skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I visited SF a tourist just over a year ago, and I didn't experience any of the issues being described.

Sure, in places, there were homeless people sitting in doorways, and some of them asked whether I could spare any change - much like homeless people in many other cities. I didn't experience any of them shouting at me, shooting up drugs, demanding money, or peeing in the street. I didn't notice anywhere smelling of urine (although the sea lions around Pier 39 where a little bit stinky).

SF has its issues, like most cities around the world, but I don't think they're as severe or widespread as is being suggested.
I think it was an excellent explanation, thanks. It sounds like a perfect storm of factors, with no obvious solution.
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If you could ban an antibiotic, bacteria would lose their resistance to it in time. Resistance consumes a lot of energy and the bacteria without it would simply outcompete the resistant varieties to quick extinction in a few thousand or million generations.

But as long as people keep using the antibiotic, the bacteria will continue getting more resistant.
I was actively following PC-BSD throughout the change as I've wanted to use BSD over Linux, but a few issues held me back. I believe a lot of the decision to move to a rolling release was users like myself that were grabbing the monthly betas, needing some new hardware support that's years away in FreeBSD.

Some of the problems come from a lack of easily obtained details of the switch. They had PC-BSD 11 release candidates, but had hinted at TrueOS, and as someone who was willing to bug test I had no idea what to test.

I thought they'd still do an 11 release and provide minimal updates, as there were so many things they knew were broken. That never appeared and I was left downloading the image once a month to see if AMD cards worked. And so many things seemed wrong on those tests, it was impossible to tell what needed testing without reading every bug report.

I think things will improve when the team isn't also working on a FreeBSD and FreeNAS release, but it was a bumpy start.
Thanks for the link!

I am not sure though if performance should be the key metric here. Of course, it all depends on the details and use case, but in general correctness and extensibility should be more important in most scenarios.
Since you studied medicine maybe you (or someone else who reads this) could answer a question which I came across in a debate.

Which illnesses has modern medicine definitevely cured?

Exclude anything that is prevented through vaccination and treated with antibiotics (since even I as a layman know about those).

Someone below mentioned Hepatitis C which is one. What other examples are there?

Obviously no need for complete list just 5 or 10 will do for the purpose or argument.
This is a very interesting read, highly recommend! I'm currently reading the excellent book Cryptography Engineering [1] and this article definitely adds to my newborn interest in cryptography!

[1] https://www.schneier.com/books/cryptography_engineering/
Have you got some specific use cases you'd like to see? I could write a post about it.
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This sounds most like what I'd like.
Spaces on mac doesn't cut it because the application instances are shared, which causes it to switch spaces when tabbing into something.
I was wondering why I could not resolve cock.li from where I am right now; and thought this may be related, but it turns out the DNSSEC signatures have expired[1] so my resolver is rejecting the answers.

[1] http://dnsviz.net/d/cock.li/dnssec/
I'm not as positive about it. I think volunteering is often subsidizing something that we should be fighting against. Most of the people in line for free soup can be found just hours later purchasing alcohol or drugs.

If you have a famine or a war or serious poverty, or it is effecting young children, then I think we should put everything else aside and give and volunteer until it hurts.

If on the other hand we have some nasty person who lives on your front porch drinking himself unconscious every afternoon, I don't want them to be fed or clothed. I want life to be as painful as we can make it for them so that they either change their behavior or die more quickly. It's harsh, but I don't see why someone has the right to degrade the lives of everyone around them and have those very people feed and clothe them. If we can offer people help that is effective, we should offer it, even if it is expensive, but otherwise we shouldn't feel guilty about trying to keep nasty people away from our families and ourselves.
>> "...bacteria will stop spending energy on resistance and become vulnerable again."

Source?
They have a pretty good name in contact centre technology.

I think the bigger shift is that people don't need desk phones anymore. The move to mobile is killing the need for fancy PBX gear in business.
How so? Even under fee-for-service a single payer org has an incentive to provide preventative services so they don't have to pay for problems later, no?
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Dubious article relying on Gell-Mann Amnesia.

We'd easily spot the fallacy if it read "engineering correct software Is More Luck Than Talent"
The Shopify plugins from Bold use them.
This accounts for why socialists change their minds after making money.
You visited a bunch of the 'clean' tourist neighborhoods. How can you actually think you are qualified to have an opinion here after visiting part of a city one time?
How to ask for more money at a new job
I would assume that the exchange of energy between atoms is assumed to be independent in addition to being random. And by independent I mean that how much other atoms have exchanged energy with a particular atom does not have effect in how many atoms are likely to exchange energy with this particular atom. (Or, to be more precise, atom that has received energy from other atoms is not more, but _less_ likely to get energy from next encounters with other atoms)

But that does not hold in society. Preferences of people are highly dependent. If a singer has gotten praise from one person, it is more likely that s/he is getting praise from the next one as well (assuming these can share their preferences), and by more I mean more than what would be expected from singing talent alone. I am quite sure there was a social psychology research on specifically this example, how people rank music in groups, but for some reason I can't find it from google just now.

From the investment point of view, I think Piketty showed that larger investors seem to get better returns on their investments. You can debate causality, correlation and luck here probably endlessly, though.
> The story is chilling.

Chilling. In fact, you could say it was a "fear" story.

All it's missing is the billionaire pulling the strings - except if you look at the tag line at the end you see it was written by someone who is an Open Society Fellow.

You know, those fellowships from the Open Society Foundation that are funded by Billionaire Democrat donor George Soros.

Did this article make you feel any negativity towards Trump and the Republicans?

If so, then for Soros, this was money on dark articles well spent.
In what sense is a ISDS a "secret" court? Their decision are published, right? (Your link [1] complains that "Could she protest on the courthouse steps? Arrange for a rally in a nearby town?", but the US supreme court also doesn't allow for protests on the courthouse steps, it doesn't seem like a crucial distinction.)
EARLY_AP_STARTUP is enabled by default… Is anyone working on enumerating all buses in parallel?
Not very high. They're designed to do different things.

For example, IPFS only allows raw files and client-sidr code. This is not suitable for e-commerce websites or businesses, but very suitable for open-source and informational websites.

They solve different problems, so shouldn't be confused. Maybe someday in the future, IPFS could be integrated into browsers for a seamless experience between the two technologies, and that'd be pretty cool.
What if it's empty?
Had my father made it to 80, I strongly suspect he'd've wanted to take the risk to help preserve the antibiotics for younger people.

Of course this doesn't necessarily generalise, but there's plenty of older english people with the "I don't want to be a bother" mindset so it might do better than you think.
I don't think many businesses are quite ready for this, but a CTO can dream...
> I can imagine how this would be spun if "evil Hillary" was found to be targeting people with "dark posts".

You do realise this article is exactly that kind of post right?

Have a look at who wrote it, which foundation funds his fellowship, who created that foundation, and which candidate that billionaire donated funds to and supported.

We are all but pawns in the games played by these billionaires.

Edit: also, regarding Hillary, don't forget leaked emails from her campaign manager and the DNC showed that they were directly colluding with the media and doing this sort of thing.

Not wishy, washy sinister billionaire donor rumors, but actual, verifiable (thanks to DKIM) emails from the DNC and the Hillary campaign itself.
Living in Cologne, Germany for nearly 10 years, the city seems to do fine for children despite being a "gay BDSM-parade" capital

I imagine Amsterdam is doing fine too
Replace? None. Ipfs does not provide privacy which eliminates it from any direct http->ipfs conversions that require typical login. (You could potentially rearchitect the service, but that's not trivial)

But for some specific use cases, it's pretty good. Here are some examples: https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs/blob/master/README.md
Any response?
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I was excited to find a VOIP service for windows -- but Mizu is not free for Commercial use. Their basic price is competitive with a few other solutions at that scale, though.
> Why does it seem like the folks criticizing the profit motive of pharmaceutical companies see no such perverse motive in those selling holistic treatments?

One reason is to do with scale, and perceived credibility.

A pharmaceutical company is a vast organisation, which is able to invest huge sums of money on advertising, marketing, lobbying, PR, insurance etc, and they have the benefit of being seen as having scientific rigour and government-administered quality assurance as inherent features of their offering.

This all means their products can be sold to many millions of people who trust the recommendation of their physician, even if it offers minimal benefit (e.g., antidepressants or statins prescribed to people who would benefit far more from lifestyle changes) or causes significant harm (see current spike in addictions and fatalities linked to opioid painkillers like Fentanyl).

A natural/holistic health practitioner is a normally an independent small business operator, offering treatment to about 20-30 people per week, most of whom are generally healthy and just want to stay that way by having good nutrition, reduced stress, better muscular-skeletal alignment, etc.

Most natural/holistic practitioners make a comparable income to a contract software developer, and have no intention or ability (or more importantly, stock market pressure) to make any more than that. They rely heavily on repeat business and word-of-mouth recommendations, and therefore must consistently help their clients achieve an improved quality of life.

When people die whilst under conventional medical/pharmaceutical treatment, the general attitude is "that's sad, but hey it was a scientifically validated treatment, so, what else could we do?"

Whereas any natural/holistic practitioner who causes serious harm or death of a patient is subjected to thorough scrutiny by regulators and the media, and indignant sharing on social media. Those found to be negligent are quickly put out of business.
aren't layoffs/rehires also generally used to minimize workers benefits ?
And why is there no proper 'invalid password' response? It always seems to me like if you have the correct password the connection succeeds and if you have the wrong password the connection just mysteriously fails and the computer has to guess that maybe it was because the password was wrong? In fact I've had a Macbook tell me the password was wrong when it was definitely correct. I imagine it's because they have to guess the failure reason.
Women in tech: are they REALLY welcome?
I suspect there's a sudden push for "Python 2.8" from some of the 2.x holdouts because it's becoming increasingly obvious that the wider community is coalescing around 3.x. I feel a bit sorry for people stuck on large Python 2 projects and who can't make the jump, but there's a very vocal minority in this group that wants the rest of the world to be held back along with them.
That sound very cool indeed.
Because most poll models gave him a small chance of success. How bad is your memory?
I'm not at all surprised to see your comment being downvoted here but I largely agree.

While most of the US is far too intolerant of homeless, and general issues of poverty, I think SF's brand of tolerance can sometimes swing too far in the other direction. SF's tolerance almost borders on apathy at times.

I would also add that in addition to making the city less hospitable to children and the elderly, it can also make it tough to survive as a homeless person who doesn't want to have to use physical force to protect themselves from other homeless.
Thanks, that's a good write up. The wiki use case looks interesting!
- major traumas

- Some strokes (if you reach hospital in time)

- some heart attacks (if you reach hospital in time)

- 3rd degree heart block (by way of a pacemaker)

- serious arthritis of the knees, hips and shoulders (by way of replacement joints)

- 80% cure rate of childhood leukaemia, 20-30% cure rate of adult leukaemia

- some forms of childhood brain tumours

- a high percentage of childhood and young adult myelodysplastic syndromes

- pretty much every BCC and almost all SCCs that reach a doctor before they have invaded the whole patient

- early melanoma

- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, through either a TURP or what will become the definitive therapy, interventional radiology ablation

- Wolf-Parkinson-white syndrome and other cardiac arrytjmias that consist of accessory pathways

- patent foramen ovale

- Cervical cancer if discovered early through Pap smear

- deep vein thrombosis and it's sequelae, pulmonary embolism

- Cataracts

- about 100 other surgical problems that will be completely cured through surgery
BASIC (the traditional dialects thereof, anyway) does all of those things.

In fact, you can even read indices of an array without declaring it. If you do, it's auto-declared as having 11 elements (with indices 0 to 10), filled with zeroes.

This was still supported as late as VB for DOS. I wouldn't be surprised if VB6 also had this behavior.
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They've retired the dangerous X ray scanners at all but tiny airports. (Thanks, Obama.) It's reasonably safe to just let them do the full body scan now.

Of course, it's still your right under the written procedures to ask for a pat down instead.
In this context, it just means "very strong". The idea is that biased investors have a lot of leverage, despite being a minority, because of the environment they're in. So yes, it's that their behavior is driving everyone else's.
Benet said in a talk that they're working on making e-commerce work in distributed systems. Ethereum for instance does exactly that.
We used SipX in prod twice and both times were positive experiences. Solid system, easy deployment...superb.
Doh, that is what I meant, no idea why I kept saying Paddington. Still upset it is not at Waterloo any more. That would have made it more attractive option for me.

Will have to endure that train, tube, another tube or walk, then eurostar with all the kids & luggage entourage for a Disneyland Paris trip in a few months.
You're assuming majority of people put faith in those polls?
But it's a 'unique instance'! /s
I set up an IPFS node(?) on my server last night. The server has 3TB of space, so I thought I would be a good internet citizen and donate some space to mirror some of the ipfs archives (https://archives.ipfs.io/).

Simple, right? So I installed and launched the ipfs docker image and then ran `ipfs pin add QmTZeE4yTiDd76YxbWvenneqSf5VhooNnA46WWWHtHcu5n`. I thought this would download that hash (IETF RFC Archive) locally and mirror it.

Instead the command just hung there. No output. Left it for an hour, still no output. Debug mode was useless and printed out nothing interesting. It took me a long while to realize that `ipfs pin add` takes a file path of a local file and pins it (or something? still not clear).

Ok. So lets run `ipfs get QmTZeE4yTiDd76YxbWvenneqSf5VhooNnA46WWWHtHcu5n` and then we can run `ipfs pin add local-hash`. Hmm, no output and no progress at all. After an hour there was some form of output that said I had downloaded 15mb of the archive, and it would take 8 more minutes to do. It still said this two hours later. Ok, so lets leave it overnight in a screen session.

Cut to next morning, I wake up to a message from my provider saying that they detected a port scan originating from my server, specifically from the port that ipfs uses. I think their detection systems misclassified the traffic, but it's just extra hassle. And the archive was still on 15mb completed.

It's a very interesting technology, and it looks great for simple text files, but the UI is terrible. You want some kind of permanent web? Surely asking people to explicitly pin specific files isn't the way forward, wouldn't being able to say "I want to donate X gb of disk space, cache some stuff for people to use" be better?
A better link may have been their actual site, ipfs.io.
My thought is that 'nerds' collaborate better despite poorer than average understanding of fellow humans. It's because their work and its success or failure are more objectively defined which makes organising and delegation of tasks relatively straightforward. So we can have thousands of scientists and engineers building the Large Super Hadron Collider while a Liberal Arts Department may be beset by bickering and feuds.
The US and the basket of Western interests it represents is in a tug of war with China over how well their businesses can compete within SE Asia/Japan. This is why you'll see the phrase "regulatory harmonization" thrown around a lot; China does business by one playbook, the West does it by another, and whosever playbook all the countries in the middle choose to read from will have lower entry barriers to their markets.
What channel is that?
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The difference being the Supreme Court is one of the most vital cornerstones of our democracy; the ISDS was an idea thought up by companies for their own advantage.
The blog post we're commenting was written by an American, so that's what happens to citizens. If he was not a citizen, he would not have been let in.
Do they still just wave people through there, eh? You might have to carry it a long time to get searched.
I flew into Chicago from the UK a few months ago. A guy a few spaces behind me in the line had a search dog stop at his feet. He had some fruit in his bag. I can't remember what it was, an apple or something. They gave him a form to fill in and he had to pay a fine.

I had a banana in my bag. A very ripe one. But the bag was on my shoulder rather than on the floor by my feet so the dog just walked straight past me. There's a hack to remember.
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The verbatim title is preferred:

"... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interestingly enough, the same pollsters are now saying that Trump has a 37% or something approval rating. And Obama went out with a 60%+ approval rating.

Until they find a way to poll a significant slice of the population truly representative of the electorate, I'm surprised people can take them seriously. Since we're on HN, there is a startup idea here somewhere.

(Edited to remove an electoral hypothesis, so that we can discuss polls and not politics.)
How much insurance would Apple require to cover an eventual nationalization and forced shutdown of all of its plants in China? (Purely as an example)

Without a body that can invoke broad sanctions, countries can play chicken with each other. Regimes can simply decide to seize company assets, and hope the offending parties don't cause enough of a real ruckus.

Of course this lowers investor confidence long-term. But governments that do that are rarely interested in this. They're more interested in lining their own pockets with personal wealth.

These sort of trade frameworks build a mutually-assured-destruction setup, so that any BS can get swiftly acted upon by a "neutral" party. And at the end of the day, it allows for stronger rule of law, which is better for most parties. The ones that end up the worst off are the kleptocrats.

Airliners can buy insurance for plane crashes. But most of them would rather planes just not crash.
Can you opt out in England? I was under the impression you can't do that. Quick search confirms: http://www.civilrightsmovement.co.uk/consequences-for-refusi...
> [Abstract] "we develop a machine learning based AP selection strategy that can significantly improve WiFi connection set-up performance, against the conventional strategy purely based on signal strength, by reducing the connection set-up failures from 33% to 3.6% and reducing 80% time costs of the connection set-up processes by more than 10 times."

> [Conclusion] "The correlation analysis finds that though the signal strength is important, knowing the AP model and mobile device model has great help to predict the connection set-up time cost. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to add AP model and mobile device model as features which greatly increases the accuracy to predict the connection set-up time cost."

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(NOTE: Please do not use block quote formatting, it's unreadable on mobile.)
Most apps written in Go do, example: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases

It's because Go doesn't use gcc or LLVM for linking - it has its own built in linker that doesn't depend on the host system, so cross-compiling is totally trivial. I have no idea why gcc wasn't written like that.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13443821
https://archive.org/details/CIA-CREST
> wouldn't being able to say "I want to donate X gb of disk space, cache some stuff for people to use" be better?

I believe this is addressed by Filecoin

http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf
Someone make a Python 3 which can load Python 2 code, to allow for gradual migration.
EU member states and the US are mixed economies. EU countries are at various levels of command and market, dependent on nation (though policy exists to prevent direct public ownership in some areas). The US is generally considered "more free" than many if not all EU members.

Economic policy exists and is implemented. Much argument in the mainstream lies on how much command or freedom is required but no major party argues for either extreme. At least not publicly (open NHS privatisation would be suicide for the Tory party for instance).
To be fair, that is likely more due to Github's network effects than deficiencies in Gogs/Gitea.
Can it be taught to design a better version of itself?