skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah that's my main thrust: we need to be taking urgent and concrete action if we're to avoid catastrophe (if it's not already too late). I think that's why some of the replys to the original comment came off a bit 'sharp': 'spirituality' is great and all, but it's such a nebulous concept that it suggests nothing that is really actionable (at least, on a non-individual level).

On cheap abundant energy, I come at it from the other side of things. You're probably right that those is 'first world' countries (like myself) could be more conservative and less wasteful in our energy usage. And we've already got more than enough 'stuff', and having a little less is unlikely to hurt us. My concern is more about developing countries, particularly large ones like India and China that are rapidly industrialising. It's not that people's lives in developing countries will be worse if they halt this process, it's more that they will be condemned to living significantly poorer, and shorter, lives because of a problem they're mostly not responsible for (and that other countries have gotten rich from).

The latter two in particular have rapidly growing energy consumption, and, to be fair, they are making some attempt to generate energy from viable non-co2 sources (for instance, both are strongly pursuing nuclear fission programmes). That said, the overwhelming majority of their current increases in generating capacity comes from constructing new coal-fired plants.

Asking people in these countries to lower their energy use seems extremely unfair: it's like asking the poor to eat a tax-hike to repair the budget. I suspect they'd find it quite intellectually insulting if we were to suggest that instead of continuing to make material improvements to the quality of their lives, they should instead pursue 'spirituality'.
Not questionable if it is a Mosque in 2017, which is the next logical place for this to head. Then we can also have Jewish police, born again police, Catholic police. And what if 2 churches are next to each other? Maybe they can build a wall with turrets.
It's worth noting that including purchases made for "dead ends" he ended up spending nearly $1.000
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Just wondering if anybody has heard back after the survey by OpenAI about the medical data?
Some other questions that may be more relevant:

* Which model is more likely to prevent someone with mental illness from harming himself or others because of incorrect diagnosis?
* Which model is more likely to lead to scientifically sound treatments for his malady?
* Which model is more likely to encourage people to generally think rationally about the real world around us?

Science isn't embraced because it's always right and every impact of its rational-based methodology doesn't have any losers anywhere. The shaman and the priest and the holistic healer all tend to be on the losing end of the argument when Science is given primacy. The tradeoffs of Science vs everything else have proven to be worth it over and over.
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At the end of the day, JS will always be the language of the web. You're still going to be doing DOM manipulation through JS. WASM is really going to benefit people who want to do more heavy duty edge cases such as image processing.
Is driving really cheaper? I mean I'm pretty sure the margins are pretty thin, if it's just you at least - they should balance out the more people you need to transport.

Mind you I'm from Europe, our gas prices are 4x as high and for trips to e.g. the UK or Scandinavia we have to cross a body of water. There's some toll roads too in e.g. France, and Germany wants to introduce those too.
There's not proof, but in his letter to United he asked only for a full refund. He did ask them to donate $25k to the charity of his choice, which seems an odd request if your goal is extortion.

He doesn't appear to need the money: http://www.tripacificllc.com/team.html

Edit: Also, he has a JD from Stanford. Lol...United picked the wrong guy.
Chrome will have headless save to PDF fairly soon: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=603559
You can trust that someone will make the decision and still think that they are doing it wrong. Voicing said disagreement doesn't mean that you deflect responsibility, it just means that you think that they could use the feedback.

Like this:

A: Hey B, could you look into problem P since you are the expert on this?

B: Sure, I think that we should do X.

A: Are you sure, I would go with Y.

B: I have considered Y and I think it is worse.

A: Then go ahead, you know this better than me.

Alternatively:

A: Hey B, could you look into problem P since you are the expert on this?

B: Sure, I think that we should do X.

A: Are you sure, I would go with Y.

B: I hadn't considered Y, thanks for bringing it up!

A: No problem, glad I could help.
Well, that's what they want you to think it means. The reality is that it means something quite different.

But either way -- just by calling it "unlimited vacation", they're f-ing with you from the very start.
I would assume anyone or entity could have a private police force. I would think so long as the officers are sworn in peace officers the only thing about it being a private police force is that they are paid and compensated by a "private" person (individual or corporation). These private police forces and officers are still bound to obey and follow the law and can be held liable for any unlawful infractions and offenses they commit.
Something similar happened to me in CLT with US Air (now part of American) back in 2013.
My family and I (3 of us) had 1st class tickets from a podunk east coast airport -> CLT -> SFO. They cancelled the 1st leg for their own reasons (not weather), and then rebooked us on another flight that got into CLT 40 mins later. We ran to the gate of our SFO flight, but they'd sold our first class tickets out from under us, and rebooked us on a flight 12 hours later.

We felt that, as full fare, 1st class passengers, delayed for 12 hours by non-weather reason, we should have access to their lounge. Nope. I'm happy to say I never flew with them again.
Been flying for 25 years, 1.5 million miles total, most of that on United. US airlines have been through hell over the last 16 years. Bankruptcies, union battles, fierce competition, and not to mention, the real threat that someone could blow up or intentionally crash the plane they're flying, all contributed to a mentality that the employees have to stick together to survive.

The end result is that US airline employees see their loyalty to each other as more important than customer service.

This mentality enables the micro-selling, endless class stratification, rigid authority and the generally unpleasant demeanor of staff. They're really not friendly in the US, and strikingly different from, say, Asia-based carriers.
Well, if you knew the rule before going in, then from my perspective you were the one wasting everybody's time. Sure, you can view it as a stupid rule but being stupid is not the way to combat a stupid rule.

As for TSA security theater and it's bloated budget, right on.
Huge help, thank you!
Organic makes a totally unscientific distinction between synthetic and naturally-occurring substances. It's also a huge, and hugely profitable industry that lobbies effectively to prevent research funding into the safety of the substances it allows, and essentially exploits food privilege and scientific illiteracy.

Organic-permitted pesticides tend to be massively over-applied, and can be unbelievably toxic to a degree that would never be allowed for modern synthetic pesticides. Rotenone for example is horrenously toxic to aquatic life, but permitted in organic agriculture with litte regard for the ecological outcomes. Simple copper and sulphur compounds that are broadly toxic are permitted as fungicides in organic agriculture, but can also persist for a long time in the environment and cause serious ecological damage.

I'd take roundup over anything organic any day.
That's not true, All car manufacturers were pulling tricks in order to save adBlue.

The BMW story is on a bmw blog...

Here you can see other emissions, in a Guardian article, where it's clearly to be seen that BMW does not comply to the EURO 6 norms.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/21/all-top-sel...
This happened to me once with Delta Airlines a few years back. I was ticketed for an upgrade to first class (via Medallion status), but when I went to board I was told that the stewardess had given the seat to another customer and I was moved to a middle seat in the back. As someone who tends to be non-confrontational and the fact that it was a short flight, I just went with it. I did complain when I got back via their feedback form and they compensated me with 7500 miles, which I now realize was woefully inadequate, but I didn't have much recourse.
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A small technical point here, but with HDMI CEC you can use your regular remote for pausing chromecasted stuff. I use the remote typically for pause / play / volume, and my phone to pick what to watch (also the phone app has a handy "go back 30s" button).

For me, these smart hubs won't be particularly useful until I can combine a bunch of functionality into one thing. I have the heating set to come on in the morning, but our morning schedule is irregular so I have to adjust it most evenings to come on a bit before we wake. Then I set the lights to come on, as I find it easier to get up when it's light, and set an alarm. What I want is just to say "wake me up at 5:30 tomorrow" and have all that just work.

The individual things (alarm, light and heating) are all individually beneficial though, despite the evenings faff. This is also only a minor problem too, these are not daily herculean tasks I barely make it through, but it's still a level of hassle I'd like to smooth over.
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I personally use Chrome at the moment as on larger projects PhantomJS as non forgiving with syntax errors and tests will simply fail.
Anytime someone mentions that, I'm reminded of the SFPD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qhzdxYnwhg
Perhaps you need a reminder:

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

In this case, no one is "coming for" anyone, but when one religion is asking for special rights, that makes me pause. When the ACLU is against it, that really makes me pause.

Think about Scientology having their own police force with guns. Does that scare you? If it becomes legal for these fine people in Alabama, it becomes legal for Scientology.
Asia hasn't discovered, or have the need for, the security theater jobs program.
Contrast that to my flight to Edinburgh on Air France last year; we arrived slightly late and were directed to the wrong line, getting us to miss the plane, arguably partly because we were late, and partly because the wrong instructions. We were offered access to the lounge for the many hours wainting for the next flight, without paying anything for food, drinks and internet, while having only paid for economy class.
>> At the end of the day, though, JavaScript is the language of the web.

> And when webassembly arrives that will be over,

I really don't think this is true. I certainly agree that JavaScript isn't the perfect language, but it's a _very_ popular language. Even on the server-side, where right now you already do have the freedom to use languages like Haskell, Python, etc, you see a majority of developers now opting for Node.js. Even for desktop apps and data scientists, it's the most popular contender (all according to the latest SO survey).

You can argue about reasons all you like, but I don't think the people using JavaScript on the web are doing so only because webassembly isn't easily available yet. I think they're doing so because, for better or worse, they genuinely want to be using JavaScript (or very closely related languages like TypeScript).
It looks to me as institutionalized corruption. Police officers have higher authority and they are not expected to take sides.
I don't know how (I'm not a lawyer), but it seems like our legal system already deals with the same kind of issue for other things? Suppose faulty wiring in an appliance leads to an apartment building burning down - at that point you could have the same kind of issues in terms of it being a sub-component from a foreign supplier, end-of-lifed, affecting different people and so on. But somehow we deal with it.
$100 per barrel is still cheap. It had minimal impact on usage, and with most of the world trying to ramp up to a western lifestyle demand is unlikely to drop in the next 20 years.

PS: Oil is 53$ per barrel right now, 2x price spikes in commodity prices are fairly common historically.
That's a desktop TOTP application. Now not only do they have to have their computer with them to log into their Google account from their phone, but they have to have 2 security keys on the account to remove their phone number from it, and all their backups are physically separated from them, so unless they bring their backup codes with them when they travel, if they lose their key, they're boned.

And all this for what real additional security?

If you want to nerd out and get your security key to do pet tricks like handling your TOTP secrets, I do not have a problem with that. But please don't tell ordinary users they're wrong when they don't do that.
It's worth including but that's like including R&D into the cost of any device. Like saying an brand new iPhone 7 doesn't really cost $649 but really costs $100......0000 due to the R&D it took to make it. I have confidence that while the first phone cost him $1000 the second would cost him $300.
Prisoners built 2 PCs from parts, hid them in ceiling and connected to state's net
United CEO Oscar Munoz was formerly a top executive at railroad CSX. It is any wonder that he treats his passengers as FREIGHT, not as PEOPLE?

My wife and I try to fly Southwest whenever possible. They are the only airline (perhaps the only transportation organization) whose employees actually care about their customers' travel experiences.
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IMO I feel like it is going to be a challenge to integrate the GC of another language with the GC of the JavaScript/DOM, and if so we'll be keeping JavaScript going for a while.
Basically someone that spends $50k+ per year on flights. Basically a status for a passenger that could fly private if they wanted.
Is that done with PPT/PDF conversion to images? Are there tools to help generate time codes for slide transitions?
I agree mobile app 2FA it is probably good enough for most people. This article however is about using a hardware token for login.

If you have a need for hardware tokens, use them end to end. Using a hardware token and having a less secure backup method means you are only as secure as that less secure backup method.
Hey, as long as they have an internet connection to HN, all is good!
I think the other part of this is that for these people (and probably most people) losing access to your gmail account is a catastrophic event.

That access can be lost because of an attack or by losing the keys. The former is actually much less likely than the latter so mitigating in favor of it instead doesn't make sense in this threat model.
I've been using ConEmu set up to auto launch Bash. Working pretty well apart from MS's ass-backwards resolv.conf population which overrides every Ubuntu mechanism for creating the file... so I have to run a script to get my VPN's DNS to work :)
Yes, she was immoral for acting against the legitimate authorities, but those authorities were also immoral for mistreating local blacks.
I've not seen contactless card payments in China. I imagine both businesses and consumers would be worried about fraud. Quick payments with a mobile wallet (where the retailer scans a dynamic QR code on your phone) feel safer, as you need to explicitly go to that screen, and you get immediate notification on any transaction on your account.
There is no substitute for discipline.
The unskilled always blame their tools.
That is all.
The problematic patch only seems to be introduced in mainline 4.2, not 3.19, compare:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/core/datagram.c?v=3...

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/core/datagram.c?v=4...

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/core/datagram.c?v=4...

I am just trying to completely understand the bug, I wonder if it really was unexploitable before the patch. Got any source for that?

EDIT: sorry, misunderstood your message / mixed up commits, I was looking into when 89c22d8c3b27 hit mainline, which causes the vulnerable code path.
Overboooking probably accounts for most of these incidents, but in this particular case they had to switch to a slightly smaller plane due to mechanical issues. So eliminating overbooking won't fix this problem completely.

However, having a policy of not forcing passengers to relinquish seats they've already sat down in would...
It's United's secret top tier frequent flyer program. They get their ass kissed for literally everything, even above full-fare revenue passengers. There's no published requirements for it or information about it - here's the closest thing: https://thepointsguy.com/2016/04/top-perks-united-global-ser...

Fun anecdote: a few months ago I booked a Star Alliance ticket and had a United segment ORD-EWR. I was the only (!) non-upgraded revenue first class passenger on the flight according to the gate agent, but boarded the plane 33rd, thanks to "Global Services" passengers (including the ones in coach) getting to board before me. They also got to order food first, so I was left with the leftover food item, and also got their drink orders and other attention lavished on them first, despite the fact that all the other Global Services passengers in F were flying on free upgrades to F instead of paying for it.

Note that "they got to order first" meant that they literally just skipped over me when taking food/drink orders and when I asked what they were doing the FA brusquely said "We'll get to you in a moment SIR!"
By science, do you mean objectively observable/testable inquiry and analysis? Because that's not what psychiatry is.
Medical pathology is an objective science, but psychiatry is subjective conjecture, generously classified as a "soft science".

>The tradeoffs of Science vs everything else have proven to be worth it over and over.

I hate to invoke Godwin's law here but it is worth noting the key role "science" and psychiatry played in propagating the Holocaust[1]. If we're going to play the science card, we should make sure it's objective.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23511221

Edit: curious you spell Science with a capital "S"
> This is what happens when people watch too much sensationalized news.

I understand but there have been mass murders at both schools and churches in the last couple years. And churches routinely have lower-level keeping-the-peace issues, especially involving people with psychiatric issues.

Security isn't optional because churches need to keep their members and guests safe. Having uniformed police officers enforcing normal laws involving assault, stalking, disturbing the peace, etc. isn't a horrible idea compared to having less regulated private security making citizen's arrests. That's why many (not all) churches hire off-duty uniformed officers, at least for traffic management needs.

As for the tax rate, churches do pay the officers already, so if it's not enough to offset the costs of the officer, the rates should be raised. Seems like a fee based payment structure makes the most sense when particular services are needed.
Right, you can't use the lounge just because your flight was cancelled.

Sorry, but you're the one with the out of line thinking here.
That simply isn't true, because the hardware token defends against phishing attacks --- in fact, that is the entire reason why U2F tokens exist in the first place. It's literally the motivating use case for the standard: experts with code generators were still getting phished.

So, when you have the token handy, you use it, and you're not exposed to phishing. When you don't, you use the mobile app, and you're exposed to phishing (but not to weak passwords and breaches in sites). It's not complicated, unless you think the token does more than it really does for your overall security.
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Maybe they should "get good" at learning how to format their website for mobile. Fail!
I thought about Hitler not pushing hard enough for Moscow after I had submitted my comment, and then I remembered that taking Moscow had been in vain for Napoleon (basically the guy who invented modern warfare), so not sure if that would have helped the Germans that much.

I'm a big fan of Clausewitz and of strategy discussions in general, but I think that we tend to focus too much on providential men who, naturally, can only take providential decisions (like Bezos, or Napoleon), and we tend to ignore the "longue durée", as the French historians called it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longue_dur%C3%A9e), the long course of history which should have informed Hitler that his country did not have the necessary resources (logistical, military etc) to defeat both the Soviets and the English (and the Americans after the Pearl Harbour attack).

It may sound deterministic, but IMHO most of the battles (either in war, finance, in politics) have been won before the two sides started engaging in conflict. Some of those involved just didn't know it yet.
It's a revolutionary device. I was blown away during a demo. When the public sees it they are going to go apeshit.
Yup, lithium batteries at phone/laptop scale should be stupidly cheap.

For an example, go to hobbyking and look up what a 2100mAh 11.1v pack costs. It will be ~$8, and this is something capable of being subjected to 30+amps at 11 volts, not the nice gentle usage we give our phone batteries.
I think this is helpful advice for people who are new to software development. My experience has been that there are essentially an infinite number of things to learn and improve upon, so you will never really do anything perfectly. There is always something to criticize, but it may not be worth the time or money to fix it. To give some examples I've come across:

Critic: Component X could be Y times faster if you did it this way.

What you should ask yourself: Is performance of X actually a problem that your user base cares about or has complained about? If you improved performance of X, would it help your team in the long run?

Critic: Your code for X is hard to read.

What you need to ask yourself: Is this a core component that is going to stick around forever or is it some temporary thing you slapped together that is going to be replaced in the near future? If it is going to stick around, you should definitely refactor to make it readable. Otherwise, not worth the time unless you literally have no other priorities.

Critic: I noticed this new UI component you wrote has a bug.

What you should ask yourself: Is it critical to your company/team's image to have your UI working perfectly or do your users mostly care about other functionality which is higher priority? Does the bug stop anyone from using your software properly or being able to do something they want to do?
> I am in full agreement with Douglas Crockford and others that adding pseudo-classes to JS was a big mistake.

Why?

It's certainly not a requirement of TS, any more than it is in JS, and I've seen people writing large TS codebases without classes. Typically with a much more functional approach though. I don't see people writing many prototypical objects with TS. Is there a good reason they should be?
What if the VIP is a big fellow that threatened to start strangling people if he didn't get a seat?