skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I don't think it's an either-or proposition. However, I think there is a sizable population of people that aren't interested in waiting around until a government policy would be enacted. The purpose would be to inform/educate people on their carbon footprint, to build a community around reducing their carbon footprint, and give a large group of people an opportunity to contribute in a small way that would hopefully have large aggregate results.
ZhuanXia never refers to countries having higher intelligence, but to them gaining higher intelligence through engineering.
No, the key is the bias against investors vs. occupants. Land value tax does not accomplish this.
I find it honestly surprising that I see it so much on HN. You have a group of people who largely identify themselves as being rational, objective, intelligent people - datascientists, engineers, etc. - who stereotypically I would think to be naturally sceptical and want to examine evidence closely.

But it's absolutely true, the minute some scientific study is posted there are 50 people writing comments that they believe it because yesterday something similar happened to their aunt etc. It's something I've never quite figured out.
In all stores I know, there are randomized inspection of say every 30 customers. Missed something tiny and you might be reprimanded and you’ll get tighter inspections for many months to come (until you had several inspections without issue). If you are found to have made some kind of fraud that is obviously a mistake then you’ll be stripped of the “privilege” of self-checkout as well as probably reported to police and likely other stores.

To ensure self checkout is a “privilege” stores must ensure there are rebates available only to self checkout customers, and that lines at the traditional checkout are long enough to make self checkout significantly faster.
There will always be someone who's happy to trade their self-respect for some immediate comfort. Should that mean that we always should choose that particular point as our baseline?

Just because you can choose to tolerate some arbitrary shittiness, doesn't mean that everyone else in society should have to suffer your personal shithole.
Any programming language or scripting language can be misused — especially when it comes to misusing constructors or some other mechanic. I think it boils down to knowing these language pitfalls and establishing standards to follow and help guard against them.
> it seems reasonable for the seller to pay something for the buyers' labor as cashier.

One argument against that is that if people are willing to provide that labor freely, it's worth nothing.

Another argument: before supermarkets, you'd ask the clerk to get a list of things from the shelves (which customers couldn't access). Now this labor is done by customers. Self-checkout is just another change like that.
Jews are one of the historically most oppressed minorities. So if they were able to succeed so much, does that mean latinos or blacks are just too dumb to do the same?

Once you accept success as proof of intelligence, there's no end to the 'fun' conclusions you can draw!
Could you elaborate on the no control other than against themselves aspect?

I read this in the original paper, “Participants were randomly assigned to follow either the control schedule (eating between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm; 12‐hour daily eating period)”

Other than the N is on the lower side, how’s this way of setting up a control group insufficient?
I believe your comment and Godel_unicode's are both correct, and I am pro-choice. Some people may prefer adverts over payment. I don't agree, but that is their choice. I can't stand to hear from NPR's underwriters any more, and will start singing songs loudly (I'm a bad singer to boot) when they come on. In other words, I am personally ad-adverse. My 80-something parents, however, don't even mute the channel, let alone change it, when watching TV and the advertising starts (it drives me nuts). Some people don't mind, and I think they have a right not to be denied content via advertising if that is an "offer on the table."

If one looks at the history of the HBO cable channel vs. broadcast channels (i.e. ABC, NBC, and CBS), and also Netflix, I think one can see there are similar dynamics at play.

The chaos of freedom is a beautiful thing, but using the government to enforce your version of utopia is scary.
Is there a publicly available "do-not-scan" host list (govt, etc)?
> even a smallish one like Iran say, would quickly be producing the vast majority of all genius-level intellects.

Wait, by this logic China and India should be currently producing the majority of genius-level intellects. Are there really 5 times more geniuses in China than in the US? If not it means education and infrastructure plays a part.
Do you happen to live in Europe? I've only ever seen the inspections in Europe.
Watchdogs assess plan to build Canada's first mini nuclear power plant
I'm really glad it did you do much good.

For me, it was the other way round. When I used intermittent fasting (in the form of the 5:2 diet) to get my weight under control, I stopped snoring like a rhino, and my sleep improved. As did my wife's. :-)

More anecdote: trying to fast of the weight without exercise was miserable. My weight plateaued, and I was permanently cold. Doing some sensible exercise solved both problems. Diet or exercise? False dichotomy.
I've only been doing this for a little over ten years, not 25. Still, I find that though most problems are indeed quite boring, the solutions don't have to be.

It seems there are always new ways to write solutions, and I don't just mean picking a new language or trying to optimize performance. Some challenges seem impossible to ever fully solve: Making the code more robust, easier to read, or just to communicate the intent of every line is clearly. (At least for now my solutions tend towards making the code as declarative as possible.)

I get that this may not interest everyone as much and I wouldn't mind a genuinely new or hard problem to solve every now and then, but still something to consider.
This does not look like deregulation, but corruption: having FAA regulate, but delegate to Boeing to "self-control". Like building prisons and asking convicts to guard themselves. I think I saw similar stories about FCC, but with no people dead as a result.
Why not? They certainly define contracts for the type - at least that's my non-native speaker understanding of the english word.

It might seem weird if one used a different programming language which used the term for a slightly different concept - but that doesn't mean Go's usage is bad.

The concept is similar to what concepts are in C++ and traits in Rust. And from those terms I actually find contract to be the most understandable for people who are new to these things.
>> “There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.”

I find the twisted reasoning in this comment shocking and I don't really know what to say. It is a kind of twisted reasoning that I've only seen in people who were high on strong narcotics and were carried away by waves of wishful thinking and delusions, or, again, extreme persecution complex.

Yes- it is possible to make this connection: that because you are scanning your own shopping you are being charged to work at the store. However, you are not being charged to scan your items. You are charged to buy the items you scan. There is no extra charge for using the self-checkout (not anywhere I know of anyway). Indeed, the store may be making an extra profit by not having to pay as many cashiers. But, stores are always finding ways to make extra profit, for example by offering you a discount on certain items, on certain days, etc. Are you more morally justified than usual to shoplift because a store has a discount on Swiss cheese this week? They are making you pick up the swiss cheese and take it to the till (automated or not). Are they charging you to move items around the store?

Like I say- this makes no sense. It is quintessential procrustean logic: stretching and reducing the meaning of words until they fit your preconceived reasoning.

P.S. I spent so much time on this crap instead of dismissing it shallowly because dang gets sad when people don't show intellectual cuiriosity.
Doesn't really matter how efficient the process is biochemically. Buried carbon is buried carbon, and the production cost of biomass is dirt cheap.

A more focused criticism would be: it's not enough for that fancy plant to work, it needs to be cheaper than a hayfield at scale to be worth it. And I'd want to see numbers showing that. Farms are not, in fact, particularly expensive relative to venture backed startups.
Even if the first step is .25sd, then those people could maybe provide another .25sd and so on and on. A gradual increase simply dependent on previous GMO.
TBH I think engineering solutions (fusion, carbon sequestration, perhaps also genetic engineering) are the only viable paths forward. Quite obviously we won't be able to do anything through political or regulatory means without ruining the economy and forcing people to adopt a much lower standard of living (no cows or Hawaii vacations, no stuff from abroad, no cars, no plastics, etc, etc).

What I don't get is why fusion research is so underfunded. Let's make it a "going to the moon" or "manhattan project" kind of thing and let's get it done in 10 years. Get all the smartest people under one roof and let them have at it, without any funding constraints. $100B/yr oughtta do it. This will completely upend the world, and solve a lot of the problems we have. With clean, essentially unlimited energy, there's a lot you can do. The US doesn't even have to pay for all of it by itself. I'm sure industrialized countries will all be glad to chip in proportionally to their GDP for a world-saving project of this kind.
Just WTF or corruption?
Some may find it refreshing not to have people elevate them.
> How do you use this physical ID card online?

You don't. For that, you can get a digital signature. You can go to a police station, or to an embassy and present your physical Id card to get a digital signature. You can use that signature to sign contracts or your tax returns.

> how do you apply for a credit card or similar online?

In Spain, with your usual bank, you use your login/password and your 2FA.

In Sweden, you can use Bank-Id almost everywhere to identify yourself. It is also a digital signature, but it has brother use.
Yes, wow! The blog post is by Ian Miell, one of the authors of Docker in Practice.
If interested there's a piece titled "A dressing that pulls wounds shut", which offers a deeper context, here: https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/07/skin-dressing.
AdSense and other networks primarily exist to automate matchmaking. Publishers and advertisers can already find each other, but this requires a lot of work. By automating this work, it can make more money for publishers (in aggregate) and make things cheaper for advertisers at the same time.

My understanding of your argument is that no publisher should be using Adsense etc today, and they should all be negotiating direct deals instead, is that right? What would you say to publishers (and I've talked to many) who are happy to have the "collect bids from people who want to advertise on my site" portion automated for them so they can focus on running their sites?

(Still speaking only for myself)
CertShout: Leaking sensitive host information from certificates
It's because HN users aren't really that intelligent; they just give off that impression instead. We're all mostly normal people here, and act like normal people. This isn't some special club of 1000x geniuses.
Yes, an MCAS system with 0 redundancy.

> So even some of the people who have worked on Boeing’s new 737 MAX airplane were baffled to learn that the company had designed an automated safety system that abandoned the principles of component redundancy, ultimately entrusting the automated decision-making to just one sensor — a type of sensor that was known to fail. Boeing’s rival, Airbus, has typically depended on three such sensors.

“A single point of failure is an absolute no-no,” said one former Boeing engineer who worked on the MAX, who requested anonymity to speak frankly about the program in an interview with The Seattle Times. “That is just a huge system engineering oversight. To just have missed it, I can’t imagine how.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/a-lac...
> funding to push worldviews. The latter worries me a lot.

This is already happening in the advertisement world of today, where certain topics—some political but some not—are not "friendly to advertising", and so get demonetized on various platforms. How is that different from the scenario you worry so much about?
It already has, in Singapore. There are Starbucks which close at night simply by drawing a plastic chain across the storefront and emptying the cash registers. I think they still lock the Frappuccino fridge, but no one knows for sure because we don't go test it.
You could make $125 by filling out this Equifax claim form
This is by design.

Target often runs large metro stores with TWO cashiers. I once went into the Target on 14th St in Manhattan and saw just a single human. Most customers are already conditioned to go through the self checkout.
Teenagers prosecuted less hard for finding out the software foundations of society are build out of the equivalent of jello. Law to protect cooperations from fiscal fallout due to prevent tech debt and finance proper security made more lenient.
For me the moment was when some websites started putting popup ads in every single link and navigation.

I a specific instance there was no way to use the site, every link would redirect directly without opening the correct page at all.

I literally needed an ad-blocker to be able to use the website.
physicist rather than physician ?
Mind tricks don't work on me, only money...
> Yes, the 2008 crisis was bad. But on the whole, are people still worse off?

Yes. Entire generations. Permanently and irreparably.
Sounds like good news for everyone, including casual FB investors like myself. The quicker this platform dies, the better. It is a cancer on our society, our government, and all its people including those who don't use it. And not just our society but every society in the world, some more than others. Investors losing a little money is a miniscule price to pay. I just hope the author is correct. Maybe Facebook users have tired of the privacy invasion, rigged elections, genocides, and social malaise this platform brings upon the world (to name just a few negative consequences).
Word of warning: the Cruise Security team has blackhats (probably not Karl or Mike). On multiple occasions, and with multiple witnesses, they intentionally obstructed communications regarding misconduct in order to hamper or deter related investigations.
If there aren't any ramifications for Boeing building unsafe planes, why would they be incentivized to do so? Shareholders don't care about the lives of the passengers, only ROI.

Boeing looks around at all of the slaps on the wrists other companies get, including bail outs. Why shouldn't they hop on that gravy train also?
This is only true is you assume that higher IQ necessarily improves reproductive volume in ancestral scenarios. There's no reason to assume that. IQ just wasn't that useful until very recently in history and would have been detrimental in many ways.

What is a genius going to do with all his smarts if he's born to illiterate medieval farmers or tribal hunters? It just means he'll ask questions that annoy people and get distracted by reproductively irrelevant thoughts. There's no math to do, no books to read, no machines to improve, no big complex systems to understand. IQ is not historically adaptive in the evolutionary sense. If it was, we'd all be a lot smarter.

If you doubt this, just consider animals like chimps, dolphins, or elephants. They could have evolved higher intelligence, but it was more adaptive for them not to.
> It was meant to be, in response to OP's hyperbole that there's nothing new being created.

You are right. Sorry for not expressing myself with clarity. To say that there's nothing new being created is hyperbolic and it is not what I wanted to say.

I just wanted to note that the pace of change is too slow to keep things interesting for decades. I am sure that if I do not code for 20 years, I will need to learn new things to get back into it as enough changes will have had accumulated in that time.
Yep. I only half care about rootless. I definitely care about the daemon.

It sucks.

It flies in the face of traditional Linux process management where child processes are child processes.

(Unless you want an init system, where you need a daemon. But docker is a sucky init system.)

Docker breaks even the most basic things.

$ time docker run some heavy computation

Oh wait, that doesn't work.
This sounds like such a rational comment, but it is based on the naive idea that ads can be effectively targeted simply based on content. You're never going to have ads that people are willing to pay for (i.e. a certain threshold click-through rate) without some sort of direct targeting. For example, you can't tell if your article on basic car maintenance is being read by a 30 year old male who might be interested in a beer ad or a 30 year old female with two kids who might be more interested in a new iphone cover.
> Only the US and China are on the field

Is this really the case? Most of what I see in US news is how yet another adolescent or teenage hacker was caught and faced stiff penalties and consequences, far out of balance to what the hacker actually did to make an example of him. If there's a thriving cybersecurity scene in the US, I'd say it's largely due to the private sector and not anything the US government or any of its institutions (on a federal or state or local level) have done to encourage exploration into hacking. Which is unfortunate, because it's increasingly an important topic in the modern environment.
Facebook is dying, long live MySpace!
Would be interesting to see this on a more modern kernel, I believe this older LTS Ubuntu uses Kernel 4.15, I’m sure they’ve back ported some security fixes etc but it won’t be the same as running the current stable kernel (5.2.3), perhaps a test on the current stable Fedora release with Kernel-ml from Elrepo would be a more fair / up-to-date test.
Notion: A Product That Users Love, and VCS Can't Invest Into
You mean requirements gleaned over decades of aeronautical and crash research?
The disconnect appeared when companies stopped being driven by shareholders and become driven by Wall Street bean counters. I work for a very large company that lost the CEO because the Wall Street was not happy the guy did not fire enough people to meet their predictions; the next CEO fired the employees and contracted double the number as external suppliers, it was bad for the company and very bad for shareholders, but Wall Street was happy and the guy is still a CEO.

And Wall Street does not care about sensible or ethical things, so the companies are not allowed to. Not anymore.
Sand Hill Road (Song on Pitching)
There does exist a world. It's a world of calculated risks, where people figure out how far they can push things before the risks start eating into profits.

It's the same thing that occurs with risk analysis using customer data. They only fund exactly as much security as they need. Does the company benefit from having private data leaked? Not particularly, but if the cost of having data leaked is less than the cost of securing that data, then businesses will not secure their data.

Which is where regulations come in.
"they followed proper procedures and adhered to the highest standards."

And here I thought 'highest standards' meant not creating death traps.
Well, to add some data:

Intelligence genes discovered by scientists
The Telegraph, Dec 21 2015
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/120617...

Many similar articles, not all about the same discovery, at this DDG search:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=genes+for+intelligence+found&t=ffa...
A Dystopian Cocktail, Served Chilled with a Twist
Because it’s a fantasy to think there is even agreement on what “maximizing the well-being” means. The people running the re-education camps in China probably even think they are doing that.
Another anecdotal experience:
IF really makes you aware of how your appetite gets going after the first meal. I usually start eating around noon and its like flipping a switch, before hand you just feel kinda numb but afterwards your brain cannot stop thinking about eating.
The least perceived corrupt or publicly corrupt? Because they are anything but "least corrupt".
This analysis is interesting, as its the first time I see actually reflected in numbers and graphs what I observe around my friends. Hardly anyone is using it.

I thought that most likely the continuous growth in other countries is what makes Facebook numbers go up -- but it clearly shows that user engagement is significantly down and FB is the weakest performer amongst FAMGA (how the other refers to the core peer tech companies)
There is a lot of confusion here as well as in the article

>Mindfullness tells you to observe your fears and other feelings

>but effectively ignoring them

How is observing equals ignoring? Observing allows you to detach and not take things too closely and as a consequence to act more "easily" if you choose consciously rather than unconsciously.
Sorry, what does "rang them up" mean here? :)
Do you think people will stop using FB-like services? At least with one mega platform it's easy to regulate versus having a dozen smaller spinoffs
What about 1 to 3 meals starting at 2pm to 5pm for 6 hours? I'd be interested to know how that compares. It seems without that data, it's not possible to conclude at all that eating earlier in the day is better than later.
The book"The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein describes the "congressional-military-industrial complex" in the context of the world arms trade.