skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe a lot of odd results that come out of hypotheticals lie with the fact that they're hypotheticals.

The trolley problem makes an inherent assumption that value can be summed by adding up people (i.e., more people > less people), and therefore there's only one truly correct answer, but that's not how decisions are actually made in the real world and there are very good reasons for that.

For instance: why is there a group of people and then the separate individual? Does the group have something in common? Is there something special about the individual? Someone made a judgment call when they created the situation. The end result is now unknown, and my answer would be that the decision therefore doesn't matter.

Choosing to do something would require performing another judgment call, which is actually very problematic. This is demonstrated fairly well by one of the reframings of the problem: the one where a surgeon kills a healthy person to save 5 dying patients. A world in which such things happen would be considered quite terrible by many, yes this seems to be a valid implementation of the trolley problem. The surgeon could then take his 5 patients and the one healthy person and recreate a trolley scenario and then let someone else deal with it. The correct answer, according to a person who doesn't want healthy travelers sacrificed for people who need organs, would be to not touch the lever. Yet, they do not have access to this information, so they do not know what the end result is. So the decision doesn't matter.

The responsibility is indeed with whoever has created the situation. Another party getting involved may make it better or worse by sheer luck but "more people > less people" is, in my opinion, a horrible philosophy and this implicit assumption should be thrown out of the problem. Once you do that, though, the problem disintegrates.

I would generally be wary of critique of intuition based on failure in hypotheticals. Intuition wasn't designed around hypotheticals and doesn't believe in them.
Isn't that mostly call center workers, and installers?
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There are two lit lights on the pole, so you can halve your astonishment :)
> A person who is coming from, say, India to US is doing so because they want to, not because they're forced to. If you deprive them of that ability and that choice, you're harming them - specifically, you're restricting their individual natural right to freedom of association and to pursuit of happiness.

Here's a question for you: Can the US absorb all 1.3 billion people in India? Then how about another billion from Africa? May as well throw in another half billion from other poor countries around the world.

Yes, it's all nice and good to say an individual should be able to do what they want. But at some point you're faced with limited space, resources, and social and economic issues.
Sweet! Looks like a great project, congrats!
Any Windows pre-built binary to try?

I imagine building this stuff on Windows will be challenging :/
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I also write in Vim and prefer the webpage view.

File links in Vim are really handy in your Miki when you're writing a couple of pages in a topic and you want to jump back and forth.

Of course in that scenario you can also ':e .' to edit the directory, or use the vim-included netrw, or install nerdtree.
Because (as I understand the article) their laws don't allow for intersections with a mixture of traffic lights and static signs.

It's a great illustration of a point that came up a while ago in that discussion of 'what makes a good programmer vs. a great one'. A good programmer recognizes the value of consistency, and leaves the red light in there even though it's a bit ugly and inefficient, because that keeps the system consistent. A great programmer would change the rules to allow a more efficient solution which solves the real problem (ie. cars need to know what to do.)
Don't have kids so I can't comment on that, but I reserve time for fun. I almost without fail reserve friday night as a night out with either my wife or friends doing something that's not related to work/tech/programming.

I love programming, sometimes I even want to spend friday night doing it, but none the less it's good for my long term mental health to get away and do something else.

I spend a few hours on the weekend learning 'long term' stuff, like math or technology not related to my job. I try to do this in a coffee shop or outdoors so it's a pleasant experience. A little over half the time I eat lunch while wokring but I never work through dinner. That's time for socializing or with friends, even if I have to go back to work.
Crossing a red light is a pretty strong traffic violation in Germany. If the light was red for longer then 1 second apparently 200€, a 1 month driving suspension, and 2 out of 8 points to lose your license.

https://www.bussgeldkatalog.org/rote-ampel/
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Gell-Mann effect? https://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnes...
That is true, but the figure seems to refer to one:

> And the total cost of maintaining this one traffic light over almost three decades runs to roughly €150,000. Every year maintenance and running costs come to €5,500.

'Traffic light' is used throughout to refer to the one that's been red for 28 years; not the whole system.

Regardless, I don't think I'd have been less surprised or inclined to comment on it had the article stated the cost was €2,750pa!
WiFire auto-generates WiFi passwords for each user so that they're always random and not tied to actual user passwords from a critical service.
It is mandatory for there to be a light at the intersection by law
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However inefficient put enough people in a room and it clearly heats up

The "however inefficient" part hints that you might understand why it makes no sense. But it worked for you?

It's not just inefficient. It's negative efficient. You have to add more energy to a human than you can possibly get out of that human.
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Hydrogen is close to free.

~$2 per 10kgs of lift if my internet calculations are correct.

But I guess if helium isn't lost at a great rate, it might be a cheap part of the whole setup.
In North America, they use a stop sign for basically every situation. So the continent is plastered with stop signs, none of which show their intent.
JVM is the benefit, but great immutable collections data structures and respective functions are also very very nice.
This is because it's very easy to break down and formalise what makes a game addictive, but it's very difficult to do the same for fun.

At Ghost we often find ourselves looking at a proposed or newly implemented feature and asking out loud "but, is it fun?". The answer can be very difficult to find, especially since many great features aren't fun until they've received that final layer of polish.

And here's part of what Zelda does so well. You can see how a lot of the great things in Breath of the Wild would be great fun even in a simple prototype. On the flip side, this kind of exhilarating feeling of being able to do so many cool things only works because every single piece of the game is designed with this in mind and all the crazy interactions people come up with are actually supported.

It only works so well because people aren't getting that familiar feeling of "oh. That didn't work." This must have been a massive task and I'm amazed they pulled it off!
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It is more like "convention over configuration". In fact, it isn't a hack. It is the simple applyance of putting elements in a system, because of a contract.

Another good analogy in software would be UX and style guides. You'd like the user to have a consistent experience.

The replacement is like running a cron job to do some stuff and forget to check if it makes sense. It can be done better, but on the other hand, it's less complicated this way (and never change a running system).

This one red light has been removed btw. The street is a dead end towards the intersection now. But you can find another one near Wasaplatz.
You probably thought that Roxanne was a traffic engineer.
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This light is an at intersection, the other three roads leading to the intersection have traffic lights too.

If there is a power cut, then the other three roads will have no lights, drivers there will treat the intersection with one set of rules. Whereas the driver on this road with a sign will treat the intersection with another, potentially causing an accident.
The Great Trolley Problem Dump
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This is exactly what my new project is about! :D

http://buttplug.io

Working on building a system to create a generic signal set that can be translated to any toy.
you should do all you can to appear clean and groomed

Ah yes, unlike that Einstein. That disheveled example of a someone who could have been so much more, had he just reached for a comb. /s
Also the article implies it's just on a very long 28 year cycle, but then it says it never turns green. Which one is it?
Generally for structured data (i.e. each column represents a distinct type of information, such as 'revenue' or 'color') you'll want random forest or GBM.

For unstructured data, where you'll need lots of complex feature engineering, you'll generally want to let the model learning those features - so use deep learning. E.g. images, natural language, audio...

I've won competitions with random forests and teach deep learning - both definitely have their place, but they are generally for quite different types of data. (This may change in the future, however, with deep learning showing that it has the potential to work well for structured data too.)

(Don't worry about the No Free Lunch theorem - it has little to do with predictive modeling in the real world. Recent research shows that a random forest will give amongst the best results for the vast majority of real world datasets.)
You'd think they'd just put up a sign that says "right turn only" or similar.
Provisioned IOPS is still there, but in AWS the standard disk is 'the bigger the disk, the faster it is' - 3IOPS/GB (theoretically), with max IOPS at 1000GB. 'Enhanced Networking' is on most server types now as well.

AWS pricing is definitely not made to be simple to understand, though...
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I kind of agree, but at the same time, it hasn't stopped me from having a great time. Maybe it really just doesn't matter? Sort of like worrying about the 0-60 time for a Prius or something like that. Just the wrong metric. 30fps 900p seems to be enough.
Yes, we Germans generally stop at red lights (even a lot of pedestrians do so). I guess most of us respect most of our traffic laws (except for speed limits).
Either way, if you're adventure enough, try SCADE beta release that will run on Android and iOS natively using Swift langauge. To check SCADE out, http://scade.io and they are working with PerfectlySoft who doing Server-side Swift Perfect.ly
really? I think that depends on where you're at in the company. many touch M code on the daily, and while you don't set globals directly, I think ORM is generous for any of the systems that I know you are describing
This is a fair assessment. It will be interesting to see how it plays out now that they have a semi-complete enterprise offering.
Making an analogy is not the same as implying equivalence.
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"Address the issue"

That doesn't mean anything. There's no issue here.
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> ...(or a ban on tivoization for security purposes)...

It is okay for some vendor to lock a hardware by default with GNU GPLv3 software in it. The rule is that it shouldn't be a permanent lock. The user should be allowed to break the lock if he/she wishes (of course the vendor can say that it will void warranty). This is what it happens when a user roots his/her android phone.

So not using GNU GPL by Google has not much to do with tivoization if rooting of a phone is allowed, and if the user is allowed to change the software inside.

Note: For things like bombs, nuclear reactors, medical equipments, voting machines, etc. It is allowed to have a permanent lock even if the software inside is licensed under the terms of GNU GPLv3+.
I too first learned of the Facebook browser when a client complained that his websites has some issues with it. Kinda weird how we as developers (that like to keep up to date with web tech) can be completely unaware of a browser that apparently generates 40% of mobile traffic .
I think coderpad.io is the modern day equivalent of a whiteboard.

It's nice that you get REPL and a keyboard, but the unnecessary pressure of being watched, critiqued, and timed are all there.

My mind just goes completely blank whenever I am put in this scenario.

Are we programming or defusing a bomb?
Colloquially, you'd probably just refer to it as Easel.

It could also be called Expo Clip. Then can say "clips" to refer to saved scripts.
I got a warning this morning from HaveIBeenPwnd and this article was in the breach email. Considering the current US political environment and the recent article by Tim Berners Lee, this spam list is extra scary.
from my last contact, they've definitely accelerated their pace of migrating to the web. I bet they'll be out of VB 6 code within 5 years easily

but web doesn't necessarily mean modern in any sense of the word.
Presumably you could track e.g. the average gradient of the error with respect to each weight.
While I can't answer your question about biology/pharma, I will say that depending on how you look at it - Conover's vindication of routine chemistry had some of the same elements of sexy as Fleming's discovery of Penicillin. That is, both discoveries were "hidden in plain sight" and owe their existence to the different lab work styles (and thus points of view) of their discoverers.
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Another game which hasn't been mentioned yet:

Xenoblade Chronicles X on the WiiU.

It is a game, very much in the same caliber that the current Zelda is - open world of the same level, great story, much to explore, the soundtrack is pure gold. If you have the chance, get it.

I spent (not wasted!) around 280 hours in it, almost completing it fully (i'm at around 96 or 98%, can't recall). AFAIK Nintendo even bought out the studio which created it...
lol... Last time I checked GT.M was way behind lightning fast by comparison to Intersystems' implementation
Yes, I get that. But it's a stupid law, and it should be changed. Traffic laws are not handed down by the gods.
I guess it's like the "no smoking" lights in airplanes. Even though they're always on (it's not like there's times during the flight when you can smoke and other times when you can't), they serve as an important reminder, and therefore have a purpose.
Do not put two spaces after a period. Please.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/two-space...

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/...
> There is little repetitive, mindless work in programming, because as most of you know, "anything that you can treat as construction can and should be automated."

Sure, but there is a cost to automation. We all know the programmers who will attempt to automate God if left to their own devices. cough At some point there is a tradeoff between automating something, and sending an email to an intelligent human being who maybe isn't god level at software architecture but who can fill out some organizational context with pidgen code.

I think the idea that the only code that needs to get written is type of a decorator on a subtype Haskell kind of stuff is wrong. It's the same fallacy as people who say we just need physics and all of the natural sciences will shake out of it. We need Richard Stallmans and Terry Davis's to write that stuff for sure, and maybe they are the only True Programmers out there. But there's an awful lot of automation engineering that needs to get done too, and some of that really is just putHotDogIn(basket) (unless Debbie from accounting emails you to say no) and wget http://wordpress.com/dist.zip

Let me say it another way: there are and will always be gnarled programmers who think in koans and concoct the words we code in, but spread across that will be a thick layer of humans embedded in human systems mapping the minutia of the day in code. I daresay we'll all be doing it.

I suppose I agree that work is all design. But the code isn't the part that's being designed. The code is just the log format.
There is no more possibility of an accident with a stop sign than with an always-red light because the rules for both are exactly the same: stop, and proceed only when there is no conflicting traffic.
Seconded. I replay Journey all the time. It's great for that 'i just need to unwind' moments. I took a punt originally and bought a second hand PS3 just to play Journey, and I'm SO glad I did.

I've now got a second hand PS4, and the first thing I did was re-download Journey (for free! Thanks Sony!)

One day I will get to be a White traveller...
LOL, speaking of b-tree based database discussion

See the intersystems cache talk page on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:InterSystems_Cach%C3%A9
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Glyphosate/Roundup is basically the amino acid glycine with a phosphorous structure tacked on [0]. Glycine is the simplest possible amino acid.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Chemistry

One theory is that glyphosate causes harm because it gets weaved into protein chains instead of glycine. Proteins made with roundup don't work the same as proteins with glycine. Experiments to figure out if this is what's happening would be relatively simple and cheap.

Now that lots of weed are resistant, farmers will have to figure out how to farm without this shortcut. Roundup is obsolete, so nothing of value will be lost.
"I really hope an activist or tech leader will step up and organize this fight."

Sums up America 2017. Outsource everything, even your fights.
How about you give me a number or at least some percentage, not just "tons".
Defusing a bomb of course~

But yea that analogy fits coderpad well, along with all the other collaborative code editor + webcam websites.
The title reminds me of No Country For Old Men.

https://youtu.be/OLCL6OYbSTw
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If it was any more than a year ago, there were parts of the company that had barely started and web migration due to dependencies. Epic is still slow playing this to make sure they don't have some of the issues they had with the early 2015 releases
That's quite unusual for an intersection that visually can be traversed also straight ahead to be right-turn only from one direction. There are such signs (209-20), or arrows on the lane, but I'd imagine people to heed a stop light more than such signage (purely from experience, many drivers ignore such signs, and even those that don't often don't adhere to the rules by not using turn signals).

Edit: Now that I've looked at the traffic light on Google StreetView, that right-turn only sign is also there. But of course, traffic lights take precedence when they exist. The intersection is also marked in a way to really discourage going straight (or left), but I'd still guess with only signs there'd be a few people who actually tried doing that.
And I have a 100% success rate. A single case don't means nothing.
First, sorry it took so long to respond. The way HN works (if you don't know) is that messages from new accounts sometimes are automatically killed and therefore nobody can respond (or even let you know there's a problem). I actually asked support to unkill this one, and they were all for it.

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That must be very hard to carry around with you, 24/7/365. Obviously you don't want to be a liar, but behavior is not so easy as people seem to imagine. They think, 'if you don't want to do it, just choose not to do it'; but they aren't looking at reality, or even in the mirror. If you look around, human beings don't work like that - or we'd all be happily married, well-adjusted millionaires, in happy workplaces, with no drugs, no hate, no crime, no politics, etc. You are not alone in carrying this human burden.

Get some professional help; you are hardly the only person with this problem and many problems like it. A good therapist has heard it all before (and much worse) and can help you; get some recommendations if you can, and try a few to find one you feel personally comfortable with (from what I understand, rapport with the therapist is the most important factor) and otherwise meets your needs. You wouldn't trust your business to an amateur, and this is far more important - find a professional and hire the best person for the job.

Maybe you've reached the point with your problems that I think most people encounter as they mature (if they are honest with themselves). I once heard a songwriter put it his way (paraphrased): 'When I wrote songs at 20 years old, I was the hero in all the stories; I was learning and growing so rapidly that I never considered that I wouldn't outgrow all my problems. But now I'm older and some of these problems haven't gone away; the easy ones are all solved but some others have been very hard to move past. And I find that, in real life, sometimes I'm the villain.' I know I reached that point, too.

I wrote the following in response to someone else and at least a few people found it encouraging; maybe it will be encouraging to you too, but I'm not a professional. Find one! Take care of yourself!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13870928
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The kids are learning javascript, as it runs everywhere. Plus there's a clojurescript, so you should be safe. Furthermore, I wouldn't be scared on Java dying.
In most Europe (non-South) countries pretty much everyone obeys traffic lights, even if there's no traffic. That's because you could lose your driving license in addition to hefty fine for such violation and because some (most) of the intersections are watched by CCTVs now.
> [Preact is] still just 600–800 lines of code if you remove the comments.

I'd never heard of Preact. I still don't know what it is or does. Maybe it's truly groundbreaking. But how can 800 SLOC be a product? That's barely more than an afternoon's hacking session, not something to release and form a community around.
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