skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what "that situation" is. inReach-type devices are probably prudent for certain activities in remote areas.
Though if someone is unresponsive after falling in a gorge, I suspect S&R arriving many hours later--and many more hours getting to a hospital--isn't going to be of much help.

It's certainly not routine for individuals or even groups to carry such devices in wilderness areas even if cell phone reception is spotty. I can go 2 hours north of where I live and hike on steep trails where there's no guarantee of cell phone reception.
"Anybody know of other writers that do research and writing in this style? I quite enjoyed it."

This is what immediately comes to mind:

https://slatestarcodex.com/
I think we can all agree that we want to maximize the quality of our work, where quality is defined as how well our work satisfies our goal. Typically, the discussion is around speed vs. quality, but I think quality itself encompasses speed (time_to_market below):

quality = w_0 * time_to_market + w_1 * correctness + w_2 * performance + ...

The weights w_n vary across domains. As with most things, it's about finding the right balance.
> Despite these people clearly being partially responsible for encouraging one of their members to violence, none of them will get in trouble because they never gave direct threats or incitements.

That's legal for very important reasons. People have a right to freedom of speech and the right to assembly. They don't have a right to commit murder. There's a huge leap from complaining about something to committing violence in real life. The latter is rightfully illegal and the former is rightfully legal (in the United States).
It creates value for other Bitcoin investors, some of whom might cash out or directly spend crypto building a business. In principle, Joe's Can Factory could be funded by 100 bitcoin which Joe acquired years ago, and the social fads which drove up the price directly enable that.

Of course, right now, the only thing practical to fund with cryptocurrency is a cryptocurrency or internet business, none of which provide truly useful or necessary services
noticeably that both managers were women. One would naively think that that would lead to deeper empathizing and more understandable accommodation due to better mutual understanding and shared experience. Well, better mutual understanding and shared experience seems to be a double edged sword. Can you imagine a male manager trying to oppose, or even just question the necessity of, something like that bedrest:

"She says that she and her baby had potentially life-threatening complications toward the end of her pregnancy, and that she would need to go on maternity leave earlier than expected.

“During one conversation with my new manager in which I reiterated an early leave and upcoming bedrest, she told me that she had just listened to an NPR segment that debunked the benefits of bedrest,” she wrote. “She also shared that her doctor had ordered her to take bedrest, but that she ignored the order and worked up until the day before she delivered her son via cesarean section."
The best part of the internal Amazon stack is the relative consistency across the company. Not that every team is using the same thing, but it's a reasonable assumption that whatever particular combination of things you're using, someone else probably is too. It makes it really easy to work around the sharp corners present in any stack. Additionally, basically everything is internal-only or AWS, so the people who developed the tech stack are all just an internal search away.

That said, I've done just fine without that benefit since moving on.
Mine silently truncates to 8 characters and does a case insensitive comparison. Good thing they have all the liability....
According to some CEO interview they hold on as long as possible until forced otherwise.

This is relevant as the censorship here (whether justified or not, right or wrong it is censorship) is not done by CF, but by a faceless internet mob that is attacking both CF and 8chan.

CF has all the right to terminate its relationships with anyone. social media mobs should not force companies to exercise that right.
Your example is flawed for the following reason:

The child's right to scream ends where my right to peacefully exist in a public space begins. The child's act of screaming directly in my ear clearly violates my right and is thus intolerant of it.
Followed by Patreon banning her the following day. It's getting pretty crazy how little one has to do to get deplatformed, if you've attracted an audience.
So nobody can exclude anyone else from anything? That would mean any organization is not free to stipulate who can and cannot be a member of that organization. Is the American Medical Society intolerant for excluding someone who does not believe in vaccines?
Honestly I'm more worried about remembering my username...13 digit numeric sequence.

Nice one Mr Bank.

Trying to fight my way back in after emigrating put a lot of worries at ease. Voice printing, secret code words, security questions, 2FA, passwords...omg just let me in.

Nobody's getting in there...I just hope I don't lose access.
I could swear that close to the launch of Ingress some Niantic employee said something along the lines of, "We're not actually collecting much data. It's all secretly an evil plan to get nerds to exercise," but I can't find a source.
People will talk regardless. I have to chuckle at this mindset of time wasted. What do you think people at Google do, work at an assembly line and are given an extra break to discuss things on a message board?

Non-trivial work requires that you goof off at least half of the time.

Regarding 'it's never happened to me' arguments. Please realize that the world is varied and complex. Basic statistics will tell you that in a group of 100k people, chances are, somebody is getting harassed legitimately, let alone thinking they are being harassed or treated unfairly. Why is that at all hard to believe? Give me any 100k population and I can write articles ranging from 'great success' to 'great discrimination' indefinitely. It's just basic odds.
Your last point seems spot on. The only way to get rid of nazis is to change their minds so they are no longer nazis. It should have been easy to show him that skin color doesn't determine culture or politics and that his actions were going to do nothing but drastically weaken his cause.
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> Sigh, that statement makes no sense already because finance generates massive value.

I think it's not clear what I meant by value generation, and that's on me as I'm sure there's an established meaning that differs from mine. In my eyes, moving money from one person to another is not value generation. Only work that improves the net quality of life is generating value.

As an example, someone who spends all day digging holes and filling them in for money has destroyed value, because their work helps no one and the money transfer is almost neutral overall. Being a facilitator of mutually beneficial trade has value, but work that only extracts wealth destroys value by using labor to no net benefit --they could have been enjoying their time instead.

It's not something you can easily measure, but through this lens you can see how much of what we allocate human effort to is a waste.
Be curious to understand US government's role here.

When a 14 year old "threatened to murder YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki" surely it crossed the line into being a child welfare problem.
A luxury can easily become a "necessity" with increases in purchasing power and/or a decreases in product prices.

An anecdotal example. I purchased a home last year which did not have AC. The previous owners lived in the house for over 20 years with out ever "needing" an air conditioner. My wife and I did not make it to the summer before installing an AC. I have no doubt I could have survived without an AC but why bother? Its cheap (relatively speaking) and improves my quality of life.
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Wow, this is what passes for PTO at the fabled FAANG companies? I work for a small company in a non-tech field and salaried (exempt) employees start with 20 days of PTO and increase to 25 after 5 years. 10 days is pathetic.
I would frame things a little differently. Light makes a lot of mistakes because the Death note is incredibly powerful and there would be almost no reasonable way for L to catch Light without Light making obvious mistakes (and would also make for a boring story). Undoubtedly, the biggest mistake Light makes is revealing the existence of the Death Note, and all the rules therein, which not only gives L (almost) all the information he needs, but also traps him from any subsequent activity.

Without knowing the rules of the Death Note, I don't think L could have done anything (besides outright abducting/murdering Light) to stop Light, even if he is 100% sure Light is "responsible".

That said, I feel like a much simpler solution than what's proposed at the end of the essay is:

1. Gather up the names you want to write over the course of a week.
2. Wait another week, then write it at a specific point of time of the week.
3. Keep to that schedule.

The names need to be as public and as well known as possible such that it would be impossible to trace the flow of information. (Remember, the goal is fear, not specificity.) Keeping to that schedule means you will never leak more information thereafter.
Thanks for the explanation, your argument makes sense.

I'd just look at it in a slightly different, perhaps more optimistic way. The fact that this investment has the highest ROI means that society as a whole would benefit from injecting additional capital into that investment.

In that sense, you're right that other investors have a less desirable price. However in theory at least, everyone is better off since that investment now has more capital, and is able to produce more output, positively contributing to the overall economy and increasing the size of the overall pie.
If you get bufferbloat at 20Mbit/s and have a 300Mbit/s line, I would argue that you only have a 20Mbit/s line for most practical purposes except downloading large files. Strange how little focus this gets.
For clarification: Monopolies can result from anti-competitive practices, or an overwhelming competitive advantage. Talking about the latter here

The 'anti-trust' and 'monopoly' arguments strike me as hypocritical and self-contradictory in the context of capitalism. We encourage businesses to compete and succeed, yet when they do so disproportionally, everyone suddenly feels entitled to intervene in their structure, policies & processes - and best of all, we have no objective guidelines or criteria for when this should happen.

The question then becomes: who gets to decide when to bring forth these concerns, and what's their agenda? Food for thought.
Putting food on the table isn't really a concern if you're all dead from heat exposure. Sounds like AC has just become a basic human need in some areas.
> On the less evil side it seems like employees waste a lot of time on these internal sites and all the internal social justice stuff.

I work at Google, opinions are my own.

If anything, having your employees spend their time on a internal site seems like a great idea because even their fun time is spent "within" the company. It's not like the alternative is they just don't do things besides work.. the alternative is they spend that time on HN, Reddit, or Youtube
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4873/do-knives-...

Also, if you have wood handles it'll ruin the wood.
Example:

The_Donald, Reddit's Trump supporter forum bans any speech that is critical of Trump.
An event which laid the foundation for many of the economic issues facing Hawaii today. Resolving this issue would enrich the lives of many people currently living in Hawaii.
I'm an editor of a journal that has one of (the?) highest IFs in its field, among other things. Lots of experience with scientific publishing.

I've had lengthy discussions about this with my colleagues, and I don't think the problem is with peer review per se, it's with how peer review, and by extension, scientific literature, is interpreted and utilized. It's not just with the lay community, it's among scientists themselves, as well as scientific consumers as in engineering, healthcare, etc.

People now treat science, and scientific publications, as if it's a farm or factory. The produced commodity is the peer-reviewed paper. Once research, via a paper, is peer-reviewed, it's blessed as the truth, and if it's not, it's worthless. The goal of many institutions is now not to produce sound research per se, but to receive money (largely due to indirect cost income) to produce the commodity of peer-reviewed paper. Once a paper is accepted as in press, it can be cited as if it were truth, which provides a building block for something else. The truth per se doesn't matter, only the citability of it as peer-reviewed.

I realize this sounds a bit conspiratorial but I do think this is basically how it works at this point in time, at least in certain fields. Peer-review is overvalued, as are single papers, and contributions of particular researchers in many cases. That doesn't mean they don't have any value, just that their real value is probably much less than we assume.

I agree that peer review can be improved a lot, and will likely always have an important role in some form, but I don't think fundamental problems in the field will go away unless there's a change in perspective on the real scientific process as a whole, to something more nuanced and gradual.
Situations where Germans were killed for just being Germans, as opposed to being soldiers, are being talked about as injustice today. The rapes done on German women after WWII are not defended as rightful today either.

There is big difference between military action against Germany, ISIS, what have you and "kill Germans" in general.
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Ethical outcomes, they justify the means. Like redistributing the land, justifys the holdomor. Future generations will praise what we have done, and forget about those we had to sacrifice, because they held us back.
Pretty sure that her public record had a lot to do with it:

https://twitter.com/sewernugget
This is a wonderful quote:

"This is what I do for fun, because it is the exact opposite of the kind of thing people will pay for: an obscure implementation of a programming language everybody hates."

Great attitude!
What is the rough breakdown of applications for all these cubesats and other satellites?
That is a good question that I don't know the answer to. Warren Buffet says that according to him "if interest rates will stay this low then stocks are dirt cheap".

But, Europe and Japan also have zero interest rates, and you don't see such high CAPE valuations there.
Yes of course, I guess I assumed that was common sense, but you're right, it should be explicitly pointed out.
Playing whack-a-mole with extremist communities is only going to drive them together under a common threat and make them more desperate. The dedicated ones install a tor client and go further underground. The not-so-dedicated ones leave. But the not-so-dedicated parts of the community are the ones helping contribute to the deradicalization of the others.

It should be obvious to state that if you get rid of 8chan, those people aren't suddenly deradicalized and they're still in the country holding the same beliefs. Those people who are today at risk of continuing in this shooter's footsteps have already read the manifesto. People like the shooter often do these things because they want to be heard and they want to contribute to the course of history. Taking away what little voice they have in their own spaces makes them feel less heard. Destroying the little community that they have removes their stake in the world. Suppressing their only place to express their grievances causes them to lose hope. This is the cocktail for more violence, not less.

The *chans are the furthest from centers of indoctrination because the moderation is the weakest of all social media platforms. All ideas are present and little to nothing is suppressed. Dissent is commonplace and general consensus has no power. Sure, it means ugly ideas get spread, but it means that people actually have to refine their moral argumentation. No longer can you assume that the other person has the common ground of "racism is wrong", you have to actually dive into why racism is wrong. You can act outraged all you like, but it won't convince people to change their mind. Changing minds is going to be the only effective course of action to avoid tragedies like these.
I agree and its disheartening to see the amount of responses in opposition. There is a massive number of comments on this post compared to most social topics, or ANY topic for that matter, and a lot of them are arguing it's wrong or bad to have limits on such behavior. I would suspect many of those arguments are defensive in origin and disingenuous. But for those who aren't personally involved in those behaviors, who opposed limits and rules, I don't know how they imagine a total free for all could work. We need government, structure, rules for society to exist. Otherwise as has been shown when limits are removed, the worst people and of people will ruin it for everyone else. If you could count on people NOT to be terrible it would make all of this a lot easier. You cannot.
No, genocide happened because people believed that another group would do terrible things if given the opportunity. Not freedom, but the belief that others will misuse their freedom.
It's a problem with the way technology scales. Previously difficult things become cheap to do at massive scales, and companies make tons of money doing it.

But it also make vulnerabilities scale in the same way - exfiltrating 150,000,000 SSNs isn't much harder than 150 - and the penalties for security lapses don't scale anything like the profits that operating at these scales does.

What's the solution to that? Bigger penalties so that companies prioritize security? Require companies handling data and devices to carry insurance against huge hacks? I don't know, but we need to get somewhere better than "Ignore it because consumers generally don't understand the risks and apology letters are cheap."

The one good thing about IoT locks compared to other internet security issues is that you need physical access to do anything with it. The script kiddies spamming SSH authentication attempts at every webserver from somewhere on the other side of an ocean can't break in to your house with this. Other IoT devices like security cameras are still a concern though; a vulnerability in those could scoop up a lot of private videos.
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FYI "some opinions are just wrong" is a judgement, and it might make life easier to understand that what you consider "wrong" is your subjective _opinion_ :)

I totally don't mean that in a condescending way, just sharing my thoughts from my own experiences!

When you say that the El Paso shooter believed that the US is under invasion, that was his incorrect belief, not a "wrong opinion". The opinion would be that he thinks he's justified to try to kill those people.
What studies have you seen?
I'm sure Indians who wanted to go over to Barcelona to learn about the transit system would have difficulty finding a common language, or paying for a couple of translators.
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It is so easy to immediately take a side here, but I have never seen her content.

It is true that people are being de-platformed unfairly and I am usually against deplatforming, but others do deserve it.

Regardless, she's a kid. As much as I advocate for free speech, I believe we shouldn't encourage kids to be "shock-jocks" or used to promote political agendas. It is so easy for kids to be seduced into an ideology even if just for the attention.
I had my house broken into once and they just used a crowbar. My neighbor heard them do it, but assumed someone was just doing some work outside.

I get why people are hard on smart locks, but I really don't see them as any more insecure then regular locks.
I can see where you are taking this, I've heard this one before. Do you think sex robots/VR porn/other methods would be viable?
Arguments of authority are my favorites. It literally takes you 2 seconds to see through the person you are talking to and you can safely assume that they haven´t thought about the problems facing them long enough.
Isn't that again just focusing on singular points instead of the whole picture? Who is popular now that Milo and Alex are less so? Has that been measured?

It seems highly dubious that all that attention completely disappeared instead of following other channels, which may be even more extreme. I can't find any study of this.
You aren't entitled to kill folks, no matter how much you want to. And you aren't entitled to egg other folks on to kill folks either.

Try telling that to the US military. Or cops.

And it if you step back a bit you'll see that it is _obvious_(!) that the person you are replying to is exactly NOT saying that it is permissible to massacre Jews. S/he is pointing out that "obviousness" is an ill-defined criterion which can let any old genocidal predjudice slip through.
> Why is a WiFi lock so bad?

Scalability. Once you know how to pick one, you can pick them all quickly and remotely. Kicking down a door or picking a physical lock takes time and effort and exposes you to scrutiny while doing it.
Yes they have through stock buybacks which are just a more tax efficient way of paying dividends. Also, they're so limited on investment ideas, he's even considering a 100 billion dollar stock buyback [0].

[0]: https://qz.com/1611997/warren-buffett-hints-on-timing-of-big...
The safest approach is to immediately cash the check at a branch of the bank on which the check is drawn. It's more difficult for bankruptcy trustees to claw back cash (although in theory they may have the legal right to do so in some cases). Unfortunately some banks will no longer cash their own checks if you don't have an account there.
"Congressman Steve Scalise couldn't be reached for comment."

Steve Scalise is alive... I just googled his wikipedia page.[0]

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise
Why not compare a functioning project with a functioning project? e.g. the Beijing-Shenzhen line (2230km (1390 miles to compare to the FTR)) that takes 8h34m and can hit 300km/h: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Guangzhou_high...

Or we could compare successful project of today (A380) vs failed project (Spruce Goose).

Or, I know it's not as romantic as a real living person on the Moon who then comes back home, but we have robots on Mars. And on comets.

>I can see how someone someone might get the impression we aren't able to successfully deliver large projects any more.

We're all clever people and can convince ourselves of anything if we really try. Why not be positive? :)