skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No I get that. But when it’s your day job then you are obligated. All those nice qualities as a pressure valve are gone and now it is your source of stress.

I’ve seen too many people start a Patreon and then their output drops like a rock. It used to be something they did for fun or love of craft and with a nice bonus of some extra money. Now it’s a job. One they can’t get out of.

Whoever said do what you love and you’ll never work a day was a mean sonovabitch who destroys dreams. For a lot of people familiarity breeds contempt. Do your second most favorite thing and protect the precious one.
Exactly, what the results of this poll really indicate is that amazon customers' houses should be used as warehouses.
Are you recommending the 2nd edition specifically?
There is a 3rd edition available: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...
That's what I was going to point out. Nearly every citation on this article is from "unnamed people familiar with the matter". What the heck does that even mean? I'm familiar with the matter now, does that mean that I get to make wild speculations?
This is the second time that I read that WikiLeaks is classified as "hostile intelligence agency". Isn't the purpose of intelligence to gather information to gain advantage over adversaries? It sounds to me like a redundant term like "hostile military". And BTW WikiLeaks leaks are public so all other intelligence agencies and citizens can learn while state agencies try to keep things obscure as much as possible. Who's hostile?
I love your stuff, I've just seen this play in action through the meteor community and how kadira grew and everything thats happened since then.

You know what they say, once burned, twice shy.
Well, since bitcoin only supports a maximum of 3.5 transactions-per-second [1] we at least have an upper boundary on its excessive waste.

1. http://www.altcointoday.com/bitcoin-ethereum-vs-visa-paypal-...
have you worked with percona before?
Unfortunately, you've fallen for factually incorrect propaganda.

On-shore wind is the cheapest source of energy at the moment. Which side of the political aisle is against that?

Coal is only cheap if you ignore all the costs borne by those affected by its pollution, which literally kills people in large numbers. Which side of the political aisle is keen to ignore these costs of energy and force people to continue paying them.

But, even if you ignore those externalities, it's still more xpensive than the alternatives. Shutting down coal plants could save electricity customers in the US up to 10 Billion dollars a year. Which side of the political aisle is trying to subside it further?
> The more pressing question IMO is on what grounds we get upset that a foreign nation did this to us, when we do the same and worse to weaker nations across the globe?

No, more the reverse, even leaving aside the accuracy of the fact claim underlying your claim of significance; it's fairly normal, if not abstractly desirable, for people to recognize something is wrong when it is done to them, and then only after that examine and correct their own behavior. So, it's more natural (again, granting, arguendo, the premise of your question) to ask: given that we see this as wrong when it is done to us, how should we correct our behavior toward others?
No, I just didn't notice (speaking of confusing UI, Amazon seems to do everything possible to move UI elements small and large on a basis so arbitrary as to seem completely random)
I know fmri isn't high enough resolution for this, but I wonder if you had real time access to brain state, you could construct adversarial examples like these.
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I am loving this. Let the stock crash hard, so I can buy more of it.

The man built an org that lands reusable rockets on a portable barge. My suspicion is that he can survive assembly line issues.
One factor that might be at play: the user base of the web has probably dumbed down considerably over time. In 1999 you had to have some technical chops to get your modem, PPP settings, ISP phone number etc. all sorted out, and know some arcane URLs to type into the browser to get started with (back when browsers didn't auto-complete the http:// for you). So it probably attracted more intelligent people on average, with nerdy/intellectual interests.

Better browsers, broadband, tech usability improvements, smartphones, easy-to-use websites like Facebook, etc. lowered the barrier considerably. So maybe a lot of this is the influx of "dumb" people who can't be bothered to learn HTML to put up a page, or understand the privacy implications of the 450 surreptitious HTTP requests streaming along as they read their news article. ("dumb" is a little facetious here - in other words just ordinary people not as tech savvy or focused on intellectual pursuits as the web's early adopters).
blog post about first open source release: https://bottender.js.org/blog/2017/10/31/bottender/
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It's not normalized against the population growth. And even "population growth" is misleading for AU. They don't count all the people living there.

Bank employees per capita would be more interesting.
Scary how ive been censored on here. Flagged, buried, and couldn’t answer any comment till now. I’m done with HN.
Java is so much better as a language and ecosystem than go. Java is getting better with each release slowly. My next favourite is Rust.
People in a clinical trial typically don't pay for the treatment (or placebo).
apparently he has just released a solo album under his full name. weird. Smashing Pumpkins was never a band I was into but at least this recommendation is somewhat understandable
"I guess it is kind of cyberpunk-y. All we need now is for US Marshals to lay siege to some SF headquarters, facing contracted PMCs denying the validity of their warrants."

More surreal things have happened...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...
just a suggestion but it might be worth having in your FAQs some technical questions like "why would I want to use this over a SQL alternative?" and "what kind of applications can I build with this?"
This is clickbait at its finest. No attributable sources and except for a pretty honest admission by Tesla which then leads to nothing but rampant speculation and claims.

Tesla will be fine. They have something like a 90+% satisfaction rate amongst current owners. People stood in line for hours to give them money for a car that didn't even have a production date. These people want a Tesla no matter when or how they get it. They're fine waiting and will continue to wait. Predicting the entire failure of the company on something like this is just silly.
At the risk of feeding the trolls:

Are you making a satirical example about the emptiness of such flippant accusations, or do you actually entertain a serious possibility that GP is on the tesla payroll spreading propaganda on HN?
Agreed. In my area, 2 day shipping usually uses either UPS or USPS. Same day shipping uses their drivers. I've given up expecting it same day.
> Once bitcoin can handle Visa's transaction volume (250M transactions/day) we can talk scale.

blockchain != bitcoin. solutions such as ripple, iota, and others have tech in place that can scale to those levels and beyond. i don't think any of them are ready to replace visa yet, but the hurdles are not fundamental to blockchain.
Combine this with Multicorn and Postgres and you can query Google Spreadsheets from your database
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Declarative side effects for Redux
Donald Trump’s Twitter account disappeared for five beautiful minutes
No, you got it wrong, the Bitcoin total power consumption is unknown but it can be bound from below by the hash rate and the most efficient mining hardware available and from above by the price, block reward, and energy costs assuming nobody is mining at a loss. Reread the paragraph before your quote.

[...] estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually [...]
Had some issues with an amazon delivery and talked to the driver about fixing it for next time. They shrugged and said amazon pays like crap and the driver turn over is high. So high that I'd likely not get the same driver for my next delivery.

Does seem like a bad way to run a business.

Seems strange for amazon to propose entering into a house instead of just selling a locked box that you and deliveries could use.
I may have worded my original comment poorly. I meant "why do we not find this hypocritical?", not "how do we manufacture a difference between our actions and theirs"

I agree that such behavior by America is unacceptable most if not all of the time, even when there's a plausible moral imperative (eg replacing a violent dictator with a nonviolent one)
This article isn't what I was expecting, but to satisfy my curiosity, the strongest known base is (according to Wikipedia) Ortho-diethynylbenzene dianion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortho-diethynylbenzene_dianion

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/basically-record-breakin...
From what I hear the Navy has been very diligent about accountability. There are problems you can't really hard-ass yourself out of.
There was a ferry accident involving a similar transfer of control problem in New York harbor.[1] Ferries have a lot of maneuvering modes and directional thrusters, because they do so many dockings, and so they have a more complex control problem. The pilot put the system into a backup dumb mode while in cruise, then changed stations to where he could best see the dock while still in the wrong mode. Rammed the dock at 12 knots. 79 injured, 4 seriously.

This is bad design. All the controls that can steer the ship should be tied together and move together. How to do that was figured out decades ago.

The Navy still has this thing where they hate to give control of both speed and steering to the same person. The helmsman and engine room take orders from the officer that has the conn. But that officer doesn't actually operate the controls. Some enlisted sailors do. This dates from the age of sail and steam. Merchant shipping gave this up decades ago.

Back in the 1950s, the U.S. Navy built the USS Albacore. This was an experimental submarine to test out the teardrop-hull concept. It wasn't nuclear; it was just a test vehicle to see how such a hull form handled. It was expected to be more maneuverable than previous designs, so it was set up with aircraft-like controls. One person sat in the pilot's seat, strapped in facing forward, looking at aircraft-type instruments, and controlled all the maneuvering controls. It was a very agile craft.

The brass hated it. The person in the pilot's seat was really the one in charge. The officers were just back-seat drivers. To this day, the Navy sets up nuclear submarines so that different people steer, control power, and control buoyancy.

(The British in WWII tried to control aircraft with multiple people. As bombers got bigger, they wanted to put a senior officer in charge, but younger people were better pilots. So they had an "aircraft commander" back-seat driving, as well as a pilot handling the controls. This did not work out at all and was rapidly dropped.)

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20140408c.a...
Gambling is legal in most countries. Though it's usually only allowed through a dedicated state controlled monopoly.

Online gambling sites can take card just fine using the same card processors as other companies.
Err.. markets aren't democracy: "voting against" something just means you don't use it.

What this poll actually shows is that Amazon already has 32% of people who want this is some form.

This is kind of like those "if we can just get 1% of 1% of the population we will make millions" things, except in this case they have 38%(!)

The product managers of this service must be beyond joyful seeing acceptance like this.
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True enough, but could say more about what a housing situation without cost would look like?
This is on the front page now right next to a story about how hostile and ad-ridden most commercial websites have become. Thank you for helping keep the original spirit of the web alive on onion space.
Corporations only worry about ethics if they think it'll affect their reputation or bottom line.

Even then many of them are happy as long as there's public perception that they're acting ethically, even if in reality they're not.
Profit was 8.7B. Ford has a market cap of 49B.
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You still skipped over both points. There is no central org which redistributes income. This alone disqualifies it as a pyramid.

Market manipulation is not specific enough to qualify as a pyramid. Pyramids have a central org that promises rewards for recruiting; it's not an abstract idea like "make comments on the internet and maybe someone will believe you."

You also left out many qualifying factors, again because they plainly don't fit Bitcoin or your argument.

If you'd like to deride Bitcoin, you'd do better to call it a generic term like "scam." It weakens your argument to call it something specific like a pyramid scheme, which actually has a real definition.
This is the tiredest trope that ever traipsed.

The company's management has an obligation to the company's owners to pursue all legal means to reduce their tax obligation. You better believe the IRS would have come knocking already if they were doing anything illegal by keeping that $269B outside of the U.S.
Hi, good point! Yes, we are deliberately ignoring multithreading, among many other things. We were aiming to catch the NPEs we see most often in practice while keeping the type system relatively simple. Based on our data from the field, I think NPEs due to multithreading and code like the example are fairly rare.
Stories of chain restaurant origins are really interesting, except I find them hard to read because I'm so grossed out by the amount of obesity, diabetes, and heart-disease they've caused. Cinnabon is surely only a little behind Philip Morris in collateral damage caused.
No. I am talking about the physical experience of looking at text on a cell phone screen.
Passive bistatic radar? Lockheed(?) already had its "Silent Sentry" system and it's seen renewed interest due to massive cell phone use.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15591847 (3 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590847 (4 months ago)
Your worries about the economy are purely hypothetical, and most likely wrong. Infrastructure spending generally stimulates economies and there is no reason to suspect that building clean energy infrastructure will be any different. Additionally, clean energy prices will most likely be cheaper and more stable in the long term due to decreased maintenance costs and lack of dependency on energy inputs from politically volatile regions.

And even if energy prices rise slightly, the reduction of externalities will more than make up for those increased costs. It is well known that pollution from fossil fuels causes a variety of health issues. I would gladly pay a few more cents per kwh if it reduces my chances of getting cancer or heart disease.
> The crash, when it comes (and it will) will be catastrophic.

Your statement is unfalsifiable and meaningless. When will the crash come?
You're not the only one here that thinks someone describing something as "hostile" means they feel entitled to have it. I don't agree and I don't understand the connection.

Speaking personally, when I find user-hostile content, I simply leave the page/close the window/throw away the magazine. I don't feel entitled to have the content in any way.

However, I do feel entitled to make an appeal to content producers that they try to come up with a way to make their content less hostile. It's just an appeal, though, and they are absolutely free to ignore it.
You have no idea who was harmed. Treating other human beings with this kind of flagrant disrespect is childish and unprofessional. It's ridiculous how many people are making excuses for his behavior here.
There's a big difference between unknowingly fighting over the controls and knowingly fighting over the controls. If Robert had realized that Bonin was making the completely wrong control input then maybe he would have put a stop to it somehow. "Stop that, you'll get us all killed" is likely to be effective. He could have told the captain about it as soon as the captain arrived, rather than just before impact. Note that when the incorrect input was finally identified by someone other than Bonin, it was corrected immediately, it was just far too late.

According to the report, ~20 seconds after the events I described above, the plane was still above 30,000ft and recovery was still possible. Yes, the problem developed before this, but it sure looks to me that the bad control design was a major factor in the failure to correct the problem.
Its kind of sad that professionals will have to look elsewhere for a laptop. At least there is the new thinkpad retro! Oh wait...
Because:

a) Adding a root CA to the cert store requires UAC elevation prompt.

b) The certificates are more useful in verifying if a given driver was issued by the manufacturer it says it was issued from.
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I don't think we disagree on much. Jonathan Blow is of the opinion that what games programmers need is a new language designed from scratch, in part because he believes the most viable (and dominant) language used for games, C++, is irredeemably complex. I recognize that there are complexities to C++ but I'm of the opinion that it's been getting better and will continue to do so for games development and that the new features in practice are making the language simpler to use even if technically they are making it "more complex" in the sense of having more features. The tooling is also getting better, despite the complexity, and Clang has played a big part in that. The case for switching to a different language is not compelling to me, especially to a completely new language rather than something with some track record.
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I mean time seems to be the default excuse for failing to do many things, but it is not literally the reason. You can exercise in only 5-10 minutes a day.

they don't have the "willpower" to commit the remaining time they have left to yet another chore.

Wouldn't them having remaining time, and spending it in another way, imply that it is a matter of will?
I wouldn't trust anything closed source to forget that private key.

I can't see how buying an actual cert could be more risky than installing a new root CA. The goal of signing is to ensure origin and anti-tampering: two fails in this case. So now you may have a tampered with driver that doesn't remove the private key and uses the new CA to inspect your TLS traffic, and you wouldn't know.
Very cool, might want to take a look at Akaros as well. Porting this to RISC-V would be even better and potentially even more useful.
I guess USPS/FedEx/UPS drivers also have a lot of accumulated experience and 'tribal' knowledge that Amazon drivers lack.
> pro-democrat hashtag #RNCinCLE

What? That was the official hashtag, being promoted by Twitter [1].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/7SX7j
I think that a small sample size is mostly an indicator that one needs to treat the results with far greater caution.

Effect size is very important in this. To continue your grad student murder example, it's completely trivial to determine which plant a student was given, based on whether they are dead or not. It becomes trickier if you measured something a bit less cut-and-dry, such as the incidence of headaches, or variance in a few voxels of a noisy MRI.
Just to make sure: I found it insightful, valuable, refreshing, and the right length.
Rebuttal: Users just blindly click ok so UAC doesn't actually do anything useful.
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Excuse my ignorance on FDWs but how does this work with respect to DB constraints? For example, if a postgres column is supposed to be a date, but it's not a properly formatted date, does it throw an error at query time? Or is everything treated as a varchar/text?
Nanoscale 'abacus' calculates using pulses of light instead of wooden beads
As an experiment, let's see if this comment gets flagged...

You stupid, mouthbreathing motherfucker. How can you sit there and say "nobody was harmed"? I was harmed by having to read that word-vomit, and I've been further harmed having to respond to your boundless idiocy. You have no idea how many people have been put off working on open source projects because they'd rather contribute nothing than have to interact with human shitstains like yourself or Linus.

How's this for a positive comment? Jesus Christ I hope I never have to work alongside a worthless rat bastard like you. Your family should be ashamed to have raised such a sack of shit.

[Look how clear and direct I've been! Isn't it great!]
I am extremely stoked that a huge sample of 17 people have decided to upvote my comment ;-)
No, entitlement is demanding all sources conform to OP's preference
>No compensatory damages were awarded. The judge said that Steve Jackson had little involvement in SJG at the time of the raid, and the company was close to Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and that Jackson's renewed involvement in the wake of the raid had turned the company's fortunes around.

Ah, the 'pockets full of fish' defense. "While my client did shove the claimant into a lake, they came out with their pockets full of fish to a net benefit. Therefore, my client is innocent."
But Kumail's point isn't about whether these companies are patriotic, he's saying they lack any ethical framework of operation and presumes it's because people aren't challenging each other with ethical questions preferring to condone any behavior in favor of flexing engineering muscles and proving that, "yes, they can".

I don't think it's unrelated, and perhaps your point is that it's doubly clear no one has thought about ethics when you examine Sean's contradictory responses. But I think the lack of patriotism is more of an example.

Anyway, at the end of the day we're all people and we are the ones that depend on these companies and services. If you don't believe a company is behaving ethically, stop using their services. Make a damn sacrifice and live your virtue. Sure maybe we could argue that to some extent and in certain cases some companies have crossed the line and are harmfully exploiting customers to the extent that there should be legal ramifications, but the government does not exist to provide you an ethically sterile society. It exist to maintain and protect basic human rights--at least in the US as far as the formal documentation is concerned.

As far as I can gather based on armchair political philosophy over drinks.. most people don't actually care about privacy and rank convenience or safety (at the expense of said privacy) higher in their priorities. I find that unfortunate but at the same time I still haven't worked up the courage to totally disband my Facebook account and switch completely over to my proton mail accounts. So it's complicated.

If we could all agree that privacy is a fundamental human right which you would think would be supported by the constitution in the US then, we should actually act/rally to legislate such as other countries have done. Yet at the same time because these companies operate globally, they serve a diverse spectrum of users who may or may not share the same political and social values as we do in the US. This extends to the very employees who are "failing to ask the ethical questions" that Kumail can so obviously see are overlooked. This is globalization.

TL;DR: they do this because they can, and they can because you let them.