skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm afraid I failed to understand your point, then. I don't have a problem with what you said there.

You have to go back a couple of posts to see the point. There, you wrote "'Intelligence' is a word that, etymologically and semantically, is related to human or human-like capabilities. You wouldn't say that a leaf floating on a lake is swimming." As we are now agreed that definitions follow from knowledge and are modified in response to new knowledge, it would not be somehow wrong to extend the concept of intelligence to a certain class of machines, if it turns out to be useful and informative to do so.

> They are literally just programs.

I take it, then, that you don't agree with the sort-of Platonist view that algorithms have an existence independently of any implementation? I'm on the fence, myself, but lean towards the Platonist side.

Regardless, it follows from your position here that your original statement "What's happening in my brain is something we don't have full scientific knowledge of, but we know it's not x86 machine code" can be rewritten as "What's happening in my brain is something we don't have full scientific knowledge of, but we know it's not computable." - but while the former is true, the status of the latter is not yet decided, so they are not identical propositions.

> One needs not believe Newtonian mechanics is ontologically true, it's a tenable position to claim it's just a model, and we accept that model because it's useful.

One could say the same about specific ontologies - they are as subject to revision in the face of increasing knowledge as are both mathematical models and individual words - and if it turns out that a mathematical model of biological intelligence or consciousness is effective and useful, it would be tendentious to imagine an ontological line between that model and intelligence.
They're a private SigInt agency, so they're very helpful, but only if you're up to no good. It's one of those things that shouldn't be allowed to exist, let alone be in private hands.
Surely you mean you'd back the defender?
> It’s part of that unpopular document called the United States Constitution.

Which allowed slavery, counted those slaves as 3/5ths of a person for purposes of apportionment in Congress while not allowing those slaves to vote. The electoral college was part of the compromise with the slave states. Also didn't allow women to vote.
Weird. I see that too. Not sure what the table is trying to state then. https://www.apple.com/homepod/
1/2 the price
I'm curious to know what 90% of people do with their home assistant devices. I have a Google Home. I know it can do a huge array of things, but almost all I do with it is play music, control lights, and set timers. Siri can do all of those things.
I agree, but a simple automatically defined copy constructor can spread havoc in a code base.
I would say my usage is inverted. 80% of the time it's one-tap; however, of that 80%, 90% is just hitting the back button. Move the back button to the bottom where it's reachable with one hand and ~75% of the use case for reachability is solved (for me, at least).
I think 128 GB is still way too little.
Well at least somebody in my household is.
Have there been any studies that passed peer review, weren't disproved and ended up being published in a reputable journal?

All the "evidence" I found for the harmful effects of RF ended up being flawed or outright quack.
It's a 4x optical zoom (or 5x in the Max), opposed to NO optical zoom at all in the non-pro version.
Note that the S5 is essentially identical to the S4 chip.
Sorry, I misunderstood the "brute force" part of your comment. You are right, for the active elements the standard implementation uses a brute force on the active elements. I had to implement sort-and-sweep to handle one specific performance problem that took 45 seconds to compute. With the simple sort-and-sweep this went down to 100ms. I also tried sorting the active elements along the secondary axis, but at least in our case this did not yield in any further performance improvements. This probably depends a lot on how many elements there are in the active list.
People need to feel like something substantial has happened so they can talk and get excited about it. Look around at the impact it's having!
> "Any system worth keeping around should be a library (or family of libraries)..."

I'm interested to read more about this topic.

I maintain about 8-10 Python Click CLI scripts (a la 'Practical Business Python') which are basically clones of 2-3 original scripts. These have worked really well for me (developing them) and for the handful of colleagues who I share them with.

This summer I started a project to put a Flask front end on a few of the CLI scripts.

Reading the OP I started to imagine the decorator-on-function from `typer` might be an interesting way to maintain functions for the Flask App to call and still preserve the CLI functionality.

Then again, and I'm a neophyte here, I assume a 'library' formalization would give me both options as well...
Yes, and both the battery lives of phones and the demands of the OS exploded after the 6.

I can't wait to get my hands on a Mini, but there's no doubt in my mind that the battery life will be a step backward. That's the trade-off.
It looks strange to me, language designed to work with trees so turn everything to tree. No need to change serialization, we know format, just parse it — class, URL, CSS. That's what we do in JavaScript [1], [2], [3].

location.host === 'example.com'
span.style.color === 'blue'
datet.getFullYear() === 2020

//a[href/host = 'example.com']
//span[xstyle/color = 'blue']
//date[datetime/year = '2020']

Just like your proposal but node knows how to parse itself

//a[url-host(@href) = 'example.com']
//span[css-color(@style) = 'blue']
//time[datetime-year(@datetime) = '2020']

And it is actual syntax, I've checked on

<a><href><host>example.com</host></href></a>
<span><xstyle><color>blue</color></style></span>
<date><datetime><year>2020</year></datetime></date>

* <style> is CDATA, emulated with <xstyle>

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMTokenLis...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Object_...
Maybe they did well by the standards of their era, but a lot has changed since then.
There's a simple solution: cap the number of users. With a closed system you don't have to worry about the registration mechanisms being gamed, and moderation of a fixed-size group is easy to plan out.

Similarly you could use an invite system with limited invites, if you want growth at a constant rate- although this could still lead to moderation problems if you don't grow your moderation team at the same rate.
It seems that now iPhone 12 uses same housing design as 12 Pro. I think Pro is almost only for camera upgrade (including LIDAR).
So now, a $1k iPhone comes standard with LiDAR sensors - but Musk still claims they're too expensive and cumbersome to use in self driving vehicles that cost over $40k.

Maybe someone will be eating crow tonight.
How is this different from other types of ballot harvesting?
The big difference is seamless integration with other Apple products. This is why they’ll take market share, it will just work with your iPhone better than the echo does.
There's also the simple fact that nobody wants to set a strong precedent because everybody is doing it. The US was spying on Merkel, Germany's BND was caught spying on Turkey, Turkey was caught spying in Germany (and pretty-much-caught assassinating Kurdish French citizens in France) etc pp, Norway spies on Russia, Russia spies on Norway.

That's normal. Of course each one is unhappy when it's done to them, but nobody wants to do anything about it, because it might be done to them as well.
His political opponents sent him a letter telling him his acts were unlawful, yes. The Chilean Supreme Court who would be the body who could issue such a declaration with any legal standing did not.
I'm genuinely impressed with this article, it manages to talk about a topic rife heated opinions in a very level headed way! Kudos to the author to presenting biological sex as something real and fundamental while not falling into the trap of concluding that one's 'social sex'/gender must follow from it.
> I have never seen a well working, up to date, modern system being called legacy.

"modern" being the operative word here.

Every year, new systems that will turn awful to maintain are being developed and deployed into the wild, but as long as the code is still fresh in the original development team's hive mind that cannot,- by definition,- be called "legacy".
No, FED does not print money - bank reserves are not legal tender. If they had printed money, inflation would have skyrocket.

My only question is why banks agree to this deal: exchanging U.S. treasuries for bank reserves (which they only can use as a collateral for lending) ?
OMG, can you imagine all the magnetic stripes on credit cards that will be corrupted by the MagSafe?!?!?
Actually enforcing and expanding the sanctions rather than have opportunistic political operatives immediately undermine them before they've even taken office and then have the administration who benefitted from the meddling water down the sanctions when actually inaugurated.
I think Mike Bostock is on Hacker News and is definitely on Twitter - you can tell him yourself :D
For tthe number one economy, the US is weirdly backwards when it comes to technology and infrastructure.
> "Biological sex is important to consider in biology but that doesn't mean it's important elsewhere."

AKA "you might ignore biology when it comes to make political decisions so that me and other biologists are not labelled bigots"? The conclusion of that article is a cop-out.
I'm always amused by "up to" in advertisements and such. "You mean you promise me there won't be any discount over 40%? Good, I was really worried you might give me 50% off in some cases."
Not using USB-C. Again!
Assuming society continues onward, it doesn't really need to be fully repaid. The value is in the organization and structure of society. However, war, environmental catastrophes, population decline, and loss of trust between citizens of a nation can cause a decrease in the predictability of actions and consequences in society, and that would be a problem for any debt issued with rosier assumptions.
Creating bank reserves absolutely creates money. Bank reserves are the fulcrum around which bank leverage ratios operate. Yes, they can margin treasuries to borrow reserves from other banks, and in that sense, they are fungible. But the total amount of bank reserves in the system at any one time is still what bounds the total amount of money creation that can happen via leverage. Increasing the absolute amount of bank reserves increases the money supply, by a factor roughly equal to the current reserve requirement ratio (up to demand for credit, etc, etc.).
> Supposing it doesn't exist, how could we make a just high-functioning society

Supposing free will doesn't exist, why would you think we can decide to do anything to make things other than they are?
It's kind of fascinating how subtle the math and engineering on this sort of thing is.

I can't stand how, after this many decades of iteration, the Lenovo ThinkPad still mis-comprehends accidentally brushing against the trackpad while you're typing (and the form factor of the whole keyboard / trackpad combo does one no favors unless one touches the keyboard like a hook-handed monster).
From a technical perspective, it actually is a bit of a problem.

First, remember that speed is shared with everyone using the same tower (sector) as you. As data usage goes up, that will drop. In a major city where cell density is high it's less of a problem, but it's already an issue in more rural/suburban areas where cells are larger. There are plenty of places in the US that have LTE coverage, but the speed is actually pretty poor.

Second, there are some limit on the number of devices each tower can support. With embedded devices increasingly relying on cellular, we're expecting to hit those limits. So 5G allows for future system growth.

And as for data caps... more available bandwidth does help lower prices. Those prices are, at least in part, set in order to manage system load. More capacity means they can relax the pricing and/or caps.
I have never seen a native korean write ㅈ/ㅅ as displayed by most fonts, at least in non-formal settings. It's always been the handwritten version as depicted.

ㅅ almost looks like 人 [0] (인) on computers (looks like 1 stroke to beginners), but when handwriting it is 2 strokes. ㅈ is also 2 strokes (personal handwriting aside) and looks rather different.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_9
Especially when you consider that the common practice on Windows is to use less secure alternatives like Putty that are high risk for trojans.

Unless they are on smartcards, there's always a way to compromise keys like this.
I have to disagree. I think the stress and anxiety I’ve experienced in 2020 is on the order of the sum of the rest of my life combined.

The math works out this way too - global economic impact from Covid is probably $16T in the US alone.

If I could have spent half my yearly income in 2019 to have a normal year in 2020 I would take that deal in a heartbeat and feel really good about it.
Blue Origin's New Shepard Rocket Launches a New Line of Business
butterfly network. its not groundbreaking tech but likely far reaching and impactful especially if they can reach out globally to developing countries.

https://www.butterflynetwork.com/
In what sense? seeing the same problem multiple times can be a bit of a pain in the ass
The signal/noise ratio on that subreddit was unusablely low start at least ~2017. /r/btc is marginally better, but most of the popular cryptocurrency subreddits are very low quality.
You need to look into margins.
A referendum determining whether said constitution will be changed is taking place in a few weeks.
Well, the Pinochet government's own internal documentation found that it was an assassination.

http://archive.boston.com/news/science/articles/2011/05/31/c...
Thank you, I remember your participation back in that era. The main useful thing that emerged somewhat recently is the system called 'spawngrid' which leverages fossil rootscores, venti replication, and independent namespaces provided by ANTS to spawn independent plan 9 environments on demand and make them available on multiple nodes. It was a bit too ambitious for the real world so I'm going to stop wasting the money on running the unused servers but it did work pretty well in the technical sense. The lighter and simpler public grid will continue because it has an active user community.

I also developed a lot of interest in more theoretical computing topics which I may or may not be able to bring toward Plan 9 namespaces at some point, but I don't have the time to summarize that here, the blog on my site covers some of the ideas.
I'd say the authors have impressive resumes, though the arguments about economics and society are too far out there for me. So I didn't read very far into that stuff to see what they have gained from the position.

But I see it more as using accurate descriptions rather than just alternatives, which does have value in not misleading people.
It’s 4x zoom range (ultra wide to zoom lens). The regular has 2x zoom range (ultra wide to regular)
I can give it a try. The linked nature article had a lot of details.

> > But to my mind, the biggest take-away is that Einstein's Principle of Relativity absolutely requires that conservation can only be on average.
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> And the same request here. Why does the principle of relativity require that?

The way I read this comment was that "the principle of relativity cannot conserve angular momentum on a per-trial basis".

In a Mermin Device a pair of entangled spin particles is set to two Stern-Gerlach experiments. The two particles has net (spin) angular momentum of 0 because that's was the net angular momentum of starting material. But if you measure the angular momentum of the two particles in two non-parallel directions, and if we also require that the only answers you are allowed to get are +hbar/2 or -hbar/2, then the sum of the angular momentum you get by adding +/-hbar/2 times one direction plus +/-hbar/2 times a different direction can never be 0.

If angular momentum cannot be preserved on a per-trial basis, then I suppose it must be preserved on average, because, I suppose if it isn't preserved on average, then I don't think you can say that angular momentum is preserved at all.

> And because of that, when Alice and Bob measure entangled quantum particles, their combined results must violate Bell's inequality.

> > And because of that, when Alice and Bob measure entangled quantum particles, their combined results must violate Bell's inequality.
>
> Could you be slightly less ridiculously condensed here? Give a one-or-two-paragraph, accessible-to-the-semi-layman explanation of why this means the result must violate Bell's Inequality?

The really short answer is that if we preserve the angular momentum on average then it entails that the correlations we observe from Mermin Device must match the correlations predicted by quantum mechanics, and therefore violate Bell's inequality for the same reason that predictions of quantum mechanics do.

In more detail, if we take the results of a measurement where Alice measures angular momentum in the vertical direction and Bob measures the angular momentum off vertical by theta degrees where Alice gets a result of +hbar/2, then in order for angular momentum to be preserved, Bob's measurement would have to be -cos(theta)hbar/2.

Of course Bob is only allowed to get hbar/2 or -hbar/2, so if we want angular momentum to be preserved on average then when we take an ensemble of trials, and filter out only those trials were Alice measures hbar/2, then the average of all of Bob's measurements for those trials should be -cos(theta)hbar/2. That requires that the probability Bob geting hbar/2 when Alice does is (1-cos(theta))/2 (= sin^2(theta/2)), which I believe is the value predicted by quantum mechanics. Once you have the predictions made by quantum mechanics, a violation of Bell's inequality follows by the usual arguments.
It's exciting just because video quality is excellent than real live event.
I mean, if you walk around you will maybe smell pee sometimes? But saying the city "smells like pee" kind of implies that it's pervasive, contrasted with "outside of bars, at night, you might spell pee" (something I've never experience by the way).
Mobile data definitely had a raw speed problem in 2007 when the iPhone (EDGE) was introduced. (It had a "how it's being sold" problem, then, too.)

But I agree with your broad point: pricing is way more important today than speed for most customers.
Think AR glasses constantly updating with new 3D data as you walk around town.

E.g. Apple are rumoured to be working on their own AR glasses for release within the next couple of years.
Scientific American article with numerous citations highlighting the risks for 5G Radiation : https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-have-no...
I’ve had one battery replacement and really need another if I were to keep using this. It’s back in the “degraded performance” mode where the processor throttles peak performance down because if it tried to draw as much power as it wants, the battery can’t keep up and it spontaneously turns off.

Going from this to a 12 may be a bit of a shock, but it’s a modern camera that I’m more excited about than anything else. And having enough RAM to switch between more than two apps without them having to relaunch all the time.
What’s the point of 5G when I don’t even have LTE in many rural areas? I’d rather have LTE everywhere than a faster download rate when in a city but not at home.
They are, the argument that the poster above you put forward is such a tired argument and I really do not understand why people are trying to hide the fact that the Fed is actually creating money out of thin air and buying assets from banks for it. The Fed doesn't technically "print" the Federal Reserve Notes, but for all intents and purposes it is legitimately money that is being created, only digitally. You are entirely correct in your assessment that they are manipulating the market by being an agent with unlimited amounts of cash and can therefore provide options for banks that they otherwise wouldn't have in a free market.

Also bank reserves can be used as collateral for further loans, just because you don't lend out the actual reserves doesn't mean more money isn't being created, it's just done in a roundabout fashion.
You've got covid-proof iPhone SE.
I think the phablet thing was a fad, people were happy to see more but I've heard a lot of people say they miss tiny too now that they've tried.
Even worse, many-worlds doesn't really solve the problem anyway - it still doesn't explain WHY you only observe one result, when the Schrodinger equation predicts several. That is, why can't you see the other worlds?
The same reason we "tolerate" NSA + friends and foes spying on the whole world?
I like proposition A, but proposition B is not good. Real names policies mean people who are at risk of violence or job loss (e.g. domestic abuse, transgender, religious and ethnic minorities, poor people) must either conform or risk themselves for having a political voice. Given official news and political parties lie constantly about state affairs, real names don't even help with trustworthiness! Look at the President.

Instead, I would advocate that you should read everything critically and that any news you accept must meet some evidence threshold and logically make sense in a coherent narrative. Learning real history helps.

I strongly suspect that we were lied to about the rationale for real names policies on Google, FB, etc. They wanted data for their advertising business and to help enforce political conformity (their businesses benefit from a politically stable base of operations). It clearly didn't help suppress hate speech or insane conspiracy theories.
Whether or not one thinks this is a viable model for a whole national economy, it's worth observing that it's, practically, the kind of information fusion that makes companies like Walmart and Amazon so competitive. Predictive logistics is a huge aspect of their business behind the scenes and a massive economic advantage over smaller operations with either less information or less geographic reach.
City matters. I lived in middle GA, matinee showings were $8 or so. And a theater had all-day matinee prices on Tuesdays (including for 3D and IMAX showings), so I saw a lot of movies on Tuesday evenings. But go north to Atlanta, and ticket prices pretty much doubled and you did not get a better theater experience for it.

Also, $5 snacks sounds like the cheapest snack they had. If you bought popcorn, it started at $6 or $8 for the small, even in middle GA.
It sounds like it's making a case that people pretend the concept of biological sex doesn't exist as some kind of defense for social concepts of sex, but that seems like a straw man. I've rarely (never?) heard anybody insist that there are not multiple contexts for the concept of sex/gender.
It's not that bad of a CPU. It's powering my iPad Air 2 (A8X) which doesn't do too badly.

Remember when we were freaking out about the unprecedented performance of the A7, the first 64-bit mobile chip? And now it's in a speaker.
I'm finally going to upgrade from my original SE. It's not as small as I'd like, but I think it will keep its value well if they do come out with the nano in the spring along with a new watch mini/nano.

It's looking like it was a battery issue all along, but once these magnetic chargers become common, that won't matter. It's perfect for mounting an iPhone in the car too.
It's a member of European Economic Community, the predecessor to EU.

Norway will probably ask NATO for help to launch contra cyber attacks.