skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But aren't influenza infections often associated with secondary bacterial infections, eg https://academic.oup.com/jac/article/64/5/889/716264/Swine-f..., where to treat the patient "with flu" prescription of antibiotics is a normal and beneficial course of action?
I'm missing the connection between water infrastructure in Michigan and the wellbeing of children in Africa.
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How can you say it's not a viable business because they're losing money if you don't know their expenses? Uber & Lyft, (and for many years Amazon) were/are losing money. So that means nothing unless you know why they're blowing through cash.
As a customer I am glad that someone has the balls so say no to these extortionists and even if I have to deal with down time, it is the right thing to do.
I worked for HP during their split. HPE paid some firm 500k for their new logo. Their logo is a green rectangle, something you could do in MS Paint in literally a second.

HP/E is way too bloated and IMO has very poor management. They have a nice patent portfolio, though.
Firefox on Linux has a similar issue. A very common shortcut Ctrl-W is right next to Ctrl-Q, which completely closes the application, and there's no built-in way to turn it off! Which makes the software completely unusable unless you install a separate plugin that disables Ctrl-Q shortcut. It's really amazing that Mozilla doesn't think this is a bug.
I'm thankful for working at a position where I enjoy putting in hours above and beyond what's required by contract.
I'd advise anyone to prioritize having a work they thoroughly enjoy well ahead of a work that requires less hours. When you enjoy something, it makes sense to want to be doing that something for a prolonged duration.
Feels odd punishing a tool for extensive docs. :)

It is powerful, in that it exposes everything of git. However, I doubt most people use most of that. I've found few, for example, know all the flags you can pass log. Magit actually helps fill them with tab completion on path names and such.

Just read the getting started guide, and you are set for most use cases.
Likewise, any cloud infrastructure engineers in the Bay Area that might be looking, shoot me a mail - sai at floydhub dot com
Wow, here in Germany you need to give 4 weeks notice at the minimum. Two months if the employment lasted for at least five years.
The author mentions that George R.R. Martin uses a similar set-up to separate work from leisure.

Then I think: George RR Martin is a notoriously slow writer. Many are legitimately worried he will not finish GoT before heart disease takes the beloved author.
it would be a nice replacement for credit agencies
Yeah, I felt it is pretty weird when the OP claimed that Black Cabs don't rape women (I don't mean the car itself)

What would be a useful metric is: Rape per capita for Uber and Black Cabs. I'm too lazy to search for that, but if someone comes up with the data, he'll have a stronger argument.
I've tried multiple clients on iOS and MiniHack[1] is by far the best one I've tried and is well-maintained. Only issue with it is that dark mode is triggered by light intensity and not time, so if you're on the threshold value the color theme will constantly flip-flop.

[1]
https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/minihack-hacker-news-client/...
I have seen these things occasionally in Europe. It's not a strictly Japanese thing.
"she said she’s pushing to cut “layers” in the organization and become more efficient"

I hate this kind of nonsense. You can't just get rid of thousands of people then say "efficiency" and retain full productivity. At a place like HP that's bidding on 8 or 9 figure deals, you absolutely can't function without a sizable bureaucracy.
Then let's ban cars in cities, considering the harm car traffic has caused to inner cities andvtgeir inhabitants.

Oh, and don't complain that infrastructure built for cars sucks when used by bikes.
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What is a "zero-depth pipeline" (from https://github.com/beagleboard/pocketbeagle/wiki/FAQ)? That's a CPU which isn't pipelined, like the 80386, or something else?
That's the American expectation, but most European employment legislation disagrees -- that's probably the root of the question.
When the article got to mentioning encryption... I do not understand what they are proposing. How would it be possible for the customer to hold the key necessary to decrypt the credit record? Credit records are not read-only. Other parties have to be able to submit additions to your credit record, like if you fail to pay your water utility bill or something. So how exactly are they going to append to your locked credit record? Would creditors have to contact the customer and get them to provide the key in order to encrypt a new addition?
what people mean when they say the vast majority of people dont have problems is "I don't care about your objectively broken experience"
Hi! I'm from the AI subteam. We actually didn't have time to implement this part of the solution. Our idea was to use this library:
https://github.com/raghakot/keras-vis
I think the false "identity theft" idea that the banks have promoted has started to really get people confused. The idea that a person can own the facts about their behavior toward others, when you think about it, is very strange. In theory a credit report is just a report from people you have borrowed money from on how well you repaid the loan to them. I don't think anyone would feel that they should legally be able to prevent people from telling other people how they have truthfully interacted with them.

I don't think most people feel it is unfair or immoral to release "unfavorable" information. If one didn't pay back a credit card, most reasonable people think, "OK that's true and on my report. My bad." What people think it is deeply wrong is for a fraudster to get a loan from a bank, the fraudster does not pay, and the bank libels them by sending a false report to the credit agency saying they defaulted on the loan. This agency and bank have no penalties for propagating the libel/slander and this libel will hurt the person in many ways. Everyone knows that getting this libel to stop is very difficult and the credit agencies and banks don't care about fixing the errors. The run-a-rounds people go through are legendary. People fear getting libeled by banks and other issuers of credit, so much so many buy insurance for "peace of mind". The credit reporting agencies are like Ticketmaster, a company set up to take the heat and misdirect the anger when some other entity is screwing you. Ticketmaster plays front man for the concert promoters/venues/bands whereas the credit agencies play front man for the banks.
Some ways in which WhatsApp changed the world, based on my first hand experience:

- many of my family members, especially in developing world, bought a smartphone solely as a reason to be on WhatsApp. Nothing convinced them before to buy one. Once they had it, they discovered other awesome uses of a smartphone and are part of the "mobile revolution"(TM). That alone should qualify for "changing the world".

- no one I know uses SMS anymore (again, developing countries). A great change given the price gouging before (and Americans probably won't understand that if you haven't seen it first hand).

- Amount of "support" happening on WhatsApp in the broader economy - (eg. booking a taxi, ordering home delivery from corner grocery store etc - which needed a phone call before and was not as smooth as WhatsApp experience)

- hyper-sharing of casual moments in life. I know, I know - there was facebook and picasa and whatnot before that and instagram/snap these days, but amount of photo sharing that happens on WhatsApp is 2 to 3 orders of magnitude higher than what came before or other channels (again, developing countries), simply because WhatsApp made it super simple to share compared to predecessors and is ubiquitous compared to other contemporaries.

It should also be noted that WhatsApp needed two big giant shoulders to stand upon:

- android and affordable phones (sorry, iPhone simply doesn't cut the deal for the masses)

- 2G / 3G spectrum and data connectivity
The original brainstorm/paper for Amazon was "the everything store." He started with books and planned to expand in to everything... so yea he actually did set out to disrupt the whole industry.

Is it the fact that they don't say what they're thinking? Or that they didn't "honestly think" their companies would disrupt industries?
10 Cool Technologies from Mobile World Congress Americas 2017
Interesting. Is there way to subscribe to these?
NASA Earth and Space Air Prize
When modeling was done for the Kuwait oil fires, there were two opposing expectations. One was that the fires would cause a kind of "year without a summer" similar to the Tambora eruption in 1815. The other was that the smoke would affect local weather conditions and be rained out within a week. In retrospect, we know that the latter proved most accurate.

But from what I understand, the crucial difference between the two models was how high the smoke would go, and as such the gap between the two models is actually a lot closer than the outcomes would imply. Had the conditions (weather, geography, etc) been ripe for more "self-lofting" of particulates, far more of them may have made it as far as the stratosphere, at which point they would stay in the atmosphere for far longer and would spread much further, without any weather patterns at that altitude to accelerate their return to the surface.
Diff's are the only thing I don't like in magit. Well, it's not really magit per se, as it uses another emacs plugins for that.

Staging/unstaging/reverting (specially when you don't want to do that for a whole file but for a chunk) in magit however is so far ahead of every other git interface I've seen that it's not even funny.
Even if it is, there's something that rubs me the wrong way about that little SV mantra. First, the banal arrogance of it, but more importantly, the purposelessness of it—we just want to be responsible for making our mark, not to make the world better or push it in any particular direction, but just to point and say, "look, I had that effect!"
Even for fast prototyping, I feel like I end up spending more time dealing with data validity issues as the "schema" in my code falls out of sync with what's actually in the database than I would have by laying out a simple schema for my database to enforce. I think this is a YMMV situation.
Never heard of the website. Care to explain what you mean?
Introduction to WebRender
Some of these images don't compare :( the scenes / perspectives differ quite a bit.
iPhone Wireless Charging Pad
cant wait for another 10 years of broken linux audio.

Why not fix what we have rather than yet another rewrite with all its attendant exciting bugs.
When I call my doctor's office, I speak with a nurse, or I leave a message and a nurse calls me back. After talking to me, the nurse may consult with the doctor and call me back, or if necessary, the doctor might call me. I can also email, and I have no idea if emails are directly answered by the doctor or if there is some kind of delegation going on there too.
Not sure you've checked already or not, but this seems helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=best%20comments

And back in the day when karma points were public: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&type=comment

Are there any HN-ers whose public list of favorite comments contains what you're looking for? I typically use the functionality more as a bookmark. https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=yread&comments=t

I encourage you to seed your new subreddit with some examples.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

Comparing to Samsung is just a joke - how often do android users even get the choice to update, not to mention how Samsung releases may or may not match up with Google (Android) ones.
Warning: Rant coming.

Will MicroFocus retool their software support pipeline? I hope so, because I'm starting to advocate we drop all their software because their first line of support is utterly incompetent. For example, I had to submit a ticket recently about a product we use. On the form, I selected the closest option to the software we had, say Product X, though my exact product wasn't listed. My inquiry was extremely specific and could only possibly be about one thing. Yet the first tech just threw the ticket back at me asking "can you clarify what version of product X you're on?"

It made absolutely no difference what version of PRoduct X I was on, so I wasted a good 48 hours so far. Then I wasted another 48 hours educating this person on what the product I was using even did.

If you need enterprise support at this point with HPE/MicroFocus, you have to escalate your tickets immediately and act pissed off or you certainly will be by their inept first line because they make it rather difficult to actually get someone on the phone that knows their own products.

Edit: To be clear, this happens with everyone I've ever met that has to engage HPE software support. I'm genuinely curious if anyone has any positive experiences because I've yet to encounter one myself or by proxy.
I have a little stylesheet installed on my browser that I use for fixing random annoyances on various websites, and my favorite feature in it is adding "text-decoration: line-through" to links that point to certain sites such as Business Insider. That way, I still have the option to visit the site, but I get a strong visual indicator to avoid it.

My stylesheet is here; you can install it with the Stylish browser extension: https://gist.github.com/oxguy3/3338da5c38348c2a6e72
Isn't it standard treatment for someone "with swineflu" to be treated with antibiotics?

Eg this http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107105354/htt...
Bingo. YMMV, but in my experience the majority of inefficiency is caused by middle managers who are too busy trying to "win" political capital or burn down perceived enemies.

After watching HPE for a number of years my guess is that in a few months they'll add double or triple this number of layoffs to an offshore team.
What requirements do employees have should they wish to quit?
Apple isn't normally classified as a camera company but they definitely are and that is one area where they are still able to still move the goal post.
True. I mostly do domestic and am on the Lyft bandwagon for now. I also do my best to avoid travel as much as possible.
Having previously worked at HP for 10+ years I can clearly state that HP is always in the midst of some layoff. After the first Carly purge of 2001 they decided to make it stealthy instead of big bang.

Edit: I decided to share what the Carly purge was like. We all knew that on a certain day we'd have the layoffs. Walk into the office. Conference room doors had windows on them, they were all papered over. Conf rooms had lots of boxes of tissues and bottles of water. You'd sit at your desk and someone would come by and tap you on the shoulder. It was pretty miserable. After that experience I think they decided that they'd announce stuff like this but do it much lower key, not all on the same day and very privately.
Part of the problem is that the early releases were pretty bad - sometimes even requiring patches that were only published in the Fedora package to work correctly (like, they literally hadn't upstreamed by the developers at all at the time). PulseAudio also didn't do bugfix-only releases, you either backported or waited for the next major release and hoped it didn't break anything else. They just released what I think is probably the first bugfix-only release in the project's history a couple of days ago. This certainly wasn't a case of the prior releases being so good they didn't need fixing either.
I specified in the parent post searching by job title and also via their API which removes a large number of duplicates. These 2 constraints give a clearer picture IMHO.
There's likely a gene variant where people that have it have much higher resistance to cavities (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3318028/ ).

It'd probably be more prevalent if we didn't cook food and needed our teeth more.
What gets me though, is I never had a problem with Pulse Audio until I installed systemd.
And that’s great! I never implied San Francisco is the only place with high water quality.

I’m not talking about “standard” water though. San Francisco gets water from snowmelt so it has noticeably less contaminants than most water supplies. It routinely ranks among the top few water sources in the United States

"You guys have the best water that we tested. Period," Snyder said of San Francisco's drinking water. "I don't think we've ever tested drinking water that didn't have any of our target compounds in it."

https://www.google.com/amp/www.sfgate.com/green/amp/S-F-s-ta...
SourceTree also lets you stage and unstage/discard hunks in a really nice way.
5 meters is the difference between one room and the next room. Huge potential for indoor navigation and contextual AR applications.
I've considered live aboard boating, definitely would like to try it at some point
He will get severance. Probably a week or two weeks per year of service.
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Automatic theme switching can be disabled in its settings. I have mine set to full time dark theme.
Looks interesting but I definitely prefer Tower: https://www.git-tower.com/mac/

Best GUI for Mac and they also have a Windows client as well now, just makes life easier and repos easier to manage especially when you have merge conflicts!
A lot of criticism about movers has to do with how claims are handled. Moving companies require considerable documentation before paying a claim. Do you know why? It’s because so many people file bogus claims.

Many people don't know, but the (US) military pays for professional movers of this caliber. I used to know a guy who would ship 10 busted tv's (cathode ray tube) and put in claims for all of them every time he changed duty stations. It was an easy $2000 check each time. Apparently the movers can't turn on electronics before or after a move due to the potential for condensation to damage the electronics. This was a while ago, so I don't know if this is actually true or not.
This feels like groundhog day. New iPhone [insert model] has the best camera ever! Fast forward two months: new Google [insert model] has the best camera ever!

I think we're getting to the point where the incremental gains we're seeing with each new phone cycle are almost unnoticeable to the average user who just wants to take photos of their kids to send to Grandma.
HPE will give severance. You don't start unemployment the next day.
vthallam cleared up what I meant, apologies
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Not any non startup company I have worked at used GApps, only small startups. And bigger companies / corporations will use SalesForce, sure. But they will also be using another 20 other vaguely similar enterprise products. Sometimes different ones per department.
Wowowo, 195k employees? So many! Do they really make that much of money? What are the 195k workers for? Dell has way less as a whole company (even after the merge) [1].

[1]: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4104846-dell-technologies-d...
So by your logic, the more you pay for something the more complex it should be?
That’s great! Glad you’re making progress.
GRRM is a slow GOT writer. He pumps out other projects.
Building an internet search engine. Can someone review it?
Their mistake was buying this cloud company, Attunity, for $11 billion, and then realizing the company had completely defrauded them with fraudulent accounting. They had to do a 100% write-off.
I suspect there are plenty of channels through which supermarkets may be observed....

Though this raises the question of how, across multiple cultures, regimes, and times since the early 20th century, government censorship has been perceived.

My understanding is that Pravda and Isvestia were poorly regarded in the Soviet Union. The old joke: "There is no information in Izvestia, there is no truth in Pravda".

Elsewhere? More recently?
A violation of the prime directive! :)

discussion / highlights: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13759706 (March 2017)

Also: $281/month on Patreon
What a great read. Insta-buy. I'm always fascinated to hear such detailed, even loving, stories from other people's lives and careers - and this one is so well written and obviously passionate that I can't wait to hear more. Thanks!
If someone writes about how THEY do things it's a good way to improve MY process. If it improves things for me, what's wrong with saying thanks to the writer?

Most of my bills can be automated, but a few cannot. I also take time to read over my statements to check for fraud/bad habits.
Also why do linear regression (OLS) models need gradient descent at all? Cannot you calculate the parameters directly?

y = X β + ε ...and a few assumptions give you... (X^t X)^-1 y = β*

I might be missing something in the blog post.
A good start would be to ban defence companies from doing business with them.
I see him listed as the editor quite frequently, true.
It sounds like you feel a sense of ownership around the work you do. That is great but I hope you understand that you do not own the code. You are a contractor and have no stake in the future success of the project.

All of the extra free hours you are spending could be used to build your own product that you would have a stake in.
as good as these cameras are, I feel like its a real missed opportunity not to partner with Canon or Nikon to get deep integration with their lens systems and essentially turn this into a DSLR that happens to use the iPhone as a sensor. I realize there are lens attachments in the wild but they're mostly trash, and its nowhere close to what it could be.
Wow. Nice
Agreed, the article could probably just be "newest camera on flagship phone best to date (won't be as good as next year's)"

Alternatively, "progress on camera technology continues to advance, see specifics here."
Don't forget Java, Pascal, Ada, Lisp, Algol, Basic, Ruby, Awk...

By this metric, the best programming languages are Perl and Fortran.
Their make some of the world’s best consumer cameras, computer chips, and watches. And they truly excel at all of those. Kinda crazy
Yet GOT will last generations upon generations. There will be many reboots, rewrites, and scripts all based upon the work he has done long after he is gone. That is to say sometimes the best things in life take time. Most of our software projects won't make it past one year.
Isn't being more familiar with words a good thing? Another thing that seems to help is keeping a boring old deadwood dictionary next to my favourite armchair.
I actually like how simple HN is, I only created http://hnbuzz.com/ for a more stable view (e.g. weekly, monthly), I switch between both.
FMRI Brain scans tell a different story. If Dr. Eisenberg really believed that in the end, he was wrong.
Facebook’s Frankenstein Moment
Which ones? Are you talking about the fact that the Pixel has a wider angle lens?

I mean, you could crop those pictures but that wouldn't exactly be fair to the Pixel.
Here's a look at some of my biking in Midtown Manhattan (iPhone 7 / Strava). It's pretty much garbage.

https://imgur.com/mJFFKoV

https://imgur.com/RYuYrcI
Ethereum cold wallet
God I hope so. The last time I touched HP/UX was 2001. I still have nightmares. It's a wretched UNIX. It was running veritas, another wonderful pos software.
Same, it's usually the utility companies that I have trouble getting automated. They have shoddy websites/weird rules/etc.
And when you fail to pay a debt to me, and I go to add it to your encrypted credit report, you provide the key at that point as well to facilitate this?
"A well run company will always have more work for each employee than is possible for them to complete."

That's the whole problem, right there. Sometimes, this "well run" company will generate work that might not matter, not at all.
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