skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough, the Roadster is based on a Lotus Elise, so we've come a full circle here..
The actual existence of the actual machine is irrelevant for the claim that human behavior can be reduced to an equation. What is it about human behavior that you think could not be simulated by a machine?
When it can file for patent without prompt from anyone else and then argue in court for itself. And it wasn't build to do that.
Nothing to see here. These performances are from 1984, which means that the recording companies that own their copyright have the right to block them in the US and other countries.
I don't see the argument? Some people like renting. Landlord profit margins mostly depend on supply and demand, just like home prices do. Enough supply will bring their margins down to grocery store levels, and renters won't be at much of a disadvantage compared to owners.

Owning means saving a lot of money and accepting a lot of price risk and transaction costs. I own a house and like it, but I know for a fact that it's not for everyone.

If there was one monopolist landlord who charged through the nose, that could be a problem, but I don't know of any housing markets like that. Landlords keep raising their prices because demand outpaces supply and they can get away with it.
UK fuel shortage worsens as industry chief warns ‘people will go without’
Said it better than I could've. It's true for the German Amazon, too. Too many product ads also.
cmu_jmk (glow_tts) under en_us seems to be quite nice
Any idea why ZeroMQ is missing in the article?
Get permission to play clips from a generalist record label like Naxos. Typically they're more than happy to oblige, for obvious reasons. People do this...
The brain is a biological system of interconnected neurons. Neuroscience has shown neurons operate digitally - on and off. The brain is a biological computer. There is no magic, no mystical quantum "thing" enabling human intelligence. We're not picking up some metaspectral soul transmission from an alternate universe. We're advanced binary pattern processors, and we're only a handful of orders of magnitude more powerful than consumer level hardware.

The algorithm we run on is special, but it's physically encoded and self generating, based in our DNA and physical development. We're vastly complex but entirely built of relatively simple fundamental building blocks.

We are computers, in the abstract sense of Turing machines and such concepts.
Quoting article verbatim in third paragraph under heading "Solution — using pay for success contracts to repurpose off-patent drugs":

Outcome payments are disbursed to the fund by payers upon success of a particular clinical trial. Payment amounts are determined based on savings generated for the payer (e.g., a national health service or private health insurer) which ensures the model is scalable, using standard pharmacoeconomic assessment (e.g., $50k per QALY, or Quality-Adjusted-Life-Year or $100k per additional prevented hospitalisation in treatment arm vs usual care) that considers the incremental cost savings due to showing efficacy of this new off-patent treatment in RCTs versus cost for standard usual care

My preference is to have a payment for a specific robust outcome like per prevented hospitalisation in the treatment arm of an RCT. For most patented drugs, this would be a very high cost (e.g. if 50 patients treated to course of patented drugs costing $50k each for one prevented hospitalisation, society would be paying $2.5m per successful outcome under patent system). This is also more closely linked to how outcome payments for social impact bonds are determined (e.g. $5k per homeless person given a job and put in a home or per prisoner that is given a job and stays out of prison for one year).

Regarding ROI for impact investors, it should be a market rate (5-10% p/a) paid over a period of time (e.g. 5 years) and subject to phase 4 surveillance trials showing the safety and efficacy of the off-patent treatment protocol is maintained over time. The impact investment opportunity can be made more attractive (above market rates of return) if payers such as govts, health insurers or philanthropy also provide matched funding without an expectation of return - effectively acting as follow on investors but relying on the impact investors to lead the round and pick the winners (promising off-patent repurposing RCTs to fund) instead of traditional direct grant funding where payers take on all the risk of RCT failure. I also note that it is over 100x cheaper to repurpose generic drugs, so the cost per QALY should be much more value for money (e.g. $1k per QALY) and would outcompete the patented drugs. Open Source Pharma Foundation are working on a Phase 3 trial of a repurposed off-patent vaccine - https://www.fastcompany.com/90498448/how-open-source-medicin.... Old vaccines can provide broad spectrum protection by boosting innate immunity - see https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2101718118. The lack of private incentives to repurpose off-patent medicines is a massive missed arbitrage opportunity that could generate trillions of dollars in value for society, if only it could get payer backing.
I'm not disagreeing that worker need higher pay. But this statement:

"the median pay in the industry — $25,460 a year, according to the Labor Department — is below the poverty line for a family of four."

seems really dumb, because almost no family of 4 can get by on a single income these days, let alone on a (low) day-care salary.
I’m curious to know what 95% identical means in this context. How similar is Covid to HIV, for example?

Chimp DNA is 99% identical to human, for reference.
My experience has always been that pure Debian is far more stable than Ubuntu. I know it shouldn't be, but...it is.
I hate the display and shift pattern in general. Visual studios search does this, as does JIRA as you type a username, drives me nuts as in the time I’ve decided to click until the click is processed the intended target has changed. Just make me wait or at least show one of those outline graphics until you have all the results.
One of replies to the comment was that C++11 was what the commenter wanted, whereupon the commenter mentioned ways it did not meet the criteria.

If you follow the C++ development, you can see a huge effort to make it support more funcational paradigms (see for example the efforts for structural pattern matching). However, its backward compatibility requirements have limited it a lot. So even if Rust was C++++ without the backward compatibility baggage it could easily reach these ideals.
Interesting. Where are you located? Here in Calgary, Prime is still same day or next day, with two days being for a few niche items (like a warehouse deal on a monitor).
Yep, I'm old enough to remember when the general advice was to never use your real name on the internet. Then social media came along and suddenly that changed.

And now we're seeing the results of the naive trust we placed in these platforms as well as our fellow human beings. As a people we need to get back to drawing a hard line between our Private and Public selves.
You’ve convincingly shown that current IP law fails to fulfill its intended purpose. But this is very different from the principle of intellectual property being undesirable.

What justifies your stronger claim that IP itself should be done away with?
"Complicate and add batteries"
Ok, wasn't clear to me that's what the full comment was referring to. Thanks for clarifying.
Predictably, notebookcheck does not have sustained numbers when they're reporting on company claims about a prototype.
After 20y of trying I'm done with mass hysteria, "you're holding it wrong", survivorship bias, and magical thinking. Give me consistently repeatable, experimental evidence.
That is a true statement... which doesn't matter one jot when talking about objects coming from the direction of the sun.
Just a day ago or so, DRASTIC released [1] DARPA funding proposals for Coronavirus research project from 2018. They were released by a whistleblower. They basically outline how to create COVID-19. Incidentally, DARPA refused to fund it because it's GoF research but someone else did fund it. It's a fascinating read.

[1] https://drasticresearch.org/2021/09/21/the-defuse-project-do...
> And how about a little mathematical challenge: What are the chances that, by randomizing the pixels in the (randomized) image above, I would get the (ordered) version at the top?

If I'm not mistaken, this would be `(2^24) permutation (2^24)`, aka `(2^24)!`, an unbelievably large number!
Yet another reason to either create your own video site or move to one of the hundreds of alternatives available.
Also, another nice game is Voxel Tycoon (https://voxeltycoon.xyz), it's like OpenTTD and Factorio mixed together, and it's getting better and better with each update as it's currently in early access.
> no brain activity measured in deep sleep

Again, nonsense.
It's different because there is one less thing I have to invent. You might as well ask somebody to believe in a giant hamburger that circumnavigates the earth that only the truly faithful can see. I know you don't see the giant hamburger because you just haven't tried hard enough.
Yes, that is one problem:

> as they often tend to approach during the daytime

I mean, yes this is technically true, as things which must by definition be approaching the daytime side of the earth "often tend" to approach that way. But the phrasing indicates the article author is not aware of this relationship.

The other problem is that "during the daytime" is a meaningless concept when referring to the whole earth.
"Someone" else...
Using JPM (Janet Package Manager) has been really easy, in my experience. Add a list of dependencies to your project.janet file and you're good to go.
> Apple has thereby made an active choice to build a product that is bad for democracy

That's a good point, actually. If a company wants to claim that they are on the side of users and democracy, it needs to include in its threat modelling the possibility of "Are we the baddies?".
Somewhat widely known chemical compounds make up 50% of English words? Doesn't sound reasonable.
I'll probably always dislike Python. I do like Nim, but for strictly data processing I'd take R over either in a heartbeat. R has too many libraries, its semantics are perfect for data processing, RStudio is too nice and while pure R is slow as shit, in practice it's fast because it's basically a scripting language for a bunch of C and Fortran bits that are doing the real work.

If I were writing something from scratch that dealt with data, I would probably use Nim though. It's super easy to write something fast in and is more pleasant than pretty much any other compiled language.
The word 'science' has been co-opted by con men. Yet it's basic tenants like the critical method and repeatable experiments have provided me with far more value than half a life filled with religious 'teaching'.
I've honestly placed 100 orders in the last year, without issue. Couple returns in there, no issues.

This thread keeps popping up, but obviously the issues are rather rare. See Amazon's continuing growth if you want an example.
Surely you don't mean yearly car registration, driver's license fees, gas taxes at the pump, liquor taxes on booze or any other daily sales taxes they pay. So are you referring to the lack of property taxes they pay? I'm assuming the landlords are paying those.
I suspect QR code has become kleenexed. Technically a trademark for a specific brand and group of products, but everyone buying Puff's or their store brand still seems to say, "Pass the kleenex".
Yeah I think that’s your expectations. Clojure doesn’t treat the JVM as an implementation detail, but as a very important part that you’ll want to use and interact with directly. It wouldn’t make any sense for clojure to not show you the JVM details, because for all it knows, those are the parts that you really care about and you just use clojure to glue it all together
GIT (Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem 1) says that for every consistent formal system there is some statement about the natural numbers which can't be proved in it. This article made me think that maybe any statement about the naturals could be proved by F^n(M) where F is some sort of "strengthening" operation on the formal system M (probably Peano arithmetic), and n is an ordinal number. The problem of proving statements about integers then reduces to inventing notations for expressing ordinal numbers. It's then easy to believe that there might be diminishing returns on expressing larger ordinals, and therefore GIT doesn't matter much in practical reality.

I haven't made the above into a formal conjecture. Is there any truth to the above? Have I missed something obvious? Is there a result in the literature to this effect? Cheers.
> but I have a feeling that Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays (if it ever was intuitive).

I want to love Gimp, its interface and window layout is aesthetically pleasing to me for a pro-level graphics program.

But as a non-pro, I have to google how to do even simple stuff b/c it's not discoverable or obvious from the interface. Just the other day I had to google how to draw a circle around something in a digital photo, which is about the simplest operation you could want to do. You can't just circle something with the lasso/elliptical select tool, there's more to it.

I can't fault Gimp too hard, though, it's aiming for pro's and power users, which I'm not. Frequent Gimp users will quickly learn Gimp's ways of doing simple things, and then move on to the harder stuff.
Except that it’s not really “gaining ground”, all things considered Rust is not that popular.
No, insulting the President is an offense. Typical hypocrisy + lying by the French government. https://www.timesofisrael.com/frenchman-fined-for-billboard-...

About the hijab. You say "Simply enforce these principles". Yes, and these principles are intolerant, which is my point.

And this pick-and-choosing secularism when convenient, is a type of opression.
Can a crow become the mayor
I don't have much to add here. I will share that one thing I cherish about my doctor is his refusal to go digital record. Everything is paper. He has long been an advocate for repealing medical record retention laws. Keeping it to paper at least adds a speed bump some what.

The hope would be that the system splinters. Those that want more data oriented system can have it, those that don't can remain in the past.

Other than that, Herbert L Fred's "The Tyranny of Technology" and that of his term 'technological tenesmus' comes to mind; https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1997.11443437
There are many different types of programming. For example there is an increasing amount of people who program but do not have programming related job titles.

- A designer might use HTML/CSS/JS directly or with "low code" tools (AKA graphical IDEs, they are still essentially programming) to implement frontends or a bit of scripting to automate stuff in their Adobe tools.

- An analyst might use Excel (a programming environment) or SQL or some hybrid tool.

- Mathematicians and scientists are increasingly programming.

- An electrical technician or engineer programs their installations.

- And so on...

There isn't one paradigm or even a set of paradigms that fits them all. Some languages are deliberately straight forward and provide minimal abstractions, other languages have strong runtime guarantees, others enable flexible, composable abstractions.

I think programming will become even more diverse in the future.
CoopCycle – a federation of bike delivery co-ops
Linked article conveniently forgot to mention the relevant footnote from original article:

> This may seem paradoxical, since atheists and agnostics have very low levels of religious commitment and yet score very well on the survey questions. However, atheists and agnostics account for a relatively small share of the total number of people with low levels of religious commitment; 4% of Americans describe themselves as atheists or agnostics, while fully 35% have low religious commitment. Atheists and agnostics answer an average of 20.9 questions correctly, compared with an average of 15.4 correct answers among people with low religious commitment who do not describe themselves as atheists or agnostics.

Btw survey questions them selfs are a bit nitpicky.. (who cares if jesus realy changed water into wine or if that was just symbolic)

Original article: https://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-...
Send dang an email, it looks like your submission was erroneously flagged, which took it off the front page sooner than it would have gone and removed its visibility.
I graduated from a state school in 2016, and in the dorms each student had their own 100Mb/s Ethernet jack, and it was actually easy to pull or push that speed over it. However, there was a limit to how much you data allowed to pull/push from the public Internet in a rolling 24 hour block.
> Branding is important and an ordinary person (I think) will hear more about Steam Deck than Linux

Fair point, I say. But people will know that KDE and Linux exist a bit more now, since they're kinda intertwined.

> PS. Nice user name. But why pair those two? :D

You're the first one to notice! And I paired them since if they married at the end of arc 1, it'd be the the most satisfying ending for me. And also, their mental states and stuff seem to be weirdly aligned, so I feel like they'd be the best fit for each other. It's also what I feel that pairing is the one that the least number of people would expect (:
I would pick encrypted Telegram over Signal anyday, but I believe that decentralized solutions with open source backends, like MaidSAFE, Freenet, and to some extent Matrix.org are the future.
In general I feel like patents have jumped the shark. Maybe they made sense when they applied to local jurisdictions as a means of growing local manufacturing capacity. But global patents just prevent huge numbers of people from innovating. People worldwide would love to make pharmaceuticals more affordable for example, but huge restrictions are placed on how they can operate. They can’t innovate to manufacture an existing drug cheaply using local materials because some multinational owns the patent. 3D printers are another example. In 1995 they were introduced under patent for $50,000 and ten years later the price was $25,000. In 2018 the patents expired and hobbyists got to work designing cheaper machines. Within three years a $2000 machine was decent and ten years after the patent expired $300 machines were available worldwide. Can you imagine how prosperous the whole world would be if they were permitted to copy the best available medical equipment, find effective ways to lower manufacturing costs as with the 3D printers, and then we had cheap high quality medical machinery available worldwide? This would be a revolution in global wealth growth with little cost to the existing wealthy countries. We would benefit from a more rapidly industrialized world with less direct investment required to make it happen, and we would benefit from more diversity of ideas.

I really have to call out Bill Gates who said in 2021 “we can’t just open source the vaccine because factories to make it don’t exist the world over” but he would have been perfectly capable of making those investments in 2020 if what he really wanted was maximum vaccine production. He’s thinking in top down systems and I really think we need to understand how effective bottom up engineering can be, as with 3D printers.
Located in Washington DC. It used to be like this half a decade ago. Now, many things take longer to deliver.
I much prefer this idea to modern politics.
Like a lot of atheists, I have studied the bible. My parents had me confirmed as an Anglican in my teens (ironically one of the first steps that took me from "I don't know if this is true" to "this particular religion is patently false").

It's impossible to understand western literature without a decent working knowledge of the bible (although choosing which one is problematic in itself), it's useful for that alone.

However, studying the bible made me less religious, not more.
I think you’re misrepresenting what the intention of IP laws are. Their intention is to incentivise IP to be made publicly available. I don’t think it’s especially relevant whether the person who did the work creating the IP retains ownership of it, or whether the party that funded the work they did creating it has ownership. There’s nothing wrong with the idea that somebody can be employed to create IP for their employer.

I agree with you that the law is dysfunctional in many ways. I especially agree with you that a law should be judged on the outcomes it creates rather than the intent of the policy that motivates it. But I’d suggest the appropriate solution is to improve the law, rather than abolishing IP rights.

Without IP rights, we’d just return to industrial trade secrets, which would only really benefit big business. You would see much less investment in areas where trade secrets are not possible (like most pharmaceutical research for instance). A lot of people already think current-day DRM controls are anti-consumer, but how does a cinema-only movie release sound?
> You're comparing a car built, as far as I can tell

No, I'm comparing battery electric propulsion to supercars and hypercars, which is what the thread is about. Remember the claim is "a lot of factors against EVs for super/hypercars". Here are some definitions for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/anything-goes/matt-priors...

The point is battery electric propulsion is clearly in the realm of supercars today. Here's an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE_w1-5eHgI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4orCB71BgY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUB1z5wr5p8

> Also, the full 22.8km Nordschleife record is Niki Lauda's in a 45 year old Formula (i.e. w/ rules) F1 car - 6:55. The VW's record is for the 20.8 km circuit.

The VW ID.R completed its lap in 365 seconds. That's an average of 1 km every 17.55 seconds. Add on the extra 35 seconds for the extra 2 km, or even add on an extra 45 seconds, and the ID.R still beats Niki. Sorry.
WIV, the seafood market, and the airport are all on the same subway line. The topology of disease spread in cities is only approximated by physical distance.
I've begun to think that our private and public selves should be legally distinct entities using a corporation with a screen name and keep your personal identity for offline use only.
what you wrote in the first part is incorrect.

The law that prohibits campaigning during the election is still very much there, just like in many other countries, just not one day in advance like it used to be - this is debunked in the other thread - https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4800223
Btw, strange you didn't quote any sources for your claim - just a claim.

> Russian authorities has NEVER asked Telegram to remove anything

Yes, he starts the article by saying "has to follow rules set by Apple and Google", so he is not even talking about the Russian authorities. Apple and Google have been well known for swiftly taking down the apps that they think are troublesome for them.

Finally, Telegram was a massive channel for Belarus protests - in fact, Telegram was probably the main coordination mechanism for those - have you ever heard about Nexta?
It looks like a decent sketch enhancement tool. I would suggest to focus on that so that you could find your first customers in realistic amounts of time.
They can be stable for a few years at a time if there's lots of food, water, and decent weather, no injuries or major stressors. So yeah, boss monkeys don't stay that way forever, and it requires lots of work maintaining health and social relationships. The physical challenges are a function of pure physicality, there's no monkey jiu jitsu, it's all rage flailing - the fights are probably a lot less work overall then the socializing.