skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in general we take the "understanding" part in empathy too lightly. I would say we use "empathy" a lot when we are actually talking about compassion. Since the inner experience is never completely shareable, it's hard to talk about real understanding. Not trying to get philosophical here, we will probably agree that a reasonable level of understanding is both possible and sufficient. But I feel like too often there's way more "rationalization" than actual understanding, and we make the (in my opinion) mistake of calling that "empathy".

With this in mind, I would say empathy is always socially positive. If we were talking about compassion, I would share more your opinion, but I'd still say it's positive as long as we do not completely swap it for empathy.
You compare it to the average death rate of a surgery.
"If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." - Churchill
Some cars can charge in 30-40 mins, which is a good amount of time for a meal.
San Francisco is a continual disappointment to me in it's regulatory approach of banning things.

Allow docess bikes? Nope let's mostly ban them but grant Uber subsidiary, Jump, a monopoly on operating a very small number.

Allow electric scooters? Nope let's ban them!

Have dynamic pricing for parking in the Richmond? Yes, but let's severly restrict how dynamic it can be and have a huge freakout.

Build more houses? Nope let's downzone and empower local obstructionism.
It was pretty fast on my phone.

I'd replace the snark with additional details so the author could attempt to reproduce your issue.
I think that's an over simplified view of it.

You can imagine a world where the efficiency of a more traditional turbine setup (measured in watts/$ including amortized capital and operating cost) scales down badly as hydraulic head decreases, and in fact is scales more poorly than the amount of power available.

What you're left with are scenarios where there's room for you to perform more efficiency than a traditional turbine if you can somehow get different scaling characteristics.

The economic viability becomes even more complex once you start considering things like what type of distribution you're dealing with.

Questions like, is it more efficient overall to have more distributed, but less efficiency generating sources, with reduced distribution costs, or have fewer more efficient generating sources with increased distribution costs.

I'd agree that in more of North America and Western Europe, this probably doesn't make sense. But there's still lots of places where the cost of hooking up to the grid is substantial.
This is like asking why software project estimation can't just be done by looking at the size of the project to be built.
Dunne, Soldenhoff and Horten at least flew flying wings before Northrop. They were even in magazines.
What is the use of coinbase? you can accept payments directly
Russia might believe that it was the evil Western psy-ops, but it doesn't make it so. After all, they believe in the Dulles' Plan, too.
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Walking can sometimes release more greenhouse gases than driving a car
This isn't surprising because humans will do what they're incentivized to do (speaking mainly in a professional setting here).

Might be effective to add a measure to the transparency that shows something to the effect of, "likelihood to perform life-saving and risky procedures." Therefore a high win-loss with a lower risk threshold would be weighted lower than a so-so win-loss with a higher risk threshold.
What's the problem with GiveDirectly.org? How likely is that the poorest have internet access?
curl www.foo.bar | sh

Yeah, right.
It's still numerically controlled. 'Hand-held' just refers to its size, not how it's operated.
I don’t see this as really an issue. When your work is done it’s done. If it’s someone else’s work that needs to be done now before you can do something else, those should be separate issues/stories/tickets that are blocked until that external work happens.

In my mind it’s no different than waiting on a design or pricing sheet or API key or any other dependency that holds up work. Yeah you might have to context switch to something else for however long you are waiting but that’s what happens.

Also why the “do your work fast like SCRUM forces you too”? SCRUM doesn’t mean do your work shitty and fast. Maybe your organization wants it to but whether you prioritize speed or doing it the best you can or whatever is up to you, I don’t see that as part of SCRUM.
I think that should have been more discussed in the article. What is empathy? I'd say empathy involves understanding ("I know how you feel"), and I would call what you talk about "compassion" or goodwill/being supportive/caring for someone ("I can't say I know how it's like to be in your situation, but I can see you are suffering and I'll be there for you")
There might be several decent ways to improve (at least as a next step) to avoid this particular way to game the KPIs:
- use an assessed upfront difficulty (if available in measurable form) to adjust for the outcome rating
- add additional KPI for % of refused operations (perhaps again adjusted for difficulty)
If OP worked in a “good” place where product managers & engineers trust each other to do those tasks, what value does Scrum bring?

The process is there to account for the places where the people fail. If a requirement of a process is unfailing people then it’s not a valuable process.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Warners (Part 3/2)
A group of people with an amphibious life have evolved traits to match
As McKenna said: culture is not your friend.
That's not true at all. Would you want to have surgery done if it had a guaranteed 3 month recovery period of incredible pain, a 5% chance of curing you, and a 95% chance of doing nothing, when your alternative is "nothing will hurt, but in 12 months you'll drop dead"?
As an example the iPod solved an problem people had. As a counter-example the iPhone solved a problem people didn't know they had.
Microsoft’s term for part of this, by the way, is “Component-Based Servicing”:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2008/04/23/under...

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/joscon/2010/06/15/servic...
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/joscon/2010/07/06/servic...
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It doesn't matter if the bias is reasonable, it just needs an object of ire.
Depends on your kid
> how do we ensure that volunteers are not coerced?

Speak to them privately, away from any outside influences. This seems like a pretty reasonable way to ensure someone isn't coerced. I suppose there are complex situations (e.g. someone is holding your children hostage) where this may not be sufficient, but it's unclear why someone would go to that trouble to coerce someone to lend themselves to such an experiment. This seems like mostly a non-issue.

> how do we validate that volunteers truly comprehend the risks?

Have a psychiatrist/psychologist interview them. Give them a long cooling off period, so that it's not a spur of the moment decision. Require the sign-off of the psychiatrist/psychologist, or panel thereof before approval.

> how do we ensure that volunteers are of sound mind and not suicidal?

Why do you need to do that? If someone wants to kill themselves, we might as well let them contribute to humanity in so doing.

> if someone is gravely injured or disabled in the experiment, is the institution prepared to care for them for the rest of their life?

We could decide that they must be, if we felt that was necessary.

> if we offer compensation, how do we account for the fact that people of lower socio-economic status will be more likely to take that compensation for the same risk?

Why is that a problem? People often point this out, but I don't really get it. Let's phrase it another way: Why shouldn't we give poor people agency over themselves and their situation? The fact that poorer people are more get the option to do this thing that could improve their situation seems like only a great thing to me. This only gives them a new choice that they didn't previously have - it's hard for me to see how that could be a bad thing.
Ooh good tactic. Mention something like ‘Got all day and I’m not gonna hang up until we get this solved properly.
I occasionally use elisp while replacing with regex(you can do computation on captured strings), can you do this in vim?
How do you cryptographically shred it in a immutable blockhain? And what are the other options?
It explicitly says you have to “erase the personal data”, GDPR Chapt 3 Art. 17
That's cool, too much reliance on an IDE magic sometimes backfires. I will still use AS for 99% of the time, but will copy this instructions as a dev.backup if you will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Allegations_of_Russi...
What does “trust your engineers to do the right thing on their own” look like to you? And how is that stopped by SCRUM?

For the way we do it, when a stakeholder wants our team to do something, they come to us with user stories and acceptance criteria that matter to them. Then we hash out the rest of it. I don’t really see a useful way we could be trusted more. The Marketing department knows best what feature it is they want on the website, and why. So they specify that part. We estimate complexity and the business weighs the priority of that feature against other stuff in our backlog and it falls into an appropriate sprint based on that and other motivating factors. Then we do the work.

I don’t see a lack of trust? So I’m curious where you see it and feel it should be done better?
Lets imagine we had a list over every official leaked story that an intelligence service has given to any of the global large news papers. NYT, guardian, CNN, fox news and so on.

Can we assume that that list is not empty? Is it not likely that a few stories that the guardian has posted is from US intelligence service, knowingly or unknowing. If so, should we label them also non-state hostile intelligence service? I would bet that this is how other nations would justify blocking unwanted news papers in national firewalls. They are after all not blocking the free press but rather the (non-)state hostile intelligence service.

What would a reasonable definition be of a hostile intelligence service.
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My Ublock Origin count on that page is 80. I waited until it stopped counting and then got out of there.
Call it Kanban, it's exactly the same thing but without all the certifications and consulting services around it.

https://thehftguy.com/2017/12/06/scrum-vs-kanban-arent-they-...
Or you could write a macro?
> For teaching purposes only, do not review, quote or abstract
Interesting comment.

I consider my self an atheist too. I've done some reading on Buddhism (online and offline, and at my local temple) to learn more about it. I found that a secular approach to Buddhism ("Secular Buddhism"?) is what works best for me.

I don't believe in myth or fairy tales. Nor do I believe in sky Gods or the after life. To me Buddhism, when stripped of all of this, becomes The Four Noble Truths, The Eight Fold Path, and meditation. Or put another way: a simple guide to understanding the mind, our attachment to worldly possessions, life, how to do well by others, and so on.

What's your take on this?
I think that the barrier to entry to accepting bitcoin or cryto payments in general directly can be fairly high, depending on the ecosystem. It's been intimidating to me.

I'd love to see a collection of crypto tutorials to get started accepting payments and buying coins in any ecosystem.

Maybe another commenter has a good source?
It provides some. "Choose and Book" was introduced in 2004, and converted into e-referral in 2014, and it means you get a choice for most elective surgery.

https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/appointment-booking/Pages/abou...

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2014/05/choose-and-book/

Most people don't have enough information to make a sensible choice; and they don't understand the information they've got.
True and in this particular example for response.json() it doesn't even matter.
Solana indeed looks interesting.

It's sad that there are so many blockchains and whatever out there, because that makes us lose track of the handful of ideas that may be worth looking to.

I'll read the whitepaper and give feedback later, if I have anything important to comment.
yup I have.
Ripple a scam. And everyone behind it was involved with the larger scams early in the area.
No, they can't when you can get tens of TFLOPS per GPU for <$1000 that comes with a solid software ecosystem for all the major AI frameworks out of the box. That's the power of the gaming/industrial complex: NVDA can fund the development of AI chips and software from the nearly bottomless pockets of millions of gamers and cryptocurrency miners. ASIC startups figuratively have one bullet in their gun and they have to hit the bullseye to live.

Now when a Tesla GPU costs $9-10K instead of <$1000, that's a somewhat different story, but even then, NVDA tapes out a brand new architecture almost annually. Good luck keeping up with that pace ASIC startups. And that's exactly what happened to Nervana. Their ASIC was better than a Pascal GP100, but it's clobbered by Volta V100. So at best you get a 6-12 month lead on them.

In contrast, if you can right-size the transistor count for expensive and very specific workloads across 100K+ machines like companies with big datacenters and big data sets can do, I see an opportunity for all of the BigCos to build custom ASICs for their siloed data sets and graphs. That's what GOOG is doing and it seems to be working for them so far. FB is now hiring to do the same thing I suspect.
So the intelligence community's conclusion that the GRU hacked the RNC, and the Republican administration CIA director's endorsement of that report doesn't hold any weight whatsoever? When the civil servants and the political appointees of two administrations from different parties all three agree that the DNC and RNC were both hacked and exactly one set of data was leaked, does that carry no weight at all? If it wasn't true, why isn't the RNC chair out there insisting they weren't hacked?
> Now what they do is that they bring the servers down when it happens.

That's a pretty bold allegation. Do you have any evidence that this is the case.
I just had an image of pranksters "swatting" datacenters by feeding false information to Nvidia that they are using consumer cards.
Alternatively, you have a good idea of what your mortality rate will be if a surgeon picks you for a case.
This was almost cathartic to read!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
This, plus a few other comments from the thread.
Candidates get better offer and renege all the time; it sucks but that’s business, most hiring managers will suck it up. You’re young, you have your entire career in front of you, now’s the best time to experiment and to figure out what motivates you. From the sound of it, you’re not likely to find it in the first internship (you never know... but dragging your feet into a job is not the best way to start). Plus: it’s an internship; unless the company is a very early start-up running on interns and happy pills they’ll be fine without you.
The only thing that would give me pause in your situation is whether it could have a negative impact on the friend that referred you.
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What a great observation! It reminds me of data-driven programming, espoused by Rob Pike, Linus Torvalds, Fred Brooks, and Eric Raymond, https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html. Basically to me it means that you move complexity from code to your data. Let your code be small and simple, and your data structures that run through it be --- I don't know if I would say complex but well thought out. It's only tangential to this, but so helpful to me.

More on topic, it also reminds me of the little study I have done of the human brain. "High-level reasoning" and "low-level sensorimotor skills" take place in two different parts of the brain. High-level reasoning happens in the cerebrum, the big gray main part of the brain. Motor skills take place in the cerebellum. That's why when you first learn to type, it's slow, because your cerebrum is handling most of it, you have to "think about" where each key is. After practice, you can find the keys without "thinking about it," --- that is, your cerebellum is handling it. The cerebrum is trained by teaching, but the cerebellum is trained by practice: typing, tennis, basketball, driving, etc.

Could the artificial intelligence field make progress by studying the cerebellum more?
In your scenario, the equivalent for win percentage would be trying to set an easier schedule.
> I think a very inconvenient and ugly truth is slowly dawning on Facebook and society in general: connecting people at mass is bad.

For those who aren't aware, this insight came from a Facebook VP: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-face...
You should contact to app developers in this regards.
“The Union of Concerned Scientists did the best and most rigorous assessment[1] of the carbon footprint of Tesla's and other electric vehicles vs internal combustion vehicles including hybrids. They found that the manufacturing of a full-sized Tesla Model S rear-wheel drive car with an 85 KWH battery was equivalent to a full-sized internal combustion car except for the battery, which added 15% or one metric ton of CO2 emissions to the total manufacturing.

“However, they found that this was trivial compared to the emissions avoided due to not burning fossil fuels to move the car. Before anyone says ‘But electricity is generated from coal!’, they took that into account too, and it's included in the 53% overall reduction.” — Michael Barnard, Quora. <https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-carbon-foot-print-of-manuf...

[1] Rachael Nealer, David Reichmuth, and Don Anair, _Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave_, The Union of Concerned Scientists, November 2015. <https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/11/Cl... (PDF)
> Like, how can group be mediatized as uniformly good if they repeatedly perform bombings, looting and if they say they want to perform more bombing

What group?
Well, I don't really understand the conjecture in the headline, that this game will somehow be harder to topple. Since its newly released and a niche game, only people who suspected that they would like it and would pay $200 for it have obtained and rated it.

Wouldn't we expect the rating to degrade over time as more people other than the most passionate try it?

Although, if the game gets a reputation as a niche game, I can see how people would continue to self-select for playing the game, and it would continue to be a top-rated game, but with a significantly lower volume of ratings.
The measure can help you identify those willing workers by how the react to it though.
Why do you even need a payment processor to accept money via BTC? Can't it be sent directly from one address to another?
> Handing out money may not be an incentive to work harder, but it can let those people look for different ways of achieving satisfaction other than just getting high.

The problem is we already do this in the US, and we've seen the concurrent rise of a new drug epidemic arise alongside it among the same demographic who are receiving disability.
I am still disappointed that they chose not to go with conditions and restarts. I don't know if there were any technical problems with them, but if there are none I can't understand why you would design a new language without them.
Ships use heavy fuel oil, which is the dirtiest transportation fuel in use today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel
Should “NHS” be added to the title? This seems to only apply to British heart surgeons.
You state a position, but don't present any argument to support it. You seem to contradict the dictionary definition[1], so what are you basing your definition on? Why is that a better definition and how does that relate to the research in this article?

[1] "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another"
A clever use for U+202E (RTL override) (2011)
Wikileaks are not journalists and they do not follow e.g. journalistic ethics. They've done unprofessional things like posting anti-semitic statements[1] and bizarre things like doxing most of the women in Turkey[2] or posting sensitive information about people who've been victims of rape, suffer from mental illnesses, or are gay in countries where that's a big risk. That's all politically neutral and completely outside of what real journalists would sanction.

They may not be officially part of the Russian intelligence apparatus but they definitely don't seem to act contrary to Russian interests, they actively ignored leaks about the Russian government[4], and their public tweets about the Panama Papers were a lot more consistent with protecting Russian interests rather than the purported belief in exposing secrets[5]. They also didn't ask whether they were being used by sources like Guccifer 2 which was later revealed to be a Russian front.

Other governments have come to the same conclusion – e.g. here's a German report which alleges British and French agreement:

http://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/merkel-vorgefuehrt-russi...

1. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/25/what_wikil...

2. http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/07/why-did-wikileaks-help-do...

3. https://apnews.com/b70da83fd111496dbdf015acbb7987fb/private-...

4. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-le...

5. https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7174580643249643... and https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7176700566505308...
There's absolutely no problem with GiveDirectly, and, if you want the most impact for your dollar, absolutely give to them. My approach has the benefit of being much more tangible. I'm helping people I've gotten to know and become friends with. I keep saying this, but it's truly an amazing and perspective altering experience. You don't realize just how much we all have in the West compared to even middle-class person in Kenya.

And while cellphone penetration in Africa is pretty astounding, the poorest might not have reliable electricity let alone a smartphone. I'm under no illusions that I've reaching the poorest Kenyans. But the people I'm reaching are definitely in need, and I feel good helping them.

I'm not saying this is an alternative to GiveDirectly, but I think it's an interesting approach that has some unique benefits.
Can you please stop spamming this every time a remotely related topic (which apparently now also includes CRDTs and blockchain) is mentioned?
I think it’s reasonable to read the title before the article.
Taxes to account for environmental externalities (in the case of air travel, noise, CO2, altitude-related pollutants are probably the main things) make sense for everything. Air travel beats road and rail in some cases on this, doesn't in others. Taxes and thus pricing in all the costs would let consumers decide.
Yes but processing is useful for invoicing, e-commerce, etc.
> Or Download

Literally immediately below the install script. I wish people would leave these low-effort comments on reddit where they belong.
How do people generally do "2. Can you make a build in one step?" (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...) with Android Studio? Is there something I missed in AS to automate builds? (I never enjoyed gradle, etc.)
Sorry to hear that. Sadly, things like this can happen. It seems like a lot of that comes from adverse selection, though. By helping those that ask you for help, you become a target for fraud. Instead, I seek individuals out by looking at the "Seeking Work" section of Olx, so it'd be pretty difficult for a scammer to actually target me.
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Love your company. Don’t get paranoid. Keep it up :)