skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t talk about the “default norm for human life” without acknowledging that infant mortality is lower in current developed countries than it has ever been anywhere in the history of the world, is my point.

Keep kids home for the first 5 years and don’t let them play with other kids if you want, but I haven’t ever seen careful research showing that e.g. preschool or playground time leads to widespread permanent health problems, either for the kids at the time or later in their lives. I admit I have never tried to research this question, so it’s possible it has been studied.
David Foster Wallace's classic piece 'Consider The Lobster' [1] in Gourmet magazine is a fine piece of writing exploring many of these questions in the context of visiting the Maine Lobster festival:

Originally published in the August 2004 issue of Gourmet magazine, this review of the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival generated some controversy among the readers of the culinary magazine. The essay is concerned with the ethics of boiling a creature alive in order to enhance the consumer's pleasure, including a discussion of lobster sensory neurons.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150623174527/http://www.gourme...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
Another gas bubbling through the water "knocks" the dissolved gasses out of the water. So the oxygen bubbles up out of the water, along with the argon.
This [1] also contains a superset of the data used in this post and is direct from Yelp.

[1]: https://www.yelp.com/dataset/challenge
Trump decries immigrants from 'shithole countries' coming to US
Presumably, the dissolved oxygen is displaced into the atmosphere.
Of course we are. We're just a lot harder to catch these days.
De-oxygenate the water. In the same manner that you can suffocate a person by removing the oxygen from the air(it's not like the only way to suffocate is in a vacuum).
I don't believe so. I saw one study that said people with CF underproduced mucus. I used to have a link to it, but I think it disappeared at some point.

I have seen at least two discussions online about how vaginal dryness routinely ruins the sex lives of women with CF. I have yet to meet a woman with CF who brags that CF means she can handle 10 men a night at her regular orgies. Yet women with CF also produce a lot of goopy vaginal drainage, no doubt from infection. But it isn't mucus. If it were, vaginal dryness should not ruin their sex life.

I posit that people with CF are coughing up phlegm which is drainage from infection. Helping them produce healthy mucus can eventually put a stop to that.

My oldest son has the same diagnosis. I know other people with CF who have taken some pointers from me. It isn't accurate to say it is merely the anecdotal stories from a single person.

I appreciate you commenting. But our current mental models are inadequate and it is incredibly tiresome to be told for 17 years that I know nothing, my track record of success is just luck or something, etc.

Mental models tend to change only when the old guard dies. This is historical fact.

We probably should not waste anymore of each other's time. The odds are poor that it will be constructive.
Why does intelligence come with responsibility?
I don’t know, mercy killing is a hell of a broad license.
I don't understand, is chilling it then cutting it in half really less distressing than boiling them. Don't they die quicker and suffer less if they go directly into a boiling pot?
Can I still drink, do drugs, and whine if I choose options #1, #2, or #3?
A collection of fractal inkblots
Do you remember how she was treated during her 7 year stay in prison?

I am sure it will be easy for her to explain "Violating the Espionage Act, stealing government property, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, multiple counts of disobeying orders" on her job application.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-mannin...
Neat. This technique seems to be based on hovering over a tab with the mouse. Power users likely to benefit most from this optimization likely cycle through tabs using ctrl+tab. Is any thought being given to a way to implement the technique for ctrl+tab users?

EDIT: Just spotted the FN saying "Right now, we simply detect whether you’re hovering a tab with a mouse to predict that you’re likely going to choose that, but there are certain more opportunities to introduce warming based on other user behaviours." Hopefully ctrl+tab is one of those behaviors it can be baked into.
The design is just as bad on their actual website:

https://www.dropbox.com/

Man..that Sharp Grotesk font. So out of place for a productivity company..What utility thinks of themselves as an art studio?
> my contacts with their server to "find my friends" when I never consented.

I installed Signal a few days ago for the first time and there was definitely a prompt, with an easy way to skip it, before it did the find my friends thing.

The wording also seemed to indicate that only the hashes of the numbers would be uploaded but not sure if thats actually true.
That's victim blaming. Hype is irrelevant. The problem here is not just entitlement, it's that some people feel perfectly ok leveling abuse at other people. This isn't a new phenomenon. There's always been a subset of "I need to speak to the manager" folks who have been willing to treat individuals doing certain jobs in an inhumane and abusive fashion. Today the boundaries on those sorts of interactions are drastically changing, and the levels of abuse that are commonplace have grown much greater. A fast food worker running into an irate customer who avows that they will kill them and rape their family has always been an extraordinarily rare occurrence, today that sort of behavior is commonplace in many contexts and especially in the realm of game development. That doesn't mean everyone is doing it, but the fact that it's tolerated and ubiquitous means that it has a universal impact on those affected.
If the government starts making files illegal, we have bigger problems.
>The first thing my now manager asked me was what steps I would take in the next 3-6 months to create the department.

Thinking and describing it is a lot easier than coding it on a whiteboard. I explain ideas to problems all day. I don't code it on a piece of paper and hand it to the board.

If it's an important problem, I actually take some time to roll it over, as should anyone solving any important problem.

White boarding code is a farce used by people who don't have any better ideas.
That is true, but at least using a right type of credit card will actually result in you paying less than the principal amount of the loan (which can't be matched by a 0% loan in terms of the amount you end up paying).
Microwaves don't kill that fast. The water molecules in the lobster will heat up and cook it from the inside out until essential proteins are denatured and the cell stops functioning. Certainly not a quick death, however.
How Long It Takes to Reach a City from Every Place on Earth
Nope, goto their actual website, it's all there: https://www.dropbox.com/
I'm pretty annoyed, because when I first started using Let's Encrypt I was hamstrung by their restrictions on the various "automated" methods of deploying and renewing certs. I went with tls-sni because it was the least-bad method for my use case.

I listened with an open mind to their justification of the extremely short 90 day max cert length period in the "automate all the things world". The sysadmin in me was skeptical, even though I have also fought the "crap, we haven't renewed this cert in years and nobody knows how to do it anymore!" emergencies over the years, and understand how renewing frequently could, at least in theory, replace that problem with a lesser problem.

But, turns out my skepticism was justified. Thankfully I'm not using it in production yet, but too often these new projects and paradigms suffer too much from "what could possibly go wrong?" thinking, and you have to follow all the right forums and keep all your configurations in mind to know when a problem like this will bite your infrastructure. I only stumbled across this randomly while checking my Let's Encrypt community account for something else.

Now, granted, this just happened yesterday, but I missed the HN thread on it when it happened, which means I could well have missed it until it's too late and a bunch of certs expire. Then it's a scramble to fix your certs AND fix your automation all at once.
Manafort had been under investigation since 2014. The Trump campaign hired him while he was being surveilled. That could happen from a plain old court issuing a surveillance subpoena. I think FISA should always require court approval. No blanket approvals like were going through phone companies. But court approval on an individual basis is how we've always done legal investigations.
You're assuming that game developers want to live in some sort of isolated ivory tower.

Everyone I knew who got into the industry did it to share the joy that gaming brought them to other people. It's an explicitly social industry in that respect.

Also, I don't know of a single place that can afford to run interference for every single dev. Even on the large AAA stuff I worked on we were lucky to have 1 or 2 marketing people who were even aware the dev team existed.
How would Signal working with Microsoft to implement the Signal protocol in Skype somehow kill Signal?

Signal (the organization) has worked with other companies, like Facebook and WhatsApp (owned by FaceBook, I know), to implement the Signal protocol on their respective messaging services. It appears that's precisely what they're doing with Skype in this case. It's not like Microsoft is buying out Signal.
In fact, there was an article earlier this year about 132-year-old lobster being released

https://nypost.com/2017/06/16/giant-132-year-old-lobster-rel...
That would piss off many investors and you don't want to do that. The most recent example is Martin Shkreli [1].

What they could get away with is spend 20-50% of the funds on hiring a large well-looking diverse team, spend the rest on consultancy fees from world-class experts in XXX and YYY and eventually quietly shut down. In the current investment climate this won't be taken as a questionable spending, at least not enough to bother investigating possible affiliation between you and the experts (e.g. Juicero and Ottolock).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
Yeah he's doing a great job! Just called the third world "shitholes" which is probably accurate but a good way to destroy diplomatic affairs.
I don't think I agree with either of you. :-)

To your parent comment, I would say that, when deciding how I should act, it's irrelevant what previous suffering nature has brought upon people and lobsters. To you, I'd say that it's irrelevant whether nature had other options. Suppose nature did have other, more gentle, options, but chose to incur suffering nonetheless. Would that make it more legitimate for me to cause suffering too?
Because it allows one to even consider and understand consequences. Therefore one becomes "responsible" for the vices they commit-- as hard as they try to deny and forget their actions. In fact, some people turn themselves in to the police, or commit suicide as a result of things they've done and feel guilty about.
(1) has the consequence that names are associated with the original creator long after they may no longer be involved.

Package signing I can't tell if it's a good idea or not. It would require you to accept a new key in this case, but that is going to happen super frequently with NPM, inducing alert fatigue, and it doesn't do anything to prevent the authors' publishing credentials getting stolen.
Still highly unlikely. There are only a few cities that offer $300K jobs and they talk to each other. Most of them probably use just a handful of recruiting firms. Your name would get around. You could maybe change it, but I still doubt you'd get more than a few hours every few days, then it would dry up.

You'd have to interview about 12 hours a week (including Christmas and Thanksgiving), every week at only SV type companies and only for $300K jobs and pull it off for a year without getting caught before you hit $100K.

Highly unlikely.
I agree. In the last 30 minutes "Trump decries immigrants from 'shithole countries' coming to US (cnn.com)" and "Trump's Fossil-Fuel Dominance Plan Is Foundering (latimes.com)" also got flagged by multiple users (not me). There are many other forums for US politics, I for one am happy to keep HN focused on (mostly) technology https://news.ycombinator.com/best
You probably also have not seen careful research proving that putting kids in daycare at an early age is better for their health, both physically and socially. This in no way prevents you from maligning the other choice as living in a bubble.

Basically you are speaking from prejudice while acting like it is science. You only want scientific proof for things you disagree with, not for your personal preferences.
I'm working this out on the fly here, but here it goes. People are labelled with single letters. Let's say that a bank is only allowed to lend out 90% of the deposits.

- A deposits $300k

Total deposits: $300k, total lendings: $0k, total lendable: $270k

- Bank lends B $270k to buy C's house

- C deposits $270k from the sale of his house.

Total deposits: $570k, total lending: $270k, total lendable: ($570k * 0.9 = $513k, $513k-$270k = $243k)

- Bank lends D $240k to by E's house

- E deposits $240k from the sale of his house

Total deposits: $810k, total lending: $510k, total lendable: ($810k * 0.9 = $729k, $729k - $510k = $219k)

- Bank lends F $210k to by G's house

- G deposits $210k from the sale of his house

Total deposits: $1,020k, total lending: $720k, total lendable: ($1020k*0.9 = $918k, $918k - $720k = $198k)

In this process, the bank has turned $300k into $1,020k, and has loaned out $720k, while never loaning out more than they have deposited. That's the magic of fractional reserve banking.
too late, microsoft.
It cited another case as representative of the real issue, which wasn't.
They can block such outbound traffic.
Think about scale. A good indie game might have hundreds of thousands or millions of players. Is that the same order of magnitude of patients you see?
> while a circle with an even number of nodes needs only two, even though both models seem similarly complex.

This is touched on in the article. The triangle is a complete graph, each vertice is connected to each other. A 2 colored circular graph would not be a complete graph. It would have a ring or fan-out shape.

You could have graph with 3 vertices that is 2 colored, you just can't have each vertice be connected to each other one.

I don't have great intuition for graphs but I'm pretty sure something like a square or larger cannot be both complete and planar.

Or to bring it back to software, I think it's true that a small system where each piece can directly talk to each other piece is more complex than a large system where pieces only communicate with their neighbors.
Fundamental physics is frustrating physicists
Regardless of whether they audit or not, it's germane to recognize that something is off when a supposedly low profit activity is actually generating quite a lot of profit.
Hmmm. I don't notice a delay on switching to the wavey tab loaded in the background.
We're focusing on increasing healthspan, not lifespan.

That said, it's true that we do also need to address healthcare costs - that is a huge problem and we would love to fund companies working on it.
Viva la Mechita...23788986589
Copied from tweet:

Breaking down requests for @StackOverflow web servers:

Pre-Meltdown Patch -> Post Meltdown Patch (Increase %)
Response time: 18ms -> 22ms (22%)
Avg SQL Call: .73ms -> .83ms (13%)
Avg Elastic Call: 12.56ms -> 19.71ms (57%)
Avg Redis: .05ms -> .07ms (65%)
Avg .Net Time: 13ms -> 14ms (10%)
Setting up your own VPN with 2FA
Same with addons like Tab Center Redux or Tree Style Tabs, as I can't imagine using the Web without them anymore.
They become something known as "excesses," you know..things people don't need but they have anyways. Because of evil, greed, or just plain stubbornness?

ie. cake, slavery, child porn, etc..
(although clearly these are not on the same level to anyone except the lobster.)
Viva la Mechita!!!! 356324789 6 3255 56834 @BT
No, of course it isn’t.

But then, I’m pseudonymous or anonymous everywhere, and do my level best to keep my pseudonyms unrelated to one another across multiple platforms.

As opposed to letting my patients trivially connect my real name to my various social media channels.
While it is possible, this paper doesn't really make it more likely. Do read the paper if you're worried about it, because it doesn't prove what it claims to.

This paper is only valid for what it actually studied: some subjective tasks and some standardized test questions. Ability to get the humor in a joke was one of the 4 tasks. Subsequent papers have shown that this result doesn't apply to highly skilled or complex cognitive tasks like computer programming. In fact, the effect reverses, and highly skilled people are disproportionately better at knowing their competence. https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-...

This paper also didn't control for a possibly over-confident sample: the subject of the study were all Cornell undergrads, who may be prone to being overconfident, or just acting overconfident.

That said, as a programmer, it's always a good idea to be confident about your willingness and attitude while being humble about your skills. Assume your programs have bugs, because they do. I believe the reason my competence is increasing is because I assume all code is wrong, and I take extra time to make sure it does what I expect.
Google's New 'Fact-Checker' Is Partisan Garbage
When I die, I hope it is in a kind manner. Even though moments later it won't have mattered.
Alright, I hope you continue to do well and wish you the best.
I have followed dreams that became unsatisfying. But I can tell you life can survive a dream. And enjoying life doesn't have to be difficult. I did do some indie game work but because of my own incompetence I could not make sense of the business. Fortunately I have gathered skills which had value elsewhere. And you can always have the satisfaction of knowing what the dream really was all about. Sadly most of us never even try.
> "Do they? I mean, the qualia of "I'm having a lucid dream" might not have 100% overlap with the fact of having a lucid dream."

I cover this objection in the next sentence:

>"If you will not trust their self report of that info there is no reason to trust anything else they report about the dream either."

If you don't trust the self report of such basic aspects of the dream, why would you believe anything they say about it at all? Either way, the "LuCiD" scale they came up with is unhelpful for identifying lucid dreaming.
Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow
I’m assuming no such thing. I’m saying this is a “have your cake and eat it too” issue. Either you’re accessible to millions or you arent, and that choice comes with benefits and drawbacks. If one can’t handle the drawbacks of being publicly accessible to millions, one should go to great pains to prevent that, rather than lamenting the inevitable - and I do mean inevitable - long tail of jerks.

And when I say “run interference,” I mean “handle all public interactions for the product, which your devs shouldn’t be involved in at all, because they’re devs, not marketers.”
he's a real genius, I'm sure he knows his mind, he claims to always be right
> In our pursuit of a fully-employed society (maximizing the size of the labor pool for optimum capital efficiency), we've neglected to factor in the time + effort + wealth it takes to maintain the traditional family structure.

That reminds me of something I've heard before. Oh, right...

“The bourgeois claptrap about the family and education, about the hallowed correlation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.” — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
Scaling a TechDocs Team from 1 to 100
But I'm damn certain the work was chosen with full awareness of the connotation...
It's not whether nature has other or better options.

It's whether we do.
Deep, buried ‘nearly pure ice’ glaciers spotted on Mars
> Seriously, who has a cuddle puddle at a fucking company party?

West of the Mississippi, there are no rules, or so it seems.
I don't think that's a fair accusation. I've been reading hacker news for several years and this is maybe the second time I've seen a new product and my first thought was "vaporware". There is something about the renderings and the half-baked content that gives off a strong sense of not being close to production. We could be wrong, but it does at least indicate that they need to do something about their public facing site if so.
It seems like a reasonable design decision to have a time horizon beyond which a device which has been out of communication loses access to more recent messages. That could be significantly less than 3 years - probably a week or two is fine.
It would be unpleasant if your VR text editor shocked you, sure. Might make for a fun game mechanic though.
RIP

I have a few services which were using Go’s acme/autocert package. I now need to update them to the HTTP challenge.
PiTalk, Gemini PDA, and Eelo take different paths to reinventing the Linux phone
What I like about Bloomberg's design team is that they try to navigate a fine line between being serious and playful. It's not easy because you could easily find yourself being too safe, where the playfulness ends up being too corporate and forced.

I remember going to the Bloomberg Design Conference a few years back, where they opened with an intro movie featuring their design team satirizing the design process by critiquing a white sheet of paper, eventually settling on a rotated version.
Stanford researcher Juergen Willmann dies at 45
This guy needs to re-read the 4th amendment. Its supposed to be hard.
No, but it does spread out the consequences. And the likelihood of getting caught.
Well, this is the big con with HD Radio.

Everything around it is "High Def", "now broadcasting in High Def..."

HD Radio isn't High Definition radio, it's Hybrid Digital Radio, effectively simulcasting a digital and an analog signal.
Both education and capital are necessary. After all, that's how it works for the privileged.

In the Trevor Noah example, it's both having the CD writer, and also knowing how to use it. The former doesn't guarantee the latter.
Could you post your transaction IDs? I've never heard of anything like this.
Yes, exactly. And all evidence suggests that lobsters, to the debatable extent that they're capable of emotions, would be more than happy to eat us were they large enough to do so.
Thanks for providing some context. I don't know what they expected getting involved in YouTube drama (which is essentially like pissing in a sea of piss).
i had the same thought; there's probably at least 50-100 ms between me holding ctrl and hitting tab (and it makes sense to prewarm the next tab whether i'm going to hit ctrl-tab or ctrl-w)
While the product categories differ, the exorbitant price asked makes this 'raw water' target the same demography: those who have more money than sense and those who use these products for the purpose of affluence signalling.
No, and that's not what I said. I didn't even say they shouldn't be criticized for it.

It's not appropriate to insult individuals for using an industry-standard practice. Criticize the practice, even criticize the people for perpetuating the practice, and I have no problem. But calling two well-trained people (Stanford & Cornell PhDs) "researchers" - which reads as "so-called researchers" to the native speaker - when their experiment was run like many, many others for well-understood practical reasons is not appropriate.