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Cliche american.
"I dont care about this part of the world. What do I care of the drug war in Mexico, the New York Stock Exchange doesnt matter as much it used to!"
Why did this comment get downvoted? It's not falsifying the situation, or what's going to happen.
>Accidents are a small percent of overall mortality

No, they aren't. Where'd you get this crazy idea? Car accidents alone are the largest killer of younger people in the US. 30,000 people every year die in the US alone in cars.

Here's a list of leading causes of death from the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

Accidents is #3, at 170,000 people per year.

>and can be decreased further with lifestyle choices that reduce such risks.

So what? What makes you think people are going to do that? They aren't doing it now; they're happily taking up stuff like vaping, which is now killing people and is all over the news.
I'm reading this to imply that without the US acting as the world police and bombing populations into submission, authoritarian regimes are gaining ground. That's kind of a crappy situation on both sides. Where is the rest of the Western world that supposedly supports democracy and freedom now?
By any stretch I'm not "blown over" by Pinker's work, but calling him "most uninformed" is uncharitable.

Sure he has his blind spots, and sometimes gets carried away and says things that are not at all in his wheelhouse. But overall, I think his work is a "net good".
Not Syria, the Kurds in Syria. US allies, that were fighting ISIS alongside US armed forces (and before that, assisted them in the Iraq war). Turkey is doing this in coordination with Iran and Russia. The US president agreed to this for nothing in return to the US.

edit: It is shameful to HN that this is flagged. This is an act of genocide.
From here: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#GNU-Distribution

> Our goal is to provide a practical 100% free software distribution of Linux-based and other variants of GNU, with a focus on the promotion and tight integration of GNU components, and an emphasis on programs and tools that help users exert that freedom.
I would imagine the brain is a very noisy place, full of blood moving around, gently jostling as one moves their head, environmental noise coming through the skull, etc.
Why is this relevant on HN?

I'm not saying this is uninteresting, but I think it's a good idea to have clarity on what should be relevant on HN and what shouldn't.
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> I think if drivers are getting annoyed by false pedestrian collision detection alerts, they are approaching pedestrians far too closely/quickly.

What? No, it means they are approach bridges at perfectly normal speeds. Or glare in the Sunrise/sunset. Or random things blowing across the road that aren't actually pedestrians. False positives are a real problem.
I think the basic idea is 'you need money to make money.' The hope is that with scale and engineering they can burn less. It is dubious that anyone can reduce from 100 to 10 -- 90% reduction would be an incredible feat, and this is why:

AWS has something like profit 25% margin. Therefore assuming that AWS is within 15% of doing a half-decent job at controlling costs, that's still max 40% profit margin if you were running bare-metal and beating AWS at their own game to the tune of 15%. So if you're selling stuff for 10/month, your AWS bill should be 17/month just to break even after all the awesome engineering you've done with the VC money -- at least that's how I see it.

Now, if they are doing incredibly stupid stuff, to the tune of 90% wasted ec2 cpu cycles/db requests, then maybe they've priced it right -- who knows.

Would love to hear some insights on where I might be wrong/misjudging here.
I have two dogs and love them dearly, but dogs really are a lot of work for their first few years. The first dog we got of this pair was a rescue that was almost a year old. They believe she was on the streets for a lot of her life, and she was pretty under weight when we got her. She had numerous issues we had to slowly work through. A few examples:
- She would eat her food so fast she would vomit. issue fixed by introducing a slow-feeding bowl.
- She would drink all the water in her bowl at once, which led to her having to pee often in a short time. This meant a lot of accidents until we learned to deal with it. Solved by giving her less water. Even with less water, we still took her outside to pee almost on the hour every hour for months. This wasn't very fun, since we lived on the 4th floor of an apartment at the time.
- When in wide open spaces she would get incredibly anxious and run in circles/jump around to try and get away. This took months to fix and was just solved with patience basically. If you got mad or anxious yourself, she would sense it and get worse.

These are just a handful of the issues we had with this dog, with many more I didn't mention. After two years, this dog is completely changed. She is much less anxious, eats and drinks normal, and is incredibly intelligent. Non-dog owners complain about how much work a dog would be, because dogs are a ton of work. Eventually you get to a point where they mature, and you both learn how to work with one another, but it takes time and work to get there. With all of that said, once you get to that point, it's an incredible experience. The dog I mentioned here was a ton of work, but I would do it all over again without question.
>You are a professional player in a tournament, you should not use an official stream to spew political opinions

https://overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/23013827/

Blizzard was fine introducing politics into their competitions when it suited them to do so. In that case it made them look progressive and they sold a lot of pins and t-shirts. In this case, they could lose a whole bunch of money.

Their stance on this sort of thing isn't consistent unless you view it from the angle of "what will make Blizzard money?" They also went completely nuclear on this guy by taking his winnings and banning him for a year, not to mention firing the two commentators.

I said essentially the same thing in another thread yesterday, but the issue at hand here isn't whether or not Blizzard has the right to enforce some vague rule; it's whether or not they should have and what were their motivations. We need to be very careful about allowing China to dictate what we can see and hear in our media.

These companies are quite literally helping an authoritarian government to further oppress its people, and their only motivation is money. It's insane to me that so many people are arguing in Blizzard's favor because apparently the only thing that matters is the bottom line, integrity be damned.
Another great success for Trump...

But everybody since the independence war should know that being a US ally is not something you can really count on.
> the fundemental approach to statistical analysis is flawed

This is a very strong assertion. What changes do you think are needed?

> With enough data, good enough filters, and a wide selection of adjustments for background processes, any model can be made to work.

Sure. Which is why no scientist will care that a particular signal model "can be made to work". You try everything you can to explain your data with only background processes and only if this fails do you consider alternatives. The more adjustments you allow, the harder it becomes to favor signal over background.

> Putting the blocks together is fundementally an excercise in bias, and truly limiting this bias requires significant discipline that is highly disincentivized and therefore uncommon

Another wild accusation without evidence. Why do you believe this is true? And if it is, where are all the false discoveries? In a small team with less oversight, I'm sure cutting corners happens. In a large experiment like those discussed here? No way. The embarrassment of having to retract a false discovery is a pretty strong incentive to ensure the integrity of results, and they have enough internal controls to enforce it.
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I don’t consider it an ad-hominem attack. The man has consistently shown that he is vastly undereducated on things he has public opinions on. The quote linked to above is a perfect example - it reads as if from someone who skimmed the Wikipedia article on Nietzsche and spent zero time attempting to understand his thought.

For anyone who has even a passing knowledge of Nietzsche’s ideas, Pinker’s quote is just hilariously, woefully ignorant. Nietzsche was not a pessimist - if anything he was an optimist. It’s only in the (uninformed) public imagination that he is some kind of nihilist pessimist. Judging from Pinker’s quote, his knowledge of Nietzsche doesn’t go deeper than public hearsay.

Considering that nearly all of Pinker’s works suffer from this same flaw, I have no problem dismissing him.
Its' not about that they 'start killing each other', its that the US has purposely left a people defenseless against a know aggressor. The USA has once again enabled genocide. Of their allies this time.
Actually, me should be the one who apologize.

Sometime I just somehow prioritized to send message out when I should be making a better statement. Which already caused multiple misunderstandings on HN alone. I should definitely try not to do that anymore.
This title is misleading. They are not attacking Syria, they are attacking separatist groups backed by the US in coordination with Syria's military.
Why do you like Safari in light mode, or dislike it in dark mode? Are you referring mostly to the app chrome or to the content of the sites you visit?

I would tend towards ease of configuration and consistency, and would only make exceptions for apps/sites with more theme choices than just light/dark.
> Did he really use uppercase letters or even special chars?

Why would he not? I'm obviously missing something here.
Are we talking about multinational corporations or about wealthy individuals now? This whole thread has been about wealthy individuals, and now you're talking about big corporations. Which is it?
Isn't this the same idea as the Introsort[1], which was created in 1997 (four years earlier) and is the default sorting algorithm in C++'s standard library (and .NET framework since 4.5)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort
Venture Capital is a strict subset of the Private Equity industry. They are not outside it, they are deep within it. PE firms do exactly what VC firms do (though often with different sorts of businesses), plus a lot more.
what genocide are you talking about?

Assuming you're American, imagine if Native Americans were to form a separatist organisation with 10,000s of civilian casualties (both kurdish and turkish) over decades. And then imagine if the people has interpreted your actions against this particular group as "genocide". How would you feel?
What are some good sites to stay abreast of this issue (and foreign affairs in general)?
To add to this, cumulative improvements in air quality over time don't mean squat if your current levels are still considered harmful.

If you reduce your exposure to lead by 50% annually and you're still well above the safe exposure limit, you might be making progress and still not having positive impacts on health.
I ... think you are talking about the licensing details, and not the respective movements/ideologies, which is what I thought we were talking about?

Stallman at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... points out:

> The term “open source” quickly became associated with ideas and arguments based only on practical values, such as making or having powerful, reliable software. Most of the supporters of open source have come to it since then, and they make the same association. Most discussion of “open source” pays no attention to right and wrong, only to popularity and success; here's a typical example. A minority of supporters of open source do nowadays say freedom is part of the issue, but they are not very visible among the many that don't. ...

> As a result, people from the free software movement and the open source camp often work together on practical projects such as software development. It is remarkable that such different philosophical views can so often motivate different people to participate in the same projects. Nonetheless, there are situations where these fundamentally different views lead to very different actions.

So, Stallman says they are "fundamentally different" ideologies, and claims that most open source supporters are not developing open source because of issues related to software freedom.

Which was the point I was trying to make.

Is Stallman, or my interpretation of Stallman, incorrect?
Well, to start, you can't compare an intervention (starting an ACE inhibitor treatment) to an existent factor (they already own a dog). If you're going to compare apples to apples, you've got to compare starting an ACE inhibitor treatment to starting to own a dog.

It may sound farfetched, but there's nothing in the OP that indicates the direction of causality to me, so it's possible that lower cardiovascular risk causes people to go out and get dogs, or that there's some root cause which causes people to both have lower cardiovascular risk and higher chance of owning a dog.
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>and yet again and again, companies say "just give us something meaningless and arbitrary, so we can say we're compliant".

Because something meaningless and arbitrary is something companies can point to and say "we're compliant", and absolutely no one can question them or say differently, that's why. As long as they're compliant with the arbitrary standard, you can't just sue them for being non-compliant, even if the standard is crap. Whereas if they make a good-faith effort but there's no standard in place, then someone can argue that in front of a jury of 12 morons that it isn't good enough, that they didn't really do it, etc. The crappy standard removes the element of differences of opinion.
can you please list out book/youtube videos, anything ,through which good scientific writing can be learned/improved?

i will be working with ton of phds this year and starting one fall 2020.
The difference being the Shareware was much less obnoxious - you got the first act of Doom or Wolfenstein, and it was fully functional, you could enjoy it as much as you liked, the only impetus was to get more via shareware - modern F2P means that your experience is always hampered - even what you do experience is less than what it could be. Doom E1M1 was complete - you couldn't make the experience better by paying money, but there's always that XP potion or better item in a F2P model.
It’s not really possible to say anything insightful about Nietzsche at this point. He’s probably the most overanalyzed philosopher ever.

The article hits the big one people miss — that he’s describing a state of existence rather than any imperative.
The other thing to understand though is that in a dictatorship people do not have economic freedom or the incentives to truly do the hard work necessary to build this industries. If the United States cuts off support for China and these industries, China will fall far behind unless it can steal the technologies. This is the fate of most dictatorships.
And they'll wind up like the American middle class, paupered by the corporate/government back pocket usurpation of process in pursuit of profit and control.

If I could take a time machine back to stop one influential person, it would be James M. Buchanan. Tracing the rise of 'corporations should be unfettered to operate as they wish' thinking back to him, is an interesting exercise.
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I got hit by the exact same type of attack about two months ago, except it was against my Verizon Wireless account. I was surprised at how convincing they were - I'm a former intelligence guy and I almost fell for it, lol.
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That rabbit hole leads to asking why NATO members are considered more moral and enlightened than other nations.

Turkey was invited to be a NATO member (and accepted) due to Cold War fear of the USSR, and historic conflicts with Russia. So NATO overlooked Turkey's shortcomings in the interest of realpolitik, and Turkey played nicer in the interest of NATO's reputation.
I apologize for my ignorance, but could somebody explain the need for dark mode? I know that it's bad to have a phone glow in your face when your eyes are adjusted to the dark, but don't most phones automatically lower the brightness? That seems to work well enough for me. Perhaps a specific dark mode could do it better, if well designed, but most sites have a hard enough time doing one good color scheme.

I know some people would prefer a light-on-dark color scheme in general, even during the day. Is this entirely about what you see in the dark, or is there a component of wanting more "skins" in general?
Overwatch's Mei Is Becoming a Symbol of the Hong Kong Resistance
In my jurisdiction, consumer device must have "reasonable lifetime" by law. This lifetime of course is not to be determined by the manufacturer, but by the courts in the event of a disagreement. Ten years is bit long, but it's not absurd to think (i.e. reasonable) it should work ten years after the time of purchase even if the technology becomes obsolete.
I hope the Kurds and other such groups remember this in the future. You can't count on the US as an ally.
I also do this every time when my doctor's office or insurance calls. They have to verify your identity to give you medical information. I need to verify their identity to give them my personally identifiable information.

I think eventually they got the point because now they have a secure online email system and just leave a message asking me to call back. They still leave a return phone number, but it's getting better.
"...nothing in return to the US."

Cui bono?

It's almost like Russia has some sort of influence over the President of the USA.
I'm pretty sure bash still comes with the system. It's only the default shell which is easily configurable.
My preference is to have multiple points of contact. Email+phone and the alert is sent simultaneously both ways. This happened recently when a purchase I made was flagged. I got a text asking to approve the charge. Not trusting SMS I checked my email and saw the same message as the text and a link to take further action.

I was disappointed that no alert was sent through the banking app. That would be the most secure option but is explicitly disallowed in the notification settings.
Aren't we moving to a world where K8s will be spread across multiple on prem and different cloud providers with K8s running on VMs. The hope is that devs will have less to do since it would be plug-n-play
Just wow. To paraphrase

"I don't care about other peoples suffering."
"I do care about oil. This doesn't really effect oil tho."

Conclusion:

"So I don't need to care about any of this, and I don't"

Observation:

You might be a person who literally only cares about things that directly effect them. You might want to have that looked into.
Agreed, don't let the community decide this, rather leave it to the mods, like on StackExchange...
The guidelines are pretty clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This story probably won't be on the front page for long.
In the early days of unix, people didn't take passwords that seriously and often shared them.
Colin Kaepernick called (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kaepernick) from the ship that already sailed, and he'd like to remind us all about the 1968 Black Power Salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salu...) while offering a discount on tickets to the Summit Series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Series).

Politics and sports have been intertwined for as long as there have been organized sports (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games#Politics). If e-Sports are in fact Sports, and if Blizzard intends to exercise control over political speech of ostensibly independent players, then ultimately Blizzard has accepted responsibility for its corporate political speech via the sport, which evidently includes a pro-mainland stance on Hong Kong.
> I've recently experimented a bit with making epubs by hand (bash+perl) and they tend to break readers more often than not.

Me too, and I wish SVG support was better on most eReader (not a good experience so far), and that there was official support for MathML or something equivalent. It hurts to see so many books using raster pictures to display a formula or a diagram, when it would look crisper and flow better if it was vector-based.
> article also mentions he studied with Zener after whom Zener diodes are named

I have noticed this phenomenon myself a lot. If you're in science, look at the Wikipedia pages of people who are today big names in your field and I can almost guarantee you'll find somebody even more famous as their PhD supervisor.

I think it's things like "rock stars" get to pick the best students, those students having good role models, having it easier to land a position when your thesis advisor is some bigwig, but also that science has been expanding exponentially so a much larger fraction of the oldies were bigwigs who did big discoveries in their fields.

(my own thesis advisor shared an office with Josephson back in the day (Josephson junctions, which led to SQUIDS, NMR/MRI). That was before Josephson got the Nobel, as IIRC the youngest physics laureate ever, and before he went mad and started peddling Uri Geller style mind-over-matter claptrap.)
I think you underestimate fly intelligence. There's been a lot of research done on e.g. fruit flies, and they are pretty intelligent compared to their neuron count, showing a simple thought process before acting.
Good point. Frankly, NATO should have been disbanded along side the Warsaw-pact. That being said, the lack off outcry reminds me a lot of a certain period in european history... Appeasement, i.e. we pretend to be surprised about the genocide
Sure, if applications are able to do things in the exact way Apple imagines. Unfortunately, the real world is almost always more messy—there's always at least one exception that isn't provided for by Apple's sandbox. Look at how many Mac apps offer both stripped-down Mac App Store releases and separate, more robust versions if you buy from their official websites.

I'm by no means against Sandboxing, by the way. I think it's great that if you want to buy and use sandboxed apps—and are willing to accept more limited functionality as an occasional consequence—the Mac App Store provides that option for you. However, there needs to also be an alternate path, by which I can say "this is an application I trust, please let it do its job."

There should, of course, be several different permission levels—Parallels needs its own kernel extension, most applications don't. Permission prompts are an important part of enforcing that. And that's precisely why prompts need to be use sparingly—if you bombard the user with too many of messages, they'll ignore all of them.