skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has left the content and is paying the infrastructure cost for the content. No advertisers so they demonetized. That is not the same as censoring.
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"Tesla, in a statement issued late Wednesday, suggested the company chose to leave the probe."

Technically, that's sorta true. By releasing information and opinions about the ongoing investigation, Tesla decided not to be a part of it.
Anyone whose video is taken down by YouTube is free to host it themselves. On their own servers, they're free to express themselves.

Google, similarly, wants the freedom to express itself on its own servers.
The article namedrops Shovel Knight. I highly recommend the game. It's one of the best games I've ever played, even putting nostalgia aside.
Are you going to accept Lightning?
People always get really upset with drug pricing, which makes for great headlines but not for rational decision making.

In 2030, would we as a society rather have a generic, cheap, openly available HepC cure or not? That is the question you need to ask, and I don't think anyone would say no to that. The $84K drug will fall off patent by then, which means the system we currently have, flawed as it is, will produce that outcome.

It doesn't cost $84,000 to manufacture that drug compound. That $300 one even has the expensive drug formulated in it! The $84,000 covers the cost of developing the drug, along with the 56/57 other drugs that generally fail for every one that hits the market, along with a profit incentive to run a pharmacuetical company in the first place. And yes, it's grossly unfair for the patients currently requiring expensive treatment, though solving that through insurance is almost certainly a better idea than regulating prices. If you start regulating drug prices, as have many other countries outside of the US, you disincentivize development.

If there is a better way to create cures, that would be wonderful, and I think we would all welcome suggestions. However, there is a reason the US invents the majority of the world's pharmaceuticals. Nothing to date (everything from regulating prices aggressively to prolifigate government spending projects) has worked as well as what we have now for long term results.
Well.. He did look uneasy when asked about Palantir.
"From a more western perspective, good luck getting Planescape: Torment into a movie format."

A Game of Thrones-style "Sigil: City of Doors" series might work. Don't reuse the Nameless One or the plot of the game. Maybe reuse some characters like Annah. Like the game developers did, use the setting and make up new characters and plots.

Maybe before the show airs, put a series of entertaining shorts up on YouTube that introduce the city, the unusual beings resident there, the factions, and finally the main characters of the series.
We're discussing an operating system with a microkernel in it's heart and many things built around.
How many of today’s politicians have the conviction and perseverance of Roosevelt? Especially in the face of donors?
The issue I have with restaurants saying they cant pay more is that FOH staff often bring in close to 10x of BOH. So there's actually plenty of money to go around, it just comes in the form of a mandatory 20% tip to a single person. Eliminate tipping, raise your prices, pay all your employees on an equivalent scale, give them healthcare and vacation time, and watch the "shortage" go away.
It's almost as if dinning out has somehow been subsidized by the struggle of minimum wage workers.
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Did they raise the price enough so I don't have to guess what amount they are underpaying and adding it to that line that says "tip" on the bill?
Except the real trend has been the exact opposite. We're now in the fourth decade of lawyers (legislators and judges) narrowing the laws you're talking about: class actions, discrimination claims, environmental claims, and securities claims. As a result, the legal sector as a percentage of the economy has been shrinking since the late 1980s: https://lawschooltuitionbubble.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/r....

I personally think that's a good thing because the economy was over-regulated in the 1960s and 1970s. But in some areas, it's arguably gone too far. Judges and legislators are so self-concscious about excessive litigation that they've significantly hampered the ability of claimants to recover when they should be able to do so. E.g. Wal-Mart v. Dukes.
Most consumers don't know what data Facebook has or what can be done with it. They do often have a helpless, fatalistic response though: "The Internet already has all of my data, so there's nothing I can do." They don't realize that the statement is false.
And isn't it the most amazing coincidence that those who are thus exceptionally gifted are uniquely placed to benefit from the demand for those very abilities in an extravagantly lucrative profession?

I mean, imagine what would happen if everyone could program! Where would those six-figure salaries go then?

That was the exact point that I was making.

There is no coincidence. It is economics 101. In a free market, the salary is set by the laws of supply and demand. If people who can program are in short supply and create lots of value, the supply/demand curves will meet at a high price point. That is good for programmers. If everyone could program, then the price point would be lower and programmers couldn't collect those salaries. Programming has low explicit barriers to entry AND high salaries. This could not continue without implicit barriers to entry of some sort.

How low are the explicit barriers? I personally know several programmers who were homeless teenagers, later received GED degrees, and are self-taught in programming. These are mostly highly paid professionals. (One that I know decided as an adult to go back and pursue university now that she could. She's only 30 - by the time she's my age I'm confident that she'll also be a highly paid professional.)

Let's continue with economics 101. When you move a person from a non-programming job to a programming job that pays more, it is obviously good for that person. It is also good for society as a whole - that person is doing something more productive. It isn't so good for other programmers, though, because it reduces their salary.

Speaking personally, I grew up in poverty. My life is much better than I feel I deserve, or than I need. I also like seeing the lives of others around me improve.

Therefore I have encouraged many to take up programming, and spent untold volunteer hours answering questions from people who want to become better programmers. I have zero interest in limiting who gets to program.

For a political example I completely oppose H1B programs in their current form. I think that we should allow free immigration for competent people AND once they arrive we shouldn't restrict them from finding the best job that they can. The current quota system which provides incentives for companies to swear up and down that they are paying a competitive wage, while in fact they are paying under the market price, and then trap the people that they import in jobs that don't make full use of their talents.
Being able to use it without internet connectivity, as well as the local file system access and efficiency gains that another commentor pointed out.
Your phone has a wide FOV which would put the moon as a small circle, probably overexposed.
I think they can learn how to cook. 2 people can eat pretty darn well for $100 spent on groceries in a week most anywhere in the US. That covers, what, 2 or 3 dinners out at a sit down place? Maybe 5 at a fast casual place? And the people eating out still need breakfast and lunch.

Dining out is not a necessity. Unless you're one of the rare people without a kitchen that somebody will inevitably protest about. In which case you'd better be paying a lot less than market rate for housing with a kitchen to cover the totally foreseeable expense of eating out all the time.
Also often the more marginal workers who do want to work have no cheap way to get to where the work is. In a world of Uber buses get eliminated, and the poor cannot get to work.
Do you mean that sovereignty grants that authority in principle, or in actuality? If the United States doesn't enforce the demands of another country with respect to a company in its borders, the company can freely ignore those demands. That various countries choose to have treaties enforcing the demands of others seems to be less about sovereignty and more about good relations.

For example, Germany ordered Project Gutenberg to remove certain books from its servers or to make them unavailable to Germans. I maintain a full mirror of Project Gutenberg and I make the banned books available to Germans. If Germany sent me a personal letter demanding I cease and desist, I'd ignore it. If the United States demanded I cease and desist on Germany's behalf, I wouldn't ignore it. But the latter doesn't seem like "Germany's sovereignty" to me.
There is a lot of confusion between "automation" and "artificial intelligence", I believe that automation facilitates, and modifies the professions in the short term. AI is something that should be discussed in a broader sense.
I did not mean to suggest that there was no remedy to the problem of taxes (although my suspicion is that any two-word solution is probably too simplistic), but rather that, given the existing problem of taxes, it is better to have these test cases than not. (Similarly, it is better not to have starvation or poverty than to have charities that help the starving and the poor, but, given the existence starvation and poverty, it is better to have the charities than not.)

The people who wrote the test cases are presumably not the people who wrote, or who can change, the tax code; they were making the world better in the way that was available to them.
This seems like a reaction to Facebook. Almost no one cares about this enough to create " good Facebook. Here in India millions of barely educated people enjoy Facebook to keep up with family and friends. They don't know how to pay for things online and are not comfortable putting their cards on the internet.
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Agreed. The iomportant thing to understand about neuroscience is that it is being attacked at multiple levels of decscription (synapse,dendritic trees, whole neurons, small groups of neurons, cortical columns, networks of cortical columns. Then we try to bridge understanding across levels of description and all try to relate it to behavior on one way or another.
Colonising the galaxy is hard. Why not send bacteria instead?
Hunter S. Thompson’s correspondence with LBJ
>but yes the principle is logically coherent and enforceable.

sounds great and all until oppressive regimes use this to do censor content they don't like. how long until russia/china/iran sends a rubberstampped a court order to censor a politcal candidate's advertisements because [made up reason]?.
How could the NTSB be fair and impartial if Tesla ever had "leverage" with the investigation?

The investigation will continue on, and the NTSB will conduct it fairly, Tesla just won't be involved. I understand both sides, Tesla desperately wants to tell it's side publicly, and the NTSB wants all participants to stay quiet till investigation completes.
>"real food (as it was growing on this planet before we evolved into humans)"

Do you mean that literally? Because almost every single fruit and veggie you bite into today was improved by humans, for nutritional value, taste and ease of growing.

The exceptions are basically some berries, mostly. And they're sour as hell without processing.
Right as you mention and Tesla did mention in their press release yesterday they will continue to cooperate on technical matters. That part is not optional.
> That is not the same as censoring.

That is just one case. There are other cases of youtube/google banning peoples accounts. In any case, the person I replied to was equating de-indexing with censoring.
>I think they can learn how to cook

And all the people that used to eat out learn how to cook and stop eating out. The restaurants go out of business and the workers with higher minimum wage are fired.

Good thinking
Or the NASA site:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4619
I agree. Which is exactly why you don't see tens of millions of Australians sitting around living on welfare (which they easily could).

And it's also why you won't see it when UBI comes in.
> Only if you believe highly dubious temperature reconstructions, including their claims to be accurate to within fractions of a degree.

I do believe them because many sources from different proxies agree on the temperature record, the science is very well developed and a strong consensus across a very large majority of experts and separate disciplines has been achieved.

"Highly dubious" is how I would describe the fringe criticisms of this work.
Good point. This was more about wondering whether France was willing to export nuke capability than anything else though.
> So what happens when, for example, a US court or a court of some other jurisdiction in another country rules that their free speech laws say that a court cannot legally force them to pull results globally?

More interesting is when one sovereignty prohibits and imposes sanctions on behavior mandated with sanctions for non-compliance by another sovereignty. With various states adopting broad mandates for data retention while others are adopting mandates for removal, there are likely going to be circumstances where those conflict.
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> All of which is fine; this is how email works, and how modern services (correctly) use email: By identifying an account with an email address, and assuming that if you have control of the email address you should have control of the associated accounts.

That is not the correct way to use e-mail. Unless you're encrypting all your customer messages with S/MIME or PGP, a number of people have access to the content other than the account holder. This includes the e-mail provider, the operators of any servers the message happened to pass through, and of course anyone who happened to hack them, plus anyone who can listen in on the links between the mail servers in the event that those aren't encrypted. None of these people should have control over the associated accounts just because they have the technical ability to read e-mails send to the address on file.

> If gmail bounces all emails with "incorrect" periods, it might have stopped this particular incident, but it doesn't solve the issue which is about people giving out your address instead of their own when creating an account, which is the actual issue here.

The actual issue is more nuanced than that. This isn't just about signing up for a service with someone else's address, it's about signing up for a service the target already subscribes to using an alternate e-mail address routed to the same account. Now, it is absolutely true that getting rid of the "dots don't matter" policy would not prevent this from happening, since there are other ways of aliasing e-mail accounts such as "+labels". However, in the absence of aliasing this issue wouldn't exist, since someone who doesn't subscribe to Netflix would (probably) not fall for a request to update their payment information, and the scammer couldn't create a new account with exactly the same e-mail address as an existing subscriber.

> Further, the proposed scam, if it works, only works because (allegedly) Netflix lets you change an account email without verifying that you know the current password.

The scam does not require the ability to change the e-mail address. That just makes it harder for the target to regain control, but ultimately the scheme depends on the target remaining blissfully unaware that they're paying for someone else's account. If the target becomes aware of what is going on then they can just dispute the charges with their card issuer; they don't need access to the Netflix account for that.

No, this scam only works because Netflix does not require validation of the e-mail address on file before sending account-related e-mails to that address. This is the core issue. The first e-mail you get related to an account should always be the notice that a new account is being created, with active effort required on the recipient's part before the address is considered valid.
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yes there is, and its called public finance

medicine, and health care, in my opinion, seem to fall nicely in that category

you as someone who is not infected with the hepatitis C virus, would benefit from others getting cured from it, to reduce the possibility of you catching it

and this is just one example

and to be clear, i am not saying, that all health care should be exclusively public

i am just saying that public finance of not for profit organization working on creating medicine, should be an option
As far as I know it has never been required to wrap an NPM module in an add-on. I have used Ember since pre 1.0 and you could have just ember-browserify for the last 3-4 years to pull in an npm module.
This is a horrific thought to go into a job interview with one salary point in mind while the employer knows in the back of their mind what you got paid at each previous job.

Particularly if you took equity at a startup at lower salary - guaranteeing they don't account for that.
> In 2030, would we as a society rather have a generic, cheap, openly available HepC cure or not? That is the question you need to ask, and I don't think anyone would say no to that. The $84K drug will fall off patent by then, which means the system we currently have, flawed as it is, will produce that outcome.

I think if we look at the shenanigans around Avastin and Lucentis we'll see that patents and drug companies don't always work in the public interest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30138097
This feels like a silly strawman being made out of the methods used in neuroscience. In a microprocessor, a single bit being flipped the wrong way potentially stops the whole show; your Donkey Kong game from 1981 doesn't run at all. By contrast, you will not anywhere near fully incapacitate a brain by lesioning a single neuron, if at all.
Your critique of my post is valid and I agree with it, but I'm not sure my ultimate point is diminished. From what I've read, wealth and income mobility are correlated, if over longer timelines. Finding good statistics on wealth mobility over time on a global scale is hard, but I've yet to see any reason to believe they don't correlate with income mobility.

And it makes sense if you look at the tippy top of the wealthy as an illustration: In nominal dollars, Bezos is less wealthy than Walton was less wealthy than Rockefeller, and Bezos is a major beneficiary of globalization.

Rockefeller had an outsized influence on American politics because his wealth was chiefly American.

Bezos, on the other hand, to hold his wealth incumbency needs to influence politics in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the UK, the EU, Japan and China.

Globalization definitely allows the rich to reach newer heights, but it also diffuses their influence and spreads their power thin.
It feels like a straw man argument. Food is a basic necessity, and there is a threshold where you grumble but still open your wallet to pay up, rather than walk away. Overtime you get de-sensitized to the higher price and the fact that the everything on the dollar menu actually cost $1.29 doesn't phase you.

I think the restaurant industry should look more holistically at options for dynamic pricing ala Uber. These could increase their margins enough to actually address the labor costs more effectively.
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Next-Generation variable-buoyancy airships, without a doubt. Primarily because of the ways it will impact construction. Once we 'build the machine that builds the buildings' we can then simply lift them into place. Cities could become vastly more flexible (modular) and livable as a result. But even agriculture and logging could become vastly less environmentally destructive.
The coolest thing I think is that all os's render the text/font the same way.
While Tesla's response to the accident has been very aggressive (to the point of being rude), transparency is also important. Not being able to talk about an accident for an entire year would be a disservice to the community and most likely lead to rampant speculation considering how high profile these accidents are.

In this case Tesla has handled the entire incident rather poorly, but it makes sense that they would want to abstain from the investigation to be more transparent about what happened. Keep in mind that in a year from now the data about the accident will be mostly irrelevant.
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The NTSB can be fair and impartial with whatever information they have on hand.

Telsa just gave up their opportunity to share their own perspective on the investigation. That could have consequences.
You might be surprised at how many people happily buy into the PR statements, taking them as genuine expressions of intent.

I was talking with someone just yesterday about Zuckerberg's Congressional hearings. They don't know a whole lot about technology or the internet, but are generally thoughtful and good at what they do. What do you think their view was?

'Good on him for taking responsibility and apologizing - he seemed sincere and reasonable. I feel much better about the whole thing.'

I'm getting better at biting my tongue, but I wanted to suggest that I had a bridge to sell them.
>I’m finding that “social networks” should be a consequence of a product that solves a real problem, not that product’s raison d’etre.

Facebook mainly solves one problem: How do I keep in communication with the many people I know IRL? This is a real problem for many people, especialy when you have friends/family all over the country/world.

Any would-be strict competitor with Facebook will have to deal with a bootstrapping problem: How do you get enough people who know each other IRL to sign up and use the website?

Relaxing any one aspect of that, I think, will make success much easier:

* Enough people: You could have a niche focus (car forum) or a niche community (forum for one Eve Corp).

* Know eath other IRL: You could have an anonymous forum (4chan) or a pseudonymous forum (Reddit).

* Sign-up: Twitter, YouTube, and most forums don't require signups to view user-provided content. 4chan doesn't even require login to post.
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That is the correct behavior. If your hands are not required to impart measurable torque, then it'd be easy to spoof and would lead to more false negatives.

So you're suggesting this was a false negative, i.e. that the driver did have his hands on the wheel?
Given how Tesla has handled this fatality, how has your opinion of Tesla changed. Has anybody here decided that they are never going to buy a Tesla? Or do you view this as just overblown and you would still buy a Tesla if you could.