skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicides do have a real cost (https://www.sprc.org/about-suicide/costs), and it's worth incorporating the reality of that into the larger framework that accounts for the cost to society of having guns everywhere.

In any case, based on the "cost of freedom" remark, it's unlikely that we'll be able to take the discussion much further in a productive way. Fortunately for you the United States exists and is a good fit for your values, and fortunately for me, I can live most other places in the developed world without having to deal with it first hand.
Yes, there was one in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Salt_Lake_City_tornado

Strangely, it seemed to mostly affect the run-down part of town that was due for redevelopment, and completely destroyed the local gay bar (The Sun) which was the last business hold-out resisting the gentrification of the area.

Apparently the weather-modification tests of the '50s and '60s are bearing fruit.
Right, and I said exactly the same thing elsewhere [0], but I still think she was taking a big chance by being so oblivious. A 45mph speed limit means some people will be doing 55. Stroll casually across a roadway like that enough times, and you will eventually force a driver to swerve around you at high speed or make a panic stop or at the very least blast you with the horn.

I can't imagine doing what she did — even thoroughly stoned, as she may have been (she tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana), I would have more sense of self-preservation than that.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17147069
In general I agree (see: Linodes and D.O. droplets, domains for possible side projects) but I'm pretty quick to cancel extraneous streaming services now that every media company is trying to get their own $10/mo IP silo off the ground.
I think the reason is because glibc is a fundamental OS component that always works, and if not you have bigger problems, you don't want to rely on other daemons or libraries to authenticate the user.

Using a daemon is against UNIX philosophy, and also poses a lot of problems, that daemon is just another piece of software that could fail for many reasons, and when it fails what you do ? You can't login to fix the problem, even as root and even in single user mode! So you are basically screwed.

How many times you had a problem regarding user authentication on Linux ? I never had, I was always able to log in into my system to repair it even when I completely broke it.
I would just love a couple of small vertical turbines slowly pumping up my underground storage. I live in a sometimes violent wind location, often just when I could use the energy to run the furnace. I could see easily augering 10-15ft holes , dropping in vertically buried, used, composite tanks bought off Ebay, run at a fraction of their max pressure. Easily adding more to increase capacity, as needed. Yes a little pock-pock noise of the pistons and check valves, but it would only happen when wind blows. Though, a tank failure may mean retrieving it off the roof.
> It's well-known (and documented) that remote workers are more productive

Can you please provide a link or evidence of this?
Your health is not an expense, it is an investment
> It is not the society, but market/economics

Both having a market and behavior in that market are aspects of society. So, no, if it is the latter then it definitely also is the former.
And yet out of all the people I knew who owned an iPhone 6 from launch never dealt with the "bendgate" issue, including myself. That's from personal experience owning and using one daily for 3 years.

I still think this was an over-dramatized problem.

If you eat/drink while working at a keyboard you can get stuff between the keys and either get them sticky or completely broken. Some actions can just cause issues but if you handle the thing properly then you have nothing to worry about.
That is amazing, thank you for that link! Sent to a few friends in slc.
Alphabet Shareholders and Employees Want Executive Pay Linked to Diversity Goals
Given that even a small reactor still requires considerable shielding, generates waste that could be used for nuclear proliferation (if ammassed), and emits harmful radiation, I would say chances of a nuclear car for the every man are slim to none.
Will AI Ever Become Conscious?
I currently pay Comcast $35/month in suburban Chicago for 25/4 (down/up). This is without a contract. With 12-month contract is $25/month.
The Day After the GDPR: End of an Era?
How would you say the Slashdot and HN cross-sections differ?
I fail to see how market failures are not a reasonable point to look at whether governmental solutions are applicable.

Case and point - 2008 Market Crash, everyone agrees the dishonest practices that led to the crash should have been made absolutely illegal (in the cases where they already weren't)

In this case, we have MANY significant and potentially extraordinarily damaging failures in the markets to effectively protect people's privacy occurring fairly regularly. GDPR is not the ideal solution my any metric, but that's a failure of government to create effective legislation - not a lack of need for effective rules.
By that standard you could disqualify all of the human race. Going into an active shooter situation would definitely cause almost anybody except for those that are totally apathetic to experience some degree of nervousness.

It's not ideal but it's human nature. I agree that the degree to which US police is 'trigger happy' is super problematic but in the case of a SWAT team called in on someone that has (1) already killed and (2) indicated he wants to kill more people in his environment some degree of apprehension is understandable.

If you're so ice-cold that you would not be nervous under those circumstances then maybe you should join a SWAT team?
For those curious like I was http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/
Netflix Briefly Tops Disney Market Value
Pictures are now 404 for me @justinjaffray.com, so while the crdb link might not be canonical it right now is bit more useful.
I think a lot of commenters here correctly point out the fallacies in the author's practical suggestions while missing the core thesis: American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth.

To paraphrase in simple terms: More and more people value intelligence and this is a bad trend.

To evaluate this thesis, I think it's important to first define what a 'value' is.

To me, values are the measuring sticks by which people quantify success in life. Whether or not we realize it, we constantly measure our actions against our values, and how we 'measure up' determines our self-worth.

So, what makes something a 'bad' value?

That's a hard question to answer in completion, but I think that one of the 'bad' characteristics is if the value is outside of your control.

It's bad to value something outside your control because it's impossible to effect change against it to make yourself feel good about yourself.

Instead, I'd rather value HOW I act. Did I make my best effort towards accomplishing my goals? Did I learn something today? Did I help someone?

These are things that are entirely in my control and will lead to higher fulfillment.

If I measure myself based on intelligence, the days when I'm in a meeting completely surrounded by people smarter than me, I'm going to feel pretty damn shitty.

Would you feel worse about yourself if you woke up tomorrow and lost 30 IQ points?
It really shouldn't be hard to do a quick safe filter and ask "You sure you want to send that?", again, like a real human.

My point is they're really half-assed products right now that are behaving badly/immaturely.
An emergent lifelike property, the paper describes it. I noticed that it was fairly easy to build up a propulsion system without even explicitly coding it.
They are of equal worth in a spiritual sense. Society doesn't put the same value on them but that's because of economy and the economic output their life generate for society. Value is subjective to who you think puts value to something. If there is a God, he doesn't care about economy. :)
Many of the ostensible characteristics of Bitcoin you've provided also apply to special-edition 1990s Marvel comics. The idea that a good needs to be "divisible" to be valuable is nowhere supported by evidence and easily rebutted by counterexample. Your argument is essentially handwaving: all sorts of terrible investments are "great for people with low time preference", in that they will have no value in the immediacy, and their only hope of profitable redemption is to hold until some unspecified, unpredictable future date.

Illiquidity is a bad thing, not an generally an indicator that something is an especially good investment.
It's a conflict of interest in that it's in the bars' (financial) interest to let people through.

It's not in the bars' financial interest to create a minimum drinking age via regulatory capture just so they can hire bouncers, or accept bribes or sell fake IDs or whatever. That's analogous to the insinuation I picked up upthread (if I read that comment correctly). Expecting industries to self-regulate until they show themselves incapable of doing so is pretty standard.
Simple I guess, easy to extrapolate this to 3d but convection currents are 2d in nature so not much has to change
Of course I do. But that's not my point. They wallpapered their house with Echos! And now they are 'shocked'. When I get home, my phone usually gets tossed on a charger in my room, and forgotten about (while checking for messages every once in a while). And my phones sole purpose, while capable of it, is not to listen to everything I say and interpret voice commands. I never use Siri, and I would be 'shocked' at this point if it sent out a message, that I didn't intend, without alerting me. It's a older, tested technology (in my opinion).

I'm not surprised that my GPS capable phone knows where I am at all times. I wouldn't be surprised if my Echo recorded my voice and sent a message to someone. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some major bugs yet to be addressed in the software for the Echo. I guess this is a little harsh, but my sympathies are somewhat lost on these people. Not their fault for what happened, but they did take a risk.

"A husband and wife in the privacy of their home have conversations that they're not expecting to be sent to someone (in) their address book,"

It just doesn't sit well with me.
They were testing in three places: San Francisco, Arizona, and Pittsburgh. They didn't want to get a license from California (probably because they couldn't follow the safety regulations), so they threw a tantrum and moved to AZ. Then after this fatality, they shut the AZ program down and are just testing in Pittsburgh.
Thanks for the explanation.

"radar won't see anything stopped on the road, because it's filtering out a huge number of returns from the road"

what does that mean? sorry i am still confused.

Isn't the whole point of radar to detect objects around you?

It shouldn't matter if the object is in the road ahead, or on the side of the road, right? Because they are all obstacles that the car should avoid, no?

Like, a stopped car in front of you, vs a tree next to you on the side of the road, are both things the software should avoid, and NOT filter out, right?
Can I ask what cloud products you use and the provider? Azure, AWS GC?
Well, exactly. Those are the ones you slow down for.
In general, what people say on dating profiles is completely worthless for trying to understand their actual desires. In all social situations we project an identity we want others to see, but in online dating the trend is extremely exaggerated. You're unlikely to find profiles that don't fit into a very small selection of molds as a result of the filtering process people employ in that medium. At best, identifying as "sapiosexual" on a dating profile is just a way of saying they like a bit of sophistication.
Cross-Writing: When People Wrote Across the Page to Save Paper (2013)
I think you're both right. I think your mention of luck and starting privilege plays a much larger role than we'd all like to believe or admit, though.

For (a crude) example, if we all drew the same conclusion that being wealthy and [say] a technologist living in a $10M condo in NYC with spending money and travel time was the ideal life style—
many of use were born closer to that, even those born poor here, than say a peasant from the outskirts in Darfur.

That's one hell of a handicap.

Being intelligent, emotionally intelligent, charismatic, and tough will get you farther than if you weren't any of those traits personified. But on your way going about your business you're probably much more likely to be robbed of your acquired wealth and your life in some dangerous parts of those outskirts and so you just need that much more luck.
i guess text has always been harsher thats why books are so interesting
You should talk to a few lawyers at different law firms and get a free consultation. You should get a sense of a few approaches, the likelihood that you'll see some money, etc. Think of it almost like planning poker in agile where you're trying to find realistic estimates.
Actually I suspect that this is what it's changed. It's likely that Netflix has abandoned the long tail. They are now focusing on shows that have immediate, short term mass appeal.

Previously Netflix was able to invest in "quirky" shows that had strong appeal to a small percentage of its user base. The classic examples here are indeed Sense8 and Marco Polo. These shows were not blockbusters but they had a strong and loyal following and that should be highly valued by Netflix. Particularly when it comes to original content and as a subscription service, Netflix should be primarily focused on loyalty above all. These are the shows that keep viewers subscribed and make unsubscribing painful.

But the economics here quickly become complicated as the culture evolves. In a world where (a) many (most?) people are already have a Netflix account (b) there are now many competing streaming services each of which have their own exclusives and (c) the concept of "television" itself is gone, now you just have "screens" all over the place and (d) there is an explosion (probably bubble[1]) of original content and amateur content and (d) there is an arms race for talent driving up salaries across the board... the end result is that Netflix is now engaged in a month-by-month war not just to defend the many subscribers it has accumulated but also to take (and retake) subscribers who may have been drawn away to other competing steaming services that have access to historic brands. Netflix no longer has the luxury of gradually building a large, deep catalog that appeals to small segments of the market. It must offer everything, or at least something extremely compelling, to all users, every month, or those users will churn and be drawn away by competitors.

Netflix is likely moving towards the blockbuster model. In this light it starts to make sense why Netflix is dumping hundreds of millions on feature films and also focusing on big shows that can command huge audiences. The blockbuster model is driven by a series of big events carefully scheduled throughout the year to get users to show up in large droves when you need them for something they don't really need. Competitors are doing the same. The streaming business meets the blockbuster model and now you've got to produce a blockbuster every month to keep people coming back.
To those downvoting; this is the cause of most cases of police usage of excessive force. Sometimes it's real racism or abuse of power, but those cases seem to be the minority. More often it's fear, combined with a lack of sufficient training in maintaining self-control under tough situations.

I often hear veterans weighing in on cases like this, shocked that domestic police are so incredibly undertrained in de-escalation compared to the military.
I had this idea but using a module to apply it to material components.
Protein sources that are not complete don't need to be mixed and matched in any specific fashion. Those depending solely on non-complete proteins just need to make sure they eat a variety and not try to get all their protein from one source. They don't need to eat specific esoteric combinations or even to ensure they cover all the essential amino acids in a single meal.

Eggs - and also milk - are both complete protein sources, so it can be as simple as eating them as part of a wider diet if they are not restricted.
Netflix's quarterly revenue was $3.7bil representing a 40% YoY growth, and $400mil more than their previous quarter. Additionally, their net income last quarter was $290mil, not $185mil (that was the quarter previous).

Also you seem to have cherry picked quarters to compare, as last quarter Comcast actually had a net income of $3.12bil. The quarter previous was $15bil and the quarter before $2.9bil. I'm unsure what accounts for that single quarter spike, but using it as synecdochic of the whole is disingenuous at best.
I joined /. in 2000; a lot of folks argue about when the peak was but 2000 either was it or was shortly thereafter.

I think that HN now is far better than /. was then. Like /. of old you have knowledgeable people contributing to conversations (a great example is Walter Bright contributing to the Digital Mars D and C++ conversations) but unlike those days HN has better curated discussions so we don't have to sift through as much noise and disruptions. (I'm sure someone is nostolgic for the page-widening antics of old. That wouldn't be me, however.)

I would swap HN with the /. of old any day of the week, personally speaking. And I was there!
Interesting. Do you have any sources where I could read about it?

Flynn effect is fascinating me - if it holds in the future we'll have, in developed nations, an average IQ of 130 (by today's standards) in 100 years. That's a LOT. It'd, roughly, mean that ~17% of people would be capable of graduating from today's Ivy League schools without problems (145 IQ or more). And there would still be the (new) top 0.5%. But whether it will hold is anyone's guess.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER%3DEPR
We are so quick to ostracize people these days, blacklist based on even an accusation or admission of prior guilt. Imagine a university that fired someone with the potential to become the next Feynman or Einstein because of an unfortunate sexual or racial comment. I'm not justifying the comment, but it's an interesting question.

Of course this is not a new idea. Think Wagner, for example, a notorious antisemite. Or consider a utilitarian view. It is to me somewhat alarming, though, the swiftness with which we pass judgment these days, and I think it's worth considering the impact.
What’s so bad about having a small processor run a recognition routine on all incoming audio, discarding everything that doesn’t match, and activating the device if it does? Are you just worried about accidental activation?
> What this clearly demonstrates, is that the only factor driving execution time, is the number of iterations you apply to the password, before delivering the final password hash.

Isn't the reason this is true that bcrypt just truncates the input at 72 characters? And if that's correct, aren't there basically a few options, any of which basically invalidate the argument?

1. Enforce a password length limit. Fixes the unbounded growth of the shacrypt CPU time while simultaneously ensuring bcrypt is not ignoring input.

2. Pre-hash the input to bcrypt by passing it through SHA512. Makes bcrypt now grow in the exact same way as shacrypt.

3. Don't enforce a password limit, but truncate the password. Fixes the CPU time.

I don't know enough about bcrypt in practice to know which of those options is most commonly advised, but it just seems like a bit of a strawman here. Passing 4096 bytes to bcrypt is the same as passing 72 bytes to bcrypt because it ignores the last 4024 bytes right?
journalism is dying and reporting this kind of pedantic nonsense instead of anything that could affect someone is not helping.
Elon Musk thinks you can crowdsource truth: that’s not how the internet works
GOAT launches electric scooters in Austin
Really? I find it very accurate and helpful, but that could be because i come from siri hell. Which couldnt ever seem to get it right, especially using gps.

though i can easily see with background noise, next song sounding like exxon. I think due to frustrations with siri, i talk to google in very clearly enunciated words and havent had any interesting failures yet.
Isn't it? We're in talks with lawyers right now about some stuff (not GDPR) and they've used both those phrases. We have to assess a risk and do what seems like the best risk/reward assessment, and the lawyers can only give us advice and guidance not 100% solid answers. With GDPR not having a single enforcement action yet I can imagine the guidance there being even more vague.
It’s an odd way of trying to make that point. Wouldn’t it be better to just directly say that? It doesn’t seem controversial. A better scenario to contemplate would be the Nazi medical experiments. Absolutely horrific in every way. Suppose they were beneficial to our understanding of some major disease. Should we use the results?
Is three year old data covered? Sounds retroactive to me.
Kindness, perseverance, tolerance, humor, conscientiousness, generosity, empathy, . . .
I think this case is a bit too hard to prove much more than negligence, but establishing criminal liability would send the right message that you gotta do this right before unleashing it on public streets.
Not really. A good bomb has high velocity. Lots of high energy storage methods are slow reacting.
I've gradually learned to almost always allocate a PTY, whether it be ssh or some docker run. Too many programs work badly or unexpectedly differently when fd 0 or 1 is not a terminal. Maybe we should start collecting a hall of shame for programs that insist on dealing with a terminal, not just a pipe.

Another fun fact I just came across a few weeks ago. The sudo command doesn't always handle job control signals in the way you expect it to. From its manual:

> There are two distinct ways sudo can run a command. If an I/O logging plugin is configured or if the security policy explicitly requests it, a new pseudo-terminal (“pty”) is allocated and fork(2) is used to create a second sudo process, referred to as the monitor. The monitor creates a new terminal session with itself as the leader and the pty as its controlling terminal, calls fork(2), sets up the execution environment as described above, and then uses the execve(2) system call to run the command in the child process. The monitor exists to relay job control signals between the user's existing terminal and the pty the command is being run in. This makes it possible to suspend and resume the command. Without the monitor, the command would be in what POSIX terms an “orphaned process group” and it would not receive any job control signals from the kernel.
> I'd never want to read a book written in human handwriting

well, fwiw, the randomness/uniqueness of the elements help to give them their hand-drawn feel, and the font on this link does not contain that randomness. All letters look the same everywhere. And the line height is constant and so are the vertical positions. It’s more like a stylized font than handwriting. And it’s actually quite a game / readable stylized font. It’s not as fast as the more mechanical / typewritten fonts that are prevalent, but it’s still an comfortable read.

Anyways maybe it’s the same reason we tend to prefer a human voice giving us directions over a robot voice
as long as you remember to lock the phone before butt pocketing it. I still butt dial today but its mainly right after i talked to someone.
left-pad broke non-trivial projects like Babel, as I recall.
It won't load for me. Are they referring this to the Justice department? Someone needs to go to prison.
WSJ a little behind John Mulaney's grandmother...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I5l64ZmEWY