skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shannon's theory of information doesn't offer a way to tell whether a channel is doing computation or merely transmitting the information -- the mutual information merely characterizes how much information goes across a channel, but is insensitive to any changes to the representation.

OTOH, the algorithmic complexity theory (a la Kolmogorov) doesn't really have the same generality as Shannon's theory. Flops is not a well-defined measure of information processing rate for the brain, for instance.

I got inspired by the "integrated information theory" folks -- they have this notion that combining information streams in a nontrivial* way is necessary and sufficient for consciousness. I disagree that it's sufficient for consciousness, but it might be sufficient for a definition of information processing or generalized computation.

> You can't have the latter without the former.

Agreed.

>That doesn't explain meaning in the case of imaginary or abstract details, or the system's conception of the meaning.

The mapping is in our heads. I don't know what you mean by "the system's conception of meaning" -- which system, and what is a conception of meaning?

Here's a link to the paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/79/8/2554.full.pdf

edit: *how to define 'nontrivial' is very much up for debate.
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Wow, I didn't know this was even possible. It says the controls operate via DDC [1].

How do you know if your monitor, television, or project supports this? And does it depend on the connector used? (HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA?)

Does this work for most display peripherals, only newest/expensive ones, or something in between?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel
How do you mean? More than the usual start stop step-in step-over? With physical keys you can “home” your finger and press without drifting or looking down at the bar, and I find that much easier.

About the only thing I’ve found useful is when plugging in a projector and getting the “mirror or extend” buttons directly rather than having to remember which symbol it is. Every other case it’s felt inferior and gotten in the way (like display/sound/volume access in an app that uses it)
I think this is a good opportunity to discuss on what would be the ideal process for selecting students for higher education.

China's system is probably the fairer one compared to US. I don't know the system at Europe India, or any other nations ranked high in intellectual competitiveness. Would be interested in learning the details.

Additionally, conventional higher education is mostly obsolete. Technically, one absolutely can access the same quality education outside of a typical 4 year university. That is a sea-level change compared to that in 10-20 years ago.

Prominent institutions today primarily serve as social selection process to find the compatible individuals and assimilate them into the elite class.

My observations identify that as obvious in US. China also have similar setup in Tsinghua and Beijing university. Especially since Hu Jintao's presidency, while the majority of the standing committee of CCP Politburo are from these 2 institutions. And the culture aura attached to them is also purposefully cultivated by CCP and the government.

Now, what is the proper mechanism to prevent the small fraction of elite institutions from inbreeding, and make sure a diverse and representative student body be admitted into these institutions. For example, it was a huge problem in China that the students into the better higher education institutions have <10% from non-urban areas, while the total population has 57% in non urban areas. This number used to be >20%.

This type of inequality is the most problematic.
a majority of modern studies on race rely on sampling. The sample size here (14%) was large enough statistically
I'd love to see this functionality implemented by mailserver tech like dovecot.
In case you don't want to submit your email address, this is the direct download link: https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/synthesis/Synthesis.pdf
Many reservations were affected by the allotment of 'excess land', and by tribal members selling their allotments (by wile or by intimidation), which led to the 'checkerboarding' of ownership. In recent decades, multiple tribes have had programs to recover their lands by purchase.

"The Dawes Act of 1887 created the most Native American checkerboarding. The act was intended to bolster self-sufficiency and systematically fracture native cultures, giving each individual between 40 acres (16 ha) and 160 acres (65 ha)." [0] [emphasis mine]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act
I’ll probably get downvoted to Hades here but I finally upgraded my mid 2012 retina MacBook Pro to the latest model and I quite like the touch bar. Yes I know pure keyboard commands are more efficient but at this point in life my available bandwidth for memorizing too many app specific keyboard chords is limited. It’s nice to just tap “leave” when in a Zoom call or “pause” when playing music.
NYT has a responsibility to name the specific airlines that are doing this. Their job is to give you the information you need to make an informed choice when you're buying that plane ticket.
Just someone being there will cause staff to pay more attention to a patient.
It's a product that I'm working on, which is focused on developer first metrics. I want to create software metrics, that developers can trust, which in turn can be used to properly gauge productivity and risk.

I've studied software metrics for quite sometime and they are widely despised by developers, because they are

a) not useful for developers

b) never put effort into context that can be discussed, vetted and refined.

What I'm trying to do is fix the stigma associated with software metrics, by focusing on how they can be used by developers. For example, code churn metrics can be used in a positive way for developers as the following example shows:

https://imgur.com/OMD8rFF

Without looking a single line of code, you can estimate the impact each commit will have, which can be useful for domain experts, team leaders, etc.

I'm hoping to have a version of the product that people can install via docker or on bare metal linux by the end of this month.
It's not easy to find, and I know, because I have tried to find it multiple times, and I haven't found it, and I'm quite google-savvy. I don't doubt that I could find it if I put in enough time, or if I was lucky to try the "right" method on the first try. It's probably also significantly easier to find it now that there is a bunch of chatter about it.
I, the author, was not seeking to show intent to discrimate. I as only showing the policy effectively did discriminate. In order to show intent I would need the statistics you mentioned but to show the effect the stats you mentioned are entirely irrelvant
AIUI, they're calling for individual non-cooperation with unethical reporters. There may be a broader "war" between SV and elite media, but it's not clear that the SSC affair has much to do with it beyond possibly being a case of elite media behaving unethically, and (quite uniquely, all things considered) being held accountable for that.
I think there are interesting theoretical arguments to be had for and against this, and then there's the world we actually live in. In this world, stuff like this happens: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-foot...
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Distributed Systems and the End of the API (2014)
I’ve been using this for years and it works a charm, It has my endorsement for sure.
It's a society/cultural/behavioral thing.

In China they have a saying: 能骗就骗.
> Our country was founded with gun rights

No, it wasn't. The current legal interpretation that most gun-rights advocates swear by has existed for a relatively short time, after the lobbying efforts of groups like the NRA.
Such theories should be accompanied by at least a little bit of evidence. 'doesn't prove wasn't' is trying to prove a negative, which is impossible.
I, the author, was not claiming intent to discrimnate. I was only showing the effect of the policy so the stat you mentioned is irrelevant
Unlike asking people to pay for baggage, this law doesn't change how much the customer ends up paying.
The people here only understand that there's a political class aiming to control them when it doesn't align with their political views. The media, social media, your favorite political party, all part of the political class.

Which presidential candidate voted for the Iraq war again? The Wall Street Bailouts? Who do that person represent?
Hi abhayhegde, I just added more social media icon links to all of the UI components, so you can add links to social media.

Circular frame coming soon!
I believe your argument is that in a democracy, public sector employees can vote for politicians who will represent their interests and this is equivalent to collective bargaining. Please let me know if I've misunderstood you because I don't want to argue against a straw man.

Let's consider teachers as an example. The top search result in Google tells me that 2% of the population of the US are teachers. With collective bargaining they can do work to rule, go on strike, and other job actions to pressure the government to improve working conditions. With voting they don't have a large enough voting block to push through candidates that will improve their working conditions. They would somehow need to convince over 48% of the population, assuming no gerrymandering, to also vote for the candidate that they want. That seems like a big thing to ask just to ensure an annual cost of living increase.
fwiw he’s getting rid of a rebuilt, salvaged vehicle, not a current production Tesla. So the video title is arguably a little bit misleading and clickbait.
So you're saying the government should get in the business of providing VPN service?
Every Teleport thread is stuffed with questions like this, because these articles always do a really bad job of explaining what Teleport is.

Now, perhaps this doesn't matter to Gravitational. Perhaps any potential Teleport customer instantly understands what it is, and the confused onlookers are collateral damage.

But to me, it looks like the non-employee commenters are doing a better job summarising your product than you are. I strongly suspect this means you're leaving something on the table.
Well, that's the whole fucking point I'm making, isn't it?

All doctors, even the best, are busy, tired, and overworked, and no matter how much they want to give you all the attention you need, they're not able to, in part because how our medical system set up, and in part because that's just... reality.

And they're going to not notice something all the time, even the best doctors in the best hospitals.

And if the best doctors are fucking up, what about the ones who are not so good?

If you want a good outcome, you need your own advocate, be responsible and inquisitive, and you can't just leave it to the doctors.
I am certain that, colloquially, when people say “Flash”, they mean “the web browser plugin that runs animated content inside of a web browser” and not “that Adobe AIR thing”.
Can you point to anything specific that addresses the objection raised? Nobody contests that brick and mortar charter schools have higher performance - the issues come down to the resources they receive and the fact that they have unique abilities to shape their admission.
Doing anything on macOS is more difficult than I imagine it to be. For example, writing an alt-tab-type app, enumerating the list of apps and their windows. Good luck.
VPNs are a huge security risk: you’re installing a lot of complex code and configuration into a secure context listening on an open network port, and you almost certainly open more traffic than just SSH so an attacker who compromises a VPN client can attack those services, too.

They have advantages, too, but it’s not a simple decision. A reverse tunnel where the server has an agent which opens an outbound connection to receive requests over cuts a bunch of risks out of your environment and it’s less work to operate, too.
First, you look at the whole country, there is in fact not a difference in most states: https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...

Second, I’m not sure what your Colorado example is supposed to prove. Boulder is a much more expensive city than Pueblo. Land for schools is cheaper, salaries are lower, etc. Those costs seem roughly comparable accounting for local costs.

Third, comparing spending across states is deeply misleading. The cost of schooling in Idaho (which makes up several of the lowest spending school districts in your link) bears little relation to the cost of schooling in New York (which makes up several of the highest spending school districts in your link). The irony of your example is that Idaho spends about 1/3 of what New York spends per student, and Idaho students outperform New York students: https://www.sde.idaho.gov/assessment/naep/files/general/naep...

Fourth, even the low spending school districts in your examples spend more than European countries: https://www.statista.com/statistics/381745/education-expendi.... School spending in London is about $7,402 per student. That’s substantially less than Pueblo or Durham, and only a bit more than the state average for Idaho ($7,100). I guarantee you that money goes a hell of a lot further in Durham or Boise than London!
When reading something, if one gets the aha moments, it is time to take notes.
Suppose you are a reporter writing about an unusual accident where a shipping container full of canned tomatoes fell off a ship. Would you quote the value lost as the loss the farmer sold it for, the price the cannery sold it for, the price the importer sold it for, the price the distributor sold it for, or the price the grocery store sold it for? Every news outlet in the world is going to quote the grocery store price, #1 because it's a bigger number and that sounds more impressive, #2 because it's the only price any of their readers can relate to, #3 because depending on the exact structure of the supply chain every single price except for the grocery store price can fluctuate wildly, #4 because that's the way it's always been and you'll confuse your readers if you do anything different.

Suppose you are a reporter writing about a drug seizure. Would you quote the total street price of the drugs, or --- how could you possibly be that familiar with the supply chain to quote any other price? If the transaction between the party doing transport and the party doing distribution has already taken place, the "real value" of the product has changed dramatically despite the fact that the container with the drugs is still the same thing in the same place. How can you tell what the "real value" is if you, the reporter, don't know whether or not it has been transacted?

Even in the case of a supply chain where intermediate prices are defined in written contracts enforceable by law, it would be silly for a reporter to try to dig into what the "actual price" (finger quotes) of the product is instead of just using the street value.

> And, conversely, if you were uninsured, what loss do you book in your accounting? The first loss, not the second.

That's a tax writeoff. Accountants who book the first loss get fired and replaced by accountants who book the second.
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> This is a bizarre claim. People getting labeled as "diversity hires" and being assumed to be less competent than their peers is a decades-old thing.

The truth is that it kind of doesn't matter if it's new or not, it's a very hot subject right now and people are touchy about it.

I understand why; Women are facing a lot of abuse on the internet and it feels like many are coming forward with icky things that people have said/done.

On the other side it feels like there's been a cataclysmic overreaction- and many people get annoyed when we're asked to "make sure the next one you hire is a $under-represented" or getting overruled by HR when hiring otherwise.

(yes, this happened, and it was frustrating because the person we hired was not able to lead the project we needed and was hired anyway- she later left, burned out, nearly wrecked her career and I feel incredibly guilty for not being more vocal about it and keeping it mostly to myself for fear of being called a bigot)
Building roads on the side of a slope requires a lot more excavation to create a level road bed than going up and over.
If the authorities wanted to inflate the numbers they could quote the weight of the cut product instead. This is a pointless discussion, the street value is what people can relate to, that's why it is mentioned.
Your Blue Apron order data was scraped and compiled to determine that you are in fact Vegetarian /s
Hahah, you're not alone. I have these thoughts nearly every single day...
> One thing that makes SCOTUS interesting is that they have no enforcement mechanism. It's mainly only tradition and respect for the institution that causes people to follow Supreme Court rulings

You're underselling this, I think.

It is "respect for the institution" why the military accepts the civilian authority of the POTUS as commander in chief. If we are only considering the ability to use violence to enforce one's position as legitimate, it's the military and police forces who rule. Once you factor in laws, the SCOTUS is authoritative as to how the laws can be legally interpreted.
People can think whatever they, that doesn’t make it real. Your argument is a false equivalence. Even if both sides do it, it’s not of the same proportion and that matters.

Objectively, Republicans are not compromising, they are often explicit that they are waging a scorched earth zero compromise negotiating style. The heritage foundation wrote the template for the ACA in the 70s as an alternative to Medicare expansion. It was then Bob Dole’s plan when he ran against Bill Clinton, and was Dole’s alternative to Clinton’s health plan. Then Romney passed it in Massachusetts. But when Obama consciously tries to compromise and meet in the middle instead of participating they say it’s communism. They spent a decade to repeal a plan they invented.

Similar with global warming. Cap and trade was a republican idea. Where have they compromised? Instead they are demonizing all of science to shift the conversation to absurdity.

How about the 2008 stimulus. Obama has to fight tooth an nail for 800 billion even though economists say the output gap is $1.5 Trillion and the stimulus needs to be bigger. But Obama agrees thinking when it’s clear more is needed more will be available. He underestimated how much Mitch meant it when he said “the single objective is to make Obama a one term president” and was willing to let the economy struggle if needed. Then Trump gets $3 trillion with Democrats compromising all over the place.
"Might makes right" certainly implies a moral stance.
I also have absolutely no idea this was possible. Just tested it on my 2015 MBP with relatively cheap AOC 27" 4K and DisplayPort and it works perfectly!
I didn't know about this before but since I speak Portuguese I was easily able to find

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%ADtulo_de_capitaliza%C3%A...

That Wikipedia article is very skeptical toward this instrument. Notably, it looks like the typical implementation is like a Certificate of Deposit in the U.S., where the depositor's money is locked up for a fairly long period of time. At least one author of the Wikipedia article suggests that it would be more advantageous for depositors to use a regular interest-bearing deposit instrument. I guess that criticism doesn't address whether it's succeeding in getting some people to save who otherwise might not save at all, and might also be less applicable when the depositor doesn't have to wait a super-long time to make withdrawals.
Uber’s problem is people living in NYC etc mostly just stay in NYC or other major city. The app advantage is only really meaningful for travelers which make a small slice of the overall market. A low cost local competitor in NYC would rapidly get New Yorker’s to swap over and it could then grow one city at a time.

For now everyone is just waiting until Uber and Lyft run out of money, but longer term it’s really not looking good for them.
That is a wall of words, I can't even read it in that format.
That only started with Miller, which was about 100 years ago and also a pretty good example of justice not being served.

Miller was dead by the time his case was decided, nobody argued his side, and the courts argument was was dishonest at best.
Facebook uses a bunch of a Rust, incidentally. They also use a lot of statically typed languages, and have made some of their own, even.
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Here's a fun map to look at. [1] So, where do we draw the line?

[1]: https://www.bia.gov/sites/bia_prod.opengov.ibmcloud.com/file...
Yes, there's been ongoing activism, hand-wringing, counter-activism, legislation, etc, in this space for several decades.

So claiming that it's a phenomenon of just the last decade as a way to justify suspicion of merit is very bizarre. Where have you all been?
Most of those changes were driven by courts not republicans consent and compromise in legislation.
The background section in the readme Is blank.. no real explanation of why someone might use this
>the development of the first privately built supersonic airliner and the second ever after Concorde

Sad that in a rather specialized article author isn't familiar with such basic facts.
I wonder if the voters would have a lasting appeal for this, though. While I would appreciate more consensus-building and agreement in our government, there are quite a few left-leaning positions that I will just not budge on, and consider the centrist approach on them to be just tolerance of and pandering to bigots. Not sure how many share that attitude, but I bet there are quite a few on both sides of the aisle.
I am the author of article. looking at difference in ownership of companies more broadly would be useful to establish intent to discriminate but that is NOT what the article claims to show. I simply show what is effectively happening and for that the stats on ownership of eliegible companies by race are irrelevant.
I made https://orangesite.sneak.cloud to detect those, because while offtopic for HN, some are interesting.

Source: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite
Browsers blacklisted Kazakhstan government certificate used for MITM which was not even trusted. It is absurd to expect anything less than blacklisting such a CA immediately. Certificate transparency is required for all certificates since April, 2018, so you can't really issue rogue certificate.
Well, this is the point...
Are you suggesting that tech or corporate culture now is more discriminatory in its hiring practices than it was 10 years ago?
Seemingly impossible, monetising Chrome extensions
Why not just dismantle the whole country?
I mean no one from Adobe’s side has posted anything. For all we know it could be someone trolling with an anonymous account. By now I might have expected some actual reporting about this if it was at the point where Apple had formally given Adobe a list off requirements. That would be different and you wouldn’t expect to see Steve Jobs blasting Flash continually into 2010.

Let’s take it at face value though. I’m also clear that in large companies like these, rumors abound. It could be a junior engineer who misunderstood and these weren’t actually requirements from Apple and it was internal requirements. Could also be stories part of the team believed but missed that they missed other requirements (eg they met the perf criteria but failed on security).
These always miss my favorite hidden feature of mspaint: Control + Scrolling should be able to increase/decrease the size of the brush to sizes much larger than you can normally select. Instead, this just zooms the browser but maybe it could be changed to alt + scroll or something.