skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As your quote indicates, it's not just not going at the speed of any nearby star, it's going at the particular speed of the galaxy (or galaxy's average rotation). If an object were expelled randomly by a nearby star, it's speed would be: star's speed + random extra boost. The chances this would exactly the galactic speed seems small.
I'm not going to comment on the article for reasons, but one issue is that it encourages heavier use of pesticides which then do things like mix with nitrogen runoff and have major macro-effects on the ecosystem, but many of these residual, long term side effects are downplayed by the industry because the players have interest in selling not just the gmo but the fertilizers and pesticides.

Source; worked at a bigag company doing gmo and selling fertilizer and pesticides and later worked at a genetics company. I quit the bigag company the minute I realized they were essentially a Monsanto front.

I think dang and hn should watch threads on this subject carefully, it's one of the most astroturfed subjects on the Internet, and it saddens me how many people here immediately agree with such easily identified strawman arguments.

(see poster conflating racists and creationists with conspiracy theorists and by association anyone who dislikes GMOs)
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Here's the "T Style Guitars" section on Thomann, Europe's largest guitar dealer. There are certainly a few bonkers ESP and Schecter shredbeasts, but the overall range is overwhelmingly represented by relatively traditional Teles, perhaps with a six-saddle bridge or a neck humbucker.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/t_models.html
There is definitely not enough evidence to be pretty sure every other celestial body is not an alien artifact.

Just a few weeks ago New Horizons was doing a flyby of kuiper belt object Ultima Thule. Before the flyby, this object was merely a couple of pixels in any of our instruments.

In fact, it exhibited odd light curves that seemed very unlikely for a regular asteroid. This also prompted comparisons to Rama, just like Oumuamua did. Its straight out of the book.

So up until the first pictures were downloaded, we definitely did not have enough data to disprove an alien artifact hypothesis. Turned out to be just another asteroid (a pretty interesting one, but no green men)

Ultima Thule was a studied object, targeted by an serious AF NASA interplanetary mission, and we knew jack shit about it. There are millions of other kuiper belt objects out there and we know absolutely nothing about them.

So yeah, Oumuamua is pretty much part for the course in that regard.
You know what happens when you give the public UBI? You get teenagers without school! Some do great things, others, not so much.
That's not what he said at all?
> You have not demonstrated how this is so. Putting the records up on S3 is sufficient for the purpose of access.

That's a matter of choice, isn't it? I just demonstrated how easily accessible it was. Just because there's another method available, doesn't mean this one isn't valid.

> Immutability has no practical benefits that were not already possible using cryptographic hashing and signatures. If you disagree, please explain.

That's exactly what the smart contract and blockchain system used does. It's just another vehicle that functions in a different way than just signing the files and uploading them to a server somewhere.

> This is already solved by the inherent decentralization of the internet. This inherent property of the internet is so pervasive that it is actually a serious problem for situations like "right to be forgotten" and revenge porn.

No. That ultimately relies on the proactive efforts of others making and serving unadulterated copies of the data in question. In the form the council is experimenting with, no additional conscious action is required. The copies are made perpetually as long as the network exists. I consider that a boon for data like this.

> You don't need smart contracts for this, if a government is willing to be open the problem is already solved, smart contracts don't add anything to the mix.

You say that they're not needed. The role of the National Research Council is to research and experiment in all manners, including new technologies. That is what they're doing here. It's not a question of "was it ever needed in any form"— it's a question of: is it an improvement? Do we see benefits or detriments? Are the results net positive or net negative? And what next?

There is one way to empirically answer that question: experiment, gather data, and draw analyses and conclusions.

You continually ask me to explain myself, and I have—you've however yet to explain your assertions.
I think that the the evolutionary argument strengthens my point. The positive emotions that someone feels could be a chemical adaptation devised by certain genes precisely to help the survival of similar genes across specimen boundaries. So genes trick the individual into helping another individual who shares certain specific genes (genes related to altruism itself).

Narcissism could be a predatory evolutionary strategy which works by fooling altruistic genes within other specimens into thinking that they're the same. That would explain why narcissists are often described as 'charming' - It's all about giving an facade of altruism without incurring any costs for the specimen.

Even the most altruistic people don't usually want to help convicted criminals.
I'm not exactly sure why you are being downvoted at the time of my reply. Surely being prepared for this situation will give humanity benefits regardless of any actual contact with alien civilizations. Similar to how having environmental friendly tech is a net plus regardless of your stance on global warming.
America historically was not very federalized, and being able to just abandon your life and move out west is a key part of the country's mythology, if not the DNA of the country. So there have always been attempts to resist a national ID system, and the SSN was originally not supposed to be used for this purpose.

Of course in 2019 this is basically a moot point if you want to be integrated into society, but even then there are people who are legitimately not integrated into the modern US economy by choice.
>> The author of this piece is an extreme anomaly, not for having a PD (it is surprisingly common), but for having received effective treatment.

Last I checked, the only accepted treatment for any PD is DBT, and then only for borderline PD. I think real change is quite possible but it's LOT of internal mental work. Work you can only begin once you can see the problems. Half the stuff therapists do is really superficial and possibly harmful. The other half can be useful to varying degrees. And I'm gonna guess the line that divides these two varies a bit depending on both the person and the therapist.
If its primarily a religious problem why do countries less religious than the US have similar concepts? SINs in Canada, NINs in the UK, etc. etc
Ten cynical reasons why VC's like to see multiple founders:

10. Sometimes (perhaps rarely) a better idea comes from a group.

9. There really is a lot of work to go around.

8. If one of the founders is willing to sell, take more investment or worse terms, perhaps they can apply pressure to the ones who are reluctant.

7. Most humans like to be around other humans, so cooperation is the norm among people who self-group.

6. Expertise can be complementary and allow a natural division of labor in the early days.

5. Hard feelings are more evenly distributed as the founders get pushed out or diluted one-by-one; push out the weakest contributors and least resistant first.

4. More founders = reduced risk and decreased dependency on one possibly loose cannon

3. If the board stops getting along with one founder, perhaps another will be a better fit. (see: Twitter)

2. Multiple complementary founders are rarely of one mind, and therefore it's easy to split control.

.. and the number one reason why VC's like multiple founders:

1. Extra founders cost them nothing
I criticized your backhanded N = 100 comment because it's silly.

Your comment "In what world would 100 people be enough" shows your disbelief in basic statistics.

In typical well conducted study N=100 participants is close to the minimum sample size when the population is large.

No statistician says that N = 100 is not enough to represent things accurately without knowing other parameters and the design of the study. With large enough effect size N=1 is more than enough and. N = 1800 is enough even if the population size is infinite in the optimal case.
You are correct; the money supply isn't an issue. However, inflation within a localized area of the economy is a thing (e.g. housing prices, health care).

UBI is a transfer of money from the wealthy, who would have used it to buy filet mignon or something, to the poor, who would likely use it to buy food and shelter. One should expect the prices of food and shelter to rise, relative to other products.
I disagree, I personally believe it's possible for people to be altruistic entirely for the sake of altruism. Making themselves feel good is secondary to the altruistic action.

And I think that's what differs between a narcissistic action and an altruistic one. Narcissists absolutely can and do derive positive emotions from helping others, but it's either entirely to help their own self-worth and/or achieve a certain goal, like the example in the article of helping an old lady accross the street.

An altruistic action is done for the sake of helping someone first, with the positive reinforcement as a potential bonus. A narcissistic one is done for the sake of positive reinforcement with helping others as a side effect.
Or the slightly more prosaic British version: cock-up, not conspiracy. Me too, on balance. But it seems like it should be easy to mark entire categories - particularly large purchases like vacuum cleaners - as "recently bought one of those, try something else."
Couldn't read the article. Paywalled.

Did Agatha Christie write thrillers though? They are more like 'murder mysteries' than thrillers like books written by say Fredrick Forsyth.
Court Says Domino’s Pizza Website Must Be Accessible to the Blind
politifact.com = biased liberal site. Can't be trusted.
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Years ago I dated a woman with a “high functioning” career and from outside apparently normal social life who in retrospect was clearly BPD.

She was very good at hiding her feelings during most casual interactions, and was clever and generous and fun to talk to when calm, but had almost a second personality which would come out when she became even slightly stressed which was bitter and entirely self-centered and extremely manipulative. She was at that stage of her life completely incapable of maintaining a close personal relationship, and she was frequently (on a daily basis) under extreme stress about perceived grievous slights from everyone around her that were to an outside observer inconsequential mistakes or misunderstandings, and she was harboring numerous long-term grudges.

It seemed like she knew she had a problem, and during times where she wasn’t stressed out would regret her outbursts and seemed to wish she generally had better emotional control. She seemed generally pretty miserable about it, but maybe I was projecting based on the way her problems made me feel.
Did it affect your sleep? I find that being hungry at night affects my sleep significantly.
What Gen Z means for banks: short attention, mobile only, innovative products
I would bet targeted advertising works best for certain classes of things, but I rarely actually see targeted ads for them.

Like, fashion and clothing can be pretty individualistic so it might actually help to micro-target. Not even just for styles, but if you're a swim suit maker who specializes in plus-sized clothes you can target ads at them. You could even not bother sending ads for a sale on jeans to people with, say, size 30 inseams if you're sold out of jeans in that size. I never see them used this way though.

But almost every use case I can think of that is mutually beneficial (like the sizing), seems to be demographic information rather than behavioral analytics. I'm having trouble coming up with a way to leverage behavioral analytics in a way that doesn't seem invasive or impertinent. I guess it might work for content curation/recommendation engines (movies, books, music, etc.) But even then, you just need to know people's backlogs and basic demographics, you don't need to start snooping on their web browsing behavior.
I am making a note to read the paper because this interview was a disaster. The interviewer asked a personal question about religious beliefs and denies that the question was inappropriate after putting him on the defensive by questioning his reasoning from a decidedly uninformed perspective. Why not survey others in the field and voice their objections instead of condescending to the interviewee? This reads like some weird gotcha journalism... in The New Yorker of all places.
Show HN: Pull list of amenities around any address [Amenity Mapper]
Is anybody else reminded of the old Hasbro electronic Simon game? Same 4 colors, same basic orientation.
Interesting to realize that also now means “what’s IBM up to”; which carries its own weight, positive or negative.
Powering Recommendation Models Using ElastiCache for Redis at Coffee Meets Bagel
Is it possible to buy those in flashlight form-factor?

That would be a really nice flashlight to own
Ironically, it was arguably the Fender bass amp that had the biggest long term impact on rock and roll. The basic Bassman circuit was ripped off by Marshall (who were then ripped of by Hi Watt, Orange, etc), Mesa Boogie... almost all of the high-gain amps have a least a bit of bassman in them.
Which ones would you like to see? We're always looking for new use cases to support.
Yes, perhaps Marxism was done a disservice by trying to impose it on agrarian, aristocratic civilizations like Russia and China instead of industrialized, capitalist civilizations like Germany and the United States. The history of Soviet industrialization under Stalin almost reads more like a Marxist caricature of industrial capitalism. And it was probably also done a disservice by the fact that when it was imposed on industrialized countries, it was done so at force and after significant devastation and confiscation of any remaining valuable industrial equipment (e.g. East Germany). However, it's also clear that 19th century industrial capitalism never really led to Marxist revolution.
I like this characterization of it. Basically we can't prove that it isn't an alien artifact yet, which is impressive given all the things that we can state conclusively are not alien artifacts.

When Voyager 1 and 2 fly through some distant star system millennia from now, it will be pretty clear they aren't space junk. But it is also true that our species will no longer exist either.

I base that on the following conjecture, if we were to become capable of travelling among the stars with relative ease, then we'll go collect these two little artifacts and put them in a museum. But if we go extinct, these ships will continue on their way forever. So any alien that comes across them can know we're extinct.
that wouldn't be profitable to the current industries so I guess not. There was talk of "An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness" not long ago so that at least is some acknowledgement in that direction: https://www.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html
What instant coffee brand do you recommend?
It's interesting that most of the prominent brands don't follow such rules. They overwhelmingly stick to just two colors (or one in many cases).

Amazon.com, Apple, McDonald's, Walmart, Fedex, UPS, Nike, Coca Cola, 3M, Target, Visa, Square, PayPal, Facebook, Uber, Lyft, Twitter, YouTube, Netflix, Samsung, Sony, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Starbucks, Lululemon, Under Armour, NY Times, American Express, GAP, Best Buy, Costco, Exxon
BERR-WYN!
Looks worse, but just as slow!
> Why should doctors and others be able to prevent people from treating their pain?

Opioids are not an effective treatment for most people with long term pain. They develop a tolerance for the opioids, and so they end up with an addiction, taking very large quantities of opioids, and still being in pain.
Is higher education free?
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Is there a reason dependency management happens like this? We currently deploy Go Lambda functions in AWS with the help of the Serverless Framework and it just uploads the cross compiled Binary and not the whole project.

Why wouldn't the binary be the deployed unit in this case?
While I can't share details publicly, I can confirm that we're actively working on new runtimes and performance improvements.
No one has claimed that Oumuamua is likely an alien device. It has been cited as a possibility and that possibility is being touted as justification for doing more to study such objects.

Most of these comments are arguing against a claim that has not been made.
Just do what Azure does with functions. Have used their VS Code local debug and "just worked" out of the box
There's video gambling in some of the southwest suburbs. Palos Hills, Orland Park. Those are both Cook.
Can you tell me more about this? I think I'm facing this situation - it increasingly feels some kind of half-ASD, half-NPD that makes my domestic life less than ideal.
What do you base this statement on? Are you confusing BPD (borderline personality disorder) with bipolar disorder? BPD and NPD, based on several psychology books I've read, including the very good book Schema Therapy, are very unlikely to seek treatment.
Wouldn't a disabled probe present a statistical problem? A disabled probe likely means we weren't the intended target of the probe. Considering how quickly we found this thing after we have acquired the ability to find them it either means we are incredibly lucky and we just happened to see an extremely rare event, the probe was targeted towards our solar system, or interstellar space is full of these probes making them incredibly common sights. If you can statistically rule out the first explanation and a disabled probe rules out the second, what is left besides that third option which is inherently much harder to believe?
I can’t think of any circumstance where it would be acceptable for a company to cancel a candidate’s return flight, stranding then in the airport.

The only other side of the story that would be ok is literally “OP’s whole story is made up” and the interview never happened. If the candidate misrepresented him/herself then shame on candidate AND shame on company. Otherwise, shame on company.
Sounds fine if you don't care too much how your coffee tastes. Granted, buying coffee from a cafe always comes with a markup, but nice fresh-ground coffee beans (which you can also do at home and do pour over if you want) definitely beat instant coffee.
It's worse in just about every way than the 500 guys alternative, to be honest. It's really slow, and try searching for a specific song, or recovering from a crash, or working out what failed etc.
I think that's fair. I also think you represent the initial use case and one that's still very relevant today. WeWork has made it clear though that real growth for them now needs to come from mid and large companies willing to use their services at scale and have had some success doing that. I would pivot a little away from OP's "human sentimental" angle and more towards "this obvious ethical lapse, and a board that can't or won't control it" will make those larger organizations pause before becoming too dependent upon WeWork.
the guy who posted his incomplete knowledge is the actual dick
As the title says, it improves overall health. Nobody mentioned weight loss.

From the article, "...optimal fasting in a timed manner would be strategic to positively affect cellular functions and ultimately benefiting health and protecting against aging-associated diseases."

If you really want to lose weight - stop eating.
With f.lux the new default purple looks horrible.
I'm convinced the majority of "unicorns" ignore (or actively dodge) externalities in favor of lucrative profits.

I think most companies develop convenient ethical blind spots where profit motive conflicts with the ethical problem from generating externalities.

AirBnB takes a strong moral stand on "inclusion" as a principle but has a clear blind spot when it comes to consumer, property, and residential externalities. Facebook takes a strong moral stand on free speech, but it has a clear blind spot for privacy and public discourse.

Other companies don't necessarily take moral stands, but they still develop convenient blind spots. Youtube (Google) and ideological polarization in its recommendations, Equifax and its lack of cybersecurity measures, and so on.
Brewdad could refer to myself in the third person.
> corporations ... would never ... make mistakes in production

it is reasonable to assume you're sarcastically suggesting that corporations make mistakes during production?

if so, what method of organizing human labor ensures that mistakes are _not_ made?
Not quite: see this list of all such journals and events: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_indep...

The editors of Topology resigned over the high price (apparently it was $1558 in 2004: https://pages.uoregon.edu/dps/journals.php), and started Journal of Topology which at the time of announcement (https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/files/About_Us/news/20...) was said would be published by LMS (in partnership with OUP), and priced at $570. Looking at the page now, it is still published by LMS (in partnership with Wiley now), and I can't figure out the pricing. It is fully possible that the price has increased, but there has been no change from free to non-free. Back in 2006, "free" was not one of the conventional options for a journal. Now it is.

As for "a journal is not an easy task to manage", my favourite article is about the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the leading journal in the field of machine learning: https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-j...
Best Buy credit. I never have my card on me, but I can use my credit account with my Soc.
I'm a trustee on the board of a very small village in Illinois. There was a vote to allow the gaming before I got on the board, and only one vote since then to approve a new license for an establishment. I argued the income-vs-sleaze ratio was lousy, but was out-voted. I wish I'd had this article and its facts to back up my more emotional reasoning for not liking it.

Video gambling is indeed a blight, even if it is profitable, but this article only makes it more depressing to see just how worthless (or actively punitive) it is to all but the companies that apparently wrote the original legislation.
Serious: WHY?
It is actually. The NYT just has branding on its side. A little known thing in the ad industry is that organizations with enough money tend to just want their name some where to satisfy ego's.

The NYT doesn't need returns on ad space to appease the purchasers of that space. They have the audience and some companies are more than happy to just have their name out there for one reason or another.

This isn't just a media thing. It happens at sporting events, conferences, fashion shows, etc.
I'm still worried about this, and I can't get anyone to sketch a model showing this would not be the case (but see below, maybe it's way too easy to sketch a model showing anything you want).

Closest I got to seeing a counterargument is me vs. JoeAltmaier a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569493
The shape seems to be the most interesting part about it. If it were deliberately manufactured by a sentient alien civilization, why choose that specific shape? A light sail based probe doesn’t seem to be a sufficient enough explanation for the shape.