skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment isn't very coherent, and it's hard to assume good faith. Reading any anarchist philosophy will quickly lay out criteria for recognizing versions of justice that can actually be considered reasonable.

As for answering your question, that's exactly what my comment attempted but you didn't engage with what I said. You're effectively just arguing against straw men, and have invoked yet another with "their CHAZ/CHOP".
It is an interesting argument but I wonder if tripling the amount of people in the USA would result in denser cities or more smaller cities and overall less farm land. It certainly wouldn't be distributed equally.

The idea gives me a real feeling of Not In My Back Yard. If they want to make denser residential areas in cities that is fine but I like my low real estate prices and having a house instead of being in an apartment building.
> my subjective experience is objectively there.

Nitpick: you (or anyone else) don't actually have subjective experience; you have objective experience that some people mistakenly call subjective due to the practical difficulty of fully communicating it.

Compare, eg someone claiming there is no objective truth about the[0] text of the Illiad on the basis that there are multiple equally valid ways of translating it into English.

I don't think that has anything directly to do with the point you were making, though.

0: they neglect to mention: original, Greek
I'm not sure if it even counts as partisan. It's so goofy that everyone regardless of team affiliation will find something with which to disagree. This is book marketing, troll-style.
We have these accidents and pileups constantly without involvement of assisted driving technology. By your logic we should disallow anything that could ever hurt anybody.
Thank you. I was just telling my friend about this and she insisted this happens every few years. That didn’t seem likely, and your comment helped us figure out that we’d actually talked about this years ago :)
If you want to make the case that being less conservative will be better in the long run, you have to make the case that you're definitely on the right track, and doing it in a riskier way will speed up the eventual solution. You might accidentally go down the wrong path full steam and cost more lives, or just plateau in a dangerous way.

If I offer you an untested unreliable cancer cure, on the grounds that moving slowly kills more in the long run, I'm likely to make things worse by putting out a non-cure. We could do some really fucked up human experimentation to save more lives in the long run, but that's not the ethics we've collectively agreed on.
In theory they could train the model in a distributed way on the cars themselves.
Nano implemented Dynamic Proof-of-Work in V19 to mitigate spam attacks causing congestion on the network [1]. When the network gets congested due to a spam attack (or other reasons) the PoW required to send a transaction is dynamically raised. This should prioritize real transactions that will do the new, higher PoW, while the spam transactions that have a lower precomputed PoW have to wait to get processed until the network's PoW requirement dynamically lowers. Doesn't this mitigate the precomputed PoW attack vector? This tweet [2] also shows this dynamic PoW feature in action.
[1]https://medium.com/nanocurrency/dynamic-proof-of-work-priori...
[2] https://twitter.com/GenMeasures/status/1149855971457454081
I have spoken to anti-border progressives that fantacise to this.
In Indonesia it is more on learning on recognizing Arabic letters, write it and spell it. For Quran also learning the tajwid (تجويد).
I want to say that it is not memorizing the entire dictionary. Off course it raises new problem, they can recite Quran but not understanding much the meaning unless they read the translation.
The current geopolitical situation prevents anarchists from living in their desired society because there is zero (or practically zero) free land to create such a society without it existing within a state that is not anarchist. This should be obvious.
Yes and no.

ENIAC exceeded the processing power of a human brain. Only for solving systems of equations, a task which humans find very difficult, and for which computers are naturally suited. But we would never have built it if this weren't the case.

Chess fell to AI decades before Go did, because computers find Go more difficult, due to the much greater branching factor. Humans are more naturally suited to Go, we can "cheat" by training our built-in shape and pattern recognition subsystems.

It's true that driving a car recruits many adaptive subsystems of a human brain. It's further along the spectrum of 'easy for humans, hard for computers'. But what I want to illustrate is that the 'processing power of a human brain' isn't very well-defined, and isn't the relevant factor for why self-driving has proven remarkably difficult.

It's not clear to me that full self-driving, at the level where there's no steering wheel in the car, can be achieved without general AI. I don't even think it's a useful goal, since the really difficult tasks are things like "park your car in this particular place in a field when arriving at a wedding", rather than situations a human would have to suddenly take over for.

But I have to employ my full concentration to add two five-digit numbers in my head, and while I once knew the trick for multiplication, today I'm quite incapable. Yet there's nothing more trivial for a computer.
Also, naming things is hard. If the things you are naming are specific concepts, and the conclusions reachable by reasoning about such concepts are highly sensitive; that is highly dependent upon such specificity, then the problem of naming things is even harder. I think this may be because what is hard about mathematics is the degree to which specificity matters. The names are just pointers to ideas, and these ideas are often unique but similar to one another, with differences that matter. It’s as if in naming a mathematical concept we are performing a compression algorithm on an object of great detail. A loss of information is expected. Of course, this process is an art form. Are some names easier to remember than others? Are there good names? Bad names? Of course. But I do think generalizing that “naming ideas based off people is bad” to all cases is a bad idea — rather a mixed approach is fruitful.
Really, worrying about 20 amp in a 15 amp circuit?

If one likes to worry about such things, there are much scarier things: unswitched extension cords [0]. One 15 amp plug in input, three 15-amp outlets on outputs. Sold in most stores and used very widely. Nothing illegal about it. Plugs into 15 amp rated outlet, wire itself is rated for just 13 amps, and you can pull up to 45 amps in the worst case (like if you plug in three electric kettles).

[0] https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-12-ft-2-Wire-16-Gauge-Polariz...
> If we are talking an eventual 10% reduction waiting just 1 year costs ~130,000 lives.

Do you have a source for this claim?
Quick warning Jeremy Howard, the primary author of fastcore, doesn't give two sts about PEP8 or other Pythonic conventions. He's entirely pragmatic and focused on rapid prototyping and experimentation pipelines. If you like that then fast* libraries will probably appeal. If however you see `from foo import *` and cringe then you're going to have a lot of mental speedbumps to get past with this library.
I don't understand, why would you ever want the car to stop at a green light? Can it not reliably read the traffic light color?
> If you want your friends to meet you at the bar, create an "Event". The event has a title of what the event is (e.g. "Going to the bar"). It has a description to get your friends excited (e.g. "$2 margaritas"). It has the address (e.g. "123 SomeBar St."). Lastly it has the time (e.g. "Tonight at 8pm"). As soon as you post it to the feed all of your friends get a notification that you just created a new event. They can then all tell you if they are going by hitting the "attend" button.

So you're making an app whose entire functionality is just one of Facebook's many features? And with Facebook already having a billion or so users -- a large fraction of which likely already use Facebook's "Events" for exactly this purpose -- how do you plan to get everyone to use this completely separate app -- that no one else they know of uses -- over Facebook?

I really do wish you the best of luck but it seems like you've got several things going against you before you've even really got started.

Just the whole "network effects" thing is gonna kill it.
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Let's start by moving 1 million people each out of the major cities.
> The danger lies in the (all-too-common) tendency of people to think that the rejection of autism's categories means "autism doesn't exist" or something similar.

Serious question, do you actually have any evidence for that postulation?

Even with the analogy you have listed doesn't show evidence that people would consider non-existence or reject care from individuals suffering what we today characterize as autism.
I don't understand; are you saying the author doesn't actually want this, but just wants to be a strawman?
Yes you can. I used this same technique a long time ago, for cache-invalidation.
Yea, that's where I got it. It's pretty confusing (not a good thing for pricing). I've forwarded this whole topic to my team - I'd like my company that builds FLOSS to avoid these types of issues. Something fun for us to review on Friday.
This true for many Jewish kids as well. We can read, and write in Hebrew but have no idea what it means without a translation.
I don't feel like the article discusses the economic reasons to increase our population count deeply enough. We're a consumer economy, so when population count slows or stagnates near mid this century, markets will suffer. Japan's GDP has slowed to around ~1% per annum, in large part due to their stalling population count. That has hurt people in every walk of life, not only those exposed to financial markets.

Canada is taking these projections seriously, and therefore has incredibly generous immigration policies, aiming to grow their population by nearly 200% by 2100 [0]. This video is definitely worth watching! They seem to be taking cues that have been gleamed off of protectionist and introverted policies that have inflicted harm on other states in the past. China under Mao, for example. It will be interesting seeing what the effect their approach will have vs one in diametric opposition such as modern-day GB.

Immigration does come with problems absolutely; but I'd be more for expanding immigration domestically than by increasing the birth rate, while we still haven't figured out larger problems like pollution and climate change.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1jat2-zI98
This is because water usage is not priced, and that we wasted water in the most inefficient manner.

Land is cheap, sun is free, and water is effectively free. We could switch to aquaponic, which is water and land efficient, but that's expensive.
The examples under the help menu, (?) icon, are pretty good: https://geometryexpressions.com/gxweb/help/ ... at least the ones I looked at in the Some Geometry Theorems category now.

Very cool. Maybe I'll finally learn geometry proofs now!
"genies out of the bottle"... "wild west where an off by one error can cause a pileup on the highway"... really? More likely we are at the beginning of a long journey towards increasingly autonomous vehicles and we have had very few accidents and fatalities with what is currently on the road.
Audible-visuals: Audio visualizer experiments
It's not affectionate, it's condescending - much like 'geek' when used unironically and not by geeks to refer to themselves.
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Several of the world's largest tech companies are based out of the US. Should they not care about US politics?
> I think this is a dangerous misunderstanding of the reason for the grouping of autism-spectrum disorders under a common umbrella

Who are you accusing of a "dangerous misunderstanding" here – her, or me? If you haven't read her work, I don't know how you can fairly accuse her of misunderstanding anything; likewise, I think having read at least some of her work is a prerequisite to be able to fairly accuse me of having misunderstood her

If your accusation is that she doesn't understand "the reason for the grouping" may I point out that she played a central role in the drafting of the PDDs section in the DSM-III-R [1]. As a former member of the DSM working group on autism, Waterhouse has a very good knowledge of the reasons and history behind the development of the "ASD" diagnostic label. Waterhouse may or may not be right, but her argument cannot be dismissed anywhere near as easily as you seem to think it can.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01046326
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Exactly, why add another way for humans to be negligent? I would absolutely love to see mass transit replace self driving cars as the panacea to our transportation issues.
"21.1 percent of American children are living in poverty, compared with 11.3 percent of German children and just 9.3 percent of Swedish children, even though the U.S. is richer on average than either Germany or Sweden."

Dishonest. First, the poverty rate for children was 16.2% in 2018 (latest data from https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-26...). Second, the income calculated by Census for this measure doesn't include things like food stamps or housing subsidies (https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-26...). If they are included, the poverty rate becomes a lot lower. Increasing spending on social programs that address poverty can have no effect on the poverty rate.
Maybe ML researchers should try growing a live, organic human brain in the lab, rather than writing code.

Inb4 Dr. Frankenstein was the first ML pioneer.
Not who you're replying to, but see here:

https://www.who.int/gho/road_safety/mortality/en/
Web scale
once you get past the xenophobia, most americans will realize that the only way to continue the properity and global power we've enjoyed over the past century is to import more people because we're not making enough here. it's literally the playbook for sustainably growing an otherwise mature and stagnating economy.

moreover, incumbent americans are just too risk-averse to innovate or invest in real innovation vs paper gains. the wealthy and powerful among us have been in hardcore harvest mode for 40 years and we're gradually, collectively losing our knowledge and ability to plow and sow. instead, we're all on social media trying to out-shizzle each other.
It's still amazing to see an image coming out of the TI-99/4A without any ghosting or other analog artifacts.

It was years into my computing journey before I saw such a crisp display. It always throws me for a little bit of dissonance whenever I see a TI-99/4A on an emulator or here with a VGA output going to a LCD display.
Haha, speculative market cap machine goes "brrrrrr".

The red pill here is that people think they'll be able to sell non-dividend stocks, e.g. TSLA, to yet-greater-fools (at fundamental price of "it's worth what people are willing to pay"), at better ROI than Ford's more traditional growth+dividends. Do people believe Tesla might start paying a dividend?

Not that you can do much about it! It's worth what people are willing to pay!
so does anyone know why he apparently failed to get his proposed changes through? given that the talk was so well regarded, it's curious it had zero impact
to make the meat eater example work, shops are closed so meat eaters need friday off to hunt for food.
This is so silly! It’s not even clear what this is an opinion about! How would you lose the the race with solid engineering? How would you win without it?
I am incredibly skeptical of the "iff" statement. How the hell could it be possible that

P=NP -> Markets are efficient.
I don't like the way Autopilot and FSD are advertised, and they're very clear that when you buy FSD it's a promise and not a product. What you get are incremental updates and new features hopefully leading to actual FSD.

You are not a beta tester testing out pre-release software, the features you received are considered complete.

The stationary object detection problem that has caused fatalities is industry wide.

The combination of failures that lead to Walter Huang's death however aren't in my opinion.

I think GM's monitoring system is the right solution until FSD is solved, Tesla's steering wheel torque monitoring isn't enough.
FreeCAD likely helps Autodesk's position - when freecad is so crap, you will likely just pay for autocad/or/other than even looking at alternatives, because you have been already so frustrated.
That's very expensive... and consider we live in a globalized economy, that would just result in more food imports. Again, China has a similar problem, and they import food... because the economics of that solution just don't work unless the rest of the world agrees (and they won't).
The Wikipedia page of this fellow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe...
Except for my childhood birthday parties, I can't think of a time when I thought, "God, I wish this was three times as crowded."
I guess it's essentially the divide between "are they living in poverty" (is their family very poor) and "are they living in misery" (no food, no heat, etc). Programs can address the latter without fixing the former, but that doesn't necessarily mean the programs are a failure - gotta measure the right things and measure them properly.
> incumbent americans are just too risk-averse to innovate or invest in real innovation vs paper gains

Can you expand on this? Native born Americans prefer to play the stock market than starting new businesses?
IIRC this person was interviewed for "Ultra learning," which reminds me I need to read that book still.
Tokyo have lot of single family housing and remains affordable for middle class.

You just don't get lawns or backyard, which is fine by me. Lawns are unwanted busyworks.
> protest

After switching from Android I disabled iMessage for precisely this reason. A green bubble I shall proudly remain.
Yeah, that is beautiful.
> Social oddities could be forgiven when your mind is spectacularly useful

Or simply when one's mind is not a threat to others. Perhaps those who see abnormality as a threat are themselves disordered?
> I suspect some aspects of driving a car consumes a majority of a person's brain power, even if it doesn't feel like it.

A decade or so ago I decided to get my motorcycle license, and one of the changes to the testing regime that had come about since I got my car license was that you are required to verbalise any risks you are seeing: drive along saying "oncoming traffic, pedestrian approaching the edge of the footpath, driveway" and so on. It's an interesting thing to do because it's remarkable to understand just how much background processing that you are doing, and how many subtle hints you might be getting - the direction a person is looking and other body language are influencing your assessment of whether someone is likely to wait at the edge of an intersection or just step out; if the lights on a car blink as a person walks towards it, they're probably about to get into it rather than cross the road, and so on.
>I'd like to know why this isn't standard today.

Get a quote for paint and extrapolate out to the effective hourly wage of the painter.

That's why.
Could be that vast crop failures in the US end up being a problem some day but the problem seems somewhat remote. Anyway, nobody claimed wealth protects from all possible bad things. That doesn't really do anything to diminish its attractiveness for preventing the things it does prevent.
I'd say such things should exist, sometimes, because the job needs to be done. They should be obvious ugly hacks covered in tape and embarrassing by their existence, to help prompt someone to find a the proper solution.

Hands up whover made an RJ12 fit an MMJ when wiring up a vt terminal serial port
Do you mind briefly discussing how you made the switch? What courses did you take etc? I am considering switching into IT and would love to hear how others did it. I am currently enrolled in the Google IT course.
What if we eat the rich?
See, you're actually making my point. ;)

Social contract theory is known as contractarianism. [1] (And the source was first Plato, but is best known through Hobbes. Rousseau was then the next best-known iteration after Hobbes.)

But "contractualism" is generally used to refer to T.M. Scanlon's theory specifically. [2]

This is my point. They're too easy to mix up. ;)

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism/

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractualism/
quicksort kind of proves that the names don't have to be particularly meaningful, just somewhat descriptive and unique. It's not like mergesort isn't quick.
This is nonsense hyperbole. Tesla's stuff has very good engineering. Don't criticize what you don't understand. Further, engineering is always a tradeoff around "good-enough", ask any actual engineer. Perfect is an impossible goal for ANY engineering task.
By rich, I meant the American people are the rich.
The OPs point did point out that accessibility becomes less important in advanced topics. The things you've mentioned are largely elementary computer science concepts so they're both more amenable to descriptive naming and more important to have that.

Consider coming up with a descriptive name for LLL basis reduction (where LLL is the initials of the 3 authors) or some other advanced algorithm.

Someone more educated in CS might be able to give better examples.
Now I'm doing the thought experiment "how much would they have to pay me to get back ON facebook"
I got to take a course on API Design with Joshua Bloch and Charlie Garrod (CMU's 17-480) in the spring. While I don't think the course content is available online, there's a good amount of tactical advice that goes with the talk [1]. The most memorable things to me were an emphasis on user testing to validate your design - we would draft APIs and then interview people and make them try to write code with them; and being willing to go back to the drawing board to change things if necessary. I think these are common ideas in (visual) user interface design, but for some reason are overlooked in coding.

There was an anecdote about how the creator of the Makefile (Stuart Feldman) originally hacked together the implementation so that tabs were required for each command (rather than spaces), and didn't want to change it because dozens of people were already relying on that behavior at this point... [2] seems to confirm this.

[1] http://fwdinnovations.net/whitepaper/APIDesign.pdf

[2] https://beebo.org/haycorn/2015-04-20_tabs-and-makefiles.html
Marc Esserman is an entertaining streamer of chess in twitch, with music, tennis and world class chess.
The idea of companies caring about politics is usually followed quite closely by corruption in most cultures.

By all means, they can care about politics- but they cant force me to care about their politics and they should not be as reactionary as they are when I take my business elsewhere.

I am just a dude who likes computers. I don’t need to shoulder problems from half a world away on behalf of billion-dollar corporations.
True, but less so.

I've learned a couple alphabets, Hebrew among them, just for fun. I'm pretty confident I could learn to recite the Quran with a month of steady practice.

But memorize the whole thing? Like, name a sura, and I'm off to the races? That's very impressive.

And without any understanding of the underlying words! That's even more impressive, but my heart sinks a little at the waste of human potential which it represents.

Perhaps they're right, and they earn a lifetime in Paradise for their trouble. I can't help but thinking there are better ways to spend ones youth.
> That has hurt people in every walk of life

How has it hurt them?