skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this analysis is helpful to nuclear. As a big nuclear supporter and someone in general agreement that there was an over evacuation at Fukushima, setting a nine month life expectancy standard is way too high. At that rate, very large numbers of people, maybe 10% are going to be getting cancer, not to mention birth defects. On average, about 2 people live in a housing unit, so you're trading off 18 months of life, substantial suffering from cancer, substantial stress and worry, and reproductive effects for a single housing unit. This unreasonableness masks an underlying reasonableness if the number were more like a few weeks or a month.
Does the verified purchase label remain even after the product is returned? I think it should, in the case that you bought it, honestly reviewed it and then returned it. But that could be a huge loophole for fake reviewers to exploit.
FakeSpot agrees with you: https://www.fakespot.com/product/soundbar-2018-upgraded-surr...
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but then again, who cares what the authorities say? if you want to evacuate, do it. if you want to stay, do it. the use of force on innocents, for any reason, is immoral.
I stopped using firefox since they are delivering cliqz with every 100th download which will analyze and store your browsing history and is a shame for the mozilla foundation.
I'm using waterfox now btw...
BUT Quantum is also coming to mobile. Nevertheless, i've already switched to Firefox on desktop and mobile and i'm extremely happy with it after years of Chromium usage.
"A Growing number of young Americans are leaving jobs that produce things of value to create click-bait bullshit journalism about made-up or statistically insignificant trends"
I wonder to what extent is Obesity contagious. If you can improve your gut bacteria, surely you can make it worse. Can you pick up gut bacteria from Obese people. Maybe going to the gym helps you lose weight because you touch surfaces and pick up bacteria from fit people. And so on. Just conjecture.
Interesting stuff, but is there a more obnoxious way to tell a story than in a twitter thread? I was hoping that Medium was starting to solve this problem, but clearly not everyone has adopted it.
Nice thought, that could definitely be what’s happening.

But as you say, it’s hard to detect since obviously if someone returns the item they might want to leave a bad review.

But if all returns leave a good review? Now that’s suspicious.

Maybe amazon should show an icon if the reviewer returned the item, and force them to explain why they returned it.

But again that’s hard if they write the review before returning the item.
I have the feeling that this is controversial because it plays with guilt feelings and people, in general, don't want to be the bad guys and rationalize bad decisions polarizing the opposite field. This is reflected in the vegan cliché.
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Finance and coding
How can coding help in finance and where to start learning from?
Well clearly that's not true because placebo controlled trials into FMT for c.diff have been done in the USA. AIDS and cancer have objective measures, whereas with c.diff the trials just look at subjective measures.

Also, given that the placebo improvement rates are 40-90% in all c.diff trials, it would be unethical to not use a placebo arm.
Is there any evidence of reduced "life expectancy of future generations" for radiation exposure at the levels discussed? If not, then that may be why it was not addressed.

While I don't know if there is or not, these studies of the results of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs[0] shows that the effects were limited to those currently pregnant, and without 1200 meters of ground zero of the blast. With no effect on the future children born to parents exposed to ionizing radiation of those levels.

[0] - http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph241/yapa2/

"The many studies that were conducted after the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki determined that some of the risks that the public perceives to be associated with radiation exposure are non-existent, while others are in fact matters of concern. The cancer risk for children who were in-utero when their mothers were exposed is higher than it would be for others without this exposure, but children who were conceived after their parents were exposed to radiation had no increased cancer risk. Similarly for both birth defects and mental retardation, it was found that in-utero exposure possibly increased the rate of incidence of these conditions, but results from all studies are inconclusive, except for the case of pregnant mothers within 1200m of the hypocenter. All of the in-utero children born to these mothers experienced mental retardation. All three of these cases found that there is no increased risk of these conditions if the parents of the child were exposed to the ionizing radiation of the atomic bomb (child was not conceived at the time of the exposure)."
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Part of wealth is, not gdp per capita, but of its distribution per its citizens.
Do you think they shouldn't force their policy into you, but you can force yours into them? Why is your belief that you are right more entitled to use of force than theirs?
Slightly off topic, but in the early 90's I had to help rewrite the resume of the Chinese friend of a Chinese friend and she was very proud of the fact he graduated from the number one university in China. He had very poor English writing skills so I just unmangled it, did not have difficulty conversing with him, but I was not aware of the admissions difficulty being so high there compared to the Stanford/elite US universities as the writer says, this was about the time the WWW came online so was not so easy to google the answers back then.
But that sentence does not appear in the Constitution. Or maybe I'm looking at a wrong version?
>Are you familiar with c diff? Placebo's don't work

More familiar than you apparently, because placebos have been proven to work:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/853175

I think the problem is the subjective measure, so it's impossible to know which symptoms are caused by c.diff and which from IBS.
I have “creepy” dreams or nightmares that ruin restful sleep. They are exceptionally vivid and nightmarish: horrifying scenarios involving people I love, painfully realistic doomsday scenarios, all kinds of death, monsters who look like people but with horrifying deformities...
I thought this guy was nuts but he's correct: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
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NEW TORONTO START UP IS CHANGING THE GAME
I love this, thanks! I was actually just thinking of trying to design something similar and expose it as a browser plugin. Nice!
Yeah, Aristotle's impact on natural science is a mixed bag. On the other hand, that's not where his influence lies these days.

Just out of curiosity, what context did you read him in? Aristotle's influence is still very much felt across philosophy: virtue ethics is one of the three major schools of contemporary ethical thought, and deductive reasoning/classical logic are what every logic class begins with.

Aristotle has definitely been put on a pedestal over the years, particularly by powers looking to associate themselves with some sense of classical Greek "greatness". However, that doesn't diminish his real contributions to philosophical (and mathematical) thought.
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To answer your question precisely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15294721

I'd love to debate this with you, but few people seem interested.

Here's the criteria for "CG video": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15698859

If you approach the subject with an open mind, you'll find that we really haven't achieved those goals. But the most I've managed to wring from people is a grudging admission that even though we haven't done it yet, we could do it if we tried. I disagree.
USBNinja released – USB attack development platform for the Raspberry Pi Zero
No, the bitcoin is held in escrow, requiring 2 of the 3 parties to sign off before the funds are released.

This doesn't prevent all fraud but it seems to work pretty well for dark markets.
It's just a small project right now, but would love some feedback from anyone interested. It's designed to be very simple to modify or to extend the existing functionality. You can imitate: USB-To-Ethernet adapters, USB-To-Serial adapters, HID Keyboard and Mass Storage (and any combination thereof)!
On mobile, I prefer Firefox + uBlock to Chrome.
This threw me off, I really didn't expect Mozilla to bundle in something like this.

However, here's the info, straight from the source: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

Looks like < 1% of installs in Germany will get this preinstalled. Here's how to remove if you're one of the unlucky ones: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cliqz-recommendations-f...

Finally, Cliqz has a Firefox Test Pilot program (German-only): https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/cliqz
Who knows what he's using it for, he setup a Facebook account and separate page for the island where he posts photos and videos multiple times per week:

> In response to increasing development of the region, an internet company established a Wi-Fi connection on Budelli, connecting Morandi and his beloved piece of paradise to the world through social media[0]. Embracing this new form of communication is his concession on behalf of a larger purpose—to facilitate a bond between people and nature by exposing them to its beauty[1]. A bond Morandi hopes will motivate people to care for the withering planet.

A lot of the photos also have various filters applied. He clearly understands this new smartphone technology. It's only a matter of time before someone asks him to do an AMA on Reddit.

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/8isola/
[1]: https://www.facebook.com/mauro.dabudelli/posts/1794931617416...
Thanks for sharing, that was good for a laugh.
Quantum was annoying enough to kill Firefox for me completely.
I've completely shifted.

EDIT: Added explanation

The big issue is I often switch between Browsers for work.
So I often switch between Chrome, Firefox, and Opera with custom extensions for my workflow.

With the amount of choice, I don't need to stick with a browser that makes my life harder than easier.

Chrome is my main browser now, it was already getting close to majority usage for me.
"... randomness is not merely the noise but the dominant factor. And those reasons we assign to historical events are often just ex post rationalizations. As rising generations are taught the rationalizations, they conclude that things always happen for a reason. "

I didn't realize it until contemplating this statement, but this applies to interpersonal relationships as well as nations. It is the root of tolerance and acceptance. People wind up where they are largely through circumstance, not intention. Circumstance may be as finite as meeting a person in a purely random situation who then goes on to change your life.

Yet we lionize persons we deem successful and study what led them there, rationalizing that the set of attributes that we can observe about them must be the cause of their success. And in speaking with them personally, you'll find, in many cases, impostor syndrome because they understand the randomness that played in their favor.

I make a conscious effort to keep that in mind. It helps keep me from becoming judgmental.
Might tastes different / better though?

I do know that I like non-homogenized milk better. (But that's a different process.)
I spent two years living on a small permaculture farm. The place took on wwoofers and so I got to meet a ton of young people who wanted to farm. But most couldn't afford their own land, so instead they roamed around and worked nearly for free for wwoof farm owners. It's a cool program, but unfortunate land is out of reach
I wish Google Camera, hell even stock Android would natively support them.
I started getting a little dissatisfied with programming during university, and decided to become an Emergency Medical Technician because medicine had always interested me. I thought it would be a far more meaningful experience, but it drove me back to programming very quickly.

The majority of calls were rather pointless in terms of impact. Patients were generally in a state where nothing you did would make a difference, whether that was because they we're beyond help or didn't really need your help in the first place. The calls where you did make a difference we're generally so traumatic anyways that I preferred to try and forget about them.

In my area, pay was about 12 to 15 USD per hour. It wasn't worth it to me to dodge bodily fluids, risk throwing your back out lifting stretchers (those things are heavy even without a patient!), and above all, get an incredibly depressing view of humanity. I worked in a low-income area and above all it was just sad.

Granted, I was 22 years old and probably a little too immature for the work. I worked with some of the most burnt-out, cynical people I can imagine, but also some of the kindest, most-dedicated individuals I have ever met in my life. I moved back in with my parents to catch up on programming and got into software dev without any issues.

I worked in consulting for three years and it was incredibly stressful. I learned a lot working on a wide variety of projects, but there were also weeks of working 70+ hours. I began resorting to substance abuse to deal with burnout.

Now I work as the sole developer for a small organization. I don't learn as much in my day-to-day activities as I did as a consultant, but the work is not stressful and I have incredibly supportive coworkers.

I am less stressed but not satisfied with my job. Cars have become a passion of mine, I debate becoming a mechanic now at least once a week. I would get paid far less, but there is something incredibly satisfying about working on cars. It feels a lot more meaningful to me.
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I can't imagine how to trace a parallel. Even before that, classical computers stayed a very long time "on the lab", and by that time the expansion in functionality was way more visible than any expansion of size. Only after people kind of agreed on what a "computer" can do (at the 40's) that we got any clear size expansion, that was exponential.

As a comparison, we have a very nice idea on the requisites of a quantum computer. Nobody is exploring this space. Also, we have that very clear linear growth on their size, while we didn't have even a clear size measure for classical computers.

It looks like something very different to me. Really, that linear growth is unsettling in many ways.
Firefox Quantum kills the battery on my Macbook. I love it otherwise.
There is even a push to encrypt DNS requests. This throttling hysteria is just that.
std::atomic<something-128bit-sized> do, or at least did last time I checked, use cmpxcg16b on gcc. There were talks about changing that because of surprising behavior: as there is no 128 atomic load, even loads need to use the cas, making them significantly slower than 'normal' atomic loads; also const std::atomic<128bit> is unusable in read only pages which is an expected use case for atomics.

I do not know whether that has actually been 'fixed' though.
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What did you switch to? Was it due to extensions?
Ask HN: What algorithms are used to defrag a hard disk as quickly as possible?
I've been trying to find exact details of the algorithms used but can't find them.
I like this one
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secuso.pri...

Also available on F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.secuso.privacyFriendlyCo...
I hold that Brave is the best browser on mobile. Followed by Lighting browser.
I'm not so sure what is meant by it. Adherents of Marxism-Leninism utilise the method of dialectical materialism to analyse the past and to provide a model for the structure of the future based on the resolution of dialectical contradictions. The contradictions of feudalism led to capitalism, and the contradictions of capitalism (the value-form in particular, class antagonism) lead to Communism.
This morning I came into work to a sluggish FF browser. One of the FF processes was using 1.6GB of memory, and one entire core of CPU. I had 1 pinned and 5 normal tabs open. I'm not particularly impressed with the reality of the new FF.
> The comment I was replying to was about deduplicating code that is "literally the same". In that case, you wouldn't make the code more or less buggy if you collapsed the multiple copies of the code down into one, and no deep structural changes would be involved in refactoring.

Firstly, any refactoring involves a code review of what you're factoring out. This has a non-zero probability of revealing bugs, so I already disagree with your claim that it wouldn't change the bug count.

Secondly, if you're having difficulty refactoring, that's a strong hint at deeper structural problems, so it yields information on what kinds of structural changes are needed.

> If there are actual changes involved in refactoring, I have no a priori expectation of whether that reduces or increases bug count, and I can see good arguments that it's likely to increase them, since you're making the code more complex in order to satisfy the demands of multiple consumers.

Are you making it more complex? Because that doesn't seem like a sound refactoring in my mind. Special cases require special code, you don't place special cases in a general function, unless the function itself only handles the special case. I already covered this in my original post where I discuss when DRY isn't appropriate.

> (Case in point: Heartbleed resulted entirely from a little-used extension to DTLS, a variant of TLS over UDP, which 99+% of OpenSSL users never cared about.)

I don't see how this is a point in your favour. It's a point that little used and little inspected paths are more likely to be vulnerable. But a reused function gets more use and more review than inline code. In other words, Heartbleed would probably still not have been found if it weren't part of a common function, and instead were littered in various places throughout a code base.
For a second, I thought the problem in question was 'finding a more obnoxious way to tell a story than in a twitter thread'.
The Rise of SPACs
"Buying a lifestyle" sounds bad because it's associated with big brands for which that's just a marketing tactic, and where the lifestyle is artificial. But you're actually - and proudly - supporting an authentic lifestyle, there's nothing bad in that.
For me, Quantum is the first usable Firefox version on mobile. I've been trialing various versions of it over the years in desperate hope that it would get to a usable state, because the mobile browser ecosystem is bleak other than Firefox - it's the only browser with actual features I want. I was only held back from it by performance.

So in that sense, I'd say it's a complete gamechanger on mobile, much more than on desktop.
That's the study I was referring to. You'll see that there was no difference between donor and placebo in the NY group.
Comapred to any tech talk videos, This article convinced me to try Clojure almost 2 years back. Very well written and practical.
Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic?
Software for organizing keyboard shortcuts?
TL;DL: Looking for some software to ease up on keyboard shortcut management. Something that can display all my current bindinds so I don't end up overwriting any current binds, or even worse, bind multiple things to one key combination.

Ahoy HN!
I decided to switch over to a nearly mouse free enviorment on my linux machine due to it's pros in productivity. So it all began with a tiling window manager and configuration of all the needed shortcuts. But as the programs started to pile up (i3, music player, web browers, chat clients, document reader, text editors, file manager), so did the amount of keybinds to remember. Of course I follow one a scheme which is vim-like mapping to make everything as smooth as possible, but there is still a lot to keep in mind. So now my mission is to find some software to ease up the organization. The perfect scenario would be a program that reads all the dot files and shows what key combination are binded so I could compare it to my desired combination and see if/where it's used or simply draw a cheat sheet for them in one place. Other option would be an API to use to hook up it by hand. And ofcourse some hints on what to draw the layout with. It could be CLI or GUI doesn't matter.

It doesn't seams like a big problem for most, because the shortcuts affect only the active/focused window (most of the time), so they don't affect each other, but for the sake of easier configuration it's a quality of life improving feature. I could do it all manually, but I think we are way past that time now.
Maybe on Android, but it's not possible to run a different browser on iOS. Well, you can install another browser, but it is really just a different interface for the Safari browser. The guts of the browser will still be Safari.
Way too many VC's doing just one more deal before the end of the year so we're swamped with other work. But that translates into a slump in Jan / Feb so probably I'll have some more free time then to work on it. What also doesn't help is that I moved it out of the house because it became faster and faster and as a result louder as well. About 4000 parts / hour now :)
"For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing..."

Not surprising because this is cyclical- the only difference is that the cycles in the past were shorter because life expectancy was shorter. Farming is a job that requires(1) a huge amount of up-front capital to get started in terms of land and equipment. The recurring cost isn't as high, but you have to stay in the game for as long as you can to pay off the initial investment. So a lot of people got involved in farming 50 years ago as young people, and they are dying off/finally retiring. Some are handing over the reins to their kids, and some are handing over the reins to their grandkids. Some aren't handing anything over, but when they leave there is room in the market for young people to enter. All of this results in generational and bi-generational influxes of farmers.

(1) You don't have to have the capital up front, you can get a loan or you can sharecrop. Getting a loan means your break-even time is longer, and sharecropping basically makes you an employee.
The critical bit is that people aren't being expected to shave a few months off their life dying peacefully in their sleep in their late eighties in return for retaining their own home, they're trading a significant proportional increase in some very unpleasant cancers curtailing their life much earlier.

The article doesn't help fudging it by highlighting life expectancy differentials which are down to socioeconomic status and patterns of higher risk behaviour. Blackpool's lower life expectancy isn't random like background radiation; you can live in Blackpool without experiencing a significant threat to your health provided you avoid the alcohol consumption problems more prevalent amongst people that live there.
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"Visual quality" is actually a big part of the problem. You can't optimize for visual while also optimize for taste...
> I was not aware of the admissions difficulty being so high there compared to the Stanford/elite US universities

China has a population of 1.4 billion. Peking University has 33k students and Tsinghua has 45k.

Obviously this isn't a great comparison because lots of foreigners come to study in the US, but I think it does give a sense of scale.