skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already lots of videos of these foxes on Youtube. I don't know about the minxes, but the foxes basically behave like domestic dogs, possibly with more energy. They don't sit and drool. On the other hand, it's almost certainly true that they lost a lot of behaviors that they'd need to survive in the wild, but that applies to most domestic animals.
>It's a bad idea to treat philosophy as a menu from which one can choose the most appealing items and be left with a satisfactory understanding of the problems at hand.

Why's that? All moral propositions ultimately rest on either circular reasoning or unjustified assumptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_argument, also see the argument in Wittgenstein's aforementioned Tractatus), so searching for absolute philosophical truth is doomed to failure. There's even a school of philosophy based around this approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism.
The author is wrong about this one:

Rockstar is Python 3 only library. Rockstar programmers don't code in Python 2.

Exactly the opposite is True: rockstar programmers code forever in Python 2 and newbies use Python 3 (beside core developers)
Breeding animals as pets is gently problematic when there are so many unwanted animals that would make very good pets.

Traditional breeding is notoriously bad at avoiding genetic defects and temperament problems. Mutts avoid a bunch of those.

If you charge enough you could fund humane death for surplus animals (tricky to persuade people this is a good thing) or better animal shelters, which would help reduce some of the problems.
> Can we entirely rule out the possibility of AI researchers making advancements over time, and then eventually some research lab building one that's super intelligent compared to us? Why?

That's not the thing we should be worried about, or at least that's the point I got from the article. The thing we should be worried about is the way machine learning is applied in the here-and-now: the ethics of big data social networks, the robustness of complex (API-driven) systems, and so on. I fully agree that these issues are much more pressing and worrying than some emergent super-intelligence.

But I thought the article was weak in its discussion of dreams, creativity, and linear "flat data". It links to a June 2015 popular mechanics article about applying a genetic search optimization algorithm to discover gene regulatory networks, downplaying it as not-true-intelligence. But it does not mention deep neural networks and their higher-dimensional abstractions, particularly the psychedelic "inception" images.

The author also mentions "linear reasoning", and says he expects we'll learn more about intelligence from stem cell and Alzheimer's research, and the "tissues surrounding neurons, and the roles they play in contextual regulation." As if to set up some dichotomy between machine and biological intelligence. But what about deep neural networks?? I'm not sure how that would affect the author's arguments, but I'd like to see it discussed.
Actors/messaging doesn't imply a remote-backend architecture. It only implies messaging and mutually-exclusive _writable_ state.

GUIs is a poor example as they are inherently single-threaded frontends so performing simultaneous actions is already often implemented utilizing message-passing to backend threads which report back to a single-threaded event-loop. That architecture can be local, backend "threads" or remote processes, as it doesn't much matter to the GUI.

With regard to in-memory persistence, again, you almost certainly would not copy data per thread. For a situation like you're describing, a Redis-like architecture is all you need with a few atomic primitives. But, again, incredibly easy to implement in Go and is certainly _not_ rocket science.

Of course, someone is going to still be using locks, but it's a diminishing number of developers that need to code at that level since there are better higher-level techniques that serve many purposes and protect against many types of errors.
There is also a difference in e.g. stopping random people on the street and asking if they are willing to participate, or posting an ad online and waiting for people to call, even though both are voluntary.
No time or break down was mentioned. That is your imagination.

> For the sake of it.
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Tell that to people doing machine learning!
Ahem, "Rockstar" developers

On a more serious note, people should start using Python 3, unless you really depend on a library that's not supported in 3.X or needs to support 2.X (but it's usually possible to target both versions)
I currently work as an aircraft telemetry and instrumentation engineer, and have also done similar engineering on rockets. So I spend a lot of time thinking about (and have been trained very thoroughly about) connections and how to do them.

> Hey, that's how you're supposed to use heatshrink! Wow, I've been doing it wrong for years.

Out of curiosity, how have you been doing it? The way shown in this manual is the standard way to do it in my world.

> Mildly surprised that they don't want crimped connections soldered

I'm confused as to why you would think about soldering a crimped connection. Properly crimped connections will stand up to a good deal more vibration (and are pretty much gas-tight, staving off corrosion) than soldered connections. Plus, crimping is quick and easy with the right tools. Maybe there are some niche applications where you'd do both. I've never seen it.

> Wow, had never heard of "connector saver" jumpers before. Sounds bananas

Totally not bananas when you look at the spec sheet for something like a D38999 series connector. Connector savers are a normal thing in the aerospace world. Most connectors are only rated for a few hundred mate/demate cycles (Usually 250 or 500). Every time you mate or de-mate a connector you run the risk of damaging a pin or socket. So the connector savers are sacrificial for when you test. They get mated to the real connections once at the beginning of your tests, and demated at the end. Then you give your real connections a thorough check at the physical level and hook them up.
Oddly, I have had the opposite problem. This past week I have had to delete 4 or 5 obvious V!@g&a!!!!!-type spam emails from my priority tab of my inbox. I can't remember the last time I had that happen. Something isn't working quite right.
You need two eyes for depth perception.

This is false, you can get plenty of depth information from a picture or even better a movie which is not stereoscopic.
Cats were smarter and self-domesticated themselves
I know cases of people having a 10% down, they got a loan from the bank to pay for the CMHC insurance.
> I see little children having curiosity about those "cassetes" thing, but it is a five minutes thing.

That's quite a condescending and misinformed attitude. Tape recordings have never gone away in certain music scenes, and those scenes are occupied mostly by older music listeners for whom it's a matter nostalgia or aesthetic preference.

Tape hiss goes well with certain extreme styles of music, IMO.
I've visited SF and the outlying areas. It's nice. But with all the car traffic to get anywhere outside the mass-transit grid (and the West Coast sprawl that's a side-effect of having enough land to sprawl onto), it's not nearly nice enough to justify the outsized cost of living.

Maybe in the future my attitude will change, but as of right now you literally could not pay me enough to move to the SF / MTV area.
Is Microsoft’s Edge browser really faster than Google’s Chrome?
And for some reason, anyone who posts anything about it online seems obligated to put it alongside those stupid battleship hybrid renderings.
I know this is the logic the Twitter police use to chase people from jobs, but its certainly not true.

Mill argued free speech should be protected in all cases for two great reasons. The first being that one never really knows if something is right or wrong. Many scientific have turned out correct that were disallowed initially. Secondly, even if a view is wrong it acts as a foil to the correct view. People learn a greater appreciation for the truth by seeing the bad examples. This acts as natural selection for ideas.
Mountain View is a typical upper-middle class suburb that exist in every US city with >100k population. It's single family houses with strip malls and horrible commute from anywhere. Really nothing to boast about. Minority of employees live in SF and waste 2.5 hours of their life on commute.
I work with 1000-1200C resistance furnaces, and my understanding is that the internal connection between the heating element and the power leads is both crimped and welded. It is probably a niche application, and welding and soldering aren't quite the same, but it does happen.
I have been in that situation and no hostility arose. :) I'm ready to admit that hostility can happen but then I want examples of it, not theoretical arguments. People often don't react in the ways you think they should. Plus, "wanting to renegotiate your compensation" is very different from "being hostile".
I hope not. When I did math Olympiads (including the IMO) I was presented with a false dichotomy of pure math or finance. This is really unfortunate because finance in general does not use very deep math. A tiny number of people might use SDEs but by now the techniques are standard and boring anyway. Furthermore, even mainstream economists doubt that this sort of finance has positive externalities. The amount of resources that go into finance is just way out of proportion to what seems necessary for price discovery.

In contrast, all of the science and engineering disciplines can make use of very interesting math. Not deep compared to research math, but used in a much more interesting way than in finance. E.g when you study the statistics of markets, you are just playing a game, and don't care that much about external reality per se. On the other hand if you study the statistics of DNA or gene expression, you are doing real science.

I think the best advice to a young person studying math is what was given to me at the age when I was doing the IMO (and interestingly, after I graduated by someone else): Don't neglect statistics.
And much of the soldering is done with solder ferrules (aka solder zaps) that sit over a wire and release solder when exposed to heat. This is all contained in a neat little package. The solder is ultimately connected to a wire that you can then run to a connector. This is how we usually will connect a braided shield to a component ground.
I'm on Ubuntu whenever I have to work and then switch to Windows when I have to play games. So I guess Ubuntu?
This happens to engineers often enough.
Absolutely yes. If you need an example of 3D à la Erlang, have a look at Wings 3D. http://www.wings3d.com/.
Won't negotiation be a part of any job that requires interacting with other people?
I would not be a client.

An AWS is about US 10 per month ? So that is rather expensive compared to the online services. The online services have you choose very easily between different countries. A bit more difficult / limited with AWS ?

Will the 'login' ip address always stay the same in your setup ? (I mean in case I stop the remote machine and later start it again).

On the upside: AWS is probably more secure (no man in the middle possible) and maybe faster ?

First you should make a good description of those 'people' who want to run their own vpn. What are their reasons.
Are you the writer of the article?
Perhaps it's anecdotal, and there were many that were pretty high energy in the sense they did act like a little puppy. They are ridiculously cute. From what I saw (was told), it depended on how long they were selected for and there were definitive differences in behavior by generation of selection, This effect was especially pronounced in the minxes (where the generation time is shorter so we can see more)

For example, compare the undomesticated minx [1] to the most domesticated one [2]. I have lots of other videos of the in between steps as well where the behavior changes from more and more energy to more and more passive. The same was basically true of the foxes. I apologize for the crappy video and inevitable dropbox bandwidth limit in advance.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/sc/6o6j9s7ss8ux6ly/AAAvpqD0ybVfZdDqz...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ey1nd1irvmw78be/AAADXhtFnGCtkVCh8...
That makes very reasonable sense.

... and in a country with an every-increasing rich/poor gap, benefits that skew towards employee over employer would probably be an improvement over the status quo.
And this is one reason why I love HN, and why I threw in that caveat, because I knew someone would come up with a scenario where it's done. Thanks.

Like I said, I come from the aerospace world, where as another user here said, we solder as little as possible. Sure, components on PCBs are soldered (and even then, they are often covered with an inert, non conductive coating or RTV to fix them in place), but when it comes to wiring and connections, solder joints are asking for trouble when they get vibrated.
ok forgive me for asking a obvious question. (btw, awesome work, especially to read that you've been doing this all on your on for 2 years!!).

How does this compare to ReactJS? Or what is your comparison between this and something like ReactJS?
Well, what do you mean by "green"?

Do you mean "which reflects or emits light of these particular wavelengths", or do you mean something about human perception?

Also, similar questions apply wrt "invisible".

If "green" is based on human perception, why would not an entity which, when a person looks in their direction, does not really see them like any shape, but rather, perceives some greenness in that General direction?

Why would this entity not be considered both green and invisible?

Alternative, does "invisible" mean to the naked human eye?

What if the entity is microscopic?
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This is great and represents, IMHO, the key to building a great UX. I also believe ethnographic methods are the best weapon in a UX expert arsenal. There's little value in evaluating a UI built on wrong assumptions.

I hope this "grows", in Adobe and in other companies. Enough of design being about the latest fad, or deciding what the user "wants"/"needs" based on hunches, or - at the root - building products based on assumptions about "people" without systematically studying them. We have the methodology to really understand users and to leave engineer-driven digital products behind. This is really what design is about; form follows function, and we've been deciding what the "function" is all wrong.
Value is a subjective thing. What a company values is not necessarily the same thing as what an employee values. So that 250K salary may be due to something the company values at 250k for whatever reason the company has.

This does not of course mean that the coworkers of that 250k salary think the work is worth 250k. That disconnect which can be difficult to fix will often cause bad feelings and poison the atmosphere.

The correct solution of course is for the company to effectively communicate what is sees as valuable so that employees can work toward creating that value and measure correctly. This is harder than it sounds though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9814741
I just noticed http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.03989v1.pdf (it's on todays HN). It claims that in Astronomy Python is used over twice as much as FORTRAN and even C/C++ is used more.
Crazy thing is that if you could get your hands on a pro market minidisc deck, you could extract all you liked.

I think another thing sunk it, write speed.

To write to Magnet-Optical media, you first use a laser to heat the surface until it becomes magnetic. Then you zero the bit using a readwrite head much like on a HDD or floppy. Then you set it to the zero or one you want to actually be.

All this back and forth means that MO can't really keep up with HDD or flash.
>>> L(*stuff, 'a', 'b')
SyntaxError: only named arguments may follow *expression

>>> L(*stuff, *stuff)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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Does anyone know how many foxes they started with for the experiment?
That's mostly subjective, (a,b, °c) is a tuple of a, b and the rest being the sequence c. After reading a lot of lisp and ml, it's a bit less of a burden than [a,b] + l, in the sense that [a,b] is declarative mixed with an operation, while (a,b, °c) is one declarative. You might say `°` is an operation too, but it lives at the metalevel, and it's still enclosed in the (tuple-declaration).
Do you know what is the main novelty of last version of Java? Yes, "lambdas", available on Smalltalk 30 years ago from day-one.
It is - this is pretty much the argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic in the First Critique.
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A lot of people here are saying that if job titles/pay grades are public (which they are not completely) then so should pay be. The problem with this is that promotions are already very political. People can and do get very angry when other people get promoted before them. Non public pay and bonuses give management some wiggle room to reward people privately.

There is always some question about whether management or popular opinion is fairer. On this I will just say that more extroverted people will tend to favor popular opinion while more introverted people will tend to favor management.
just looked at mithril, didn't see any observables, so I'm not sure if it's FRP.

My favorite thing about Cyclejs is the use of observables instead of setters. I usually dislike setter methods, since it becomes hard to track all the places that modify the state. With observables, the streams being combined/merged give you that information instantly.

Observables also give you very fine grained control over the data, so you don't need lifecycle hooks to control v-dom rendering (just use throttle/debounce).

That said, the concept of drivers is new and can seem kinda wonky at first, but 'give it 5 minutes'?
Shazu is a game that pairs you with a random partner to write sentences one word at a time. Its a pet project built with node.js, redis and websockets. Feedback welcome!
North Korea was caught cheating twice, and is the only country to have been caught cheating at the IMOs so far, so I would take their ranking with a grain of salt.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathemat...
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Here's the article I originally wanted to post but couldn't find. Does a much better job than the more cursory nat geo piece. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/807641/posts
I've long thought all salaries should be disclosed, especially for public companies. Look at professional sports leagues and Hollywood. Free agency changed everything in sports, and Hollywood's studio system collapsed when stars realized how much power they had.

It would take some adjustment, but I believe full disclosure would level out some of the inequality. As it stands the CEO captures the lion's share of value created by the whole enterprise.
It's amazing that with all that "experimental" stuff, the design of planes really has not changed much. I am sure there are certain things that were learned, but I also cannot get past the notion that there is a more appropriate method for initiating and supporting research.

I get that people's common refrain is "you never know what comes out of research", but I think that is also too easily used as an excuse to not apply some diligence and rigor. There are both real and virtual hangars chocked full of research that should never have been funded for a while host or reasons. I guarantee that a society that figures out how to more deliberately direct R&D funding will surpass the USA in technological advancement.

Does anyone know of any efforts to quantify the rate of return on R&D? I suspect that an honest calculation would invoke "abysmal" and "atrocious".
I've never worked in the supermarket industry, but I have worked in warehouses and on retail floors- and in my experience, the pace and magnitude of the physical labor is significantly higher in the warehouse. Again, I can't generalize my experience to every company.

One way they might address the allegations would be to transfer some warehouse employees to the sales floor and vice versa, providing a better mix, and a good opportunity for employees to see a different side of the operation. Of course, locations may not allow this easily- and may actually play into the pay disparity.
It seems to work out okay in the NFL.
> I think I understand it better than you.

I'll challenge that, especially when a few sentences later, you say:

> you cannot meaningfully discuss legality if you don't recognize the moral principle from which you are starting

There is absolutely no connection between laws and morality. Zero.

Laws tend to be derived from attempts at improving the general happiness and survivability of the society but the fact that laws and morality tend to overlap is a coincidence, especially when morality is such a vague notion that nobody can agree on.

Beyond that, it is absolutely possible to meaningfully discuss legality without ever mentioning morality.
This is definitely off-topic, but have people taken a look at Po-Shen Loh's company expii.com? He's the coach for the US team.

It says:

Expii is a collection of free, interactive, explanations
written by people from around the world

Interesting!
They had to be disconnected, reconnected, and recalibrated every time the nose was opened and shut.

https://books.google.com/books?id=l4fSx5HoZWAC&pg=PA94&lpg=P...
Did the research control for the fact that people in the same department or woking on the same project tend to share space?

If I'm working on Project Banana I'm not usually going to have a need to talk to someone working on Project Avocado, even if we're on different corners of the same floor.
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A minor point but maybe an important one: I wasn't actually wondering, because it doesn't matter, I think. There's enough reason to believe that this phenomenon exists, in aggregate, between most men and most women. There's been no explanation for it offered that holds that the effects are just (e.g., something that claims that men's work output is correspondingly greater, or their need for income is). So whether it is nature or nurture, unless we think Google can fix the root cause, the right thing for Google to do is accept that the phenomenon exists and work around it. They don't need to track the phenomenon down.

It's like how Google focuses heavily on technical interviews over college GPA or even college degree. They've found that having a degree and a good GPA is not well-correlated with what they're hiring people to do. They could put a bunch of work into fixing the college system, but instead they design their hiring process to take it into account as little as possible.
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I wonder if they rolled out some kind of new algorithm, or major algorithm change before it was ready for prime time.
Isn't that kind of why they use a training set and a separate evaluation set?
i agree. the capitalist system is broken (or more has failed already) and the inequality now is getting overwhelming. cue downvotes from rich people :D
Congratulations to Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina for being the only countries to send gender-balanced teams of three boys and three girls.
This makes me want to chant USA a lot more than the soccer game.
Loan money to the distressed: enabler.

Don't loan money to the distressed: xenophobic.
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