skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh absolutely, that's exactly my point. Even my example definition has ambiguities.

I defined an agent as being a non-random consistent being, but what does consistent mean exactly? What I meant was that I have reasons for my actions. After all, if I can give reasons for my actions, and I'm not deluded, surely my reasons determine my actions? Take that deterministic relationship away in the name of some abstruse philosophical concept of 'free will' being the ability to do otherwise, and why did I perform that action exactly?

Of course dualists have a very different conception of a human actor. They deny that we are 'mere' mechanisms and that there must be more to humans and their minds than the merely physical. Whatever that 'more' is. How exactly that gets round the problem I really don't know. Ive never read a convincing account of that. You're right, we need to dig into these assumptions. What is an actor? What is a consistent being? In dualism, what is this dual other thing, that isn't physical and what role does it play in decisions? That is the real question for dualism. Free will or lack of it is merely a consequence.
I work on the mobile contact tracing effort (FAANG), and I am exhausted thinking about it as well, and I don't even risk my life everyday.

Part of me wants to say, "fuck these idiots that don't wear masks, just die," but know that they will just get others sick on the way, and use up scarce resources.
> I think it's a huge issue when someone brings up "freedom". What does that even mean?

Someone smarter than me once wrote “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

If you can point out that someone in authority is wrong, without fear of death or persecution, then you have freedom and from that germ everything else can be reformed eventually.

Dictators know this and it's why they don't let people laugh at them even when they clearly look stupid.
Tell HN: USPS informed delivery switched from usps.gov to usps.com
Update your email filters. I did check to make sure DeJoy wasn't destroying the service, the new host is still an alias for usps.gov. I wonder if they switched the email provider.
You'll enjoy it for sure!
I suspect the number one reason is that most 18-25 year olds actually love their parents and grandparents, and don't want to see them dying an agonizing death from covid.

Clearly this doesn't apply to everyone, but I reckon it applies to most.
To be fair, active voice makes a huge difference over passive voice. It's good to avoid passive voice in all of one's writing.

And the LAST thing I want to see is people reverting back to the obnoxiously wordy and flowery styles of writing that were common a hundred years ago+
Thanks for pointing out the mention of representation. However the letter still lacked two required elements for it to be an effective formal counter notice:

- §512(g)(3)(C): A 'statement under penalty of perjury' that the material was removed by mistake.

- §512(g)(3)(D): A statement 'consent[ing] to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located', and to 'accept service of process from the person who provided notification'.

These are also noted as requirements in GitHub's counter notice policy [1] numbers 4 and 5.

I think it's also telling that GitHub never referred to this letter anywhere as a 'counter notice', only mentioning it as 'new information' they received about the project.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
Ok but he said:

"Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci. Now I actually want to go a step farther, but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats."

You're saying "pikes on heads" is a figure of speech, meaning firing and making an example of them. But he's saying "let's go beyond just firing". So what does "heads on pikes" mean in the context of the quote? Seriously, I'm trying to understand. How does one make an example of an employee you're displeased with, beyond firing them? Write really mean tweets about them? Fuck with their pensions? What?
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PZ Myers, a prof at Morris, MN, has expressed concern about exactly that in his blog.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/11/15/living-ne...
It depends quite a bit on where you are in any particular state. We did a similar move in May and I found that rural gas stations had close to zero mask usage, but in any larger city people were wearing masks. Some tourist hotspots (e.g. Moab) also have good mask compliance, perhaps because local businesses are desperate to avoid a full shutdown.

FWIW, I live in Utah, and in my urban neighborhood I actually see very good mask compliance. Further into the suburbs adherence drops.
It's interesting to expand on what Jack says about choice in algos.

What if you had the option to switch between moderation algos on the fly in the client?
If you'd like to see an absolutely terrifying map go to:

https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/

and scroll down to the "Can Our Health System Handle the Spread?" and look at the concentric rings of new infections/million radiating out of North and South Dakota.

This lines up very well with the parent comment's observations.
COVID Spinning Out of Control
The other side is that if the efficiency and performance of these chips scales up to a big workstation, they could use them in their data centers to get much higher performance without a whole lot of extra power, and then sell whatever chips they don't need as Mac Pros.
I'm glad to see some real-world individuals testing this. Will be interesting to see a "post-mortem" on why the M1 has done so well, and where the limits will be in the future (ie: how far can you get with DRAM-on-die?)
So China has first confirmed case in Wuhan on November 17, but there were cases in Italy two months earlier? How would anybody explain this?
Very interesting. Thanks for the info.

How can someone apply to become an accredited investor? assuming one qualifies.
Wow, you're quite the sceptic lol. Good work there.
M1 has a lot of great things about it and I'm excited to see the what it can bring. Intel needs to be humiliated by something great, to remind that they have been crap for a long time.

But... Other than ST performance, the multi-core CPU isn't linear at scaling. At 16cores - core-to-core communications take a hit, that is not as bad as for 4 cores.
The best option seems to be a hybrid.

Use the M1 Air to remote into a real non virtualized computer running linux.
> They can be handy if you're in the middle of something else, and you need one without distraction.

Add a drop-down temrminal file manager to the mix, so you never lose your context. ;)
The BATNA (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/best-alternative-to-a-n...) is definitely important, but it is all about being willing to walk away. The multiple offers obviously helps with this, but that doesn't mean that you can still leave a lot of money on the table if you negotiate badly. If you have an offer from FAANG and one from another company the one from the other might still be lower than a low-ball offer from FAANG.
I find "On Children" by Kahlil Gibran (https://poets.org/poem/children-1) a wise guidance:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,

But seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
I think this is 11th generation, where the A14 and M1 are the same generation. I expect we will see a few other chips from this generation, perhaps a A14X for iPad Pros and a M1X for bigger laptops and iMacs.
What claims are absurd?

Tens of millions of people will own significant Tesla stock via the index despite obvious evidence of fraud and financial engineering at the company.

Even if everything was above board (i.e. the company had a general counsel or was able to obtain a D&O policy from someone other than Elon Musk himself)... this is probably the most overpriced car company on the planet by any metric, and it's revenue has flat-lined the last 8 quarters (no, it's not a growth stock).
Obesity and SARS-CoV-2
An entertaining article, but it's not historically accurate. If you look at measured usage, UTF-8 took off around 2005 and was the dominant web encoding by 2008. Emojis weren't added to Unicode until 2010, at which point UTF-8 usage continued to increase at exactly the same rate as before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#/media/File:Utf8webgrowt...
This is how Twitter Tumblr’s itself out of the app stores.
In French, passive voice is used to redirect the spotlight on meaningful bits.

In their example & imho, "Phrases in green have been marked to show passive voice." communicates their intent better than "We marked in green phrase using passive voice". The 'we' is useless.
Just because it is locked down, why is that the same as "renting"? Those are two very different concepts.
I mean...many uncomfortable truths ARE HIPAA violations. What makes it NOT a HIPAA violation is that it's just general/anonymized anecdata.

I can't go up to someone and be like "Alice Rosenstein has cervical cancer, sorry if that's an uncomfortable truth, but the law wasn't written to protect your feelings." That would, in fact, be a HIPAA violation.
So you're fine with not understanding what are you doing.

This sounds ominious.
Quality Death Spiral
Choosing your husband more wisely, I suppose?
Take a look at Bitwig
No, separate project, although both Servo and Gecko (the C++ Firefox codebase) are aiming to use it.

This diagram [1] kvark posted the other day might help. (I think dotted-outline boxes indicate external components, but couldn't swear to it.)

[1] https://gfx-rs.github.io/2020/11/16/big-picture.html
Sounds fascinating, I'd love to see some examples.
I thought so too, but I'm not completely sure since they rolled out the personalised "Time Capsule" playlists. Most of the tracks in mine seem more based on my age and location than my listening history. Particularly, many tracks that were in high rotation on a popular national alt/youth radio station when I was 10–15 with no obvious connection to my current listening habits.

I looked it up after writing the last paragraph, and indeed "playlists are [...] based on the country you live in, genres you listen to and your age" (https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9456319/spoti...).

Still I'm not sure if this information comes from tracking or my mistake of signing up to Spotify with my Facebook account.
at the 8 year mark I have yet to experience this reasoning with words you speak of.
From what I've heard myself in the past, I don't think Qualcomm is as far behind as you say, but I would not be surprised if it was.

This puts me in mind of one time that I was ranting to a Microsoft colleague over lunch about how MS shouldn't be exclusive with Qualcomm for ARM chips given the very low rewards over the years. They said to me that when Windows Phone 7 first was under development in 2008-2010, choosing Qualcomm exclusivity seemed best because Qualcomm was the only one willing to make decent BSPs for us at Microsoft.

Upon reflection, I realized that this was still the case as of our conversation years later. The Mediateks, Samsungs, and Nvidias of the world either did not work with Microsoft at all, or got spurned by Microsoft themselves, or gave up after 1 or 2 high-profile failures (such as Surface RT). Texas Instruments was a notable exception as they gave up on ARM SoCs altogether, thus killing what would have become a TI-based Windows RT tablet platform.

Now neither me nor my coworker was in a position to actually know what was going on here, but I think this anecdote illustrates the value of a trustworthy business partner even when their products look mediocre.
Servo is starting to remind me a little of Minix, where it is an ambitious project attempting to fix underlying architectural problems, but the scale of the project being so large that ecosystem progress outpaces it's ability to adapt. I hope I'm wrong.
Older people love touchscreens on laptops and use the feature very heavily (I think my mother touches her Surface Book's screen in laptop mode more than the trackpad). I see it as a nice to have when I'm recommending laptops for others even if I hardly ever use it myself. It doesn't have to be a revolutionary new input style that apps transform to make use of, and I think that's where Apple gets stuck because that's so alien to their design philosophy.
> Servo’s high-level goals remain unchanged: to provide a high-performance, safe rendering engine for embedding in other applications.

This is exactly what I want their goals to be. Embedding Chromium in applications is cumbersome, bloat applications, etc...

In the long run, having more options of web renders to use will help with everything, including browsers. Maybe it won't all be pulled into Firefox, but (ignoring all the other problems with DRM/regulation/anticompetive behavior/etc) it'll at least make it a little easier for other people to build browsers, and it opens the door for us to have more lightweight alternatives to applications like Electron.
Still to finger-pointy. Try "a build breakage occurred".
For those thinking that being hosted/developed in Switzerland is some sort of guarantee of privacy, look no further than CryptoAG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's quarantine beard
I always thought that k3ks was so named because the symbol for 3 looks like a partial symbol for 8, indicating that it's k8s with a bit less.
Yes, I also experienced this with my 2020 MBA after updating to Big Sur (via a clean install). Scrolling with the trackpad in Safari was especially terrible at first with jitter and the appearance of dropped frames. This seems to be better the last couple of days for me. It's still not as smooth as it was with Catalina.
Elon Musk spends a lot of money/effort not to get stuck in local maxima. I guess time will tell if Tesla's trying lots of new ideas works out for them.
Can we call it education though or is it an anti-intellectual spirit or a disdain for elitism and the idea of experts? Or perhaps mistrust of authority and experts?

It would seem like perhaps an uneducated but highly communal/cooperative/respectful-of-authority society would have better outcomes than one with well educated individuals who have a culture of disregard for institutional science or the idea of technocrats and bureaucrats that might know more than Joe Sixpack. You could argue that education is what creates the values we're hoping for here, but that is kind of what I'm questioning. Perhaps the culture itself is the problem not the test scores.
As others have pointed out, this was considered. Here is the relevant excerpt from the paper:

> To avoid an articulating mount, the telescope would be placed at the lunar pole, constantly pointing at the
zenith. [...] The limit on exposure time is then given by the precession of the moon, and is of the order of several days. This can only be extended by the addition of some active tracking facility, for example a moving prime focus platform.
I was split between Hemingway and Grammarly and ended up choosing in Grammarly. Hemingway, IMO, makes your writing clear, but it also makes it incredibly boring. Grammarly has modular settings for formality, tone, friendliness, etc which lets me view grammar-based tips while preserving my personal writing style.
Why is this not a HIPAA violation?

HIPAA is a US law that's focused on protecting the privacy of a person's medical history. In SQL terms you can't JOIN a person's identity with their medical history (unless explicitly authorized). However aggregated data is allowed, as long as it can't be easily reverse-engineered.
There's a similar application for Russian language:
https://glvrd.ru/
It still worked fine as a thermostat even during the outage.
UTF-8 is simple enough to implement and yet I've seen it done improperly more than once.

The problem with UTF-8 is that the density is really good for North America and Western Europe but drops off quite a bit for other languages, and you have to trade CPU for bandwidth (eg, gzip) to do much about it.

Japan has several encodings (though shiftJIS is the only one that I can recall) that use escape characters to switch code pages. As long as you don't switch too rapidly between kanji and borrow words, it's more compact, but more complex to implement (I would say less so than implementing gzip but if you aren't using zlib, one of the most portable libraries in existence, you have much bigger issues than character encoding).

UTF-8 takes 3 bytes for all of the first block. Only the first 2048 characters fit into 2 bytes, which is mostly European languages.
I love the concept of uber and yelp, I've used them a lot. But once I could price compare them via google maps they became un-investable to me because they can only compete in 2 areas, people and policy.

Once you lose control of the sales channel your business is commoditized and pricing pressure will remove all margin. Competing on price is a losers game if you want margin and growth. You can make a niche by having a better experience or better refund policies but the value competitor will drive the price down and steal marketshare.

Airlines and hotels are perfect examples, now ridesharing is little different.

If Airbnb can continue to control the experience then I think it is a great company to invest in. But if you can buy an airbnb on expedia and see the prices of nearby short term rentals from other competitors like vrbo then they are toast.

Aggregators are easy-mode tech, you are transferring wealth by taxing margin of other companies that have operational efficiencies or deficiencies.
It's an API to interact with a torsor

Well why didn't you just say so!
hm that feels more like a problem you have than one inherent to my comment tho
Why would anyone disagree with you publicly?

Everyone I know who hates this stuff says so on the edge of normal conversations, couched in a wait-and-see vibe. Google Home gifts go unopened and tech devices are excluded from certain areas.

The dialogue has become a scary game.
Patents still exist. If Twitter has violated any Snap patents then they are free to sue.
Understanding Airbnb
Full quote:

"Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci. Now I actually want to go a step farther, but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes".

I'd be inclined to believe your interpretation but he himself has already ruled out the figurative meaning of the phrase "pikes on head" with the first sentence in that quote, by saying he wants to "go farther" than that. Beyond firing, how exactly can you "make an example" of an employee?
Even if 10 years from now we discover that wearing a mask was a completely pointless endeavor .... the cost of wearing a mask is SO LOW that it is worth doing it.

But it is scientifically proven to limit the rate of the spread, which is the least I can do to protect myself and those around me.

I don't care if I get covid ... I don't think it will kill me based on my vitals. However, we don't fully understand the long term physical and mental health implications of having it (both neurological and psychological), we don't understand it from a 'pre-existing condition' standpoint, and hey who knows it could hit me like a train and do me serious harm or kill me. Plus, I would like to further the goal of eliminating the virus entirely, and not spreading it to others helps that.

I can't believe there are still people out there clamoring to the idea that there is any other way.
And yet, surely they could change things essentially overnight if they wanted to. I’m not sure how far “they didn’t expect this to happen” goes as a defense.
Yes, the way to avoid a cold start is to keep it constantly running. Which rather undoes the point of only being charged when you're using it.
It's annoying that it needs to open another page. And it is not easily discoverable.
Thank God, I am so happy to hear that Servo isn't being abandoned, and I'm very happy to see the Linux foundation getting involved.

It's still going to be an uphill battle for Servo to really make an impact on the overall browser/web industry/ecosystem, but at least for now this is very positive news.
It looks like it only begins to throttle after 8.5 minutes of sustained high loads — like exporting 4K video.

In a lot of day-to-day work that is much more peaks and valleys, you may never see the throttling.
> these undecidable/uncomputable statements are computed by humans all the time

This is a far stronger statement than I think even Platonists would accept. What examples of non-computable statements that are computed by humans do you have in mind?

Even putting on my Platonist hat (which I'll wear for the rest of this reply), I would still argue, in line with xyzzyz's comment, that at most humans deal with computable descriptions of non-computable things. For example, the description of the real numbers is computable even if the real numbers themselves are not. Likewise even if the real numbers are not computable, we can only ever work with computably-definable (indeed only finitely definable) real numbers rather than arbitrary real numbers.

To use the map-territory analogy, while the territory is the thing we care about, the only things we can work with, manipulate, and compute are computable maps.

For example Chaitin's Constant is a non-computable real number. However, we never work with Chaitin's Constant directly, but rather with our finite description of it, from which we deduce all sorts of other facts.

There are therefore many things about Chaitin's Constant we will never know. But that is the Platonist's lot in life.

As an aside, there's in fact a formalization of this that states that a mathematical universe consisting solely of finitely definable entities and nothing else is perfectly reconcilable with ZFC. See https://mathoverflow.net/questions/44102/is-the-analysis-as-...). Now as I continue to wear my Platonist hat I don't believe for a second that this is in fact how the mathematical universe actually operates, but it is a good explanation for why it is beyond the mathematical abilities of humans to distinguish between this definable universe and the real universe we live in.
> I find that I benefit greatly from targeted advertising.

Your only foundation for this reasoning is that you've bought more things. What this definitely says is that the advertising is targeting you successfully, what it does not say is that you benefited from it. You clearly lived before you owned those things, presumably pretty well given your evident spending habits.

In conclusion, when looking at this post we can say just as easily that you were harmed greatly by targeted advertising.
This is incredibly bad for the health of the web. In kneejerk response to the invasion of privacy from world governments we're handing absolute control of the web back to those very governments.

Everyone being forced to get permission from a centralized cert authority that is easily influenced, pressured, etc in order to host a visitable website is the end of the web as we know it. This is a slide into a total loss of autonomy.

I give it about 3 years before all commercial browsers stop allowing you to visit HTTP sites at all and Firefox only allows if you use their unstable beta build.

At that point you won't be able to host a visitable website without getting permission from someone else. And that's the end of the personal web.