skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that if we could defeat aging, living one million of years wouldn't be that hard to achieve. People would just focus more on preventing fatal accidents. Plus, more accidents would be survivable because healthcare would be much more advanced too.
I can't speak for everyone, but as someone who has definitely burned out several times, for me it's never the work - it's always the workplace. After going through the whole process a few times, I've come to the conclusion that my own burnout is mostly attributable to the following factors:

* Lack of voice in the direction of the company.

* No personal investment in the success of the company.

People respond to incentives. If someone has no say in where the company is going and doesn't share in the companies successes (or failures), it's only a matter of time before any rational individual is going to just stop caring.

Fortunately, these problems have solutions. Several hundred year old solutions, no less:
https://blog.fountstudio.com/yes-we-have-a-pirate-code-1aa1b...

[Disclaimer: That's my own blog post.]
It's true that Confucian values talk about not self-injuring/damaging what parents gave to children --- their physical bodies etc. --- but pretty sure the abandonment of the long queue of hair on the collapse of the Qing was due to the fact it'd been imposed on the Han Chinese by the Manchus as a form of suppression.
A better title would be:

Alcatel-Lucent makes the source code of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions of Unix public

Since the general usage of the word open source has implications about the a "free" license to use too.
Low Level Electron Debugging
Would it be possible to allow a # nokite at the end of lines; these would then have any strings scrambled. This allows me to know immediately that things aren't being sent to Kite rather than have to do a few checks before I write something secret.
Between Applebaum, Waymo, and the crash that got the Waymo suit mentioned in every article about the crash for a couple of days... well, maybe they'll hear about it sooner or later. Certainly any Uber competitors must be sitting in a room with their marketing departments and thinking about how to capitalize on this, once they're past the "Hand them lots of rope and give them space," phase.
You can make all the theoretical arguments you want, but the fact remains: when gas prices go up, sales of trucks and SUVs goes down. And vice-versa.

You think car companies want to change their assembly lines and tooling, if they can magically change consumer buying habits with a bit of advertising? Come on.
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I would add to that that because most cancer causing (single mutation) variants are in the coding space, it ultimately seems reasonable to be able to revert the mutations back to wild type with genome editing tools such as Cas9 in the (decade-ish future?). Using small molecules to fight against cancer as the article speaks to really seems like the last vestiges of a 20th century technology, while designing novel genetic tools like immunotherapies are today's superweapon - tomorrow's is just to fix the mutation. All the more reason to pour money into the DNA side of things (sequencing, synthesis, analysis) over the small molecule side of things ('drug development'.
>> I can pool my money with others to buy campaign advertising in a swing state that might legitimately change the outcome.

Oh. I'm not talking about presidential elections. That is a different story. But I'd say it is wrong for you to contribute to a group buying campaign advertising in another state for their congresspersons or senators. And that includes influence from national party organizations. Only people who live in a state should be doing that stuff (if any).
He's only liable if the information is provable false.
On a mac, so these are a must:

- Workspaces! These help with focus and isolate the "blast radius" of getting randomized

- Spectacles: windows manager to assign windows to left/right side of screeen, across monitors, or left, middle or right 1/3

- CopyClip: I don't use this clipboard manager all the time, but when I do, it SAVES MY BUTT

- Sublime: speaking of saving my butt...Sublime has never once lost a single file. I love Vim but Sublime has flawless reliability

- Cmd+0: Global hotkey to "new browser window" If you do something 20+ times a day, make it super stupid fast (I know it conflicts with "reset zoom" but I can just manually adjust zoom back to 100%)

- Shell scripts: If I'm typing more than 3+ commands over and over again, just script it. Scripting isn't scary and more developers need to be doing it. (I seem to be the only one on my team, which is why I say that)
Pink noise
What sort of neural network implements human-style learning and inference?
They need to offer a downloadable version of everything. I won't use it for this reason as well.
Here's a simple algorithm that would help millions, yet it is not accessible to most patients:

Ordering A1C, remembering to actually check the results, and telling patient to stop eating sugar - well before they are symptomatic for diabetes.
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Why not set them as environment variables? Add a debug mode or whatever and then if set, pull from environment vars instead of config files. Not saying you should trust Kite to keep your code, but as a general practice might be a better idea.
I've seen reviews comparing clinical-decision-support-systems, which advise doctors on diagnosis and treatment and the machines did better.

There's also some research, in general , about the resistance of doctors to such systems. And yes while some of the reasons are UI, some are motivated by doctors preferences.

And even if the UI is a bit slow, we should at least seen such systems common in the more critical settings, or just with vulnerable or complex patients.
I'd like to have them, but I don't want to load any external scripts on my site (for speed purposes mostly). Is it possible to make your own share button and share something on the various social media networks with just an URL, or a POST request?
"TBH I think most quotes can be over analyzed like this to the point that the quote seems ridiculous."

But I think this one is special that way, which is why I call it out. It is not "sane" to do the same thing over and over and expect the same results, either. The implicit dichotomy the English creates is simply false.

I'm actually rather big into "wisdom", to a degree that the average HN reader would probably find rather quaint and old-fashioned. This is not a wise saying. The "kernel" in its center is not true. The truth that it sorta-kinda points out is not in its center.
..so what is a tech company then?
Well, specifically, it implies an open source license under the OSI definition, which happens to be almost identical in a licenses covered to the Free Software definition from the FSF.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971909 :)
Geocomputers and the Commercial Borg
Well we're in total agreement then, just with slightly different perspectives. I think if we were both told to come to a mutual decision about a plan for the future of humanity, the plans would resemble each other more than anything. Space is the future if we live that long, and longevity is an issue that needs to be addressed. In the near-term though, we're on the bubble of losing our civilization in the next century or so and we need to put that fire out now.
I've got facts you can spin into whatever dumb shit you feel like believing. How we choose to direct civilization is less contingent on facts than beliefs. When our belief systems are as badly fractured as they are we can't do much of anything, we're a clusterfuck nation. Even our best people, armed with the best facts available can't predict the future, but a bad plan is better than no plan at all. Nobody is even on the same page anymore.

Our world is officially too complex for anyone to understand, and you expect the average voter to to engage critical thinking to positive effect? We just failed at that catastrophically. It's completely unrealistic, there's no evidence for it.
The feedback loop is poor, even if you ignore biases.

How do consumers know their favourite brand is filing lawsuits, much less know if they're frivolous?
Is this a product in the digital marketing space? If so, I might be interested in acquiring it.
It's too bad Shackelton's advertisement has turned out to be apocryphal: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."
Over here it would mean a criminal investigation against the judge and dismissal.
But right now Uber is actually subsidizing your ride, so you pay $10, the driver gets $20 and Uber's "cut" is -$10. On top of that Uber does have expenses of their own so Uber loses $15 total.

The only way this works over the long term is to force out competition so that they can massively jack up prices, and/or replace drivers with self-driving cars that have lower costs.
So, that's the whole thing about manifolds.

A (hollow) circle lives in 2D space, but is actually one-dimensional. How so? I can continuously map it to two 1D structures, one straight line for the top part and one straight line for the bottom part.

Now, there are moments (such as a cursive "e", for example) where our line crosses itself (so there's a point in two different "regions" of the line), so we can't say that all cursive writing is 1D. But it's darn close to being so.

What's more: even though our characters are darn-close-to-being-1D, the text we write with them is 1-dimensional. Some concrete poetry has tried to be two-dimensional, to little effect, but we mostly have sequential thoughts and a sequential language -- and only 1D structures can be sequential.
after reading this article it made me think about and episode of Scrubs I was watching the other day, where Dr. Cox made a decision that led to 3 deaths of his patients and after he was afraid to make decisions during the episode. I thought to myself it must be difficult to make a decisions that could affect peoples lives, would having a machine help make those decisions easier an more accurate?

I mean sure you have doctors that have 20 years of experience but still get the diagnosis wrong even it if it's close, but still it seems that compared to machines that get feed large amounts of data still come up short to. I think saying machines will replace doctors is the wrong approach, in the article one of the doctors interviewed said "If it helps me make decisions with greater accuracy, I’d welcome it”. Thats we need more tools that enable doctors to make more accurate decision than going on an experienced hunch.

I think it's great this subject is being explored it will help more people, and doctors do their jobs even better.
Am I the only one who is pissed about Signal removing SAFETEY WORDS?
Why in God's name did they remove them? Am I the only person that actually used them? Am I the only one verifying other people's security numbers? Oh and also, does anyone look at the debug logs from their app???

I want everyone who knows what they're looking at to go and look at the debug log from your Signal app and post what you find here. Post the gist link or paste it into a ghostbin.. You will find some scary shit. First of all, DNS hijacking on ios and especially Android is HUGE right now. If someone is hijacking your DNS, and you use Signal, you are resolving and most likely proxying your texts and conversations through unknown servers... Here, have a look at the topology of their root domain whispersystems.org - https://www.threatcrowd.org/domain.php?domain=whispersystems.org

Let's talk about this fuckery:
Yeah I was surprised to see stripe doesn't use faster payments in the UK.
Velodyne vQuiet. They're not the best, but they periodically go on sale for $30 and they're very good for that price.
>> I don't think artificial restrictions on political involvement are the right way to go about a resolution. That ultimately just forces participants underground.

I don't see any justification for someone in Florida funding a campaign for a senator in Michigan or California.
"In the last 25 years we have seen the explosion of Musk's empire across the solar system. " - you have to admit that is pretty funny...
Good luck to AI with procedures that require a doctor to search/find/diagnose a small(0.4cm) breast tumor in a ultrasound exam that could actually save the patient's life. AI can be applied(it is actually) in computer tomography scans but in exams like X-ray, ultrasound etc you cannot make it work( at least now).
Also there is legal issue: who is responsible for the diagnose? The computer? The institution ? A doctor? AI in medicine will help us a lot but it's too early!
As people already pointed out that your product isn't free, if you require knowledge about a person then they're giving you their information. Facebook doesn't cost a user money, but it costs them plenty else.

For a product with a "free tier" that doesn't work where a user needs to sign up several times, the product itself is flawed.

However, disposable emails again are not the problem, as there are tons of ways to get valid, working emails to bypass any unique email requirements. Blocking disposable emails aren't going to help you with that. The only thing you're removing it a user's access to better privacy. Again, if you require knowing who your users are then you are not a free service.

If you don't care about having users unless you know their real email addresses then you should consider validating their identity in other means, besides an email address. Many services use a text message to validate you also have a phone number that works, which is much harder to anonymize (although I personally have four different numbers for this very reason, based on the trust I give a service I decide which number I want to provide them - since to me, my privacy is worth something, I don't share it for free).
Is it too soon to ask the question if it is possible to compile these and run them in some emulator?
As someone working on a non-profit startup, I regularly half-joke that our long-term expectations are to make just enough impact that the vested interests who prefer the status quo will take notice enough and do whatever to make us disappear. If you start out with this awareness, you might not be okay being right about it, but maybe not totally outraged at the inevitable injustice…
> But I'd say it is wrong for you to contribute to a group buying campaign advertising in another state for their congresspersons or senators.

Eh, maybe there's a decent argument for that when it comes to their state reps or governors. But the federal government is a national government, and elections for the Senate or House are no less national than those to elect members of the Electoral College.
> It'll be awhile before you run into the limitations of CSS that Facebook is running into.

Or until your designer wants the corporate website and the internal dashboard to have buttons that look different.
It's true that the supposed accuracy of the Norden bombsight was made much of in propaganda; the Carl L. Norden company itself, for instance, bought a block of time in a 1943 Barnum & Bailey circus performance at Madison Square Garden to show a routine involving a clown using the sight to drop a bomb into a barrel. (Here's Life magazine's article on the performance: https://books.google.com/books?id=EU4EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA27&ots=...)

But it wasn't all propaganda; the government really did believe the Norden was critical technology, and required a range of extreme security measures to protect it, including having bombardiers check their bombsights out of their planes and into a secured facility after each mission. But it was all more or less for naught, as the Germans had a man inside the Norden company itself who passed them a range of confidential materials related to the sight's design before being caught in the roundup of the infamous "Duquesne spy ring" in 1941. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne_Spy_Ring for more on the latter.)
V8 runs in simh. I don't have installation instructions though :/
You might enjoy the discussions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929692 .
In the 'See also' section: "Mary Babnik Brown, whose hair was used for the bombsight crosshairs."

The wikipedia articles on Mary Babnik Brown says: "In 1944 Brown was the first woman to have her hair used for military aircraft bombsights.[6] She saw an advertisement in a Pueblo newspaper in 1943 that said the government was looking for hair from women for the war effort, although no details were given as to how it would be used. The ad said only that they wanted blonde hair that was at least 22 inches long (56 cm), and which had not been treated with chemicals or hot irons. The women's hair collection for use as bombsight crosshairs was a clandestine operation even though they found the hair through a newspaper advertisement."

I wonder if only her hair was used? Or other peoples hair was used too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Babnik_Brown
Why are you encrypting my password (as opposed to hashing it)[0]?

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/59VOotU.png
Even in the midwest I've seen this a lot in the last year or two. A couple months ago I was suspicious about the CEO of a startup's claims of "machine learning", so I pressed him on it; turns out it was much less ambitious than his pitch made it sound. On the part of that CEO, he was probably making a smart pitch because most investors, _especially_ around here, aren't going to know enough to call this out, and are going to fully believe the company pitching has a magical ML-black-box giving them a significant edge over the competition.
These are the operating systems the Blit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr1XXvSaVUQ) was used with.
I am not an expert in this field.

From what I currently understand in the CNN/deep learning arena, sigmoids are avoided in favor of RELU, due to a number of reasons, chiefly that of avoiding gradient fade during backprop.

I'm surprised that you don't mention this (or don't seem to be aware of it), though? Is this intentional, or is there another reason?
So can I use this without an internet connection? The environments I work in are basically SCIFs. Think i'll stick with Jedi for now.
Instead of reading the usual hacker news echo chamber, probably good to read what doctors thought about the article too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/61sgfw/ai_versus_...
I would say I 100 percent know people change the climate. How much I do not know.

I have yet to see any scientific proof as to what percentage of change will be man made, or what degree the earth will change without human intervention. I dont think of myself as a denier but I do think of myself as someone who likes facts. In the research I have done when I have dug deeper it turns up a lot of assumptions\models. I think the science has to develope more to answer those type of questions accurately. I am not jumping to a conclusion of severity, I just want more facts so the correct action can be taken.
We got v8 (for VAX) running in SIMH. We could probably bootstrap v10 from that on the same emulated hardware.

We also have a blit emulator, but it's for Plan 9 only at the moment.

It's unclear whether there exists a sun m68k emulator that could run v9.
Link to the original Alcatel-Lucent statement:
https://media-bell-labs-com.s3.amazonaws.com/pages/20170327_...
Ask HN: Comcast just told me it takes 90 days to cancel account
We've switched to another provider, and we're trying to cancel our comcast account.

When I called up they told me that it takes 90 days to disconnect us, even if we return all the equipment. During which they'll be billing us. I know if we decided not to pay our bill, it'd be shutoff in seconds. So that's total BS.

Does anyone know how to get ahold of someone that can actually terminate our account?
My GP encourages me to go online and research things for myself. When he first diagnosed me as diabetic, one of the first things he said was "go online and read up on diabetes, and then we'll talk it over in more detail when you come back in a month".

There's also a phenomenon where patients can actually become more knowledgeable than their physicians (especially a GP who is a generalist by nature) regarding their specific condition(s). It might sound counter-intuitive, but think about it - a GP / Family Doctor has to know something about pretty much every condition under the sun. He / she doesn't have time to spend obsessively focusing on just, say, diabetes. Me, on the other hand, the only condition I care about is diabetes, so I can spend all my free time on Pubmed reading all the latest papers on the subject, etc.

And as it happens, recently my diabetes took a turn for the worse. I was originally diagnosed as a type 2, and was being treated with metformin and my blood sugar had been stable for 5 years or so, but it took a big jump sometime in the past few months. I had read up on "type 1.5" diabetes / LADA, and had an inkling that might be my situation. So I read more on that before going to see my doctor, and when I got there, I was actually the one telling him which tests we should run to confirm/deny that scenario. (Note: of course he looked the stuff up to confirm it instead of just taking my word, but he was nodding and going "yep, you're right" as he was doing so).

No AI involved, but I do believe the widespread availability of medical research / information at the patient level is a valuable thing. Yeah, some people probably annoy the shit out of their doctors with uninformed self-diagnosis, but I don't think that offsets the benefit of this information being available.
> when I was young and I tried reading it I realized that even though millions and millions of perfectly functioning adults believe in something, it might be absolutely wrong or based on basically nothing.

Even as a confident Christian, there are many people who profess to be Christians but who have a very different understanding of what that means than I.

To me, being a Christian is about having faith in Christ's divinity and the truthfulness of His message, and striving to live my life as is asked of me. I often fail, but I persist.

To others this seemingly cannot be the case, because they attribute words, actions, and attitudes to Christ and to God that serve only themselves and are at odds with scripture.
I don't care so much about m.facebook.com, but I've been using mbasic.facebook.com on both desktop and mobile since someone on this site pointed it out. It's awkward, but it works with absolutely no JavaScript, and lets me keep in touch with Facebook-oriented friends (in the original sense) with much less potential surveillance. It's also part of their "altruistic" Free Basics program, so it has enough PR value to stick around for awhile.
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The idea is very nice, but I don't like the fact that it is just an API for calculations. That kind of defeats the purpose of a spreadsheet format.

At first I thought it was an actual spreadsheet application, or an Excel plugin or whatever.

I tried multiple times to create a spreadsheet app that would speak to JSON APIs easily from within cells. The problem is that writing a spreadsheet app from scratch is not easy (one of my tries: http://sheets.alhur.es/), but when that is done it is not hard to integrate it directly with PouchDB, CouchDB -- or any other database or application, actually, with a custom integration.
This would be a winner if the indexing were done locally and only usage data regarding public packages were sent to kite.com