jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Personal responsibility is only as good as a person's ability to choose. Since there is no dualistic free will, this ability to choose is based entirely within their brains and bodies, which are 100% the product of their genetics and environmental influences.

Thus, "personal responsibility" is a red herring if you are trying to get people to stop making bad choices. Instead, find out what neural, genetic, or environmental influence makes those bad choices more appealing than good choices, and fix that influence.

If this is the same study as a recent Ars article, then no choice is involved at all. Nobody chooses to have more or fewer immune cells converting white fat to beige fat.
For the casual onlooker: that's not closed as in resolved, that's closed as in irrelevant.

The people who are unhappy with those bugs probably consider them very relevant.
Life is definitely complex, but most of the variables with some influence on weight are either unobservable or unchangeable.

Luckily, you don't need to observe them or change them. You can ignore them and focus on what is observable -- appearance and weight -- and on what is controllable -- diet and exercise.

It may well be that gut biomes, antibiotic usage, inflammation, corn syrup, global warming, diesel particulates, preservatives etc etc have an influence. But the forcing factor in the weight system is net caloric balance, which is also the easiest to control.
I dunno -- when DVDs first came out, there were lots of people saying that the decision by most studios to use widescreen transfers on them would doom the format. The logic was that the knuckle-draggers were such a majority that launching a non-4:3 format was hopeless. But that turned out not to be the case, DVD was a huge success. So there's hope that most people can recognize better product when they see it.
The worst journalism are the stories that aren't printed.

In my city, the local rag is tightly affiliated with the city administration. So when stories appear that don't jive with the desired narrative (like two armed robberies in busy pedestrian neighborhoods in the span of a week), they just don't get reported.

The decline of old-school publications undermines the profession... One newspaper and a couple of lousy TV stations provide no incentive to be aggressive, especially with government officials. It's easier to print softballs and be friends.
So essentially this is Oracle SQL - does anyone know if there are analogous similar START WITH and CONNECT BY keywords for other platforms? (author mentions MSSQL has the them, but no mention of MySQL/MariaDB or PGSQL).
> Not just the 737 max but also the problems with the 787.

And the 737 NG too: cracks appearing in the wing supports.
"Iwatani had confessed to “collecting inappropriate historical materials.” At the time of his detention, he had allegedly been found in possession of a book of documents relating to 20th century Kuomintang Party history. Unlike the literati Lu and his “forbidden book”, however, Iwatani had legitimately purchased his book at a bookstore."

There is no "law" here. Do not confuse a country with a tradition of the rule of law with one without.
Great post! Very refreshing to hear about a) the honest level of effort involved in this type of endeavor, b) the amount of nonsense trading advice out there.

Maybe in a future post you could discuss the security and banking side of this in more detail? In the 6ish years I’ve played around with crypto trading (and I really mean play, nothing close to your level), I’ve had 2 exchanges hacked and lose all customer funds, another 2 had major security breaches causing days of downtime but recovered, and one site seized by the FBI.

Then there are the horror stories of banks freezing your account when you move funds in and out of exchanges. Luckily That hasn’t happened to me.

I bet you have some good stories and perspective on that side of it, I would love to hear it.
I don't think this is true: "you would think the owners would have the foresight to either have something capable of breaking windows".
I would assume it's the same amount of effort as before, if you're coming from outside the EU.

I can attest to the UK having well-paid developer jobs though, especially in London. I'm not in London but I have friends who are and they're doing well.
To be fair, aside from perhaps very specific domains (e.g. finance) or corporations, the pay probably looks dismal if you compare it to SV levels. Making six figures is certainly something hard to reach.

Ditto on the immigrants thing though, Germany is certainly not the worst country in that regard.
The current Firefox ESR release is 78.9.0 unless I'm mistaken, it should work on that. Currently I only support recent/current versions of browsers.
You should really learn them, even if you don't plan to use them. What languages do you use?
I use Debian testing with the Cinnamon desktop environment.
This comment isn't helpful at all. Can you put some more effort into your critique so that it might be more helpful for the author who is reading this?
It's laid out much better than I by these guys: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstne...

But assuming you don't want to read an actual book... basically, the original reason that copyright was created was to encourage contributions to the public domain. By giving incentives to creators, we'd enrich the commons. However, the system does nothing of the sort today. This indicates to me that at the very least, we need to re-think the way we handle intellectual property. Even if you disagree, there are still many flaws in the implementation of intellectual property laws. Mostly, there are large questions as to who 'wins' if two people invent something simultaneously in different parts of the world (this happens quite a bit), the assumption that we can have a single repository of all useful knowledge that's been created, and that we can have skilled enough individuals working in said office to determine if something is novel.

In addition to reform, I'd actually go a bit farther and say it's not necessary at all. There are a few different arguments, actually, depending on which angle you'd like to pursue. For those on the far, far left, IP seems to have the same accumulation and exploitation problems that private property has, but worse. Big companies have entire divisions that are basically IP farms, then abuse those portfolios to keep new, innovative companies out. Then, there's the leaky abstraction argument: IP law is trying to shoehorn existing property laws onto the concept of knowledge, but I'd argue that this abstraction is exceptionally leaky, to the point of not making sense. There are also the examples made in Against Intellectual Monopoly, showing many instances where IP was actually harmful for society, and where people actually made more money by disregarding their abilities to enforce infringement.

Anyway, I'm almost to the point of rambling. My point is that this is a complicated and nuanced topic, and one can be opposed to IP without simply yelling "LOLOL I WANT MOVIES 4 FREE!!!111"
I'm an INTP, not exactly an SP temperament. I have historically been very change-averse, almost Aspergian, enough that I almost didn't want to go to college because I couldn't imagine living anywhere but my parents' house. I moved across the country for a new job in a challenging field, and knew virtually nobody there. That isn't exactly baby steps.

It worked because I pretty much made it the focus of my life to adjust to my new situation. Yes, it was scary. It was also a huge opportunity, and I wasn't going to pass it up.

If the idea of a big change completely fills you with dread, you shouldn't do it. That's my point - you should either go all-in or not-at-all-in. But if it's only a little scary, and you think you can do it, my experience has been that it's almost always better to do it and keep at it until it's no longer scary.
ah yes, we suck. We were hoping it wouldn't get discovered until we had a second weekend to really deploy it.
The above SNPedia link goes into greater detail, but the data come as a tab-separated file a few megabytes in size. For the older Illumina reports, the data files were about 5MB, but the newer chips may make files closer to 10MB. (550k vs 1m SNPs, respectively)
Don't have sex until you're older.
There is also Ferdinand Braudel, who published 3 works about peasant live in the 15th to 18th century: "The Structures of Everyday Life", "The Wheels of Commerce" and "The Perspective of the World". I found them very interesting, they depict normal days for different trades and classes and the changes that occured to them over the centuries.
That was definitely the eureka moment that made us realize that it was possible. I'm pretty sure someone on the django users mailing list actually pointed me to the phpserialize library, which was the key to the whole thing.
I was brought in to a company a while back and took on the leadership role for a while (then brought in a friend to actually be the CTO as I wanted to be pure hands-on). When I arrived at the company, the original code base was a mess - originally outsourced to India, then given to a company in China and then a developer in the Czech Republic. The code was using amazing code like "$sourceboy = $sourceboy;" and tons of other gems.

Anyhow, the decision was quite clear a rewrite was in order. The original code base received a little love here and there to make it work, but in the end we replaced it all and the company ended up selling for a little shy of 8 digits.

While you may not be able to just scrap it all, there is no reason you can't do things the right way behind the scenes and then relaunch the right way over time. I think a good CTO or leader should recognize what will be better for the company, and perhaps at times that does indeed involve maintaining what you have - but if it is indeed broke; it's also in your best interest (as well as the company's) to fix it.
I didn't notice it and I can't be sure, but short-term outages on HN are usually because pg reboots the server.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274058
How long does it take your software to crack the other half?
These searches sure as fuck aren't being preformed accidentally.
You are definitely missing something if you are not checking out the Beatles. Their more well known stuff has been repeated to death but they have a huge catalog with tons of great songs you have never heard before. I like Tomorrow Never Knows and In My Life.

(I’m 22 and usually listen to Interpol or Arcade Fire or Girl Talk or Jay-Z. My mom was a huge Beatles fan as a teenager but has since then forgotten all about them.)
I'm amused by the fact that I'm drawn into the picture of Jimmy Wales. It just looks so inspirational; for what reason, I'm not really sure.
I know this is getting OT, so apologies. And thank you for the second paragraph. But I'm interested in the first.

To me it doesn't seem like I will cease to be, in any meaningful way. To cease to have something is to have it at some point but not another. I will never experience not being. So I find it hard to worry about that. Of course I enjoy being, but it's not like I would rather be than not be, because the latter would suck. So I find your first paragraph strange. And therefore interesting. [edit, add:] I scan sympathise with the point made about others: I'd very very much rather my wife was than ceased to be. But me? Only for other people's sake. I can't imagine how it could possibly make any difference to me. I can't even imagine the idea that I'd miss out on all those good experiences I'd have if I lived. Because again that just presupposes that I'd be missing something.
It's not a new threat. https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/14_key.... is 16 years old.
I live in the Flagler Beach/Palm Coast area (between St Augustine and Daytona). Do remote "HN-type" work. Few tourists here. Traffic is non existent. Live on a salt-water canal and can take my boat out to the Intercostal for fishing or cruising. Great weather, low cost of living, plenty of beach bars with live music. Paradise.
The evidence for the theory is that there are many Boeing 'apologists' as OP states - he is trying to debate them, not people that don't care if Boeing ever had a good engineering culture.
An introductory statistics course. I'm sure there are a few of those available online, both as a paid course and as free online university lectures.
How come? SMS client functions independent of the GSM stack, I haven't faced any issues due to Signal being the SMS client for several years now.
awesome, thanks! Would love to hear how you get on with it.
I run private matrix server and all the ux problems it has when you want encrypted chat compared to Signal are just massive turn off for most people. I hope they fix it one day.

Also it's two pretty different things. Signal is mostly personal 1on1 and Matrix is big chat rooms.
haha, I will ask Siri. (iOS auto correction)
Maybe not easy to use, but Win8+ includes Client Hyper-V to run Linux, FreeBSD and Windows virtual machines, http://www.howtogeek.com/196158/how-to-create-and-run-virtua...
> The more you do yourself, the more you will learn.

This is true once you complete the project, but it seems like it can be dangerous: if you start off your mission to make a programming language by soldering components on a breadboard, say, then, you will learn something, to be sure, but you will probably get so embroiled in preliminaries that you will never learn what you intended to learn. (Of course, sometimes learning something other than what you intended is a good thing ….)
I realize this is straying off topic, but why would an entrepreneur hamstring him/herself by agreeing to such a clause? It appears to me that such a clause benefits the VC in a big way, but puts a significant amount of undue pressure on the entrepreneur. How am I supposed to know if I am getting the best deal if I am barred from taking the offer into the marketplace?
That's an interesting quote, but I'd like you to clarify what it has to do with what I'm saying. Judging by the actions and commentary of just about everyone, neither Greenspan nor anybody else seems willing to throw out monetary policy entirely, and I caution you not to misread Greenspan's words that way.
> But anything that can be solved by map-reduce wasn't enormously hard to begin with.

Depends on your definition of hard. Algorithmically, yes the tasks are relatively simple, but try programming an 80,000 node MPI/PVM cluster to run general jobs and you'll get a very different definition of "hard".
...It's a small piece of a blueprint found in a few frames of a children's movie. Wow, this guy is quite the muckraker.
He also misses the point that FORTRAN compilers are bloody good at finding and exploiting opportunities for parallelization. You have much less need of these higher level language constructs if the compiler is doing it for you under the hood! On VAX this was as simple as the /PARALLEL flag at compile time...
I could tell just from the menu links: Consulting, Coaching, Training, Speaking. Those are all pretty much synonymous :-|

And all the Agile/XP stuff, ugh.
same here, I use 'this' rarely. always start new function classes with var self = this; and never use 'this' again.
What if human intelligence is not computable? Why does no researcher address the fundamental assumption of the field?
The dispute process is there to solve the kind of issues that do not exist in a fully automated domain name assignment systems.

Fully automated system will only care about keys and cannot hand apple.com over from Apple Inc to Tim Apple because of his name.
Because that's only a few months out of the year, and even during that time it's better at night.

Also people live in cities up north that are much closer to living on the moon in a pod during the winter months. People live near jobs, family, housing and community regardless of how pleasant the weather is.
Isn’t proton mail a Chinese data collection company?
Tech has always been terrible. What was unusual about the iPhone was it just worked.
He's mostly talking about Ken White's argument.

I believe his main point is this:

> The state of US prisons is a national shame, and the fact that America incarcerates more people than any other nation in world history in these gulags is a national horror.
You highlight an interesting point which made me realize that no one actually owns their domain names on the Internet. We’re all just renters.

You might be interested in checking out https://handshake.org which is trying to create an alternative to the existing ICANN system that is resistant to censorship and seizure. The technology is really interesting and we’re building on it ourselves.
You are just plain wrong. They’re both owned by the newly formed “Imperial Family Companies” and they both show up under the portfolio, along with the rest of the brands that used to be part of LTM.

https://imperialfamily.com/

To be clear, this is a brand new site that was created in the last few days, they bought up the domain for 15k a few days ago (https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/12/21-end-user-domain-nam...)
> optimalisator

uh what?
Aren't you describing the "pocket" of a hot pocket?
I suspect with no evidence to support that some of this may be related to people dying of other things instead on cancer such as heart disease, etc.

Another interesting fact is if you look at US deaths, fewer die between the age of 60 and 80 than before and after. Seems like if you can make it to sixty you'll die of old age or some random cancer.
They're worth $217b to be exact and have an EBITDA of $6b (on $11b in revenue).[0] They are effectively "printing money" at this point.

[0] - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=FB+Key+Statistics
Bitcoin's price is mostly backed by speculation, if there is bad news or a lack of 'faith' it will go down, if there is good news and faith is restored the price will go up. The organic bitcoin economy hasn't dramatically improved from my impressions, I would love to use bitcoin, personally, but there lacks ad networks (for generic audiences) or payment processors (for credit cards) which pay in it which means I can't keep every aspect of the webmaster payment cycle within bitcoins so I continue to use fiat. However, finding server providers and domain registrars who accept bitcoin is very easy.
Of course, like the distribution of free vs. paid, it's likely that a majority of the money is going to a minority of the paid apps (I would imagine a pretty similar 85% to 15% distribution), which means its probably working out decently for the top 15% but not so much for the rest of the developers. A substantial portion of the top apps are also likely the ones from companies like EA or branded apps like Scrabble, especially given that most of those apps go for $5-10, higher than the average sales price.
> The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment ... It was a mistake to ever drop it ... [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it.

That is a shockingly flippant quote that shows a lack of critical analysis. Disappointing.

There was a political message in bombing Japan that communicated to Russia (and supported China). There was utility for the US. The Japanese were both divided and weighing on who to surrender to. The Japanese Imperial Army were notoriously staunch in their bushido teachings and with a lack of cohesion at the highest ranks, some would undoubtedly continue to follow orders. eg There were tens of thousands ready to repel an American land invasion in Kyushu* It had the desired effect in practical Japanese military planning.

* https://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/world-war-ii-th...
The main difference beween back then and todays is the fact that basically everyone back then carried at least a long dagger. Whch chnages the dynamic of a fight, if I'm the only one with a knife I don't have to worry about getting hurt. If the other guy has a pointy, cutty weapon as well that's not the case.

If a technique shows up in various treaties from multiple countries, and cultures, it is quite likely legit in its context. Also funny how similar, equal even, HEMA wrestling and Japanese Jiu-Jitsu is. Not surprising, both thing are a solution to the problem going close with someone with a bladed weapon.
Ok... I'll play devil's advocate here: genocide (quoting Wikipedia) "is the intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part" - meaning physically killing them. What China is doing (forced reeducation, mass surveillance etc.) is of course worthy of condemnation, but calling it "genocide" goes too far in my opinion, and diminishes the real genocides of the past. There are enough holocaust deniers already (not to mention the other skeletons that countries like Turkey would like to keep in their closets). If this "Uighur genocide" is not actually as bad as it sounds, it'll make it even easier to say that the Shoah or other genocides weren't such a big deal either...
I don't think I've ever had one :)
BTW, sorry for the general site link. The form to download the free beta isn't long, I promise. If it's a big problem, please reach out and I'll find a way to share the app form-free...
Read more about petro-dollar scheme. Basically US provides military services to oil producers in exchange for global tax. This is only possible if US is able to retain their military position. So every dollar you think is being subsidized to allied countries is in fact paid back with lots of premium from all countries - both allies and enemies.
If Texas was on the federal grid they also would have been able to import excess power from other states and ease the energy crunch.
Time for NASA to admit the same for SLS/Orion.
The irony is the Chinese just copied it...but threw out the jack of all trades part. Which is the problem with the f35
> adding complex abstractions to code do NOT make it more reliable.

Sometimes false. If the (more) complex abstractions are in well-tested libraries that haven't been written solely for your code.

> But [complex abstractions] do make [your code] much harder to modify,

Not necessarily. You can separate concerns; you can isolate changes; and you hopefully reduce the amount of code you've written yourself, significantly even.

> [complex abstractions] do make [your code] much harder to understand

This is as likely false as it is true.

> [complex abstractions] do make [your code] much harder to fix

Again, this very much depends. If you're using a well-tested, widely-used external library with those abstractions, it may well be easier to fix your own code.
> It's not a problem in the Windows world that drivers are not open source.

It absolutely is a problem. There is plenty of not-that-old hardware that will only work on previous versions of windows.

There's also _mountains_ of _terrible_ binary drivers that cause serious stability concerns.
Yeah, I'm normally pretty cheap with this stuff, but this is painful enough that I just decided to pay for some software this year. At some point, "cheaper than an accountant" becomes the guiding principle...

(definitely not defending Intuit here, though. Tricking people into paying is not cool.)
The new GDPR cookie banners are much better.

They are required to have a button to let you manage preferences, and are required to allow you to disable all cookies that aren't necessary for the site to function.

So, on any GDPR cookie banner I always click the smaller "manage" link instead of the "accept all" button. On the manage page, disable every option provided, then close the modal. I've never had a site that offered this kind of banner break in any way because of the disabled cookies.
It has a replacement called Rectangle.