skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just stacking one bias on top of another. Wikipedia is not a credible source of information, especially when it comes to topics like politics or conspiracies, and refering to it selectively is a clear statement on its own.

IMHO it would be much more productive to tell people to be extremely sceptical towards everything they see on the internet. YouTube is very capable of launching a successful campaign to do that. I'm sure a lot of creators would jump on board, and, seeing what's most likely to go viral these days, it seems necessary. This is obviously in direct conflict with the business model of platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, since they rely on ad ravenue, so we're stuck with orwellian solutions like the one presented.
If you're at Little Caesars/Pizza Hut, that's not something you care about.
It is definitely a good idea to look at it independently because there might well be, say, some genes that cause mild case and, in combination with another gene that causes a debilitating one. Its important to not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
This touches on the fundamental debate whether autism is a disease or not. Your comment and especially comparing autism to not being able to read implies that but I personally think there might be parts of the autistic spectrum that do not fall under that definition.
It always boggles me that people scoff at the notion of people deferring many purchases and not investing at all in a deflationary economy because the relatively small fraction of spending which is necessary for survival is likely to be unaffected.
It’s interesting that their website doesn’t have info on the Equifax breach anymore.
The more each marine knows and the more tools each has at his/her disposable, the more flexible each individual and unit will be. Flexibility can be important in fighting.

A Marine unit with multiple materials and multiheaded 3D printers could print more than replacement parts for downed war fighting machinery. Specific weapons or other gear could be adapted to fit the situation.

For example, a particular part isn't working (like the altimeter in the previous comment) due to poor design in bad testing. Marines with access to the raw CAD files of the part could modify the cowling/housing shape to make it more visible. The finished model could be stress tested in a physics modeling program. When it passes, a metal part could be printed and installed. A thermistor could even be added to provide heat to stop frosting. If it works in one plane, it could be duplicated to the whole squadron. And this quick adaptability in changing design method could be applied to anything: backpacks that are the incorrect shape and cause backpain, bump stocks that cause damage on the recoil, or a new water checkvalve screen could be designed to better force water out of soaked boots and stop foot rot. The design work could even happen remotely back on the mainland with more design resources.

This could happen within 24hrs from a supply unit stationed just off the front lines doing most of the work. At the end of a 6month engagement, the vehicles, equipment and gear could all be substantially different than how they started.

This extreme adaptability could end up being a huge advantage.
>My neighbor's wife uses it for things like setting a timer for cooking, setting reminders, playing music, queries about things she and her kids are curious about, and ordering things on Amazon. She seemed pretty happy with its usefulness.

This is why I will never understand the appeal of these "smart assistants". All of the above can be done with simple voice command recognition that has existed for decades. Why do I need to send my commands through a third party selling my data and tracking me?
The company could show additional alternate sources of information under controversial elements in the future

Part of the problem is that it's really trivial to make something appear to be controversial, especially in the age of "balanced reporting" where both (multiple?) sides are given equal exposure even if one is deep in crackpot realm. Even things like "10/10 scientists agree" are prone to foment controversy -- why are all these scientists agreeing, who's paying them?
> It is quite another to have "outdated" (for lack of a better word) moral beliefs

There are plenty of better words. "Unfashionable" works.

> anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-<whatever>

I find it interesting that the left think of the right as the "anti" crowd, while the right think the same of the left.

> to _know_ that the majority of the country does not agree, and still somehow _expect_ that these views to be enforced in their little part of the world. It's a kind of selfishness that is not unique to small towns or their people by any means, but it is there.

First, the assumption that social conservatives are a clear minority and reside in a "small part of the world" doesn't really hold up. Second, minority or not, since when is a political group advancing their own interests "selfish"?
Thanks, we would appreciate any feedback you have.

Yeah we wanted to give people a chance to experience hypnosis first hand before making them commit to signing up. Sorry you feel that way, we believe having user accounts is integral for successfully using the app because it allows progression, stats, personalization etc.These help develop it as a habit which is fundamental for fully changing your deeply ingrained attitudes and perceptions.
That's not removing the right to return items, you're misunderstanding.

They're saying you can return items, and if the reason is defect or problem, then they can (as they should) wear the cost of that.

They're also saying that you can return an item, "because I don't like it/want it", and that's no fault of theirs, so you're free to return the item, but the cost of doing so is (and should be) yours.
The Nerve Agent Too Deadly to Use. Until Someone Did
Networks Within Networks: Optimization at Massive Scale
There’s not really any information in the article to back up the premise. They interview one worker who complains about getting in trouble when he messes up with new processes. In fact McDonalds directly contradicts the headline:

”McDonald’s and its franchisees haven’t seen an increase in crew turnover over the last year, nor is there a correlation between the new initiatives and turnover, spokeswoman Terri Hickey said in an emailed statement.”

I’m not sure what this article is meant to convey other than a vague swipe at progress.
> Perhaps as the pace accelerates, those affected will vote for politicians who want to tax automation revenue and fund safety nets.

Or, more simply, stop using high taxation on wage labor income to subsidize preferential taxation of capital income.
Jobs paid in cryptocurrencies
And if I don't want to jump through whatever random hoops message board nerds have erected and just decide not to disclose at all, exactly how are you better off?
That would imply that we've stopped evolving.
Heh, I did the same kind of thing with a government agency. Well, more like 50 addresses.

I got a few replies.

Now I'm filing an Access to Information request to see what happened with all of the emails.
I've seen this account (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1729Nv6pc) of someone after a 40 day fast that I think is 100% legitimate, judging by the amount of fat it looks like he's lost since posting this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX75osEh6MI) forty days prior.

At 9000kcal/kg, each kg of fat will feed you for 3-5 days, depending on your metabolism. This means you only need 8-13kg of fat and an admirable dose of willpower to last this long.

A minimal test of pranism as described would need to be of similar length so weight loss is visible, without showing weight loss. A true test would need to be 2-3 times as long.

The fact that you've done it a week or so proves nothing. You'd hardly notice the weight loss.
"a computer virus for the brain" - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SnowCrash
That’s a very unfavorable and disingenuous reading of my comment.

The portion of kaizendad’s comment that I replied to specifically mentioned “output”. I interpret this to mean economic benefit or “value”.

The time students spend in school is time they are not working. Children generate almost zero economic benefit until they are out of school and the type of person kaizendad references is likely to spend a lot of time in school. Their economic contributions probably do not start until their late 20s.

I think a persons maximum economic output is probability closer to middle age than their early adult years. Perhaps kaizendad and I simply misalign on the definition of “young”.
This sounds like every nightmare I've ever had about capitalism gone out of control.
If you fire everyone, wouldn't that stop the trains? I mean, you have to hire new people and get them trained on what to do?
If you actually listen to conservatives, we are continuously, clearly saying that we care about _illegal_ immigration. We want to vet who we allow into our home.
It's pretty unlikely that any particular system like Bitcoin will still be around in 100 years. It would be difficult to think of any investment that will still be worth something in 100 years. Buried gold perhaps?
Like some vegans I know, you make a good point, poorly.
As a small business owner I'd have to say E-Myth Revisited and Work the system.

Because once you learn systems thinking, you see the world totally differently and from a business point of view, understanding how their systems work is like getting to have a look at the source code of that business.
> outside a “let me try and see what it feels like” scenario.

And I imagine that's what anyone older than a young child would do.

If coffee makes it so you can't sleep, don't drink coffee.
So are vendors who release buggy drivers not "dicks" for the same reason that chip manufacturers aren't?
Taxing automation would raise prices and hurt the poor the most (McDonalds customers). It’s really not possible to outsmart the market.
Then why bother spam-posting in non-related HN threads?
> Some behaviors associated with autism are really results of having less social influence acting on one's self (due to both slower learning and isolation)

This isn't supported by the research, which shows that autistic people struggle with social communication even if you give them intense courses about how to be better at social communication.

What you're suggesting is dangerously close to the "refrigerator mother" hypothesis, and that caused harm to many people.
For the many commenters who clearly did not read the linked article, the issue is not automation eliminating workers' jobs but rather that workers are leaving due to the stress created by new technology such as mobile ordering vastly increasing their workloads without a corresponding increase in salary.

This is a problem because unemployment is currently very low, and the lack of staff leads to longer serving times which leads to fewer customers as they shift to competing chains which are properly staffed to handle crushes.
$125 per month is less than the cost of insurance paid by an Uber driver to insure his/her car for commercial rides.
Not laying off- just reducing headcount totals. I believe I am in the org being effected.

People keep moving to Alexa and not being back-filled.
Before Bamford, there was little in public about the NSA. ECHELON was total conspiracy theory.

So is the Israeli attack on USS Liberty during the Six-Day War still a conspiracy theory? I guess not, because there's a Wikipedia page. But it was denied for many years.
Anecdotally, it's certainly gaining market share. Most of my friends have an Echo/Alexa at home now (silicon valley selection bias disclaimer). Even though they do not use it much yet, I can see why Amazon would want to capitalize on this.
They don’t use any better or worse ingredients than other low end chains - it’s the quality of the assembly of the pizza by the workers.

Little C’s always seems to be full of air bubbles and uneven toppings and they serve up those hot n readies that have been in the warmer all day.
>Already, drive-through times at McDonald’s slowed to 239 seconds last year -- more than 30 seconds slower than in 2016, according to QSR magazine. It’s also pokier than Burger King, Wendy’s and Taco Bell.

Can someone describe what “pokier” means in this sentence?
Exactly. I'd love to use one of these in the kitchen to set timers and ask ingredient amounts -- so long as it was local only.
> Quite dangerously, it suggests that all people in that partition have 'the same problem'

At the moment there is little way to tell or reference whether a studied cohort happens to be on one end of the spectrum or the other, or mixed between. I'm mostly advocating on behalf of adults and parents of those on the higher functioning end of the spectrum (because I'm a part of that group), who not only have to deal with a general lack of good age-specific information, but ALSO a huge amount of false-positive data. Most support groups for example are for caretakers of those on the lower end of the spectrum. As a result, those who could use data on their side of the spectrum to help themselves, or advocate for their own care almost always have to deal with wrong or misleading information.

Imagine you had an incurable illness that was moderately debilitating to you, but in harsher cases would paralyze the victims. If you or your doctor wanted to look up how to treat your symptoms, you would only get tips on how to operate paraplegic bathrooms and support groups for caretakers. You try going to a support group with victims of the illness, but find them to be in a vastly more difficult position than you. Yet you still suffer. Its a feeling of loneliness that is really hard to express.
I don't like it.

There are some absolute lunatics posting their content out there, but that will always be the case. I don't think it's a problem that really needs solving. Even if it was, I don't think that this is a solution. If you are too quick to counter a statement, people may suspect that you have ulterior motives. If videos come along with these "corrections" many viewers will see that as proof that they're right and that the "mainstream" is trying to cover something up.

A video is a creative production. The creator makes it in a certain way for a certain reason. When the publisher interjects, tries to mold and reshape the content, provides their own commentary with it, that restricts the creator's artistic freedom over their content.

I don't expect that this pseudo-censorship (that's what it is - they're saying "we don't think your content is right, so we'll be giving your viewers what we think is right) will be applied neutrally, either. There are nutcases in all ideological directions, but I have a solid suspicion that these annotations will only be applied to those that are not in line with the "politically correct" zeitgeist.

Of course, YouTube is well within their rights to do whatever they want with their platform. This isn't at all an uncharacteristic development for them, either. They've consistently demonstrated that their only interest is money; they don't care for the small creators - or really even the viewers - all that much. If this is what keeps the advertisers happy then it's only the logical step for them.

I just don't like it.
As an example, lets look at Google Boulder office for software engineer.

https://careers.google.com/jobs#t=sq&q=j&li=20&l=false&jlo=e...

As of right now there are 5 postings. Software Engineer, Engineering manager, student research, and Software engineer new-graph/PhD.

That "Software Engineer" title covers many job levels and teams. I can't even imagine how many people are hired under that same title in Mountain View or other locations.
> There are very few high paying jobs
> There is limited access to medical care
> Local government ineptitude has a very real daily impact
> Small tax base means surprisingly high taxes, but real struggle to maintain infrastructure (especially schools)

Sounds like poor white and poor black Americans face fairly similar issues.

> “Traditional” upbringing, often religious based, that breed skepticism toward anything “foreign” - which means everything from non-white people to AirBnB.

The xenophobia of rural whites is vastly oversold. I've never heard of anyone around here afraid of AirBnB. The level of racism I've seen in white communities is on par with the level I've seen in black communities. Which is to say that there's an undercurrent, but not a hysteria.

> A fear that Washington DC really is a threat to their freedoms.

Do urban Americans really not feel this way? It certainly seemed otherwise during the summer of surveillance.

> For example, there is a view that gun laws aren’t really about guns, so much as a perception of a slippery slope toward totalitarianism.

It's not that gun laws aren't about guns. It's that the rights of citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government _should one arise_ is important enough to be included in our Bill of Rights. I still don't understand how those who believe that our current president is a totalitarian monster can't sympathize.
Yeah, that's an odd one.

I bought a Christmas gift for a family member at Toys R Us in King County WA and exchanged it in another county.

They refunded me 12c for the difference in sales tax between counties.
> Why would existence of a copy change anything? In programming it doesn't, yet you seem to argue it does.

It isn't the copy that changes things. It is the potential of a copy that makes it glaringly obvious that the result is not the same instance. If there is some process that makes a second me, I don't have access to the copy of me's thoughts. This proves second me isn't actually me because I'm still here, and we are trying to define what I am, and at-minimum, my definition of my consciousness does not include other consciousnesses which I don't have access to.

> Does that split identities into 2 and immediately kills one of them?

Yes.

While I think programming isn't perfect as an analogy, there is no other vein in which people think that has as many good metaphors for this. On the contrary, I think these corner cases are where you can actually refine your reasoning about these things. I think many of your corner cases are really useful because it is entirely conceivable that many could leave the realm of silicon and enter the world of flesh and blood (like memory merges, etc).
Not an expert in this, but I'm thinking this is usually handled by switching to a non-backtracking regexp engine. Otherwise, any such validator would depend on details of the regexp engine's implementation.
Sick burn, dude.
I was skeptical before as well! I first came across its legitimacy in the 'Science Vs.' podcast ep on hypnosis.

On our site we've compiled some of the latest research into hypnosis and it's effectiveness. http://www.themindsetapp.com/science/

The research field is still quite young but the evidence is coming in fast. Once we reach a certain scale and funding we will also conduct research specifically into the effectiveness of app-based hypnosis but we believe it would be aligned with the effectiveness of hypnosis in general.
AFAIK, it's frequently linked to anxiety, and SSRIs do a good job of treating it.
As I say in my comment, McDonalds states that there is no additional turnover tied to new initiatives. The article fails to make the case it’s trying to make instead opting for a single anecdote by a worker. No data is provided that would tie new tech to increased turnover.
> Each of those people generated $97,000 in revenue

McDonalds crew members make $8.50 an hour. That's $17,680 at 40 hours a week.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/McDonald-s-Salaries-E432.ht...
Makes sense. I did read that blog before, but I just can't keep thinking about just the cost of storing that much text on disc, even if it was compressed, would quickly add up.

Maybe my mental math is failing me (or I'm overestimating how many messages there are), but that still seemed expensive.

In the end, as long as you don't go out of business, because I'd be very very sad :)
Congress passed a law barring the transfer of those prisoners to stateside facilities from Guantanamo, and their home countries refused to accept them (nor were they legally obligated to do so). Under traditional international law, the US would have been within its rights to execute these individuals rather than simply jailing them in relatively plush accommodations.

You really should do some basic research before you try to argue out of your rear on this.
Alternate formulation:

Trade 99% chance of seeing tomorrow even if terminally ill for a 100% chance of not seeing tomorrow and a chance of resurrection which probability-wise is on a par with $insertreligionhere being broadly correct about the afterlife.
Slow.

Look up the work poky - this is a derivative of that.
Which people? Surely not all people.
Please find the marked wasted space at the screenshot below (Yellow markup): https://i.imgur.com/EKJ4VHJ.jpg

1. Is it really necessary to say “Apple Music” on top!? We know it’s Apple Music. Also "Get all the music you want" tag line is unnecessary.

2. Huge amounts of wasted space above “Browse”.

3. Space on the right of “Browse”

4. If the category/genes string length is small, why take up the entire bottom half of the screen?

5. Row spacing is excessively large

I understand that white space has a tremendous value in design especially when you have screen real estate and valid reasons. On a phone, I want maximal density of information so I don’t have to go into a hierarchy try while I need to quickly do something. Flatter UI hierarchy is preferred over deeper obfuscation of branches.

There is so much I could say. In fact, I might write a blog post explaining why Apple Music’s UI is one of the worst of any App I have ever used. I will explain and provide mock ups of the design.
Autism is especially difficult to categorize as a disease or even a negative, but even when you can relatively easily label something as a technical disability, like deafness, there are perfectly valid reasons why the folks affected would be pretty strongly opposed to a cure. Any issue pertaining to identity is always going to be a very sensitive one.
Home automation is something that can be handy. Example: When I'm watching a movie, I like all the lights nearby to be off. Being able to say "Turn off TV lights" and have specific lights turn off is nice (and expensive - all those smart switches cost money).

Being able to make a sound when an action occurs (e.g. garage door opens alerting you that someone has arrived home) is nice.

Not sure what else. But satisfaction seems to be high. I think it falls squarely into the category of "Seems not worth the expense, but once I have it, it is kinda convenient".

(I do not own one).
A tension pneumothorax is sort of similar when this happens in the chest - I suppose this is a tension pneumocranium.
Wow, how hard is it to say 7am?

This is new tech, I think your expectations are a little too high. Remember windows 3?
A Chrome extension that extends your search results from GitHub with added info
Fast food is the absolute worst job a person can possibly have in the United States. It destroys your body, kills your spirit, and pays less than nothing when you consider the lack of health benefits and high possibility of injury. I did it for years before learning to code, and it's work that no human being should have to do. I don't know what will come next for low skilled people, but I know the world will be a better place when we've reached a point technologically that humans are free from this kind of labor.
what? you sure you thought this through? So instead of having one kitchen producing pizzas all day long, you cut off half (or worse) of that productive time for traveling around?

All this complexity just to save on the cost of having some land to put a bunch of ovens sounds absolutely ludicrous.