skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The greatest invention of civilization is trade, which makes status obsolete. In a society that upholds property rights of everyone, even low-status "omegas" can get ahead without ever being seen as superior or excellent. Just offer something that other people want to have, and ask for a little money in return.

"Trade" doesn't let you escape status. "Omegas" who get ahead by being smart are competing for status and are "seen as superior or excellent".

Humans have built all this stuff because we have been able to invent arbitrary status games. If our status games were only about some combination of physical size and cunning, we'd still be living in a "state of nature".
That's like saying your TV would cause cancer if it emitted X-rays. I don't know what point a made up scenario contributes. This was a reply to someone saying that 'we don't have the data to know if sub light frequencies of radiation are non ionizing'.
Most of the nuclear waste that exists is from weapons production. Nuclear generating plants produce only a very small amount.

Right now, small enough amounts of waste are produced that reactors generating power actually store the stuff on site.

>but could the be modified?

Modern reactor types are specifically designed not to be proliferation risks. The only reason the older reactor types are risks is because the governments who originally built them wanted to produce weapons, so they chose the technology that allowed them to do so.

Waste could be used for a "dirty bomb" in some sense, but it wouldn't be terribly effective. "High level" is relative, and the isotopes that would make a dirty bomb truly scary aren't available except in fuel rods shortly after their removal from a reactor... at which point no one does anything to extract those isotopes anyway, they just stick the fuel in cooling ponds to decay down to lower levels of radiation.
No, the fed supports the incumbent government by smoothing the business cycle. Even Volcker had tacit support.
I don't think so. It's just the internal one they use.
Scientists recreate voice of Ancient Egyptian priest 3k years after his death
And the first page of results isn’t mostly ads.
They have to watch rapes, beheading and murder videos people submit on youtube. There were multiple articles about how it messes with them.
It will probably be easier to spot them, since very few planes will show up on radar and not on the GPS system. It might be enough to go take a visual immediately once this is fully online.
I took it as her basically saying "The great philosophers couldn't figure it out, and I'm not gonna BS you acting like I figured it out"
Dog goggles keep special-forces canines connected to their handlers
A disclaimer that says they could be fired for disclosing disabilities (illegal), and that says nothing about Accenture assisting with their PTSD (beyond WeCare, which has already been flagged for many problems, including inability to access at work, and Accenture/Facebook supervisors pressuring counselors for visit summaries or patient care notes), and obligates the employee to find their _own_ mental health care because of work issues, at their own cost.

And being pressured to sign the voluntary form or risk being fired.
He's also failing to identify hidden costs like destroying the global climate that we're most likely going to absorb at the government level despite what greedy lasseiz-fare capitalists want to admit
What's the physical intuition here? Is it that you want the de-orbit to hit the atmosphere at a shallow angle instead of plunging to earth?
Reasonable post, down voted by the "quick thinkers in the horde". The situation is too emotional to get clear discussions about FR anymore.
You might want to check with psychologist.
That’s not how WebAssembly works, at all, it is handled directly by browser JIT compilers.
Yes, of course, the problem is not the concentration camps, but the people getting too worked up about concentration camps.
I agree that data is underrated. The commercial real estate industry is a really interesting example.

There are a very limited number of companies that have complete datasets of buildings in all cities throughout the country. The leader is CoStar, they have the most complete and accurate data. What I have noticed with other CRE data companies is they are focusing on leasing activity or 1 other part of the CRE process. CoStar became the leader by valuing their data over all things, if other companies want to compete they need to do the same.
except they (the doctors at the hospital doing whatever is required to save your life) get to decide what "stable" means. I imagine for many doctors that get into the profession because they care about their fellow humans, the answer is sane, but I imagine there are still plenty of for-profit hospitals/doctors whose idea of "stable" is much lower.
My take is that Yelp has always been full of garbage entries in the bay area.

I've never felt dumber then when I followed somebody around with a smart phone in San Francisco looking for restaurants, all of which were closed or nonexistent. As we did this we walked by a large number of restaurants that were open and looked perfectly fine to me.

Although every TV ad for a location based service shows a map San Francisco, San Francisco is the second worst city I've been to for GPS reception. My GPS receiver can find a signal at Union square and hold onto it downtown, but it can't find a signal anywhere else downtown.

(The worst city for GPS reception is Washington, DC but that's because of government jamming and the dire fear that the U.S. has that Washington will be attacked by sea like it was in the War of 1812 -- just this time it will be missile.)
Thanks these are great tips
Regarding posts about spoofing and maintaining radar, it was my understanding that the radar sets that most ATCs used was not actually powerful enough to get direct returns from commercial aircraft, and relied on amplifying transponders to be able to see them. Supposedly only militaries operate radars powerful enough to see aircraft directly. Can anyone who knows more confirm or deny? If that's true, I guess we're already in a world were ATC info could be spoofed.
I'd like to think the empathy was present.

The first-hand and theoretic knowledge was not.

Much of the theory I'd been supplied (mainstream economics, an unbeknownst to me at the time hardline Libertarian professor in my intro course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133958), was false.

Undoing the damage of false priors and models, especially under ongoing objection and denial based on those, is difficult and expensive in time, effort, and willpower.
Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail?

What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?
That is definitely not a thing that Amazon does.
DDG is awesome. They have been experiencing a surge of growth, https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

Yandex is another site I've been using for reverse image searches. I find it to be better than Google and Bing. Bellingcat has a great article on it, https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guid...
Woah this is gold
Until Obamacare, even flu vaccinations were not commonly covered. Your logic is sound but unable to cope with the insanity of the US healthcare system.

I recall an article a few years ago about the google founders (?) paying for kids in San Francisco to get vaccinated. The comments were split between Americans praising the act and Canadians that were confused.
those dams can basically survive indefinitely as long as they are properly maintained so I don't think that is a fair comparison.
Nursing terminals tend to have keyboards, and I'm not sure what input device you'd expect a patient to use other than voice and camera - you don't touch an in-person doctor, do you? If the back two wheels are motorized, it could readily move itself around (and non-mobile robots are still robots; ask any factory worker).

It looks fairly similar to this telepresence robot from Cisco: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaborat...
That's one right (speech) weighed vs another (privacy)
DDG fails on "Single Unix Specification Issue 7".

Google takes you straight to the online installation at https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

DDG finds this: https://publications.opengroup.org/c181 where the "Read HTML Edition Online" button is a non-working dud.

Still switching to DDG for most searches, though.
My wife still uses Google as her default search engine on her phone while I switched to DDG years ago. I dread using her phone to search anything.
Google is relatively straight forward to replace. Inexpensive 80% solutions exist for most of their services. Maps is a notable exception.

As for Facebook you're fighting against the greatest network effects in the history of mankind.
If you can watch a video of a person being murdered and not feel any emotional response I seriously suggest you see a mental health professional.
https://i.imgur.com/RJyMZO8.png
GPS satellites are in geosynchronous orbit, far above any threat of Kessler syndrome and we won't have nearly enough material in orbit that occlusion of the satellites would become a problem for centuries, if ever.
Maybe. It is concerning that it might eliminate the step you need to become a good GM.
I didn't like how the article bifurcates screen time and reading - as if kids only get one or the other. Where are the scans of kids that do both screen time and reading?

I have 3 kids, we read to all of them from birth. They all read every night. Two of my kids also love time on the iPad/devices - though we limit them to 2 hours per day total after lots of fights about when to put the devices down. All of my kids get lots of outside play too. We just don't fit neatly into the categories of the article here. As far as I can tell, my kids are doing fine, screen time and all. You just need moderation and to mix it up. Screens are not inherently bad, its about how you use them.
> I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.

I have - I found the results far less useful than Google's, the whole experience far more frustrating and it noticeably slowed down my work.
I tend to switch over to Qwant when DDG fails to deliver sometimes. That combo works quite well.
I discovered the Tokbox api a few days ago. It's such an awesome platform. The way you made it work with action cable is really cool.
> buying an aviation radio off the shelf and just chatting on the frequency or issuing fake clearances if you want to be a mass murderer

Incidentally, I am happily surprised that that never seems to happen. One could so easily create so much chaos at an airport... There is no authentication whatsoever.
Honesty might seem like an escape from the Importance and Leveling Games: you say the truth, so you're not basing what you say on an attempt to get status, so you've exited the game, right?

Well, that doesn't quite work out in practice: First, you can only be as honest with others as you are with yourself, and being honest with yourself is hard: you just end up playing the games unintentionally. Second, honesty is never complete by the simple nature that you don't have time to say everything, so the things about yourself that you choose to be honest about create a picture that has implications for the Importance and Leveling Games. Third, lying isn't the only way to change what you say: you can change what you say about yourself by changing yourself. If you do different things, you can say different things about yourself without lying, and your actions can be motivated by the Importance/Leveling Games. And as a sub-point of that: being honest is a choice of actions that's usually geared toward winning the Importance Game.
I would put "economic duress" and "hate speech" in the same category of hand wavy rhetorical devices.
> Even the GPS signal itself has latency and lag

What do you mean by this? You sound pretty knowledgeable, so you must know that it's simply not possible for the GPS signal to have latency or lag.
That’s a gigantic leap
For everyone worried about polluting geo distance orbits, consider that geosynchronous is about 35,786 km from the surface, or about 6x the radius of the earth away.

Suffice to say this is a very great distance, and the probability of a collision orbit at this distance is so phenomenally unlikely that even if left in place there is nothing to consider of this risk.

Moving to a higher and unused orbit means nothing will ever impact it in any human time horizon.
The companies I work for are https://www.inner-product.com/ (US) and https://underscore.io/ (UK). Scala is our main focus. I'm afraid it's not as exciting as software + music. Mostly web services or data engineering.
Historically speaking, Google is the one who innovates ground-breaking privacy-violating technology, and Facebook copies them a year or two later with much less tact.
The entire product is built by two people. I certainly see your point about wanting a web-version, but if their initial expertise was in native iOS development, then making the experience great on mobile is a fine place to start. I haven't had any issues using it on my phone in the past 6 months or so
Increasingly, all Google is learning about me is the junk mail. I get 150 emails a day and one legitimate one everty two to three days. The rest of it is Youtube notifications and newegg sales.
Any new flu could be the next ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

> The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.[1] It infected 500 million people around the world,[2] including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. Probably 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million (three to five percent of Earth's population at the time) died.

Lowering risk to medical personnel is crucial to prevent degradation of health care capability.
Hey Seth, I know there's been _quite_ the effort under the hood to make this product a reality and am curious if you would be open to writing a bit about lessons learned to help others learn about the research & development process.
I don’t have enough information or enough power to solve the problem. I would start by doing at least 1 week of content moderation to understand what the workers are going through and then talk with other people with power who have done 1 week of content moderation to figure out how they could help solve these problems.
I think space colonization is an even bigger fantasy than relying on "future tech" that will magically terraform the earth and reverse climate change. We can have a tiny structure housing 10 or 20 people somewhere in our solar system for the price of millions of pounds of fuel and billions of dollars.

Inter-system travel will never happen. Forums like this tend to have a healthy population of the sci-fi minded, so it won't be a popular opinion here, but the laws of physics simply rule it out. And the "men once thought they couldn't fly" argument doesn't carry water with me. We know a lot more about what we don't know now than we did then
Using DDG with Bangs ( add '!G' to a search string to query google, '!W' for Wikipedia, etc.) has really eased my transition.
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I really don't understand how images or even videos are causing PTSD. Maybe it's because I grew up on 4chan in the age of goatse, but shocking content is a tiny fraction of how disturbing real life can be.

I understand that looking at disturbing content is going to have some impact on people, and that they may not be able to evaluate that risk properly, but it's nowhere near what every nurse, doctor, firefighter, police officer, soldier, and even teacher will live through over the course of their career.

I've been diagnosed with PTSD after seeing some deeply disturbing medical shit. I'm definitely impacted for life, but there were doctors and nurses there too, and they're impacted too.

Maybe I've been on the internet too long, but there's a massive delta, at least in my view, between seeing a disturbing video and living through real-life trauma. I'd take the video moderation job over being an ER nurse any day.
You note in the article that the detection occasionally causes some lag in your overall application. Have you looked into a background worker for the task?
I've actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as a query.

I don't know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I'm not googling "correctly" anymore.
The comment seems to imply an unjust degree of compensation, or at the least, fails to acknowledge its merits.

Given the charged and rather wanton nature of other comments in this thread, it may be being judged unfairly, though that's not my view.
Upfront, you mean other than those employees already working.

The more nefarious part of it is that at no point does Accenture suggest that they have any responsibility or will assist with said PTSD. Hell, they even imply that they'll most likely fire you if they find you do have it (one, because the document requires you to tell them, and two, because their supervisors repeatedly pressure therapists at the in house WeCare to disclose that information).
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Chernobyl's design was amazingly primitive compared to the vast majority reactors outside of the former USSR. Any reactors that unsafe in any western nation would be immediately shut down.
It would be better if every employee had a regular check in with a mental health professional. Google don’t need to decide anything. “Forced” makes it sound very authoritarian, but yes, requiring such checkups as a condition of employment would be a good thing.
Right there with you! I've also been programming a while now, and the biggest improvements to productivity, code quality, and overall success are indeed building a good team and keeping things simple. That hasn't changed since the 80's/90's when I first started out.

It's also true that overly prescriptive tooling can be such a pain. This also includes automated testing in my opinion (something the author counts as a big advance). It's fantastic for certain classes of software code and terrible for others. I've seen half my team spend multiple days just fixing integration or e2e tests instead of working on features that add value. You can grind to a halt with this stuff just as much as you can grind to a halt because of so many bugs to fix...

You have to find the balance, and I think that's where senior engineers really add value -- they've been round the block a few times and have a better idea where that balance lies.
Here you go:

https://spreadprivacy.com/why-use-duckduckgo-instead-of-goog...
I rarely have anything useful to add to coding posts since I know nothing, but I do have some experience with drinking from straws:

I used to be a metal straw user, but was always somewhat scared of the potential for accidents, and haven't been able to bring myself to use them ever since that woman died because she fell on one and it stabbed thru her eye and into her brain[1]

Knives, etc. are usually held facing down or laid flat, straws unfortunately are specifically designed to point upwards and be aimed at the face.

They are also unsuitable for hot beverages, and if you accidentally bite it or touch it to your teeth it's quite unpleasant

Altho I'd much prefer them to plastic, I do find the paper straws McDonald's uses in the UK to be usable but quite flimsy - they get crushed and soggy quite easily for what they are.

I was going to try silicon straws next, of course until I find out that they harbour awful brain eating parasites and bacteria, or... something

I initially believe that drinking carbonated or sugary beverages with a straw protected the teeth to some extent, but I can't find a source for this

[1]https://www.livescience.com/65925-metal-straw-death.html
Not sure about everyone else but google is a proxy for other sites now where I can get relevant answers. So I have 2 clicks to the eventual site instead of 1. Similar to using site:www.reddit.com or something similar. I realize that's still using Google as a search engine but it is different than how I previously used it.

Thinking briefly on it, the main thing I leverage Google for is phonebook like information or getting a quick definition/spellcheck.
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It's not.

Naturally occurring radioactivity in coal ash means that coal burning power plants release far more radioactivity into our environment than nuclear plants do. In fact, if you want to get the least amount of radioactivity into your body, the safest place is behind the shielding of a nuke plant, because it would also protect you from naturally occuring radiation.

If you add up the total of radioactive elements in Bequerels released annually by coal plants and then assume 100% of all waste from power generating plants could be ground up and released and count that up, the amount of radioactivity from nuclear plants would still be less than coal.

We burn a LOT of coal, and despite the media's portrayal of how much a problem radioactive waste is, it's very overblown for power generating plants. Weapons production is another matter, but we've already been trying to stop that from happening for years.
Yes, but that’s not the primary issue in this case. Even then you can firewall based on device... which is a good idea considering large employers don’t even have to go through courts to get access to the device they issued you.
Addressed in linked comment, also by me, also in this thread.
I’ve never heard of plumbing or janitorial work causing PTSD. If it did then I would want to do the same thing.
The fact that you and parent are getting downvoted just shows how out of touch with reality some developers have become. They really are exhibiting the same cluelessness they often attribute to managers.
How's that information relevant here?
Are you saying we should not do video platforms at all?

Also moderation is not the only bad job in the industry or life in general. Why should we specifically rotate on moderation? Why not cleaning after old people, plumbing anything else you can think of that might be gross or mentally dangerous to do?

Moderation is only a minor factor of all the implications of this job.
Another story blaming Google ads, plenty of methods to measure why people exit a page including 3rd party tools to even survey the user "why you leaving?" to get some feedback.
Yes that's what I thought too. Building a bunch of data analytics microservices that host a Python API and serve the results internally to the actual outwards facing API server.
Vault does more than store secrets.

For example, with Postgres it can store root creds and issue non-root, time-bound creds for each service. Vault's "backends" allow it to do _a lot_ of things that a secure static credentials manager can't.

Not to say that this isn't good though – any proper secret management system is better than none :D
A part of engineering is evaluating the damage of the problem happening vs risk vs cost of preventing the problem.
You don’t have to understand it for it to be real. The shit they see is way way worse than goatse. For example, a helpless screaming crying child (who may look like the moderator’s own child) getting raped by someone they trust. That and worse gets uploaded, and it’s their job to delete it.

Obviously being in the room with the victim is probably worse, but that doesn’t mean seeing this kind of thing regularly isn’t still enough to do some damage to some people.
This propensity doesn't have to do with Brexit, we've had signs of the UK moving towards a police state long before it.