skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following is all in my philistine opinion.

The problem with philosophy is that science has crowded out most of the good stuff. Who cares about a philosophy of chemical reactions when we have chemistry? Philosophy is useful around issues which don’t admit to empirical study, or for which study yields inconclusive results. In the words of Feynman, “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”

Unfortunately instead of sticking to ethics, morality, and other hazy constructs, too often philosophers think they have something useful to say about everything. The result is a lot of bloviation and self-satisfaction with very little substance.

Hence the “boil it down to a single page” issue.

Edit: My biggest problem with philosophy is that I can imagine a sufficiently advanced civilization which has testable answers to the questions posed by philosophy. I distrust a field of study which proposes to produce something which amounts to a placeholder until scientists do the real, hard work. To go back to my initial example, the philosophy of chemistry became a pointless endeavor with the death of alchemy, and the birth of chemistry.
absolutely - I've been delayed, then further held up while they apply more deicing fluid. Stupid Canadian winters...
Depending on the flight, a "taxi" time long enough to trigger the three-hour rule is already a major waste. Remember that not every plane has its tanks fully topped up every time it lands, and that every minute the plane spends with its engines running prior to actually taking off is a minute that it's burning fuel.

I've been on flights that had to return to a gate to refuel because they spent long enough on the ground after pushing back that they could no longer reach the destination. In at least a couple of cases the long delay was predictable from conditions at the time boarding began, but the airline went ahead and literally burned money in pursuit of closing the door on time.
The system is only an abstraction though, only existing in the mind of the observer, e.g. the Chinese speaker outside the room. The man's brain is processing the information, even if he doesn't understand its meaning. You seem to be arguing that consciousness arises whenever information is processed by whatever means, and is a property of the process and not the processor per se. It's an interesting argument but I'm not convinced by it.
Late-blooming startups can still thrive
UC's have an endowment (~$10B), and for UCLA (where I work), the state funds contribute to about 6% of revenues. Tuition is only about 10%.
Would be really cool if you considered booking your script to something like algosaur.com
I got fed up with Twitter's lack of enthusiasm in blocking these accounts so I whipped up a quick proof of concept a while ago. The amount of trivial-to-detect cryptocurrency scams in replies to popular accounts was so high that I put together a hacky PoC: https://gist.github.com/lorenzhs/864353c202112a38de17ed054f3... -- the scammers' messages have changed now, the messages no longer match that particular filter, but it worked for weeks without Twitter doing anything.
You didnt answer the vaccine question, nor the rate of growth topic, look at the chart again, it looks more exponential than linear:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/2928N.png
Even if you're logged in there's a good chance you won't be able to find the image at all. Due to outdated Google index or some other issue I'm not sure...super annoying though.
My pleasure, and I’d just add two more things; sometimes Rx users will venture into the world of the black market, and get more than they bargained for. More commonly though, a disproportionate number of overdoses are found among people who had been in recovery. Their tolerance is reduced, they chase their dragon at old doses, and it levels them.
Some engines (such as Rotax) can be run on mogas, available at gas stations. Obviously you then need to transport it to the airport yourself, which isn't always convenient.
I remember reading a study saying that middle management had the most stressful jobs. The worst stress is caused when you have responsibility without power. CEO's have a lot of responsibility, but they also have a lot of power.
Yes. Article 22[1] gives you the right to not be subject to a decision made solely by automated processing which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

[1]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/
I like that trick; might just have to adopt it myself! I've heard of it being applied to other things like sweets (e.g. you can have dessert but make your own from scratch, don't buy junk food). Just putting that extra obstacle in the way helps to avoid mindless consumption. Plus you probably end up enjoying it all the more when you have to work for it.
2 years ago I had a boil on my neck that lingered for months. It shrank to nearly nothing within a week or two of tea tree oil.

But now I'm worried about manboobs. So far so good though.
>Race and gender are almost always used to describe people. "My landlord, who's a black guy, <STORY DETAIL THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING BLACK OR BEING A MAN>"

I don't refer to people primarily by their race, and I don't recall my friends doing so. While I don't deny that sort of conversation happens, it's probably not as idiomatic as you seem to believe.

I'm sure you can understand how easily a stereotype like that can fail when applied to a country as populous and diverse as the US.
I used to wonder why New York subways were somehow a high crime area. I thought, surely they're such small closed places that if there's a crime, the police can just block the exits and check everyone leaving, or look at the CCTV footage to identify them. But then I found out that they don't do that! Americans are so concerned about privacy, they let themselves get robbed and murdered every day.

It's clear that they don't trust their own police. That's perhaps the real problem. If they could be made trustworthy like in many other countries, people would probably be happy to have murders solved through video footage, cellphone locations, etc. It amazes me that even one person on here thinks this is a bad idea. Real killers would have got away otherwise. This isn't some wild NSA anti-terrorism dragnet, it's just normal police work collecting normal evidence specific to the crime.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. One general exception I have is that the backlash is disproportionately targeting big tech/silicon valley, when the backlash should be more societal in nature. Yes, tech should look at making improvements and implementing checks and balances but at what point do we accept responsibility for our actions and stop trying to pawn off our own insecurities, biases, and dark impulses to some far off tech company?
for ublock origin it's `##a[href*="pinimg"]` to filter on google image search.
It's not just arrogant, it's disappointing.

I could ask you to answer 'the big questions', to tell us what life means or what the teleological truth about our creators or why we seem to all broadly agree on quality of artwork but can't seem to write down the rules of agreement. But you only have those answers for yourself. Further, if the answers which make sense to you can fit on a single page, they likely don't make sense to anybody else.

While you're not a solopsist, you haven't really advanced the state of the discussion.
Yeah, I've been sporadically trying them out for many many years and never lasted a week, until last year. I use DDG exclusively since half a year now and rarely even feel compelled to use !g google redirect. Congrats @yegg and the team!
I think you're looking at this in exactly the wrong way: Pinterest is already getting special treatment and it's positive special treatment. I think that any other site that didn't have the clout of Pinterest would get explicitly downranked for this kind of behavior if it became as apparent.
Because some statistical analysis showing a particular entity is an outlier isn't sufficient evidence to prove they are drug dealers. It is enough to start an investigation, of course.
I got my start at Glendale Community College (number 4 on that list). From there, I went on to UCLA, NASA/JPL, and, now, Google. It has been quite the journey. I wasn’t born in the US, nor was I from a wealthy or educated family (at one point we were on foodstamps, but reached ‘middle’ class by the time I started high-school). Though, in comparison, my parent’s journey has been a much longer one, where they were born in a third world country as second class citizens—-into the life of subsistance farming in a remote village on land they did not own.

The “inferiority complex” is real until you get to your new destination, and realize the people at UCLA or JPL or Google aren’t very different from you. Furthermore, projects/institutions that you have put on a pedestal since childhood are a lot less “magical” once you have seen how the sausage is made.

I’ve met exceptional people from Cal State schools and people I wouldn’t hire from MIT. At this point, I find the school a person graduated from, for undergrad, to be a weak signal at best; and in many cases their grad school as well.
This brings up a great point. Why does Google not just extract whatever information Pinterest is providing and provide that directly in Google Images as SERP? If none of the content in Pinterest is original, what value are they providing the user?

Pinterest is the "experts-exchange.com" of digital imagery, except EE at least had (gated) original content.
I’d add that failing as a middle manager gets you fired with very little, while failing as a CEO gets you fired with a golden parachute. Failing as a CEO also seems to do little to harm your future prospects.
Ah, that’s a pretty good theory, thanks.
I assumed as much am not belittling the skills of a non-native speaker. I was just sort of surprised that a project that has been around so long hasn’t had better attention paid to its docs (my biggest FOSS experience is with PostgreSQL which is a bit of an outlier in just how good its docs are).
The bots are manipulating the trending topics which means they're driving the kinds of conversations happening on twitter.
3. it divides Asians against other people of color. So white students can be admitted at lower GPAs and SAT scores than Asian students without upsetting them.
Why don't you want the police to be able to find your when there's a crime? What if you're the victim of a kidnapping? Or murder that goes unsolved because Google wouldn't tell them who did it?
Great series of podcasts. I came to know about these from watching this video that I found at someplace. If you have five minutes, I bet you will really enjoy it.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Are you aware that many ICOs give free torkens to people who share a specific tweet or tweet a specific url?
Yeah, it was covered in the mainstream media (but it's old news, from 2013):

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-g...

Even in the Israeli media (paywall, but the above article references this publication):

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-ethiopians-fool...
You're really only talking about a minority of CEOs here. Most of the time, failing as a CEO will mean the end of your career.
soapmaker here. While lavender oil is nice to have, its also rather cost prohibitive in what i believe would be a compelling dose to elicit this type of response.

as for tea tree oil, im in favor of phasing this out entirely as it seems to serve no real purpose in cosmetics and is actually somewhat toxic to humans. Its had a number of folk remedies, such as a cure for syphilis and a tincture to reduce boils, but none of these have succeeded in scientific testing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_tree_oil#Safety

most cold process soaps will fragrance at 3-5% the weight of the actual oil. I can speak from experience that 5% tea tree oil soap is vile. The final product emerges with an acrid fragrance not unlike pine floor cleaner, and each bar is brittle enough to crack if dropped. many crack during the curing process, and the final product has a texture similar to the gear shift on a cheap car.
I think that in philosophy, unlike other fields, one can get very far with little studying, possibly closer to truth than someone who did a lot of it.

(Posting under a different username because I got "you're posting too fast" error.)
I used cvs, svn and git, sequentially when they were most popular. Every step along the way was a big improvement, and the step from svn to git is a much bigger improvement than cvs to svn.

Svn is a pile of crap. Remote operations take ages. Switching branches takes ages. Applying the same diff to multiple branches - you're better off extracting your own diff files and applying them manually. In fact creating branches is such a PITA you just don't bother. Stashing work in progress - again, create your own diff files. Svn was such a pile of crap I built my own system to extract and restore diffs of work in progress, as well as a tool using 3-way diffs for handling conflicts when base moved on after I needed to restore my diff.
The medium-term future of the automobile industry is definitely in the electric engines and drivetrains. If you don't see that, you either live in some parallel universe or just don't understand the market at all. You're welcome to prove all of us wrong by shorting Tesla and all other elecric car companies.
One thing I noticed was that the guy who tested the shots from a Silvia was very proud of his scientific rigor, but never bothered to test (or at least he didn't mention it) whether there was lead in the water he put into the machine to begin with. Which for me renders his results meaningless.
Ask HN: Which news sources do you consider the most and least reliable?
A construction project is overdetermined to a degree that few other enterprises are. In terms of compensation, an hour of a practicing structural engineer (aside from Calatrava & co.) is worth about as much as a carpenter's (who's paid his dues, so at about the same level of investment as engineer's into his profession). In terms of know-how or sweat equity or risk minimization, it's near impossible to say who, if anyone, contributes disproportinately more than others.
This is where relativity comes in.

What's good or bad? You can't compare anything too distant or you loose sight of the differentiation.

That stone is mater just like my brain but one was assembled molecularly a long time ago and the other evolved and was likely billions of molecules from around the planet at the time the stone formed.

I have info in my brain that's really only useful to me from a distance but truely only useful to my cortex, but my boss likes what I do with it for him. He says I do a good job but his competitors think it's all bad and some of my employees also attribute my success as a bad thing. But is that thing they consider bad me or something relative to them and not apples to apples to what my boss considers good?
I really like this! Too bad XMPP didn't become more popular, and unfortunately it feels like it is slowly dying rather than getting more widespread. Like any other open protocol.

For some reason it didn't work the first time I tried, the website just waited forever even though I confirmed the token. The second try worked fine, using Pidgin, with manual confirmation.
‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
Suspicious campaign payments to Trump companies sum to Stormy Daniels' payout
> or why we seem to all broadly agree on quality of artwork

That's really just a biology / neuroscience / psychology question.
The third sentence explicitly states what rule Pinterest breaks....
When foreign countries stop heavily subsidizing their airlines, sure. It’s not free trade to allow subsidized products into your country, it’s economic lunacy.
I took up watercolor painting this year without any painting experience, and I'm having a blast. I began with cheap paint and brushes despite hearing that professional quality tools are better. Now I'm gradually buying better supplies. As a result, there's two points of value I feel I gained through this method:

1. I was able to start with very low cost, and could fearlessly practice without the regret of wasting expensive product. (With that said, I acknowledge that watercolor painting is already one of the least expensive ways to paint)

2. As I upgrade my paints and brushes, I'm learning why professional tools are better. There are pretty clear differences between cheap and expensive paint, but without experiencing both, one can't really evaluate their value.

I think it's really a matter of setting expectations. If one starts by suffering to achieve perfection, they'll probably quit. I think they'd better serve themselves by finding joy in the act itself, and letting that feeling drive improvement. Even masters fail to achieve true perfection from time to time.
here, reliable means balanced and trustworthy.

if possible, also break down analysis by tech, business, and general news.
4 Common Data Fallacies That You Need to Know
Steve Jobs' Daughter to Write a Memoir
So is this:

Humans reproduce.
Trees reproduce.
Humans should reproduce with trees.

Just because something is logical doesn't mean it makes sense.
FedEx Follows Amazon into the Robotic Future
> It’s pretty hard to imagine those laws coming to the US in our lifetimes with all the corporate interests that would oppose them

...or with the large number of ordinary citizens who would oppose them or be indifferent to them. People here tend to have their privacy/safety balance set quite a bit more toward the "privacy" side than do most people.

Where most people draw the line, I think, is when surveillance is looking into their homes. Being surveilled when they are out and about in public does not bother them much.
I used to have a similar scheme for passwords. It only works well as long as one uses the same pattern for all passwords though.

This starts to break once you want to or need to change a password. I had to abandon the scheme once haveibeenpwned.com noticed me of a breach including one of my passwords. I could either remember a new pattern for that one site or change passwords of all my sites.

I chose to do the latter and used random passwords created by a password manager. That way I avoided running into the same problem again.
Which is more respectful to the wood, a half-finished and unused cabinet or an aesthetically flawed but useful one?
Roughly one in four Americans is online ‘constantly’ – Recode
Note: this was an April fools day joke.
Unless it's hobby, not sure how pragmatic idea is to program in AST nowadays... Even Norvig switched to Python.
May I ask if you're affiliated with Pinterest in any way? I'm reading your responses and while I have a very open mind, I feel like you're really handwaving the obvious (to me and many others) problems Pinterest causes and defending them very strongly. This of course doesn't mean you're affiliated, I'm just curious.

I am also good friends with one of the original Pinterest engs and that person defends it in the same, almost irrational, way, but I probably would too if my stock value depended on Pinterest being ingrained into Google search results.
That’s a fair point, I overstated things. I’d rephrase by adding “at a F500 company” after both “middle managers” and “CEO’s” in my original post.
Why don't people trust cops?

Asset forfeiture, crooked cops, shoot first ask questions later, a strong union which protects their own, and their ability to spy on their personal rivals through NSA/FBI tools makes us a paranoid bunch.

The last part.. NYPD mis-used tools to track former lovers[1] and there was no reprocussion. How can we feel safe?

[1]https://nypost.com/2013/11/08/jealous-cop-admits-to-hacking-...
Google and Facebook may choose not to, but plenty of others will. Consider the technical challenges of implementing one set of compliance rules in one place, and one set elsewhere. The profit gain from not following GDPR in an area must exceed the cost of maintaining separate rulesets.

LinkedIn's new policy that goes into effect in May appears to grant GDPR-like permissions across all users, for instance, though it does specify that EEA countries may have additional rights under the law. I suspect the majority of companies will end up complying with GDPR globally.
To quote the Slate article linked above:

> In practice, despite fighting two wars simultaneously for a decade, CRAF seems to have been activated just once at the very beginning of the Iraq War when the Pentagon activated 47 passenger aircraft and 31 wide-body cargo planes.

> On the other hand, as a 2006 Congressional Research Service report on the program observed, “the program is voluntary” and domestic airlines participate in it because it’s financially beneficial to them.

But my main gripe with it is that the US government apparently thinks it more important to maintain a military airlift reserve to be able to quickly fly soldiers and equipment to other parts of the world in a hypothetical future war than to let their own citizens have a well functioning free market that would give them more affordable transportation everyday. It's nothing but corporations first, citizens last, under the guise of national security. Just like the new steel tariffs are said to be because of national security.
Amputees “Feel” the Movement of Their Prosthetic Hands
Sure, if there was a single return.

However when I added Pinterest to my personal block list, I had to add: pinterest.com, .ie, .nz, .uk, .au, etc etc you get the idea.

It was actually that cancerous link spam behaviour that made me block them in the first place, as it diluted the quality of my Google results enough to force me into taking action.

I really feel bad for people who aren't savvy enough to know that blocking things like bad search result or advertisments is an option.
Core strategic resources.

A set of 14:
http://i.imgur.com/L5qWNN9.jpg

Rainforests, coral reefs, ag land, coal, oil, gas, aluminium, phosphorus, tantalum, titanium, copper, silver, indium, antimony.

Sources:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120618-global-resources-st...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/BBCF_infoData_stock_chec...

A list of six:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/oct/31/six...

Longer general discussion:
http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G01035.pdf
Your mind wouldn't ask a brick to show it a mind would it? It identifies something similar and depending how important it serves it's purpose it'll keep evaulating how much can be learned by this.

Keep in mind we're only letting "intelligent" people contribute to this conversation and that in itself is biased. Why aren't we trying to identify why schizophrenic or people with split personalities chime in on why they perceive things differently and manage to survive.

We say they're unsuccessful in life but by our standards and that's not much different than a servant of a faith, no?

That's all your minds looking for. Things that change with a pattern it can differentiate. Bricks don't change unless something you understand changes it. Like inertas definition or Murphy's law, an obersavation of change from a perspective.
And if you’re arguing over things like supplier management, inventory management, rework due to QA issues, European vs US vs Japanese manufacturing philosophies and efficiencies, and haven’t read this book, you should. It’s basically a foundation for modern automotive manufacturing discussion (though slightly dated now, as it was written in the 90s).
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discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16604250
> GDPR can't come soon enough...

GDPR was approved on 14 April 2016. Google appears to have been complying for a while, starting to remove search results year ago.

I have heard of people getting a copy of all the data Google stored, but I haven't heard of location deletion requests yet. Will be interesting.