skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Internet has made it trivial for people to cause damage

It amazes me that nobody seems to take much of an issue with that. We've seen several instances of people having their lives ruined and/or killing themselves because of things that happened on the internet just this year alone. Whenever I bring any of these up, it's met with indifference, as if that's just the price we pay for the internet. It's really concerning that people just accept all of this online suffering as a necessary evil, like it's just something that comes with society being able to use the internet.
I think you are mistaking "technology" as a principle for "technology" as tools and objects. Technology, as referred to in this "meme" is merely "the science of craft" and has no moral component on its own. An iron maiden or a wheelchair may have been made possible by advances in technology as a whole, but came into being through the imagination of an individual, or individuals, who created a tool to fulfill a (moral or immoral / good or bad) purpose.

The underlying technology (metallurgy, ironworking) used in the iron maiden is the foundation for innumerable instruments of a constructive nature, as I'm sure the lightweight steel and rubberized wheels that made modern wheelchairs possible have found plenty of applications in military hardware or other "evil" devices.

Maybe using a gun as an example was a poor choice for this "meme", as it's hard to put a positive spin on a killing tool. But I believe the message is that inventions, with respect to humanity, can be wonderful or terrible, but "technology" is no more good or evil than the physical laws of the universe. Hope that's a little more fathomable.
I think this is a fair question because you sincerely are asking.

I think you have to admit that a manager who can make the team care about work, enjoy it, feel like a team, feel like they're working on an important problem together (even though none of this emotional stuff is objectively true/false or valid/invalid) is an asset to the company.
It's not that fast typist is an indicator of a good developer, but a slow typist is an indicator of someone who hasn't spent a whole lot of time in front of a keyboard.
From what I've seen, family doctors have been replaced by primary care physicians. There's still a place for generalists in the medical profession.
You know how in technology we like to say "no one got fired for buying Cisco?".

Well, for them it's no one got fired for selling Lipitor.
> they have a weirdly large supply of very competent developers.

I've noticed this as well. Very strange that it is so "poor" but so talented. I guess that probably won't last.
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I'm afraid I suspect that it's revealing a bunch of latent biases as the web has grown to reach people from different socio-economic layers and cultural milieus. These people were always there; we just didn't hear them, because we had a pyramidal media structure controlled by elites.

One theory I've heard is that the nation state is over, and the Internet killed it. Demos, the shared group of people that makes up a voting democracy and validates democratic choice as a group will, is breaking down. People are starting to identity at global levels by social class, education and political outlook, rather than national identity. People no longer participate in the same national narrative. I think this would have happened eventually if we only had newsgroups and chain emails, it's just happened faster because we have easier to use software.

I don't think some unholy union of state and corporate control of free speech is the answer. If anything, it's a path to civil war, eventually.
Opened this on a phone, regretted it. Time to send a PR.
> "I will make it a point to phrase my comments differently in the next health-related thread."

Why wait? Why not start now?
If you allow a browser to open sockets to random places, it's the exact same principle! The onus is on the listener to ensure that the people communicating respect the agreed upon protocol.
There are companies that do it - http://www.midwesternelectricinc.com/traffic-signals/

But cities of a sufficient size (pulling up Chicago because its probably larger than the sufficient size), you find https://webapps1.cityofchicago.org/traffic/about.jsp

> Chicago has about 2900 traffic signals throughout the city. About 470 of these signals are interconnected through a fiber-network that facilitates the centralized monitoring and control of signal operations. Whether interconnected or not-interconnected, the signals are programmed to synchronize with signals immediately around it so that vehicles will pass through the intersections most efficiently. New signals are added and old signals are modernized every year depending on the need and availability of funds. While OEMC/Traffic Management Authority is responsible for maintaining the signal coordination and timing, Division of Electricity at CDOT is responsible for the maintenance of the signals and CDOT is responsible for the physical design, construction, and timing of signals.

It appears that the City of Chicago maintains their own. As noted there, that is maintained by the division of electricity ( https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/tra... ), which also maintains all street lights and signs. When one gets to a point where the municipality knows that there will always be work for some number of people - its cheaper to hire those people permanently than contract it out. This also provides a better SLA for the city (tax payers get rather annoyed if the street light is out and the response from City Hall is "we told the contractor about it, but they haven't responded yet - its the holidays.")
I want to ask you a serious question, OP. Have you looked for the underlying facts behind the Russian hack claims yourself? Have you done your own research? Have you familiarized yourself with Russian & Soviet historical precedent, to see whether what's being claimed is actually characteristic of Russia's historical style? Have you listened to or read any of the congressional testimonies, or looked into their background sources? Have you examined any of the academic reports, public policy think tank reports, cybersecurity reports, and/or programming & data analysis work done on the publicly available data - several of which have been shared right here on HN? Have you done ANY of these things to come to your own conclusion - even just one?

Given that this piece characterizes the entire argument of Russian active measures activities as a "religion" devoid of empirical evidence, leaves out a lot of important details regarding the Manafort and Papadopolous indictments which are publicly available in court documents, and generalizes over the merits & technical details of the analytical work products of Crowdstrike et al. on the one hand and VIPS on the other, and given the fact that this article resonated with you enough to share it, I get the disquieting impression that you have not done such background research.

If so, why hold the position that everyone around you is accepting this issue on unreasonable blind faith without any empirical evidence, when you yourself have not examined any of the supporting evidence? Why define the data and the legitimacy of that view out of existence like that?

Please tell and show me that my perception is mistaken here. I really want it to be.
Flash being required is probably a bigger issue...
I could see a computer calculated life expectency with weight loss as an option to increase it.

Being told you are fat is not a good reason to loose wight. People probably already know they are fat. Maybe there are other reasons that could be communicated...
One thing I was hoping to get answered is, what is the revenue growth or dip these companies have seen. I think that may give a better context to this story. Job loss headlines alone sounds like doom and gloom, but that may or may not be the case depending on how the money is flowing...
If I were you, I wouldn't be so quick to trust any cryptography standard set by a government agency. They have an obvious incentive to ensure that any standard that is eventually set be open to attack by whatever means the NSA has (or will have in the near future.)

So pay careful attention to things they reject, or things they modify!

I have no insider knowledge here. I'm just applying common sense...
Looks to be a multivariate calculus text by the Hubbards:

http://matrixeditions.com/5thUnifiedApproach.html
For sure. But trying to get privately owned companies to clamp down on free speech isn't going to fix the underlying issue; if that worked, sooner or later you'll create a market for fringe right-wing / left-wing social networks and messaging platforms that are even more of an echo chamber, and some people will start agitating for state control over permitted corporate platforms for speech - and that really will be fascism.
Are you suggesting ancient police were created to stop slave rebellions and not created to prevent the far more common everyday crime?

Source?
The distinction here is between captive development centers vs outsourced IT services. The latter has previously had more jobs and is experienced more layoffs now. The former is likely still a growth industry.
Piling on another point (mdasen is absolutely right about the route-model aspects, and the fact that megahub approaches "lost" to smaller planes flying routes to non-megahubs):

Airbus made one more big, big blunder with the A380: they deliberately and knowingly designed a jumbo that could never have a cargo variant or a cargo conversion. Although the 747's cargo conversion famously is due to Boeing thinking supersonic planes would take over the passenger market in the 70s (and thus the 747 needed a backup role it could take on once it had been displaced), Boeing stuck to the convertibility of the 747 through all those decades, and it's given them business both directly (through selling dedicated 747 freighters) and indirectly (through customers who bought used passenger 747s and wanted to convert, incurring all sorts of work on the airframes).

The A380 can never do this. This is not a "they don't want to" situation. This is a "the way they designed this plane, it can't be done".

First, the A380's middle-deck (the "ceiling" for the lower passenger level/"floor" of the upper level) is a structural component. You can't just yank it out of there and use the whole interior as a vast cargo space. It also cannot have a nose cargo door like a 747; the 747's upper-deck hump with elevated flight deck was created specifically to allow turning the nose cone into a cargo door, while the A380's flight deck is situated much lower to the ground for compatibility of training with the A330/A340.

Second, although the A380 is big, it's either not big enough, or not powerful enough. The increased interior volume over a 747 is large, but the increased capacity to carry weight... is not so large. In fact, an A380's payload capacity is lower than a 747's![1] Which means that if you solve the structural-deck issue, or work around it, you're getting a bunch of space that you can't use without going over the plane's weight limit.

[1] Technically, an A380 can take off and land heavier than a 747 (A380 max takeoff weight is 575,000kg, max landing weight is 394,000kg, compared to 447,700kg/346,091kg for a 747-8). However, an A380 is also heavier to begin with (by about 80,000kg), and must carry more fuel. The maximum payload for an A380 is thus about 84,000kg, compared to 132,630kg in a 747-8 freighter.
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms, A Unified Approach by John H. Hubbard and Barbara Burke Hubbard.
Weirdly enough, I feel like saying the blame should not be put on the people for being assholes; assholery is not something people are born with. Rather, the type of environment is at fault for self-selecting for them.
Twin studies lets you fix the genetics factor, but unless you monitor the twins 24/7 or control their environment it is nearly impossible to tell if it influences your intelligence directly or through behavioural patterns.

I am sure that if you train specifically for the g-factor test you would score much higher on it. And if that is the case it is your environment influencing your intelligence.
Certain Sonos and Bose models can be accessed by hackers to play sound remotely
Ah... that's starting to make sense now.

Yup, blowing through a bunch of impressions on the same audience will definitely tank CPM's and fill rates. I'm also going to guess you get a lot of repeat visits? (so those sessions are hitting a smaller base of uniques?)

Hmm... thinking I may work up a corrective adjustment.

Core development sample was blogs and small content sites, where the opposite problem exists (finding a way to unbounce the visitors so you go from 1.3 PV/S to 3+).
Neuroscientist Ben Barres has died
I have spotty wifi right now and can't read the actual paper at the moment (mainly a comment to remind myself to read this later).

Quick thoughts from just reading the abstract:
- There are very few facilities that do direct drive ICF (LLE in USA)
-I am curious if the looked at hydro instabilities and preheating in this study
>like it's just something that comes with society being able to use the internet.

That's exactly what it is. Whether or not we as a society decide that cost is worth paying is another matter, but yes, the price we pay for the internet is that it acts as a force multiplier for all collective human intent, good and evil. And let's be fair - as much as we're focusing in this thread on the harm the internet has done, I don't think that harm outweighs the benefit to society.
My guess this is due to the remnants of the good soviet math/science program in schools and universities. Which was originally heavily influenced by Kolmogorov by the way.
However, it does have a requirement that there are large public spaces available to masses to practice free speech.

Another important note is that promotion is hardly the same as allowing.
It is not for producing nuclear material, but for reproducing conditions relevant to weapons (although HBE itself may not be useful).
From the source article - http://www.livemint.com/Industry/4CXsLIIZXf8uVQLs6uFQvK/Top-...

> Preparing the ground for layoffs, each of these seven companies has already put a higher number of employees on notice by awarding them the lowest ratings. Cognizant has placed more than 15,000 employees in the lowest category (bucket IV), and Infosys has placed more than 3,000 senior managers in the category of employees needing improvement.

This isn't 56k entry level jobs. This is 56k jobs up and down the structure of the companies.

> As IT companies start working on newer technologies such as cloud computing, they are fast moving from a people-led model, which means they need fewer employees. Meanwhile, many of the IT companies have embraced automation tools to perform the mundane, repeatable tasks that were performed by an army of engineers earlier.

> “The entire pyramid structure (organizational structure) is getting disrupted,” the second HR head cited earlier added.

> That speaks of a bigger problem, said an expert.

> “What required 50 programmers, analysts or accountants 5 years ago can be done by a handful of smart thinkers and much smarter systems,” said Phil Fersht, CEO of US-based HfS Research, an outsourcing-research firm. “If I were Prime Minister Narendra Modi, I would be very concerned that a whole workforce generation needs reorienting to address work activities that are growing in demand.”

None of the articles speak to where the people who have lost their jobs are going.
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> 10 petawatts laser for one picosecond

> magnetic field plasma containment

> produces 300KWh

I’ll admit, while I’ve always been interested in lasers, I’m definitely below amateur level with them, but these requirements:

1) seems like its multiple orders of magnitude higher power than anything I’ve heard of in laser tech. Like 5-7 orders of magnitude. Is there research I’m unaware of here?

2) let’s assume for a second that the laser could be made, wouldn’t it require multiple orders of magnitude more power (as in 2-3 at least) to fire than what this reaction produces?

3) have we been able to contain plasma (as in super high energy plasma, not the stuff you see in novelty shops or older TV sets) for very long in a magnetic field? I thought the record was in number of seconds, certainly not long enough to be used for any continuous power production.

Edit:
Guess I was wrong on #1/2, had forgotten about this research[0] I’d read.

[0] http://www.iflscience.com/technology/world-s-most-powerful-l...
Only thing I can think of is a ledger. If it isn't about currency then it is some sort of ledger.
Harassment isn't the problem. The formation of groups of like-minded people in echo chambers is the issue that corrodes democracy.
>My whole life I was suckered into this idea that people will treat you fairly regardless of your skin color, your gender, your ethnicity, the country you come from, etc.

As usual in American discussions, class is forgotten.

A heterosexual, "white", cisman can also be working class or bourgeois, but for some reason -- probably because of the annihilation of Marxism in the US -- it's never brought up and this despite its modern relevance screaming at us.

Without class, one can't understand why Trump got the vote of so many working class people. Ethnicity (Caucasians are ethnic people from the Caucus region; modern biology only accepts one race and that is the human race; "white" is a culture, not a "race" or ethnicity, since Middle-Eastern Caucasians aren't considered "white"; "white" is better defined as a Caucasian of European origin that accepts Western culture), sexuality, sex and gender, religion... None of these explain the working class animosity towards the "ultra-wealthy elites" that are "out of touch with the common person" or why the promise of bringing back working class jobs was so tempting. Trump, while being a liar and actually damaging to the working class, played to their class heartstrings.

Social justice without class consciousness creates injustice, and that injustice is being exploited by the extreme alt-right.

One can't also understand why Bernie Sanders was as appealing as Trump unless one understands that both Bernie and Trump appealed to anti-bourgeois sentiment and both promised to help the working class. It was class rebellion, and unfortunately it turned out as badly as it did because Bernie was never put on the voting ballots.
> There are actually lists [1, in German] where you can lookup which Aldi brand is which real brand

Their supplier can (and does) change at any time without notice and may even vary regionally, even though the packaging is the same. It often helps to check the producer's address (always listed on the packaging) and see what other company in the same product space is nearby.
It was a mid-range casual gaming publisher. Most of the BS wasn't obviously customer facing.
This distinction does not matter.
Somewhere in a small SV office: "Reverse bitcoin on this white board"
A lot of people are simply not very bright (half are below 100 IQ!), or not very good at thinking. Correlation is causation, formative experiences become lifelong prejudices, and simple explanations are accepted over nuances. Solutions that promise to directly address issues are preferred over those that consider second and third order effects. And so on.
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This is just one more anecdote, but I once read Sun had a cool new patent, the central idea of which turned out to be three lines of assembly code which had already been published in the well-known superoptimizer paper by Massalin 15 years before -- I only noticed this because I happened to have been reading it and had the paper lying around my bedroom. To Massalin it merited one paragraph in an appendix about interesting snippets discovered by the superoptimizer. Sun gave it pages of legalese broken out into multiple claims, ending with the usual boilerplate claiming any further variations not explicitly listed that would be obvious to one "skilled in the art".

I did nothing about this because the fight would be a drag with nothing in it for me.

Yes, the classic justification is to encourage invention, but there are publications arguing that patents aren't a net positive. It's not my field, I don't know, but I've started doubting.

Added: I don't think Sun did anything especially wrong -- they worked with the patent system as it is and missed the prior art. What I think is that this example shows some of what's wrong with that system.
https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/stockpile-stewardship

"Because it is the only facility that can create the conditions that are relevant to understanding the operation of modern nuclear weapons, NIF is a crucial element of stockpile stewardship. NIF creates conditions—temperatures of 100 million degrees and pressures 100 billion times that of the Earth’s atmosphere—similar to those in stars and detonating nuclear weapons."
Furniture eCommerce. How do people buy furniture online without physically trying the furniture? How do you ship furniture across the country? What are the niches in the space?

Pure software on its own can't do much. Gotta learn about the real world.
I have always found Toki Pona incredibly creepy. It's like someone read about Newspeak in 1984 and decided "yes, that sounds great, let's do exactly this" unironically.
> Cut the crap. India is a country of 1.3 billion people, don't peddle bullshit stereotypes. Not working hard doesn't come from the culture; it's quite the opposite if anything.

Actually, I know this is anecdote but my buddy was an manager type position moved up from software and he had to deal with Indians. He had to go over cultural slides to how to deal with Indians and the slide explicitly talk about their world ethnics and how their culture view time.

The time slide was super interesting and the few thing I recall from it. It was talking about setting time line for the offshore team. And when they say they will have it done, it can mean anything, and that you have to have them to explicitly state a real date.

I'm not trying to shoot ya down or anything, just wanted to point out another experience in culture. The slides he showed me was suppose to be on the downlow too >___<. But the whole thing is about how to manage Indian programmers and many aspect of it was dealing with culture or how culture affects their actions.
Modern hospital beds do have scales built in.
He would feel great now. Just wondering his attitude when his "savings" dropped ~50% 2008-2009. Most people can't handle saving a million dollars over 25 years and have it drop in half over 6 months. The pain is too much. Avoiding this situation (and other reasons) is why pensions are better for most people.
Fusion is used for boosting, boosting is needed for miniaturization. In the absence of explosive testing I believe a facility like NIF is useful for weapons.
Did you try any of the smart fraud prevention? Like Siftscience?
And a lack of job prospects in the region. The decent developers have no alternative but to work in the local outsourcing shops.
Honestly I’m not even talking about the effects on democracy. Just the direct effects of attacks on people and threats against them are horrible enough. Stuff that’s been going on for YEARS. Basic safety.

I’m not trying to touch the more complex and problematic issues of how social media is changing democracy in my comments here. I don’t know how we’re ever supposed to get a handle on that if we can’t even keep people vaguely safe.
>>>... device delivering ~10W at a distance.

I'm reading it very differently. ~10W is the power of the transmitter, the bit that the FCC actually cares about, not the energy delivered to the target device. With all the inefficiencies and losses, I think they are far below 1w in actual delivered power.
This doesn't surprise me, she's not the first to come out with stories about the toxicity of Alicia Carr.