skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pedestrians aren't rare in my area. Also, there's legally a crosswalk at every intersection, not just intersections with sidewalks.

The part most pedestrians seem to miss is that they also have a duty of care. That means, even if the driver should yield right-of-way, you can't just step out in front of them. If you do, you'll probably be found partially responsible, which will reduce the amount you can win in court.

> I’ve never seen a driver in the US stop for someone who is waiting to enter a crosswalk, only ones that have actually started to cross.

I do this all the time and see it fairly regularly. About 5% of the time, the person isn't even trying to cross. (Waiting for an Uber maybe?)

Pedestrians need to make their intentions known. It's actually really easy. I do it all the time. Stick your hand out in the direction you're trying to cross and try to make eye contact.
except china’s communist party can pay for the egg and the chicken and solve the pb, without any concern for profit. The issue in that case is more political than economical, so different rules apply.
leaders are targeted. their reputation is tarnished by the media and isolated / detained by police.

also a major lack of trust within the group prevents a leader from emerging in the first place
The Innovation Cult
>A good debian maintainer will also review code of their packages and make sure such trickery has no chance to be afood

Except for that time that Debian developers "knowing better" completely neutered most cryptography on all updated Debian systems[1]:

>Affected keys include SSH keys, OpenVPN keys, DNSSEC keys, and key material for use in X.509 certificates and session keys used in SSL/TLS connections. Keys generated with GnuPG or GNUTLS are not affected, though.

Massive, rapid key rotation schemes had do be implemented to cover their screwup because all keys were trivially enumerable, to the point where all affected keys were blacklisted[2].

[1] https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571

[2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3422/what-is-th...
are vegans allowed to use this library?
It makes absolutely no difference when binary packages are compiled on a trusted build farm, i.e. like everyone does already.
If you (really) don't know where to begin -- that is, you don't have enough "monkey grease" under your belt to just pick up some examples and documentation and propel yourself along -- then you should probably start with a different programming language.

That's not to get into an overall advocacy debate in regard to JS, btw. But even its staunchest advocates will acknowledge that it can be quite slippery to work with, in certain parts.
> sites with user contributed content exist.

Very true, but there's a notable distinction: they can devote 100% of their expertise to moderating such nuances. It would be costly for a company such as tumbler (one which is not built around inappropriate material) to build out and maintain such expertise.

> The reason they won't is because they don't like to go against the grain of the currently advertiser-mandated vision of an exclusively family-friendly internet — where 'internet' here means the ad-supported part of it; i.e., all of the bigger commercial content silos.

Are you surprised this is the case? What brand wants to be associated with that sort of stuff?

> The outrage comes when people stumble upon photos of minors in the early pubescent or even prepubescent stage of development intended to titillate. That is, content that is fairly consistently classed as child pornography, and no apparent action is undertaken to purge that content.

There have been quite a few instances of prosecuting minors due to sending pictures of inappropriate content, taken by themselves: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2010/03/21/is-sexting-c...

> For the odd case where an account is uploading content that looks like it might involve a minor nearing adulthood, a platform privately and confidentially asking for proof of identity and age is reasonable enough. It's a fair solution for, to name just one example, the odd flat-chested twenty-something exhibitionist of Asian descent.

I'm sure there was a more polite way to phrase that. Regardless, much of the internet consists of downloading and re-uploading media. This would remain difficult.
Am I the only one who feels that all the gender studies that keep being mocked ultimately have the potential (if executed properly yada yada...) to benefit cis men as much as anyone else?
npm is full of packages (developer tools and libraries in general) popular with developers but that carry enormous risks-- like short support cycles, breaking changes, security issues, packages that themselves depend on packages with similar problems, among other things. You don't have to let a paper define how you evaluate risk, but even if you co-opt their definition of risk as loss profitability, npm's popularity is at odds with "minimizing risk."
> Can you say with 100% confidence what is profound and what is nonsense in this Universe?

Given that profundity only makes any sense at all in the context of humans, with a fair degree of confidence (100% is never possible), I believe a reasonable measure is possible. The funny thing about profundity is: It means the advancement of thinking in people. To further add to this, it means advancing society, by extension of advancing its people (Unless you can find exceptions for which humanity does not benefit from cooperation). Advancement of people can be measured, if people agree on criteria. You might even create a measure based on how many different, sometimes competing criteria it advances. One proviso to this is that it is not easy to do so immediately, we usually need to look at the results over time, as it is an empirical measure on society.

Never forget, it's easy to retreat to "Well nothing is absolute, so why bother". The fact that we can create measures that have broad agreement mean we can come up with practical compromises that would essentially guarantee that ideas can never be equal. Yes that does mean that broad agreement will favour society, see the previous paragraph. Also, due to the time issue, broad agreement does change, and it should. So again, not 100% but reverting to that requirement is also not useful. The other dimension in which broad agreement is slippery is, what is the population of people you're asking. This is the edge of where ideas are forged. So even though a wider population may not get broad agreement of something, time will tell.

If there's one final point which I will make which drives home that it is important to have some measure, it is embedded in this saying "We stand atop the shoulders of giants". Without measure, what giants? What ideas can we actually build upon and hope to get something that isn't random chance.

>The two are extreme points so that we can see the difference, of course, there are all kinds of intermediate states as Diogen was not walking with a lamp during daylight when he was 5.

I get that, as I said, the profound has come from this mode of thinking. However, the issue is the framing of the article, it posits that becoming hypersane essentially necessitates being divorced from society in it's entirety. That part is not so well supported. But what this framing does do, is make it seem like anyone who doesn't agree with society has an edge in their thinking (and being, given we seem to be focusing on individual capacity) and should therefore continue with what they are doing. My sense is that this is somewhat orthogonal to success in creating the cutting edge. Clearly accepting everything in society without question can't, but this notion that you must go through madness seems outlandish. The framing seems very good however, to pandering to the various counter-culture desires, and the article does state the author has an upcoming book on the subject.
> The protesters took it way too far.

Why do you say this? HK is still a nominally free society and protest is their right

> China must act. Any nation would act at this point.

that's not a given, and why must they act against peaceful protest? Lining up para-military tanks against a civilian population is not something that most nations would do. It's clearly designed to intimidate.

> Perhaps still China can find an alternative approach. I hope so.

The alternative approach is pretty obvious to any democratic nation
The time risk of NPM (which is the factor considered by this paper) is small though. Security risk is way down most people's considerations.
Calling it a riot is a deliberate smear, the situation is very far from a riot.
Ok I'll bite: glandular fever is commonly known as Mono. What that got to do w/ the heart problem and anxiety?
Why not? It's not pornography, and likely not so taboo on a website called "Hacker News".
I wonder if the announced VW EV factory battery investment will have a long-term impact on lithium-ion battery knowledge and supply chain in Germany, especially for grid storage. Lithium ion batteries initially became popular for laptops and smartphones, and by a nice coincidence made it cheaper to build EVs. We need the same to happen for grid storage. Germany has the manufacturing know-how and high electricity costs, so it would be an ideal place to come up with a solution.

> (Although I'm all in for new nuclear technologies I think our aging reactors are nothing to be proud of. Maybe we could create new jobs in fusion reactor research and development, too. I'd like that.)

I think nuclear will be too expensive by the time new plants would be built - 10+ years judging by the projects in the UK and Finland. Germany would be at least as slow as them, especially with the strong anti-nuclear sentiment locally, which would probably lead to ongoing protests and lawsuits.
Cray exascale computer to modernize aging nuclear weapon stockpile
No wonder Canada is higher on the list.
> Is Boston too sparsely populated to have schools in walking or biking distance?

Boston is reasonably dense, but it's also defacto segregated, with parts of the city having different racial and class makeup. If we went back to neighborhood schools that people walked to that would mean effectively resegregating the schools.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_desegregation_busing_cr...
Germany doesn't have a high enough renewable share for storage to make sense. The fundamental problem with Germany is that it doesn't deploy enough renewables. It's barely hitting 75% renewables on record days. Where exactly is all that excess energy supposed to come from?
Did I imply it wasn't loading for me?
Another model is combination bus driver / school custodian jobs.

Good article on long school bus rides: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2010/10/04/long-bus-ride-cook-...
Why Corporate Profits Are Overstated and What It Means for Investors [pdf]
The PRC is a totalitarian dictatorship that suppresses free speech.

The New York Times is a newspaper built on free speech.

There really aren't to sides to be report about.
lurking in private Slack channels and Blind
Just that the guy isn't to blame. That's like saying "By switching off the lights in the break room I shutdown the power in all the operation rooms"
One question is what motivations the researchers realize.

In qualitative interviews, perhaps some subjects will say they frequently choose new and less-proven or less-personally-known frameworks because they're looking for greater advantage (which I think is often true).

But how many subjects are motivated to add frameworks simply because they are (or might) become good things to have on their resume, regardless of risk to their current employer (also often true, at least in the US, I think)?

Would researchers' focus on perception of risk (to the project?) miss this motivation, and be trying to fit the wrong psych quiz questions to the wrong models?

(Alternatively, the researchers appear to all be based in Japan, which might not have US dotcom prevalence of short-term job-hopping, so perhaps their results are more applicable there than in the US?)
Chexit would never happen. We mainly want the status quo, preferably with universal suffrage so that we can have a say in which policies are tabled and so that our leaders are accountable to us rather than the central government.
There's already multiple global DEM data sources. It would be good to understand how this is better and what the planned accuracy is. Its a very light article

[edit]

Their referenced Arctic DEM gives a 2m resolution however on accuracy notes 'Without ground control points absolute accuracy is approximately 4 meters in horizontal and vertical planes'.

This is much better than most global data (SRTM and ASTER both at 30m resolution)

However it is not as high resolution as many existing free models for individual parts of the globe. As an example here in Australia I can get free 1m resolution DEMs of cities with accuracy noted at "0.3m (95% Confidence Interval) vertical and 0.8m (95% Confidence Interval) horizontal".
> In fact most attacks in the past were in source based languages like JavaScript but without reproducible builds the situation would be much worse.

This is incorrect. It wouldn't make a single difference.
Well, it’s more expensive so people typically order smaller than usual cuts.
I feel terrified, my body temperature goes up, I often sweat, and I have an overwhelming urge to censor my speech which tends to make me censor my thoughts as well. It's an exhausting emotional experience, and it feels and behaves just like fear, not like any other emotion, except when there's anger mixed in. The only difference is, I'm maintaining enough control of my face and voice and body to fool a lot of people. Probably not everyone.
When did protest start to become common in the states?
Do you think the programming language you start with makes that much of a difference?

Like, does everybody who chooses python have an easy time while everyone who chooses ruby is doomed to failure, etc?
Lower grade kids in America are too. But once you reach middle school they can be bussed to larger central schools. And demographics shift rapidly here. New developments have lots of new families, but 20 years later there are almost no families. So schools that were built in new neighborhoods become empty. So bussing to even things out.

Our state places elementary schools so young kids don't have to cross a major street, when possible.
Not wanting to is a really reasonable position, as it is with 100+ degrees. Lots of parts of America get that cold for a solid chunk of the year, so if people can't take a bicycle, how would you build a system to accommodate that kind of a load spike?
I have never heard of a bus driver being a volunteer position, is that something that happens near you? And, if so, is it a public school district?
Based on my experience dancing, the trick of showering before exercise only works for about 4 hours if you're wearing cotton or wool. Lycra gives you about two. When you're dancing for more than four hours everybody is stinky and exhausted and nobody cares. At the office? Make sure to schedule your meetings in the morning, and definitely avoid supper meetings.
I think this quote sums up my thoughts pretty well:

> Seek the company of those who search for truth; run from those who have found it.

In the end, the cosmos don't care what we believe, or value, or strive for. We will die all the same. Our species will become extinct. And the universe will end.
Microsoft will destroy Slack the same way it destroyed Netscape: by pushing its own inferior product for free.
This uses the scapy module, so it's only for Linux and other unixes. Is there a scapy equivalent you know of for macOS?
> What a shortsighted way to complain.

This is not how to build concensus for your argument.

I recently moved due to concerns outside my control, and the school time changed from 8:30am to 7:15am for my 6-year-old. This is manageable, but not a minor change at all. These types of changes are very significant for everyone in the region.
> assume that someone who bans all Winnie The Pooh pictures across a country

I'm not sure if this will change your opinion, but this isn't true.

I asked my friends that are in China now to search for Winne The Pooh on Baidu and Bing, and they were able to find pictures of the character.

The are also Winnie the Pooh cartoons and movies and dolls readily available in China. Along with various merchandise for sale.

So no, it is not banned in China. Neither are time travel movies and TV shows, despite the English news reporting as such.
Yeah, that's the great thing about group therapy. It's designed to work through interpersonal things that come up with regular people who have no training and are just as concerned with their own problems as you are with yours. This was something that never came up in ten years of individual therapy. I'm not sure if my individual therapist was aware that it could be a problem, but she was the one who suggested I do group therapy, so maybe she was. I should ask her.
common thread is to just deal with the symptoms. imo there is a pollutant in the environment causing this. or it is many pollutants. there are a lot of things considered a neurotoxin in the food supply.

what if we took all the neurotoxins in our food supply and put the maximum allowable amount for each one and put it all in a cup and drank/ate it? what if we did this daily? what if we gave this to an infant?

so instead of ceasing the consumption of these things we are focused on consuming “good” neurotoxins to counter act the effects of the “bad” neurotoxins?
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I agree. Just see how other commercial enterprises cave when it comes to China. The NYT is just the same.
I've blocked Reddit and HN on my desktop, now I am watching more YouTube, drink 3 times as much coffee and tea and am hyperaware of what's going on outside of my window.

Seems that specific websites aren't the cause, the problem is much deep than that.
hopefully it won't lead to catastrophe https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/genetically-modifi...
> Of course I'm no expert, but this whole banana disappearance story has been going on for many years, yet we still have bananas. There is not even close to a shortage of bananas. It reminds me of the Helium is running out stories.

Right now you are discarding his (albeit hostile phrasing) argument by using the exact argument he was criticizing.

"Years" is a really short time. Same as with climate deniers that can't abstract away their perception of time long enough (pun unintentional, but noted) to understand that "urgent" could mean 5 years, in the scope of a hundred years or more.

To put it in perspective it's like telling someone that if they don't break or turn their car they will go off the road, and they after a second discard it as false since they're still on the road. But they're still 1 second closer to crashing.

I'm not informed on the subject, but your logic is flawed.
One wonders if regular meetings with friends over coffee wouldn't be cheaper.
> "Don’t let anyone tell you how much you should charge for your work"

Feel free to ignore the choosingbeggars who are after freebies, but pricing is a dark art, and IMO when making the leap to charging money for things you've built, it seems way more common to undercharge, especially for apps like Sizzy made by perfectionists.

Patio11's article on SaaS app pricing: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...
Did you not read my second paragraph? I think you're not interested in honest debate here.
Finding a New Git Host
Came here to post similar. I don't think there are enough and/or large scale studies already, but there are 'local' studies showing negative effects of honeybees on wild bees (and all other pollinators, not to forget). It depends on a number of factors of course, but the general idea is pretty logical: suddenly there's a thousand extra eaters in your area but the amount of food didn't change. Meaning unless you have enough food for all, some are going to suffer. So most people I know with a job in nature conservation and similar think it's really about time this gets studied properly and then possibly regulated; not just Berlin has problems. There are places in the Netherlands and Belgium for instance where beekeepers drive the hives to the border of nature reserves to have their bees have a go at them. If that happens to be a place with only a small population of an endangered pollinating species left, it's not unlikely they will be effected negatively. At the same time there seems to be a rise in people interested in 'amateur' beekeeping, at least around here. And from experience they either simply don't realize that might be a problem, or they just ignore it / don't want to believe it because they think they're doing a good thing, taking care for bees (even though it is debatable whether it's really ok to just take their honey), solving the global bee decline, etc. tldr; the initiative sounds good but there might be unwanted and unknown side effects.
Your list would probably grow even faster... where are you based?
> signs telling us to lierally not wipe our feces on the walls in the bathroom

This is not like the other details. What the hell caused that?
It does turn a profit. You can be a non-profit and still turn a profit. You just don’t get taxed for generating income the same way, since we assume the profits help the greater good; since, we as a people, (not greed)(ideally) deemed it to be so.
My point is - who pays if you don't do it?
You have reduced my reasoning to ridiculousness by extrapolating it to a degree that I find to be frankly insane. My point was that we do not understand the field well and thus should not make sweeping changes because we can't understand the consequences. My next point was that this is a coherent stance even if it gets in the way of easy progress.

Frankly from your response I cannot find a reason to change my mind on this, because you have mostly avoided the subject by attacking my reasoning with your own flawed logic. I find it ironic that you are saying that people who advocate a more conservative stance on GMO are unreasoning or spouting "obvious bullshit" when what is in fact happening is that you are doing exactly what I already addressed: Being upset that this reasoning stops progress in a field you don't understand well, because it is inconvenient.
New York City’s New Ride-Hail Rules Fail to Fight Uber
Fertility encouragement has been an active part of government, and religious (often a more potent power) policy for centuries.
> Stopping a trial early and it's statistical implications should, by the way, be somewhat familiar with web developers: it's commonly done with A/B tests

AFAIK stopping an A/B test early is the way to go if you want to convince yourself (or your customer) that something has an effect, even though it hasn't.
3 years ago, I would heavily encourage people to do it because it is cheaper than building something people don't want and it gets things moving. These days, it's a familiar pattern that sparks cynicism.
These kind of 'sentences' are one step away from making this judge a star of a reality TV show. Punishments that deviate from the norm are not inherently bad, but there needs to be a line between actual sentences and what seem like a Monty Python sketch.

Now, these offenses seem to be of mild nature, but who is to say that a world where equally ludicrous punishments for serious offenses is impossible?
Almost nobody has access to that though.
Suicide, yeah right.