skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During my civil engineering studies there was an emphasis on ethics throughout classes, even the more specialized, technical ones. This is one huge difference I've noticed compared to the software engineering field. There aren't these governing bodies such as ASCE or NSPE with these ethics canons. I suspect we'll see that change in the next several years.
That's indeed a lot better.
No problem. Heat and electricity from shore based nuclear power plants can be used to manufacture synthetic carbon neutral fuels. Run the ships on that. The technology has existed for decades, it's just more expensive than burning fossil fuels.

But installing nuclear reactors in modern commercial vessels is a total non starter for cost and security reasons.
I do when my wife picks the show (most of the time).
> There's a Windows-native version of bash included with the Windows version of Git, no?

Not really, as it's built against MSYS2 libs, which are a fork of Cygwin.
If I truly love myself
I made the move to Montana last year. Loving it. People's jaw drops at what I got for the price I paid. Yes, no pho. Or decent mexican.
Maybe it's when I was born, or the fact that we lived in a somewhat rural area, but I categorically don't get the "background noise" desire.

I live in the city now, and city background certainly doesn't bother me. But I don't feel a desire to artificially adding more.

Is silence that bad?
I'm pretty sure most sites that asked me to allow cookies in the past week were not "companies built on surveillance capitalism". Youtube rarely asks me about this and to be quite frank I don't mind adds on youtube nor that they are targeted adds - even if they are rather poorly targeted - I'm not sure why this should be illegal.

I think whatever problems the cookie laws that got us all the popups are trying to solve would be better solved in conjunction with some technical changes. Like I could say in my browser what sort of cookies I allow - or set up some rules. Sure sites can just break the law and disregard this - but they can do it now anyway by just saving cookies even if I click "don't allow" or "decline" on the dumb popups.
Yep, I am already a non-academic mathematics researcher. Pursuing the degree and putting up with the toxic university environment is not worth it.
in Denmark it is quite normal to communicate by week numbers rather than dates. works well, some people are not used to it if they didn't grow up with it.
U.S. aviation regulator proposes tracking most drones
I use my phone to find out more about a place, person or topic mentioned in a tv show. Maybe a coffee shop where Larry David’s is in Curb - or it could be something a bit more cerebral.
Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (1983)
Puyo Puyo Tsu: Cracking the Copy Protection (Sega System C2) (2016)
Learned quite a bit about: K8S, Kotlin, Android Architecture Components.
For the same reason 50% of Americans will be obese within 10 years and why similar numbers also use a second screen while someone is trying to talk to them.

New England Journal of Medicine:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1909301?query=fe...
I think our brains have gotten so dopamine-wired that our attention span has suffered. I am reading Digital Minimalism which touches on this a bit, but I'd be interested to know if there are any rigorous studies relating to this topic.
If I can manage to find something on netflix (this is rare), I will watch it on my old TV using xbox360. I don't subscribe to cable TV.

My primary focus is on several other computer screens.
I wonder if the MCAS software coders are held to any ethical safety standards by Boeing's engineering department or are they so siloed that it would be impossible.
This makes no sense to me, but I don't know the lingo. Anybody care to explain?
Pretty common condition in Israel among Iraqi descendant Jews.
Babies regularly get screened at birth
Yeah, that's basically how it should happen. In California, there's ample precedent for taking products off of the market when they're shown to harm consumers, and if that happens to kill off manufacturers who aren't diversified, then so be it. Are you really going to be sad if Facebook can't survive CCPA?
Of course the police find it really convenient to pin the entire blame on a shithead who makes a fake 911 call, but most of that blame actually lies with the police themselves - they're the ones carrying the guns, hopped up on watching too many action movies, and generally behaving as if they're fighting some all-out ground war rather than proceeding calmly as domestic peace officers.

Ultimately, there should be no need for special per-address annotations like "SWATTING CONCERNS", because every single situation should be treated with utmost caution and restraint.
But then it wouldn't be Japan anymore...
My personal goal is to reduce as much as possible all dependence on tech/useless-economy. To be more natural, minimal in my needs and impact and less online.
If I understand correctly from my non-CPA googling, $15K is just the amount you don't have to report to the IRS. You can give more, up to a lifetime limit of several million, before the gifts are taxed. How that interacts with medicaid, I have no idea.
Because one isn't in an adversarial relationship with you?
> I suspect a lot of the time spent looking at the "second screen" is while the first one is showing adverts.

Inverted: excessively slow software builds. :)
Depends for me. Lossless tv like a hockey game is plenty of stimulation. Lossy tv like a baseball game just isn't.
I definitely agree with the comments here. For me, TVs have the screen size I want but not the software/hardware or content I prefer. Smartphones have great access to software and content but at a screen-size that is limited. Casting works but needs dedicated hardware or else it feels slow and clunky.
What does the Reddit thread typically provide?
The Case of the 24,368 Read Receipts (2011)
> But if I go to Australia, Canada, UK, or any other country, how do I get access to this cheap healthcare without becoming a citizen or paying taxes?

You'd likely pay more than a resident/citizen who may not pay or may a token amount. But this full price will still be very small in comparison to US (eg full price of doctor's consultation in France is like 25 EUR).

Even Switzerland which is expensive for Europe in terms of healthcare is cheap comparatively (a simple ER visit might be a few hundreds, not thousands).
Sometimes science involves learning things for which an immediate economic benefit is not apparent. It could very well be that a decade or two from now, our knowledge that animals brains universally react to rhythms is a useful datum in cracking some critical piece of knowledge about how brains work and, potentially, how to fix them. Or, alternately, it could turn out to be practically worthless. But we don't know, and knowing more things is almost always not worse than knowing fewer things.

Also, your argument assumes a lot of things: 1.) animal experimentation is being disrupted, 2.) playing music for chimps is clearly detrimental to them, and 3.) the resources that went into this study (these particular chimps, these researchers, and their funding) could have gone into some specific but unidentified better study which did have an pre-observable value. If all of those things are true, which has definitely not been established, than I would grant that science is likely not being conducted in a way that is maximally efficient, but unless there's some hugely valuable experiment that is being overlooked for this, I don't see why you're disturbed.
"modern day indentured servant", hmmmmmm
perhaps, also, one could receive mail electronically.
I considered that perhaps there was a misremembered gender, and the ending of Piketty can be interpreted as Italian sounding, and it's the most talked about economic book of the last 10 years or so.
Regarding the GDPR:

> 95% of users choose to be tracked in exchange for access to websites and services

The GDPR explicitly disallows the practice of conditioning access to a site or service on acceptance. Without that it would be rather useless. Once that bit is also enforced (current fines for violation sadly week focused on poor data safety measures and similar) I think the online ad landscape actually may start to change.
LA is insane. You can easily spend more than $250k in South Central.
The article mentioned installing Wing Commander III in the DOS days- I feel like Wing Commander III was a better TV show than most TV shows out these days.
It's a cultural/socialization thing. Lots of people grow up with the TV always on in the background at home, going to sleep to the TV, and so on, so they keep doing that when they're on their own. Some who don't do it when they're alone will turn it on when someone's over, as it's just "what you do". I doubt they even think about it, they just do it.

As to why people started doing that to begin with: dunno. Sports being on often, so having the TV on just becomes normal? Not sure.

Like many social behaviors, you could map it pretty well to one or more Fussellian class, in the US at least.
You wrote "Even if I know there are better alternatives out there"...so you tell us!

You also wrote: "Not pretty, known to hurt you if you abuse it but still plenty sharp and well capable of doing the job if you treat it well."

To me it seems you know it can be dangerous, but like it too much not to use it.
The dog door one is of interest to me. I've noodled over that one a bit at times.

How do you propose to identify when your dog is in proximity? I've got a Labrador and two cats, so the size differential was such that I was thinking I could probably get away with an ultrasonic distance sensor.

Other possibilities would be a pressure mat (dog is 37kg) or RFID although I never found a suitable RFID solution that had sufficient range.

I also plan on using a car door lock actuator[1] instead of a more conventional solenoid as it can be left in either open or closed position "at rest" without needing a voltage constantly applied.

[1] https://www.jaycar.com.au/slave-door-lock-actuator/p/LR8813
This is amazing. Would love to see more simplified foundational education games such as this geared towards any audience and from all domains.
Noone seems to have mentioned the potential for a second screen to augment what's being watched on TV. I'm frequently reaching for phone or tablet to look up details about actors, or references I don't get, or just other related info.
This looks a lot like stereotypical behavior seen in many captive animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypy_(non-human)

FTA:

"Many stereotypies can be induced by confinement; for example, cats pace in zoo cages.[11] Pregnant sows whose feed is restricted bite at their stalls' bars and chew without anything in their mouths.[12] In laboratory rats and mice, grooming is the most common activity other than sleep, and grooming stereotypies have been used to investigate several animal models of anxiety and depression.[13]

Examples of stereotypical behaviours include pacing, rocking, swimming in circles, excessive sleeping, self-mutilation (including feather picking and excessive grooming), and mouthing cage bars."
The robot voice is the deal breaker for me. That can't be good for a developing mind.
Combine this with voice mimicking technology that was posted a few weeks ago.
As far as I understand this has been done more than 15 years ago by the "Mines Perfect" game [0], which is open source IIRC. In this case you'd use the Lucky Mode and the Murphy's Law option (although more modes are available). And no SAT solver was used in that game, I think, which to me is more impressive, although perhaps less elegant.

[0] http://www.czeppi.de/english/index.html
I'd more than love see Crystal growing in popularity. That's be a great option for Ruby devs to tackle tasks requiring high-performance
On the other hand, we also have things like Prop 65 warnings that have become so commonplace that they don't really impart useful information. Any useful signal is totally overwhelmed by noise. Putting the same warning on a restaurant that serves french fries and a pack of cigarettes diminishes the usefulness of the warning (unless parking garages, coffee, and fried food are actually significant carcinogens?)
So if I run an online shop - and someone does not accept cookies - I still have to make it work for them somehow without cookies (or any equivalent technology)? Or am I misreading this? And if I'm not misreading this - how would you approach it?
You might lack context in order to understand the very real dangers posed by toy drones.

First, LiPo battery packs, when damaged, become the source of unbelievably energetic fires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3r2erRrfw

...and it can happen this quickly in a flying situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjrTNkOjgt8

Here's a convenient YouTube search with more LiPo fires:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lipo+battery+fi...

Second, we are in Southern California, where massive brush fires have taken out entire neighborhoods. This is particularly dangerous during Santa Ana wind conditions, where we can have sustained 30 to 60 mph winds.

If a drone crashes into fuel (brush, a home, etc.) and the LiPo is damaged or shorted you have a very high potential for a large fire. Add wind and more fuel to that and you can easily take out a chunk of a neighborhood if not the entire area.

For context, we had a small fire two blocks away just a few months ago. The hill on the side of the road lit for some reason. It was very windy. Before you knew it three homes --not adjoining-- had gone up, several fences burned and probably about a quarter of a mile of grass/shrubs/fuel burned-up. This was with two Super Scooper aircraft and three or four water-dropping helicopters dumping water and retardant at a furious pace (we live by a lake, so round trips are quick).

And then there are real cases of real homes, garages and businesses going up in flames due to drone or LiPo batteries catching fire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wzJ5Wv0cKM

In other words, no, I am not over-stating the danger of people flying drones around hills, brush, homes or roads. It doesn't matter how small they are, LiPo's are very energetic and can start nasty fires.

This is part of the problem I alluded to in my earlier note. People simply aren't educated about this stuff and actually think it is safe to fly these things anywhere and might even laugh at those proposing this is very dangerous. The industry has failed to educated people, which is why it will get pounded with legislation.

BTW, all of my LiPo batteries are stored in fireproof bags inside a fireproof metal container. My garage might fill with smoke but I am not going to lose my home over a bunch of batteries for my model aircraft.
So did you take a look?
Ha. I could do this with git, an ec2 instance, sftp a few Perl scripts and 200 lines of JavaScript.

Why would I use this service?
> Aircraft typically need to stay above 500 [...] We could move aircraft up to a minimum of 2000

Moving aircraft to a minimum of 2000 might mean not being able to stay below the clouds. I randomly looked up the METAR for the nearest airport, and at the moment, it has clouds at 1500.
> where humans have no priors

In a Bayesian model there's no such thing as having no priors, that's the problem with arguing against Bayesian human reasoning with a model that can't capture the richness of human priors (which means modelling all relevant knowledge and intuition, including innate human instincts). And human priors include very strongly-held ones like "the world is basically comprehensible, governed by rules that we can discover and understand." We cannot prove that, but to the extent that we are wrong about it, all cogitation is useless, so we assume it.

Our beliefs about "what is a bowl" include that it is an instrumental concept created by other agents similar to us in order to facilitate communication. This justifies very strong priors that it will be a simple concept and easy to generalize from small numbers of examples, at least for us. All this just by virtue of being a common word. So I don't see any way to argue that human behaviour is non-Bayesian here unless one ignores relevant prior information or ignores the decision theory question "what is the consequence of being wrong about what a bowl is".
yes, money is the mechanism we've defaulted to for measuring value, but economists admit that our economic systems, even capitalism, don't yet (properly) price everything that's valuable to humans (as you note).

a charitable reading of the parent comment would find they're mainly against centralization of authority rather than how to value intangibles or how to engineer fairness into economic systems.

but their first assumption that "'socially valuable contributions' [...] implies there's some sort of authority" is wholly unsupported. capitalism, for example, highly values rational resource distribution, but there is no central authority dictating that distribution.

in any case, the crux of the problem is that with concentration of wealth comes concentration of power. we're all very wary of concentrations of power, for good reason. we need to decouple that pairing for a more stable and balanced society.
This reminds me of vacuous truth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth).

I was recently writing a function that returns early if all items in a list meet a certain condition. It was interesting to think about what should happen if that list is empty.
It has an employee threshold, which is largely the same thing.
chemistry had a lot of memorizing. that's never interesting at school.
It was probably some kind of scam. Either that or the funders backed out or never had the funds to begin with.
The author of the article did!
For me it's not the noise, it's the conversation. Something about TV or YouTube tricks me into feeling like I'm around humans when I'm not.

This probably isn't healthy but it's the easy coping mechanism for the problem of not socializing enough.
Most recent case being Mr Robot it was primarily references and connections that went over my head from seasons back. But it's also fascinating to see people's reactions to the same reveals I'm watching. And of course, the predictions. Similar thoughts on Westworld.
Putting events like this down to ethical failure has the problem that it allows the investigation of the event to stop at a "single point of failure" in the "human system".

The focus on Boeing and elsewhere has revealed that for a substantial period of time the focus of management was essentially "gutting" the company; replacing highly skilled and expensive engineers and workers with cheaper workers elsewhere and generally removing any impediment to immediate profit - this including stretching to 737 spec to the point that it essentially "broke" rather than taking the cost hit of designing a new plane for a new era.

The thing is, when the paradigm the top puts out is "do whatever it take to make those numbers", you already have an implicitly unethical outlook but one with plausible deniability. The people who push that (whether management, hedge funds or board of directors) are careful not to overtly advocate anything illegal or immoral but it seems logical that when X underling who does Y ethical act is caught and punished, that underling will be replaced by another one who will face the same pressures and quite likely also engage in similar overtly unethical behavior.
There is no one criterion. It's the surrounding context that matters. Sometimes it's my familiarity with the field (works with most technology and science reporting, plus with articles that engage in the most obvious forms of manipulative charts and statistics). Sometimes it's other conflicting reporting (e.g. the case of a march I reported elsewhere, where independent evidence from around the web disproved a staged photo in the article, and the conclusion it was meant to support). Sometimes it's people with first-hand knowledge or the subject of the article themselves calling reporting into question. Sometimes it's a combination of all three.

Ultimately, it's a matter of trust. In any given situation, how much can I trust my knowledge, or my ability to interpret surrounding context, or my ability to judge the trustworthiness of a third party, vs. how much I can trust the article itself? I do my best to increase my knowledge and hone my judgement, and while I am and will be making mistakes, the current state of news reporting isn't presenting a particularly high bar here.
Still doesn’t scroll under Safari Mobile on iOS 13.1.3 on an iPhone 11 Pro.
Yeah, but this is the statement that puts into sharp relief what's going on: This is a trade dispute between two of the Top 10 Economic Powers, more or less, and it can't really be adjudicated in a way that the USA can take advantage of. The USA's primary establishment of data abuse is institutionalized but not written into law, and no legislator would dare do such a thing. California is doing what they have always done in these situations; they are demanding a better quality of life for their citizens, and they know that the USA has no reason to object other than corruption and aristocracy.
There are no battery technologies which can power a cruise ship at the dock for several days at a reasonable cost and weight. The power density just isn't there, and won't be for many years.

Shore power works fine. It would be a lot simpler to just mandate it actually be used, and bar ships which don't use it from docking.
>>>Oh and I've also heard a lot of stories about Vietnamese women becoming rather disenchanted of hip cool American backpackers, the latter of which presumably read articles like this and decided to try their luck. The backpacker area of Saigon is considered more like a slum that you try to avoid at night.

Hanoi's French Quarter is the same way, and I'm glad the local women are hip to the game. They'll ask you "where are you staying?" If you are anywhere near Hoan Kiem Lake they will assume you are a broke backpacker and ghost you. When I was staying at a serviced apartment at West Lake (a more upscale neighborhood where foreign white-collar expats live) Tinder matches switched to "OK I come to your place tonight."

>>>One other thing that the article dangerously omits is the fact that food hygiene and/or safety testing is still pretty much non-existent even in the richest parts of Vietnam.

I've also spent about 6 months in Vietnam, cumulatively over 6 six trips. I've gotten brutally sick on 5 of those 6 visits. The lack of sanitation is the #1 reason I don't think I could EVER live there, no matter how much money I had. You can't escape the E.Coli in every ice cube and tap water supply, the open-sewer streets, and the choking air pollution.
For those reading, you're not going to believe this but ...

From the 70's to the 80's the medical community thought it was a good idea to mix blood from hundreds of donors and then use in transfusions.

That ended up killing nearly all of the hemophiliacs of that era, plus a good percentage of moms giving birth. Add in Hep C, and hospitals were basically butcher shops.

I followed the AIDS and hemophilia crisis in the press in real-time from the first one-column-inch Kapsoi Sarcoma stories. Boy, it wasn't pretty how the medical community reacted in slow motion.

There's an utterly horrifying Canadian movie about this.
I'm not sure how serving up a custom page to EU addresses solves that problem either, though, so we come back to equivalence.
What else am I supposed to do when 30% of the content is ads? The second screen is for me to look at while the ads are muted and I'm waiting for them to go away.

Once I caught myself doing this enough times, of course I just canceled the cable subscription, but a lot of my family members still seem to do this. At my parent's house, Law and Order marathons are essentially their choice of background noise. They rarely seem to sit down to watch a show on purpose.
Price to rent everywhere has been pretty crazy for the last 6 years. So this isn't a Vietnam specific thing.