skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is more that, even when you know the underlying mechanisms perfectly and with infinite precision, there are systems for which you can't make any statistical claims about its behavior. Even the Game of Life can encode a Turing machine, which makes its medium-term evolution impossible to predict ahead of time. That doesn't mean there's anything we are missing in our understanding of the rules of the Game of Life.

Emergent behavior can be totally opaque, even when we have perfect understanding of the elements of the system. Just because the behavior is totally inscrutable doesn't mean there's anything we are missing about the underlying mechanisms. There's no hidden principle of Turing machines that would let us predict them reliably either- their underlying mechanisms are totally understood, the behavior is still essentially unknowable.

Perhaps living systems are like that. It seems quite likely, since their underlying mechanisms are actually much more complicated than toy models like the Game of Life, that they can manifest totally opaque behavior without requiring any new physics at all.
Coming up next: luxury watches biggest scam in retail. (they serve the same function as an ivy league degree: signaling status)
Plumbers don’t need to speculate that they might make the world a better place.
Tezutsu Hanabi: handheld Japanese fireworks
Yes

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/hygiene...
Reflecting on building my own tools from scratch and 'inventing on principle'
Some ISPs are stricter than others about not running servers on residential internet accounts. Sometimes they just plain block ports, especially for email so they don't have to deal with virus-laden spam relays on customer's PCs. And if you're on cable, you might only be guaranteed 5 mbit/s upload, and actually using that much all the time would contribute to congestion on your node (shared by your neighbors).
Instagram is AWS of FB at this point. It's a money printing machine.
This is simply false. Legally they can’t do this because they collect information for tax purposes. It is against the law.
> Most masters classes are simply just repackaged versions of undergraduate classes, maybe with a little more depth.

Depends on the country. Masters degrees can be research which are the first year of a Ph.D. or they can be taught degrees. In the latter they are usually called "conversion" courses where there's intensive focus on filling in gaps in education for somebody moving to the field. E.g. moving from an Economics B.Sc. to a Computer Science degree.

Where I was educated the Computing Science undergraduate degree is the equivalent of any Masters degree in the same subject. There is nothing in the subject matter that would be of value as another degree as it isn't advancement. It would be merely repackaged undergraduate courses like you suggest.
I've never been audited by the IRS but I've been hounded by the CRA (Canada) 3x now and each time it's been a huge pain, one time dragging on more than a year partially because it was so hard getting CA FTB to send me my tax transcript. Every time they've audited me they've ended up having to refund me more, did that stop them?

Right now the IRS thinks I'm using a fake American address for some good forsaken reason despite me paying almost 100k in taxes the last few years under the same name/address. And for what?! Half a penny in taxable intrest?!
Their social media post[0] blaming the embargo is parroting the Cuban Dictatorship’s response, and the post itself refers to the embargo as “undermining the rights of the Cuban people to choose their own government” which IMO strongly implies that the Dictatorship is the rightful government of the Cuban people. This seems like pretty clear support of the Cuban Dictatorship to me.

Note that, like other communist countries, Cuba hasn’t had free elections since the Communist Party took over. So the “US undermining Cubans’ right to choose their own government” would be an absurd error—it’s very, very hard to believe BLM doesn’t know this and accidentally stumbled into rote Communist rhetoric.

Similarly, it’s pretty hard to believe that the they think the US embargo is responsible for the disconnection of Internet, the police brutality toward protesters, etc or other overtly authoritarian facets of the protests. Nor the lack of medicine or food considering the embargo specifically allows those items, but Cuban policy effectively prevents Cubans from accessing those items (the government fears that it’s citizens might become sympathetic to US interests if the US is the one feeding and treating its population).

Again, these are people who see “authoritarianism” in every aspect of US government and culture, and they accidentally overlooked it in Cuba?

[0]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRU5kYYp-UU/
This isn't the original article anymore, both the content and the title were changed.
My blood boiled as I listened to that story.

My impression is that cops are incentivized to close the case much more than they are to find the truth, and the most prominent targets of their investigation will be friends, acquaintances, and family members, so even in the unlikely case of a loved one being kidnapped you should be very careful and probably talk to them only through a lawyer.
A quality tax preparer is no more than "a few hundred bucks". It is a more direct and quicker route than this faintly dramatic treatment, TBH.

You're right in that the IRS will treat people operating in good faith just fine, but a decent preparer makes it so much easier. My guy just asks me for my stuff in January and does his thing.
After finding a gold mine in the Philippines, their government tortured them
That's because you are on HN.
You can run the print spoiler without having it listen to network. Is that also required?
TBF, deductions aren't "gaming the system", but rather a very limited form of what companies get to do for all of their expenses. I agree they're a pain in the ass and much nicer to not do personally, but I don't see much of an alternative (besides not itemizing). But really if you want to make the tax code more fair, the restrictions on individual deductions for transportation, housing, food, etc should be eliminated. Those expenses are in fact required for you to earn your income.
Hi thanks for the reply!
> say what everyone perceives as the color red I perceive it as what everyone else perceives as yellow.

This is part of the "knowledge argument":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
Standardized tests are highly predictive of IQ. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/what-do-sat-and-iq-test... Here's a layman read. Here's a little more depth : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/
Can you not see that your down-voted comment contributes absolutely nothing? You haven't seen it before and you're reading it now... ok... so what? What can anyone do with that information? Why did you post it? What was the point?
When we gonna get some hardware accelerated opengl running on the pi. Keep up the amazing work!
They can just switch to AirPrint or something really similar and immensely simplify things while keeping 99% of the functionality people need.
> Yes, having government involved always creates inflation.

No it doesn't.

> It's no coincidence that the two areas with most government involvement, education and health care, are the things that have outpaced every other measure of inflation significantly.

The government is less (EDIT: more) involved (proportionate to total expenditures in the domain) in healthcare lots of places outside the US without equal, much less greater, healthcare inflation.

It is the manner, not the mere fact of government involvement that produces inflation.
"I am in no way advocating that employees should be allowed to post or disseminate any sort of hate speech" -> you want freedom of expression yet support what others will claim as "hate speech".
If hate speech is something that someone disagrees is with or is slightly offended, then there's no freedom of expression.
The first 3D-printed steel bridge has opened in Amsterdam
I never suggested that the system should be optimized for the < 10% path. I was simply pointing out that the current IRS culture is not based upon accurate accounting. They seem to "accidentally" make errors in their favor, and then send notices out to taxpayers.

I am all for a flat tax. It would be fair and easy.
What do you mean? It's already possible in countries that use the push-tax-bill system. If you're a small business, you self-report. It will be literally the same situation for any small business under a push or pull system - they either choose to self-report or not self-report. No government surveillance required.

The whole point of the push system is to make it easier for anyone who has a simple tax setup. That is, they work for an employer who is continuously reporting on pay checks to the IRS and state revenue departments.
The ones who don't want, or can't afford, to buy new hardware.
“lol stfu” – open-source Crypto Scam
We need to be reminded of this.

The left and right are so divided that they're intolerable of one another. Neither side believes the other is worth listening to.

It's a shame.

We're all animals traversing a complicated landscape. There's daily pain and suffering, and then we die. We should remind ourselves how similar everyone actually is, and that the diversity of our views are humanity living and breathing through our mortal, aging bodies.
The what you call "reflexive anti-american bullshit" comes because of post like yours, which without evidence spout claims such as "we do more good than anyone else - by a assive margin".

The US (as in government) like all large powers are doing a lot of self interested power politics. They have overthrown many democratically elected governments and supported (and sometimes even put in place) some of the worst dictatorships in the world, because it was in their geopolitical interest. They invaded a sovereign country and presented lies to justify the invasion. They jave introduced a massive worldwide surveillance system, that is essentially spying on everyone. Have used that aperatus to spy on allies, and used it for to gain every economic advantage they could get.

Is pointing this out "anti-american bullshit". Has someone who did these things done more good than anyone else by a massive margin?
Where do you find good people for this?
This is America. Nothing good ever happens legislatively, only things that benefit large capitalist institutions.
> This wouldn't be possible unless we had government surveillance of everyone.

What do you think W-2s and 1099s are?
Marshall Georgy Zhukov: "Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war."

Stalin himself is also reported to have said the Soviets couldn't have won the war without American aid, among other Soviet leaders.

Worth nothing that Russia was the 2nd largest recipient of American lend-lease (after the British), which started well before the Normandy landings. Yes they were in the unenviable position of the being German bullet sponges, but they couldn't have even done that without American supplies. So it's arguable the US did save Europe from Germany: 100% indirectly at first and more directly later.
Peter Watts covered the possibility of "zombie" intelligences pretty well in his novel Blindsight. One thing I took from it is that such an intelligence could not possibly behave exactly like a human being, because a lot of what we do as humans involves interaction with other humans where we have a mental model of their consciousness being much like our own. Expressing sympathy toward another person, for example, would be inconceivable without consciousness.
You make it sounds like its a minor technicality. The reason you cant take your hands off the wheel isnt because of outdated laws, its because Tesla's software will happily steer the car into stationary and moving objects alike, as well as make other dangerous moves like late lane changes across solid lines.
Scott Robert Ladd gives the best reply in this thread. "GOTO considered harmful" was written in a time when you'd walk to school uphill, both ways. GOTO would let you jump anywhere, not just some label within a procedure. Procedures themselves having been invented the previous winter. Many programmers were still doing things the "old fashioned way" and academics like Dijkstra couldn't help but hold their nose looking at such code.
> In the latter they are usually called "conversion" courses where there's intensive focus on filling in gaps in education for somebody moving to the field.

Well, or they are first professional degrees (e.g., the MBA, MFA, etc.)
My understanding (based on no research at all) is that it was introduced here for a similar reason: "homeownership is good". And it probably is.

But I don't know if the deduction helps with that. People buy what they can afford, so the "discount" is probably consumed by higher interest rates and inflated prices. It can also be argued that it's a form of regressive taxation: the rich are eligible for bigger mortgages, and therefore have more to gain from the policy.

Personally, I would like to see it removed. Any serious attempt to do that it's probably political suicide, though, since it would have a noticeable impact on many people's finances. And who knows how it would affect the housing market. Maybe if it was done gradually over many years.
Also Computer Science but from a much less prestigious state school.

It was also in a region with a much smaller tech sector.

It's actually hard to say how much of the career boost was from moving to Boston and how much from the degree. I did make some very useful connections during the degree as well as actually learning quite a lot in some of the classes.
The "degree" of consciousness is certainly a function of the number of neurons functionally specialized for this particular purpose.
Not commenting on covid or vaccines, not my field, but climate change for one has pretty much been established to a great deal of accuracy (that climate change is man made)

It even is mentioned on its Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat...

Even someone like Senate leader Mitch McConnell isn’t denying it anymore. Research is still ongoing to what extend we are going to be impacted.

So, even if someone is denying climate change or reading misinformation, it doesn’t change that man made climate change is here, and what its causes are.

So yeah, there is scientific consensus in that area on the broad perimeters.

Now if you believe something different, that just goes against what we already established!
Alcoholic drinks are all labelled now and have been for about a decade. It is useful to know how much you are drinking
Many apartment dwellers find even storing a bicycle to be at best a hassle, at worst almost impossible.
When you like driving, you tend to take a lot of road trips, which develops the skill required to do it automatically. I've also taken driving jobs just to get a break from the software business. I suppose that's another reason I don't understand self-driving because I don't think it's a better driver than me. I will likely be proven wrong eventually.
The success of the more socialized approaches to healthcare relative to the partially-private US approach suggest we need more government involvement in healthcare. Much cheaper, better outcomes, more people covered.
>he makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and manage

That's the beauty of gigs: low friction.

>Today, no one finds a person on Patreon; you go there after you’ve found them.” In other words, to be a creator, you still have to be an influencer after all.

That's the beauty of disconnecting payments from platforms: you can put yourself on Thingiverse, Odysee, or DeviantArt, or any of their competitors, and still have a solid payment solution.
Im not the GP, but I'd guess Z stands for Zettelkasten, at least that's the only famous system I'm aware of in that space.
You can read more about it ihere: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
Brazilian here. For us, there is no third party; we must use the tax filing software from Receita Federal (our IRS), available for free on the website (Java version, for desktops), within the website itself (web version), or the smartphone app. This software has been available since the 90s; initially a DOS-only application, later a Windows-only application, then a pair of the Windows-only application and the Java application, then the Windows-only application was dropped in favor of the Java application, and later came the web and smartphone versions. For a while, we could also use the older paper forms, but that hasn't been an option for over a decade.
the odroid H2 has an nvme (or ssd, i forget) m.2 slot, takes SODIMM, and has built in gigabit. for a fully decked out H2 though it's about $300 or so, which starts to creep into "NUC" territory. The good thing about the H2 is it's intel (J5 iirc), which may or may not matter depending on the use case. For a cheaper option, the Atomic Pi has built in MIMO wifi/bt, 1gbit ethernet, a single USB3 port, and <10W guaranteed TDP. Fully loaded the api is about $55. The H2 can use 12-20VDC, the api demands 5VDC, which makes the PSU for the api more expensive.
>I guess they are paying $300k for the connections and access to the elites who go to these universities

Can you expand on what you mean by "access to elites"
I don't agree, but even if you were right, how is an accusation of lying still not an ad-hominem argument?

- "I think that this other person did a bad thing X."

- "You're lying, your other actions show that you don't really think X is a bad thing."

How is that an argument? The issue was originally that some other person did a bad thing X, but the second person above changed it to attack the first person making the argument, and accused the first person about lying about what they really think. Is this not an ad-hominem?
I'd argue that "event A happens before event B" is objectively true if and only if event A happens in event B's past light cone, and so there's no actual contradiction. The only weirdness you get is that if events A and B are space-like separated, none of the statements "event A happens before event B", "event A happens after event B", or "event A happens at the same time as event B" are objectively true. But you wouldn't say it's contradictory or paradoxical, just that it's a partial order rather than a total order.
You would really trust software to drive your car around children? I couldn't do that.
> It still reads really well today, like there's no tone of racism

Since both countries were at the time white majority and controlled, there wasn't any need to address race in any way. There was no "race" dimension. Therefore, I wouldn't take the lack of racism as a virtue, but just that it would be off-topic for the purpose of the book.

EDIT: Look through the book - every illustration of French, Germans, and Americans depicts white people. The book, as typical of the era, just doesn't address race. It only addresses culture.
I like presenting the correlation of results between different benchmarks - I'd be interested in hearing to what extent this problem exists in more traditional benchmarking. One difference is that ML has this accuracy/quality component where in the past we've been more concerned with performance. Unfortunately this paper doesn't really address the long history of non-ML benchmarking, and I find it hard to believe no one has previously addressed the fragility of benchmark results.
The IRS only gets your employer's contribution to taxable revenue. They don't have a way of knowing what you do with that income, which may be taxable. That's what you're supposed to do.
But it seems that a small number (ie 10-20ml of ethanol) a day is less dangerous than binge drinking occasionally.
GOTO is the mechanism I used for structured programming in C64 BASIC V2.
A good start up has a good business plan. Making money from your business can be a very interesting endeavor. But you have to at least be interested in the product in some way, or else you'll eventually give up.

Phil Knight started Blue Ribbon/Nike as reseller of Onitsuka Tiger shoes from Japan. He was clearly in it for the money. But he was also a track runner and believed in the product himself.

You also really don't need to change the world with a product. Just make something you want yourself, or something that adds value to people's lives. It doesn't need to be a billion dollar idea. Just something useful.
Dear God, those USB controllers are ticking time bombs!

I believe it should be possible to make a sub-120W machine using an ITX or laptop board with more reliable PCIe and SATA connections for the drives.
See, I deeply dislike my speech moderated. Here on HN I am not allowed to advocate certain opinions like "US was wrong on even attempting to ban TikTok", I already got in trouble two times for it and I hope this wont be the 3rd one(I am supposed to pick my words carefully so not to inflict strong feelings, or my account gets rate limited or comments hidden). Also, whenever I express an unpopular opinion or controversial proposition(like the one in this thread) I would get my writings grayed out or collapsed instead of rebutted. That is a censorship by a community. When it comes to the online communities, they are often heavily moderated to push certain agendas which creates bubbles.

Free speech is non existent these days. The places that had were invaded by trolls and dabd actors, go shut down one by one after each incident that cost outrage.

My proposition attempts to solve these issues. Don't censor, never delete or ban anything or anyone unless legally required to do so(copyrighted content or illegal porn), hold responsible instead.

I recognise that there's value of anonymity, what I propose is to limit it to the occasions when there's a value.

Oh BTW, if when I say non-anonymous I don't necessarily mean a connection to the government issued legal identity. Using a pseudonym that is the same everywhere but not connected to a government recognised identity should be good enough most of the times. Throwaway accounts are fine when relevant. One person pushing an agenda through multiple accounts is not fine. There can be mechanisms to allow anonymous posting attached to a real identity where doxxing is an option when the person is determined to be a bad actor.
As an adult with ADHD, these descriptions sound very similar to how I study and learn too, and perhaps explain the difficulties I've had.
Plumbers do make the world a better place though and unlike software engineers almost no plumbers make it a worse place.
Regardless, it's not old news.
In the case of J-School, mentioned in the article, even back when journalism was not such a beleaguered profession, a lot of people were pretty skeptical that it was a better option than, you know, being a journalist.

I know a lot of working journalists and very few of them went to J-School. (Many worked on undergrad newspapers and some colleges have undergrad elective classes.)
> the hardware is battle-tested

It's been out for like 6 months, what do you mean "battle tested"?