skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's exactly the model I'm exploring in http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=esprit_matiere or in http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=memoire : according to this model data are not stored in our brain - which is nothing but but a transmitter-receiver station - but in a kind of cloud (somewhere in a parallel universe) where the memory of the world since the beginning is stored.

We have private access to it thanks to a DNA type key and sometimes, when this key fails, we can have access to portions of memory belonging to others. This model makes it possible to describe quite reasonably paranormal phenomena, telepathy, talking with the dead, near-death trips, dreams,... For example, two distant twins communicate ... because they share the same memory area to which they have the key.
If I see my long dead mother in a dream, it is not because she would be alive somewhere, but because, in the secondary state of sleep and because our DNAs are close, I had a furtive access to a portion of her memory and, when I woke up, I painfully reconstructed a scenario in which she would have said a few words to me. Why not?

And if you wonder about the nature of this parallel space where the memory of hunanity is located, think about this ocean of electro-magnetic waves in which we are immersed and to which we only have access with the help of transceivers like our smartphones, radios, televisions, computers, ... which do not store anything.

What do you think of that?
All cans are lined with plastic, also a reason why you shouldn't use metal utensils to scrape all the contents out of the can
Both the medical and legal professions engaged in “degree inflation” when awarding “doctorates” for degrees that don’t meet the academic qualifications for a traditional doctorate degree. The medical profession took it further and wanted to be called “doctor” (traditionally an academic title reserved for those with the highest degrees in a subject, with the title literally meaning “to teach.”)

The medical community makes a big deal about the title thing and it’s broadly rooted in attempts by previous generations of physicians to be seen as a respected and legitimate profession. Until well into the early 20th century that was a struggle for physicians, who were often viewed as crack pots that engaged in wild unscientific practices—-because that was true for many. Medical school was a joke at the time by modern standards.

So for all the reasons above when any physician tries to suggest that a physician is the only “real doctor” you can roll your eyes and suggest they crack open a history book and then let them go back to stroking their own ego.

JDs never really went the same path but did take up this odd practice of using “Esquire.” Elsewhere in the world Esq is typically used to formally address young gentlemen without any other title. If your teenage son gets a bank account in the UK their the statements will come addressed to Joe Blogs Esq. To anyone with broader worldwide exposure to titles, this makes the use of the title by lawyers in the US hilarious because it makes the person look like they’re taking the title of some kid in the UK.
It’s not comparable.

It’s both an institutional failure and an individual one.

We know bugs and mistakes happen.

If an organization has a QA or testing process and the code passed through the accepted processes and yet the still failed, we may not hold the engineer responsible.

If an engineer on the other hand, ships code which has not been tested, when a testing process exists, then we might well hold them responsible.
Meow. Mwahaha. Why Java? What made you think that cats would like OOP and lots of boilerplate?
Most scientists also thought it was crazy at first--surely there must be some simpler explanation than just conjuring up a new type of matter. But at this point, the dark matter theory is by far the most popular.

There are a lot of reasons we know that dark matter is (almost certainly) non-baryonic. For one, we know how much baryonic matter there is (based on models of the big bang, etc.) And while no one has seen dark matter in a laboratory, we have observed it indirectly (eg by gravitational lensing).

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/dark_matt...
"a title she is entitled to, so what value is there in not respecting her wishes?"

Because it's pompous, self-aggrandizing and totally deserving of ridicule for people to use highly formal titles when it is not normative.

More ridiculous are the attacks on anyone who objects to it as 'sexist and partisan'.

Profs and PhDs in the United States and elsewhere do not use such titles outside of Academia. Nobody in the US uses the term but medical doctors and dentists, or, in the most formal of situations. Profs if they are teaching - maybe.

Do we say 'Doctor' when they talk about Steven Pinker?

Neil De Grasse Tyson?

Angel Merkel?

Anyone else ?

No, of course not.

'Dr. Sanjay Gupta' on CNN - yes - of course, but not because he's a PhD, but because he's a Medical Doctor, that is the normative usage, and it's relevant to his work.

Anyone has the 'right' to use such titles can obviously use them, but you can also wear a Tuxedo to Applebee's, that doesn't make it not ridiculous.
Pirating copyrighted material.
>For one, you don't seem to have any concept of our evolutionary biology. Humans have evolved to be goal-oriented, and we receive happiness for participating in activities that are beneficial to our long-term survival.

No, we receive happiness for succeeding in activities that are beneficial to our long-term survival.

For example, I doubt that a prehistoric hunter was very happy after spending three days tramping for miles, burning precious calories, hunting for game but not finding any.
More like capitalistic selection.
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First off, I appreciate your comment.

As a mild defense, I'm just worried that the internet (and emerging distributed web) might make for a landscape where facts no longer are predisposed to win, as they were in the very carefully calibrated prior social systems. There are no chokepoints as there have been through all prior history, where power could exert control, be that through kings, politicians, media, capital, overton window, or whatever.

The tactics of persisting signals in a sea of liquid and a sea of air are different. Maybe we're in a different phase. I'm willing (though not welcoming) toward the idea of this being a phase change, after which it's not particularly helpful to focus on the "rightfulness" of factual information.

I'm not saying there is no role for facts, I'm saying we might have to start thinking differently about how we expect the larger systems to integrate them

EDIT: For example, removing Trump (the liar in chief) from Twitter has UNDOUBTEDLY improved public discourse imho. I wish we'd done it sooner. But we're actively building a world where that will be less and less possible. And while removing his lying megaphone improved things for a bit, we sure as heck haven't figured out the right way to deal with a Trump anomaly without that lever.

What will we do in a digital regime where the mathematical guarantees and data structures at their core prevent us from silencing him? To what authority will we negotiate about "truth"?
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This is great. I try to write about little pieces of this, but mostly from a perspective of new tech, policy, and history: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
I agree that it’s bigotry.

Do we think people should be free to be bigoted?
Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons
Jamshedpur comes to mind (from Tata).

Sun City, Arizona is also a good example.

Gurgaon ,India - but note there are private (company) areas and public areas. In fact that may offer a nice comparison, but from my understanding the seed stage was 100% company-backed.

The Woodlands, Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas

I think Ciudad del Este gets pretty close although thats a FTZ charter city, not exactly a "company" charter city.

When you look at these cities you need to select local comps that make sense.
It’s much more complicated than that. Sometimes the people who start from scratch actually lead to real innovation while the scholars are stuck in their old world view. There is room for both types of exploration.
Who defines what counts as bigoted?
Okay but what really bothers me are square powdered juice packets. This is the only way powdered juice comes in my country and we're all poor and re-fill soda bottles, so WHY the hell are they square? Powder spills everywhere. Why are they not tube shaped. And why aren't there ones for small water bottles for on the go? One of these days I will write to the companies...
Is this just a heat-map? Is the probability calculated per-dollar, or per-employee, or what? If its just per-company, then this is the expected result (a bigger pond has more fish).
The Open Courts Act isn't open enough
It may not have direct monetary impacts as large but I would argue the effects of high street crime are much higher and harder to account for. People know that backroom deals by fat cats negatively affect their lives, but they don’t feel physically unsafe because of them. Conversely if street crime is prevalent the people are fearful and feel unsafe in their homes. It only takes one break-in in a neighborhood to put everyone on their toes.
I'm sure you know better, but at first glance this seems wrong. Reason: `main` is not itself a template, so `cast` is not a dependent name.

C++ compilers used to be liberal about accepting unnecessary instances of the `typename` keyword so lots of people would just sprinkle them everywhere. Modern versions of both Clang and GCC call this out.

The actual rule: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/dependent_name#Th...
Absolutely - you'll be able to get both fewer hops and higher speeds for a single hop.
I definitely think that my back pain effects me emotionally and saps my happiness. I'm way grumpier than I ever used to be. (I also wonder if chronic inflammation causes an autoimmune-like response which is resulting in other new conditions like heartburn).

I think the body plays a much larger role in our emotional and mental states than we give it credit for.
I generally agree with your sentiment, however i must clarify.

The article states they are talking about a bill that will provide existing undeveloped barren land that has no citizens on it.
Wouldn't you be better served by your own VPN server?
If they could properly handle the data, they would have.
No, I think you're missing the point.

WSB has gotten very large very quick since the WSBGod saga

In the old days enough people would have went in with that mentality to make it representative of the situations, but today most people there are just people looking for a ticker to buy because they heard WSBs has made people millionaires

Percentage-wise the people who did this with the primary motive of screwing over hedges and were ok with losing money are a large part of where this started but an extremely small part of where this ended up.

That's why places like Citadel are showing retail investors were net selling almost immediately after this blew up past the subreddit

It's out of date to give WSB this much credit, a bunch of people saw dollar signs off a pump and "hold the line until I can dump" and got screwed
Excellent! I plan to buy your book and use it to teach my daughter programming. She loves cats and doesn’t leave the side of her cat. I will read this book to the cat, and maybe my daughter will pick up something too.
I would say the average person using spyder would have no idea how to do this. They program as if they are in R and not Python, so it’s short procedures in certain packages.
I assign zero value to "common sense". "Common sense" to me would also suggest that people would reveal less of their real biases and more of their concern of what those observing them might think when in an artificial setting where they know their actions will be scrutinised. We can come up with all kinds of "common sense" ideas about what might happen to explain this, and they're all nothing more than wild guesses.
Then, this is not about forcing religious attire... it is about forcing a religion since that person was not even from that religion.
I have no idea what the company is like, nor do I know what working for Wolfram is like (person and company), but Wolfram the person streams a lot of his meetings.

https://www.stephenwolfram.com/livestreams/
Some of the other replies are missing the fact that we can look at the history of why police departments were created: to break strikes and chase slaves. The historic record is clear that police were generally created to protect capital.
Anyone on this thread working in the charter city space or interested in exploring it? I've been looking into it for a while (not in the U.S.) and would love to chat with other folks who are interested.
> Who is the victim when banks steal from millions of people

The bigger question is who are the criminals? You can't throw the building in jail, and just because a negative emergent behavior manifested doesn't mean any one person had to have taken an action rising to the level of criminal culpability.
What is the role of CTOs with product managers, agile self organized teams, full stack developers, devops and VPEs?
It can be easily converted to a practical system:
https://github.com/FrozenVoid/Infodump-DB/blob/main/versioni...
how do you learn what popular products are?
You do not have to add "guards" to every function, just the functions publicly available via API. And you only need to add them when making (breaking) changes, like adding more parameters, but most of the time you can figure out what the caller wants to do and keep your code backwards compatible.

Also you should wait until your API is somewhat stable before adding the guards. So for most code, you do not need guards. But if your code is used by many, that defensive coding/guards, taking only a few minutes to add, will save countless man-hours that would otherwise be spent debugging.

As a general rule I like errors to throw early. So when I found a bug, (I first write a test to automatically reproduce the bug, then) I backtrack and add guards to each step (with helpful debug/data in the error message), so that the bug would be caught at the surface, rather then causing weird issues several layers down.

And guards are much easier to write then complicated type definitions. And the errors will be more informative, helpful and human friendly then errors from a type-checker.

Defensive coding is mostly useful in long living apps that have a lot of state, and which is constantly developed (new features added, breaking changes, etc). You would not need defensive code in programs that are executed once and then thrown away.
They are all metal tubes, and I guess the lining, which is plastic, is exactly the same as in the cans.
I'm excited about the prospect of more consumer level medical diagnosis systems. As you say cheaper ultrasound at home would be awesome, and the results could be sent to a trained physician/ai to tell you if the dark mass is supposed to be there. Putting people's health into their own hands is a positive IMHO.
> My concern with this would be that you've arguably turned a nice free (as in freedom!), open-source-tool into a vehicle to push more or less proprietary and user-tracking code onto naive, unknowing users

I respectfully disagree. First, the decision was not only mine, but from our team and community (see my post just above yours). Second, you are not losing any freedom by simply dismissing our message to take a look at Kite. And third, Kite doesn't track our users.

> Why make it a nagscreen (not sure about the extent of that), if you could just make it an option or a status message.

This is quite common in Hacker News: you're criticizing us without knowing how this works. We only show a message about Kite once. Then we show another message in the editor *if* our code completion machinery can't provide completions but Kite does. Both can be dismissed with a single click, that's it. These features are annoying for the user that started this thread because their settings are reset every day.

> For me you're now just competing with every proprietary python IDE

We are effectively competing with other editors and IDEs, with or without Kite. If giving the chance to (not forcing) our users to have better code completions makes us more competitive, I'm all for it.
I've always thought something like the Skyhook described in Seveneves by Neal Stephenson would be perfect for lifting things off of high gravity worlds where the rocket equation is a deal breaker, provided you were starting in orbit or outside of the gravity well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17900992

Maybe the materials science would still be a deal breaker, but in theory it would be easier to build than a space elevator.
exactly. I have at least some trust in Mulvad, but I'll be damned if I'm getting on the hotel WiFi in a US hotel chain without VPN. Let alone while travelling in foreign countries.

I frequently access my bank info etc. on such trips. With a VPN at least I have fewer random threat vectors to consider on a network.
Is complexity theory related to computational complexity? The webpage never mentioned big-O notation, and Wikipedia's disambiguation header seems to imply they're mostly unrelated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity
Something's off about the article:

"Authorities have seized his digital wallet"

How do you seize a digital wallet when all you need to access or recreate it is a private key (or recovery text)? What have they seized exactly?
also what happens after sign in? Is there any need to sign in?
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What about water, air and ground pollution? We have quite a few Superfund sites, abandoned by businesses that once made money and now we have to foot the bill for the externalizes.
I don’t have a gasoline pipeline to my house, but I do have electrical service.
Not all over 65s have lots of wealth. Those relying on the state pension, especially in council houses, have very little money. Now sure, when you have a situation where income drops 20% one year then increases 20% the year after, pensions shouldn't go +2%, +20%, but as a whole

Far better would be a windfall tax on the immense unearned wealth that many have had over the last 20 years, combined with a land value tax to correct housing costs and transfer planning gain away from the wealthy to the public.

Why is it that the duke of westminster, who owns 200ha of Mayfair (valued about £20b), pays nothing. A 1% LVT would cost a farmer with a 100 acre prime dairy farm in Cheshire £10k a year (less than tax paid to workers), a typical houseowner in London suburbs would pay £5k a year, not much more than council tax - and far less than house price inflation, and Grovesnor would pay £200m a year.
+1 to this.

The service is awesome but the app needs to be updated.
> Fortune 500 firms with strong growth profiles are more susceptible to “cooking the books” than smaller, struggling companies

Curious if this has something to do with the type of law firms/accounting firms these big companies hire -- as opposed to smaller firms hired by struggling companies, that have more to worry about when it comes to reputation (aka the companies aren't forced to use them every few years, as with big acct firms)
In the UK most medical doctors get Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees.
The amount of astroturfing in the reddit thread is just awful.
VPN hosters market in the most aggressive ways possible, probably due to the fact that its usually impossible to verify a VPN hoster's claims (without a breach), so assuming they did most of the VPN stuff right, any new users they lured in are gonna stick, at least for a while.
Is mullvad able to drill through the Great Firewall of China?
Few VPN can
Poor cat. Must have hurt his tongue so many times and you won’t ever find out.
And yet here we are in 2021 with those who decried the cyberpunk corpocracy of fiction, openly screaming "they're a private company" and pushing for more and more power over human communications to be controlled by international corporations.
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> Now why would that be?

Who donates money to fund the studies?
They've seized the file, but don't have the key. So, they haven't seized anything really, as I am pretty sure the guy has a copy of that file.
When I twist something I prefer to twist the top of my hands out, so I would twist something different if I was holding the tie with my left or right hand. So I absolutely believe that the handedness affects this because it will change which hand holds the bread and which holds the twist tie. If I hold the bread in the left (twist with my right) I would twist it clockwise (righty tighty) and if I held the bread in my right I would use my left and twist counter-clockwise.
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Exactly. They have seized nothing, apparently. The author over at the verge apparently doesn‘t get it either. The only way this would make any sense is if we were looking at a multi-sig wallet where police has seized one out of two necessary keys, where the second one is a brain wallet or hidden somewhere.