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> Ignoring the mathematician’s appeal to rigorous
(re)formulation, we focus on the latter part of the quote: “The physicist’s often crude
experience leads in an uncanny number of cases to an amazingly accurate description of a
large class of phenomena.”

Non-practitioner in either field ...

If you don't focus on the more or less "defined" ML subset, and focus on the AI in the question, whatever "AI" has meant over the years, then ...

The reason why AI is hard and physics simple may be that physics already "is," while we may not yet have defined what AI should be and what to do with it .

Physics has guardrails of reality, however subtle and hidden they may be. What is described by physics is what it is, and will be there as it is, whether we correctly describe it or not, and whether we observe it or not. (Depending on your view of an observed universe's dependant relationship with its observer.)

AI is ... what? In any particular decade? We aren't describing anything that already is, and that comes with constraints. We're making it up.

Specification is hard.

The universe as described by physics, on the other hand, is well beyond specification and requirements gathering. We're just writing the missing manual.
Letting your cat outdoors for a significant amount of time is a great way not to have a cat:

https://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk491/files...
Hmm. Could that be why I fail to be a completionist in games? I play computer games, but don't give a rip about achievements or multiple playthroughs... They are fun, but as soon as I beat it, I move on.
Ask HN: How do eng focused founders learn distribution?
Product is cheaper and easier to build, but distribution is more expensive and more complicated to have success with.

How do founders with engineering backgrounds think about building their first go to market motion?

Some things I consider:

- Channel depth
- Channel competition
- ACV and sales lifecycle
- complexity in explaining the value prop
- scalability
- paid vs organic
Interesting. How late in life are we talking? I've heard similar things, hence why we're keen to get started sooner rather than later.
People have many motives for community college, and many smart people go to them for various reasons. On average, better schools will have classes and teachers who are more engaged, passionate, smarter, etc. about the academic subjects. Especially if you are intellectually curious yourself, and it sounds like you are, I think engaging with people like that would be the best part.
What would you consider to be “enough” friction? Equating voting to commenting on Internet forums is a bit disingenuous IMO. I mean, if you had to register at your local government internet commenter office at least a few days or even months before commenting, then show up on a given day to comment long hand in person after waiting in line, perhaps you would have a point.

My point is that we already have significant friction built into the process of voting.

I think a more interesting thought experiment is around compulsory voting. Making the incentives work the other way- where you’re expected to participate in the process. I wonder if people would take it more seriously if you had penalties for not participating?
The unions didn't stop a capitalist distopia, they carved out a portion for themselves and their cronies. Doubly so in large cities.
The source of MERS was identified as camels after 9 months.
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I'm helping startups be community-led and identify fans, influencers and advocates early on. Thus, I'm looking to work with early stage startups on helping them map out their audience building and community strategy.
I hate to be this condescending but why is this not just ordinary laziness? Do we really need to go to a doctor so that we hear that we have a problem, and we might need medicine, to focus?

Isn't it more likely that a constant stream of never ending notifications and interruptions decrease our attention span to seconds? You can't read a book because you can't read an article, and you can't read and article because you read 6 line long hackernews or reddit comment that "might" contain some knowledge. Your brain evolved to adapt and it adapted to a world where everything might take your attention elsewhere. You can work to fix this.
"Catholic" in church means something like "Common" in Desktop Environments.
I skimmed the article. Is the issue that JK Rowling thinks the terms men and women should refer to sex and not gender? That seems to be the basis for her tweet in support of Maya. Isn't this a widely held view in the general population? I mean, she's neither right nor wrong. Man/woman can refer to either sex or gender depending on the context, and appreciating that is in line with reality.

I think JK Rowling's main point is that trans activists conflate sex and gender and this creates unfair outcomes in areas like sports, not to mention there's a deeply anti-science bent to it (for example denying that trans women have any biological advantages).

For being one of the few cultural mainstream voices speaking against those aspects in particular, despite the vitriol she receives, I think she's brave and I appreciate that.
Is this the only way to reduce homelessness? How come other states haven't taken this route? Are the governors of the other states morons? Newsom is being recalled, so he is flailing and throwing cash around to secure his position, plain and simple.
Agreed about the relevance of the quote you posted. Totally disagree about what it means, in terms of what violates the spec.

I do care about conformance with the HTTP specs. REST doesn't even have a spec, so saying you don't conform to the REST specs is... uh... weird.

As per your on-point quotation, the semantics of POST are "please handle this". It's the super-vague catch-all, you can use a POST for any "data-accepting process", or things with semantics as general as "a gateway to some other protocol". It's never spec-violating to use POST, POST is the method that makes no commitments.

On the other hand, PUT and DELETE have clear semantic limits, and PATCH more-or-less does.

As such, there will be situations where PUT and POST are both conformant, situations where PATCH and POST are both conformant, situations where DELETE and POST are both conformant, but no situations where POST is not conformant.

> The way this plays out in the modern CRUD world is...

Ugh, no. That's the hipster invention. (It's also only modern if you think 2005 is modern, or maybe some earlier date.) The hipster convention is an okay-ish convention, as good as any other cookie-cutter, so I guess if you don't have time to actually pay attention to the implications of the spec I guess you can do worse than teach your juniors to create with POST and update with PUT. But it's not the one way to do it, not the right way to do it, not the only REST-as-in-Fielding-compliant way to do it... it's just the way Rails did it (and maybe some prior framework, I don't know).

POST is perfectly okay for updating, modifying, deleting, or anything. POST is analogous to a procedure call... it can do anything.

PUT is for setting resources to entities, which yes includes overwriting, but also includes assigning to a previously-unused URL. PUT is analogous to variable assignment in imperative languages like Pascal; it may not modify anything but the resource designated by the request URL.

> The spec is clear that POST, PUT, and PATCH do different things, and it is explicit that they be used as described ("MUST" and "MUST NOT" rather than "SHOULD" and "SHOULD NOT").

I, too, think that the spec is pretty clear, but I think you've mis-read it, so maybe it's not so clear. As per my previous question, *where does the spec obligate the conscientious endpoint designer to use PUT?* That is, if you find yourself in a situation where PUT is legal, what bit of the spec says that you MUST NOT use POST instead?
I'd be interested in hearing a few bullet points on TOS vs TNG from you :)
That makes sense to me. Of course, I'm not disputing the existence of specialists. A nurse practitioner or pediatrician may not have the most familiarity or want to deal with the issue.
That is completely nonsense. There were 50 millions[1] tourists from China to Hong Kong via Individual Visit Scheme in 2018. If it is that dangerous, how come so many Chinese tourists keep visiting Hong Kong?

[1]: https://www.tourism.gov.hk/en/tourism-statistics-2018.php
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I opened the door once one morning for my cat who was meowing. Big mistake! He started doing in on a regular basis of course. Ignoring him didn't work, so I started getting up and closing him in the basement until I got up a few hours later. After a few days of this, I'd open my door and he'd walk to the basement so I could shut him in. It took about 2 months, but he eventually quit the meowing.

New rule: never, ever, open a door when a cat meows. If I'm ready to get up and my cats hear me rustling around and start meowing, I wait until they have stopped meowing for 15 minutes before opening the door.
Some States even have a single box you can check to vote entirely for that party’s candidates, “straight ticket voting”.

Texas removed it a few years back and it’s removal was challenged (and lost) by Democrats: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/30/texas-2020-election-...
I was a union member for many years. I’m in management now in the same org and am no longer represented.

Everyone rags on unions. But you know, I have great healthcare at a fair price, salary is good, protection from management fads like stack ranking, etc. The only real downside IMO is the focus on seniority.

The big argument is usually that unions breed mediocrity and incompetence. My staff and colleagues are good at what they do and deliver. I regularly work with contract and consulting companies… they don’t consistently outperform our folks.

My sister works at a big tech company. Her negative experiences with idiots, bad managers, etc are pretty similar, and consistent with my past Fortune 50 experiences. Big orgs always have that.
I think religion is a poor analogy, because except in a few extreme cases like Iran, religion doesn't seek to create a totalitarian framework for every personal thought or action. And I don't view the Iranian revolution as much as a religious revival as a movement in the sense that a totalitarian movement must stay "in motion". The motion is the point. The revolution carries on, eating its own.

To me as a liberal it took a long time to realize that "wokism" has no fixed goal; it's more like a millenarian cult or a utopian movement that is willing to constantly redefine language in the service of forever one-upping its own followers. The winner is whoever can create the most visceral mob anger at last month's winner. It survives without an articulable final goal precisely because each iteration of the dogma pushes the last under a bus. Power comes from staying ahead of the permanent motion of the movement, an impossible task.

Similar phenomena can be observed in right wing movements, of course. But the far right is open about its hate, so anyone who demures can ultimately fall back on personal conscience. The far left uses love, not hate, as the grindstone for its acolytes. Thus any dissent leaves the dissenter questioning whether she was insufficiently loving. This kind of "love", detached from its real world object or any true objective, used as a measure of fealty, is one of the key hallmarks of totalitarianism, because it requires absolute obeisance in thought and action, while totally atomizing each member of the community into a fearful, self-censoring follower of whoever claims the mantle of radicalism and motion today.
That is literally what this article is: a cis-female weightlifter speaking against this.
TFA states that the money is from aid packages from Congress, so not really.

Also, how do you know that this is giving the recipients any advantage? If they're behind on their rent, they're already in shitty financial circumstances and probably already received credit score decreases.
With the referral program and integration with a cryptocurrency, anyone can shill for it. It's hard if not impossible to know if someone promoting Brave has a stake in BAT or not.

Those that are showing Braves many problems ("badmouth") don't have a stake one way or the other except to warn people.
I'm not defending myself against baseless allegations, if that's what you are seeking.

They made a claim, not me. Let's see some evidence or it's just, effectively, propaganda. Anybody can say anything without evidence.
You mean "Presbyterians", right?
I'm currently working on my Master's thesis related to implementing propensity score matching for program evaluation in the child protection service system.

I cannot stress enough how important #1 is above. The most important part of making causal inferences in an observational experimental setting is identifying and collecting the variables associated with the treatment and outcome. It is easy to conceptualize but much harder to do in practice.
Probably the most relevant bullet point is the year of my birth.
Low-code: Outsystems, appian, Apex, odoo(not really low-code for the most part)

RPA: robotframework - along with python+java

Also upgrades need to be carefully planned when using low-code tools as we have seen more breaking changes when compared to popular opensource frameworks.
The Teamsters grew to the behemoth they are today because of Jimmy Hoffa in the 70s, who was heavily connected to the mafia and eventually gunned down.
As it seems like you’re seeing, what evolves depends a lot on what you’re selecting for and the environment they’re ‘growing’ in. This is another paper with more details. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123229/pdf/978... My favorite stories are the ones where the organisms evolved to be able to detect when they were in the test environment and only performed the high-cost, selected-for behavior there.
This is absolutely about choosing to feel resentment. Why else would you care that someone else got a leg-up if it doesn't affect you, personally? Like, nothing was taken from you, and nothing was done to you, and yet you still feel bad that someone else's life just got better. That's resentment.
This thread is clearly about comparing the probabilities of getting into FAANG vs getting into the Olympics. The situation with varying relative competitiveness of the local "scene" in a particular country is the same in both cases, despite the fact that even the 1% figure for FAANG engineers would only work under the assumption of the global pool of candidates (~20 mil software engineers worldwide), all willing to relocate and prioritizing FAANG above all other employers (a lot of assumptions). Tldr: no, being kinda good at leetcode is not an Olympic-level feat, try the ICPC.
> On the contrary, approval voting gets better results than IRV with any measure of strategic or honest voters. See extensive computer simulation results by Harvard stats PhD and voting methods expert Jameson Quinn. Brown (50/50) is probably the most realistic setting.

If you look at the graph with the honest strategy you get better results with IRV which is basically his point.
I find the current state of the art on stylus text entry so disappointing. I made a hacky prototype 7 years ago (!) and this kind of direct interaction remains a dream: https://youtu.be/So4x3Cu4WI0

I had a glimmer of hope when Apple started selling styluses, that they might succeed where Microsoft failed. But instead, they're putting mouse cursors on iPads, and the stylus is still a niche tool for artists.
I'm not sure there's any voting scheme that people would agree shouldn't be changed.
It's telling, perhaps, that the parent comment doesn't address the question, misrepresents what I wrote, and continues to misrepresent the bill.
I have been using 1600x1200 for 20 years. I had a single CRT. Later upgraded to two LCDs of the same res.(So I guess 3200x1200, but not for gaming.)

Then 1920x1080 didn't seem worth the cost.

Then gaming landscape changed and 60Hz is not a thing anymore, now it has to be 120+.

So have been waiting until 4k 120Hz+ and the money in my pocket meet.
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> I just don't want them advertising to me, or selling my data.

Google doesn't sell your data.

They sell the opportunity for companies to place their ads based on Google's placement algorithms, which use your data.

There is a big difference, and while I don't expect the general population makes the distinction I think on HN people should understand this.
Disc Golf is a great sport for all ages. It has effectively no barrier to entry and is good exercise to boot - it's more or less hiking with a game sprinkled in. Here's hoping it continues to amass what seems to be growing popularity.
Most Augmented Reality concepts are at that stage IMHO - we don’t really have light weight efficient hardware that can execute that vision yet. 20 years from now we will, and will probably look back at early experiments and concept videos from our time as “ahead” of their time.
If there are antibodies for it does that mean your body naturally fights and defeats it, like the cold? Or does it stick around until detected?
I’ve been subscribed for several years. It’s excellent.

The general approach inspired something I’m working on now on the side.
Imagine there are two major party candidates, D and R, and also a third candidate X who is well-kmown and well-loved, but few believe X can win.

Now voters go to the election and mostly put R or D on top place, but consistently put X on the second place. X has a really fair chance to win.

This is how the two-party system can be cracked. This is how an already well-known person can be elected without having to join either major party.
I feel like the modern Union should basically just be a mobile app where you vote on stuff and elect a couple reps to champion the things you vote on and if management doesn't want those things the app coordinates striking / etc. Is there an app for this? Seems like it would solve a problem.

To be fair I want an app like that for democracy in general.
Decentralization, both of computing systems and the physical economy. Also, improvements to education and government transparency. Improved environmental protections, and human rights.

We got the opposite on all fronts.
My point was simply that auto to assign pointers doesn't cause them to lose their pointiness, but using auto to assign a reference causes them to lose their referenceness. Yes I understand why it works the way it does. I'm not saying it's wrong just that it's been an occasional footgun.
I recently built a visual exploration of ranked-choice voting that might be of interest: https://vinaybhaip.com/ranked-choice. At the end of the the visual explanation, it allows you to simulate different elections
Fuck you and your condescension. You're so informed about IR that you're citing Wikipedia? :D
If you haven’t run across it yet, Karl Sims’ virtual creatures are also really fascinating. https://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html And anything by Melanie Mitchell. Her book “An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms” is great.
Sounds kind of like LetsEncrypt, but for people.
You're joking right? You move on from a fun activity when it stops being fun you so think you may have a disorder? I don't want to seem insensitive to genuinely troubled individuals but there seems to be a pattern on HN where every single topic about productivity is now swamped with people claiming that "ADHD" is the cause of not caring about things that aren't worth caring about and not trying hard when you don't need to, etc., all of this being completely rational. It seems like a collective delusion or something akin to a dysmorphia.
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Ironically, a lot of people who decide how to develop NYC subway sit in Albany, NY.
I do hope so. The Xuantie cores are not yet comparable AFAICT.
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I do agree that FPTP needs to go. I'm worried though that replacing it with RCV substitutes problems we know and understand with another set of problems that we don't know to be worried about because we haven't experienced them yet.

> If you vote for your favorite candidate, and your candidate is not the last-ranked candidate, you cannot cause your candidate to lose by putting them first.

Wikipedia has an example. (Technically it's two voters difference, since a change of one voter's vote would, I think, change the result at most from a win to a tie.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Instant...
For anyone interested in the saga, Stefan Matthews, who worked with Craig Wright in 2007 and 2008 before Bitcoin was released, gave a couple interviews this past week adding new flavor to the story [1] [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ACmnUwsZ4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R03ypV9CsTc
You seem to have missed the log in your own eye.
> Do we really need to go to a doctor so that we hear that we have a problem, and we might need medicine, to focus?

> You can work to fix this.

Going to a doctor is "working to fix it", and it's a lot of work to keep the prescriptions filled since nobody will give you more than 30 days supply of the useful medicines. There is plenty of other stuff you can do. It's just none of it works unless you do the medication first.

If you don't have the physical causes of ADHD, the medication won't help much, but other things like therapy or going on vacation will. With ADHD it's the opposite.
mal is much, much better IMO: https://github.com/kanaka/mal
> have on the brain

I see what you did there...
I'm far more excited about dual stack support: https://cilium.io/blog/2021/05/20/cilium-110#dualstack
Interesting (but surprising; this is a routine and hard to describe as anything other than intentional “oversight” in analyzing these methods) that Approval gets two forms, but none that recognize that honest ballots in Approval aren’t either of those constants, but a cultural variable that varies within an electorate, and that the similar issues with all restricted preference (approval and 3-2-1 from this list) and score based (score and STAR from the list) methods are completely ignored.
Yes, it's becoming common misconception online that hyperfocus is indicative of ADHD. That's a misunderstanding of the symptom.

The concept of hyperfocus in ADHD was introduced in certain literature to explain a reduced ability of certain ADHD patients to control their attention, such as having difficulty stopping playing a video game to do the dishes. However, that's ambiguously close to normal human behavior of preferring to do fun tasks more than un-fun tasks, so the distinction is best left to professionals.

Regardless, it wouldn't really apply to the OP's description anyway, as accomplishing necessary work tasks before deadlines when necessary isn't the same as someone drawn to fun activities like video games or TV.

As always, it's best to consult professionals. Internet medical advice, especially about ADHD, is increasingly wrong online. It's also worth noting that the concept of "hyperfocus" doesn't even appear in most accepted definitions of ADHD, and isn't considered in diagnostic tests. The idea of "hyperfocus" in ADHD is relatively limited to a few authors and one recent blurb in some European clinical definitions from 2019.