skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> statements about probability can be factual

Depends.

In natural science or in medicine you can estimate that probability (because control groups, multiple experiments, statistical methods, etc). In such context, a statement about probability can indeed be factual.

In general conversation or in legal context they can’t. If you have facts, there’s no “probably” because you know for sure. And if you don’t, it can be you belief, or your personal opinion, but not a fact.

> do they? What makes you so sure?

Over my career, I’ve worked in several US software companies. Lately, I’m working with various US companies as a contractor.

Multiple times a company put a lot of efforts and money to comply with the law: we redesigned our products, moved across states, trained employees to comply with various regulations, and so on. Having friends in the industry with similar observations, I conclude such things happen all the time.
Nice work! Did you consider building this on top of Home Assistant?
The largest insurer in the US covers more people than the NHS. The second and third largest insurers rival other continental health services.
They do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer
I think if you have interacted much with the Steam platform, you already knew. Basically just marketing gambling and ponzi schemes to kids. Using names like Giveaways, Raffles, Unboxing etc they even make it transparent to the parent in many cases. Speaking of cases, which are the built-in buy in raffle in CSGO, they seem to have taken the idea already made standard. Most are fixed for the admins, who can easily be found flaunting rare items in various games. Valve has tried to distance themselves so far, but have recently started taking action as it was hurting their bottom line.
This is good advice, but I'd add:

Pay special attention to videos whose source is TV (as opposed to film) because those sources tend to be interlaced, and you need to play around with the detelecine, decomb, and deinterlace settings. Unfortunately AFAIK Handbrake cannot detect this condition, and if you don't manually account for it, you'll get that ugly horizontal "comb" effect on output, during scenes showing motion.
I'm curious, too. The blog post says refreshing the page won't revalidate the immutable resources, but doesn't say what happens for a CTRL+SHIFT+R hard refresh.

The Firefox bug mention hard refresh, but don't say what was implemented:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1267474
Because it's not about how expensive it is to actually make the drug. To use a software analogy, Oracle doesn't price their database software by what it costs in bandwidth for you to come to their site and download the latest version. Or in the days of shrink-wrapped software, the cost of software was far from the cost of the materials (cardboard and discs).

Books similarly aren't priced based on the cost of printing and distribution.

The cost is directly related to recouping R&D costs as well as the clinical trials. In addition, with these therapies specifically, you actually have pay lots of highly trained people to administer them in the first place.
Heh, I linked the same proposal in a sister thread. I am aware of it, however it's for verifying the integrity of some resource at some url. It falls a bit short of what I'd like to see which is to serve items by the hash of their content, which I am also aware is basically IPFS.

So overall I would propose to drop the notion of location all together and just serve items by their integrity hash along with an fallback location which will typically be a classic http[s]:// url.

Ideally in the future I will be able to copy-paste those urn's into my browsers address bar and have them resolve right to the resource which will involve the browser either serving from it's local sha store or using the fallback url.

In the future when some sort of IPFS or other federated resource by sha provider takes hold then the fallback urls will become less and less needed.

To me it's just about making the links themselves be self-descriptive enough to allow them to truly become immutable and then, eventually, more efficiently served.
This is especially absurd because Apple provides an API (fsevents) specifically designed to let you subscribe to the filesystem changes you care about. But the lump of python dropbox ships as their "application" doesn't know about it.

And instead of putting two engineers on fixing this they also try to "add value" by hijacking the accessibility support of your computer. Fortunately Apple catches this, warns you, and lets you say no.

Despite all this: I have tried Box, Onedrive, iCloud Drive, and Google Drive and still, Dropbox sucks the least in terms of naive user compatibility and fewest surprises. I don't know why this is so hard to get right!?
Yes, the small screen is great on flights and other cramped conditions.

When at a desk, I sometimes connect to a large screen, but honestly I often just don't bother.
Unfortunately, this is not a very realistic analysis.

Martin mentions HDFS in the first paragraph as an example. But HDFS does not use partitions or consistent hashing for data assignment. All replicas in HDFS are placed manually according to the placement policy currently in effect. Each block can have a completely different set of nodes. He mentions Kafka as "typically deployed in... JBOD configuration." But Kafka is actually typically deployed over a RAID configuration. JBOD support in Kafka is fairly new and still not often used. It would have been better to mention only the systems that this analysis is focused on (Cassandra might be one such).

This analysis leaves out a critical factor, which is that the distributed system will start re-replicating each partition once nodes are declared to be lost. Clearly, if this can be completed before any other nodes fail, no data will be lost. This is the reason why you want more partitions-- not less as this essay recommends. With more, smaller partitions, you can re-replicate quicker.

To see this, consider a thought experiment where there is one partition per node in a 5,000 node cluster. In this case, each gigantic partition will be replicated to three different nodes, and the nodes will be in lockstep with each other. But if one of those nodes is lost, only 2 other machines in the cluster can help with re-replication. It will be slow. In contrast, if you have 10,000 partitions per node, and you lose a node, you will be able to use the resources of the entire cluster for re-replication (assuming you have well-distributed partitions). This means 5,000 disks spinning, 5,000 network interfaces passing data, instead of 2.
It's not permanent if you don't make it permanent - like the other cache-control headers, you can specify the amount of time that a resource is considered immutable. All this does is change the time period in which the browser avoids sending 304s.
Well, real sugar at least is better than the HFCS crap.
Actually, use glitter nail polish: Thwarting Evil Maid Attacks (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/KV4XnvE2p34
Anything thinkpad really. No nonsense and a sturdy build.
The basic premise of the article is simply that gifted children do better when separated. It doesn't necessarily advocate for "the government" doing the separation, only that a separation should occur. "Who does the choosing" is a separate debate...
> Saying something is immutable has different implications than saying "I want it cached for 10 years".

Only if you have a system that you keep for more than 10 years. If a browser dumps stuff that it was told it can keep for a decade that means it can also dump stuff that it was told will never change. If the cache is full of things that are immutable something still has to go.
This looks very nice! Is there an option to not send data via your server? Some Enterprise deployments I know would not play along with that…
Augmented reality?
Moglie appena sveglia ecco cosa dovrebbe fare un buon marito
1. Time box it. Pick a date that you will release, go live, ship, whatever. Pick a date.

2. Break it into smaller tasks.

3. Prioritize those tasks and start with the easiest.

4. This is not time to learn, this is time to build. Use only tools that you know. Even if you know there is a better way, do it the best worse way that you know than the better best way you have heard of but don't know and will have to stop and learn. This is key, separate learning and building.

5. Work on it everyday, at a consistent time, preferable first thing in the morning.

6. Since you will be waking up early, go to bed early too and get enough sleep.

7. Work on only one project at a time, meaning, you can't work on other projects in between. Everything else goes on hold till this is completed.

8. Find ways to motivate and inspire yourself when you are feeling mentally down and low and focus is hard to come by. If you really like music, don't listen to it all the time. work without it, when you find yourself drained, that's when you should turn on music. Unless you absolutely can't work without it. Whatever that gives you extra boost, hold off from it till you really need it. Coffee? Don't drink it, till you need it. Think of it like power up. Save it till you need it.

9. Is it ship date? Release it, only 70% done? Release it!
> - Investigators found various searches for homemade poisons, including antifreeze, on the defendant's laptop
> Some jury members said the laptop evidence was what convinced them.

It's almost funny how often this is the Achilles's heel of murderers. In so many "Forensic Files" episodes the culprits' browser/search history is what nails them.
I know that YouTube runs (or previously ran) on lighttpd. Have there been any major developments/improvements as of late?
With a board empaneled to decide? Are you sure about that?
You'd want to eliminate as many potential confounding variables as possible. If they took the control group from another hospital, maybe that other hospital does something that improves or hurts their chances. Even if you pull from the same hospital, just being in the study might change the treatment they get in subtle ways.

There's also the issue of blinding. If the control group is some outside group, then you know that everyone in the study group is receiving the new treatment. It would be much better if everyone involved didn't know whether any given patient was getting the new treatment or not until after all the results were in. For that, you need to recruit patients into the study, then randomly assign them to the new treatment or the conventional sort.
Your boss:

"Hey! We're giving you a bad employment deal, so don't talk to anyone else, so you don't figure it iut"
Fascism and Democracy (2016)
> Engineers have the technical skills to look into basic financial and budgeting, and there are financial planning guys involved in big projects to do the really in depth stuff if required.

If by "technical skills" you mean "being able do to math", you're as far away from finance as "pressing keys on the keyboard" is from "coding".

You don't need a degree to be an engineer, and you don't need a degree to be in "management". But that's not the point.
Unfortunately the market for therapies does not follow the same market scaling model as consumer electronics due to the various financial models of insurance companies, government subsidies, etc.
Yeah, Google implemented it in Chrome in 2014...I guess it's just not a high priority for Mozilla right now.
Neural Network Tries to Generate English Speech
I have really had it with this kind of bullshit gamesmanship. If the people at the top default to exploiting the rules for their own advantage, why should anyone bother to play within the rules when it's so much more profitable to subvert them?

In the context of sports, this manifests as using procedural methods to run out the clock or interrupt play by complaining that a foul has taken place, or causing a foul because the penalty (letting the other team have a shot at the goal or having a player sent off temporarily) is an acceptable price to pay for interrupting the momentum and scoring ability of the other team. All sports teams want to preserve their options under the rules, but some teams seem to rely more on leveraging the rules than on superior performance onthe field. This may be pleasing to their hardcore fans, but when all the action is on the sidelines I feel it's a sign of the team going into decline.

I feel the same way about business. If a firm's corporate identity is built on clever legal and accounting tricks and PR rather than the provision of a valuable product or service by people who enjoy their jobs, then it's likely a shitty firm. Unfortunately there are quite a lot of shitty firms, and their cumulative effect on the economy as a whole is cancerous.
Remix (YC W15) is hiring full-stack engineers to build better cities
I agree the manufacturing cost of $4,000 doesn't seem unreasonable, but that's the manufacturing cost. The article also states either of these competing treatments would cost insurers half a million $ or more, so it will be much more expensive than today's treatments. Still worth it, but absurdly expensive especially compared to the manufacturing cost.
The problem is that they don't have a clear method of calculation and a clear meaning of what a minute means.

For example, let's made up some criteria:

1 minute = 99% probability of human extinction in 10 years

2 minutes = 98% probability of human extinction in 10 years

3 minutes = 97% probability of human extinction in 10 years

I'm not sure what 2 hours means. Probably the scale should not be more complex than (100-p) * min/%

Or perhaps it's better to define 1 minute = 90% probability of human extinction in 100 years

Or 1 minute = 50% probability of human extinction in 1 year

It's not clear what 1 minute before doomsday officially means.

Moreover, let's say that they define that 1 minute is x% chance of humanity destruction in y years. How are they calculating it? Do they have any model? How did they calibrate the model? How did they test the model? Is it reliable?

It's a made up number, without any scientific base. It's only an opinion of a bunch of people that happened to work as scientific, not a scientific measurement.
Chemical and Engineering News seeks muzzled federal scientists
Most clickbait isn't outright false, just highly suggestive in a misleading way.
I'd imagine the 20% of the US population that has a disability translates into rather less than 4% of potential users of the average website helped by any particular engineering solution...
(apart from basic common-sense design principles like not having tiny buttons or a layout so sensitive it breaks if people bump the text size up)
I read the comments a lot. Compared to most news sites this be a utopia of brilliant discourse. Most comment sections on other websites make me want to die.
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> Google put out a survey - speculation ensues.

Yes.

This is the actual announcement with the link to the survey at the bottom:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/google-tools-raspberry-pi/

I play with RPis and I make NNs with TensorFlow, so I took the survey. Pretty standard "tell us what you think" type of thing. If it leads to Google maintaining an official binary release of TF for the RPi, that would be great.
Unfortunately unemployment numbers don't tell the whole story. Large parts of the country are still suffering, not from the downturn but from technological & trade based upheaval. Someone who used to work at a factory or mine may technically not be unemployed when working at WalMart, but they aren't happy either. I think Democrats will continue to lose elections so long as they care more about rights of immigrants than of a local coal mine closing down. In fact, many would celebrate that, despite the cost to the people who work there or the community.

I think of it this way, I live in a small non-diverse town, and I can pick the guy/gal who says he's going to keep the plant open or the guy/gal who says he will protect gay and immigrant rights and you need to feed your family, who are you going to vote for?
After a complex set of steps to setup ipv6 in my [VPC, Router, Gateway, Security Groups, and others that I'm forgetting], I was able to launch 2 instances and get both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. As OddBloke notes, I did have to 'sudo dhclient -6' to grab that ipv6 address in the instance. Once I did, I was able to ssh back and forth using ipv6 (yay!). Then I tried 'apt update'. In fact, the mirrors inside of AWS worked us fine. But security.ubuntu.com did not. It did resolve, but it didn't respond. Rest assured we (Canonical) are working this right now... Thanks.
there are no node based systems with opengl support.
Why should we not consider that he called for a "ban on Muslims entering the United States" for months prior to his election? This is what he ran on so of course we have reason to suspect this will be a pattern.
In dollar terms, how much does your boss value your commitment?

What if you want to explore a different area of technology? It would be very unreasonable to not talk to other companies and limit yourself to the same tech.

Why are you limiting yourself to one city?
What the US Can Learn from Canada's Battle with an Anti-Science Government
One assumes the GUI configuration would be great on something coming from the GUI developers - regardless of DPI.
Isn't this how 'I Am Legend' started?
Well if you are interested in more risky investing then you could sell it as a game. Appeal to their sense of cleverness.
The word "generally" here has a precise meaning when used in a formal (mathematical) sense. Using that meaning, the phrase "wrapped code is generally nonsensical" could be read as "there exists some code that is nonsensical when line-wrapped" or "the amount of code that is nonsensical when line-wrapped is non-zero". More precisely, it means that, in general, you cannot rely on any ol' code to remain sensical after wrapping has taken place. Hopefully, it's obvious that this is true.
Store bought orange juice does not taste better because of the deoxygenation. In fact, quite the opposite.

"Once the juice is squeezed and stored in gigantic vats, they start removing oxygen. Why? Because removing oxygen from the juice allows the liquid to keep for up to a year without spoiling. But! Removing that oxygen also removes the natural flavors of oranges. Yeah, it's all backwards. So in order to have OJ actually taste like oranges, drink companies hire flavor and fragrance companies, the same ones that make perfumes for Dior, to create these "flavor packs" to make juice taste like, well, juice again."[1]

[1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-...
Agreed. For me, that was another reason to move away from Ionic. That its largest dependency came to differ so greatly from that of the previous version, was enough for me. If I was going to be forced into learning something new, then Swift it would be.
The insurance market and the government providing medicaid loves these types of cures. An effective cure that costs a few thousand dollars is obviously worth the healthy cured people living to pay premiums for the rest of their healthy life. Much preferable to a costly patient needing many treatments in the tens of thousands of dollars in the insurance pool. The economics are much better than what the system currently bears.
I really appreciate the quality and intelligence of most HN comments. I think that is one thing that sets it apart from Reddit/FB/etc. For topics I'm interested in, I do generally scan them and not necessarily read all comments every time.
There's plenty of anecdotes in this thread on why it's a good idea to keep a journal. It's also not just about remembering, but about better understanding what you're thinking in the first place.

Beyond that, for me personally it's about liberty. If I don't want to do something, sure I won't do it. But if I do want to do something then I wouldn't let fear get the best of me. Thus not keeping a journal because its contents might be used in a court of law is just a sad state of affairs. Something which I would actively work against, and indeed it's what motivated me to comment here in the first place. It's not even that I think keeping a journal is the best thing ever, but not doing it due to chilling effects is quite horrible.
History has clearly demonstrated that Nazis cannot be defeated through discourse within civil society.

Here's a quote from Frank Frison, a Holocaust survivor:

"If fascism could be defeated in debate, I assure you that it would never have happened, neither in Germany, nor in Italy, nor anywhere else. Those who recognised its threat at the time and tried to stop it were, I assume, also called "a mob". Regrettably too many "fair-minded" people didn't either try, or want to stop it, and, as I witnessed myself during the war, accommodated themselves when it took over. People who witnessed fascism at its height are dying out, but the ideology is still here, and its apologists are working hard at a comeback. Past experience should teach us that fascism must be stopped before it takes hold again of too many minds, and becomes useful once again to some powerful interests."
Works for me in both C++03 and C++14? https://ideone.com/KhfGaN
Well, it's because it's not "cancer cells" as something different then the host, it's just "here's some cells that, for whatever reason, decided to start growing and multiplying indefinitely, rather then being restricted by what their programming says". Comparatively, cancer is far "less threat" then most diseases, except for the fact that your immune system treats it like part of your body. Thanks to that "leg up", it can do a lot of damage. If your cancer got into another person, their immune system would treat it as foreign (modulo transplant factors and such), and attack and destroy it.
He basically says that the chance of loosing one unit of data linearly increases with the number of units of data the cluster contains. That does not surprise me.
Universe Expanding Faster Than Expected, but New Results Raise More Questions
The mostly correct answer is `ls -1`. Just mostly, because it falls to the classic unix trap (filenames can contain almost anything) which also shows that the challenge is ill defined. What is the expected result if the filename contains newlines?

And this is not just some hypothetical scenario, just today at work I encountered a file with cursor movement terminal escape sequences in the filename.
We have certainly had no shortage of wars in the past couple of centuries. Just in the past two hundred years, in order of largest death tolls[1], I see:

* World War II
* Taiping Rebellion
* Second Sino-Japanese War
* World War I/Great War
* Dungan Revolt
* Chinese Civil War
* Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention
* Napoleonic Wars
* Second Congo War/Great War of Africa
* Shaka's conquests
* Vietnam War/Second Indochina War
* Biafra War
* Mexican Revolution
* Soviet war in Afghanistan
* Korean War
* Iran–Iraq War/First Persian Gulf War
* American Civil War
* Spanish American Wars of Independence
* Angolan Civil War
* Ethiopian Civil War
* Spanish Civil War

All told, those are something like a couple hundred million dead. Them for each of those human bodies, consider how many living are profoundly affected by their death.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
I really like the city i'm in, and want to stay here a couple more years is all.

My boss has expressed that if funding was available, I would be salaried and offered a full time position. The issue is that the company may never get that much funding, it's all dependent on how successful they are at selling the product.
Oh definitely, I meant more in the sense of being able to evict things more "intelligently".

If stuff needs to go, it needs to go. It's going to happen. But if you have to choose between a file which was told to be cached for 10 years, and one which was labeled "immutable" but hasn't been referenced on the page it was previously for the last 10 loads, it might be a better choice to evict the immutable one.