skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example you could kill someone and take their organs to save the lives of 4-5 people. Is it rational that we're not allowed to do that? Why do some people get to keep 2 kidneys when there are others with none?

There was a pretty good short story, "Dibs" by Brian Plante, about that published in the April 2004 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

Everyone was required to be registered in the transplant matching system. Occasionally you'd receive a letter telling you that someone was going to die soon unless they got one of your organs. That person now had dibs on that organ, and if anything happened to you before they died they got it.

Usually you would get another letter a couple weeks or so later telling you that the person no longer had dibs, which generally meant that they had died.

Sometimes, though, you'd get a second dibs letter while you already had one organ under dibs.

And sometimes you'd get a dibs letter when you already had two organs under dibs...meaning if you died now it would save three lives. At that point you were required to report in and your organs were taken to save those three other lives.

The story concerned someone who worked for the transplant matching agency who got a second dibs letter and was quite worried. He illegally used his insider access to find out who the people were who had dibs on him, and started digging around to try to convince himself they were terrible people who didn't deserve to survive to justify illegally interfering, if I recall correctly (I only read the story once, when it was in the current issue).

I don't remember what happened after that. I just remember thinking that it was an interesting story and explored some interesting issues.
this recent paper is related:

https://psyarxiv.com/d6qhu/

The Origins of WEIRD Psychology

> Recent research not only confirms the existence of substantial psychological variation around the globe but also highlights the peculiarity of populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD). We propose that much of this variation arose as people psychologically adapted to differing kin-based institutions—the set of social norms governing descent, marriage, residence and related domains. We further propose that part of the variation in these institutions arose historically from the Catholic Church’s marriage and family policies, which contributed to the dissolution of Europe’s traditional kin-based institutions, leading eventually to the predominance of nuclear families and impersonal institutions. By combining data on 20 psychological outcomes with historical measures of both kinship and Church exposure, we find support for these ideas in a comprehensive array of analyses across countries, among European regions and between individuals with different cultural backgrounds.
> our individual lawyers pretty much summed it up in one sentence: "Sure, it may be... but you have to prove it was solely due to taking leave, and it's not worth it."

Sounds like you need a group lawsuit. Firing one person - could be coincidence. Firing three? Starting to look like a pattern of punishment. The more people you can get on the lawsuit, the stronger your case.
Ask HN: How to workaround inaccurate health insurance
After circumstances lead to a total of 9 different insurance plans within three years I've noticed a pattern: coverage and network information is often inaccurate. This has led to situations like flu shots not being covered since pharmacies and the HMO give different answers, double billing, outdated policy being used (despite giving correct card every time), finding out doctor or service isn't covered after all (we often check first before seeking care), and strange discount games where the billed amount plummets when challenged over the phone.

Anyone else run into complications like these or have any solutions?
I won't argue that some phenomena may be resistant to reduction beyond human capability to reduce. My main problem with the thesis is that whatever irreducible phenomena that is, is still part of the natural, physical world. Because we lack the knowledge to fully map thoughts to underlying atomic events does not mean thoughts are suddenly supernatural and non-physical. They are a different category of physical event, perhaps.

Maxwell's Demon is new to me, and I'm not quite sure how to interpret it in this context. At first read, the claim that the observing, calculating, acting Demon, manipulating a physical trapdoor is not part of the thermodynamic system seems... laughable.
What is going on with measures of programming language popularity?
> I’m not a dumb guy—I got good SAT scores.

Lol ok.
iOS has support for screenshots and annotations, but the resulting images are not searchable.

Devonthink on macOS/iOS will save text snippets and text annotations, into a searchable database.
First of all, I know a little something about how routing works. I've written a simplified implementation of OSPF and also BGP. I've been an engineer at a backbone hardware provider before.

That said, I have never seen any convincing argument that LN routing can't work in theory... Especially because the lightning network is not completely decentralized on purpose. It works off the idea of "hubs", in which you will connect to a hub, likely one hop, and then the hub will most of the time get to your destination in one or two hops. I'd really like to see someone who claims that we don't have the ability to connect two points in a graph separated by three, or even four, hops. This is just made up nonsense.

The middle part of your comment is just "kids, get off my lawn". Why would anyone need anything besides venmo or cash? Do you mail cash to purchase things online? How many large Internet retailers accept venmo? How many people are implementing micro payments using venmo?

The rest of your comment is just an ad-hominem. And not only is it that, but it's also nonsensical because maybe I have some bitcoins because i'm putting my money where my mouth is.

Also, the travelling salesman problem is bullshit and irrelevant, because LN doesn't need to have the shortest possible route to work, it just needs a workable route.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/attacking-the-motive-fallac...
Is there mandatory maternity leave? No. Women want their freebees. So now of course forcibly keeping men from working more MUST be done. Busy body nonsense.
And you think 11 billion is a good number? We couldn't support the 6 billion at western standards of living.
They don't have to be supernatural because they could still host hypotheses that are observable and testable, and don't have to contradict other natural phenomena; but it could be that we would never be able to resolve in-practice how they connect to other phenomena with clarity.
Except in your example...

The idiots that don’t understand the swastica symbol is in Asia can rightfully be ignored.

And to Trump he’s looking at the overwhelmingly negative media putting their intentional spin - he’s claiming they are the ones to say it’s a white power symbol... and looking at the joke of the media making the OK to be the same - he’s not entirely wrong here.

Just admit, you had no problem with Obama tweets and right or wrong or unintended consequences aside - Trump figured out a way to get his message out without the media and that pisses them off.
No build step. That’s the advantage.
From the article: “K12 education spending in the US has increased by 2-3X per student per year since 1960.”

That can’t possibly be correct.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. Thank you.

The 5GB limit would mean you couldn't use it for movies but TV shows should be fine
Not sure what OP's background is, but if he's not in the tech industry and wrote a complex C++ game engine, plus a website with Flask+SQL on his own, I'd say he has a potential career as a software developer there.
> I want to know my mac is using my wired and wireless network the way I intend

Which it is, you can have AirDrop on or off and to accept connections from everyone or just your contacts. All modes have their uses.
Most american voters have a phobia of government.
2018 Top Sports Personality of the Year
Does such a thing necessarily exist?
Even for poorest people in rural areas in China, it’s still possible that they’d pay 10k usd “bride money”. 10k is really considered to be a lot in China for such matters. A wedding could also cost a lot more than that. When they say “a small amount”, they mean it
This is more of a problem of our current system of maternity leave being company funded rather than publically funded which would actually solve this problem overnight.
Switzerland has banned them for that exact reason: https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/en/homepage/equipments-and-...
Or, "Poor schmucks think they're safe with ad-blockers, but they don't realize our site is 50% native advertising these days".

Still, that doesn't cancel out the benefits of ad blocking.
Perhaps people new to the codebase (or the industry, or to life in general) are less likely to view existing constructs as obviously correct, and therefore more likely to point out flaws.
I'd say it's good practice to put garbage data into anything companies try to collect about you. They may be able to correlate your profiles from multiple data sources, but if every source has different values then you love protected your privacy to some small degree at least
Not just a question of state-level-ness, but of targeted/mass. Burning a 0day on a mass scam is really, really stupid.
> You are comparing apples to oranges.

Conversational foul! It was your comparison in the first place. You don't get to accuse someone else of comparing apples and oranges when they describe where you were wrong.

> Git can be use alone whereas the utility of a cryptocurrency is in the network.

To the degree that's true, it's why we can't expect cryptocurrency implementations to reach git's levels of decentralization. It doesn't somehow make it extra decentralized.

It's not even quite true that the value is in the network - the value is in my ability to safely transact. There have been proposals for digital currencies that allow offline transactions while maintaining resistance to double spends.

> You don't say that a video game is "decentralized" because you can play offline do you?

No, but only because we don't really have reason to think about them in those terms.
TiddlyWiki is great, but I really need is something like Notational Velocity but everything is stored in a single html file (with .js embedded of course), so that it's very portable.
Well it’s already illegal to sack a woman immediately that she announces she’s pregnant, so I guess this would come under the same thing. For both men and women obv.
The r/personalfinance was an amazing resource for me. It basically recommends buying and holding index funds, and provides concrete steps on how to do so. Minuscule fees plus returns tied to the market average which only 2% of financial advisers are able to consistently beat anyway.
Just cap it, if you make more than 100k you don't really need it anyway.
the categories were made for man, not man for the categories
No, I'm on Firefox 63.0b9 on MacOS.

Looks like I zoomed in (cmd-+) a few times to make the numbers more readable, and went past what the page's CSS could handle.
It's hard, because novel mechanics are easily stolen. That said, the sooner you get user testing done, the sooner you validate your idea.
Ask HN: Why should an ordinary person care about big company data breaches?
Most people really have no idea how these kinds of things could affect them. They may have had to have gotten a new credit card, changed a password or two, but that's about the extent of it for the vast majority of people.

What things should most people know about data breaches and privacy?

What are the most common consequences for most people who's information is included in a data breach?

What are the most dire consequences possible?
Curious: if React makes more sense to you, what would tempt you to stick with Vue?

(I work on React. Vue seems to make more sense to many people, and React to many others.)
> Maxwell's Demon is new to me, and I'm not quite sure how to interpret it in this context. At first read, the claim that the observing, calculating, acting Demon, manipulating a physical trapdoor is not part of the thermodynamic system seems... laughable.

That's the immediate refutation a lot of people propose, but then to model that demon plus the system is to also become another demon. So you can't escape this problem as long as you are not an abstract ideal observer, which none of us are in practice.

(The fact that it's laughable is correct, because it could never happen, including to us.)
I don't see any advantage over MGRS, GEOREF or GARS.
Pack the Supreme Court
Resources are finite. A certain number of people will overwhelm the availability of resources. The fact that we are currently below that number does not make the theory wrong.
Regardless of sales, this game demonstrates all sorts of wonderful qualities that successful studios are looking for in an employee, and its development was undoubtedly much more educational than any computer science program. It is never wasted time to do what one is passionate about.
Those benefits have been in Sweden for decades.
What is people's data worth? 50 dollars per year?

I guess most people would be willing to pay that amount in exchange for privacy.
Ask HN: Why Do 'Right Wing' Sites Seem to Struggle with Web Design?
Or just software engineering/technology in general?

Because from what I've noticed, it seems like the more left wing news sites and platforms tend to be a bit modern in their design, and use a lot more interesting technology in their tech stacks and what not. For example, compare something like the Verge or maybe Vice to the likes of Breitbart or what not. Or perhaps the Daily Mail/Sun/whatever to the Guardian or the New York Times. The right leaning ones always seem a bit more dated than their left leaning counterparts.

Similarly, quite a few articles have said how 'alt right' counterparts to popular websites were a bit clunky compared to their alternatives, like Gab or Voat or what not.

So why is this? Why do right wing sites seem to struggle to attract the web design expertise some of their rivals get? Is it actually a question of how extreme a site/service is, with the more fringe ones on both sides failing to attract as much tech/design knowledge as their more moderate counterparts?

Has anyone written anything about this?
The existing terminology may be inadequate. But when we discovered atomic forces, and it turned out that Newtonian physics could not accurately describe them, we did not split the natural world at that boundary and claim atomic forces could not be explained by "appeal to fundamental laws of nature". No, we developed our understanding, phenomena that occurred inside nature came to be considered natural. Our understanding of what the physical world consisted of grew, it did not fragment.
The reason reducibility wins is because 'physics' is a moving target. Imagine that The Milky Way is an organism and in the process of understanding it through physics, we discover that our laws and theories are unable to explain it--e.g. dark matter. That is now part of physics too. So if we did discover some kind of irreducible biological cell, we'd just name a new area of physics yet to be understood.
Uh, this is so far outside the norm of every company I’ve ever worked for/heard of that I think they’re safe not worrying about you in their business plan. Unless you’re working with classified data, that is — but those cases have tons of other requirements beyond working air gapped.

Now, there are other reasons you would want on-prem other than air gapped networks, but that’s not the discussion we’re having.

Edit: oh, this guy is a troll. Just read his other comments. Sigh.
As a point of fact, if a country grants asylum to someone then it is by definition not illegal immigration. The rest of your points are still arguable
Shareware, Demo ?
I am not sure that's the best example ..

Not being able to install any software without Apple acting as the middleman is very concerning for both 3rd party devs and consumers.

But that should not be something that has anything to do with root.

FWIW, Android does this better : you do have a play store but you can also sideload any app. You just need to confirm that you know what you are doing and the play store can still scan these apps against known malware signatures.
Thank you for https://wego.here.com/ <3. I use their Android app, had no idea they had a web app to. And incidentally loads like 100x quicker than Google Maps.
This. People use ad supported sites because they're interesting or useful. They are useful because they have ad funding.
An interesting perspective, but it doesn't really dissolve the big problems - that the "noise" in the output of this "search algorithm" is absurdly high, and that single papers often drive real-world decisionmaking.
There is though. Every time someone visits a page.
What is the target market for the game? I played Metroid when I was a kid on NES and the original gameboy.

Games these days are a lot about marketing and huge budgets. The indie ones that do well need to be targeted as well as refreshing.

Some hard thoughts just watching the video and reading a bit about the game:

1. I don't really like the graphics as much as I liked the original Metroid. This is probably just a personal preference.

2. It mostly screams low quality "Metroid clone" and not something cool I'd tell my friends about.

3. Procedurally generated levels doesn't sell me. I don't really care.

That said totally not a waste of time. It shows you have the wits to bring something to market and the ability to ship. You coded the whole damn thing which is insanely involved. This is no small feat. However the market is generally the hardest critic and it doesn't matter how many hours you spent or how many lines and bugs you solved.
I have some sympathy, having made an indie game that gave a return of about £0.07/hour. Sold a few thousand copies, learnt a lot, made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun, but it certainly wasn't a great financial decision. And that was 10 years ago when it was a lot easier!

Games industry is like the music industry - if you do it for anything other than the love, you're likely to be disappointed. Your chances of 'making it' are astronomically small.
A window into the lucrative world of rare book heists
That's one reason big tech companies should allow easy inter-team transfers.
If you are based in Italy and operate the company from there, you will still have to pay the Italian taxes. But yeah at least you should have easier accounting and no running costs.
He doesn't mention how many hours he spent marketing it. I suspect not that many. I fully sympathize with his struggle, but this is a trap most programmers fall into so easily. Market need/fit > Marketing > Design > Programming when it comes to software products. You can't just build it and expect that they will come, unfortunately.
> I'd much rather have a kernel panic than a kernel that continues to run with known bad datastructures

I mean, that is literally what an Oops is.
In many towns in Germany, you can still trigger the sirens using DTMF codes. Fortunately, everyone forgot about it.

It used to be a problem back when illegal CB radio amplifiers and pirate broadcast radio were still a thing :-)
Sounds great, but why bother with the added work supporting IE11 if Vue 2.x can be used with IE11? Especially that time continues to fly until 3.x is released, and IE11 is replaced with EDGE already.

edit: I am guessing this has to do with having one codebase for projects that move to vue 3 and still need support for IE1.. makes sense. Hmm.
> I want to do enough work to feel good about myself, without burning out.

Two things about this:

- I think you should be careful of linking your work ethic to your self worth

- It would probably help if you had a more clearly defined goal.

Common healthy goals are:

- I want to be Tech Lead in X years

- I want to retire early at X

- I want to learn about technology X and work primarily with it, here or elsewhere

- I believe in what my company is doing and I want it to succeed

From that standpoint, you can start to tie your behavior to whether or not it helps you achieve your goals.

> I have very little supervision from management, my coworkers seem to respect and like me, and I am generally productive.

I think you should also examine this. Don't let others set your priorities for you. If your manager or company want you to work more than you're comfortable doing, find another job. If your coworkers don't respect you based upon how much or little you work, find another job. If you find yourself not being productive for reasons like "this is boring", "I don't believe in this", etc., find another job. Dealing with situations like that -- while not always avoidable -- is a short road to burnout.
The most unique thing for me is the fact that it's an .html file that you can just download and run. The data/saving mechanism is completely separate. This "unhosted-ness" seems to be a growing trend.
If I'm reading it correctly you're considering:

- call the game finished and walk away now you finished the dev work

- call the game a hobby to excuse the sales now you finished the dev work

- code some arbitrary addition to be ethical just to be coding something cause dev work is probably the only work that exists

- keep iterating cause you can always invent more dev work to do

- get a different project going for another type of dev work

All of these will successfully waste those 3 years and more if you don't focus on converting your nascent product into income.
7DRLs[1] are a good example of prototyping gameplay. Some of them ultimately go on to become full fledged games. Cogmind [2] is an excellent example of this.

[1] - http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=7DRL

[2] - http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Cogmind
Is most published research really false? (2016)
Which is neither here not there, it's a general observation.

Anything particularly flawed about his argument in TFA (or him as a person)?
How would you enforce men informing their company that they recently became a father?
> Unless you are against state intervention in cases like these, then you are already accepting that the state can interfere.

Okay, fair enough. I will vehemently oppose any state interruption that goes against medical recommendations. You will not believe the string of NHS nurses and caregivers who tried to ensure that we breastfed our child.
If you are interested in making an indie game, do it only because you want to not because you think you'll make money.

You will lose money. That's it. There's no magic message here.

Source: an indie dev. I keep my passion for my project because it's something I truly want to do.
To reboot when this happen could be a kernel configuration option. This way users could choose.
I look at TW every couple of years or so, and there has never been either:

- a sane way to keep a wiki on something like Dropbox (at the time, the only way to have persistence was to disable browser security and allow JavaScript to write to disk directly) or

- a service to sync a wiki between machines

Has that changed nowadays?