skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they all agree that at home, you should store your guns in a locked container

And how is that working for them?
There's simply no way to substantiate your claim. Plenty of people who drink daily get sick and die from the effects of alcohol, including drinking one beer a day. Also, if you're comparing one beer, you need to compare it to the equivalent MDMA dose which would not cause any psychoactive effects just like one beer typically doesn't.
I'm a supporter of extremely strong free speech protection, but this doesn't seem entirely black and white to me.

AWS is a private hosting company, and they may be exposed to legal or authority action based on what their clients host. It seems a lot like the Facebook arguments to me.

If you want to obligate them to support free speech, I think they need to be regulated as carriers otherwise it's not a reasonable standard to hold a private entity to. At least there is more competition in the hosting space than there is for Facebook.

Maybe this is an argument for regulation, but I don't think it's an argument for finger wagging. Either there is some sort of enforcement, or we acknowledge there are alternatives.
> You're analogy works for academic programs that lead to careers that pay reasonably well. But, not for underwater tiddlywinks - no amount of time spent in that field will allow you to pay down the debt.

Agreed, but that’s your onus to calculate the cost/benefit (whatever those benefits may be) of any pursuit, not just academic. It’s just especially important for studying in the US, given the insane cost of education.

Like you said, there’s a skew towards technical degrees, but I think about me and my peers at 18 and man we had no idea what we were doing and had little context for how such a big life decision would affect us down the road.
The article mentions both child abusers and terrorists yet the laws will rarely be used for that. Mandatory metadata retention was also bought in for the same reasons and has barely appeared as evidence in any subsequent cases, despite >300,000 warrantless metadata requests last year, overseen by a handful of public servants behind closed doors, in a country of 25 million people.

Another very concerning law is about "fixated persons", which was bought in with big budgets and huge teams of detectives solely dedicated to going after lone wolf terrorists, so far the only person charged is a former mining executive who was a respected lawyer and Head of Compliance at one of Australia's biggest gas companies (One of the largest gas exporters in the world.)

She turned whistleblower on some corrupt deals and environmental coverups involving certain fracking leases and the government. After contacting the Mining Minister about it over the space of a few months, instead of investigating, the Minister referred her to the police, she was then deemed a "fixated person", which involved incarceration without charge, being taken to a mental institution and forcibly injected with anti-psychotic drugs for months. Eventually a judge decided she could go home. All media coverage of it is banned in Australia until the trial is finished, which has been postponed at every hearing for over a year now, time heals all wounds I guess.

It's naive to think that those in power wouldn't abuse such laws. I'm all for giving police the powers they need and perhaps even more as long as there is transparent oversight and it's targeted, but the complete opposite is happening in many places on Earth right now. Monsters flourish in the darkness.
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In other words: "Print the file, send the printed sheets by fax to the remote office, once received, OCR them and save to a file"

Not to mention that there's no such thing as "Easily run OCR", considering how many weird fonts there are, and that they could be rendered in such small size as to make it difficult even for humans to tell them apart.
To put the 15,000 lifetimes in perspective... there has been 7,500 generations of humans since the emergence of Homosapiens. Civilization started only 500 generations ago..
“Thirdhand smoke is residual nicotine and other chemicals left on indoor surfaces by tobacco smoke. People are exposed to these chemicals by touching contaminated surfaces or breathing in the off-gassing from these surfaces. This residue is thought to react with common indoor pollutants to create a toxic mix including cancer causing compounds, posing a potential health hazard to nonsmokers — especially children.”

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/ex...
Right, those are ubiquitous chemicals and compounds with a relatively low uncertainty to their ecological and biological impacts. Unlike for example - synthetically augmented glyphosate compounds, and other contentious products which organic standards takes a precautionary stance towards.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766840 (170 comments)

Other submissions of the same story from various sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17771620 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17769280

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17767741

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17765607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17765105

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17739471
What if carriers created an "enhanced security mode," which users can opt-in to if they want more security and are okay with sacrificing convenience in case of account recovery?

It would be similar to the account recovery aspect of Google's Advanced Protection Program: "A common way that hackers try to access your account is by impersonating you and pretending they have been locked out of your account. To give you the strongest protection against this type of fraudulent account access, Advanced Protection adds extra steps to verify your identity during the account recovery process. If you ever lose access to your account and both of your Security Keys, these added verification requirements will take a few days to restore access to your account."[1]

[1] https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection
This is probably the other piece of the puzzle regarding the implementation of single payer healthcare.

Because who in their right mind wants to sacrifice 16 years of earning potential, take on 500K of debt only to become an MD with long work days and now prices that are fixed with no other form of negotiation leverage in sight.
So, as far as I can tell the polls are hardware based, not website based. And you can't even register yet, just sign up for a mailing list.
Agreed. When this method is applied in, say, Germany, to safely detect WWII ordinance, then it will have proven itself.
I agree.

Yes, it will cost a lot and yes we need to find a way to fund it, but giving all communities fair access to education is in everyone's best interest.

Increasing the base level of education makes everyone a more intelligent, informed citizen and voter, and will have a positive impact on the progression of our country. I think it's a bad idea to be penny pinching in this regard. I also think everyone being educated, and learning how to think for themselves (which I find is the key greatest value of getting higher education) will keep the people in power from herding everyone around like sheep, and will lead to more progress and innovation.

I will gladly pay a higher portion of my salary if it means the general populous can think for themselves, has a means to climb if they wish to, and the base level of education of the people in my country increases.
It seems to me that's just a map[set_key]bool
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> There is a lot more to security than things that have to do with software engineering.

I didn't say there weren't?

> In my experience, the companies with the worst security are ones that primarily employ current or former software engineers as leaders of their security teams with a misguided mentality that security is just a subset of software engineering.

Wasn't what I was advocating for.

I'm advocating for learning security after you have a base of software development. Not leading a security team with no experience learning or practicing security. Also, this is a huge and growing field, so I'm speaking generally, but I'm sure there are sub-areas where there are counter examples.
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Not getting my sympathy. Use a hardware wallet such as Trezor for God sake.

Also, in what world when he lost $24M can he sue for $224M? Entited to a 10x return because of his own neglegence. Nope!
All that for a worthless degree in antaractic penguin studies from Shady St Univ. You still graduate unemployed, unskilled, but instead of you paying the debt, someone else does.

Also, with no skin in the game, I’m sure college will get even less serious.
I think the strength of ceramics varies greatly depending on how they're made. For example, ceramics are used to make armor plates that are strong enough to stop assault rifle rounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapi_plate#Materials_and_capab...
On the other hand, subsidies that everyone gets are the best kind: they're a small help for people who don't need them, and a big help for people who do need them. And there's no bureaucrats who get to decide if you need them or not.
It certainly seems like that when you are stuck in a deep, dark hole, an altered consciousness might be the best chance to find some motivation. Like realizing that there is good in the world and you can be a part of it.

MDMA brings some health risks that shouldn't be viewed lightly, though. Be careful.
Sure, reappropriate some of the US military budget ($717 billion).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-approves-717b-defense-s...
Keep in mind a few things here. This is a press release, and press releases always hype their topic. Researchers discover ways to improve batteries weekly. Until they can prove it's cost effective and mass producible it doesn't matter to most of the world. Don't get excited until they start using it in products.
> But when the space is virtual, it magically changes from a landlord to a speech thing.

I think it because whenever there is piracy or unauthorized access to entertainment or information resource from cable/media companies comes up, apart from company whose property get stolen, all seem to have sympathy towards culprit . The standard arguments are couched in user freedom rather than taking someone's property without consent. All this is because resource is digital so my access does not deprive other.

So blocking is claimed to harmful, immoral, greed by media or cable companies for things some people want to have. And now non-blocking is considered harmful by social media companies for things some people do not want.
> They need warm bodies (residents are cheap labor) to run the hospital (the money machine that gets thousands of dollars per xray, per drug, etc). A steady supply of med students who are already situated in NYC saves them the cost of recruiting residents from afar. And who knows how much money they save by cutting the bureaucracy to administer tuition, loans, Sally Mae compliance, etc.

This is a rather elaborate conspiracy theory, and one that falls apart entirely once you think about the actual costs of residency programs, the mechanics of matching students, and the real ROI that they would make in the process. It's absurdly out of proportion with what would be needed to make this theory work.
What exactly is funny here? The linux kernel is not a userspace library with a public API - and in the case of libuv, judging from `apt-cache search libuv` output, one which intends to be dynamically linked as well. By exposing this performance-insensitive struct publicly, they're also unnecessarily increasing their ABI surface area. It just reeks of novice library authorship.

What makes sense for a monolithic kernel's code is quite different from what makes sense in a userspace library, particularly on its public API boundaries.

It's also worth noting that the Linux kernel developers have historically made choices which are actively hostile to kernel module API/ABI stability as a way to discourage third parties from distributing out-of-tree proprietary binary modules. There is literally a policy of not having a stable interface for module writers, it's the anti-library except for the system call interface.
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Out of curiosity, if it wasn't the environmental or family differences, and if the cops aren't preventing crime in the higher-income neighborhoods, what do you think caused the first school to be low-performing and the other to be high-performing?
IMO, you are suggesting way more thought than is actually going on in most cases. I think you are right about not identifying with future selves being part of the issue, but I think it is usually just memory, at least when talking about following through with a plan decided previously with significant deliberation. When considering plans in depth we do think about the future and what would be better, but in the moment of making decisions we are usualy involved in something else. I also don't think the article is right that it is usually preferring immediate gratification over long term benefits, but just that doing something towards the previous plan is an intrusion into whatever else we happen to be doing at the time and an interruption of focus or more immediate plans. We then only consider the previous plan superficially and are quick to accept some potential workaround to needing to work on it now (that is, it isn't that we are discounting our future but just not really considering it at all). I've found it helpful to try to notice if something is a potentially significant change to a previous plan and get out of the flow of whatever I am doing and consider it in more depth before actually making a change. Just getting out of the flow briefly when making the decision is enough to actually consider the future and make a good decision about following the previous plan or changing it.
> reputable organisations have classified [glyphosate] as a carcinogen

That's a bit of an oversimplification.

This article helps clarify the situation: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/glyphosate-cause-cancer/

An important point is the following:

> "An FAQ page on WHO’s website clarifies why the IARC’s and the pesticide residue experts’ conclusions aren’t contradictory.

> "The 2015 IARC conclusion aimed to identify any potential cancer hazard glyphosate may pose to humans at some level of exposure, WHO explains. But in 2016, the pesticide residue experts at WHO and the U.N. assessed the actual cancer risk the herbicide poses to consumers at a specific level of exposure, namely the level commonly found in foods."

Further:

> "In fact, a yet-to-be-published study that found no link between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, may have changed IARC’s 2015 analysis of the herbicide had it been published."

It's also worth noting that the IARC's finding is somewhat speculative, as described in https://www.nature.com/news/widely-used-herbicide-linked-to-... :

> "The IARC review notes that there is limited evidence for a link to cancer in humans. Although several studies have shown that people who work with the herbicide seem to be at increased risk of a cancer type called non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the report notes that a separate huge US study, the Agricultural Health Study, found no link to non-Hodgkin lymphomas. That study followed thousands of farmers and looked at whether they had increased risk of cancer.

> "But other evidence, including from animal studies, led the IARC to its ‘probably carcinogenic’ classification. Glyphosate has been linked to tumours in mice and rats — and there is also what the IARC classifies as ‘mechanistic evidence’, such as DNA damage to human cells from exposure to glyphosate."

There's a good amount of research showing no cancer links in practice at realistic levels, though, for example. Here are a couple of studies (one of which is mentioned above):

Cancer Incidence among Glyphosate-Exposed Pesticide Applicators in the Agricultural Health Study -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253709/ - "Glyphosate exposure was not associated with cancer incidence overall or with most of the cancer subtypes we studied."

Epidemiologic studies of glyphosate and cancer: A review - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027323001... - "Seven cohort studies and fourteen case-control studies examined the association between glyphosate and one or more cancer outcomes. Our review found no consistent pattern of positive associations indicating a causal relationship between total cancer (in adults or children) or any site-specific cancer and exposure to glyphosate."

In short, this is not an issue that justifies running around with one's hair on fire, unless that happens to be your hobby, which it does seem to be for some people.
The existence of akrasia is one of those things that many people accept as reasonable, but if truly adopted as an axiom and reasoned from in a consistent manner, would lead to far different conclusions than we've adopted as a society.

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/3/5/17080470/addiction...
They don't protest Google's manipulation and censoring of certain Americans though...
The way I like to look at it: What "societal goods" and "societal bads" come from a wealth distribution like we have today, where a vanishingly tiny number of people hold close to all the country's wealth. If the bads outweigh the goods, that in itself should be enough of an argument to do away with the distribution.
The sad truth is, the U.S. is a country that emphasizes punishment over rehabilitation, and we've brought this upon ourselves by isolating people and banning access to substances that they've become dependent on. The solution here is not complex: give addicts safe access to the substances they're addicted to and resources for improving their situation. It's disheartening, to say the least, that one of the main strategies for dealing with this is apparently "reducing medical prescriptions of opioids". People are in pain -- they need to be helped.

I highly recommend the book Chasing the Scream, for anyone who's looking for a primer on the War on Drugs. It traces the hysteria around drug use back to the 1930s, when race panic was used to push forward prohibition in the face of mounting evidence against that strategy.
If you were arguing that China would continue to be a strong economy by continuing exploitative expansion, then yes, that comparison would be more relevant. However, the article was trying to argue that China's activities are not sustainable and will lead that country down the same path of failure for the given comparisons.
> which often results in greater and more environmentally harmful quantities.

Do you have any substantial references of such results happening "often" or is that idea just gathered from anecdotes and casual articles ?
Who the hell keeps $24M worth of crypto on a phone? I only trust open source systems, do all large transactions on fresh Linux, disable JS if I have to use the browser, never visit any unusual websites, nothing not related to the process.
> Companies have no obligation to allow hate speech and incitements to violence on their platform.

And if Twitter decided to ban a prominent gay group because of hate speech toward Muslims? Would you support their right to do so then?
I understand this. Maybe it'll be Bing. Maybe Amazon Search in 2025.

My point is that by forgoing any amount of market Google is effectively allowing a competitor to ultimately have whatever their own growth potential is, plus 20%.

Its not about whether they need the money, which clearly they don't, it's whether by leaving it on the table (for reasons I agree with) they risk allowing themselves to be supplanted by someone else who isn't even pretending to "not be evil".

The other equally cynical argument I would make is, they're a public company, they have to make the numbers keep going up. I don't like being the d-word saying this.
The article mentions "promotional" pens, pens with logos on them. One of the things I never understood about promotional pens is how they're almost always really junky pens. So they go in the garbage.

If it was a nice pen, I'd use it for awhile, and perhaps it would eventually move on to someone else. I'd think that if you were spending X dollars on promotional items, it would be worth spending 2 or 3*X dollars for items that lasted longer and also made a more favorable impression.
That's hairy? It looks pretty clean to me. Sure, there are a lot of match cases, but they follow a fairly clean and clear pattern. Pulling them out into a hundred single-use functions certainly wouldn't make it easier to understand.
Battery breakthrough articles are as reliable as apocalypse predictions.
Just say yes to RMS.
I don't think anyone is suggesting all private institutions should be tuition free. NYU chose to do it for medical school, however the progressives in USA just want public college to be tuition free.

I doubt those outcomes will come to pass. Tuition used to be basically free in the USA, and it already is in many European nations, and we didn't/don't see those outcomes that you worry about.
Presumably they're referring to copy via simple assignment vs. requiring a memcpy or pointer dereference. It's a b.s. argument.
>There are no GMO oats available on the market

That's not true at all. Many companies offer Non-GMO oats. There's is a big difference between crops being sprayed with glyphosate and crops coming from non-GMO seeds.
I figured that number was global, not US-only. Yes, that is a staggeringly high number.
I did my master's degree in computer science at Stanford, but now I'm a radiology resident at the University of Washington in Seattle.
You prefer an under-educated population? The most valuable asset we have in the technology and service based economies is human capital. We need a creative and educated population to continue to compete. I think we should eliminate all for-profit education and preferably make all universities public.
Ok, but what is your answer to the obvious selection bias with physical polling? Also, how do you deal with coordinated gaming of polls by organized groups? Would love to hear your thoughts. Great project though!!!
> They've long since done away with the pretenses of Communism.

They've kept all their pretenses of communism.

We aren't a pure capitalist society, or a pure republic, or democracy. We still use those words to describe ourselves. It's important that we do use those words to describe ourselves. The phrase 'all men are created equal' in the declaration of independence aided the abolitionist argument, even if at no point did the goverment treat all men as equal.

The ideals of communism still have an impact on China's goverment, culture and even economy. Just because they fall short of a perfect communist society doesn't mean they are not communist.
You can differentiate between symbolic and real value, ideally your brand has both.

Real value is delivering on the progress or outcome the brand is positioned towards, symbolic value is more cultural (aesthetics, familiarity etc.), reinforcing desired identities.

Products can be functions because they can be aligned with that real and/or symbolic value, enabling it.
It was much nicer than Perl in that I could actually read and understand code I wrote 6+ months back.
To parent and others, with due respect, I assumed that the OP was a professional software developer, based on the phrasing about using software to pay bills. Coding on your own time is more so a hobby, but as soon as you try to make money from it, even consulting on the side, the hours pile up. There's opening your own business, contracting, soliciting clients, meetings, status updates... way more than just the programming aspect.

So in these cases, we talking coding as a hobby, or coding as a profession alongside medicine?