skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about conspiracy theories, but about concentration of power.

If control of PIA — for whatever reason, and be it that Andrew Lee dies and his heirs sell it, or that he can't finance it anymore, or that a three-letter agency forces him to — ends up in the wrong hands, then also all of Freenode and Snoonet end up under control of that entity.

It's not that I don't trust PIA, but that I fear that PIA itself may end up in the wrong hands.

And I'm not on a crusade against PIA — I won't complain about their donations without requirement to advertise in return to projects such as KDE, with a transparent funding process.

But I am on a crusade against centralizing any services, be it killing XMPP federation (thanks, Google), be it pushing a "secure" Messenger that is bound to a single social graph and server infrastructure controlled by one group in the US (thanks, Moxie), or be it a single compsny gaining significant control over several major IRC networks, clients, libraries, and over Matrix at the same time.

No matter the intentions, how good they may be.
Quite surrealist
Santa Clara County Offers New Partial Payments Pgm for Property Tax Installments
I don't think this analysis is about cross-exchange arbitrage
AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy
Please read the article before you add a non-value comment.
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS  FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT SCO V. IBM [pdf]
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Ultrasound is not terribly useful in the diagnosis of fractures. It can detect certain types of fractures in kids under 12 or so, but can't rule out a fracture.

There are absolutely things a GP could use ultrasound for to rule in or out various diagnosis. A GP doesn't really need a "pocket" ultrasound though. A "normal" ultrasound would work just fine.
How to fight the feudal internet
You might not need Pango: HarfBuzz might be enough, depending on your needs. HB has a relatively easy to use API. stb_truetype is even more minimal.

As for Cairo, there are lighter-weight alternatives available: AGG, nanovg, etc.
Someone made a nice solution for that called CIRClean:

https://www.circl.lu/projects/CIRCLean/
Strange move given that all you could do to stop the current abuse is to start prioritizing the applications by salary rather than picking them randomly until the cap is reached.
this comment is a breath of fresh air in a sea of armchair-architecting
This thread is getting a little crowded, but mail me contact information and I might be able to hook you up with some really one-sided mathy competitive advantages. Algorithmic stuff: same output for the same input, but game-changingly faster.
In an order that does not correspond with the article:

Very high C-section rates, born out of OB/GYN training that concentrates on the abnormal and generally emphasizes an interventionist approach, shift mortality burden to mothers from children.

Lack of standardization of care means OB/GYNs follow idiosyncratic rather than evidence-based protocols. This is particularly striking when it comes to maternal death from pre-eclampsia or HELLP. These are complications that are easy to treat in an algorithmic fashion if you care to bother. Anti-coagulants after C-section -- another boring, algorithmic treatment that would decrease mortality a bunch.

Moms are getting a older and less healthy. This is also true in other countries and they do a lot better, because other countries make it a priority to deliver low-cost prenatal and maternal care. US emphasis on personal responsibility leads to an attitude that moms should treat themselves/advocate for themselves/blah blah. Prenatal care is not as easy to access as it should be, postnatal care is almost nonexistent (both medical and mental health).

Inequality in the US, ranging from economic to straightforwardly racial, leads to poorer outcomes for many groups.
I think that you read my comment in a way that I didn't intend. "How well" would probably be better phrased as "whether", because "how well" implies a non-binary state.

I was picturing a requirements list of numerical ranges, which a specific unit of a product must satisfy. "How well" is what came to mind when I pictured a unit that nearly exceeded the limits of its requirements, compared to a unit that sat perfectly in the middle of the range of every requirement.

I never pictured any kind of "judgement call", and I'd hoped that would be clear, in the context that I'd set, talking about objective measurements of quality.
There's a lot of Nimbyisam about onshore wind power going from the experience in the UK - though the UK has much less area than the USA.
But, those little known free streaming services are also losing money here. It's those sites that are really losing.
>"Buy the gift card with cash then there is no trail."

Until it's important-enough for them to track down the card, figure out when it was bought, go over the security footage of who was buying at the time, extract footage of you buying it. They can then extract your face and match against a DB. Or perhaps see what car you enter into, and extract its license-plate.

Heck, even if they don't have that, they can ask the cell-phone companies to see which phone-numbers were connecting to the nearest tower during that period. That already narrows down the list to say, 1000 people?

We're almost there. All the technology is already in place, and the only thing stopping it from happening is consolidation.
The highest levels of popularity and fan support in college football are mostly focused on high-level play - i.e. the schools in P5 conferences. Are there rabid fans at lower levels of play? Sure, but it decreases. Far fewer people are lining up to watch North Dakota State play than to watch even lower tier P5 schools like Iowa or Ole Miss, despite NDSU winning five championships in the last six years at the FCS level.

If the salary at the highest levels crashed dramatically, the pool of players at every level would shrink accordingly. We would probably see an effect similar to what happened to boxing: the best of the best would still be very good, but the rank-and-file that make up the rest of the sport would be so terrible that most people would lose interest and stop watching. I suspect that fan interest would hold through some level of decrease in overall skill level, but that there is some point where people will just stop watching because the quality of play is so bad (and because of the constantly growing evidence regarding the long-term health implications, which, going back to the boxing example, was another piece of what knocked boxing off its cultural pedestal).
I think you're totally right. An analogy is the stuff around politicians trying to "ban encryption" all the while not understanding that you can't ban an idea (not meaningfully).

So, yeah, maybe 10 years from now things do like almost entirely like the article predicts, but for most consumers that probably really isn't a problem at all except in some theoretical ethical/privacy sense.

For the people who really do care, they'll just go make their own custom shit like you describe.
Windscribe.com appears to be behind Cloudflare, which means that they allow a third party to MITM https connections to their site. I would not trust their service.
Wait what?

Blockstream's business model depends on selling services to enterprises, that's why they keep attempting to prevent upgrades to the blocksize, to the detriment of high fees and a clogged network.

The paper here is written by a single member employed by Blockstream.
Someone had a good example in this thread, for example, you're more likely going to run into issues with clogged sensors in detroit than you are in palo alto. Another thing that happens way more in snow is automatic torque rebalancing in 4WD systems. Rainy days aren't nearly as common in Palo Alto as snowy days are in Detroit but both share the property of poorer visibility and an increase in pedestrian distraction levels. Etc, etc.

A lot of technology only exists because their original problem set was extreme in nature (e.g. things out of NASA or military research). I think a lot of "easier" problems in autonomous driving could benefit from a breakthrough solution that got discovered in the course of solving a harder problem.
> The question is really whether this could be enormously helpful to a GP? Can they be trained usefully to take over some of the role of an ultrasound technician and do first-line diagnosis?

This is likely healthcare system / country / training dependent, but yes, many local clinics will have ultrasound equipment. GPs do use it for things other than emergencies (simple pregnancy checkup, ultrasound guided injections, etc.)

I know some that would find the "Can they be trained usefully" a silly/offensive question to be honest.
H1-B is 100% the reason I don't get paid more. Half my coworkers are already H1-B, I'm just one of the few native people who accepted my job...
Check out Mozilla's pontoon
> I'm sure part of this is the fault of the language.

"Fault" is a pretty loaded word here. Pretty sure my old TI-86 also would struggle to run GitLab...
Yeah I just noticed that on Panopticlick; a full 12 bits of information!
I'd be okay with Slack being sufficient but taking a gig of RAM. Instead it's really shitty and buggy and also take a gig of RAM. Any one of their problems doesn't make it a horrible product, that just the one most often pointed to as indicative of how horrible their engineering is.
This is true, and if the article doesn't account for it carefully (and other biases such as age, obesity), it cannot be taken seriously. This reminds me of Japan's suspiciously low murder rate and Pakistan's suspiciously low suicide rate. What actually happens and what gets reported in aggregate are two very different things.
Interesting. I don't have access to the code I was talking about anymore, but I'm pretty sure that I did have different threads in different mount namespaces.

Looking at the man-page briefly it looks like the restriction you are talking about applies only to user namespaces.

Interesting to know that there are even more situations to be considered.
I'd guess this is a single franchise owner abusing H-1b petitions, not Popeye's corporate.
I had already browsed that page, but to me it seemed very complicated (I didn't even get what is lambdaway exactly), so perhaps it is too much for normal people.

(I am a mildly-experienced programmer, although I don't know anything about lambda calculus.)
Of course it is more convenient, but it's also several orders of magnitude slower.

If you try rendering, say, maps with SVG, this becomes a significant issue.
Boxing went from the most popular sport in the country to being a niche sport. A large part of that was a shrinking talent pool; parents who, in earlier times would have let their kids box prohibited them from doing so. Muhammad Ali's Parkinson's diagnosis was an eye-opener for a lot of people.
More quantitatively rigorous analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856058.

> Considering the comparable sample reported in Panel A of Table 2, one-year infant mortality in the North East is 3.16 deaths per 1000 live births, whereas in the East South Central region (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas) this figure is 6.30 per 1000. Both the North East and the Pacific divisions have overall infant mortality rates within the distribution of the European countries considered. If the North East were a country, it would be similar to Austria.

> Consistent with this assertion, Almond et al. (2010) analyze the mortality consequences of incremental increases in medical expenditures for at-risk infants (including NICU admission as well as other expenditures), and find that the mortality benefits of additional medical care are concentrated in the first 28 days of life. Our results suggest that if anything the US has a mortality advantage during the neonatal period.

> Instead, the facts documented here suggest that, in general, policy attention should focus on either preventing preterm births or on reducing postneonatal mortality.

> Notably, in light of our income results, these policies do not focus on alleviating resource constraints per se but rather on providing information and support targeted to mothers and infants.
Grew up in China (moved to Australia since early 2008) where GFW is in place and getting overwhelmingly powerful, I've been through multiple stages to cross the `great wall`, SSH Dynamic Forwarding, PPTP, OpenVPN and now IPsec (strongSwan). The GFW has evolved so much (capable of massive scale MITM attack, DNS spoofing, traffic sniffing etc. you'll be amazed how capable the GFW is - of course courtesy of the team behind it) that it makes increasingly more difficult for people to access the real Internet.

I've ditched PPTP (not safe any more) and shifted to IPsec (IKEv2 + RSA with X509, IKEv1 + PSK + XAUTH) as it is being used by a lot of MNCs - can't killall. The GFW has developed technique to detect OpenVPN well and it is easily blocked so I don't use it at all. Over the past few years many home brewed protocols emerge - e.g. shadowsocks and variants and many others (I've never used any of them).

The best thing to do with VPN is that to understand the basics of the VPN solution of choice, try to install and configure from scratch on VPS and use that as your main protection (encapsulation) while using public Wi-Fi or untrusted network. There's been many good discussions on how to do this on HN.

NOTE: I am maintaining around 10 strongSwan powered IPsec VPN and 2 OpenVPN to help family members and close friends to access the real Internet (have to keep a low-profile though). Funny though, my networking skills evolved with GFW.
They have a dock, and no boat?
Strange, I thought hospitality workers were H-2B. I was surprise the local McDonald's had foreign workers here on visas. I think there was an article on HN about shortages of workers under those programs (east coast resorts?).
Dead Slack:

Stop being lazy. You’re not a scrappy startup anymore. Build real native apps for each platform.

Using electron solves your problem. As a user it sure as hell doesn’t solve any problem I have.
Whoa is me.
The look-and-feel argument is a misunderstanding of AMP. What you probably notice are pages generated by the Wordpress AMP plugin, which does not implement much in the way of different templates.

AMP has some severe constraints on javascript, but is pretty non-constrained on HTML and CSS.

Nearly all HTML5 tags and attributes are supported, including non-standard tags like <big>. It even allows super-non-standard tags like "<o:p>" which was part of an old microsoft word export-to-html feature.

Take a look at some of the examples on https://www.ampstart.com/

http://ampproject.org/ is AMP and https://daily.spiegel.de/ is AMP. These look very different.
1. Write web application with little to no idea how an RDBMS works

2. Run into inevitable performance problems

3. Decide that your database is at fault, rewrite in NoSQL

4. Buy into NoSQL hype, push 5x resources on your NoSQL
solution

5. Profit?

There are NoSQL options that are great for lots of things. It takes some significant expertise to know if your thing is one of those things. Expertise you probably don't have if you don't even have a moderately deep knowledge of RDBMS-es.
This is one of the highest priority items for the next quarter or two.
Randomizing your useragent is the worst idea ever.

Your fingerprint won't conform to the features that are expected. I won't go into too much detail here, on purpose. But e.g. if you claim to be Firefox while using chrome, that's completely detectable, server side, even without javascript.

If you have javascript it's of course even easier to just check if your browser supports the features it should according to its user agent.

Edit: Btw. I have actually reversed some fingerprinting JS code in the wild, and yes, they do check if you lie about your useragent.
most people don't have the time/energy or money. Money can be resolved with bank loans, but they have higher interest rates (usually prime + 1.25)
Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Low cost stickers that can be activated then placed on items in the refrigerator to indicate how much time has passed. Should be feasible to develop for a qualified team and would save People a lot of food. Maybe the design exists and just needs proper marketing.

Easy, cheap, hassle free batch scanning of photographs. How many people have boxes and boxes of family photos that they only see once every 5-10 years? Get those things digitized and organized now cheaply and easily.

You know those people who fly over peoples houses, take nice photos, then try to sell them to the owner? Why not offer people a digital copy of their houses/property? Lots of applications for that. From games to interior decorating to planning renovations.

Methane can be produced using electricity from solar power. Which could be run in cars without much modification. This could reduce fossil fuel usage without having wait for internal combustion engine vehicles to be retired. Maybe a unit installed at home could provide fuel for an individuals commute at near zero cost after it's paid off? If not maybe large facilities could make and ship the fuel to be sold at gas stations. Some people would be willing to pay a premium for liquid fuel produced by solar(At least I would). It could become even more desirable if proper carbon regulations ever kick in.

A wikipedia for DIY things. Instructibles sucks. It would be nice to have a well organized and very large corpus of information on how to do things from the very general to the very specific. From various methods to repair a hole in sheet rock to replacing brake pads on a 1997 Volvo to gardening with lots of various individual plans for different home projects like Halloween costumes, knitting, and woodworking. The hard part is getting a large community of people to contribute to the making of it.

I could go on all day. Anyone can. figuring out which idea in the sea of available ideas floating around, then executing it. That's the hard thing.
You can I believe - your server will end up being a standalone binary with all the necessary Unity things bundled in.
https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2...

My box has 16 GB of memory. The 128 MB value was the default value configured in unicorn. If you're not familiar with that (I wasn't), it has a feature to restart the web server workers when they end up using too much memory. That's what unicorn does and apparently it's what people do in Ruby web apps.

I've also used GitLab on a (real) server. It still feels too slow for my taste (pages load in 1-2s). No, it's not unusable, but I won't call that "fine".
> This decentralized nature of the bitcoin network is not without consequences—the main one being that if you screw up, it’s your own damn problem.

This is going to be a deal-breaker for most people. For mass adoption, you'll need bitcoins to be held by institutions that take responsibility for screwups like lost keys (ie, banks).
Everytime you turn around we heart of another free VPN selling data. How else do they stay in business.
Certainly in a well-funded hospital, but might $2K also not look more appealing than $20K-$200K for a small clinic in a one-horse town?

Caveat, I have no idea how much a commercial ultrasound machine costs. But it's one machine Michael, what could it cost? Ten thousand dollars?
Uhm - the question NOT being asked here is WHY?

Why do you want to found a company

Why do you think your team is sound?

Why do you feel you can solve a problem that will result in something youre passionate about sticking with?

Why do you think this is the best path?

etc...

WHY do you want to pursue this?

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With that said - as others have posted: find the problem to solve and then address HOW you can be the best to solve WHICH problem with WHAT and WHO will pay you for such.
Is that untrue when the mortality rate for birth is so high?
> Do you really think there aren’t Americans that could fill those roles?

Would they fill them at a similar level of quality? That is to say, if you forced similar wages on both and removed the cost of bringing someone from overseas into the country, would the employer hire the foreigner? If so, I see the visa programme as fulfilling one of its roles: adding to the American braintrust. If not, you have a point.

Most studies I've seen don't attempt to answer this question, instead devolving to the easier-to-answer if useless "could they have found an American who met the job requirements".
> Top 10 H1B Visa Abusers [1] in this List.

That's not a list of abusers, it's just a list of companies getting the visas.

Still informative, since you can see that Deloitte and Microsoft have a pretty massive gap in salaries over the rest.
It's always interesting to see Scientists use the Bible, when much of the western world has described it as fiction. I otherwise, believe it to be non-fiction.
Start a consultancy business building the ideas that others have.

Also....

You have everything you need, so nothing is niggling your motivation. Some people work best under constraint, with limited resources.

Finally, are you too fussy? Do you analyse every idea to death?
As usual, most of the examples here are more performance art than transhumanism, plus a submarine article for Eyeborg, which is somewhere between performance art and a Google Glass -eye.

~~~

I wonder who we can consider the first transhumanist.

Farming is in my mind the original hacking. Some clever ancient fellows who thought, "what if we can rig up our own food supply? Get some Aurochs (cows) to hang out long enough, maybe grow some food for them."

Success breeds inventory, inventory breeds writing. The rest is literally history.

The first body-hacking is the guy that was able to drink non-human milk and process lactose, 10,000 years ago near modern day Turkey. Maybe it was his mother or father hacking the food supply at first. In any case so successful was this guy that his genes spread like wildfire.

These to me seem amazing, game changing feats in human development. Who's the real transhumanist here? The person who can drink cows milk, or the person who put a magnet in their finger? It just feels so very quaint. Putting a magnet under your finger isn't even as impressive as the first guy to make a wrist-watch, something so amazing that it became ubiquitous enough to the point where we've forgotten to even think about it.

I like the idea of transhumanism. If I had billions to fall back on I'd start a prosthetics company in a (synthetic) heartbeat. But I think we've stalled here, by and large, if we're still writing articles about "magnets and LED lights inserted under the skin."

> a bionic arm, laser lit, and with phone-charging ports and a personal drone attachment.

This is the prosthetic equivalent of a sneaker with flashing lights in the heels.
Yup, I read AMOP several years ago. But as I recall, it doesn't talk too much about low-level implementation shenanigans.
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