" providers which are cheap, convenient, and run PHP and CGI only.
The faces on this page do not and have never existed
Originally the php module on npm was used by a separate project that attempted to implement a PHP parser in JavaScript for Node.js, but was never finished. One work in progress version was published, then the project remained stale for 8 years. I spoke to the owner of the package and asked him to transfer it to me and he graciously agreed.
What’s the implied harm in that, though? Given it violates the principle of “one person, one vote”, it needs justification beyond gesturing towards the idea of “it prevents bigger regions from bullying smaller ones”.

Maybe there is a dark history that has been avoided by the EC, but it seems incomplete to just just allude to it with a vague David and Goliath analogy.
Setting Up an Azure Functions Dependency Injection Context
I've gotten a lot of mileage from Graphviz over the years. As an example outside of work, I wanted a way to depict parse trees for an article I was writing. So, after I wrote an EBNF parser generator (great fun!), I wrote a little utility to apply a grammar to stdin and emit to stdout a JSON representation of the resulting parse tree; another utility handles converting the JSON to dot, which I can plot at my leisure.

https://github.com/reindeereffect/tools-from-blog/tree/maste...
I started my professional developer career with PHP 5.2 I think end of 2006.

While the langugage design was garbage, I the developer experience was quite awesome.

This was a curse and a blessing. On the one hand it lowered the bar for many people to get into programming, on the other hand it led many people to believe they can do anything even when venturing in system designs that were much above their pay grade.

I switched to JavaScript in 2011 and again, it was mostly for DX.

The language felt more light-weight (no $ or classes), while it still had similar problems as PHP and being able to use it full stack eased context switching rather much.

Node.js deployments felt much slimmer than setting up PHP with Apache/Nginx too.

I still missed a bit of the "drop a source file in a folder and its an API" feeling.

Last few weeks I played around with Cloudflare Workers and that got me a bit of the PHP feeling again. I can simply say "This file runs at that path" and be done with it.
Here's what one of the pros who played against AlphaStar had to say about it:

"MaNa: I would say that clearly the best aspect of its game is the unit control. In all of the games when we had a similar unit count, AlphaStar came victorious. The worst aspect from the few games that we were able to play was its stubbornness to tech up. It was so convinced to win with basic units that it barely made anything else and eventually in the exhibition match that did not work out. There weren’t many crucial decision making moments so I would say its mechanics were the reason for victory."
Most people believe they've earned what are basically economic rents.
What?

Srsly?

I had a simple DVD Collection of over 100. If you buy 1-4 DVDs per Week, you already have min. 100 dvds after 2 years.

It is neither expensive nor difficult to do.
Nintendo said a total of 300k accounts have been hacked
I don't follow the "slick UI comment". I'm arguing for the most barebones UI. Who's swiping? And Mac OS and XFCE have both app and window switching.

I'm talking about being able to have a fullscreen app that I can switch back and forth with cmd-tab or cmd-tilde. I dont there's dispute that its desirable to be able to use all the screen space sometimes. The issue is that last time I checked Mac OS prevents you from quickly cmd-tabbing to and from full screen windows, and had compulsory full screen transition animations that can't be disabled.
In your example, it still devalues the currency. The devaluation is just offset by other factors.
Look at places like the various university-affiliated research centers around the US. The one I work at is a pretty great blend of hard research and applied engineering with a solid base of support for innovation. Pretty much anyone can get funding for their ideas at various levels if they present a solid case!
Densely populated states, but that is exactly the main point for keeping it.

To compare with the EU, imagine if elections for the EU parliament were proportional to the populations of the member countries and how much that would favor the larger ones
> Free will is ontologically like the car, but breaks down faster. It implies one could have chosen differently than one did. That's the whole reason people care about free will.

The Frankfurt cases debunked the full principle of alternate possibilities (PAP), so I disagree that PAP is why people care about free will. I think people recognise that no matter what, we need some ability to assign blame when someone is responsible for causing some harm.

When and how this responsibility is assigned is exactly the function served by free will.

Notice how there is no reference here to being able to do otherwise. That's an assumption you have carried into this debate without justification, and Frankfurt demonstrated that this assumption is actually false.
I've been recommending "PHP Inspections EA" for many, it adds a many more extra inspections provided the environment (PHP versions, extensions, etc) are configured correctly.
Your desktop monitor should already be in landscape mode, shouldn't it?
That's the point. Otherwise highly populous states would steamroll smaller states, causing tremendous political tension and long-term could trigger a war.
It does contribute though. I have to type ‘man’ every time I want to add a user to decide which. It’s a great lesson.
Ironically, Germans seem to have bought into the antinuclear frenzy that was sold to them by The Greens. Fukushima was massively overblown by the media and critical thinking went out the window during that time.

Now Germany imports nuclear from France, has the biggest investment in green energy with little to show for it, and is clammering onto their belief that nuclear is the bogeyman.

It doesn't seem as if many Germans saw further than their nose and fear when they voted against nuclear (and still continue to do so)
Of your several comments, this is the only one that appears to have any actual content to discuss, and it’s still wrapped in argumentative name-calling.

Could you start over with a new thread describing what you think is wrong with the article, how you disagree, but without the use of “neoliberal” and related labels?
It is a different kind of equality.
Also, you can use https://collabuml.com to collaboratively build diagrams.
In the game after they introduced camera movement speed limits the AI lost pretty badly to warp prism harrasement. It reacted like a noob (moving the whole army back and forth instead of splitting it).

That was a version that was trained for shorter time, though.

I'd say AI won mostly because of better micro and less mistakes, but I haven't seen the most recent games, maybe that changed?
This feels like a great hollywood movie script where she next volunteers for a one-way flight to colonize Mars.
Reddit Ireland turns off at midnight to stop racist trolls from the US
I have used rather nice clojure library that also uses graphviz under the bonnet, with great success:

https://github.com/Engelberg/ubergraph

Did you use something similar or roll your own?

In any case, your project sounds great and I am glad it was a success.
The voices of the citizens are represented by Congress and Senate.
The flip side, though, is that it allows a few people in MO to tell large swathes of people on the coasts what to do.

Personally, I wish we could do two things:

1. Remove electoral college. 1 vote = 1 say no matter where you live. The fact the the senate is 2-per-state already gives plenty of weight to lower-pop states.
2. De-emphasize the role of the president. In particular, curtail the power of executive orders and the unfettered ability to use the military. It's 2020, the age of kings is over, and we don't need anyone trying to act like one.

I think this would not have, for instance, curtailed a lot of the positive things Obama had done, but would have definitely stopped Trump from doing a lot of the bad stuff.

Incidentally, I think over the next 50 years we're going to see the huge cities spread out a bit. Cities will still be where most people live, but I think we'll see more mid-sized cities (more places in the 250k-500k-ish pop range) having attractive employment options and good amenities.
sounded like more of an observation to me, seems accurate too.
Worked retail (managed eyeglass lab) to pay for my eng deg. Can confirm. There were a few regulars I grew fond of.
Ted Nelson who coined the term _hypertext_ in _1963_ claimed in Werner Herzog’s documentary “Lo and Behold” that his original idea for “copy and paste” would always link back to the original. This article below based on the Herzog interview has more context but not the exact _quote_ (context pun intended) that I remember from the documentary.

Full interview of Ted Nelson from “Lo and Behold”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx6li5dbEY

> Nelson, who was featured in Werner Herzog’s latest film, Lo and Behold, believes that instead of the existing formats we use online, where text often mirrors the constraints of paper, we should have a system of two-way links that would allow readers to see the context of any quotation...

> There are a few offline examples, such as the Talmud and the Rosetta Stone, where text is read side-by-side. Nelson believes this is how online documents should be constructed.

> “As far as I’m concerned, this is the way literature should develop,” he says. “I don’t consider this technology, I think it’s literature. Being able to see visible connections between pages seems to me absolutely fundamental.”

> Nelsons says this setup would be the ideal format for reading annotations, additional details, correspondence, and disagreements: “It’s essentially a different genre of writing.”

> As Nelson sees it, our current use of online documents is very limiting. He’s particularly disturbed by how we use the words cut and paste. When the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, cut came to mean “hide this piece that I’ve just marked in an invisible place,” and paste became “plug whatever’s in this invisible place to where I’m pointing.”

> “To me that was an outrage because no one has yet got a decent re-arrangement system that allows you to see the all the parts of the arrangement as you’re writing,” Nelson says. “Those words meant something entirely different until 1984.

> Balzac, the French novelist, carried a razor blade around his neck for cutting up his manuscript. Tolstoy would cut up his manuscripts and leave all the pieces around the floor. This is true cut-and-paste, where you’re re-arranging on a large scale and able to see the relationships between parts.”

> Ironically, Nelson is friends with Larry Tesler—the man responsible for our modern use of cut and paste—but still calls their mislabeling “a crime against humanity.”

https://qz.com/778747/an-early-internet-pioneer-says-the-con...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
> prevents densely populated cities like LA + NY for speaking on the needs/wants of the entire country.

I hadn't head that one, but it makes some sense; analogous to the house/senate difference.
The more involved you are with anything to do with data, the less likely you are to use it.

I don't like social media very much because it's created a culture of bullying people into conformity. It's not so much my opinion that data trends predict individuals, as some may argue, but that people are pressured to conform to trends, rewarded when they do, and punished when they do not. This philosophy is deeply entrenched in the language and behaviors of groups, and it's violently prone to manipulation.
Bible.

Even rereading the same chapter sometimes makes me discover something a wasn't aware of when reading the text before.
Taxes won't fund what I want. Taxes fund what is wanted by the people with the power to create political will. That is, as I said, a matter of a high-school-style popularity contest, except that the stakes are life and death. Do you really think the voters whose political will elected Donald Trump and Scott Morrison — or the mass media who directed that political will — should be in charge of whether we get secure operating systems, public libraries, or ICBMs? Should that political will determine whose research gets funded? The idea is absurd.
Well, the government might be making mistakes but so remind me, who voted them in again?
Email me? zach@zachlatta.com. I’ve spent the past 6 years building a nonprofit to revive the hacker ethos in teenagers worldwide. I’m hiring.

We are not “VC funded” and do creative, long-term work on a small team. We just started an endowment to help make sure we can exist for the next 50 years.
Presumably because contracts with studios won't let them stream those.

Why won't they get streamed? 1980 is 40 years ago, and movies pushing 40+ years old aren't in the day-to-day zietgiest and aren't getting a lot of searches. Newer movies still catch eyeballs occasionally. I'd bet '87 is where the long-tail drops off noticeably.
Thanks for this. I'm not necessarily aiming for mouse-free development, but I've known for years that I could be better with keyboard shortcuts. I had no idea this was a thing.
I can't speak to France and EDF's poor energy policies. I suppose when you're a government propping up a state owned utility, it's all numbers on a spreadsheet being moved around (except you're soaking your citizens/rate payers in the process). Wind and solar are exceptionally cheap in sane energy markets.
No one is claiming that PHP is and/or was without fault. The sentiment is that we built things that worked despite them.
It's a good one! This is a great video that goes with it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlSH6n37ts
Does anything like Blogger still exist? Blogger was really easy to use back in the day, and even today, I'd choose it over Wordpress.

edit: Context: I used Blogger to publish to a paid hosting service via ftp
That makes it more impressive but I guess if it did learn to be efficient like that it optimised to the rules. Although, to be fair, human players seem to be super human in this statistic - I was thinking about maybe 1-5 actions per second but the world record is 818 APM === 13.67 actions per second!