skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't have moral discussions about the discovery of a new law of physics or a mathematical lemma.

Abstraction affects mental functionality. It forms expectations by designing a language in which the present can be expected to be predicted within some objective, measurable tolerance. The problem, always has been, and always will be - is that people can't be measured and tested like machines.

> This only becomes an issue when we can see how it can be applied to some aim.

So yes. That's correct, that's the terrible thing that can be observed and measured when it happens. Prevention is important.

> Thus if there were no engineers nobody would consider the scientists moral obligations with the exception of their experiments themselves causing harm.

Sorry, no, that again, ridiculous. You think that way. Not everyone thinks the same. Intent. Experimentation is intended to discover in a controlled environment while giving heavy weight to moral implications. People choose to opt in to scientific studies. People trust that process when they make that decision.

> The argument to limiting science is that engineers might take it and create some terrible machine with it. Perhaps the most notorious example being a nuclear bomb.

Yes, and what makes us think we are so evolved and so advanced to believe we can't accidentally create something similar with present technology - lacking awareness to it's creation? Evolution won't protect us against our own idiocy.

Reasoning about computation affects cognition, which has real world consequences that extend to everything else that is not reasoning about computation. That's just all there is to it.

> I believe we agree on the role of science, I don't think we agree on what their culpability should be.

They should be able to talk about personal, first hand experiences openly without being professionally attacked, first. Second, they should be able to talk about existing problems without fear of whose bottom line it might affect. There should not be blame in systems where everything is hard as heck to understand. Obligation to the truth - yes. Blame for the belief that there was the intent to create a problem by virtue of uncovering one? No. That has shortsightedness written all over it.
Fair point. Thanks. Enforcement of basic rules helps keep things civil everywhere.
"A person from the United States of America thinks something 100 years old is old. A person from the UK thinks 100 miles is a long way away"
I did directly say high calories [caloric], but maybe that was redundant. But yeah, I think if you take an average meal off any restaurant menu, it’s not only going to be high calories in light of the daily recommended number of calories (and more importantly the number of calories required to maintain an individuals healthy weight based on sex/age/height/BMI), but the breakdown of the Marcos will be high in all categories.

So for counter example you could eat a calorie surplus (like body builders bulking phase or maybe an endurance athlete refueling and preparing for another event) but that doesn’t necessarily mean the macros are all high (above daily recommended or above the amount to maintain body weight).
> Moral culpability is shared and distributed across moral agents in time and space, as some function of causal distance and intent.

Absolutely agree.

> I think that engineers avoid thinking about these things, not out of humility, but because its in their interest to do so.

This is perhaps the reason we differ. My experience has been that the vast majority of technologists want to make the world a better place.

I believe you see the industry is filled more with people like Wernher von Braun who want to build something cool regardless of social cost. At the dawn of the social media revolution the dominate theory in tech circles was that information shall set you free. The people making it did not come into the industry for status, being a nerd was still a social negative. Today with the ever rising salaries things are changing.

Perhaps you are right that as the industry matures the sphere of liability should increase. I would still argue that the suggestions in the original article swing that much too far. We shouldn't prevent scientific discoveries merely because engineers may build something bad with the information. On the balance scientific discovery has improved the lives of everyone by many orders of magnitude - even if its distributed unevenly.
An Exploration of How Simulated Gambling Games May Promote Gambling with Money
Population growth in Australia is largely immigration-driven.
This isn't public info in some cases though. Airline sky clubs charge a fee and one of the benefits is their wifi (note that on the map, these aren't just airports, but airline sky clubs).

That's like you coming to my house, I give you the password to the wifi, and then you go tell all the neighbors about it so they can get "free wifi".
Just buy blue traveltens and claim you didn't know you rode for too many sections if you're ever inspected…
> Doctorate of philosophy.

> The Ph in PhD actually means something. It's not some kitschy decoration.

In Germany, the doctor's degrees are quite different. Typical ones for the HN audience are (for a long list cf. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_akademische... ):

- "Dr.-Ing." for engineering (typically including Computer Science)

- "Dr. rer. nat." (doctor rerum naturalium) for natural sciences (typically also including mathematics). Even though the university of Frankfurt am Main issues the "Dr. phil. nat." (doctor philosophiae naturalis) title instead, the "nat." ending for the latter one is very important to distinguish it from the "humanities doctor's degree" "Dr. phil." (doctor philosophiae)

TLDR: In Germany, the names of the doctor's degrees make it very clear that they have nothing to do with philosophy.
NASA Live: Commercial Crew Announcement
Absolutely, if that data is stolen due to the designers’ neglect in the security aspects of the systems they signed off as “adequately designed”.
Notifications should be for exceptions that require action.
I still recall the Refco scandals from last decade. And on the face of it this actually seems like relatively good governance on the part of OKEx. They forced liquidation when it got out of control. Injected the company's own capital into an insurance fund. And triggered the contractual clawback only on the profitable put trades. Key takeaway is that the exchange itself never went under or engaged in fraud. Which at the end of the day is the desired outcome for all contract holders and exchange members. If the BTC price had gone up, it may never have been an issue.

The only fault is allowing the position in the first place without adequate margin. Market Protocol is claiming on twitter they've solved the solvency problem using smart contracts:

https://marketprotocol.io/
Cliff Palace (the oldest one listed for Colorado) certainly isn't "intact". It's definitely a ruin.
> Fidelity has pledged that all securities revenue will return to the fund and not Fidelity itself.

Cool, I didn't know this. Do you have a link?
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism
Fortnite for Android Will Ditch Google Play Store for Epic’s Website
All actors seem to behaving rationally to me. Just because some people dont like the outcome doesn’t mean anyone acted irrationally at any point.
See also: Mapnificent

https://vimeo.com/16362921
https://www.mapnificent.net/
Look, stop applying pseudo-science "feels-right" intuition to things that involve complicated cellular mechanisms. It doesn't work that way and you should just listen to what your doctor(s) tell you and trust them + your own due diligence.

Fasting doesn't "starve" cancer cells. Drinking only juice for a week doesn't "cleanse" your body.

Stop making up your own medical diagnoses fueled by internet bullshit. Listen to experts and trust them for a change.
Criminals break the law... Amazon is not breaking the tax code.
I'd be interested to know what percentage of sites would actually lose functionality.

At a crude estimate, >90% of the sites that show me cookie warnings do everything I actually want them to statelessly. And I have some backup for that, because when I block cookies by default very few sites actually seem to get worse.

Are there clever user-aiding tricks with cookies that I don't realize I'm losing? Or is the average site with cookies purely for tracking and advertising?

(This is all a separate question from "should cookies be blocked by default"; I know a few uses really do suffer badly.)
A) Shorthand for commands in powershell are many and customizable

2) You realize you can tab complete commandlets, flags, switches, and named parameters in PowerShell right?

I actually agree that aliasing the old core-utils names to PS commandlets that are only kinda similar was a bad move though.

And unless OP literally meant that PowerShell was inferior when judged as a copy of unix shells and core-utils, they are being delusional[0]. I don't know why you feel that's some incredible insult.

[0]based on or having faulty judgment; mistaken
On the other hand, I also feel that it doesn't hurt to if you deviate from your own rules sometimes, instead of being all fundamentalist about it.

I try to live by a whole set of self-imposed rules because I think they are beneficial to my health and well-being, but for me these are not dogma's. By default, I don't drink during weekdays for example, but if there's a special occasion once or twice a month, I don't feel guilty deviating and/or making up for it some other day. As long as you feel comfortable with it yourself.
CVE-2018-14773 #Symfony Flaw expose #Drupal websites to hack
He has moved on to hacking things that kill more people than phone and videogames, cars.
I don't understand why this guy is being downvoted. I don't know how to pluck a chicken like my Depression-era grandparents.

Don't peel potatoes, they're delicious and have ++ nutrients.
https://nordnetab.com/ has zero expense index funds for Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

They are only available for their customers, but it's a great way to get new customers. They don't have any extra fixed fees either, so it's not a scam. It's just good marketing.
Why do you care about karma so much? Express your opinion and forget about “internet points”.
In my experience, Xbox controllers are actually fairly common for large robotics. It is relatively cheap to buy a controller and USB wireless dongle plus there are lots of software libraries to help interpret controller input.

My main experience being my participation two years in a row in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). A college competition to develop self-driving rovers and "cars" (golf carts). There were around 40 teams from various colleges (several international, not just usa) and many of the teams used xbox controllers for manual control including my team.
Ubuntu Kylin 18.04 LTS – See What's New
Interestingly, the reason expense ratios are now so low is that Vanguard entered the market, basically innovated the index fund, slashed all the expense ratios, and now everyone has to compete with them.

But Vanguard is not-for-profit company because it's owned by its shareholders.

I think capitalism works in a lot of situations and I'm not against it, but there are certain scenarios where the "free market" logic doesn't really work or apply because of various reasons. In medicine it seems to be a race to higher prices.
Would be interesting to have a running / walking option where you could fill in your approximate min/km and have that plotted.
After Five Years of Blocking Sites, Russia's No Closer to Beating Piracy
Since when did Wikipedia become the authority on what a PhD represents?

That's a little freaking ironic if you don't mind me saying. A PhD represents it's own authority by virtue of being awarded by the tiny fraction of people in the world who actually understand the problem space you might be studying enough to say "Research accepted. We trust you can take our place as educators and researchers in the future when we are dead."

Also, there's a good reason the Greeks had that archaic way of categorizing knowledge. Hyper-connectivity of all knowledge available at once is a total clusterfuck to deal with from an individual mind perspective. Just because it's old doesn't make it wrong. History repeats itself, etc.
Here: http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20180801/FREE/18080999...
This, exactly. It's worth noting that this is one of a few income streams that take advantage of retail investor appetites -- another is when when retail brokers who do "smart routing" of orders lease a feed with advance look at those orders to HFT firms. That kind of income is generally NOT returned to investors, and at some retail brokerages can make up 80% of profits.

It's true that if something is free you are the product... but even when you're paying you may be getting sold on the side.
> How does YC feel about companies who don’t want to raise VC after the program?

Very interesting answer to this question. How does this work in practice? If a company decides against raising VC, what happens to YC's 7% stake? Profit sharing? Does the company buy back the 7%? Or does YC only see returns when there's a liquidity event?

Zapier was mentioned as an example of such a company. It raised a seed round and then decided against raising further rounds. In this case, how do the VCs see returns?
Set-eGPU: allow use of external GPUs in macOS, even on internal displays
Xbox is one the best examples out there of how social media can be used for customer support and happiness. Not all kinds of audiences would like to be supported on Twitter though :)
Beer has female hormones which make belly and boobs. Try to switch to wine - producing, or at least consuming.
I get that they're trying to encourage ethical behavior, but this proposal seems incredibly arrogant. It implicitly states that computer programmers are, as a field, competent to predict how a technology will impact society. Whether or not ANY field is competent to do that is questionable, but whether or not computer programmers are able to do that is not questionable; it's clearly incorrect. We don't have the background, training, skillset, or in some cases even personality to be making insightful predictions about how society will respond to and be impacted by a new technology. I'm not saying the person advocating it is a bad person, but this particular proposal is arrogant (and founded on an incorrect understanding of what kind of thing programmers are good at).
This is especially true if you're working on a research task, or the research portion prior to really driving in and implementing the feature. Every day you're basically saying the same thing and it looks like you're struggling, but you're mostly just learning.
The cost to run an etf does not (or at least should not) increase with Assets Under Management (AUM). So if anything the providers should be charging a fixed fee for the whole index fund instead of charging based on the AUM.
It's a bit silly. That's like saying a lot of capital is going into proprietary plumbing and society would benefit if more people could make use of it. The software is implicitly linked to the people and processes.

Open source software development absolutely has a purpose. Licensing absolutely has a purpose. But generalization is a well-known cost for those in tech, and marketing is a well-known cost at general.
It's not just about throwing garbage into trash can. The main question is about how much of garbage is being recycled? And who will pay for the recycling if you mandate 5 different types of garbage and mandate maximum possible recycling? Many of the European countries have major focus on percentage of garbage being recycled. Some countries even reached 70% or so and have plans to increase it even further.
When I was a kid, the “bottle depot” was a very motivating way to go out of one’s way to collect stray bottles.

Deposits at time of purchase have proven effective. Put a deposit on every product with recyclable material using some generic measurement (like “weight of packaging”), such that when you return it you receive a quick and approximate return (in this example, by weighing everything you recycled and just not caring too much what the breakdown was).
Bitcoin whale makes big losing bet, other traders have to foot the bill
We use svn. It's easy to manage folder-tree, easy to use and better for non-tech people.
I will not be convinced into believing a PhD represents less than what it does. They are absolutely fundamental to the retention, collection, understanding, and dispersion of knowledge. Otherwise intellectual understanding goes in circles. No progress.
Can we please keep YC a civil place without the entirely unnecessary profanity which is pervasive everywhere else?

It's fine to disagree; but do so based on the strength of your argument and facts.
Expect to be paid 20 - 30% less outside of the city. That's been my experience. Overall I am financially far worse off with an 'affordable' house in Atlantic Canada. Yes I have a small detached home for ~$250k but I have much less money in my pocket with far less capital gain potential.

An extra $35k salary would easily cover a much larger mortgage, and living expenses aside from the mortgage are almost identical.

The difference in rent or mortgage is easily covered by the city weighted salary, but you still have all the other expenses. Living is just expensive wherever you go, there is no escaping it. I made the decision that at 40 I don't want to be in a condo surrounded by traffic and people any more. It's been a bit of an eye opener and a big adjustment to accept the relatively low salary that comes with that decision.

I have worked remotely and been paid very well which has been good, but startups come and go and when I got to the final round of a more stable position with a large corporation they told me they were downgrading my salary offer by a significant amount because of where I lived.
This is what I clicked on the link for - would be nice to have.
Does it include calculations for altitudes? Because if hikers and outdoor enthusiasts would love (and use) it.
Edited, let me know if you want them to be toned down more.
How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards
I guess I can write down a list of wild-ass guesses of potential things that might happen if you use my software on the readme.md.
quote from the article:

Nikita Khrushchev’s infamous statement in 1956 — “We will bury you” — ushered in one of the Cold War’s most dangerous phases, one rife with paranoia and conviction that both sides were out to destroy the other. But it turns out that’s not what he said, not in Russian, anyway. Khrushchev’s actual declaration was “We will outlast you” — prematurely boastful, perhaps, but not quite the declaration of hostilities most Americans heard, thanks to HIS interpreter’s mistake.

The response of Kantaro Suzuki, prime minister of Japan, to an Allied ultimatum in July 1945 — just days before Hiroshima — was conveyed to Harry Truman as “silent contempt” (“mokusatsu”), when it was actually intended as “No comment. We need more time.” Japan was not given any.

Whenever I see interpreters on footage of trials or negotiations, I have the impression the interpreter is a native to the target language, and is there on authority of his government, i.e. A Soviet interpreter working for Kruchev translates from english to russian, and a US translator working for USA translates from russian to english. I could be wrong though, but I always thought the responsibility of correct translation was placed at the receiver of information (otherwise, the non-elected interpreter would have the final word on phrasing a comment!)

The 2 examples of Kruchev, and the failed pre-Hiroshima bomb are phrased in a way that insinuates the problem to have been at the foreign side!
matt levine is a national treasure. he makes the most boring minutiae of finance fun to read and is consistently insightful. even if you're not into finance you should read him for general business culture
Oh thanks for your reply. Here in Québec city consulting companies charge 70-75 for gov contracting, and in insurances companies you can get 80-100 per hour.
Yes add your e-mail adress, we can take the discussion further :)
I would prefer they offered funds at cost plus some profit . It seems all "free" products come with some major downside because the company that offers them must make money through some sleazy backdoor. See Google, Facebook and others.
I thought they'd actually done blinded studies that showed an inability to distinguish between "real" art and amateur attempts?
Coffee Break has a great video about Index Funds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vdB7gphtyo

The TL;DW is that in many different studies, index funds preform better in the very long term than almost any managed fund. Why pay some monkeys to manage your money when an even distribution over a bunch of common stocks does just as well?
It's not that someone can set up a MitM device. Wifi with a shared password can be passively captured using a variety of tools and decrypted using WireShark.[1]

The "coffee shop" scenario, where a WPA2 Personal password is written where anyone can see it, is essentially as insecure as non-encrypted wireless.

WPA2 Personal is only secure if the password is very strong[2] and never given to untrusted parties.

The only wireless security I put any real trust in is WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1x certificate-based authentication specifically.[3]

[1] https://wiki.wireshark.org/HowToDecrypt802.11
[2] Otherwise it's possible to mount a hash-cracking attack after capturing the four-way handshake for clients that have the password.
[3] WPA2 Enterprise with per-user password-based authentication is vulnerable to an "evil twin attack" unless the password is very strong, which is usually not the case, because organizations typically have it authenticate against Active Directory or another LDAP.
Agreed. It also pre-loads the calorie deficit. If you eat in the morning, you haven't accomplished anything until you fail to eat at night.

In my case, hunger is one of the few things that can cause almost complete insomnia (like, lie awake actually all night, not just fitful wakeups), which means it works much better for me if I'm hungry in the daytime, instead of in the evening.
> The closest thing I compare my experiences to is: imagine interacting with the world using a pair of super awesome VR gloves. Not muted exactly, just somehow unreal feeling.

Wow, this is really interesting because one of the side effects of excessive VR usage that I've read about is "hands not feeling real". Otherwise 'normal' people spend a ton of time in VR (where your hands are represented by largely immobile mitts at the location of your controllers) and start to feel like their actual hands 'aren't real'.

If you don't mind saying, how did your perception of touch get affected in this way?
Do you plan some kind of API?
Why would there be another Christmas rush?
"The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way." --Earle Hitchner
Show HN: Socratrees: help make discussions great again
There's a cost associated with buying and selling the underlying equities which is proportional to AUM.