skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, people will sometimes judge, but I try to explain the why.

“I’m doing this so that I can pay attention. It sounds counterintuitive but it is not.”

I had an editor once (I should note, he went on to become my mentor), get really frustrated that I wasn’t “paying attention” and he quizzed me like we were in school and I just rattled off a complete list of everything that had been discussed, as well as some ideas that hadn’t — and he kind of looked stunned. I told him (again), dude, there’s a method to my madness.

He never got mad at me for “playing on my phone” in an editors meeting again.
The other thing to consider is there are a reported ~2,200 billionaires in the world (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/forbes-there-are-a-record-22...)

In the process of creating damages that dissuade companies from damaging behavior, we're also creating people with immense power (if they ever collect).

I could see a $2B amount making sense if the couple controlled a multi million dollar company that failed because they fell ill from cancer.

But otherwise, wouldn't it make sense to pay the victims some multiple of their average annual income for life plus health care costs and send the rest to a charity or hospital?

That would still generate a $2B verdict as a deterrent, but would also limit people from obtaining massive wealth without creating value.
Surely this is one of those technological advances where on reviewing the 'should we' it becomes clear the negatives far outweigh the positives and it is stopped... Surely.

Reminds me of a radio interview I heard this morning from a mining CEO awaiting environmental sign-off for a new mine: equipment and resources ready to get going with a couple of days notice. Not even a matter of if, but when.
I don't really have a good answer but I'll give it a shot.

I can only speak for my team. In big corp, your work experience is based on your team. We have 4 senior dev, 7 college hires who have been with us between 0-4 years. The experience/aptitude varies. i.e. there are some who have been with us for 2 years that is not as good as the one hired. We've had some come on our team and move onto other teams. I have one who's been with us for 4 years, and at 3 years I felt is like a competent senior dev. He's moved to another team and runs laps around his new teammates.

Because I have the most patience in the group...I end up being the person most of them come to for help. I'm technically the architect on the team (manager gave me the title recently, too modest to accept it...) and the senior devs even come to me with questions...but of course I don't truely mentor them. But to give continuing education to the team, I've implemented a "Tech talk Friday" where I book a 1.5 hour of our time on Friday and watch and discuss various conference talks on YouTube that I feel are applicable for us. It's a nice way to end a Friday, too :)

There's no defined ratio. A grad who has a good foundation, is a go-getter and can learn on their own only needs to be guided. While others need to be handheld. Mentors' should not be bogged down to the point they are not able to do their real work - otherwise they'd get burned out and would just dismiss mentees.
3-6L depending on physical exertion.
The all-too-sad answer to this is that HN, like any other forum, has a particular demographic, and the demographic here (predominantly well-to-do urbanites) has a certain political lean. People, generally speaking, can not divorce their political beliefs from their actions and act purely objectively, which, for example, is why we have laws and company rules about even creating an appearance of impropriety.

You can ask, beg, threaten, whatever all you want to for people to be objective and measured and to follow the stated principles, but people will simply vote you into invisibility simply because they have a knee-jerk, primate-brain reaction to the ideas being posted. This is not a problem that can be solved, here, or anywhere else.

It's a human problem, not a tech problem.

On that note, it's best to never complain about being downvoted. It only attracts more downvotes.
I admit of not being able to understand this:

>>>because the engine nacelles were so far in front of the wing and so large, a power increase will cause them to actually produce lift,

I thought that it would make the plane "tilt" upwards, but the quote mentions "lift".

Does this happen because the engines, being in front of the wing and as well very near to it are "sucking" air that would otherwise flow as well >>over<< the wing, therefore creating a lower-than-usual pressure above the wing, therefore making the airplane climb/generate lift?
For some reason a tale of a governmental debt instrument being overvalued isn't quite as popular as one about tulips ;)

The South Sea Company is a remarkable example of people ignoring the fundamentals of a stock in order to speculate, though. Or perhaps a story of people knowing just enough about the fundamentals to get themselves into trouble... (Many comparisons were made to the East India Company, which had a similar trade monopoly, and that comparison made some sense - until you consider the fact that a trade monopoly with land your country owns is much more profitable than one where you're frequently at war with the owners)
That's not how statistics work. Perhaps you were making a joke?
The difference is that I still have my 20 year old Nike shirt in my closet but skins and other digital items aren't likely to exist for anywhere near as long.
And even that is outrageous.

"The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B)"

Its based on one small discredited study that asked people WITH cancer to estimate their lifetime usage of mobile phones. According to that study we should have many times more brain cancers than we do have (rates have remained static since phones were introduced).

And yet because of that study they make a blanket statement about all RF. So a 1 milliwatt 20 hz transmitter gets the same classification as a 10 terrahert 500w transmitter and the magnetic field around a cable carrying AC.

Its insane fear mongering from people paid to fear monger, not do rational science.

Edit: all of a sudden my posts suddenly start getting loads of down votes. Really strange.

Here is the famous 1 Million women study that was completed after the IARC published their infamous press release:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23657200

"In this large prospective study, mobile phone use was not associated with increased incidence of glioma, meningioma or non-CNS cancers."
Sadly, false: "Survival is the real measurement of how much we like it".

Many structures survive because their destruction would release regulated toxins, which were unregulated when built.
If juries are allowed to go around awarding billions of dollars to individuals, the big bad wolf won’t be around for long. I hope whatever we replace capitalism with is good!
I see this as 2 options-

>If you don't like Facebook, get rid of it. I have. And I still have friends.

>Let Facebook advertise really specific to you. Weirdly specific, it might be useful. *

*might get blackmailed later if you were doing socially unacceptable things.

But you could not participate in Facebook, the same company you are trying to avoid.
Actually that is the exact position the jury is in, and they do it everyday.

Do you have any evidence or studies to suggest juries can’t determine credibility of expert testimony?
OpenBSD kernel support soon
I don't even know about that. Isn't rushing execution a defining characteristic of small start up culture?
If my kids and their friends are anything to go by then Fortnite is no longer cool. They complain that, despite the seasons, the game is too samey and has got boring.

My kids did experience peer pressure to buy season passes a year or so ago.
People who are in peace generally don't have to think much about happiness, so in that sense peace = happiness.
Much easier for consumers to control food spending than drug spending. Lots of cheap food to choose from. Many chronic illnesses require medications for which there is no good substitute. Too much regulation is not responsible for high drug prices, deregulation is. Companies are allowed to buy their competitors and then raise prices.
Context:

"The lawyer gave live evidence covering in some detail the attempts made to secure an interview with his client.
On 15th September Ms Ny told him there were no “force measures” preventing Julian leaving the country, i.e. he
was allowed to leave. ... He phoned his client to say he was free to leave the country to continue his work."

"He conceded that it is possible that Ms Ny told him on the 21st that she wanted to interview his client... Then he was then cross-examined about his attempts to contact his client. To have the full flavour it may be necessary to consider the transcript in full. In summary the lawyer was unable to tell me what attempts he made to contact his client... He said “I don’t think I left a message warning him”"

"In re-examination he confirmed that he did not know Mr Assange was leaving Sweden on 27th September and
first learned he was abroad on 29th."
If your so-called friends bully you for not having in-game skins, you're better off being alone, literally. Cut the negative people out of your life, it's better to only have one worthwhile friend than 20 "friends" who opportunistically bully you. This is not the fault of Fortnite or any game. This is the fault of the cruelty of children.
Color! What a wonderful story of failure. Thanks for the reminder.
1. Apple advertised the iPad (which is also an iOS device) as a laptop replacement.

2. My point is not to compare the two cases, legally speaking, but you argued that "consumers are well aware of those constraints on purchase". Well, consumers were well aware of the limitations of Windows and that didn't change the fact that Microsoft was charged with unlawful monopolization.

3. Sorry, I'm not sure what you are referring to here.
There’s also some very rough bullying behavior by teens of younger players (who tend to talk a lot of game and such), which is unfortunate amd inexcusable. Racist, sexist, and bigoted speech is also not uncommon.

However, let’s be frank and acknowledge that this is not at all a new phenomenon—kids have been made fun of for their clothes, shoes, lunches, haircuts, age, ad nauseam. There’s little (white) punks of single digit age dropping the n-word in public parks.

Kids can be straight up cruel. Pointing at video games or music or whatever the scapegoat du jour is mostly unproductive.
As a Network Engineer at an org with decent staffing and a great cyber sec program and as someone who recently started working through the OSCP material. I'd like to agree with you and I will say I'm not overly worried about this (we'll still patch the second we can).

Cisco isn't exactly making things hard on attackers. Here's a couple of other vulnerabilities that could be used in conjunction with this one: Hardcoded credential vulnerability in IOS-XE (CVE-2018-0150). IOS-XE hasn't been without privledge escalation vulnerabilities either(eg CVE-2019-1754, among others)

Many orgs are unwilling to take a network outage for patching, especially in places like their DCs, internet or WAN edges where many of these devices would be deployed. I'm also aware of companies that are understaffed, where employees don't have the extra cycles to patch or apply workarounds. These are the same places that don't have active cyber security departments (no red-team, no vulnerability scanning, no dot1x and no written cyber security requirements) and don't budget for redundancy (making it even harder to patch). It only takes one forgotten NAT and firewall rule or a misplaced/unapplied ACL to end up with something exposed to the internet that shouldn't be. With how sophisticated some attackers have become and the slow rollout of network patches, this will probably be actively exploited even if it hasn't been already.
Fly by wire systems are classified as safety critical and require much more redundancy. The Boeing 777 has three flight control computers, four sets of low-level controllers, and a fault-tolerant air data sensor system.

Bad air data (airspeed, altitude, angle of attack) has been a big problem in the past. Each of those involves a sensor that sticks out through the skin, and can potentially be damaged or plugged. Remember Air France 447, where the airspeed sensors iced up. Those things need redundancy.
Monsanto hit with $2B verdict in Roundup cancer lawsuit trial
Consider that the delta V from Mars to Earth is 15 km/s, and we use gravity boost to make that delta V.

Assume we invented engines that could manage that delta V in half an hour. If my math is right, if you wanted enough 'fire departments' to reach every asteroid within one hour, you'd need about 67,000 of them, and you'd have to figure out how to pull that delta V without running into any other asteroids (probably out of the ecliptic?)

The good news is your paramedics would only pull about .8Gs which, while perfectly comfortable for earthers would still be tolerable for belters. My point is that if you try to decrease the number of stations to, say, 100, you're going to turn any human occupants into a fine mist in the process.
The dark web represents only a fraction of the rest of the internet
I've used the original Hololens and one of the things that stuck with me was how well-polished it was from an OS standpoint. Microsoft has worked hard on Windows Holographic and it shows.

If this device can run Windows Holographic I think this could be really great. Lenovo already works with Microsoft to run it on some of their budget AR headsets but it is unclear to me whether Microsoft will grant them permission to use it on something that's a more direct Hololens competitor. I get the impression that running their own android-based holographic OS will not be the best though.
Those can often be done in a decent text editor with regexp-like search and replace.
Bloomberg pushed the likely false China hacking story. Most mainstream media pushed the likely false Russiagate story. Doesn't look like they have much "skin in the game if they get caught pushing falsehood".
Being in peace brings me joy but no happiness. Happiness takes one's ego up and what goes up will always come down.

But words are words, my joy could be your happiness.
What's wrong with chasing? The buddha didn't check out after enlightenment, he spent the rest of his life chasing the same thing for others
...which is against the law in France.

Edit:

> Le Monde reported that the list was "problematic" under French law which prohibits the construction of a database "revealing the political and philosophical opinions of a person without their consent".
I enjoyed imaging the abstract being read aloud by Elizabeth Holmes with her clownish deep voice she worked to portray in the later stages of her fraudulent career. It's funny how these perceptions and findings sometimes line up.
If I have goals, then I will chase something. Does it mean I am not in peace.
It doesn't seem all that strange to me.

The NY Times, Washington Post and the BBC do original reporting. CNN and Fox News have no paywall, and they do something which passes for reporting.

Sometimes a regional paper has special coverage of an ongoing story, as the Seattle Times is doing with the Boeing 737 MAX scandal.

For each of those there are 100 blogs that are reloading real news sources over and over again and cut-and-pasting a story where the real reporting is "The New York Times reports..."
Will it come with Superfish installed?
You haven't given any evidence to back up your claim. What in particular makes you believe the jury in this case wasn't equipped to answer the questions asked of them?

No doubt it's complicated, but to play devil's advocate, if a company can't demonstrate to a lay person that a chemical isn't dangerous and how to use it safely, then perhaps they shouldn't sell the chemical to the general public, and maybe should even be punished for doing so.
If you're already using a Vagrant or Docker-based development workflow, WSL doesn't really add much, and takes some things away. I/O performance, for example.
Is there a good resource for finding such work?

I recently experienced some VR art at the Walker Art Center (museum of modern art) in Minneapolis and was decidedly underwhelmed.
> Not personal, just business.

Ah yes, the oldest way to get out of responsibility for actions. "It's not personal, I just personally want my business to succeed even if it comes at a cost to you."
The Orchid Bubble (Orchidelirium) was comparable to the tulip bubble. Bulldozers were just digging up tons of Amazon soil and orchid plants and dumping them into ship's holds. Then the ships would lumber home, and have their cargo sorted out in port.
CNN, MSNBC, WSJ, WaPo, and the Washington Times are not news sites either. They are mouthpieces in journalist clothing.
The 1960s were almost apocalyptically bad— the arms race, vietnam, lynchings, inner city riots, bombings, assassinations, etc. There was plenty of angry protest music— there just wasn’t much of an angry audio aesthetic.
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This is all largely irrelevant until the actual accident reports are finished.

Yes, it's possible that Boeing will be partially (or even fully, although I doubt it) responsible.
And when you look out from those large floor-to-ceiling windows, you will see another steel-and-glass tower. And when you go outside, you will be surrounded by them, as will your children when they try to play. But I'm sure as long as you're bunkered in your room and ignore the outside world, steel-and-glass towers are great - location is irrelevant when it comes to real-estate.
Alright, we'll take that bit out of the title above.
Won't they just mass up in the inevitable tax havens?
Amazon bought Whole Foods because they will upend its cost structure with robots in the stockroom and better logistics.

Groceries, while being notoriously low margin, are the second largest retail business in the US (after gas stations). Launching a new grocery brand, especially one with Whole Paycheck's great brand reputation isn't cheap or easy. See Tesco's Fresh & Easy debacle for an example.
The only question in front of a court is whether they broke the law. If they did something unethical but we don't have a law against it... well, fight for a new law.

If you want justice based on your morals & feelings, then you can just drop the pretense of "rule of law" / a legal system and let the mob or powerful rule as they whish. But I doubt such a system will turn out in my favor.
Interesting comment about Chicago. My memories of cabs in San Francisco were always pleasant enough if expensive.

Some older friends mentioned that before Dianne Feinstain was mayor you had unlicensed gypsy cabs that would shuttle random groups for a buck or two each.
The philosopher Peter Sloterdijk describes ‘ideology’ as a personal idea of how the world _really_ works. You could call that a mental model. However, when I think specifically about the subject ‘mental models’ I return to the concept I learned about first in the Coursera course Model Thinking by Scott E. Page (University of Michigan). He teaches a survey of many different models. For example, there is the Threshold Model [1] developed by Mark Granovetter and others. This general concept can be applied to a variety of problems from predicting the spread of infectious disease, to the spread of social trends in human culture. While the concept can be generalized, it’s also theoretically grounded in mathematics and statistics.

For this reason I find the OP’s follow-up somewhat—misguided? Seems like he needs to pick a topic and do some research. Unless we’re just talking about our favorite books, which is basically what the thread has become. And I love it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_model
The thing is, most of the stuff we westerners have does not make us any happier. The straw will not make you happier. The new smartphone will not make you happier. Flying around the world looking at few touristy things will not make you happier. A new car will not make you happier, even if it has a slab of lithium mined from the salt flats of Bolivia or god knows where. Stop buying stuff. Stop doing stuff. Just stop. Stop mowing your lawn. Go outside and watch the birds. Bust up some concrete and plant a tree. You probably have some right in front of your house. If you're lucky enough to have a patch of green space, fill it with food producing plants and flowers for the pollinators. Have one child and lavish more attention on him/her than any family of more than one kid can. None of this stuff is a sacrifice, let alone self punishment, though you are likely surrounded by people who are convinced otherwise. Hunger makes food taste awesome, and riding your bicycle through miserable weather makes sunny days feel like heaven on earth.
Please don't post shallow dismissals here.

It's in particularly poor taste to diss a community that you belong to. You're as much a part of HN as anyone else is.
1 cup of coffee, 80-100oz
It’s not about selling well. It’s revolutionizing the field. I don’t think the quest would be considered that.

It’s great and will bring more people to the market but it is still to be seen if that price point for something only a single person can enjoy at a time will be a game changer.
Hopefully Windows 11 is just a reskinned Ubuntu running all the old Windows programs through Wine.
> Security

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I read Damore's complaint (and just checked it again to see if I had missed something last year) and he never alleges that any colleagues complained to HR; in fact the only complaints mentioned in the filing were by him and his fellow plaintiff, which he complains were ignored.

It's not surprising that, once he filed suit, no public comment has been made as to his claims. But the NLRB turned him down and, FWIW, its chair was appointed by the current president.
As a foreigner you still can make yourself a hanko - just use katakana. You should, even, as there are places (although only few) that won't accept your signature. You can stamp it everywhere, if you want, but honestly? It is much more convenient to just sign wherever you can. Sometimes they will ask you if you have a hanko and would prefer it, but if you don't they would still accept signature.
The point of the fine is to subtract it from Monsanto. Who gets it is secondary.
It's pretty incredible how recent many of our seemingly inalienable rights (actual freedom of speech, de jure racial equality, right to representation, prohibition of the use of illegally obtained evidence, etc) have actually only been around a few decades, mostly thanks to the visionary Warren and Burger courts.

They were considered dangerous activist judges by many in their time.
Except that it was widely reported by mainstream media on 18th November, as the culmination of a long, drawn out and widely reported appeal process dating back to earlier in the year. It really is astonishing how creative people can get with the well-established facts in order to make their conspiracy theories have legs...

Ockham's razor says if there's any connection at all between the two dates, it's Assange ordering Wikileaks to release the files as soon as possible after the arrest warrant was issued to get himself more sympathetic news coverage.
Is there a market in there somewhere, or is it a whizz-bang gimmick like 3D TVs?

I've seen a lot of VR gaming, or at least, I did, approximately 18-12 months ago, but it really seems to have petered out.
This is 2019. Doing an online search is making an entry into your permanent record. Anyone who needed to know about such things would be well advised to use a library computer or some other shared workstation, and that HUGELY raises the barrier to information.

Fear sucks.
Assemble a portfolio. Show people what you can do. And then network.