skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...]they are end-running around FDA
> equivalent rules to get a sketchy study
> done[...].

I haven't read anything to suggest that they research being done there is actually sketchy, just that people are complaining about the lack of US oversight. There's quotes in the article to the effect that all appropriate safety precautions are being taken, and no suggestion that the actual activities in St. Kitts are sketchy in in of themselves.

Of course that's harder to ascertain without an IRB, but given Thiel's politics I'd be just as willing to believe that this is all on the up & up and he's just giving the FDA the middle finger out of some libertarian grandstanding as the possibility that he's running some offshore Mengelean medical lab.

> [...]so they can market it somewhere with lax
> rules.

That was just a throwaway theory of mine as to what they could be doing, they could also just be trying to save money in phase 1 trials on what they see as a needless bureaucracy.

> That's not exactly ethical[...]

I think this entire line of thinking, aside from this specific case, is highly arrogant and US-centric. You're assuming that more regulation is automatically an improvement, and that e.g. India, China, Saint Kitts and Nevis or some other country is inherently incapable of running ethical medical trials just because they aren't doing it as some "the FDA's way or the highway" cheerleaders think they should be doing it.

If they're actually doing something unethical that behavior warrants criticism. The line of argument that the US needs to be involved in everything is fallacious.

> People don't die from genital herpes.

Yes they do. Unless you don't consider newborns people. Maternal genital herpes transmitted at birth is the primary cause of neonatal herpes simplex, which can be fatal. A herpes vaccine could eliminate this transmission vector and save lives.

Whether Thiel or his supposedly sketchy research comes up with that vaccine is another matter.

> sending people to a wild west
> jurisdiction like St Kitts

My main beef with this article is the lazy journalism, and its assumption (and seemingly yours too) that St. Kitts is some wild-west jurisdiction allowing unethical medical trials.

Maybe that's the case, but e.g. some quick googling finds that there's a medical school there[1], it seems lazy in the extreme to not e.g. contact them, or someone from the St. Kitts government to get their take on this. We're just left with something that seems like lazy hit-piece.

> [...]not undergoing peer-review.

Peer-review would happen once they're ready to publish something in a medical journal would it not? The supposedly unethical behavior here is that they're not volunteering to US-style oversight.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_University_School_of_M...
I don't think that's true, even under your model of a malicious government. Officials don't want their private conversations monitored, so they ensured that it would be a crime to secretly record conversations.

Likewise, once these tools are used to compromise their privacy, they will demand better safeguards.
> The fact that I still need my phone around to use the webclient just sucks. Telegram doesn't need it, why does whatsapp?

Basically why we can't have end-end encrypted communication for the masses.
Well; good?
If you're using an ORM, you can generate the schema automatically. With Hibernate, you set the hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto property [1]. If you set it to 'create' or 'update', it will alter the database schema so that it matches your objects, which is handy for prototyping, and terrible for production. If you set it to 'validate', it will check that the database schema matches your objects, and refuse to start if it doesn't, useless for prototyping but ideal for production.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/438146/hibernate-hbm2ddl...
The only thing equal to or more insufferable than people who go to burning man are the articles written about burning man
What Is an FPGA?
Yea, even more so that mining is being dominated in countries with the cheapest electricity which are usually the worst in terms of environmentally friendly energy generation. Enjoy that Bitcoin, it contributed to the awful air quality in China.
It doesn't happen all the time - seems to be intermittent, but when it's happening, it'll go on for several minutes at a time. When it does happen, the activity monitor shows the browser process using basically the entire CPU.

Sometimes but not always, reloading the page fixes the problem; it does seem to be more likely to happen when the page has been open for an extended period, but sometimes the problem persists after a fresh page load. (There's one project that I use to organize most of my work, and I'm liable to leave that tab open to that project without reloading or even changing the sort/filter for weeks on end.)
Both the software (https://github.com/kgallspark/Dexter; GPL3) and the hardware (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2108244, https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2af8ed0e61a34ebf69284c68/w...) are open, so maybe somebody will design a stronger version.
I used to read to my kids and what is interesting is that for the first time in my life I discovered some things that I never learned as I went through school.

1) Reading poetry is really enjoyable. To this day, if my son asks me to read to him, I'll probably try to read poetry. It just feels so good to read.

2) There are certain books that I really enjoy reading aloud and others that I don't. And its not the content, but just the feel of the words coming off my tongue.

Concrete examples, my favorite children's book to read is "The Little Island". Even thinking about reading it makes me feel a little happy. A book that I don't like to read aloud, but like the message, is "The Little Engine that Could" (this version https://www.amazon.com/Little-Engine-Could-Original-Classic/...). I found it a chore to read that book out loud.
Would you mind sharing the approximate number of issues and active users in your JIRA install?
To expand on that point slightly: Houston uses interstates as extra storm water collection areas. That is, the interstates are at lower elevation than the surrounding area, so the water collects there rather than (or at least before) flooding other areas. If you have an evacuation ordered, where the people don't have enough time to get out, you have huge numbers of people in cars sitting on those interstates as the water starts rising. That is not a healthy scenario.

Of course, you now get the opposite problem. My brother-in-law's neighborhood now has a mandatory evacuation. But now nobody can get out, because the roads are already covered...
It was May. I carried water!
Fantastic discovery
I could wear a tinfoil hat and claim I was protecting my freedom. That doesn't make it a great idea.

Of course nobody wants to be alienated. We do a lot of stupid shit to fit into society. But with the range of potential attacks on your freedom, putting a post-it note on your webcam is right up there with tinfoil hats.

There are real actions you could be taking to defend your freedom - like contacting your representatives in government, or donating to organizations that fight for your rights, or telling your friends and family why they should care. You can vote with your dollars, and vote with your actual vote, and your feedback.

After all that's done, fine, put up the post-it note. But you can at least write "remember to get milk" on it so people don't assume it's a tinfoil hat.
I do not share your faith in democracy :-) At best, the government represents the will of a voting majority and imposes it upon the rest of the population. So what you really have is minority rule.

Look at public funding for science, NASA budget, etc to see the "will of the people" in action on technical topics.

> consumers aren't all that educated or rational

Be that as it may, I would rather make decisions for myself than have them made on my behalf, "for my own good," by someone who doesn't know me and whom I will never meet.
MOOCS can be useful and I'm not saying they're bad. OP was asking if they're very useful for signaling. Imo compared to projects from professional work or open source with traction; or even traditional education - most MOOCS aren't very good for signalling. The only exception I can think of is special classes like those involving building autonomous cars.
I'm sure there is great optimization possible from 80's tech, which out of computational necessity, communicated by satellite to mainframes at NORAD. And if you think about it, a defensive missile doesn't have to outrun an offensive one. It just needs to be in the right place at the right time. It doesn't have to have pinpoint accuracy either; errors can be corrected by sizing and/or clustering the defensive payload.
Anyone smart enough to use SmartOS is not dumb enough to use MongoDB so nothing was lost.
Out of curiosity, is this getting upvotes because other people are experiencing the same thing, or for some other reason?
I had the same problem. Found this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/medium-highlight-o...
And before there was a Cuba or a New World, being a lector was a profession in the factories and workshops of Europe.
Meanwhile in the comment section of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15124306 HackerNews MongoDB article basically everyone (who speaks up at least) seems to agree that the drawbacks of NoSQL outweigh the benefits.
The heads-up display on a car windshield seems pretty useful.

The rest are pretty underwhelming. Lots of things that make great demos, but not many that feel like I would come back to them.
Is the UI still terrible? That's why I dropped it.
I appreciate your reaching out about solving this! I'll be in touch later in the week.
Is this the same company in SOMA by the Bay Bridge?
After a little research i have found a repo with C# examples.
https://github.com/abishekaditya/DesignPatterns
At a high level, we try to collect real user metrics for everything we can. Interana helps us analyze that data in near real time. For more detail, I hope we can write a blog post soon to answer your question.
I've seen some road (I forgot where) prepared for exactly that - signed, even, for using both sides to evacuate (IIRC) the coast.
I don't mean to say that all coins are valuable. But it does ressemble another gold rush. Do some remember the domain name craze 20 years ago? Any kid smart enough to have bought generic domain names back then made lots of money.
Furthermore, since corporations are not subject to FOIA, governments routinely outsource to avoid transparency, accountability, oversight, responsibility, etc.
Maybe she does not trust him much with the money. In which case she would pay for the car and let him drive it.
I think they "explained" afterwards that they use an older version of Chromium that predates the switch to clang and spends all of it's time in the single-threaded MSVC linker. (Which immediately explains much of their results...)
Thanks for the detail! Your description makes me wonder if there is a lurking memory leak.
The consequences are distributed over a long period of time, whereas the convenience of ignoring privacy is very tangible and immediate.
Thanks for the advice. Do you agree a potential optimization would be using React component state instead of store state?
> It is kinda surreal that a company obeying the law is headline news.

That is an unreal level of politicking. You can't see any reason why companies might prefer to pay a fine than obey a law?

If you lived in an HOA, and that HOA mandated that all your lawn ornaments must be bright pink by next week, how eager would you be to comply by next week? If the fine for non-compliance was only $1 per year, would you prefer to pay the fine?

I'm trying to illustrate that companies are made up of human beings, not monsters.
Can somebody point me toward the 'also a marketing strategy for mongodb' comment?

I came here to like it
Yeah I'm with you on this, the moment we call self-care a "competitive advantage" it stops being self-care entirely and reverts to just being another "productivity hack"
Ethereum is going to move to proof of stake instead of proof of work and this will be magnitudes more energy efficient than proof of work.
I don't get if there's app one can download to try this?

Doesn't look like it, uh?
Seems like you guys are talking past another a little bit and just having a semantic debate when you both largely agree.

You're both describing the same concept -- taking a 'non-success', learning lessons from it, and then using those lessons to do better things in the future.

It's just one of you is OK with continuing to describe that situation with the term 'failure', with all the existing negative connotation baggage, while the other prefers to find a new word to describe it.
No, in fact many review sites delve in deeper when benchmark results don't match expectations, and those moments are usually very informative.

The result I quoted makes no real sense. It may be scientific, objective and reproducible, it's also a sign something is seriously wrong.
Parent means Nassim Nicholas Taleb
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/

And yes, basically we don't understand the actual probability of a "500-year storm", so our 0.2% chance per year is unreliable at best, more likely misleading.

Just like Europeans didn't know the actual probability of a black swan until they found them in Australia.
Sounds great and inline with our thoughts. I'd love to see a blog post with more detail when it works!
Fragmentation impacts which device you might want to buy. The biggest argument for Android is the wide choice of devices and features on those devices, but if your phone never gets an update, you're left behind. It's possible to get a really nice and inexpensive Android phone, but what's the risk of never getting an update?
For example the price of crude oil fluctuates. Corn, gas, electricity. Every commodity.

If mobile data becomes more of a commodity, it, too, will have a free-floating price.
Each developer creates a fully functionally, re-usable,
testable by itself component, that receives input and
provides output, regardless of where it’s being used,
and knows nothing about the app it’s being used in.

And then they all ride off into the sunset on their free ponies.

If we knew how to consistently teach people to solve that problem, everything in software development would be trivial.
This is developing along those lines: https://www.nicehash.com/?p=gstarted
Good idea! We can keep the comments in a blockchain.
Have you lobbied? Testified? Met with any of your legislators, representatives, councilmembers? Other forms of participation?

Voting is the smallest part of democracy.
The company I founded built something very similar to a titan equipped server to allow attestation/measurement/signed logs/full external policy. I can tell you point blank that while the product we built is great, getting enterprises, the majority of whom ___still___ haven't patched eternal blue to worry about clean source, log traceability, etc. can be quite a challenging business at times. They don't understand problems with IPMI or anything else.

The only thing that is going to change the face of the security market is that the loop between responsibility and inaction gets closed; as things stand today, the primary difficulty in the space is that for your average, not-very-knowledgeable customer, there is effectively no difference in mostly fraudulent security solutions and real ones - both get auditors out of your hair, so why bother buying anything real (or even not deploying anything like Comodo which actually makes things worse but still checks the box)?
I am trying to move away from Waterline. Plus my idea is React, not React Native.
You can't use your metrics to discern their Asana ID? Or just any customer having severe performance issues? Hmmm...
>. It would seem the probably has gone up due to climate change

That probably has a small reason to do with the increase, but your next line highlights the issue.

> or that we're noticing the floods more now because there's more damage to be caused to more things that have been built up

No, not exactly. The more stuff you build, the faster water runs off. Unincorporated land has a pretty high water slowing capability. It takes more time for water to run through tall grass, and puddles, and log jams, and loose dirt. All things that occur naturally. Humans build houses that have all the water run into gutters, that run into a well cut lawn and down a sidewalk. Once it hits the road it's like a water expressway. It can travel quickly to a local stream. A stream that likely has a concrete lining so the water moves swiftly to a lake or reservoir in hours rather than days.

As a place develops new flood plans must be studied every 5 to 10 years. A new development of 100 hours up the watershed from you can mean your risk of flooding increases dramatically. Places like Houston have had 10,000's of houses build in the surrounding areas meaning what was a 1 in 100 year flood could be as low as a 1 in 10 year flood. All this stuff being built is not taking into account its effect on downstream rainfall runoff.
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Taxes, primarily. Everyone needs to pay taxes and they need to pay taxes in their national currency (see: Modern Monetary Theory). This makes everyone seek out their national currency. Additionally, countries have a very different goal when creating money than miners do. Miners are profit driven and countries are interested in continuity and stability. You could also consider the GDP of a country as a backing for its currency, this demonstrates the currency is being used and the backing entity will remain solvent. The only thing cryptocurrencies are used for is speculation and buying drugs online, in all other cases they simply act as a pass-through for transactions in fiat.
"my experiences collaborating with other programmers have been very unpleasant"

This might very well explain your panicky/foggy feelings when programming...if your subconscious is associating negative emotions from past events with that activity, it'll keep coming up and up.
It certainly is an issue if the entire Android ecosystem of devices is reduced to just one niche $650 phone.
They have a pricing calculator on this page:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

For what I want (a fairly static 2 TB backup), it would cost around $130 / year. If my QNAP box supports it, I think I'm going to sign up.
Exciting to see competition here
Memory usage seems pretty stable, but I'll make a note to check that next time the issue occurs.
Used it for a month and got annoyed at pay2play popups. Chrome spellchecker will do.
Plus 1,000,000 bitcoins are locked up in Satoshi's stash. It may never be touched.
The right to start, and own, a company, exists only so that they can provide a benefit for all of society (as specified in the German constitution and the EU treaties). According to the same documents, if a company decides to intentionally violate democratically created laws, or decided to hurt society, their right to exist as company can be eliminated, and their property can be seized.

If you disagree with a community’s decision, you can lobby to have them changed, or you can move elsewhere – but you can’t, just because you disagree, disobey them. Or you’ll have to expect that if you try to disobey their decisions, they’ll respond accordingly.

I’m not suggesting anything a society should do as response to a foreign company arriving there, violating laws, and refusing to obey, but generally this simply ends up bad for the company.

I disagree with IP laws, but I can’t just pirate content and sell remixes either, by hiding behind a shell corporation. Not even if I’m willing to pay the fine (Kim Dotcom, for example, made enough profit that he was able, and willing to pay the license fees, and still would have turned a profit, but this was denied).
How much computing power / AWS cost / time did it take for you to generate 1500 ETH back then?
Please don't post uncivilly and unsubstantively like this on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> This is kinda like complaining that there's only one implementation of lambda calculus. Yes, SQL is not directly a relational algebra, but it's pretty close.

And yet someone proficient in SQL will not necessarily be able to read a traditionally-written lambda calculus expression as the languages differ significantly (and not just because of tables), so I think this proves my point that there are different, and hopefully better, ways to express the interaction with the database. There is no reason why the protocol has to be exactly as SQL is. There are theoretically an infinite number of ways to communicate the same intent to a RDBMS.

For instance, SQL does not do composability well. There is no fundamental reason why you should not be able to write query fragments, simplifying the way many queries are constructed and avoiding the huge mess that monolithic, hard to debug, queries often become. It is simply that SQL does not allow for it. A better API could improve on this significantly, without losing any features a relational database provides. You don't have to throw all database theory out the window just to change the API away from one that was designed 40 years ago.
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You don't need a station, you just need a track. You can load at any point where there's a track with a flat area beside it.

The tricks are getting people to that loading point (without their cars, because you don't have enough parking for what you're trying to do), and getting the trains from that point to out of town without having to cross a flooded area.

Houston has plenty of tracks. I presume it has flat areas next to tracks. Getting out of town without having to cross flooding? I don't know. Enough tracks to hold the traffic that would be needed? Probably not.
Or, more on point, the common disclaimer, “past performance is no guarantee for future results”.
The Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented
It's mind-boggling how Windows Updates has been successful for decades now in the even more fragmented PC world, but Google gets a free pass because... reasons.
It very much depends on your workflow and the tools you need. If you rely on a full-fat IDE, it'll probably be a disaster; if you're mainly a command-line user, you might be pleasantly surprised. A small screen can be quite relaxing, because it constrains the amount of visual clutter. If you've got a giant 4k display, there's a temptation to fill all those pixels with distracting and non-essential information. A little 11" screen forces you to focus on what's essential.

I wouldn't want to read a book-sized newspaper, but I also wouldn't want to read a broadsheet-sized novel.
I love reading, but since having kids (I'd never had to read aloud before) have discovered I find the sensations around reading aloud to be extremely unpleasant. Anything that rhymes/has a sing-song meter is OK.. but I find normal prose gruelling and can't wait for it to be over. It feels like a sort of claustrophobia, but trapped by the slowness rather than physically. I often end up paraphrasing or dropping unnecessary words as I go to make better progress.
Honestly I think it's easier to feel irrationally safe about a 0.2% chance, especially if you leave out the "per year". "500-year flood" at least emphasizes that it's not a question of "if", but "when".
> Perhaps we need to see what Google and Facebook actually have on us...

I'm still curious about the worst case. What are some doom scenarios?
This is not what self-care is at all. Self-care is about recognizing how you feel, understanding why you feel that way, and taking action based on how you feel instead of allowing yourself to be a victim of your context.
Fitbit Ionic first look: Divisive design but packed with potential
“Don't be snarky.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html