skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they're talking about "Trait entitlement: A cognitive-personality source of vulnerability to psychological distress," based on one of the linked blog posts mentioning Grubbs and Exline 2016. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a free copy. Nor does this seem to talk about generational demographics, so I guess that stuff was glommed on from somewhere else.
You, the product
Thanks for pointing this out.

Whoa, now I'm very concerned about snails.
To the point we had state judges taking bribes from these for profit institutions, handing over our children for nothing [0]. Sick people, perverse incentives, and a systemic problem.

[0] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44105072/ns/us_news-crime_and_cour...
One factor in Tesla's favor then is their stated objective of handling the solar roof installation in house. Unless they resort to the same shady practices that Verizon uses for tower installation, direct control (and responsibility for) their installers should lend itself to mandating best practices on the safety angle.
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Solar, wind, hydro do not affect the entire planet. Even burning fossil fuels might be ok, if combined with CO2 sequestration.

But this is irrelevant. I'm just saying that you do a comparison, you need to take into consideration risks, too. Otherwise buying any kind of insurance looks pretty irrational.
> This is not to say that they cannot fail in some novel ways.

So, then, they do not "completely eliminate" the possibility of failure. Your last sentence seems to contradict the "No." at the beginning of your reply.
>You make it sound like those hacker movies where the bad guys have free access to networks and no security protocol around this. Voting machines in the us isn't easy compared to that at all. Irans security protocols are easy.

I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about.

>As long as there is a paper trail you can't just hack the US election

What paper trails? There is no paper backup for many of state's election machines, that's the problem.
Yes, it's much better to burn up the fuel and spread it into the atmosphere where it will cause a massive climate change. Note:I'm comparing nuclear to fossil fuels which was the only tradeoff until some time ago.
For reference, I feel the reddit post is significantly better:

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/6qptzw/with_...
A user who is banned asked in this thread why you can't have an unlimited-length game where kings just move back and forth. The answer is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-move_rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_repetition
Which means that 70% is possible without AmEx?

I'd also wonder about how the numbers are computed - you can get incomplete records on a high percentage of consumers without the AmEx data as (people with AmEx) and (people with other card(s)) aren't disjoint sets.
The Japanese people do largely want nothing to do with nuclear energy. Opposition to it still triggers some of their largest scale protests in a country that does everything to shy away from this kind of unrest.

But the political reality is that Japan is a client state of the US empire and the base of its operations in SE Asia. It's not functionally a democracy. The people who made money off of it were the alliance of conservative politicians and organized crime, backed by the CIA, who brought it to the country in the first place.

http://www.japansubculture.com/how-the-cia-helped-put-the-ya...
The idea is to take a stand now. If you further marginalise those that already have almost nothing, where do you think that leads to? Are you ready to step over corpses on your way to work?

Societies are a bit like networks, they're only as strong as their weakest link.
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Been talking about this for years. Yes nuclear has some scary dangerous factors. But in the real world example of things going horribly wrong the long term damage just isn't as bad as what people talk about.

Unless of course all that wildlife is getting crazy amounts of cancer that I don't know about and I am wrong.
I like how this comment has 3 replies saying different things.

I am now feeling less informed than I was after the first reply.
Related video with some insights into this behavior => Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrT8lJNa9Z8

Causes mentioned are 1) Parenting, 2) technology, 3) impatience and 4) environment.

#1 most definitely checks out in the US. I have a 17 year old niece (born in 2000) who exhibits the toxic narcissistic and entitlement mentioned about young people in the OP and in the youtube video.

His room is filled with trophies and medals (over 30) and at first glance I thought he was really a future tennis prodigy. Turns out not a single 1 of those trophies and medals were 1st prize, or even 2nd prize. Almost all were "Participation" Trophies. The way he showed them off, one would think they were all 1st prizes.

Growing up in India, we never had anything like this. I was 1st in class for several years at 1 of the top catholic convent schools. The 1st and 2nd in class got books and a certificate as prizes, the rest got nothing. This made it special, so everyone would compete and try to come 1st or 2nd in class.

So I really don't get these "Participation" trophies. By trying to tell the kids - every kid pretty much - they are special, when 99% of them aren't, aren't the parents and school teachers partly to blame for cultivating this "toxic narcissistic" and "entitlement" that they then carry with them for the rest of their lives, into adulthood and into the workplace?
Well the are already phasing out custom subreddit CSS so I don't think it will be part of the new design.

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/66q4is/the_web_red...
Owning the Amiga back in the 80's taught me my first lesson that it's not always the technologically superior product that wins in the marketplace.

Much more important than technological features are things like marketing, conformity, and groupthink.

The lesson was reinforced when so many developers and companies started jumping all over the earliest versions of Java, which was complete and utter garbage, and was untested, slow, and immature back then. Yet people were drooling over it.

Today's smartphones are yet another instance of this: they're slow, bloated, and spyware-infested, yet people love them.

Similar things have happened again and again, making me sometimes suspect that if the worse a technology is, the more successful it is likely to be. Worse is better indeed.
> People aren't super comfortable with the idea of AI in medicine yet, and physicians have a history of being extremely protectionist when it comes to their jobs.

How much of this is due to the fact that the "AI" we have right now is only competent to speed up tasks for a human? Apple and Google have invested enormous amounts of money in GPS navigation, yet it still can't deal with the sort of random road closures/change in traffic patterns that are common here in D.C. For about two years, Uber's GPS directed drivers to the side of my office building that not only has no entrance, but is on the through-way. Drivers would blindly blow by me and sometimes ended up in Virginia.

To use a different example, circuit layout is something that seems optimally suited to AI. Yet its still a competitive edge in the industry to be able to manually lay out critical parts of your CPU. (Apple does it with the Ax).

To be perfectly honest, I don't see much in the way of people complaining about computers replacing their jobs. The media, for example, is totally unskeptical about the prospect. They focus entirely on how to find new jobs for people. What I do see a lot is people playing up quite primitive technology as if it'll replace humans any day now.
hmmm optimising it for the largest subset of people in which that is feasible and eliminating the rest sounds like the way to go :)

Or perhaps "alter" all people in a way that makes it feasible? Solutions could be numerous for a hypothetical intelligence whose limits we cannot even imagine, much less specify.
It's nothing like that. The downsides of riding an angry bear relative to a bicycle also apply relative to just walking, to the point that it's always better to just walk than to ride an angry bear for transportation. The downsides of Flow.js or TypeScript relative to Elm don't at all apply relative to vanilla JS, it's often better to use them rather than vanilla JS.
I"m not saying this is the main factor for not choosing nuclear but this should be considered: the one difference with Nuclear is that when a system fails, you can't use that area of land for a few thousand years.
A French engineer, Jean-Marc Jancovici, has been claiming this for a decade, with many talks and documents. I'm only 80% fan of his reflection because he doesn't account much for human change and new technological reconfiguration.
Many of the gifs they show are not owned by the uploader. They acquire the rights in a limited fashion to a small portion of the gifs they show.

They'll of course make the "user generated content" argument, but clipping a video is not user generated content.
"Good luck ever convincing doctors (or the general public, legislators, etc.) to let themselves be replaced by machines."

This presumes doctors are in control, which they are not. I suspect the insurance industry will adopt and impose these technologies as an independent analysis channel in the same way they impose current bureaucratic process.

I do agree this will be a slow process.
Didn't we learn from Zynga that a business can never be truly successful when it completely depends on the participation of partners to have any successes. Facebook could decide tomorrow that they no longer want to give Giphy the power that they do, and completely destroy them no?
There is an entire industry of data aggregators and consumer profilers that has existed for decades, long before the internet landed on the scene. These players have been funneling data and providing search services to the three letter orgs in exchange for freedom from any legal encumbrance. There is no way to stop this from happening. They are the main reason why the US has such weak data protection laws in the first place.
I manage a multi-TB system on PostgreSQL. There are no performance issues other than making sure you have good indexes and make sure the queries use those indexes.

Backup isn't that bad either as this run on ZFS that support blazing fast atomic snapshots of all related filesystems like pg_xlog and tablespaces.
Back in 2000, I helped Mauricio Roman develop Tivejo, which was a re-branded version of the Paltalk chat client for the Brazilian market combined with a user registration system that I built.

We got upwards of 350,000 users at one point; although the site is not running anymore, I believe Mauricio did make a successful exit.

At the time I talked with VCs and other industry people in Sao Paulo and many of them commented that localization was a big issue: for instance, many preferred Microsoft over then-current Linux distributions because Microsoft had Portuguese docs and Linux did not.
Nuclear being safer than other major sources just means we shouldn't demonize it and stop everything right now out of panic. it means it's just an important asset while waiting for renewables to take off.
I wouldn't expect bitcoin to be used as a currency for transactions. Bitcoin is deflationary, and is the "best" currency (other currencies lose value due to inflation). You don't pay for things with your "best" currency--you hoard it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
what bothers me the most is: people downvoting an opinion that differs from their own. In a contrived example, if someone says jobs was nothing without wozniak, I dont think a person should be downvoted for voicing their opinion.
Taking over the world is basically a hardware problem. Understanding that we don't want plain happiness is a software problem.

In a sense, nuclear weapons could "take over the world" today. There isn't that much intelligence required.
new change are coming to php, php is now faster than node.js

https://www.w3c-lab.com/php-7-1-swoole-v1-9-5-vs-node-js-ben...
Voat is just the latest in a never-ending cycle.

"We want free speech! Everyone move to our alternative venue where we promote free speech! [...] Wow, there's some truly hateful content on here, how did that happen?"
LiFX let you set the color right? So by definition they're going to be RGB (have three colored LEDs inside). Generally, LEDs that are single color are more likely to be phosphor (blue LED inside with a phosphor that converts to yellow).
Is there anything in all of biology that IS attuned to subtle and long-term issues? I think I would argue that we are the closest to that.
Bullshit. Any energy source where we do not have the technology to clean up the worst case scenario is not the "safest".
"Civilian nuclear plants where designed, built, and operated to reduce the costs of nuclear weapons."

Nope. They were, in fact, designed in a manner that made it very difficult/inefficient to use them to produce weapons-grade plutonium. Reactors designed to produce weapons-grade material operate in a completely different regime. In particular, you need to refuel them on a short continuous cycle, lest the desired plutonium be burned up in the normal operation of the reactor. Power reactors, by contrast, were designed to burn up much more of the fuel, and be refueled all at once.
OptiTrack Introduces Whole-Body Tracking for Location-Based VR
What would prevent you to create a NN with a specific configuration whose goal is to come up with goals based on past knowledge to optimize on a certain parameter or thousands of parameters? You can train it on social media profiles, analyze hundreds of years of books, there's tons of data that cover how people act an various situations. I don't see how a set of goals is not simply another vector space.

> but parsing the real world and deriving intentions from your understanding of it is a light year away. 300 years is a guess; no one has a clue any more than anyone has an idea about an interstellar drive.

They need to filter the real world as we do. Focus, attention, sleeping, dreaming, chasing rewards, staying alive... we do this without effort, but we've had 150k years (counting from first homo sapiens) to train our brains to filter out noise efficiently and act on meaningful signals.
Plastic Micro-Particle Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific
[Audio] Lessons from 100 straight dev job interviews
They don't do any testing before push to prod?
Google SOS Alerts- Updated Feature for Search and Maps
I will never understand this romanticising of free speech on private platforms. Why would a service that cares about its members _ever_ implement free speech policies? That's just asking for assholes. If anything, popular services should have _more_ filtering and removal of asshole users.
I too think that a major re-design will be a mistake. But on the other hand, it doesn't have to be. Everyone assumes it'll be awful because previous efforts have failed, but who knows?
HomePod Firmware Reveals iPhone 8 Design and Facial Recognition
Because another game is being played in parallel to the direct one you're thinking about. In the parallel game, if you let people who expect good salaries go, you do go through more immediate replacement costs, but are likely to eventually come across people who aren't so demanding of their salaries and get an accumulation of those, then the employer can win out in the longer term.

I don't know if this strategy even has to pay off in actuality, in the long term, but that actual performance of the strategy isn't as important as maintaining that model of control of labor costs.
> Of course, this is only comparing to fossil sources, not solar, wind, or other renewables (except biomass).

You can include them, nuclear still comes out ahead.

Solar, wind, etc, are not very power-dense. So you need a LOT of installations, building all of them inevitably has fatalities and injuries. (Falls for example.)

From here: http://energyrealityproject.com/lets-run-the-numbers-nuclear... (and you can google tons more sources):

Deathprint:

Wind ……………… 0.15 deaths / TWh
CSP ………………… 0.44 deaths / TWh
Nuclear ……… 0.04 deaths / TWh

Or here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
/s means sarcasm

However I will say there are newer solar panels that I've read about being tested which can theoretically produce power by moon light. Granted it won't be anywhere near the amount during the day but generating energy via solar at night time isn't entirely impossible it just won't be generating the same amount by orders of magnitude.
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I'm playing with the idea of starting a project in Elm for a while now. I already built my own crippled version of Elm using TypeScript, React, ImmutableJS, Recompose and Ramda... The only thing holding me back is the ecosystem around JS, say ReactNative, d3, etc.
Brianna Wu Wants to Change the Democrats’ Playbook
Given that we will all get cancer if we live long enough (unless some significant new technology emerges), possibly it's more useful to learn to think philosophically of the state of healthy as being a sort of Schroedinger's box in which we do not really know the internal state of the system without inspecting it, since cell mutations are happening all the time (albeit usually being resolved harmlessly) -- that you're not in some Garden-of-Eden pure, noncancerous state ever.
If your US datacenter melts down under a nuclear war, I can guarantee that none of your devs will give a damn about contributing to the code base.

You might want to modify your scenarios.
No, not 32, 64, 128 bit floats/doubles (though I'm glad it has those as well). I meant plain ints. Do I have to do binary math or can I make use of large numbers natively?
One thing that I wondered about when looking at the longest recorded professional games that occurred in real play was at what point they reached a position that is actually solved in a tablebase. In particular, chess endgames involving only 7 pieces were explicitly solved by computer search in 2012. (But I also wonder if bringing those solutions to bear in a real game would involve ignoring the 50-move rule, since tablebase solution for these positions may often require more than 50 moves to complete.)

On tablebase-informed endgame theory, some of the professionals in these ultra-long games should probably have resigned long before the actual end of the games, except that they can also assume that their opponents don't know the full solutions.
I can't think of a single popular site redesign that actually made the site better. They're almost inevitably worse, usually much worse.

A common failing is trying to make the design more shiny and pretty while decreasing functionality, dumbing the site down, adding bloat, and slowing the site down to a crawl.

I really hope Reddit does not go down this road, because they really have a good thing going now. It would be a real shame to ruin it.
No, you are projecting your irrational beliefs on the article.

It clearly states the parameters of discussion and titled the report according to the conclusion. They found that nuclear is safest major energy source They never blankly stated that "Nuclear is safest compared to everything else" and to claim that, especially without even reading the entire thing is ludicrous.
Back in my day I got nonsense stories about kids these days from local TV news fluff pieces not this internet clickbait nonsense!
"HN is designed similarly to Reddit and if HN ever tried to do a major re-design, I think I would visit it less."

Wait, are you saying there is people reading HN without custom CSS?
Think lean startup go out and start talking to target business owners. If their biggest problem is something you can fix you might have a business.
(only partially serious here) I'm not sure recovery from a nuclear event that wipes out US data centers is economically feasible. If an event were to effectively wipe out 20% of the worlds economy I think having my github issues online is the least of my worries.
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I've been writing about, thinking about, and exploring lithospheric energy extraction for the better part of 20 years.

I studied operations research during college in the hopes of working on India's nuclear supply chain.

The west choked us out of Uranium and Plutonium, similar to how the British choked us out of Rice during the Bengal Famine of 1943.

http://engineersf.com/people-against-nuclear-energy/

http://engineersf.com/nasa-needs-plutonium%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8...

http://engineersf.com/2500-10000-indians-die-every-day-from-...

http://engineersf.com/why-is-india-so-behind-the-question-i-...

http://engineersf.com/4000-kilometers-through-my-own-country...

More than anything, the brown/black people of the world need the west to give in to our demands for the approval of our uranium desires to help us get to progress driven escape velocity Nitrogen + Steel economies.
Schistosomiasis is largely a disease of poverty. When drugs and treated water are available, it is easily controlled.
Because most things are easier when you can have one canonical source of truth.
> The current number of 230 employees is already about ten times too many. What the hell do they need the additional staff for?

how so?

> Doesn't need to be because it could be run by ten people living off of donations.

really? really?? how so?
I am of the opinion that trying to turn a profit on something like Reddit is a catch 22.

The concept of Reddit, which is user generated content curated by users, doesn't have a lot of need for a middleman, more of just a few moderators and admins to keep everything running smoothly. The power of the website is solely in its users and their content generation.

Unfortunately these slow changes have been eroding what was Reddit's strengths of free speech and open dialogue by turning the site into "advertisement friendly". That means killing all subreddits that could sour potential buyers and altering vote-counts to favor specific messages.

Combine this with the fact that they are supplanting viral marketing disguised as user posts (One from today even! https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6ql2tu/made_my_deli...), allowing blatant vote manipulations (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2016/12/14/how-we-b...) or allowing entire takeovers (/r/politics during election cycle - hello CTR!) and you have a bloated replica of something that used to be an amazing social powered website.
This was definitely fun to try.
Yeah, that's really sad. If Apple wants to get back into this, they'd be welcomed with open arms.

If Grapher ever gets abandoned, I really hope they open source it. An update for the icons to be retina-ready, and moving the backend to Metal, and maybe easier integration into Keynote/Pages, would be all it needs to make a kiss-ass product. It'd be so far beyond anything anywhere else. Can you imagine how nice it would be for students to easily be able to embed/edit mathematical graphs into their documents?

It's crazy, there's a whole generation of people who grew up with graphing calculators, and yet it's such an ordeal to do something similar in Pages or Numbers right now.
I cannot imagine a meaningful discussion starting with the word "entitled". To me it's "I really dislike the fact that you want something, so I have this bad label that I'll apply to you".
Related; Stallman said he wouldn't Netflix and chill, but he would agree to watch some local video files.

https://twitter.com/gexcolo/status/637383659318734849