skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even a dog knows you can’t erase something once it’s flowed on the internet.

False. Dogs do not know anything about digital technology. Dogs barely understand dog leashes.
Help.  Pivot suggestions needed for agency focused tool
Hello everyone,

We launched topii.com a few months ago to help agencies with a large volume of low value orders manage their clients, orders and freelancers better. The tool was originally built to solve our problems running such an agency, so we thought it would be useful to others in a similar situation.

We however found that most of our target agencies already had a similar internal system, or were using a couple of tools they were happy with. We've reached out to agencies in CV writing, proofreading and translation industries with little success.

As this was a tool that helped solve our problem, I naively thought it could be useful to similar companies in my industry. My mistake. As a last resort, I'd like to solicit feedback from experts on Clarity on alternative industries / business areas where they think such a tool may be useful.

Topii is currently a service booking tool that agencies can use in managing their orders, clients and freelancers. It can accept orders and payments from clients, assign work to freelancers and manage deliverables. It can also be easily pivoted into a tool for managing or paying freelancers.

Please have a look and share your thoughts. I'll be open to speaking further if you have a suggestion we can work with.

Thanks
I went for a few years without a dental checkup because I couldn't get time to do it during the hours the dentist was open. (Granted, I also didn't choose to spend my vacation getting checkups.) In many programs, there is simply so little slack in the system that absence is acceptable only for emergencies.

And, sure, we can talk about how that's bad, unacceptable, etc., but that's the reality that everyone I know lived during residency.
Residents barely have time to eat (we called it "low food security"), let alone consider their mental health. I've actually heard it vocalized as a strategy for hospital administration -- keep the residents absurdly overworked and stressed out (and with no way out, since almost all of them have so much debt that leaving the profession is not an option), and they can't muster the coordination to do anything about their terrible working conditions.
Apple’s Rumored Smart Speaker May Not Be an Echo Killer–Or Even a Smart Speaker
South African Doctors Complete Second Successful  Transplant – Notionbug
"Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace" is better than "The Elements of Style".

https://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-12th/dp/0...
The problem is, that for CTOs, there are so many people who 'know' how to make things better for them. You can't listen to them all.
But I'm under no obligation to limit my own utility so as to maximize the pool of people who are not on FB so that your digital footprint is proportionately more shallow, Jacques.

Suppose, in any case, that I persuaded my valued social circle (perhaps 10 intimates, 40 casual friends, 150 acquaintances) to move off FB to some other platform. This is unlikely as I'm not the only or most important reason reason they're on FB, but anyway: what would be different? OK, there would be less commercial exploitation of our information, but that doesn't seem like your primary concern. The NSA would, doubtless, still be vacuuming up our conversations just as the NSA vacuums up all the discussions we have here, and can easily cross reference our HN handles with our more detailed and specific identities on other platforms. I could posit a secure platform where everything was encrypted and all interpersonal communications metadata on said platform was cryptographically obscured, but then we'd have 200 going to the same site every day, presumably to communicate with each other in secret. That in itself would be of interest to intelligence gatherers, and how difficult would it be to social engineer oneself into a group of 200 people? Not very, and once inside one has most of the access one needs already because otherwise where is the utility?

I can't help feeling that you're arguing for a very highly highly elaborated version of security through obscurity. I prefer the security of knowing that if anything happens to me it will upset enough people to have negative ramifications for my antagonist. I find the conceit that we can have a situation where private actors enjoy all the benefits of instantaneous and frictionless communication but government actors are enjoined from participating even at the user level by virtue of the political authority they wield neither theoretically nor practically sensible.
In that particular case I contacted them by email, introduced myself and explained why I had contacted them specifically, what I knew about what they were doing and the problem I was solving and asked if they wanted to discuss it. They responded and said they were not interested. I replied and said that's fine, if they change their mind to get back in touch. They wrote back again with the 'foad' response as you suggested, really quite a shock considering I had expressed already that it was all good and I had considered it the end of the conversation and didn't actually expect a reply. Unless I actually share the emails with you I'm sure it just sounds like he said she said but I do think I'm describing this quite accurately, most people did not reply like this, especially people who I had researched and were generally interested in software and tech, they were either interested in discussing the opportunity or calmly explained why they were already good. I am just providing my experience of some bad leadership at the top when it comes to software/tech.
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'need' : no

'preference' : yes

The whole entertainment industry can go away over the next month, it wouldn't matter much. But most would prefer it didn't. There's also more than enough movies/tv shows/sports recordings/music etc for anyone's lifetime, but most would prefer to see newer ones. Enough people can afford their preference to have new ones produced every day.
And, Dr. Titze said, high glucocorticoid levels are linked to such conditions as osteoporosis, muscle loss, Type 2 diabetes and other metabolic problems.

And cystic fibrosis, which is perhaps best tldr'd as a salt wasting condition, frequently leads to Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes, which is neither type 1 nor type 2 diabetes.
What's always worked in the past is hire good people, pay them well, treat them well and train them well. Pretty simple. Authoritarian type companies tend to do poorly at that though.
> Do they actually care about privacy? Hard to believe.
Do these people have vested interest in sustaining the corrupt middleman model ? Easy to believe.

Are there people whose corrupt interests are impacted by Aadhar creating noise? Surely. Does that mean there are no legitimate concerns about such a program? Of course not. We're trying to discuss the latter here. I do not find you meaningfully contributing to that discussion, with the exception of your first post (in which you mention the benefits Aadhar brought your parents).

I mentioned elsewhere that centralized anti-corruption programs have a terrible track record for a reason. If you couldn't count on your institutions to prevent corruption, you cannot count on them to prevent abuse of power. Given that track record, a default position of scepticism is warranted.

India has a history of handing tremendous power to strong(wo)men, and suffering tremendously for it. Creating a tool that allows politicians to punish surgically-targeted swaths of political and/or economic opposition should be approached cautiously. Decrying any opposition to the program as the product of corrupt stooges is bad rhetoric at best, and corrosive to informed debate and the democratic process, within India and internationally, at worst.
How do we get more subscribers, followers, and signups?
The Roman policy of "bread and circus" helped prevent rioting in the streets. I would much rather our resources go to entertainment than to more police and prisons.

So, I am happy to put entertainment in the category of need.
True. It's probably a sign of good writing if you can elicit such a response.

"The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

F. Scott Fitzgerald.
I can't take these things seriously when they say stuff like "It’s not as musical as Spanish, or Italian, or French, or as ornamental as Arabic, or as vibrant as some of your native languages."

The classic fetishism of Romance languages and exoticization of everything else is alive and well.
You should read the Privacy section at https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...

> One of the most persistent misunderstandings about Safe Browsing is the idea that the browser needs to send all visited URLs to Google in order to verify whether or not they are safe.

> While this was an option in version 1 of the Safe Browsing protocol (as disclosed in their privacy policy at the time), support for this "enhanced mode" was removed in Firefox 3 and the version 1 server was decommissioned in late 2011 in favor of version 2 of the Safe Browsing API which doesn't offer this type of real-time lookup.

Firefox 3 - That was 9 years ago.
It takes a lot of technical skill at copying, yes. But that's not enough for a number of reasons.

First, that's not the same as the skill in creating the artwork to begin with. For example, an artist make create an original painting from a live model or from his imagination. The copier may have no such ability, or may have a very weak ability at doing that. They might be great at taking an artwork that's already made and copying it, though. Pretty different skills.

Then there's the choice of subject matter, the composition, what of him/herself the artists brings to the art, the artist's own style (not the style of some other artist he/she is copying) are all things that a pure copier does not have and can not bring to the creation of the copy with it ceasing to be a faithful copy.

Now, if the forger is, like the subject of the article in question, creating some of his own works in the style of another artist, without outright copying their work, then they are being more of an artist in their own right rather than just a copying machine. But they're still far removed from making their own art -- something the forger in the article was all too well aware of.

"I view my life as a failure. I went the wrong way. I could have done something useful. If I could have my time again, I’d like to be a teacher at an art college."

"The problem is that I can’t find my own style," he says. "Whenever I think of an idea for a piece, I know who it’s copying. I always see something of someone else in everything I do. I don’t have an original style."

Some non-artists might not be able to understand this distinction, but it's crystal clear to most artists.
I agree with this. Google and FB are semi conscious artificial intelligences. I further doubt that the chief executives or technologists at either firm enjoy direct conversation with said entities - they can communicate with them, but only in the crude reflexive manner of a doctor hitting your knee with a hammer.
The problem is (and I've seen this happening) for many managers or C-levels, it's really hard to see the distinction between high- and low quality. They just can't tell.

So if all offers look the same quality to you, you obviously buy the cheapest.
I think Thor Heyerdahl or someone on one of his crews noted that when they added seawater to the freshwater to make it last longer it also made them less thirsty.

IIRC they thought it was an interesting observation since it was against all common understanding, but I don't think they ever came close to a solution to why.
Looks sweet. May I ask: what did you find wanting in the other attempts (like Seaborne)?
The conclusions drawn from the introductory story are basically inaccurate. Acute coronary syndrome (for which catheterization is indicated) comes in three flavors: STEMI, NSTEMI, and unstable angina. STEMI is the type of heart attack that has EKG changes. NSTEMI is heart attack without (criteria-meeting) EKG changes. The definition of unstable angina is chest pain at rest or new onset angina that limits activity.

So, when the executive presented to the hospital, the doctors who proposed coronary angiography were following guidelines (and standard of care virtually everywhere in the United States).

It is also true, however, that when the patient refused, left the hospital, fortunately had no events, and then presented as an outpatient to another doctor, it was reasonable at that point to forgo catheterization. Enough time had passed that his angina condition could be considered stable.
> Fingerprints are harder to fake than what's being used currently - signatures and xerox

Yes, but once compromised they cannot be changed. Also, could you state clearly whether fingerprints would be used for authentication or identification?

> Fine. Don't authenticate with Aadhaar when you go to get a commercial service. Why force you choice on me?

Right back at you. I may have a choice when using a commercial service but why is the government forcing me to have an Aadhaar if I never intend to use it?

> And the info they get is name/dob/gender. Which they would anyway have - Aadhaar or no Aadhaar - since you are their customer.

Yes but they cannot build a profile of me using things like income bracket (pan linking), travel information (rail and air travel linking), social and family ties (various other ways). If you think this isn't even plausible in India, either you have skin in the game or are being (/ intentionally trying to be) incredibly naive.
Welcome to the little-discussed world of adult sleeping arrangements, where many couples secretly don't sleep next to each other. We don't talk about it much because those who do sleep next to each other think that our relationships must be horribly broken, and we don't feel the need to justify our choices, or get into details of the logistics of our intimate lives. But talked about or not, it is true -- many more couples than you might think choose sleep separately for exactly the reasons shown by this data. A good night's sleep is more important in the long run than physical proximity to your partner.
Extra points: Provide a graph showing correlation (or inverse) sexytimes vs Bedtime(apart) and Bedtime(together)
LOL
The art of screenshake (2013) [video]
> I see the problem with this is gaining traction. With no users on board you'll have no users on board

That's the same reason Facebook would never beat MySpace and MySpace would lose out to Friendster.

Metcalf's Law and initial traction are real challenges to achieving critical mass of users, but it has been done. I'm biased to hope for @ghughes success and that enough people care about privacy to give it or similar services a shot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713563 (245 points, 93 days ago, 120 comments)
The one thing that immediately caught my eye is the lack of fixed-width-ness (for lack of a better term) in the value displays. IMHO besides being somewhat annoying to read it can be rather misleading, which is bad especially for something "designed specifically to use as a teaching tool". It's misleading because it doesn't show that the storage for the values is fixed-width. For example, this clearly shows that the registers are 32 bits and never anything but:

R0 0000BEEF
R1 000BEEF0
R2 000000BE
R3 00000001
R4 BEEF0000
R5 00005F77
R6 00000000
R7 00000000
...

I've taught Asm before and seen so many students get this wrong that it's worth calling out. In fact the right example under the "Error Correction Suggestions" section gets this wrong too --- that's an assembly/syntax error, not a runtime error. (ARM's immediate value encoding is also worth looking at if you haven't seen it before, since it's not just a single 32-bit value either: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/arm-immediate-value-encoding/ )

The other thing that I'd suggest as an improvement is a 16-byte-hexdump mode with ASCII on the right for "View Memory Contents". Other than that, with perhaps the exception of "infinite loop detection", the other features look useful.
Nobody needs a movie. In most of the cases nobody really needs anything that they can wait for (except organ donors, etc.). It's just that whether people prefer to pay for certain pleasures or not. And getting to see a movie I want to see home before theatrical releases are done and finished is sth. I can pay (not all movies I want to see play in my city). People pay hundreds of dollars for things not even made yet on Kickstarter and the like, just to be early adopters.
> martial arts in the age of firearms has become relegated to the fringe

But also new martial arts appeared such as IPSC or 3Gun.

> running in the age of automobiles

There's Formula 1 and other motor sports that are pretty popular.

> Machines taking over human disciplines still kills the disciplines

It kills some and gives birth to others.
And with reddit gold you can even have it hilight all new replies regardless of sort order. This can be really useful for viewing older discussions and see what's been added.
> We can make robots that work in space. We can surely make things which work in this environment.

Space is a way less challenging environment than mountains for robots, which are well equipped to handle, say, lack of air and gravity, but poorly equipped to handle rough and rocky terrain and lots of gravity.
In places like India, where landmark-based navigation is the norm or there aren't many road names (especially outside of large cities), Google Maps uses businesses as landmarks. A random example:

https://goo.gl/maps/JwVHDycGTfE2

Head southeast on hanuman galli Rd toward Kalyan-Badlapur Rd
Pass by Gopal Cooperative Housing Society (on the left)
400 m

Turn left at Shubharamb Wedding Cards & Corporate Designs onto Kalyan-Badlapur Rd
Pass by Hamilton Cycles Industry (on the right in 1.1 km)
1.9km
Economists puzzled about why incomes not rising, but workers have a good hunch
Pretty cool to have data on this. My more recent long-term relationships have involved actually sleeping in separate beds 99% of the time, which I'm quite happy with.

Maybe it works for some couples, but it seems like a tradition borne of history and culture and limited living space. Much prefer having my own room.
At a guess, previous generations would talk in terms of distance-to-destination, whereas we talk in terms of time-to-destination. They would think of a highway and a neighborhood as having the same "speed limit" (foot or horse-and-cart). We, with cars, think of highways as having a much lower time cost (or higher time efficiency) than neighborhood roads.
Have been explicitly forbidden ;(
This is the bbc documentary about it, very worth a watch!

https://youtu.be/S-v3sDXmRHk
And meditation, that some may put under marital arts, but I would put it alone as a thread that goes through everything.
Is it possible that machines will meditate one day? I don't know, but definitely we may need their compassion.
True, but I like how impressed he is by certain parts of the graphics/meshes :) The procedural generation technique, apart from saving tons of space, also allows for some pretty good+realistic tree trunk and rock objects (or "effects" as they'd be called if this had been a regular demo instead of a game).

I do agree with him about the lack of gore. It doesn't necessarily have to be bloody per se, but there's a great short gamedev presentation called "Juice it or lose it"[0] with loads of basic little tricks to make a game "juicier". They already hit a bunch of them, but there could have been some monster bits flying from the explosion.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg (15 mins)
I was trying to leave law aside:)

But, yes, Universities also have legal duties to their students. However, these vary significantly based on too many different factors to speak usefully in generalities (eg based on city & state, public or private, is it a research university, is there some kind of consent decree, etc) and of course, the facts of each case.

More simply: whether a University has a legal duty to protect students from online harassment will depend on the specific situation, but, in all cases, the University will have an interest.
Well, it certainly sounds like you spammed them. :(
System Failure at British Airways Shuts Down Flights Out of London
See also https://www.quantamagazine.org/solution-sleeping-beautys-dil...
I used to think it was weird that if I fell asleep without my girlfriend in the bed I saw a correlation to the number of times I woke up / quality of my sleep. We broke up two weeks ago and sleeping has certainly been the most difficult adjustment. Also why Quantum Biology is interesting as it paints a subconscious non-sensory human connection. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADiql3FG5is&t=388s / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8weQFmQYxL8

Working article link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yrb4OPB...
TL;DR: yet another massive chaos because some "smart" PHB doing "cost reduction" in IT.
Also they started pushing 'rate where you were' notifications way too much. Initially notifying when in maps app moved to ever increasing out of app notifications. That's when I stopped and turned if all maps notifications.
Back in the 80's they said that "material science" was the future so they created "materials science centers" at many Unis.

By the 00's, funding agencies got jaded about "materials science" so a few academic administrators stole Eric Drexler's "nanotechnology" word and started building "nanotechnology centers", and often they still double-dip and have a "materials science center" too.
Juice it or lose it (Gamedevelopment) (2012) [video]
Looks like hug of death:

> Error establishing a database connection

Does someone have an archive link? (Or an explanation why rendering this article requires a database connection, for that matter.)
You're assuming the hypothetical threat is not specific to BA.
Site down.

Advice: set up cloudflare for caching / cdn, it is free.
About 80% of computer science is (discrete) math or (constructive) formal logic. Another 50% is electrical engineering, and the final 70% is operations research, quantum mechanics, and philosophy. The remainder is biology, psychology, and a sprinkling of physics. But the majority is really programming.
In Deep Learning, Architecture Engineering Is the New Feature Engineering
They did, it's just the latin spelling: GOLLVM.
Well, the Go low-level VM, of course!
> Is there any substantial evidence of this of broad statement?

Even if this hasn't happened yet, Are there any measures in place to keep this from happening?... Ever... Irrespective of the party in power?

The current government does not even want to acknowledge the possibility let alone describe the checks and measures put in place to avoid it from happening.
I honestly LOL'd at this, especially trying to imagine the discussion:

"But honey, it's for science! Don't you want to make the world a better place!?"
"Error establishing a database connection"

Oh, PHP and MySQL.
Id love to see them compare Here maps. I use Here for all my driving. Its much better interface, directions timing and has some unique features.Also I like the idea of supporting an independent player. While Google Maps is better when looking for businesses like a restaurant etc.
> "We believe the root cause was a power supply issue."

I mean, fuck you. Whoever built this system to run an airline that can't tolerate someone tripping over a power cable. There should be a way to get planes in the sky using hand-written paper tickets and you know it, Jeremy. You know it god-damned well.
Because it is using Wordpress or some other useless PHP-based CMS.
It requires a database connection because it's Wordpress and Wordpress stores the article's content in the database, not the filesystem.