skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that you're not repaying the cost to society. At the very least, you owe for the time the police had to spend to catch you. At most, for the endangerment of those around you. A "time out" is just a waste.

Just make fines progressive.
Narcissists conduct abuse within intimate (romantic, familial or very close friends) relationships. Outside of those relationships, they're typically very well-behaved and even adored.
Most wildlife has not long enough living spans to be affected by radiation as humans are (who have the expectancy to live longer than 70 years). And even those who will be affected by radiation wouldn't know it.
Of course, absence of humans is a huge boost for any kind of wild life.
I have a friend whose middle name is just a single letter (H), so his middle initial is the same as his middle name.
The difference is most likely the organization and the complexity of a network. Neural network doesn't have free will because it is too simple and can't even pass turing test.

> I think that if the universe is deterministic and computable then that implies no free will, since humans are part of the universe and therefore also deterministic and computable.

I agree that universe being deterministic and computable means that humans are deterministic and computable.

But what is the evidence for "deterministic and computable" implying "no free will"?

I think that computational irreducibility allows the exact opposite interpretation. Humans are deterministic and computable but the process of computation is equivalent to humans living, no matter what is used to perform the computation (moving atoms in the original universe, a computer program, or even many people with pen and paper).

So even if you can compute what the human will do, you can't predict, because the act of computing is the same as human doing. This provides the "will" part of the free will.

And if you do not stop the algorithm, and change the state to get a different outcome, then it is also free.

As a side-note, this interpretation is surprisingly consistent with the original formulation of the question of free will in religious setting, where some being outside the universe knows everything about the universe, can arbitrarily manipulate the state of the universe, but can't predict what the creatures in the universe are going to do and claims that they are free to chose.
Those evil tech companies! What would possibly be the purpose of lumping all tech companies together as if there's some collective criminal guilt tech companies must share. It makes sense for something like cigarette companies or oil companies, since the collective noun is based on the bad thing they share. In the case of "tech"... come on! This describes a huge range of companies with completely different business models. Is MongoDB looking the other way at child abusers? How about Cisco? Is Salesforce?

Sorry for the rant, this is just so careless and sloppy. It's like referring to a specific bad thing that was done as being done by "the media". No, that specific news outlet did that. Not the media as a whole
There’s 90000 tons of nuclear waste waiting for disposal around the US. And every proposal in the last 60 years has been rejected

https://www.gao.gov/mobile/key_issues/disposal_of_highlevel_...
I think it's the shift to mobile first design. Old reddit was a desktop site, new site is designed for mobile first.
Because there's little reason to solve it right now. The amount of waste is low enough and technology advances so quickly that we're better off putting this decision off. There's a good chance that some of the waste could be used as fuel itself in the future. There's also a good chance that a century from now, we can build a much better permanent storage facility than right now.
Knives are a grey area because some are essential kitchen utensils where as some are made as weapons (eg will have different style handles).

It makes sense that the latter cannot be sold in shops but the former could still easily be used in the place of the latter. Which is why the U.K. says anything carried around the streets with the intent to cause harm is considered the same. This means if you’re carrying a knife without a good reason, that’s an offence.

It’s a sane distinction imo. But the problem with guns is there literally is no reason to carry them around the streets. Sure we do actually have guns (one of my friends is into clay pidgin shooting) but the way those shotguns are stored and transported is very different in the U.K.

Having gun control doesn’t mean you have to give up all of your guns without exception; it just means there are enough hurdles that people don’t accidentally kill their own family and nut jobs can’t easily get hold of them. And it works too, gun crime in the U.K. dropped massively when we tightened gun control laws.

The issue we have now is with knife crime, thankfully that causes significantly fewer deaths than gun crime did but it’s still a problem; not just in the sense that it’s happening but also because it’s a harder problem to solve (what with kitchen knives actually being an essential utensil).
Why isn't this just the default choice?
A former WeWork employee is suing over Adam Neumann's $1.7B golden parachute
> If a person is allowed to call you, why can't a computer?

If you're on well-legislated do-not-call list, a person is not allow to call you unsolicited for non-personal purposes.
Good and Not Evil: The Advent of Ethos Licensing
Strangers can take pictures of you in public.

Strangers take pictures of movie stars and sell them for thousands.
The original Twitter thread is still being updated, and it's a doozy.

This is not an isolated incident.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1193240508845510656

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1193242909111398401
Assuming you're talking about World War 2, the US not only went through that relatively unscathed, but also made a ton of money bankrolling the reconstruction of Europe, Russia and Japan. So yes, it's basically a US thing.
This kind of discussion really gets on my nerves. EVERY single type of smoke is carcinogenic. Period. There is a famous study of a sample of boy scout camp councilors/leaders who are non smokers having as much of an incidence of lung cancer as smokers. Why? Because they are constantly standing over campfires inhaling the smoke. There are similar studies about how bad incense is for your lungs.

No smoke is safe for you to inhale.
> unless the spec has undefined behaviour (why would it?)

If your code relies on e.g. integer wrapping as implemented by CPU integer instructions, then your code, by design, inherently has undefined behavior for architectures that implement CPU integers using something other than two's-complement. (A lot of crypto code is invalid on these architectures!)
Tobacco was smoked for hundreds of years too, that doesn’t make something healthy.

Any type of smoke in the lungs is bad for them. Whenever marijuana is legalized at the federal level we will finally get the studies showing it, the only thing I can think of is maybe pot smokers don’t end up inhaling nearly as much smoke as an addicted cigarette smoker does.
Unfortunately physics has not.
> Yet, some things are just plain wrong.

Indeed, they are. Which is more important to you, being right or making a difference?

Yelling at stupid people is easy and so satisfying. Debating with the clueless while staying calm and polite is frustrating, infuriating, and difficult. But if you choose the easy and satisfying path over the difficult one that actually works, you're just patting yourself on the back for being smart.
I mean, the chemical waste from photovoltaic production is also still poison for 10,000+ years - lots of heavy metals and other nasty shit there. But we don't seem to be quite so afraid of it...
Would like to see a new write of of resources that are good for running a consulting shop these days.

Sure I have some things bookmarked from previous HN threads like open-source- contracts to use,
contracts, communication tools, project management, milestone sharing, invoicing and such perhaps?
demo - sketch mockup sharing and such?

whats the popular freelance tech stack these days if one was going to go this route today?
Well I meant that, whatever substance is the cause, if it was intentionally introduced, then someone had to know in advance it would be harmful and at the same time it couldn't be common knowledge or it would have been banned. If that's what happened, then how can the accusation hold? How would anybody prove it?
Yep, that's more like 30 barrels high. The parent's point still stands though - there isn't that much of it.
Someone said:
> Unfortunately, most people are simple minded and are unable to separate their emotions from reason

To which you answered:
> Psychology seems to point out that we all make emotional decisions first and then rationalize them

You are saying 'we all make emotional decisions first and then rationalize them'.

No we don't do it all equally.

Yes, system one is active in all of us. It's emotional.

System two, the 'rational' part, is activated on effort and really only for people above a certain intelligence level.

People who are, for example, below 70 in IQ just can't think at a level of abstraction necessary to understand that there is a system one and system two.

They are mostly dealing almost exclusively in system one.

Some people manage to deal in system 2 much more. Generally, the smarter, the more they deal with that.

I'm taking issue with saying 'we all' do it this way. Because that is clearly not true, given how some people solve problems using system 2 and others can't, they are simple minded. It's a tough pill to swallow, but it's there.
My web site turned 1 year old
I launched my site (https://isonotes.com) last year, around this time. What a year it has been!
They are not citizens. That's like calling a car thief an "illegal owner of a car".
I came here expecting the author to be Little Bobby Tables...
I agree with your basic point: that this is a problem that's enabled by low-cost telecoms. We already saw that movie, in the 1990s, in Usenet and Email spam. And we know how it ends. Spoilers: everyone dies.

The problem with your proposed solution is that you're going to have an awfully hard time rebottling that genie. We've got low-cost comms. And within the triple entente of costs, infrastructure, and network effects, you're going to see those re-emerge, whether on the PSTN old-school phone network (inclusive of mobile and VOIP), or on some replacement.

Infrastructure, because you're talking about billions of subscribers. Even a limited network is tens to hundreds of millions. (Numbers for online community services are similar.)

Costs, because users will migrate to the low-cost solution, all else being equal. If regulation requires a cost floor on one network, you'll see migrations elsewhere, and legislation and regulation virtually always lag.

Network effects, because an effective and attractive network is either extraordinarily selective (The Harvard Face Book), or universal (Facebook). Much of the actual systemic value comes not from what the vendor or service provider, er, provides, but from what the users bring to the network. And a large network makes up for a lot of crud in other areas.

(Corollary: the replacement service is almost certain to emerge within some elite niche, and then spread out, as did writing, literacy, publishing, telephony, the Internet, mobile phones, smartphones, and social networking.)

(Corollary: alternatives which start out with the spammers and marketers already on-board and running rampant will likely fail to make the cut.)

Increasing costs across the board won't work.

Oh, and you've got a whole mass of vested interests propping up the current system. I've already linked Bernhard J. Stern's "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations", but the logic expressed there largely applies, and the paper itself includes several comms-based examples.

Increasing costs for malfeasance, most especially at the service provider level, probably through some charge-back or penalty scheme, with (excellent suggestion from, er, you, by the way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21494014) a bounty available to third parties, could well be part of that.

A basic outline which you'll also find widely repeated through history.

Markets caused this problem through externalities, informational asymmetries, vested power relationships, sunk costs, network effects, and perverse incentives. You're not going to solve the problem by marketing it harder.
> My science teacher once insisted rivers couldn't flow north because on a globe, north is up.

Did he just not consider, say, the Nile?
Bypassing kernel function pointer integrity checks
If you're considering them teammates then maybe you're not seeing them for who they are. The negative behavior only comes out when they have direct power over you, and doesnt really get bad until they know you won't retaliate.
Could you say more about this? Or link some articles? I'm interested as there are some distant plans to build nuclear units here in Poland and the last time around such plans became a costly fiasco. That was in a different time though, around Chernobyl and the fall of communism.
> We should call them illegal citizens. Then we can start working towards deporting such criminals as the article demonstrates.

Well international law prevents you from making someone stateless so they get thrown in jail instead. But yes, non-citizens who commit crimes are generally deported.

Also, the US classes crimes as either felonies or misdemeanours (possibly more categories?). In Canada we have indictable crimes, summary offences and things like jaywalking aren't even crimes, just ticketable offences. It's disingenuous of you to compare something like jaywalking to actual crimes.
By the time you've made it to the club your picture has been taken several times. On the bus,bank,street cams,house/driveway cams.

Don't go out or wear a mask or move out of the city.
What I'm describing would need to be large enough to be a deterrent, in regards to being truthful or not (or solicited vs unsolicited). That's why I like the idea of something pre-paid but refundable.

There might also be something of value in only refunding the fee to the CNAM entity, which would at least offer some incentive to not lie about being associated.
Is your outbound system spoofing a number so they all appear to be from the same one? If so, that might be why.
My middle name is my first name, and my given name is my middle name. So it's "Middle Given Surname". It's common where I'm from and on my official identification the given name is usually just underlined. I've had no end of issues since moving to the UK however.
If you could enforce that the outbound caller ID matched a valid inbound number, that would solve a lot of problems. (1) if a number is used for spam a lot it’s gonna get blocked; rotating through a bunch of numbers per area code does get somewhat more expensive over time (and they could probably enforce a fee for connecting/transferring a number). (2) it solves the problem where regular people get accused of spamming because they were spoofed, (3) it solves the problem of fake law enforcement or government agencies “calling” you from legit LE phone numbers.

Sure, spammers could still get tons of numbers, but straight up spoofing would vanish, and that’s a big enough win.
Maybe these CC issuers should just take gender out of the equation and solely base their credit extension on economic and behavioral data points.
This project ran 5 years ago, sorry I do not have access to that data anymore. But it wasn't just a few. The big providers got it right but there are so many smaller ones with their own tweaked mail servers, those were the ones causing the problems.
If there's no space for nuclear power plants, how are you going to find space for renewables? I can't think of any renewable sources that would take less space than nuclear, especially in Europe since we're further north than the US and that makes solar take up even more space.
The problem is also that a lot of them are not in the US. We can’t touch them usually.
If I would talk about specifics, you could supplement your sentence "what evidence do you have" with "regarding X" but since I don't talk about specifics, I don't need to.
Advertising is the rot of late-stage capitalism.

Here's a question? Why am I not being paid to witness or watch your advertisements? Why don't I get a portion of the profits, regardless of the platform? I'm actually all for targeted ads; I shouldn't be getting alzheimer medication ads at 27 or diabetic medication ads when I'm not at risk. But hey, a new video game or movie ad? Sign me up.

I think blockchain will be the revolution to this nauseating ad-nonsensical world we live in. Already the Brave browser is trying to implement this (with admitted failure so far, but they're trying) and I see future platforms adopting this. The number of ads in Youtube have skyrocketed and I know most of the profits do not go to the content makers. I'm all for advertising but I want a fairer share of the pie for content makers, myself and more targeted information.

Where and how this data should reside, this digital fingerprint should reside is problematic. I don't trust any corporate or financial database as the experian hack has shown. Still, we should be asking these questions and continuing this dialogue. No more nonsensical ads, a fairer partition of the pie distributed and less ads, but more quality ads.
What EDF estimates is meaningless without a strike price and decommissioning cost.

The UK's National Audit Office puts the price of one EDF reactor around that once you include the excess price paid on every MWh over the 50 year projected life, and the decommissioning (which is supposedly built into that MWh price). It remains to be seen if it will be correct. From Wikipedia:

The National Audit Office estimates the additional cost to consumers (above the estimated market price of electricity) under the "strike price" will be £50 billion, which "will continue to vary as the outlook for wholesale market prices shifts"

That's $64bn on top of £20bn ($25bn) latest build estimate. A build with such poor worker conditions that it has gained a reputation for suicides.

$89bn would build a ton of pumped storage to underpin offshore wind at a quarter the MWh price.
This is a very interesting trend. The name of the company is "NSO Group" but there is this peculiar insistence on calling it "NSO" in titles.

Let's try this NYTimes: "Israeli company NSO Group Promises Reform but Keeps Snooping". That conveys the essential facts at a glance.
> This option leaves you with a few ugly buildings in the middle of nowhere, but the cost unbeatable (even way less than decommissioning thousands of wind turbines).

Aren't you forgetting something? Buildings slowly deteriorate, even if not used. So now you have to maintain the disused reactor, for ... how long exactly?

(Amendment: wind, rain, sunlight, rodents, ... idiots with power tools ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident )
You need to outthink your lazy brain (2013)
Worked on some business software previously, and customers insisted on first/last or first/middle/last, despite the fairly obvious issues. They also demanded address fields in a US style despite needing to support international addresses (I still have no idea how their staff handled that).

People want to follow the conventions they know, even apparently if they're told it will cause issues.
I’m about to go through a series of job interviews. Any tips on determining whether potential future managers or coworkers are narcissists? Seems like it can be hard to suss this out without some longer-term exposure.
> David Heinemeier Hansson

Is there a special reason this bloke gets his full name spelled out in the article? The same publication doesn't even use the full name of Donald Trump or Michael Bloomberg in its articles.

EDIT: Received lots of great answers, thanks. I'm also getting punished for asking because apparently I'm supposed to be able to tell just by looking that John Trump is a middle and last name, but Heinemeier Hansson is just a last name.
Experts Back Mandatory Bike Helmets but Not All Cyclists Are Sold
This seems like too narrow a reading of OP's point. Rust imposes not only types, but also a particular tree-like program structure which makes it awkward to express lists, upward references, and other constructs.
This is bad science though. If an overwhelming percentage of people with attribute <X> have behavior <Y>, only a fool would ignore that data.
I take the train to work which takes around 20-30 minutes each way.

On the way to work I like to try and get myself into the zone. Previously this involved reading a couple of HN articles I picked out earlier in the morning, and maybe checking Twitter. I found constantly looking down at my phone while standing on the train to be very uncomfortable, so now I try and listen to podcasts. Recently I've been listening to Future of Coding, Go Time, and The Bike Shed.

On the way home I like to set myself up to relax, so I either listen to music or a story podcast. Passenger List has been one of my favourites this year. I also enjoy all of the shows produced by these guys http://www.publicradioalliance.com/shows and frequently re-listen to old episodes.
It depends on the organization.

I’ve worked in places where executives had to be narcissistic or sociopaths just to survive. People with intact emotions have difficulty coping with the toxicity.

Most places aren’t like that.
It's a video about this story: 'NBC, ABC And CBS Appear To Have Run Cover For World’s Most Powerful Rape Rings'.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/07/nbc-abc-cbs-rape-rings-we...
Specifically, the project has been plagued with poor welds and cracks in critical structural parts.

That being said all I know about the project comes from the news on the French radio... What new regulations are you talking about?
How long ago was your experience? I started using Laravel early last year, took a hiatus and have been actively developing in it for the past 7 months. This is coming from years with Perl Dancer / Dancer2. I have not run into these issues. But I have to admit my own bias in preferring the “show me how” instructional method over “tell me everything, no matter how esoteric”. I’ve also found Laravel superior to Dancer in every way. But I did have to get into a different mindset.
A friend's last name is Fun. A normal last name in the Netherlands. Facebook doesn't accept it so now he has a fake name.
Narcissists see others as extensions of themselves, take credit and pass the blame.

A red flag is when you cannot make a distinction between your personal achievements and your team achievements.
That kind of system loses its point too, like on Facebook etc.

For example I could mark your comment "Funny" to "laugh at you for even suggesting such a thing" :)
>“Any algorithm, that intentionally or not results in discriminatory treatment of women or any other protected class of people violates New York [and federal] law.”

I worry about this a lot with the growing importance of algorithms and machine learning. You can't just not actively program the thing to discriminate and assume that is enough. You have to specifically program it to not discriminate.
instead of increasing taxes on middle class the govt could tax every phone call just 1 cent and eradicate this problem while pulling in revenue.
But the nuclear waste lasts for thousands of years.
Unless we feed the nuclear waste into breeder reactors which can utilize the waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste "High-level waste"

Solar panels needs to be designed to be recycled.
Correct or confront them on literally anything.
The easiest test is to go out to eat and see how they treat the waitress.
Because he chooses to go by his full name professionally?

Edit: or that his last name is two names.