skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>This is why trained professionals exist. This is literally why.

Trained Professional exist to advise and recommend. Even in healthcare doctors are not dictators, they advise their patients on the best course of action it is then up to the individual to either follow that advice or not. I assume you oppose that, and believe doctors should have legal authority over their patients who should not be given any choices and should be compelled to do anything the doctor orders

So my question to you is why to you hate individualism and individual freedom? Following that how far does that extend, to you believe in a pure technocracy where decisions and public policy are selected on the basis of "trained professionals " in their areas of responsibility, particularly scientific knowledge with out considerations for personal liberty, rights or choices?
The alternative would be $80 or $100 AAA games.

Or lowering production costs. Less reliance on expensive licenses and must-be-bigger-than-the-last-one sequels and more original content instead would be a good starting point.
Definitely still an issue in Italy, this [1] is from barely 2 weeks ago. From what the owner said in one of the many interviews on local press, they do it through the tour operator rather than directly: their contracts have clauses that hotels can invoke to be compensated if "offended", and in turn the operators do the same with customers.

Listening to the other side of the argument, apparently hotels are now routinely blackmailed by customers, who explicitly ask for special threatment "or else".

This sounds a lot like a classic "why we cannot have nice things".

[1] [ITA] http://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/bologna/cronaca/hotel-multe-...
His issue was "racist meme with spelling mistake" which is not about them being poorer or less articulate. The part about them promoting racist memes is not just a function about being poor or less articulate or less educated. Only spelling mistake part has something to do with education.

Plenty of rich educated people are racists.

Turning it into him making them depressed (are they even depressed?) Is quite unfair and waaay to much benefit of doubt to them and waaay too little to him.. It is not his fault they believe in whatever that racist meme promoted.
Almost everything you interact with was designed and built by people like you. Understanding why those things work the way they do, and are made the way they are, is powerful.

You don't need permission from someone else to start working on something that interests you, nor do you need to know everything about how to start.
100% behind your point. You are so much putting yourself and others in danger with using internet connected devices. Why don't you only use VPN secured services to text. Fitness tracking is like a luxury problem that puts alot of people at risk.
Part of it is seeing movies 3 months before DVD. Discount for delay happens in other entertainment industries--like video games.
Different people appreciate different things and to different degrees. What I really enjoy you might very well hate. So it does not make much sense to compare your life (and achievements) to that of others - there is no objective metric to go by!

Next time you stay awake, go get a piece of paper and pen, and think back on your travels and current life. What things have you learned that you enjoy doing (especially things that surprise you)? What things have your learned that you don't enjoy (especially things that are often considered desirable/good)?

From there you might be able to come up with some guidelines for how to chose your path forward.
And you will probably realize that your traveling years has taught you a lot about the most important thing - yourself!
>I went to a school where scholastic aptitude was something you hid, if you were smart.

That's a very common experience I'm actually surprised to hear that it's ever any other way.

To go a bit historical materialist on you, I think that if you took the kids at your old school and made them ten times better at thinking and ten times worse at everything else, their values would re-adjust so that they felt valuable again. People balance their values between the need to have a target to work towards and the desire to not feel terrible all the time - if you're very bad at something you're unlikely to find it an appropriate goal or a comfortable self-measure.
It's entirely bullshit that they keep your credit card info and can charge you at their whim. It's another reason that payment type needs to be abandoned.
I did read the comment, that's why I refereed back to it with an "as you say".
The classical Trivium, https://www.classicalconversations.com/trivium-education.htm

Questions or Answers? http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
Most operating systems are more evolved than designed
I'm surprised that using a GPS tracking tool is permitted in forward operating bases. I guess I would think that if one guy runs around the base with Strava, it actually is an issue.
I think a lot of this behaviour can be attributed to how the US treats sick leave - unpaid.

However, the quality and quantity of medication ads in the US has truly amazed me when I visited. I wouldn't want to be a hypochondriac over the big pond, because the TV ads were so suggestive.
>neither actor realized that they were in aggregate revealing sensitive information ahead of time.

right, but what i'm saying is that i don't believe this. I'm sure every military has rules about uploading GPS tracking of soldier's movements to civilian websites, and those rules are being disobeyed or not being enforced.

and if the military doesn't care, i'm not sure why strava (or HN) should.
Easy, once there is even a "baseline" of health services that becomes a platform to start restricting and taxing other things deemed to effect health. Things like smoking, Soft Drinks, high fat or high sugar foods, exercise mandates, and a variety of other public policies around "health" become justified because of public funding for healthcare.

Now I am sure most people including you are going to agree with these public policies but again I am an individualist and believe in personal choice and freedom rare in today world of Nanny State's and collectivism
Sorry, which tax was proposed that specifically targetted only IKEA?
The first quoted instance is still apparently an ongoing case[1] as of this month, so it's not exactly settled.

[1] http://www.bcdemocrat.com/2018/01/04/former-abbey-inn-owner-...
There's also the section where they describe intentionally skirting laws by using AI to perform actions that would be illegal for a human.

This entire presentation feels dirty.
Maybe phones need IRC clients.
I completely stopped browsing YouTube years ago and only visit it for specific songs/videos - the pervasiveness of the advertising/product placement is worse than broadcast TV.
lol, parental involvement is a good thing! You're doing a great job at the parenting.
I strongly disagree. If you are 16 and it seems like you won't be able to get living and there is stigma attached to living with parents, worrying about it is sign that you think about world around you. That is healthy.

16 years old are not necessary movie dumbos. It is time when people form opinions and think a lot. The result does not have to be hapiness, if indeed expectations on you and your possibilities don't match.
> having discovered atheism at such a tender age, they are left hopeless and desolate.
(emphasis mine)

What??

As if atheists were monsters.

As an atheist (more agnostic actually - I cannot be sure no gods exist), your answer feels interesting but also surprising, very saddening and actually chocking.

Let's not make atheists look like evil people who make children depressed. This is not OK.

I never needed to have any "faith" to be happy. Solving my problems actually seems to be the solution to my happiness, not to believe or have faith in anything. On the other side, a big part of many religions seems to involve thinking about death and guilt. This can seem depressing and desolating from the point of view of an atheist. Can you imagine an atheist child being exposed to such a desolating way of seeing life? What happens when this child learns that there have been wars about such things as religions when the claim is that they are about tolerence? The child have rights to feel outright disoriented (guess what: I have been such a child).

Fortunately, one people I know is very positive in their life (the most by far) and also happens to be a believer, and most people (including believers) I know are fine people and against wars, so I understand that believers do not have to approach religions like this.

Anyway, though your example is insightful and enlightening, you could have made your point with a way better example. Or your point was the wrong one.
Here's why Finland doesn't like DST.

In the south of Finland (like Helsinki), in the summer, the sun rises at 4am and sets at 11pm. The entire night is twilight, and it doesn't get completely dark at all.

In the winter, the sun rises at 9:15am and sets at 3:15pm. At it's height, the sun barely rises above the trees.

In the northern parts of Finland, things are even more extreme: for a long period of time in the summer, the sun doesn't set at all [1]. Similarly in the winter, the sun won't rise at all [2].

Therefore, for the Finnish people, DST is mostly useless. In the summer there is no shortage of daylight in the evening or in the morning. In the winter it's going to be dark in the morning, and dark in the afternoon anyway.

For most of the year, there's nothing be gained by moving the clocks around.
Moving the clocks mostly throws your sleep cycles off for a few days. Especially families with small children seem to get hit especially hard by this.

That all said, perhaps Finland should not move to totally abolish DST, since some people in southern Europe appear to like it. At the very least, though, northern EU states should be allowed to opt out of DST.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_night
Interestingly, in Europe, NSAIDs like ibuprofen are frequently paired with vitamin C, because the addition of vitamin C has been shown to protect the stomach from damage [1]. Not sure why this apparently doesn't exist in the US.

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/aspirin-and-vi...
One I instilled in my own children: People do things for a reason. In most cases, that reason is about them, not you. In most cases, finding out why they do things will get you further in resolving interpersonal problems than just assuming malfeasance.
They use fake hives mixed in with real hives in the fences, probably to prevent exactly that
If only there were an AWS service that existed purely for solving these exact problems so that your most technically talented employees could spend time working on your product instead of dicking around with linux kernel settings.
I kind of disagree, at least in what concerns the Plan 9 lineage, Inferno was way better.

Sadly it appears most people just stop at the middle, instead of the last version of Plan 9's evolution.
tracking fitness and tracking location aren't the same thing.
> I assume you oppose that, and believe doctors should have legal authority over their patients

This is a weakly constructed strawman. The gulf between doctors compelling behavior and society not enabling obviously self-destructive ones is wide.

Which you should know. And yet, the disingenuity is p. strong in here, so I'm gonna go with do know rather than should know.

> So my question to you is why to you hate individualism and individual freedom?

I "hate" individualism because I find selfishness to be base; in my experience the proportion of people who crow about "individualism" and who aren't in it to hurt those with fewer advantages than they have is a rounding error. And the freedom to ramp yourself into opioid dependence is not a meaningful freedom.

> with out considerations for personal liberty, rights or choices?

This degree of oh so you must believe silliness is some /r/iamverysmart stuff. C'mon.
Each division there is some probability p the cell gets an error that can contribute to cancer. Anything that increases the number of divisions or p will increase the chances of cancer.
Walkmans and metal bands came after TV. In fact so did miniskirts and the Beatles, each of which were also decried as the end of civilization in their turn.

Nonetheless, just because people have been saying "the world's going down the shitter" for a long time, doesn't mean it's not.
A torte is a kind of cake.

I think you may mean "tort".
The distribution might not be what you expect because heavy users are people who use a stream as background music and let it play it all day. It's not like reading books or watching movies where heavy users are the most obsessed users.

It might make some sense to charge for the number of different songs played each month, though this would tend to encourage channels that repeat songs more often (to save money), and perhaps for artists to record more variations on basically the same song.

Incentives are tricky. When making rules like this, you have to think about how it might be gamed.
The real cost of continuing to run Windows.
And, on the other other hand, there's a reason why Tencent is the largest gaming company in the world now, and it seems to involve free games that are mostly / overwhelmingly pay-to-win.
How does Shazam work? (2015)
The human brain uses about 20W, for everything.
Thanks! I don't disagree with anything you said. I guess that, in my mind, it just seems that we'll never move forward as a society until we stop sorting people into boxes, especially boxes defined by arbitrary things like skin color. That is not the only variable. Why don't we focus on all the causes of disenfranchisement? There's clearly a macro-scale correlation between racial background/history and one's opportunities in society, but at the micro-scale the picture is so much more complex than that. A hyperfocus on race oversimplifies the problem, contributes to division, and hinders progress toward real solutions. I think we owe it to future generations to raise them with a broader understanding of these matters.

Maybe I'm overreacting here. If so, my apologies -- perhaps it's because of the sociopolitical milieu where I live. Anyway, I mean no offense to anyone. Like many others, I'm just trying to work through these issues as honestly as I can -- because dishonesty doesn't help anyone.

:-)
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Random Conjecture: the most efficient way to build a new intelligent entity is through the process that we’ve been familiar with all this time — natural birth.

Intuition: to truly achieve all of the functions of the human brain and neurons, the most efficient structure is one that is biological or simulates our biological composition. There is likely no process (energy and material-wise) to produce human cells at the same fidelity as simply having sex and giving birth.
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This. is. why. marketing. is. so. important.

If people can't find what you're selling, or don't know why they need it, they won't buy it.

So, think about how whatever you build is going to be distributed. Think about leveraging different channels that aren't being used by incumbents. Think about whether your product is a vitamin or an antibiotic.
> The batteries actually take dc to charge.

Yeah, I'm aware of that; I guess I didn't think that charging the battery in pulses (direct from a beefy rectifier, followed by a the DC transformer) would be incorrect or unreasonable. I'm guessing it's harder than I thought to build a high-rated rectifier.
The US Government has national defense responsibilities. Providing such exploit information to Chinese companies, many with strong ties to the PLA and other government organs, without notifying your own government first, seems irresponsible.
>>So why would you think she would have been better off taking drugs against pain that she didn't have?

Never said she should have or would have been better off. I am making the claim that choice should have been hers and hers alone after getting advice from professionals.

Doctors could have told her "You do not need them, here are the reasons why" that is fine. the legal prohibition is what I have a problem with

>Real pain is treated here in Germany

That is not my understanding and I have known a couple people that have come to the US for pain management because they were unable to get it in the EU, I dont know if they were in Germany or not however. My understanding is that many EU nations have very strict and subject definition as to what "real pain" is. This is evidenced by the personal stories being told here how people "went through X and did not need pain meds" that is fine for them, people have different tolerance levels for different types of pain, and a tooth extraction may be a minor pain for some people and excruciatingly painful for others, yet most of these nations treat pain based on the average response by type of procedure not in individualized reactions.
That's technically not correct, since RF-induced tissue heating can absolutely cause all sorts of cell damage. As far as I know there have been some indicators that cancer can be caused by RF tissue heating.

However, the field strength generated by everyday devices are regulated to levels that are thought not to generate a relevant heating effect in typical use.

Additionally, looking at your phone means it is an appreciable distance away from the brain, unlike using a phone as a phone.
Kernel Newbies changelog: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.15
In US law iirc libel requires something to be factually false, correct?

So you can only be sued for libel against the hotel if you leave a false bad review with the intent to damage the business? I don’t have a big problem with that.

The idea that I couldn’t review them badly before letting them address the problem, due to some fine print that’s unacceptable.

Even having to tell hotel management about some problem is already a bad experience. You don’t get two chances.
>Then, the researchers gave each participant nasal drops containing rhinovirus 39, one of the viruses responsible for the common cold, sequestered them in separate hotel rooms for five days and asked them to record how they felt.

I... don't understand how ethics boards work.
If Tether really had $1 in the bank for every 1 USDT issued, they could set essentially infinite purchase orders at $0.99 - they'd make a penny on each purchase. They'd have a similar huge sell order at $1.01 for the same reason.
The article says this is not limited to an economic class
This is a great project, thank you :)
Isn't the simplest option to cancel the payment with the credit card company, in case they charged more than what was on the bill?
Everything is allowed unless it's prohibited. Legislators aren't seers, and courts only rule on real cases before them, not hypotheticals. So both the judicial and legislative avenues of lawmaking are mostly reactive.

This is almost always a good thing, as the underlying tradeoffs of a policy are more likely to come into focus once you have examples of real people on all sides of a real controversy, with concrete gains and losses.

What you'll find is that there's typically some very broad law on the books, e.g. banning vague categories of anti-competitive behavior. Then the lower courts will hear a bunch of cases of varying similarity, a few get appealed here and there, and you eventually end up with stronger guidance as to a more specific issue.
I see your point and indeed there is little to be gained in the extreme north; people are already chronically light stressed and a small sleep shock with no real daylight benefits could have the claimed psychological effects.

But this is not the case for the vast majority of the Europe's population. Why would DST be mandatory anyway? We are already using different timezones, I doubt it would disrupt trade, airtrafic or anything if an EU country does not change timezones when others do.
Random Conjecture: the most efficient way to build a new flying entity is through the process that we’ve been familiar with all this time — natural birth.
Now try hotplugging an external display.
ok you didn't guess what I mean. OP is also voting with their feet: now that this is published they can't lie and say they also run laps around their house, if they're known to wear a fitbit and claim they wear it while running - but there's:

>"Yes, there is a bright line on Strava that leads from a spiderweb of trails in the park right to the door of my private, personal house! "

... and not to laps around it, ever. So their voting with their feet is recorded plainly for everyone to see. Doubt they checked "Share my personal steps (location) history with entire world" in any agreement - nobody would check that box any more than anyone would check a Gmail box "Allow Google to publish all contents of my Google account, including all chats and emails, with entire world."

But their attitude is "so what - people could see that information anyway". It's exactly the same attitude as "so what - if anyone asked me I'd be happy to tell them I'm a [Democrat/Republican]". Please judge their sentiment here (attitude) as that is what I am comparing.

Would you agree it's the same attitude?
I'd guess they are just engaged in the subject enough and confident enough.

This could mean any of the following:

- the lecture has the right pace for them (too smart and they doze off, so I'd say it's smartness+pace)

- they are genuinely interested

- the teacher is a good match for them
Cyber Security week in 3 minutes – 2018 Week 4
Ok, we'll switch the title above to past tense, which leaves open the possibility that it still happens.
Pain is definitely undertreated in Germany (e.g. dentist).

It is overtreated in the US. I had two Surgeries in the US and was given stuff like Vicodin to take home. Never took it. Would have rated the pain 0 out of 10. But I am very pain tolerant.
From what I understand shipping is still an industry that operates between a few connected people. You still can barely go online and book a set of containers onto a ship, you call someone you have a relationship with. I assume that’s a big part of it.
> Not even the "low-level", "predictable" C and C++ mandate particular implementations

But at least with C and C++ a developer can test the performance before deployment.
As in, were they fast enough to be used with other layouts? Yeah, but this was back when letters were dictated- secretaries didn't go switching to dvorak. Any typewriter could technically use any layout, since you'd just have to swap out the characters.

The biggest advantage of the selectric was that you could swap out the ball to get different characters or fonts. The ability to get italics was a pretty big deal.

Here's Bill Hammond talking about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCNenhcvpw
I'm not a huge fan of Limbo and most of the other changes aren't very compelling imo. I think plan9 is better.
On both Android and iOS, you can add any url to your home screen (https://www.howtogeek.com/196087/how-to-add-websites-to-the-...)
This is ridiculous. Depressed and filled with existential dread over seeing pictures of rich people on yachts, really? Do you feel that way every time you pass by a large house or see an expensive car on the road too?
You mean migrate to GCE?
>People balance their values between the need to have a target to work towards and the desire to not feel terrible all the time

Yes. This is something I do consciously... but also poorly. It would not surprise me at all if most people do something like that, consciously or not.
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