skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does wiping your hands on your jeans compare to hand dryers or using paper towels?

That's a study I'd like to see.
Tesla has done one really important and useful thing: demonstrate fully electric cars are not only possible, but also feasible. The rest has been a shitshow. They should've focused on range instead. But oh this is one of the companies meant to fund the incredibly useful mission to send speaking monkeys to mars to see if mr. Musk can go there too.
Well: https://reddit.com/comments/8bspee//dx9du3q/
In your opinion, what would be the worse case scenario?
No, that's the window dressing and free samples to attract my attention and eyeballs. Many didn't really understand that their digital pockets were being picked as they walked around Facebook's store—and even after leaving the store.

Sure Facebook could charge me to come into their store, but does anyone really believe they will stop pickpocketing my digital wallet?

They might eliminate ads at first, before one day allowing a few select ads from select partners to appear again. They will still be collecting data to monetize another way.
Nicholson Baker in Mezzanine has a long internal monologue about paper towels vs hand dryers. A good summary of the different opinions that are possible.
Plea deals are orthogonal to jury trials, by definition. You could have plea deals in a system without jury trials, and vice versa.

In addition, you’re oversimplifying why people agree to plea deals. Lawyers are expensive, and a poor person might prefer to just go to jail for a short time rather than spend thousands of dollars for an uncertain outcome. Even if they are confident they would win in a jury trial, that’s still thousands of dollars in fees to their lawyer.
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Yes, the same one where people are convicted due to lying police on occasion, it's pretty flawed
I visit a few subreddits regularly, but I literally never visit the frontpage intentionally. I'll bet this is true of a fair number of reddit users.
My problem with comments that criticize "the media" is that they tend to push people towards far less reliable sources of information. I've seen it so many times - the folks who complain on Facebook about "the media" always seem to believe the craziest things they see on various obscure blogs.
Just because you learn something doesn't mean the time isnt wasted. If you try to make a business of it and it doesn't work...more wasted time. Wasted relationships. Wasted money. Wasted confidence.

I'm all for the silver lining of having learned something. That's good for sure. But there are almost always costs when building anything from model cars to software applications.
Well, maybe some do, but surely not all. Transmission lines do have some strong magnetic fields around them and birds don't seem to care much.
This argument is so often used; that shutting down access to one means of doing an illegal or negative act doesn't matter because there are other means and it's always false.

Any time you increase the cost of doing something by a non-trivial amount you are almost certain to decrease the amount that thing is done. The assumptions you make that you lead you to your conclusion aren't clearly based in fact:

1) It is effectively costless to move to a new service
2) Any new service has equivalent demand
3) The profits are significant (your very profitable human trafficking business)

The first is clearly false. You'll need to move all your workflows to a new platform, learn the new platform, understand how to market on it, etc.

The second is also clearly false. These are marketplaces meaning there are strong network effects. Backpage was likely the best marketplace meaning it had very large portions of both the supply side and demand side. Now, how do you what service to move to when no service is dominant yet? You don't. You almost certainly see decreased marketplace effects in the "100 other sites doing this".

For the third, is there any reason at all to believe the human trafficking business is "very profitable"? It seems like a very small market with very high costs.

Of course, a further effect here is the deterrent that shutting down such a website will be to developers who may wish to replace backpage.

A further example of what I will call "the fallacy of costless transfer" is in suicide prevention. Removing access to easy means of suicide, prevents the likelihood of committing suicide. Hence why there is to be a net around the golden gate bridge to catch jumpers.
>Finally, I don't recommend RTK order for Kanji. [snip]

I learn most new kanji naturally as I study with Anki and look up unknown kanji I encounter in the wild. I only idly pay attention to the RTK-order kanji on my desktop status bar. The purpose is basically to have some vocab stuff to glance at throughout the day, it doesn't really settle in but it keeps my eyes used to reading Japanese.

I can second your suggestion to do the first chapter of RTK, though. I would recommend learning maybe the first 100 RTK kanji just to establish a baseline understanding of how kanji work and familiarize yourself with important radicals.
It could also be that a false warning took the driver's attention off the road in the second or two they had to save their life.
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Where were they and in context on HN? And please prove there were hundreds.
One could also argue its a lack of distillation. Yes, an expert in field could/should understand, but does that mean it should be accepted that the papers are inaccessible to without same or greater level of expertise? Even experts struggle with opaque nature of many papers. Not saying that they should be dumbed down or using less precise language in order to appeal to wider audience, but more than a little more effort could increase value to all.

https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/
> if you wanted to have optimal performance, you'd need to check which CPU it was running and branch accordingly to the best code path.

The Intel C Compiler still does that. It compiles multiple versions of your code, each optimized for different processor versions.
Clearly no one is reading the Senate reports or any of the other factual detail pertaining to Backpage's conduct. They were very obviously doing everything in their power to continue advertising children. They hired staff and trained them to help posters avoid trigger words, but as you said would post the ads and basically never alert law enforcement. There are some good points in here from people quoting sex workers and people who try to help sex workers (public health officials etc) who believe that having everything centralized and public was a benefit to their efforts, but anyone defending Backpage's conduct is either willfully ignorant of their behavior and just sharing their general views about prostitution or has a seriously messed up idea of right and wrong.
Given that this video exists, I'm putting my bet on the Tesla actively swerving into the barrier: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8a0jfh/autopil...
Is there no service that provides one platform to manage all of them?
> Unfortunately all this might mean is that child trafficking cases not reported on Backpage have a much higher chance of never being reported.

That is, in fact, exactly what it means.

That's why everyone from sex trafficking survivors to the Department of Justice was telling Congress not to pass the badly-named SESTA/FOSTA bills, because preventing people from conducting (consensual) sex work online makes it much harder to rescue actual victims of sex trafficking.
If you're actually operating in an environment where it is spoken naturally for a prolonged period of time, I agree with you. Or if you're doing one of those intensive 8 week things with The State Department. But for regular programmers from America learning a foreign language that isn't Spanish it is really hard to get to A2 and impossible without a tutor. I've known plenty of people that think they're at A2 and can't even give basic driving directions when asked on the street. Taking an online test isn't the same thing as actually communicating about arbitrary topics.
No way this is another thing they can tax.
I thought you were referring to the InterLedger Protocol.
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I'm curious what might draw one towards the need to defecate incognito. Is there a Tor-let available in one of the stall-mans?
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Or what if like the sugar industry it's sponsored by the paper towel guys.
Or they could look at the current guilty plea and the public evidence tied to it and come to a reasonable conclusion. That anecdotally some people are helped does not make up for the crimes committed against even more vulnerable members of society using that site. I disagree with the new law, but the site had to go.
But since they already have a stable of hoes and demand hasn't really subsided they'll probably just switch to another website.
Well, I am quite skinny—it wouldn’t surprise me to be more affected by fasting than most.
> What is the real loss for them to being out of the investigation committee? What does the NTSB lose?

According to a former NTSB director, there are downsides for Tesla, but none are mentioned for NTSB.

> Companies that no longer have formal status as a party to an NTSB investigation can lose access to information uncovered in the probe and the ability to shape the official record of the incident, said Peter Goelz, a former managing director at the NTSB who is now senior vice president at O’Neill & Associates, a Washington lobbying and public relations firm.

He then explicitly states that: "It will by no means stop the investigation, and it will by no means hinder the investigation."

I suspect it does make more work for the NTSB though.
> while the hand dryers only removed 23%
I just downvoted you, and I don't write for the Times. Unfortunately...

The reason this specific thread is being downvoted is that it started with nitpicking over useless semantics, and then actually managed to get worse by complaining about downvotes. Then, it got worse yet again by offering a conspiracy theory for those downvotes, instead of assuming the obvious: nobody cares.
Modern airliners can and sometimes do do automatic landings [1] [2] [3] [4]. It's done when visibility is very poor. If it is not required, most pilots prefer manual landing. It's less work. The autoland system is more complicated to set up, and is more work to monitor in order to take over if something goes wrong. But when the visibility is low enough, many airlines require their pilots to use it.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-airplane-landings-be-conducte...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-often-are-airliners-landed-using-a...

[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2014/02/...

[4] https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/technical/65056-autoland-...
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Tesla is using the orange dotard defense: "no collusion!" NTSB did right by me.
Yes! In many ways, all your initial idea needs to be is a launch pad. Once you get your foot in the door, you can always refine based on what users tell you.

Per your point, it's important to learn from their workflow, not ask them what they want. When you ask someone what they want, they often perform attribute substitution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution) and answer a different question.
Not to mention, of those hundred new sites that popup, some of them will be honey pots operated by law enforcement. Traffickers have lost a trusted marketplace and it will hopefully be difficult to find another.
I think this quote is less about the majority, or the absolute truth and more about encouraging that one person who is to not get tripped up on the way there. It may not be true for most, but it's true for a few, and those few need encouragement and support to change the world.
PayPal really hasn't changed that much. They still pull the same bullshit and if they went out of business tomorrow the world of ecommerce would be a better place
Civilization is the accretion of more techniques to fix the problem of the other techniques.
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Cool! Thank you - it's great to get a peek inside your approach.
Did your driver's license involve training in how to handle autopilot and its common errors and how to correct them? If not, I'm not sure how having a driver's license is relevant?
I don’t know about a general purpose system for this, but it’s generally easier to proactively delete or make inaccessible something in a singe data store. Encryption reduces the problem to a single element in a single data store. You’re not wrong, but it’s a problem worth solving for the ability to not have to solve the problem 1000 times over for each bit of user data.
We're not just talking about trafficked adult women. Backpage is alleged to have facilitated a huge number of underage child sex trafficking transactions. Apparently, with some knowledge of what was going on.
What's your favored language? Because odds are good that it can compile to JS:
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
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It's because English grammar is either obvious and doesn't need teaching or is inexplicable and isn't worth trying to make a pattern out of.

I ran, she ran, he ran, they ran, we ran, y'all ran.

I run, she runs, he runs, they run, we run, y'all run.

I'll run, she'll run, he'll run, they'll run, we'll run, y'all'll run.

I thought I'd run, he thought he'd run, they thought they'd run.

We'll have wished we ran, they'll have wished they ran, he'll have wished he ran.

What exactly do you want to teach here? The only weirdness to the rule is that he and she runs with an "s", everything else is the same.

I love you. You love me. They love him. He loves them.

I want you. You want me. They want him. He wants them.

In Russian the above is far different because the word order can be switched for emphasis.

The only thing in English worth teaching is "I have" vs "I am" and almost every language has that same problem as well (Je suis vs J'ai in French).

The hard part with English is that our spelling makes zero sense, unlike Russian or French. The grammar is really quite straightforward.
Could be true but a different kind of intelligence. E.g at any point in time of their teenage time, woz would have been considered superior to jobs in terms of intelligence, but may be now we realise both are intelligent in their own ways. You definitely need to be intelligent to build a (successful) business, but not certainly hacker kind of intelligent but intelligent.
A few years ago, you could usually find paper towels in public bathrooms. These were useful for many reasons, not the least bit for actually drying your hands in <10 seconds.

After a long drive, you could freshen up by washing your face, then pat dry. Now you have to carry your own towels, or walk out wet. You could use paper to hold open the door handle that others doubtlessly touched with their unwashed hands, so you wouldn't defeat your own washing in turn. You could even brush your teeth -- perhaps this sounds ill-advised, but most homes have toothbrushes sitting closer to toilets than you'd find in a public bathroom.

Then nicer washrooms began replacing their paper with modern air dryers: not even the old-style World Dryers that actually generate heat, but ones based on extremely fast air at room- or lukewarm temps. These are hardly more effective than vigorously shaking your hands and spewing your own water everywhere, and typically work best when used in concert with the former.

Complimentary towels were convenient, but now -- except for truck stops, or long-forgotten gas stations where time stands still -- they're extremely rare. For me, disposable ones are now part of my travel kit.
Technically speaking, HTTPS can work with IP addresses --- the certificate just has to be issued for the IP.

But for SciHub, HTTPS is another point of censorship: the CA could simply revoke the certificate, making people believe that the site is insecure.
All true, but irrelevant for images. All the number does is indicate the intended physical dimensions of the image.

For example, an image with pixel dimensions of 1800 by 1200 and a “DPI” metadata value of 300 will print with a physical dimension of 6.00 by 4.00 inches.
Not just ads — highly targeted ads based on pervasive tracking.

It didn't have to be this way but most of tech jumped onto this bandwagon—or maybe the data brokers and ad tech types magnified their snake oil benefits just enough to fuel this beast.

The issue is so much larger than Facebook. It's good to see it get attention though.
Scanned the executive summary. That does sound like they aren't good guys. As I posted above, putting down backpage as a whole puts a lot of sex workers at risk, but this gives me mixed feelings about backpage in general.
Ok, I'll bite -- what has porn done to destroy our society? Granted, I think our society is far from perfect, but pornography seems way down on the list. Then again, I'm out of my porn-buying days, so maybe the proliferation of free porn has more of an effect on the younger set.
Is gonna be like stocks, you don’t even need to see the product. Is just a number on screen now
It doesn't work. That's my whole takeaway. It's just a fancy lane keeping and cruise control system.
The only frictional forces of ordinary matter that matter on a galactic scale are gravity. And that would affect WIMPs equally.

> If we assume that the dark matter and ordinary matter started with the same angular momentum, then the rotational velocity of stars in the disc should be much faster than the WIMP halo.

I don't see how this can be the case. The orbital period of both would have to be identical in order to be in the same place.
So is it a lack of humor or just missing the joke that's getting the negative score?
Another alternative is one of the PICKs where the source code is (used to be perhaps) stored in the database, or I think COBOL on some systems didn't exactly lend itself to flat files from the little I saw (or at least the OS wasn't embracing CVS/SVN/Git in favour of some hugely expensive and utterly inferior product...).
I have read the press release. What was misleading? The only thing I see that is potentially misleading where they quote the safety statistics for vehicles with auto pilot equipped.
Correct, which is why I said realistically this is all in the hands of Adobe. They could support DPI on PNG tomorrow if they wanted to, and their metadata label would become a de-facto standard overnight.
That's besides the point. My point is "definiteness" is not a concrete concept in Turkish and if you're academically analyzing a sentence you'd have to use other types of information (accusative case, the word 'bir', context, etc...) to judge if a noun is definite or indefinite (or maybe something in the middle?). But Duolingo teaches as if this distinction is as strict in Turkish as it is in English. In English "a bear" and "the bear" are different things even without context whereas in Turkish "ayi" [bear] and "bir ayi" [one bear] mean more or less the same thing outside of a sentence and I'd just use "bear", but in some contexts they'll mean different things. "Ayi cikabilir" roughly means "caution, bear in area" and as you see you don't use "bir" but it is still indefinite. Duolingo would reject this answer. "Bir ayi cikabilir" would be Duolingo's answer, but it sounds awkward, no one would say that.

And there are no hard rules. In that sentence you can't just put +I to make it definite as I described above "ayiyi cikabilir" << this sentence doesn't mean anything. I think this is something your brain has to pick up implicitly while you're speaking/listening, I'm not sure if someone can discretely provide you a set of rules that always works. Just like in German you cannot translate "the" > "der". This is like Duolingo saying 'the'='der' and rejecting 'das' and 'die'.

So, it is not fine, it is wrong. And the wrong thing is not that Duolingo has a bug, it is that it has made-up grammar rules, which users still have to learn. If they never learned this rule, they'd be as well understood.

(I know you were replying to commenter discussing French, but I'm guessing something similar is going on)
> Freedom, to the greatest extent possible, is what matters

What a useless platitude...

Any government anywhere reduces someone's freedom in some way. Yet not no society has decided to forgo this mechanisms in the pursuit of pure "freedom".

If you actually believe in anarchistic utopias...fine. You're wrong, but many people are. But otherwise simply screaming freedom, freedom just isn't an argument.
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> Prop 13 is flagrantly unfair

How do you define "fairness" in this context?

* Edited to less confrontational question.
I'm worried though this statement is heavily colored by "survivorship bias"- Certainly ultra-successful people are often obsessed with their ideas, but it does not logically follow that being obsessed with an idea is a good metric to base decisions on. Just look at all the people obsessed with writing the great American novel and/or next hit song.

I think what is more important is to focus on ideas for which you have a comparative advantage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage) which frequently, but certainly not always, will mean there's a certain amount of obsession as a side-effect.
"fire in a crowded theater" is largely repealed and now requires "imminent lawless action" which certainly isn't the case here. Please read more about it here [0], written by a lawyer. Ignore the headline, the author wasn't pleased with it either [1].

Generally exceptions to free speech are extremely limited, "because we don't want you to bias people" is definitely not within an exception.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-white-first-amend...

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/08/free-speech-tropes-in-the...
The article states the model is not to profit through appreciation. So where is the profit?
You can say the exact same thing about human trafficking: catch one trafficker, 2 more will step in to take their place. But no reasonable person thinks that means we should stop prosecuting traffickers.

Read the Backpage indictments: these people ran a criminal conspiracy to profit by knowingly helping child sex traffickers.
The purpose is not fulfilled but hindered to a big degree. Is a good question.
To do what? Facebook uses user data to, run Facebook, do research (train machine learning which uses de personalized data), and show ads. If they aren’t showing ads what other things are you expecting them to do that you find problematic.
So you think if we had a better social safety net like say, the Netherlands, we would see less prostitution?
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I would like operating systems, browsers and websites to globally support a "night mode" where a dark background is used. Especially with the proliferation of mobile devices, people increasingly use technology in low-light environments. As it stands today, I have to add external stylesheets to websites to get this effect, and if I want to toggle them, I have to toggle each one manually. It's similar, but worse for Android apps because the app itself has to support themes.

I find having a significant portion of the screen white when my eyes are relatively dark-adapted uncomfortable, even when the brightness is set fairly low. I find a dark background with light text very preferable under those conditions. I do not care if there is research suggesting I should not have this preference.

From talking to others in person and online, I get the impression that my preference is very common. Android was supposed to get something resembling this, but the feature has been dropped or delayed.