skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup! It just concerns me since this topic has a lot of great discussion but many people are missing the distinction between different types of effects. Sorry if I misunderstood what you were saying! For others who are confused what I mean...

Consider:

The person who makes a car that someone uses to kill someone by running a bystander over. The engineer isn't responsible.

The person who messed up the Prius with the issues where the gas pedal or whatever didn't work. The engineer IS responsible.

The first example is analogous to a software engineer writing image recognition software for a safety app. Then someone maliciously taking the software and using it to discriminate via misuse. The engineer is NOT responsible. If someone takes your software (could even be open source) and applies it or modifies it in a malicious way they are responsible not the engineer.

The second is example is where if an engineer makes a widget app and has a vulnerability but signs off on it, and then widget purchaser credit card info is stolen. The engineer is responsible for negligence and should be liable for the misuse.
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I have to be honest. I wasn’t sure if this was an ecological article or one about scooters before clicking through. Glad it is the former.
The Widely Divergent Life Expectancy in Every County in the US
I'm trying to get my family to try it for a few weeks to spur a lifestyle / eating change but it's been difficult. Most people are locked into the three meals a day (and likely a few snacks) mindset.

I think flipping it around to skip breakfast is far easier, both in terms of self-control and socially. Food is really important to most cultures, and an incredible amount of social cohesion is built around sharing meals together, primarily dinner, but also lunch. But for most people's lifestyle, if you start skipping breakfast, many people won't even notice.
I wish people would stop saying its a hybrid because of the graphics being moved into the kernel...

That doesn't make it a hybrid anymore than having the filesystem in supervisor/kernel space does. Its a hybrid because its designed/layered like a micro-kernel with the individual subsystems appearing to do message passing and using subsystem managers (I/O manager, process manager, object manager, etc) which monitor/etc the message flows. Yet, instead of doing context/privileged switches when it passes messages/IRP's it simply makes abstracted function calls which hand ownership of the message to other subsystems that exist in the kernel's address space. This means you get a most of the abstraction/stability effect of having a micro-kernel without paying the context switch and message copy penalty.

NT has a crazy awesome design, which is somewhat obscured these days, but has yet to really be surpassed by anyone (IMHO).
“Food and drink companies knew all along that sugar was making you obese and diabetic.”
I think the real problem is that the growth has improved the economy but reduced the quality of life. A few decades ago it was affordable for most families to buy a nice house close to the beach. Now the big cities have doubled in population and quadrupled in price, that is no longer achievable.

Yes Australia could easily have 100m people living there, but they wouldn't be as comfortable as when there were 15m.

Its a bit like California. LA & SF in the 60s and 70s sounds dreamy - and we'll never get back to there.
Many projectile options are likely to only be legal in more rural areas. For example, our local municipal code states:

"No Shooting" means any shotgun, fowling piece, rifle, BB gun, air compression rifle, pellet gun, revolver, pistol, or other firearm which projects any bullet, shot, slug, pellet, BB, or any other missile or projectile of any nature.
The problem isn't that people aren't recycling enough. The problem is that recycling is now more expensive than landfills, because it is not producing valuable enough material. If we encourage more people to recycle, it will just cost even more.
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Read my comment -- they have composite that works only for 480p/i @ 30khz. So won't work for lots of things (like old 8-bit computers, etc.)
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You're downvoted because so many people say it's "unfair" except for the 911 services they value, the fire department, roads, water, plowing in places with snow... It seems it's fair if it's services you use or fail to appreciate as services at all, and unfair if it doesn't serve you directly. And if you've thought in so little depth about the fairness and benefits of these services, the yield of an online discussion has a low expected value.
Get off your high horse man. Disclosing a worry or concern is not arrogance even if you do not wield the expertise to evaluate said concern. It is another input that may or may not be beneficial to humanity to assimilate, but let the reader be the judge.

It is impossible to assess the risk of unknown unknowns, so rather than assailing someone with adjectives and persecuting them with the crime of “arrogance” and “hubris,” just judge less and listen. If they’re wrong, move on.

Look at the mirror before you call another one arrogant.
Apple knew all along their phones give you cancer.

(I don't actually believe this is true. Don't hurt me.)
Perl6 allows scewer casing like that.
Tracing ray from camera towards light source is called Whitted raytracing - author of the text is J. Turner Whitted.
I think it's easier for each faction disagree because even professionals disagree about fundamental nutrition and healthy living questions.

I think there's considerable evidence that human physiologies vary enough that different and contradictory regimens can seem to wonderfully for different individuals.

On the current topic, fasting might indeed work great for some but I stay close to underweight regardless of my diet or exercise regime so any serious, multi-day fasting probably wouldn't be healthy for me.

Edit: Also problematic is how the topic jumps from the topic of cancer and fasting, which is very specific, to the healthiness of fasting is problematic (coming before the jump you note, fasting-in-general to "here's a my fasting anecdote and pet-theory").
I think you are mixing up your correlations. Obese people may be more prone to snacking, but snacking does not make you obese!

In fact, ACTUAL studies show that the number of meals doesn’t affect weight loss, only the amount of calories[0].

How you eat, how many times and how that affects your weight loss is totally up to the individuals preference, and what they feel is easier for them to maintain in their daily life.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11319656/
>>Again this dynamic is sort of terrible! In a perfect world you’d want clients and banks to develop relationships, to know and trust each other, to build mutually beneficial sequences of repeated interactions rather than just trying to gouge each other in atomistic arm’s-length trades.

This loss of trust has been happening across the capitalist landscape. Consider job security in the 60s compared to now for another example. As a consumer/employee I personally feel the frustration that's at the root of this - many companies treat their employees and their customers like interchangeable cogs that should be optimized, not like people at all.

But it's clear that the same thing happens in the other direction as well. For all the complaints about the decreasing quality of air-travel, almost everyone I know chooses flights based on cost and time, not service. Walmart was able to drive mom & pop shops out of business because they could sell things cheaper, not because they offered a superior shopping experience.

Perhaps the post-WWII era was a unique aberration. Happening after automation was advanced enough to make things pretty cheap, but before management science had discovered that hyper-optimizing every input and process was a great way to compete on price. Or perhaps this is the result of stagnant wages forcing people to buy from companies they hate because money is tight.

Either way, it seems like relationships are becoming increasingly currency-driven and transactional - the human factor matters less and less in spending, investing, and career decisions.
Cui bono.

Regulations can legitimately protect the public, or they can originate from well organised companies and other groups wanting anti-competitive practices to protect their own position.

So somewhat problematically arguments against regulation either tend to originate from people and companies who want to benefit from its absence, and typically don't care, or don't want to care, about the larger cost of their actions; or from people and companies trying to compete against the former.

Aiding and abetting all this, are theoretical (and incorrect) arguments from economics about self-regulating systems, which in the case of economics, and apparently only in economics, are devoid of features such as positive and negative feedback loops.
Lets start with the fairly obvious: DHS and TSA knew the airport scanners cause cancer.
I can't believe people used to _douse their food crops_ with glyphosate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
There are also (surprisingly) a lot of good Youtube videos on the topic.
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I don't think it's a given that it hurts the economy. Someone has to research, develop, and manufacture the non-toxic alternatives. How is that money not part of the economy?

Also, it doesn't make business that much harder unless you built your business on being shady. See: the recent GDPR kerfuffle. For some it was just business as usual on May 26th.
How to efficiently store and query time-series data
It’s all supply and demand. In the UK you don’t have a free market — you have essentially price caps (capped at “free”) — this causes shortages. In the US, you don’t have the same price caps, but then generally you don’t have shortages. A person willing to pay market rates can almost always get care in the US, while no amount of money can speed up a UK NHS surgery waiting list.

Really the answer is a balance somewhere in the middle, but my point is that the free market does work, when it’s allowed to. The problem in the US is that the market is highly distorted by Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rates as well as opaque price competition.
I am basing myself on those pages you mentioned. I already communicated to you about some of the omissions I noticed before. I am explicitly cautioning readers who read those pages that I noticed a lot of unbalanced omissions. They can then be on the lookout for that and indeed check and decide for themselves.
Let's just hope articles are still being written in the 2050's
> Or use a distribution that does not break shit left and right, like Debian or Red Hat (CentOS).

Sadly, there are a community of devs who want to rely on libflakey 0.0.1-beta, released an hour ago, and think that waiting for APIs to stabilise & distros to securely package things is unprofessional (!).
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-p...

This is a Fast Company post about The Intercept’s report. Might we prefer to link to it instead?
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> Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science community should change its peer-review process to ensure that researchers disclose any possible negative societal consequences of their work in papers, or risk rejection.

Agreed.

> The idea is not to try to predict the future, but, on the basis of the literature, to identify the expected side effects or unintended uses of this technology.

Agreed.

> No, we’re not saying they should reject a paper with extensive negative impacts — just that all negative impacts should be disclosed.

Agreed.

> But we’re moving towards a more iterative, dialogue-based process of review, and reviewers would need to cite rigorous reasons for their concerns, so I don’t think that should be much of a worry. If a few papers get rejected and resubmitted six months later and, as a result, our field has an arc of innovation towards positive impact, then I’m not too worried. Another critique was that it’s so hard to predict impacts that we shouldn’t even try. We all agree it’s hard and that we’re going to miss tonnes of them, but even if we catch just 1% or 5%, it’s worth it.

Agreed.

> We need to be saying, based on existing evidence, what is the confidence that a given innovation will have a side effect? And if it’s above a certain threshold, we need to talk about it.

Agreed.

> We believe that in most cases, no changes are necessary for any peer reviewers to adopt our recommendations — it is already in their existing mandate to ensure intellectual rigour in all parts of the paper. It’s just that this aspect of the mandate dramatically underused.

Agreed.

> Then, the gatekeepers are the press, and it’s up to them to ask what the negative impacts of the technology are.

Agreed.

> Disclosing negative impacts is not just an end in itself, but a public statement of new problems that need to be solved. We need to bend the incentives in computer science towards making the net impact of innovations positive. When we retire will we tell our grandchildren, like those in the oil and gas industry: “We were just developing products and doing what we were told”? Or can we be the generation that finally took the reins on computing innovation and guided it towards positive impact?

Agreed.

I haven't read this article (https://acm-fca.org/2018/03/29/negativeimpacts/) in entirety but I agree with the bolded points. Only viewed bolded points up to the examples.

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Edit: I want to say thank you for your respectful tone in spite of my slightly aggressive(?) one. I'm grateful to people like you because it reminds me, it matters a lot.
Maybe so. I am in the frame of mind now though that perhaps data doesn't mean much anymore. Literally everywhere I've worked, every application I've worked on people are fine just giving it. Sure there is value in it but I think the book is still being wrote on how much.
which sounds like a lot, but if you are actually investing long term ins't much. Remember these are stock funds, you should never invest in stocks if you need the money within 5 years - the historical odds are often against you breaking even if you need the money in 5 years. You cannot retire on $100k, which is one of the most common investments people make.
"..they made him wear a radioactive exposure badge and fired him when the badge tipped over the safe range."

Isn't that a good thing? You wouldn't want people to be working there to get unsafe radiation exposure.
While usually true, it's not 100% true in all cases. In this case, it's almost certainly a loss leader for other higher priced funds and other financial advising/services they offer.
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In many supermarkets/butchers, you can also bring your own resealable plastic containers for meats.

Most will usually insist on washing the container for you (because of regulations), so it's usually better to ask off-peak hours.
Well it’s important to always keep a clear head and handle these kinds of issues on a case by case basis using your best judgment, of course.

The Chinese guy working at the deli where I get my coffee is probably not a state-sponsored spy.
"Social networks knew all along that the dopamine-based intermittent reward system of their products was causing decreased attention spans, addictive behaviors, and mental illness, but continued expanding until the whole globe was in a stupor."
I was hoping there would be Google Maps links for some of these, so I could look them up in Street View.

Unfortunately, typing the names of some of these buildings into Google Maps doesn't work.
The difference is that most/all sugars are not inherently harmful, and we believe that they can be consumed safely at reasonable doses. A bit of glucose or fructose won't kill you, and is a (small) natural component of your diet. So banning sugar would be rather hard, compared to complex toxic chemicals which can't be processed by our bodies, decay slowly, and where we really have fairly limited reason to put in products.
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Paying rent is just as much throwning it out. There's definite tradeoffs to building equity vs. paying rent.

Additionally, there's the insane gift to banks that is the mortgage tax deduction, which significantly reduces the amount you spend on interest.
Ah yes we've invented this iPhone thingie, we predict it will cause people to get addicted to cat memes, sending dick picks and the Russians to meddle with our election.
> If they’re wrong, move on

why? aren't we allowed to judge the wrong? nothing wrong in calling someone arrogant if he's arrogant.
Depends on the target audience? Tech-savvy folks won't have any trouble but some people will surely try putting a '.com' on the end.

Another consideration is the reliability of the TLD operator, if there are residency requirements, stability on the rules and fees, etc.
There's obviously complicating factors.

If a consumer thinks recycling is some sophisticated magic, they're likely to use the plastic bag they think is recyclable to encapsulate a load of mixed recycling while it accumulates indoors. Assume this bag now contains a combination of paper, plastic, and cans.

Or if they have a plastic container full of fresh fruit with a tuna can from lunch, they might put the empty metal can within the now empty plastic container, closing the container to limit the odor. Eventually this winds up in the recycling bin as metal nested within plastic.

Automatically identifying and separating these instances intact, I imagine, is non-trivial.

What I don't understand is why we need to separate everything intact and can't just shred it all to a uniform size then automate sorting and washing that product.
Agreed. But if lot of developers are using REST for CRUD, then it definitely means that most of the developers desire a CRUD way of server interaction.

Any solution?
I imagine that this was downvoted because of the reference to a supposed “Chinese IP theft’ narrative”, which is not a useful contribution.
> I think it will drive to actual recycling that does actual good

I'm not so sure, at least in the US. Politicians almost always follow the path of least resistance when dealing with problems (our current system encourages it), and the shortest, least resistant path to making this problem disappear is to pay some other country to take it and do what they want with it (burn it, bury it, etc).
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It blows my mind that the original link wants to charge 35 dollars for one day of access for this.
I wonder if there's a natural cost to operating a fund, that would make this kind of product unsustainable, long-term? In contrast, Robinhood can provide free trades, and M1 Finance can provide free portfolio-oriented management, but they also both have good explanations for their underlying business models.

To be transparent, I work at M1 Finance, and I invest in a few Fidelity ETF's; still not sure how I feel about this one.
And you know that I prodded JzG on the basis of your story, I initially said so here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109849 , and you replied to it!
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The parent post is about college, so this is not about children anymore. I think what making it all free takes away, is the importance of making good decisions about college. If it were all free, I bet a lot fewer students would take it seriously and be more likely to enroll in less practical degree programs -- english, psychology, american studies (not architecture, engineering, design, as you mentioned). They would also not have any urgency to finish in time, to see well-paying careers afterwards.
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why do you say that
I would add another often forgotten game: Spec Ops: the Line.

My go to example when I want to convince people games are art, and furthermore that games are a medium that offers unique possibilities. It's a reimagining of Apocalypse Now, but the interactivity adds a whole new layer of meaning and opportunity for reflection. You're not on the outside, watching characters do horrible things, you are the character, and you did those horrible things. It absolutely shows, in a way understandable even to someone who hasn't ever played a game, that the medium affords completely new possibilities.

Then the absolutely sublime way in which this this title -- from its marketing to its presentation to its first hours -- creates an expectation of being yet another utterly generic "modern military buddy-soldier shooter" to then shatter those expectations and deliver a deep and thought provoking story to tell... Well I could write pages about it. It just adds layers to your interpretation of the story, and more to reflect on.
How could a session ID not identify an individual?

EDIT: I see there is an explicit exemption for session cookies: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
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Not at all, but human nature being what it is, I would like systemic solutions that personal responsibility can be a constituent part of. Not to discover the body putting out advertisements to keep the place tidy and care for the environment are also a lobby group formed to prevent legislation impacting manufacturers in that area. Makes me wonder about the history of the UK equivalent!

If the trash can't be easily recycled or is excessive that's a manufacturer problem even if it all ends up in the correct bin. If reuse and deposit schemes would help that's a manufacturer or legislative problem. So it goes on. I'd even argue that takeaways and franchises have partial responsibility for trash around their outlets. Produce less, with less impactful materials. After all the customer wanted a burger or coffee not a selection of impossible to recycle junk.

One of those groups is going to some lengths to avoid their responsibilities. The other, on the whole, is trying or is required via kerbside collections from their homes. On windy days kerbside collections in these parts don't pick up all the blown away plastic. That should be their responsibility too. Presumably my local authority didn't specify that adequately in the outsourcing contract - though it shouldn't be necessary.

As is, it looks like we've landed most of the responsibility on those least able to do anything about it.
That's rather pessimistic. The old slogan of "reduce, re-use, recycle" (in that order) still applies. There is no magic bullet.