skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's the truth, isn't it? From a scientific perspective, it might be interesting to see how well the placebo effect holds up if patients literally think it won't work, e.g. by selecting participants who haven't heard of the placebo effect, and not informing them. But from the perspective of helping people, if the placebo effect is to some extent caused by knowledge of the placebo effect, so much the better; there's no deception in that.
Historic Space Systems: Apollo FDAI
I presume you get paid for this specifically?
That's good to hear, and congratulations on the increasing responsibilities of fatherhood. ;)
If you encrypt your iCloud backups isn't the whole concern moot anyway?
If I hear data structure lisp code is not on my mind, so it's rather an API or a drawing library?

Most Lisps, especially Common Lisp which inconvergent is using, have plenty of data structures: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Front/Conte...

Common Lisp doesn't have a nice literal structure for hash tables/maps/dicts but that is easily mended with a macro.

"(with-snek (snk) ..." is a macro which abstracts away lower level tedious boilerplate. It hands you "snk" on a platter so you can manipulate it.

Common Lisp itself also comes with some of these macros: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/CLHS/Front/X_Alp...

"with-open-file" (skip to the examples) is a nice one since it takes care of opening and closing the file for you so you can write your block of code inside of it and be sure the file gets opened and closed properly:

(with-open-file (f "/path/to/file" :direction :output :if-exists :supersede)
... your code writing to "f" comes here ...
)
And how is open source a guarantee of better security? The SSL Heartbleed bug was in the wild for over a year
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted, as far as I can tell, much of /google/ on github is 20% projects that google only owns because they were done on company time/machines.
Maybe you're not old enough?

When you're 80 you may miss the heydays of your 40s when you were at the peak of your career (and possibly family life).

There are probably a lot of 30-somethings for which their teenage high-school years were the best years of their lives (I know several, I'm 34 myself and prefer my present to my past), so the right age for nostalgia is probably a very individual thing.
The paradox of choice only exists between things with meaningless differences!

The difference between these is the price of a single product, there is no paradox here, the user just needs to take over an hour + programming to even get the information out of Amazon.
Reasons are given in the recode post linked within:

Michael, as Recode also reported, was also involved in an incident where an Uber executive he managed directly named Eric Alexander obtained the medical records of a rape victim in India. He also came under the spotlight when he suggested digging up dirt on journalists to a BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith in 2014.
Be careful, I once got this from Apple (they had misunderstood something about my app)

"Deliberate disregard of the App Store Review Guidelines and attempts to deceive users or undermine the review process is a direct violation of section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement. Continuing to violate the Terms & Conditions of the Apple Developer Program will result in the termination of your account, as well as any related or linked accounts, and the removal of all your associated apps from the App Store."
Why does this remind me of CORBA?
Hmm. I like having choice in the sense that I can choose what I prefer and someone else can seek their choice as well. An alternative is only having access to the popular product in that segment (maybe I don't like Fujis, or I prefer whole milk over skim).

I think the paradox of choice is an issue when you initially don't have prior information on something, but once you know what you prefer, there is no paradox as one is pretty much settled with one's choice.
Interesting. Thanks for the references.

It strikes me that I have recently done this in another area as well - grocery shopping. We used to go to the largest, cheapest grocery store, less than a mile from our house. But now we much prefer a smaller, more expensive place a few miles away. A bigger part of this decision is local/organic options and pricing, but I did recently think about exactly this (the incredible amount of choice and associated anxiety) when I had occasion to get a few things at the big store again.
Genius itself is a slippery social construct, defined by social position rather than any actual objective ranking.

(Also, the author's a she, genius.)
Show HN: Quotes – an ambient webpage for EO1/EO2 or similar passive display
I don't know how much work is done on this, but you guys need to build an eco system such as theon
once I get ARM CPU, I know there lots of IP which I can used in SOC with easy plugin integration

Also, easy debugging like ARM coresight, is critical for adopting this ISA

wish you all success, we need open ISA
This is a work of art. The ProgressQuest game loading screen is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Like all well-told jokes, it's in the timing.
The best thing about 15 years ago was that my body was 15 years younger. Missing their youth probably has more to do with missing any particular specific cultural artifact of the time.
Magnetic air filters for the home, anyone? Its an untouched market!

Not to mention magnetic filters for motorcyclists. Asia is full of motorcyclists who use dust masks. Adding a "magnetic filter", even one barely effective, might be very popular in Hanoi and Saigon, for example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=motorcyclists+in+saigon+wear...

Finally, an application for old disk drive magnets!8-)): grind them up into coarse domain-sized grains at low temperature (so they don't lose their magnetism) and then toss them into the paper/fiber pulp mixture used to make masks. You should get a mask that filters the usual particles and also captures iron nanoparticles.

Add a few billboards on major highways depicting nursing-home residents with Alzheimers' disease and saying "Don't end up like this!" and those masks will be flying off the shelves. Profit!
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>Instead, of getting excited by any of the projects I proposed, Cathy got really, really angry at me for (I guess) intimidating her (?).

I've had similar experiences to this, across work, academia, friends, and online gaming. My thought is that you made her question her personal identity as a mathematician, and this doubt created a state of cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance gets dealt with in many ways. Some people simply shut down and try to purge the event from memory, and pretend as if it never happened.

Others will deflect and do everything to convince themselves and those around them that their perception of reality is the truth. It seems like few people are actually capable of re-evaluating their current position and coming to some sort of internal compromise.

In the case of dealing with harsh truths about oneself, this can be coupled with some sort of plan or goal to improve and get to the point that they initially believed themselves to be at, and/or that they believe that they deserve to be at.

I think what you experienced is a variant of the former, where her inner turmoil was channeled as anger and projected onto you, because you (inadvertently) made her question her identity, and I've learned that this can cause certain people to experience a complete collapse of how they view themselves.

You can see this happen all the time with people who tie their perception of being "good" at something to their identity, and who have completely exaggerated and inappropriate reactions when something that contradicts that perception happens.

A short-term example of this is the way that people who dedicate lots of time to online team-based videogames and consider themselves "good" players blame their teammates for losses in order to absolve themselves and maintain their identity.

A long-term example is how people react to unwillingly losing their career, due to factors like injury, legal issues, money (when self-employed), or the job simply ceasing to exist due to economic collapse or technology. Something like this is completely devastating for most, and they irrecoverably fall into depression.
Not all computers are Intel or AMD and not all Intel or AMD computers have the "features" to which you refer.

Even more, nothing requires these computers to be connected to the untrusted network. ME requires an internet connection.

The message encrypted on the user-controlled computer can be moved to the "mobile phone" via a wired local network, serial link or removable media. Is such transfer to and from the device made difficult by the way these mobile phones are constructed and configured? Yes, and probably this is intentional. Companies want user data and the way they get it is by encouraging users to store data in the "cloud".

Most importantly, these Intel and AMD based computers are not the only computers capable of encrypting messages.

If ME scares you then do not use computers that have it.

If you have computers with ME then disconnect them from the internet and get a computer without ME for your internet needs.

This message was typed on a computer that does not have ME, would not be considered "desktop" and would probably not qualify as "modern". It makes no difference. No problems encypting messages on it.
It's an article about wasm
Tell HN: Angellist jobs terrible user experience
Ugh. Forces me to create a full resume and answer goodness knows how many questions just to search their jobs.

No thanks. Terrible user experience.
Heck, Alberta is providing a model for how to regulate and insure Uber drivers. The only reason the rollout was paused last year was because the insurance issue couldn't be resolved in time. That has since been resolved and Uber is absolutely operating in the province.
I know I can buy so-so apples any time of year for very cheap. But I can also buy very delicious apples in season for a higher price. I can't say if the free market has spoiled my food unless I know the quality:price of apples in the past. I somewhat struggle with the option between poor:cheap and delicious:expensive, but overall I think it's best to have more choices and have confidence in making the decision for myself.
Of course law aren't magic, but of course they can have impact on society such as the reduce of weapons.
One reason is that the amount of training data is many many orders of magnitude smaller.

FWIW it seems the structure you're talking about exploiting is at a morphological and syntactic level, which modern language models tend to effectively handle. Semantics are a much harder problem.
> Power users make sure its save for them, if it is, it is save for 'normal' users as well.

Power users can make sure the code they're running is safe for them. There's no guarantee that Signal for example is running the same code they release to others.
How is this any different from the so-called "opioid epidemic" or any other prescription or substance abuse? Will the politicians and news media give this as much hysteria? Will they take punitive actions against patients?

People are medicated, self-medicated, addicts, etc for various reasons. Why are we so obsessed with what other people do or don't do?
Currently having this problem buying baby shoes on Amazon. The four sizes are duplicated and it's hard to tell which colors are just outright sold out for the size I want. Plus I need to weed out the third parties that are either selling this for more than retail, and I just can't figure out which combination results in the cheapest price that is listed.

I will probably just give up on this and either buy whatever color I want or go in-person to a baby shop to buy them.
Radon leaking into buildings has killed many orders of magnitude more people than nuclear accidents and nuclear weapons combined, no matter how liberal your estimates.
It would be funny (not really) if the lotion that arrived was counterfeit.

Due to Amazon's "just throw it all in the same pile!" method of combining their and re-sellers stock.
The Mathematics of Boolean Algebra
She, and exactly. A 1-in-1,000,000 person (like Terry Tao) saying Math and Science need all the 1-in-10,000 people it can get and the focus on the 1-in-1,000,000 people is not helpful is not useful advice for K-12 policymakers. If 1-in-10,000 people say that the 1-in-100 don't receive enough attention, that would be important information to elite college admissions people. But these people have no relevant experience with average people and probably have nothing useful to say about how to educate average kids in average schools.

Personally I think I am at best 1-in-100 smart. I don't know if in the future there will be useful work for people only as smart as I am.
Ex-Employee deletes all data from vpn provider
Are height and eye color also social constructs?
1. I don't know where you are getting this but this is wrong. First of all tuition doesn't pay anywhere close to even breaking even at this point much less investment. Second MIT is a private university so I don't know where you are getting tax thing. Where do you get more than half of funding doesn't go directly to my research? I think you are misunderstanding overhead rates. For example, a 50% overhead rate means to spend a million dollars for my lab, I need to raise 1.5M.

2. Most universities that do that don't require you to pay for space, but will base the amount of space you have on grant dollars you bring in. None that I know of make you pay for electricity, gas, cleaning, grant admin, compliance, bookkeeping, etc.

3. How does overhead make it difficult to do convincing and novel research? In fact overhead helps it in my opinion. This idea that getting rid of overhead will somehow make anything better or have better value for the money is seriously misguided.
You don't get IQ tests, personality tests, background checks, dna tests, etc in order to interview for a a job in EU? What's next? You don't have to handover your social media accounts to your boss?
> There just aren't that many barriers to entry in this space after Uber does all the hard work of dismantling those barriers.

FTFY.
I believe the logical implication of that sentence is backwards: it means most of the building will be used for Google Cloud as opposed to other Google products; it gives no information about how Google Cloud is distributed across Google offices, i.e. that building might be 100% GCloud but a minority of overall GCloud engineering.
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I look forward to living to 100. But, 80 would be even better if only I could regain a 12-year-old's sense of the passage of time.
I have been looking for this in some cases recently. If there is a particular product where I either know I need a certain brand or have researched options and settled on one, I try to remember to check the manufacturer's website first.
Sort of :) Explore the "c drive" to learn about the libs. I couldn't find an uncompressed version of the main code, but in the Chrome devtools most scripts are uncompresed.
"Social engineering", a term reserved for those who willingly buy into the Nigerian scams. Now these same people are somehow losing their phone numbers, it's laughable to me.

If you "lose" your phone number to "social engineering", you don't deserve a cell phone, please purchase a wall mounted, cord entangling mess.

Maybe this is just a Forbes scare tactic.
This is the underlying issue why Amazon is not ready to be a one-stop clothing shop.
I get the feeling it's very top heavy, with the vast majority coming from in-app purchases of games. Presumably these are the ones advertised relentlessly too.
Agreed, it seems harder to mobilize people in times of peace than in times of war. As an African, things were much clearer when it was a case of fighting colonialism. Now that we are "free" there isn't much to inspire us and keep us on the same page. We caught up in mindless politicking. Not having a cause or something to look forward to is a source of anxiety for me. The moment I am caught up in something new. Building a hydroponic garden, planning journey home then all else falls aside. I don't even read HN during those times when I am occupied.
There are only a handful of high end chip manufacturers left. The lock in you describe only really applies to Intel (and not that strongly either, they have been known to manufacture non-x86/x64 chips in the past). Manufacturers like TSMC are effectively a fab-for-hire, you're unlikely to see them turning down sales just to specialise in a single ISA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC
You seem to be attempting to validate and excuse behavior that is, frankly, extremely inappropriate and arguably cruel. When I was in my early 20s, something like this would make me very wary of approaching other people in the future, because I would have felt like I did something wrong. It would be legitimately traumatizing, and I am not using that word lightly. You agree that the person you are replying to did nothing wrong, but you are still blaming them.

Reverse the genders in the scenario, and think about it again. Would you still be defending a man who got angry at a female academic peer with no reasonable explanation? Do you still see the dynamics in the same light? Do you still make the same assumptions in regards to the intentions of both parties, and their subsequent reactions?
That's clearly a labor of love. Nice job!
Ask HN: What are the biggest wasters of human potential?
The first thing that comes to my mind is extreme poverty. It is unfathomable how many "geniuses" we have lost in the slums.

What do you think are the biggest "wasters" of human potential and what can be done about it?
Sorry getting a six figures job isn't easier for you.

Professionalism, it's what you are paid for.
Will not Google showing your pages on its domain decrease your visitor count and make your site less attractive to advertisers?
Really? You know NSF/DARPA/IARPA aslo fund private companies like Boeing and Lockheed. Are you saying you shouldn't have to pay for flights either because you pay taxes?
> I wanted an Exercise Ball once, Or a waterproof bluetooth speaker.

If it helps, my strategy is usually to do five minutes of research through Google first and then just get the item from Amazon. The only things I discover through Amazon's search function are things that are more or less commodities, in which case I buy the cheapest that fits my constraints for whom reviews aren't horrible. I buy and have bought a LOT of stuff on Amazon and I've never experienced the choice paralysis or search issues everyone is talking about here.
I suspect flywheels would do the job without the added complexity of a train.
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I'd hope that was the case everywhere, but there's still a big grey area. The British Thyroid Association says:

"There is no evidence to support the benefit of routine early treatment with thyroxine in non-pregnant patients with a serum TSH above the reference range but <10mU/L. Physicians may wish to consider the suitability of a therapeutic trial of thyroxine on an individual patient basis" [1]

So what might happen to you if your TSH is, say 3.5, for at least a decade (hey hey, I know the answer to this one...)? Well, you're at risk of elevated cortisol with resulting mental illness, to which my previously posted links will attest. Doctors, if they're not especially attentive, will just prescribe the usual anti-depressants (perhaps a low dosage as an anxiolytic) which are band-aids and don't get to the root of the problem.

Note that I never mentioned non-standard tests - "keep testing" means "keep getting the standard tests". The problem is that interpretation of the standard tests varies - some test results may or may not indicate disease, and this is not always carefully followed up on. There are of course many more people in this grey area than there are people with overt disease. I'd say if you're in the grey area and you have chronic mental health symptoms the risk/reward ratio is overwhelmingly in favour of treatment with thyroid hormone (carefully monitored of course).

[1] http://www.british-thyroid-association.org/info-for-patients...
Yea I think this is really really really stretching things.
We have to look at both benefits and harms. Benxodiazepines have caused absolutely immense harm, because they have a cluster of very nasty properties.

Tolerance and physical dependence develop rapidly. For most patients, the actual effect of the drug disappears within a few weeks unless the dose is increased. The most common withdrawal symptom is rebound anxiety, so you'll feel worse after stopping the drug than before you started. Benzodiazepines are respiratory depressants and tolerance of this effect develops more slowly; higher doses present a substantial risk of overdose, particularly when combined with alcohol. Paradoxical effects are remarkably common, with a significant proportion of patients developing impulsivity, aggression and mania.

I accept that long-term prescription of benzodiazepines may be a reasonable option for some treatment-resistant patients as a last resort, but America is grossly over-prescribing benzodiazepines with disastrous consequences. Here in the UK, benxodiazepines are some of the most strictly controlled prescription drugs and new prescriptions for more than 14 days are rare.
Intel doesnt let anyone else use their fabs.
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I could swear I have already seen this link somewhere /s

Plus this article is a fraud. The people it lists were killed by ignorance, neglect or their own informed choice, not by homeopathy. I don't think anybody has yet died of drinking a small amount of water and the guy you are harassing said nothing about giving up other treatments, just using homeopathy as placebo.
I'm no fan of uber's ethical track record, but I've had the opportunity to use uber in both Indonesia and Poland, which was extremely convenient. In Poland in particular, I took a taxi from the airport before learning that uber could take me back. I learned while I was there that the taxi driver exploited me because I was a tourist who didn't know the local prices and he could charge 5x normal rates.
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What if you could enter a special private iMessage chat with someone where to decrypt and read/reply the participants had to verify each message with Touch ID?

Good or bad idea?
I have many friends being treated by psychiatrists, and none have checked thyroids. Psychiatrists behave like pill dispensers, not like actual physicians.
He has half a point: my first comment was more glib than it needed to be.

But, yes, docs who take your money to pat you on the head rather than admit they can't help you aren't doing you any favors. Most docs are more ethical than that (and then get lambasted for "not wanting anything to do with you if they can't treat or diagnose you.")
Yes, that's very true. Even in brick and mortar stores, single manufacturers may provide multiple types and the retails often provide confusing information for comparing them. E.g. an 18 oz. Aveeno bottle with a price tag that shows $0.42/oz and a two-pack of the same bottle that shows 7.99/unit - and then perhaps a "SALE" tag attached that displays a different overall price and no further information.
Those are proposed markers. Here's a real one.[1] That's the SL-1 reactor site, in Idaho. There, an experimental reactor ran away due to a control rod removal during maintenance, and blew apart in a steam explosion. This was in 1961.

Already, that marker looks dated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#/media/File:SL-1Burial.jp...
Lessons I've Learned from Three Million Downloads
Comical but also kind of depressing that fake likes/followers are desirable enough to sell.