skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason comes down to differences in values.

Values are the measuring sticks by which people quantify success in life. Whether or not we realize it, we constantly measure our actions against our values, and how we 'measure up' determines our self-worth.

If I had to guess, kindness and compassion are core to your values. As a result, when you see a greedy person, you feel disgust because you would feel worthless if you were in their shoes acting in such an unkind/selfish manner.

For better or worse, not everyone holds the same values. For example, some people value 'winning'. Individuals who value 'winning' want to be the best no matter what. There are many ways to measure the value of 'winning', but money/material possessions is one scoreboard/metric. If they accumulate more of it, they feel more self-worth.

Why do people hold less 'wholesome' value sets?
Are certain values less worthy of others? Should we pass judgement on people who hold conflicting values?

These are interesting questions. On the topic of 'why', I'd expect environment plays a major factor. If you're brought up in an isolated bubble of wealthy individuals, it's quite easy to imagine how one would grow a value attachment to the associated luxuries.

Personally, I don't think there's inherent value in anything. As a result, no one value is 'truly' better than another. However, some values drive actions that harm other people, and those are worth passing judgement from a utilitarian standpoint.
You could formulate a version that used kolmogorov complexity, that's perfectly valid.

It would be a narrower, less generally applicable, version... but a completely valid formulation.
> As far as the government's concerned I'm a programmer.

I don't think so. It's been a bit since I read up on Visa stuff (and I imagine it doesn't matter to you as an American citizen) but there are distinctions between programmer / software developer / etc.
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In S.Korea, you never see a cop on the highway. They just have speed cameras on accident prone zones and put up camera warning signs miles ahead so people actually slow down. It seems pretty effective.
Sorry to be daft, but I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Yes, one can choose to interpret the statements of politicians either charitably or uncharitably. Yes, some people are interested only in tribalism.

How is this related to demanding Conway's statement be interpreted as a credo of relativism instead of a) an unfortunate turn of phrase with accidentally-negative connotations; or b) a gaffe intentionally planted with the expectation that the media would seize upon it and spend 3 days nitpicking a technicality, unaware that they're only broadcasting the intended message to the open-minded listeners in the public, who will disregard the media's hostile spin?

Liberal use of (b) is exactly how and why Trump won. He beat the media at their game by allowing them to think that foaming at the mouth over technicalities of his ambiguous wording was doing him damage, when it was actually helping.
land of the free market my ass
But the point of the article is that changing speed limits doesn't change the speed of cars. If we want to slow cars down, we need to use traffic calming mechanisms that work. Speed limits don't.
Can you cash that out into a specific set of policies and their moral justifications in terms of how they provide equal opportunities to everyone?
>It's just following a list made for it, albeit a fairly substantial list.

You're operating on a completely archaic understanding of AI. Modern systems can and do adapt to situations on-the-fly. What's more, they can adapt on aggregate - the experiences gathered by a single car can be shared to all cars. Very quickly, every car in the fleet will have billions of hours of cumulative driving experience.

The overwhelming majority of motor vehicle accidents aren't weird and unpredictable edge cases. They're tragic but mundane events that result from a handful of root causes - inattention, excess speed, poor judgement and unnecessary risk-taking. "Driver/rider failed to look properly" is the key contributory factor in nearly half of road traffic accidents. Computers utterly dominate humans in this respect. For every accident caused by some bizarre and unpredictable set of circumstances, there are thousands caused by someone doing something obviously stupid.

A computer can be programmed to be ultra-cautious in difficult situations. A computer can maintain 100% vigilance 100% of the time. Humans can't. Self-driving cars will undoubtedly fail in new and unexpected ways, but it's abundantly clear that they'll fail much less often than humans.
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Even if you do have social anxiety practice helps alot. I'd recommend volunteering somewhere that you have to interact with a few new people regularly. It is less overwhelming than most social situations since volunteering is usually task-oriented (if you feel overwhelmed, just focus on the work), and it lets you practice making small talk with other people.
That is not the case. The article says Every year, traffic engineers review the speed limit on thousands of stretches of road and highway.
I had the same thought as I read the article. In the author's defense there was a single sentence towards the end of the article that mentioned effective ways of lowering driving speeds. More discussion of those methods would've been a nice addition.
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It's illegal here in Massachusetts.
Self-driving cars can make it easier to do this systemically, and not even purposefully. The jamming sensors I meant that another car passes by with a radar jammer on, for its intended purpose (jamming police radar sensors for speeding) and it hits the self-driving car too.

A lot of the current driving issues do suck, but they still will suck with self-driving cars, as any computerized system has its own vulnerabilities. It's just they might be systemic and affect a lot more people in ways they can't compensate for.
Sure, so those comparisons are actually more apt! You rarely if ever see them made however.

Georgia, Michigan, NC and NJ are the closest in size but that's about where it ends. Michigan probably has the closest demographic homogeneity. However the existence of the federal government as well as natural resources as a economic base throws a wrench into any further comparisons.
The misnamed Shoreline Amphitheater and the golf course are built on the old landfill site.

Events early in Shoreline's history had a problem with the lawn catching fire due to the uncontrolled seepage of methane from under the lawn (as a decay biproduct). Sort of the "everybody-hold-up-your-lighter-for-mood" effect, but uncontrolled.
Yeah they _just_ figured out that this kind of stuff exists on the Internet...
> This is why getting slow drivers to stick to the right lane is so important to roadway safety

Can you be prosecuted for driving at the speed limit in the fast lane? It seems like nobody would be legally allowed to use that lane if that were the case.
Completely agree. If you need an affordable house with good schools, recommending SF borders on nuts.

I'm mentioning this because people often describe SF as an expensive place with failing schools. That's not quite accurate. SF has a large number of good public schools, though it is uneven and you are at the mercy of the lottery. Your odds aren't horrible but they aren't 100% either.
In general:

5 over is safe everywhere in the USA except school zones.
10 is generally safe in suburban and rural areas.
14 over on highways, unless mitigating situations exist (bridge, visibility, twisties)

Beware, almost every area has some county or township that abuses their little patch of highway, and they tend to be well known to locals, but prey on passers by.

This is not bulletproof, but has been my experince.
I'm more comfortable using just two words.
Had that same bullshit last year, in a graduate level Econ class for running market simulations. The professor readily acknowledged this was insane, but the response was basically "this is the way it's been, we always have to buy from this vendor."
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Answering this is a goal of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage project.

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

One thing that's confused me about this project is how much they are relying on people's prior human experience to understand the explications -- maybe a question of how much they use extensional or intensional definitions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensional_and_intensional_de...
Hell, it's easy to imagine that machine learning could do it.

But like any man-made system, how do we guarantee that the system isn't trained on inputs that generate bias? For in a large economy, bias in allocation is a form of human suffering, large or small.
Definitely! Prolog is extremely well suited for solving such tasks.

For example, one of the most highly rated Prolog question on Stackoverflow is about a related task involving Tennis match scheduling:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4747498/tennis-match-sche...

The posted Prolog solution is quite concise and very efficient, thanks to the built-in constraint solvers that most Prolog systems provide nowadays.
If you don't think self-driving vehicles face an enormous uphill regulation battle, you are sorely, sorely mistaken! Politics haven't even entered the self-driving game yet. They will and every union associated with driving is going to freak the fuck out. It will be a bloody political mess.
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That mountain of evidence mostly says that the in vivo prenatal environment is kind of... awful, though. As in, mother and foetus competing for nutrients with better maternal genes resulting in better defenses against the placental "parasite", and thus worse developmental outcomes; and better foetal genes resulting in better parasitic strategies to penetrate the uterine wall, and thus worse perinatal health outcomes for the mother.

I'd honestly stake >$10k, at this point, on the hypothesis that "growing children from embroyos in vitro, hooked up to an unlimited nutrient drip" will result in children much healthier than "regular" children, along every axis we can think of. (Presuming, of course, that we first figure out every micro-nutrient such a drip would be required to provide.)
Interesting take that choice with music is the toughest hurdle. I run into this all the time on Google Music. I open the app and I want to listen to something. I can choose a list of things I've heard recently (nice because I like to listen to albums), but when I'm not feeling my recent additions or plays, I'd like to deep dive into my library and listen to stuff that I haven't heard in a while.

There is a heavy focus on "what's new" but in reality anything can be "what's new" if the user has never come across it.

Personal curation of content can be one of the most satisfying activities of my day yet, it's the most gimped with services.
> Quantum many worlds violates most if not all of those everyday language formulations.

This is a common objection to which supporters would say means you're not reviewing the data in enough depth. It's a fair argument tho.

Given Occam is supposed to only be a guideline and not some kind of universal law it wouldn't actually matter if QMW did violate it though (even though that's debatable anyhow).
So, you're ok with Turkey and Syria being included in Europe?
If it was because of the engineering license issue, most or all states have similar laws.
Sans self driving cars, Uber loses cash. You seem to think shedding employees is enough to fix that. Closing a $2 to $3bn/yr loss with just layoffs seems hard. Eliminating subsidies puts competitors on a level playing field. I can sell dollar bills for 90 cents and be incredibly popular too. I just don't have the panache to sell that plan to Saudis.
Eh, that sort of thing happens all the time. We have customers that are national banks of foreign countries that are running on unactivated or cracked Windows servers.

I would bet that case was a contractor who was using their own equipment. Similar things have bit us in the ass with freelancers that have ripped off stock images and presented them as their own.
No, the goal may determine someone's moral judgement of the actor, but the ethical implications of an action come from the outcomes (at a minimum, those that are reasonably foreseeable), not just the motivation.
I used to time my commute to the second and found that 'timing the lights' still got me there faster than the day I drove 20 over like an asshole. Changed my whole driving outlook.
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That, in turn, reminded me of Guy Steele's "Growing a Language" [1] speech on programming language extensibility at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
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I think size itself is a real problem, moving from Norway to the US politics are so different it is hard to understand.

I don't think a country the size of the US, China or Russia can really be a democracy governed by and for the people.
Being a huge fan of the genre of "interactive narratives", I have to disagree.
Games like Gone Home, Life is Strange, Mass Effect, Skyrim, Fallout, Deus Ex, and others have had a profound impact on me. The author doesn't seem to make a compelling point why they would be better as books or movies. I haven't really been able to derive a more coherent argument from the article than "they're worse because they're worse, so they should not be games". I think that is a bit harsh on the incredible achievements of the games that painstakingly build an interactive narrative on a medium that is both technically and artistically extremely challenging. Take Mass Effect for example, to me the whole franchise has been one of the most successful science-fiction stories ever. It rivals Star Trek, Star War, and The Expanse. Especially since Mass Effect came out during a period where Hollywood had pretty much given up on the genre as a whole.
Mass Effect constructs this beautifully detailed and coherent universe set in a future where mankind discovers advanced technology from an ancient race. This propels mankind into a new era of exploration, conflict and intrigue.
Te reason why Mass Effect "works for me", besides the "world building", is that you have the ability to construct a secondary narrative on top of the one presented by the game itself. You are allowed, and encouraged, to make decisions and reflect upon them. While it's all arguably superficial and closed-world, the moment you immerse yourself /in the character/ it offers something very few books and movies can: the ability to guide the story, and become a "person" in a complex world. Then again, I'm biased…but so is that author it seems.
The left lane is also, almost universally, a "I expect to speed" lane. When I need to use the left lane to pass and I'm driving the speed limit, I'm almost always tailgated.
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I've never used it, as I quit my job and went into grad school about the time I got it.

There are possible career benefits, though they're not huge. The company I left was just starting to require a software engineer on every team to sign off on each release. And, my father convinced me to do the paperwork for the P.Eng. with a story of a raise he missed out on due to not bothering with the P.Eng. despite holding an engineering degree.
I can't take this seriously without proper tests. In the Real World, none of this code would have been approved and deemed ready for production without proper test coverage, even for simple CRUD, imo.
>Unless you suffer from social anxiety

You do it the same way if you suffer from social anxiety. You are just forced to practice coping with anxiety at the same time.
As a counterpoint, my (surviving) grandparents have had exactly the same lifestyle since retirement (TV all day) and are in their 80's.

My grandmother is relatively fit, looks the same as she did 10 years ago. My grandfather is currently in hospital with his 3rd stroke, dementia, and diabetes.

Age just hits some people harder than others.
How about a haboob near phoenix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQMuwRjI6s
I think the debate on speed is about limited-access freeways, where no bikes or pedestrians should be, and where other vehicles won't be doing things like making u-turns, parallel parking etc. As someone who uses basically all the modes of travel that a complete street allows, I'm all for lowering the speed limits (especially through road design, not just a speed limit sign). But a highway is completely different, the only thing you have to worry about are other cars.
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There is active research toward turning corn husks into a promising, new clothing fiber:

https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2014/03/25/farm-waste-fashionista...
Yes, and Manhattan has hundred-story apartment buildings, yet living there still costs a fortune.
Open an issue and I'll change it.
I agree, let's fucking reduce pedestrian deaths! But you're ignoring the analysis given in the article-- drivers already don't acknowledge speed limits. From the article:

> Luckily, there is some logic to the speed people choose other than the need for speed. The speed drivers choose is not based on laws or street signs, but the weather, number of intersections, presence of pedestrians and curves, and all the other information that factors into the principle, as Lt. Megge puts it, that “no one I know who gets into their car wants to crash.”

Rather than speed limits, we need to look at other avenues to reduce pedestrian traffic deaths. Just shooting from the hip, I think that we could do more to communicate to drivers the presence of pedestrians, and to make sure that rural highways and boulevards have shoulders or sidewalks for pedestrians.

A more complete analysis of pedestrian deaths: http://www.popcenter.org/problems/pedestrian_injuries/

Here are some useful factoids:

- Finally, the more one drinks, the higher the risk of being involved in a pedestrian-vehicle crash resulting in a fatality. One study found that out of 176 pedestrian fatalities, 86 of those involved pedestrians who had been drinking, nearly all of whom had BACs of 0.10 percent or more.
- In addition, the same study noted that 71 percent of all fatal pedestrian-vehicle crashes in the United States in 2000 occurred in urban areas.
- Finally, the majority of pedestrian injuries and fatalities happen to males between the ages of 25 and 44.

This gives us a pretty targeted demographic! Start a "dangers of the road" campaign targeted at pedestrians who are men, aged 25-44, drink at night and who live in rural areas.
I'm not sure it's 'so far out' Waymo is running such a service in Phoenix: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/waymo-begins-first-public-...
And the question remains, what becomes of Flickr in a post Verizon world?[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/25/yahoo-mov...
I recommend following some of the things mentioned in the article (like taking care of physical and mental health), but not for your own sake, not for the sake of being a good employee. And if you can't handle it at some point -- you are not a bad person, neither have you failed at anything. Self-determination is what matters; and sometimes, you need any help you can get, and not the shame for what you can't do right now.
But they don't. He's perfectly at liberty to do so, but not to assert professional standing which he lacks in order to make it seem more convincing.

Did you read the Board's complaint? At first the asked the Board to investigate the city even though the Board had no jurisdiction to do so. they advised him of this and also cautioned him not to advertise himself as an engineer, in accordance with Oregon's code. He agreed, but then went on to write to various government and media entities promoting his idea and promoting himself as an engineer, before asserting again to the Board that he was an engineer - the very same Board to whom he had given his assurance that he would not hold himself out as such.

He could have put the exact same information and proposals out in public, saying 'I'm not an engineer, but I believe I have come up with a great solution to this traffic problem' and he would have been fine. It's simply not true for you to assert that they're trying to censor his ideas.
I read somewhere that the original goal of those oddball speed limits was to get drivers to notice them and therefore, hopefully, obey them. It's easy to tune out yet another 25 mph sign, but 23 mph stands out.
For context, it should be noted that this song was adopted following the participation of the 1st REP (1st Foreign Parachute Regiment) in the 1961 putsch against the French government. President Charles de Gaulle had embarked on a policy of self-determination for Algeria (which would culminate in independence). This was met by disbelief within army which had been fighting the Algerian rebels for the past seven years. As a result, there was widespread dissent, culminating in the failed 1961 putsch. Several of the generals were caught and court-martialed, while others went underground and joined the OAS terrorist group.
I've lost a flickr account because yahoo deletes emails that don't get used.
In most states (all?) "passing on the right" does not mean passing someone on the right in a regular traffic lane.

It refers to passing people while in an exit-only lane, turn-only lane, shoulder, etc.
Not true, there is now a software engineering professional engineering exam.
However, you can pass any of the PE exams and call yourself an engineer. I took the computer engineering exam, as the software exam didn't yet exist.
I agree completely that SAT solvers and constraint solvers are a great choice for this.

However, SAT solvers and constraint solvers blend in naturally and in fact even ship with many Prolog implementations! Thus, you can have the best of both worlds by simply using Prolog together with such solvers. Thus, using Prolog gives you both a Turing-complete programming language and a highly optimized constraint solver for combinatorial tasks, assuming you choose an implementation that is sophisticated enough. For example, in SICStus Prolog, check out CLP(B) and CLP(FD) for combinatorial tasks involving Boolean and integral variables.
Anyone know how to export docs for an account for which you're not the admin? I have some docs in various HP orgs that I'd like to export.
Good luck extracting that money from him, if I were him, I'd safely ignore the notice. They're going to have to prove what he does for work falls under the legal definition of engineering in that state.

Also, if his job title includes "engineer" the board is going to have a very difficult time justifying the case.

And.... this is a civil matter. His best option is to get a good lawyer and just ignore them.

Yet another reason for small government.
Oh that's unfortunate. That would be something the Medium engineering team would have to handle.
It's a maximum speed limit, not a minimum speed. Rush hour means jams in Germany too - that is the reason for the speed limit, so you don't drive into the back of a traffic jam going 80 miles an hour.