skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conversely, it is impossible to be rational without emotions.

Reason needs axioms (beliefs) to build a rational discourse, and without emotions, it is impossible to choose a limited set of starting axioms to begin making logical inferences from.

I agree with the person above who said being rational is about making post-hoc rationalizations. We know by cognitive science that a majority of explanations are build that way: after observing facts, we intuitively develop a story that is consistent with our expectations about the fact, as well as with our preconceived beliefs. "Being rational" in this context would be limited to reviewing our beliefs when these ad-hoc rationalizations become inconsistent one with another.
Such algorithms don't necessarily KNOW that you bought a fridge. They certainly change tack, however, when you stop clicking on those ads or click on others, or any of countless and unknowable other cues.

Other than some small number of exceptions(). I am not convinced that marketing budgets are fluff.

() Huy Fong Foods (Siracha Hot Sauce) -- that's literally the only product company I can think of that doesn't do marketing, apparently?
I think part of it is a quote from Fight Club
This is already a reality:

https://recfaces.com/articles/how-to-catch-shoplifter

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22576236/retail-stores-fa...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/with-facial-...
Please cite a source for that claim.
It's also unlikely you have Python installed on Windows though, and there's a non-insignificant change that's an old or random version (probably even Python 2). You can't rely on anything on Windows, so you're definitely going to also install a runtime from Chocolatey or similar.
Idiot dumbass, get cancer and die squealing like a lab rat.
Whoever builds a wearable “sparkler” that is able to disrupt digital cameras or the underlying tech in a way that doesn’t require the user to wear a large scarf or similar is going to really usher in an interesting part of history.
great to see this -- I will add that, despite ascii-driven GraphViz, there is an eternal idea that graphical user interfaces and solid abstractions could lead to a better experience for a researcher or docs person. Software built as GUI+abstractions have resulted in remarkable environments, but will always have limits in other ways. The math and text input to GraphViz meanwhile, keeps rolling along each decade.
Going to drop a link to Paul Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement diagram here [1].

I've upvoted you to give you the benefit of the doubt, because your comment could be taken as either positive, or negative. Based on the other comments in your profile I think you genuinely intended a positive meaning for your complement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_D...
I have never heard any politician here say "British people are x" or that "British people feel y". In America such expressions appear in almost every speech. Likewise for news headlines etc. In the UK the title would be "customers not aware" and the like. This is to give the (correct) impression that the entire nation has in no way been united by this fact. But in the US it seems more common to use terminology that lumps everyone together, to the exclusion of the rest of the world.
Completely agreed. Except for the very very few cases where Word is better (e.g. printing out lots of pictures), I make a point of using LaTeX whenever possible. It’s just so much less painful than anything else.
Haha, not how I meant to phrase it at least. I was merely pointing out that I can't convince you when I say that "we handle your data safely", so was proposing another reasoning for why we have to make sure any and all data is handled properly.
Are you a game developer?

(brb writing a new engine)
Because it's a discussion board.
Ok. Electronically incapable of driving more than 10% faster than other traffic.
> It's not hard at all to write an emulator if you're not picky about performance.

I'd argue writing an emulator is actually quite difficult. Due to the avalanche effect, slight errors in your emulation won't cause the emulated system to be slightly off, but it makes it completely unbootable, similar to how a bug in a (cryptographic) hash function can make the output entirely different from what it's intended to be. And unless there is an existing emulator you can compare against, debugging such bugs is very difficult and they can only be identified by painstakingly cross-referencing your entire implementation with the CPU specs. Years ago I wrote an Intel 8086 emulator and even the decoding of the instructions was non-trivial: the whole deal with MOD R/M encoding and prefix bytes can take considerable time to get perfectly right. Then there's the timer interrupt system, the IO layer, rendering the visuals by polling specific regions of memory depending on the mode, 80286+ protected mode etc.
Then they will reject anti-virus software so we should be fine.
> Virii isn't the plural of virus.

Thanks for correcting me. I will refrain from ever using virii again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus
When store employees are told not to physically detain any shoplifter, it hardly matters at all if they tell a serial shoplifter to leave the store. The shoplifter will walk around the confronting employee, grab whatever they like off the shelves, and walk out without paying for it. (I've seen this happen numerous times at 7-11, where the facial recognition is being run by store employees using their eyeballs/brains.)

The real victims of this will be the false positives. People who follow the rules, but get incorrectly classified as shoplifters. They will be the ones who are actually turned away at the door.
That's why it's called "less wrong". The goal isn't to be perfect, the goal is to do better. To be less wrong.
You expect companies to dictate which browser I should use as an employee?

Can the team benefits be realized in a poly-browser environment?
"Voltage fault injection (FI) is a well-known attack technique that can be used to force faulty behavior in processors during their operation. Glitching the supply voltage can cause data value corruption, skip security checks, or enable protected code paths.

At the same time, modern systems on a chip (SoCs) are used in security-critical applications, such as self-driving cars and autonomous machines. Since these embedded devices are often physically accessible by attackers, vendors must consider device tampering in their threat models.

However, while the threat of voltage FI is known since the early 2000s, it seems as if vendors still forget to integrate countermeasures. This work shows how the entire boot security of an Nvidia SoC, used in Tesla's autopilot and Mercedes-Benz's infotainment system, can be circumvented using voltage FI.

We uncover a hidden bootloader that is only available to the manufacturer for testing purposes and disabled by fuses in shipped products. We demonstrate how to re-enable this bootloader using FI to gain code execution with the highest privileges, enabling us to extract the bootloader's firmware and decryption keys used in later boot stages. Using a hardware implant, an adversary might misuse the hidden bootloader to bypass trusted code execution even during the system's regular operation."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.06131.pdf
And Russia, China, Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Pakistan, and more. Maybe your characterization was correct in 1950, but I have serious doubts if your criteria for "industrialized" fails to include the largest industrial producers by a large margin (China).
Yep, less of a parts and more of a culture issue w.r.t. the lack of safety mechanisms, though the difficulty in sourcing quality parts certainly played its part in this incident.

All the cars have seat belts, so it would’ve been pretty easy to obtain one compared to the rest of the parts involved here.

None of the auto rickshaws have seat belts, for example, and lots of construction workers forgo helmets. No one cares, and furthermore people exacerbate the issue by trying to fit as many people as possible into these vehicles.

It’s a miracle that people wear helmets from time to time, though it’s still quite rare for pillion riders and whole families try to sit on two wheelers.

Human life is cheap in India.
Yes, it's a slippery slope
Maybe you mean this? https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/
Why Use Analogies in Software Teams?
Wow, looking at some of the comments I had no idea that even proposing to pull a prank would be met with such stern, robotic, "Let's not hurt anyone's feelings" mimicry. Lighten up, geez.
Why do you think that? It feels that the mid-term (e.g. 20-40 years) outlook for migration would include a large increase of migrant supply due to e.g. climate change issues in the "global south", so instead of competition for immigration it seems likely that places like US would be able to pick whatever kind of migrants they'd prefer to allow.
Two possible reasons: one is that console platform owners don't like that idea and they have torpedoes it in the past. The second one is that gameplay and control schemes may be radically different across platforms. Controller input on consoles vs. Keyboard and mouse on PC does lead to platform specific differences in some games ("auto aim" in shooters, for example). Balancing that so that only a minimum number of players feel cheated is hard.
I think I understand your general point. However, I can’t help but feel like it’s a form of giving up. We should be “yelling” loudly to our politicians while boycotting retailers that implement this.
Maybe there is something in the sea that makes the sea snakes trying to go on land. As the article said, one might be a climate, but we can't say for sure as the researchers need to find out more about the cause.
does it work in a 1D environment? yes, 1 blocker.

does it work in a 4D environment?
I've seen instances of some Unix systems not having Perl installed, but that's very rare. Basically everything directly or indirectly depends on Perl, so you really have to run your scripts on a minimal install of RHEL of FreeBSD with 0 ports in order to get into such a situation.
I'd say it depends on how many of those deaths are caused by the driver doing something unsafe. I'd be more comfortable with higher traffic deaths that primarily affect bad drivers than a lower number of deaths randomly spread across all drivers by a blackbox algorithm.
Thanks for the feedback! Will make the change to the form so it covers your case.

Regarding the login flow, would you use Google Sign-In if we had it?
I'm likely too young to fully appreciate that sentiment, but fair enough!
The ultimate issue is that underpinning every action is a value system. Value systems are opinions and are fundamentally not rational.

Virtually every political disagreement is based on values, though most of the time people dont recognize it.

Values determine priorities and priorities underpin action.

For example some people feel that liberty (e.g. choice) is more important than saving lives when it comes to vaccines.

Some people feel that economic efficiency is less important than reducing suffering.

Some people feel that the life of an unborn child is worth less than the ability to choose whether to have that child

Even in the article, is a stereo that sounds better actually better than a stereo that looks better? That is a value judgement and there is no right or wrong.

No one is actually wrong since everything is value judgements. Many people believe in universal view of ethics/morality. There is almost no universal set of ethics/morality if you look across space and time.

However some values allow a culture to out compete other cultures causing the "inferior" values to disappear. New mutations are constantly being created. Most are neutral and have no impact on societal survival. Some are negative and some are positive.
If anyone is getting hit with a paywall, you can use this link to view the article - https://levelup.gitconnected.com/demystifying-5-commonly-use...
Yes, the Taliban also commits war crimes...
What book would you recommend if I want to learn about nuclear power plants?
Show HN: Wicked Backgrounds, Create beautiful SVG waves for your next design
L5 may be decades away. I think we will see L4 in some major metro areas in the US by end of this decade. SF is heating up with Cruise and Waymo's heavy testing. Their progress will be a great indicator for true city driving.
> Then they cant: change prices on your, negotiate with you via raising the price of something you care less about to make up some profit

Surely they can do all of that without making engineers spend valuable time thumbing through paper, PDF or excruciatingly slow web catalogs to write down SKUs. To be fair, some engineering suppliers have started to see the utter retardation of that system, and have actually started to offer things like CAD files. But most industries still act as if they hate selling things to customers.

> mislead competition about what's happening (who is also probably scraping anyway.)

That's probably the biggest factor. Or prevent customers from comparing prices on equivalent products with competitors. But that's still stupid since everyone does it anyway, they just have to do it manually, scrape or pay third parties for the data. Not to mention that competitors often go as far as buying entire units to pull apart.

I'm not an MBA, so there's probably some obscure but really important nuance that I'm missing, but my naive understanding is that cash flow is kind of a big deal. The sooner you can turn the investment in a project, product or service into cash the better, so you want to do everything you can to make the conversion process as smooth as possible. I've been on the other side of the equation too, working for suppliers of pretty awesome products that didn't sell very well because nobody thought about this. Things like why would anyone want to buy SaaS that takes months to on-board because nothing is automated, when others just let you spin up an instance and get started in minutes? Not to mention that the only way people could find out about the product is if they happened to be cold called by a salesman.
Pakistan has never been a good ally to anyone but Muslim majority countries and Islamic terrorist groups.

Pakistan is now heavily indebted and dependent on China for economy, military and finance. They will reap what they sow.

In 20 years time, they will be begging the West & Western institutions for assistance & intervention and I hope we can all turn our back on them.
I work on embedded software and far more often there's no good reason. (the global variables thing is ambiguous: it could be just counting static variables with well-defined scopes and encapsulation, or it could be describing truely global variables which can be modified by any part of the code at any time. The former is a reasonable technique to seperate modules without allocation. The latter is hair-raisingly reckless software design and also probably the more common approach, even in safety-critical systems). The level of awareness of software engineering concepts in the embedded ecosystem seems far lower than other areas.
I also suspect management is placing a high value on some ideal of "total visibility" into their organization, for which they are sold computerization as a solution, and are willing to accept significantly greater friction across their organization in order to get it. They imagine it will be of such great value that it'll be worth it.

Of course what happens is one or (usually) both of: they aren't actually ready or able to use that visibility for any productive purpose sufficient to justify its (labor-to-use, and direct monetary) cost; the system doesn't actually deliver so perfect a view as they wanted (though it may act like it does).
From the python source code: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/11749e2dc20ad6a76e9a3...

It seems to be shelling out to osascript, either telling it to OpenURL or open.
> As others have said, I don't really get the fascination with LaTeX.

I have gone down this path with other types of documents (reports, proposals) not because I love LaTeX but because I hate composing and editing in Word, etc. Especially for long lived or repeated documents. Some of those tech clients might just prefer working with plain text for editing, source control, and/or version branching.
I think you are in a distinct minority.
> Subsequent research suggests significant biases in the Solomon study, which may cast doubt on its findings

With the logic presented in the theoretical foundation section, it seems that the safer move would actually be slow down and match the speed of all the trucks and other large vehicles... which won't happen.

Matching speed sounds great, except there are always people willing to go faster and faster. In my state they raised the speed limit from 70 to 75, it just means more people are going 85-90. How is that safer?
Thanks for the extensive answer! Makes much more sense now. Will let you know what I think if I have time to try it out.
By withdrawing from Afghanistan in a way that handed it back to the Taliban on a silver platter, all of those costs (in particular the lost lives of American soldiers) were in vain.
How the fossil fuel era ends – and four possibilities for what follows
Absolutely!

I just wish there'd be some more love on architect.

But maybe I need to learn more about the default installer, I couldn't get it to run on LVM and/or LUKS
I got this page from HN a while back: https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner

Might be of interest to a similar group of people as the OP
When all experiences we have are based in meaning those emotional experiences in some sense might be more "real" then a logical thought.
Is it a monopoly in the sense that everyone is forced to use it and Facebook is able to charge high fees, or do people have multiple options on the app store (signal, telegram, etc) and they just choose Whatsapp
I'd like to hear that claim (better off today) confirmed by an Iraqi, or a statistically significant % of them, before I accept it.
You can obscure your face from many cameras with bright IR leds, but then you become "that one guy who's face shows up on camera as a bright washed out blur." It's like trying to hide an airplane from radars by broadcasting megawatts of broadband noise; possible but not particularly useful.
Well, they certainly are, you need a much smaller department to do the same things, and those departments relied on people like "secretarial pool" for typing documents, people carrying internal mail, etc - so productivity of generic business administration tasks certainly has increased.

However all of those gains would appear with basic "office computerization" in late 1990s and early 2000s (which is quite visible as productivity growth in the article) with wordperfect/word and visicalc/1-2-3/excel, and not meaningfully changed with more recent develpoments. Accounting today is automated roughly as much as you could in 2000, at least if you were up to date with year 2000 tech.
Perfect rationality is impossible because in order to make correct decisions you need all the facts and a rational actor would do nothing at all given that all the facts can’t be had. The best you can do is to be an odds maker;therefore, an odds maker would spend their time looking for as many of the lowest effort ventures with the highest chances of success and biggest payoffs relative to effort and chance. In their free time (time when no reasonable opportunities were present), they would learn as much as possible to increase decision making power thus odds of success.
I think part of the problem is that most people are conditioned into many beliefs from a young age

I know a guy who hates foo (using a place holder). In fact he's downright foophobic. He is pretty convinced he has a natural unbiased hate of foo and is being rational when he expresses it.

To me as an outsider it is pretty obvious that his hate of foo is the result of cultural conditioning. To him it is perfectly rational to hate foo and to me it is totally irrational, especially since he can't give any concrete reason for it.

So who is right and who is being rational?
> In a recent interview, Cowen—a superhuman reader whose blog, Marginal Revolution, is a daily destination for info-hungry rationalists—told Ezra Klein that the rationality movement has adopted an “extremely culturally specific way of viewing the world.” It’s the culture, more or less, of winning arguments in Web forums.

This matches my observations, too.

> Cowen suggested that to understand reality you must not just read about it but see it firsthand; he has grounded his priors in visits to about a hundred countries, once getting caught in a shoot-out between a Brazilian drug gang and the police.
They're trying to recognize your face anyway. e.g. see https://pages.nist.gov/frvt/html/frvt_facemask.html It looks like the testing is still done in relation to synthetic masks, but I could see that shifting over time. Absolutely repugnant that the industry is targeting masked individuals, but it's happening none the less.
If the room was circular the laser beam would distort.
Making the "thrown clear" argument in 2021 is bold if nothing else. Showing that there are circumstances where a seatbelt would be detrimental to safety does not disprove their overall safety. You could find examples of any safety apparatus being more dangerous in some select situations. People are choked by their helmet straps. Safety garments gets sucked into machinery. It's just the law of large numbers.
I've worked on a production app written in react native for 3 years - if the use case is as simple as you say, it should be absolutely fine. It can become an issue when interacting with eg camera or Bluetooth, bur that's likely to be the case anyway. Expo is pretty good.

Anecdotal of course, but there is a reason react native / expo exist and are as popular as they are.
Ask HN: What survey tools do people use to collect NPS performance?
Curious as to what survey platforms people are using to gather feedback. Doesn't have to be specific to NPS, but how are people collecting quantitative results from their user base and why did they pick that tool?
I've been meaning to use OpenCV, as I need to sharpen up my resume again (every 3 years). Do you have any resources you would recommend?

I've used OverLeaf [1] and a tweaked Shawn Pan's 'Resume for a Software Engineer' template [2] in the past.

[1] https://www.overleaf.com/

[2] https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/resume-template-for-...
Gettr Has a Child Abuse Problem
Great video. A beautiful view into electronic repair shops before everything became printed on proprietary ICs and locked down. Before everything became anti-consumer and shipped off overseas. Before Wal-mart and Amazon unilaterally and unapologetically killed off small businesses and the communities built around them. A slice of history from a different, better era.
Whoops, I might have not explained myself properly. I'm implementing the Chrome extensions API from scratch. When I'm done, you'll have access to all of your Chrome extensions!
I think this is a very fair answer. Additionally, the Clinton admin bombed Iraq for four days in 1998, the same year the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal broke.