skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no treatment (that I know of) to convert someone's sexual orientation from one that is exclusive to children to one that does not include children.

A pedophile or minor attracted person does not however necessarily need to become a child molester. Not that this article makes a distinction, or anyone else...

I sure do appreciate do the oft repeated quip of 'get help', as if its my responsibility for being this way and if I just enroll in the appropriate treatment (and what decent person wouldn't?) I could get fixed and become a normal productive member of society like everyone else.

But it's probably easier to dehumanize me if you think that I'm such an evil person I willingly choose rather to remain exclusively attracted to a group of people I can never have a healthy fulfilling relationship with, that I'd choose perversion over my own happiness.

Source: Am a pedophile who doesn't rape children or look at CP.
Am I the only one bothered by the use of dual and duel in the same article as if they were interchangeable?
The Web and Frameworks
That's nice for you personally, but most commutes require people to drive, and they can't space out, meditate, or read. Instead, they're stressed out about being late while causing pollution, congestion, and vehicular accidents.
No. Diebold machines were quite different. What Mesa County is having problems with, and what the... conspiracy theorists... are having problems with, are vote counting machines.

Colorado has paper ballots, not voting machines. Votes are counted electronically, but risk-limiting audits are done on all elections. Some percentage of the paper ballots are selected and counted again. They should come within a percentage of the overall count. A failure of a risk-limiting audit triggers a recount. My memory is hazy about procedures after this.

The huge problems with Diebold machines were multiple: you voted on them. They counted the votes, with no other record, and no receipt to the voter to ensure that the machine counted as the voter wanted. There was no record of the votes other than electronic in the machines, so recounts were meaningless. Diebold's CEO was a partisan, and announced it. Anyone of integrity would have problems with how Diebold did things.

The Mesa County situation is completely different. Paper ballots which can be recounted by hand or electronically, and provide the voter with some small assurance that their ballot is marked the way the voter intends. Systems in place to notify voters that their ballot is in the mail, accepted for counting, and then finally, counted.
You have correctly identified the heart of the problem,

> to explain and simulate the human economic interactions with less energy than required to just run it with real human

I think we have become mystified by the type of "engineerable reductionism" that very modern science has enabled. This religion of "engineering approximations" has taken the popular imagination captive, academics included, and has led to people being extreme reductionists.

As an anti-dote, I think we should consider problems which are physically impossible to compute; interactions which require infinite energy to measure; simulations which take the age of the universe to run.

We find problems of this kind everywhere and they out-number the solvable ones infinity-to-few. We cannot compute the shape of a table from the positions of its atoms (10^30 states) let alone human behaviour from god-knows-what (the state of some neurones, ad prices, or blood flow).

In the face of what cannot be known either in principal, or ever in practice, we should resist engineering solutions.

I dont think there can ever be a reductive science of human behaviour. We are in exactly the position almost all humans in history have been to matters such as chemistry: unable to make any pronouncements whatsoever.

I think in the case of "the hard problems" in irreduibly complex cases, we should wholesale reject the reductive scientific method. It can only lead to pseduoscience.

We should instead be extremely careful and locally theoretical empricists, as the anchinets. And say only, "over here, this happens", and "over there, that happens". And so on.

Any more is charlatanism, delusion -- and worse -- an invitation to the public to a superstitious pseudo-scientific religion.
Kuo has been probably the most accurate and consistent source for the Apple rumor mill but it's still just that for now: rumored to support.
In such an environment, there is usually next generation after next generation of these software types, with upgraded (or at least updated) basic technological choices. Some of these choices are recent and possibly bleeding edge, some are old and possibly only good at that time, some prove misguided immediately or in hindsight.

For example I've seen:

- COM and ASP.Net to Java and JSF (general web apps)
- Forté 4GL (look it up, it was very interesting) to J2EE (general enterprise software)
- MIDP Java to React Native, following mobile phone evolution (mobile app front ends of general enterprise software)
- HTML frame messes to Java applets to JavaScript interactivity (high profile public web site)
- ColdFusion, or something of the sort, to Sharepoint (another high profile public web site)
- SharePoint to a BPEL workflow engine (important workflow-oriented application)
I think it's reasonable to be suspicious of overzealous use of inadequate statistics, but the article quite clearly stated that Black is not making unwarranted claims about the accuracy. You're making a valid counterargument to a claim that was not made.

I don't know how static vein patterns are, but in the particular case of varicose veins, my understanding is that they're existing veins that start to bulge outward. My guess would be that capillaries are pretty fungible, but the larger you get, the slower they'd change. For the best statistics, you'd probably want to incorporate the amount of time passing between two images, and model how much change is possible/reasonable. But there's plenty of signal to be had if you're careful to not overstate it.
Yep, lots of problems are people problems.
> 26 minute train ride on a train that was always punctual and never more than 50% full.

I'm happy for you but it doesn't seem like a typical commute though.
So quantity, structure, formal necessity don't exist?

Mathematics has nothing to do with laws of physics. Even if the laws of physics[0] were different, these mathematical[1] truths would remain the same.

[0] Laws of physics don't actually exist. They're shorthand generalizations about features of particulars. The notion of some kind of abstract disembodied "laws" that somehow "govern" everything is absurd.

[1] For clarify: mathematics is a field that studies such things.
Thurayya satellite system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuraya

Theye recently got Android phones too https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thuraya-X5-Touch-Satellite-Phone/dp...
That's exactly the point, and mostly CTOs don't have much people internally to ask help from.

I am in a community with some CTOs in Latin America and I see this struggle happen every time.
I remember sitting in maths lectures and wishing that when they did thing like prove the intermediate value theorem they'd make it clearer that what was going on wasn't so much "We're rigorously proving that this thing that seems obvious is true" as "We're checking that the formalisation we introduced earlier is fit for purpose".

I think things like the Banach-Tarski theorem are the other side of that coin: they're showing some of the places where the formalisation we're starting with isn't a great fit for some things we might hope to use it for.

I don't think I'd go as far as to say that makes the formalisation outright bad, but looking at alternate systems which don't admit Banach-Tarski-like results is surely a worthwhile way of spending time.
Sorry that wasn’t my intention at all, feel free to delete this
I've thought you can have really small satellite phones? Think something like Thuraya SG-2520 from 2007, or NAL Shout Nano.
I can confirm that the in browser version does not allow for remote desktop. I use zoom in a support role because webex is a laggy dumpster fire.
Yes, and for me that choice is to move away from companies that insist on commuting in favour of companies that are less Luddite in their approach to remote work which is what I'm actively doing.

I have zero desire to live in a city and zero desire to ever set foot in an office again, and I know that many other people in our sector feel them same. Provided enough people stick to their guns on this, commuting and office work can be a genuine choice rather than something people are coerced into which I think will be a hugely positive thing for society. I suspect it'll benefit people who actually enjoy the rat race too, because the offices will be empty of people like me who'd rather work in their own space and instead be populated exclusively by people who actually want to be there. I'm not saying people like you shouldn't get to go to the office if you want to, but I am saying that people like me shouldn't be forced to for no reason other than seagull managers fearing their authority might be eroded by remote work.

I literally only live near an urban area because I had to pre-COVID as remote jobs were few and far between. I'd far, far rather be in a cottage in the Welsh mountains or on a sailing boat slowly working around Britain. Urban life in general is something about as appealing to me as a sudden brain haemorrhage, which I think is an aspect in the motivations of many pro-WFH people that a lot of anti-WFH people fail to grasp. Lots of people live in urban areas because they had to, not because they wanted to and WFH provides an excellent route to finally escape the modern "dark Satanic mills" for good.
can you say more about this? I'm curious to hear your reasoning.
Right now, we are starting with 4th to 12th graders. The reason for this is that online learning is a bit more self-paced at this age group.

For kindergarten-aged students, online schools typically require heavy 1-on-1 support from a learning coach (typically a parent or guardina). Since our model typically has 8-10 students per learning coach, we haven't figured out how to support younger students yet.

In terms of which schools are an option, if you're in California, there are several options available to you to opt in to online schools (both public and private). The one I know best is called California Connections Academy (https://www.connectionsacademy.com/california-online-school). These schools are funded by the state and operate as charter schools.
Hah a feature like this would make iPhone 13 persona non grata for many governments around the world.
I always wonder if these types of vulnerabilities affect the most secret DoD contracts, or if those accounts are somehow sharded onto sufficiently separate systems/networks?
I've been thinking about two interesting problems.

First, differentiating code to build a client side predictor with privacy as a consideration. I have code that describes how to translate domain messages into state changes, and I'm trying to figure out how to predict the effects of sending a message on a client even though the client has imperfect knowledge.

Second, AI for games with imperfect information. Specifically, how to build an AI for Battlestar Galactica.

These are in context of http://www.adama-lang.org/
Nobody is afraid of the FTC, they are a joke of an agency. Read the case they just filed against Facebook. Tiktok isn't a competitor! Really? The FTC has a terrible record on appeal as well.
This was specifically addressed in the article. (I'm not saying that Black's answer is necessarily 100% correct or complete, but she addressed it.)
I stumbled upon this guy couple of months ago and been watching him ever since(even though i'm not blind to his confirmation bias) https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers
One thing to keep in mind in Ada is the "typical" Ada programmer lives in embedded world, where memory needs to be deterministic. It's a very different perspective from say "desktop-application" world where dynamically allocating memory is just a natural part of programming.
Unpopular Opinion: We’ll Abandon Machine Learning as Main AI Paradigm
Machine learning and deep learning will slowly lose their status until they get relegated to what they truly are; fancy statistical techniques.
Yeah I should get around to doing that, but right now there isn't much code that succinctly showcases the linear typing features. Probably have to implement some of the stdlib for that.
Thanks for that, I was thinking down that route. I just had a laptop where chip and heatsink had parted. The air coming out was not that hot, but you could have fried an egg on the nearby part of the case.
Skipping the Americas does not sound like a typical Apple move.

My bet is on Iridium (or possibly Globalstar, although that would be a pretty un-Apple like compromise in quality too).

Inmarsat is the only other option, but I think antenna size/directionality would exclude that as well.
This might be beneficial for visually impaired if the performance (closer to natural voice) is better than the default text-to-speech softwares on the OS. I think this is an important factor.

However OS makers can catch up and threaten the business model of this software by integrating a better TTS.
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Andreij Bauer is one of those HoTT people, so this is quite tongue-in-cheek.
Parsing anything in JavaScript using Earley algorithm
> infinity is something only present in our math and not in the universe

This is true of all mathematical objects. The number 7 doesn't exist in the universe either. It's not a physical object.
I have an interesting challenge:

I want to add IoT tools in several apartments and allow my guests to control them through an app. Currently I already have an app, but no IoT integrations (basically just reservation).

How to do it safely? Also, which automations would be nice to have but not so obvious?

Thinking from things like light control, but also checking the apartment energy consumption in order to detect appliances that need maintenance before they break.
Should a Married Man Get Paid More Than a Single Woman?
How can one find LOCATION of such active jammer?

EDIT: How can one find location of a jammer? I'm interested in the process and equipment needed to find location of active jamming device in a geographic area. E.g. what police uses and how can an average person like me do the same.
When's the last time you came across something that you could disassemble and could then reassemble into two things identical to the first thing you disassembled?

It is natural to suspect that foundational axioms are somewhere flawed.
I am not affiliated with a religion at all and I think that is a very good question that he asks. Just seems like more woke nonsense and Harvard turning its nose up at society.
Thank you, this is a big clarification for me. Isn't the rush to apply prime discoveries in practice the main core of the problem?
No!

Computers should have normal auditable log files, board schemes and spare parts. If it works right, it should be invisible. If it stops working, I call plumber who will fix it very cheaply.

This "computers are magic" is just BS. I refuse to "interact" with my thermostat. Soon this 6th sense will feed ads into my subconsciousness.
This would be a baseband only change really. Iridium has about the same frequency (1-2 GHz), directionality (omnidirectional antennas are good enough) and power constraints 1-2 Watt) as good old GSM.

It‘s just the spectrum that is very, very expensive (due to a cell being hundreds of kilometers in diameter).
Plainly? The dictionary doesn’t agree with you. Plainly.

noun
noun: attack; plural noun: attacks
an aggressive and violent action against a person or place.
"he was killed in an attack on a checkpoint"

Plainly, you don’t want me criticizing a YC startup. I can do a search on this site and find far more « attacking », difference being that those comments aren’t directed towards YC start ups. Plainly.
Maybe they should mandate n95/ffp2 then. They're not expensive now.
> Has there been a breakthrough on how small an Iridium receiver/phone can be?

Smallest devices being able to access satcom were the size of a pager 15 years ago, and most functioned like that.

Power envelopes definitely allow for that, especially if you only need to send individual messages of few hundred kilobytes.
>smacks of corruption.

No. It doesn't. Your assertion that it was "left behind" is incorrect. The U.S. provided this equipment to the Afghan military as part of our long effort to prepare the Afghan government to defend itself.

Now, one can argue as to whether we should have entrusted such equipment to them in the first place. But, that entrustment was just one of many costly decisions made over our decades-long presence in Afghanistan that led up to this moment.
Every state that means "a full toy has just been scanned" is a valid accepting state. In fact you don't need separate states for each toy, you only need self-loop of appropriate length.

(Also, this is an NFA, not a DFA)

The language of valid parentheses up to size 2^5 is obviously regular, it's even finite.
> if you have Facebook you have Facebook Messenger, “why use something else?”

If you have a Microsoft account you have OneDrive, if you have a Gmail account then you have a YouTube channel, if you have an Apple ID then you have iMessage. This is not a new (nor novel, nor frankly illegal) tactic by big tech, and I honestly doubt the FTC gives a shit. Our current government benefits greatly from the centralization of these services, so disrupting that would be against private (and to a degree, public) interest.
I want to make technical recruiters better at their job.

Many sourcers and recruiters don't have a technical background and find it very difficult to hire software engineers, especially in the current labor market which is very tight.

I'm starting off simple: writing recruiting guides from a software engineer's perspective that are easy to understand.

Are there other ways we can make technical recruiters better?
Kudos on your launch! I just had a question: the pricing plans seem slightly pricey, is it to break even before bringing prices down, or is it due to expensive storage? If the latter, is there a self-hosted option?

Also, the website looks absolutely great!
I 100% agree that society should support and encourage all ways of life, but I have to disagree so hard on characterizing the responsibility of raising a family as "risk-free". :)
I know this feeling. I remember playing Minecraft in a Windows 10 virtual machine, and the fan was roaring. Windows 10 is bad enough, but throw in a resource hogging game & a VM and you're asking for trouble. The game was so laggy as to be unplayable.
@AdrianB1 (a reference to the CEFR score?) said “and” not “therefore”, so you shouldn’t be presuming there is intended to be a causal connection between those two things.

My general assumption when I looked for places to move to in response to Brexit was that people in one country are much the same as people in any other; as almost every nation is “more xenophobic than they will ever admit”[1]. I happen go think that Germany is far less xenophobic than most countries[2], while still being more xenophobic than it wants to admit.

Assuming the same distribution of personalities is also one reason why I picked Berlin over any tiny village somewhere, as my experience in the UK says London is more welcoming of outsiders than are random quiet British villages, and I applied this pattern everywhere. Former coworker from Pakistan confirmed this hypothesis with stories from his experiences in other parts of Germany.

I’m looking forward to this pandemic being over so I can do meatspace language lessons instead of relying on apps and websites.

[1] for example, the UK has many loud people who refuse to accept they’re xenophobic while saying the country has too many Muslims (and then the Mosque they’re complaining about turns out to be a Catholic cathedral or a former Royal palace). Likewise apologists for the British empire. I even knew someone whose response to asylum seekers causing the Eurostar being delayed one time was to suggest the government would make the next train drive through anyone on the line, as if late trains were not a standard part of modern Britain (I no longer talk to this person).

I would be surprised if this was uniquely a British delusion, or if any other nation managed to avoid it, and the nature of the graffiti I saw outside the Bad Kissingen train station, and on political posters in Nürnberg (a city, but I’m not saying all racists live in the countryside), certainly indicate that it is similar.

[2] e.g. opinion polls showing high level of public support for more asylum seekers.
20 years in Afghanistan - screaming out example.

"We can't leave because of troops who died would have died for nothing". That's precisely Sunk Cost Fallacy!! They are already dead and nothing you do can change that - thus it's not relevant to FUTURE or PRESENT decisions. Only future prospects based on the current situation matter, namely, are the prospects for eliminating terrorism or inculcating democracy into the future good NOW? No? Then cut it off to avoid Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Most people realize that was necessary but again Sunk Cost Fallacy seems to have affected the withdrawal: only the past was consider but not the future costs of leaving "badly".
That feature is very likely going to be geofenced.
I told people to buy btc and decentraland here on HN 2 years ago and now you'd be up x100.

now I'd tell you, trading NFTs should be your full time job
Or explicitly refers to him as a blogger when Greenwald describes himself in the bios of his Substack and Rumble pages as a journalist /s.
If it were only limited to that. Why does being well-rounded require years of other stuff?
No. Cost can be in the future. That's the entire point of Cash Flow Analysis in finance and of planning in any other area.
One the lessons I personally took from it is following your path even though other paths may seem more attractive. Follow your calling essentially.
I'm using F# + Rider at the moment as my language of choice for implementing interpreters and compilers and I have to say, I'm very pleased so far.
Maybe the era of mass produced education is nearing an end.

Everyone will make their own path from here.
damn it. I just bought a Garmin inReach Mini
Well it turns out it’s not that private.
Or alternatively, just spray the inedible plants with some sort of transparent capsaicin solution? They'll be unpleasant to eat and they would probably stop very quickly.
No disagreement about production-grade implementations, but most of the actual examples of use are proprietary and aging (exactly as you say). Whereas embedded Scheme just happens more frequently in major OSS so I find it less embarrassing to bring up, as you say.
Characterizing a Cryptoasset